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Habs win!
When it got to 4-1, that was really the end for Buffalo
Some Canada news
I’m sure it was just coincidental that there was a progressive think tank Canada 2020 going on in Toronto at the same time as the right-wing Canada Strong and Free Network was going on in Ottawa.
Our side got Carney and Obama while theirs got Poilievre and Hoekstra (who cancelled at the last minute anyway when he was “called to Washington for urgent meetings”)
I guess the reviewers thought Poilievre’s speech on Thursday wasn’t a barn-burner
Alberta premier Danielle Smith spoke on Friday. I now think she is just trying to leverage the Wexit “Alberta separatism” boogeyman with Ottawa to get more funding for her own pet projects from the federal government, and so her deficits won’t be so awful. But she is grabbing a tiger by the tail.
And more Canada news
The Globe and Mail is reporting tonight that Carney is not going to let Canada dither and delay his major projects (gift link)
In an effort to boost investor confidence, the federal government is proposing to reverse the order of pipeline approvals, allowing cabinet to green-light new projects prior to the completion of technical assessments and approvals.
The change is part of a raft of proposed new regulations and legislation that Ottawa says are all aimed at streamlining and speeding up the review process for industrial projects. The changes were released less than two months before Alberta is expected to submit a proposal for a new pipeline to the West Coast.
“This sends a message to investors and, frankly, to Canadian businesses that worry about our competitiveness,” Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Friday in Montreal.
“The government is going to ensure that we do all of these regulatory processes in a much more efficient and coherent way.”…
The proposed changes reach far beyond pipelines. New federal economic zones would include things such as transportation corridors, telecommunications networks, mines and energy production projects. The zones would be created through new legislation and cabinet would decide which types of developments would be preapproved in a given area, but there could still be project-specific conditions.
Energy ministry spokesperson Carolyn Svonkin pointed to B.C.’s Golden Triangle as a potential contender for such a designation, because there are already multiple proposed projects in the area.
The government says the zones would be contingent on provincial or territorial agreement and Indigenous consultation…
Basically, this will mean that Canada’s default position is “yes”, unless there’s a damned good reason to say no.
I can’t imagine everybody is going to be happy about this -throwing up roadblocks when somebody wants to do something has been The Canadian Way for a generation -but in the fight for Canadian sovereignty, we will need every advantage we can get.
This is beautiful
And finally – only in Canada? Pity…
So this won an award for best news writing and honestly fuck yeah it was a labour of love www.cbc.ca/news/canada/…
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— Andrew Kurjata (@akurjata.ca) May 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Radio Television Digital News Association – regional for Western Canada. So goes to nationals now
— Andrew Kurjata (@akurjata.ca) May 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM
