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NEARLY EVRE PART OF UR EMPIRE HAS THIS NEARLY IDENTICAL MEME AS IF IT IS COMPLETELY UNIQUE 2 THEIR REGION.

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ANALYSIS | How good is Alberta 'tax advantage' when it requires deficit borrowing? | CBC News Alberta has a revenue problem, a spending problem and 'budget amnesia,' says a former senior UCP advisor and Finance official.

This oil price shock will obscure what’s increasingly become Alberta’s shaky advantage over everyone else. My latest:
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Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t. Today is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Pierre Poilievre has marked the occasion with a National Post op-ed arguing that “free markets are moral” — invok…

A very necessary rebuttal to Pierre Poilievre's misinterpretation of Adam Smith. Thank you for writing this @lindsaytedds.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t.
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Alberta Baby Names Explorer Explore 46 years of Alberta baby name data (1980–2025). Search any name, browse trends, and see what was popular each year.

Hello I would like to share with you my new-and-improved website that compiles 46 years' worth of baby-names data in Alberta:

albertababynames.com

It now includes the latest data (for 2025) and a similar-names function to easily browse through various spellings in naming trends.

And the oil price then falling to ~$89 over the course of the day?

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Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com Crude oil prices & gas price charts. Oil price charts for Brent Crude, WTI & oil futures. Energy news covering oil, petroleum, natural gas and investment advice

Alberta’s 2026 proposed budget proposed on Feb. 26 assumed an average of $60.50 for the 2026 year.

Feb. 26 spot price - $65.21 USD
Mar. 2 - $71.23
Mar. 5 - $81.01
Mar. 8 Futures - $118.00…

Caveats aside - a certain party attacking deficits instead of existing incompetence is not great.

#ableg

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

cat is doing so much really cool work in this space.

Bleed through from the military to differentiate from cyber?

She just literally makes shit up. She just lies. I know people have said this. And yes I agree. But here we are. Right there. My god golly

This was a great ep and sent me back to my rage over the working conditions at the Brooks Cargill plant that caused several workers to die from COVID

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

“Alberta is not ready at all. It’s almost completely unready,” adds Patrick Lennox, a former director of intelligence with the RCMP, now turned security consultant. “There is no capacity whatsoever to push back against that form of misinformation and disinformation..."
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Alberta’s Tax Advantage Is Being Paid For by Your Property Tax Bill I am sitting here running code to pull and process British Columbia property tax data for a project Gillian Petit and I are doing on property tax regressivity across Canadian provinces — work that …

Alberta Budget 2026 didn't raise taxes. It just raised your property taxes — the one tool the province left municipalities, then spent years criticizing them for using. Wrote about it.

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Back, and with something important to say: ADAP, AISH, and what good disability income support design actually requires.

"Minister Nixon has, throughout this file, demonstrated a level of indifference to the people affected that is difficult to characterize charitably."

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Income and Social Supports: An Inclusive Systems‐Based Approach to Cash Transfer Program Design This article presents a systems-based framework for the inclusive design of cash transfer programs in Canada. Grounded in the goal of enhancing inclusion through an intersectional lens, the framework...

**PUBLICATION NEWS** Mine and @lindsaytedds.bsky.social article "Income and Social Supports: An Inclusive Systems-Based Approach to Cash Transfers" is now available for early viewing at Canadian Public Administration. #CdnPoli

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This book is trash. Don’t waste your time, listen to this 2-part podcast instead.

Princeton beclowns itself with this clickbait masquerading as a “book.”

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We should have never legitimized gambling or outsourced our thinking.

hi, I think I can explain some of this, as an expert on Project Maven.

image recognition and intelligence summarisation capabilities are well within the scope of what would be required for a closed-loop decisionmaking process on whether to launch weapons.

The provincial government has just imposed the largest property tax increase on Calgarians in history.

In 2026, Alberta is increasing its share of your property tax bill by 21.05%. Nearly 42% of every residential property tax dollar now goes to Province.

These slop accounts are garbage. City council did NOT extend transfer window. They asked admin to start work on it + report back in Apr for council to decide. Accounts like these scrape headlines, have 100,000+ followers & often get it wrong. Meanwhile legit news orgs are banned by Meta. 🤦🏻‍♂️ #yyccc

also, to echo wise words from @gkfellows.bsky.social:

sales and income tax revenue scales with population; resource royalties do not.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

If you watch 2 minutes of video today…

Make it this.

A masterclass on oratory and personal responsibility is on full display.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"The temporary measures mean there is no construction digging within 10 metres of the feeder main" is a far, far, far cry from blocking all development in two communities for an indeterminate amount of time...

Don't let this slide, Calgarians. I'd love someone who is better than me at math to calculate what percentage this will add to property tax bills.

Some councillors would light their hair on fire if the City raised property taxes this much.

Fees and taxes: How the 2026 Alberta budget may hit your wallet | Globalnews.ca While income taxes aren't increasing to make up the shortfall, there are several other ways Albertans will be paying more through fees and changes to the education property tax.

NEW: The Government of Alberta is increasing its education property tax requisition from Calgary to $1.2B.

The typical Calgary homeowner will pay an extra $340 this year.

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Fortune news article titled: “It’s going to be painful for a lot of people”: Software engineers could go extinct this year, says Claude Code creator

i eagerly await the news of anthropic firing literally every engineer at their company

I complain about CBC, because it’s not perfect, and fair criticism is allowed and appropriate. But seriously, thank God for CBC in Canada. It needs to be protected.

Bike lane in Victoria BC with a rainbow at its end.

Rainbow Road.