The market is roaring - but these warning lights are flashing red Profits have never been better, people have never felt worse. Investors may want to ponder that

“Profits have never been better, people have never felt worse. This does not sound like a stable situation.”

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On a new episode of 🍎 THE ORCHARD 🍎 @readtheorchard.org sits down with award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist Peter Nowak to talk about consolidation in the Canadian Resource Sector.

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Data centre delays threaten to choke AI expansion Almost 40% of such builds in US risk hold-ups, including projects tied to Microsoft and OpenAI

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I don't mind paying taxes. I should pay taxes. I have a job, and taxes are the price we pay for having a society in which we do things collectively. I do mind deeply that I pay a higher tax rate than Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin should be freed immediately.

Episode 10: Alberta Separatism and PSE Podcast Episode · Beyond the Lecture Hall · April 16 · 1h 4m

Our latest episode of Beyond the Lecture Hall has a fascinating interview with the amazing @jlisayoung.bsky.social about the prospect of Alberta separatism and a spotlight on OCUFA.

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This is a major line being crossed by Alberta's UCP government. Throwing out the work of an independent boundaries committee is authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic.

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

Consolidation in the Canadian Resource Sector (Ft. Peter Nowak) A recording from Jeremy Appel's live video

NEW: Missed my livestream with Peter Nowak of Do Not Pass Go on corporate concentration in the Canadian resource sector?

You can watch it now.

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Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly.

BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.

Why is it that price signals, the manifestation of the free market, are some innately wise force when it comes to housing or groceries — but when gas prices rise, we should do everything we can to blunt it? Are drivers exempt from the free market? Are there no alternatives to driving SUVs?

Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka seeks top counterterrorism job The maneuvering comes a month after Joe Kent, the National Counterterrorism Center’s previous director, resigned in protest over the Iran war.

Sebastian Gorka, a national security aide to President Trump, is seeking to become the next head of the National Counterterrorism Center, a position that would give him broad powers over the country’s vast counterterrorism apparatus.

U of A taken to court for breaching Palestine encampment protestors' Charter rights The university is accused of violating the freedoms of expression, association and assembly of its faculty and students by ordering police to tear down the People's University for Palestine in 2024.

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So energized to see this resistance continue. Solidarity ✊🏻

That's the University of Calgary

Join me and Peter Nowak tomorrow as we discuss the consolidation that's been happening in Canada's resource sector.

U of A taken to court for breaching Palestine encampment protestors' Charter rights The university is accused of violating the freedoms of expression, association and assembly of its faculty and students by ordering police to tear down the People's University for Palestine in 2024.

NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.

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CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

Are you curious about Civic Searchlight, the tool @nationalobserver.com made to keep track of local politics? We've sat down with some of the biggest newsrooms in Canada to walk them through it, and we can do the same for your publication (for free). Send me an email! jimmy[at]nationalobserver.com

A very serious prime ministerial statement by Justin Trudeau about Hungary’s elections

It’s so weird to think of Justin Trudeau posting this tweet while wearing a backwards Allouettes cap and smashing beers with Katy Perry at Coachella

NEW: Justice Shaina Leonard ordered a stay on counting separatist referendum petition signatures until she rules on whether the petition should have been approved.

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Once again, Indigenous peoples are raising the alarm about something that will effect everyone living in Canada if it is not checked.

Chiefs raise concerns about collaboration between separatist and government lawyers The Court of King's Bench heard arguments Thursday from lawyers for ACFN, the Blackfoot Confederacy, Alberta's government, the chief electoral officer and Stay Free Alberta.

NEW: On the final day of arguments for First Nations efforts to quash the approval of a separatist referendum petition at the Court of King's Bench, chiefs raised questions about collaboration between government and separatist lawyers.

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Re-upping in light of today's news

Further success pressuring The Giller Prize and Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Thank you for doing this work, No Arms In The Arts.

Chiefs raise concerns about collaboration between separatist and government lawyers The Court of King's Bench heard arguments Thursday from lawyers for ACFN, the Blackfoot Confederacy, Alberta's government, the chief electoral officer and Stay Free Alberta.

Chiefs raise concerns about collaboration between separatist and government lawyers
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I’m not sure what this is referring to specifically but a lot of the government’s argument has been that any harms at this stage are hypothetical, which is what I suspect the context of this was.

In Bed with the Elephant Politics Podcast · What does it mean to share a bed with power, whether it’s a corporation or an empire, when every move it makes shakes your world? If that question keeps you up at night, In Bed with the Elephant is f…

I spoke to lawyer/activist/journalist #DimitriLascaris the only CDN journalist who’s been on the ground in #Iran since the #US/#Israel War vs. the country began about his recent trip there.We’ll post the interview on my @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast soon. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Yup, as others have noted, the video features a boring intro alright. The first 10% (!) consists of pretty pictures and portentous music. Then it switches to Nenshi delivering a bunch of commonplace sentiments before getting to any point. Someone watched too much TV and had too big a budget.

I know there are people who earnestly take Tom Mulcair's opinions seriously, but I just can't imagine what it would take to do that

“In March, SLCN Chief Sheldon Sunshine wrote a letter to Carney calling the prime minister’s tentative agreement with Smith, which builds on their November 2025 memorandum of understanding, a “dangerous mistake” that represents “appeasement” of Smith’s “separatist agenda.””