To give you a sense of how sensitive Alberta’s provincial budget is to global oil prices:
At the current 1-year forward strip for crude oil, Alberta’s budget would go from a $9B deficit to an **$8B SURPLUS**
Begs the question of whether AB should consider hedging these windfall gains at some point
Actually might help a little with the less fanatical speratist voters. Nothing will move the hard core ppl.
twas ever thus
Donald Trump accidentally balances the Alberta budget.
This, plus the montage deeply misunderstands about half of the sources from which it's drawing. Hey guys, maybe watch Coogler's Sinners and think a little bit about the vampires?
If I had to describe American politics as briefly as possible, I would say the average American likes to feel conservative bc it feels tough and manly but repeatedly reencounters the fact that nothing conservatives believe is true and nothing they do works so it’s just this seesaw
Keynesianism basically works, in economic terms. Pierre Trudeau's view was that the state should act as the flywheel of the market economy, to balance and stabilize its fluctuations into something amenable for the prosperity of a free and democratic society. It works, and everyone hates it for that
Canada created more jobs in 2025 (! year of the economic attack!) than the U.S., tho the U.S. job market is 7.5 times bigger.
"Health" generated 41% of the new jobs. "Care" (incl educ) almost 1/2.
Demographics guarantees that this job juggernaut will continue to dominate. Demand>supply everywhere.
Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.
Setting aside the fact that this headline is stupid on the face of things (there are lots of evangelicals around), does the author not know that evangelicalism in the US has spent decades and decades setting up alternative institutions to belong to on purpose?
There’s a clear intensity gap on independence: 56% strongly oppose, just 13% strongly support. Even so, 53% think Premier Smith would vote to separate. Public perception doesn’t mirror public opinion. #ableg
Details: abacusdata.ca/alberta-ind...
Ah yes, war, famously making the places where it happens safer.
This is the greatest tool in the resistance to MAGA values in Canada. Good leaders should be amplifying and leaning on this perspective.
anyway, if you’re even remotely curious about what an inclusive, progressive christianity that includes people like both talerico and crockett, as well as a rich, global history stretching back across nations, ethnicities, genders, and creeds, run don’t walk to @sojo.net.
An important part of Trump's comms success is that he explains things that are quite complex (e.g., arms manufacturing and supply) as though he's restocking the fridge at home.
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Niche joke, but provides really excellent perspective if you get it.
I decided to forego teaching Left Behind in my pop culture class this semester, because it seemed out of date. Ooops! But, never fear, I do have the NAR and Christian Nationalism on the schedule, so I think we'll be able to have some relevant discussions 😬.
Your regular reminder that bad theology (in this case dispensational fundamentalism) quite literally kills.
"When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – ['existential threat'] – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy."
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
"Trump's Razor": never ascribe to stupidity or malice what can instead be ascribed to malicious stupidity.
i think this is basically correct, but i think said alignment is going to be very uncomfortable if things don't work out well and we see a breakdown of international order
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.
Also, not for nothing, that's not how genes work.
Literally the most embarrassing tradition in Western politics. Also, nobody is watching your antics, so maybe stop?
My latest story is out. Bots get banned on social media.
The workaround? Real humans posting AI-generated messages in a gamified system, coordinated by an AI command centre. And it's being offered to your local town councillor.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
