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Can you imagine thinking so little of yourself as to spend your Sunday watching NFL when you could be enjoying Pason Datahub
If @TheStalwart finds Astra generates the same output for White Claw, then we will know that OpenAI is simply abandoning the Gen Z consumer demographic.
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For all the investors circling Canadian O&G stocks: Alberta now saying publicly that a new royalty framework to incentivize greenfield production will be announced in the coming weeks to help us double production. 📈
(For all the naysayers: this is what we did for the last oil sands buildout and it worked like a charm and led to the province’s enormous royalty post-payouts today)
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has hinted the province will announce a new royalty framework this fall to help ensure a West Coast pipeline happens, despite environmental laws already being rolled back. Why isn't that enough?
Smith says royalties "have worked in the past" and a way to ensure the "best investment climate."
Maybe Canada isn't too stupid to survive after all...
🔥 A+ response from Liberal Energy Minister Hodgson on how the federal government justifies expanding Canadian oil & gas production; Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean beaming in the background.
"In the world we need to live in - not in a magical world - in the world as it is not as we wish it to be, this is the most productive way to be a clean and conventional energy superpower and it makes complete sense to do that."
Pickard is using a recognizable technique. Propaganda analysts identified it in the 1930s and called it “name-calling”: attach a vice-word to a person so the audience recoils before the underlying comparison has to be tested.Smith offered an analogy about economic injury.
Trump’s tariffs are a live American pressure campaign against Canadian industries. Ottawa’s decade-long campaign against Alberta’s energy sector was a live federal pressure campaign against the industry that province depends on. Pickard is now asking readers, in the middle of an actual argument about whether those experiences rhyme, to attenuate that question by dredging up the emotional charge already attached to “propaganda,” “annexation,” and “the aggressor.”
His framing is profoundly cynical.
Only Pickard could try and disguise a deliberate refusal to answer the analogy as an act of national solidarity.
His sequence: exploit wartime feeling, blur an analogy with a loyalty test, be unnecessarily diagnostic at the exact moment a concrete claim is worth most. The central move is to manufacture an internal enemy while an external one threatens us. The effect is to weaken one of Canada’s strongest assets in confronting Trump: the ability to talk honestly about how Ottawa trained large parts of the country to treat regional economic pain as a moral defect.
Pickard talks about Smith stoking anger while he is the one now stoking it on purpose (to move heat off a refutable comparison and onto a premier). When challenged on the actual point, he did not answer it. He transferred the stain of MAGA onto the critic and called it a short attention span.
After the sad spectacle of Pickard’s self-serving communication analysis this week, the more justified skepticism may be directed at a commentator whose instinct, when a simple claim appears, is to gratuitously revive the prestige of 1930s propaganda charts and signal more interest in policing tone than in testing whether the comparison is true.
Smith is using a recognizable technique. Propaganda analysts identified it in the 1930s and called it “transfer”: take the emotional charge already attached to one thing and carry it over to another by associating the two.
Trump is a foreign president attacking Canada’s economy, threatening key Canadian industries and talking openly about annexation. Trudeau was Canada’s elected prime minister, and he left office eighteen months ago. Smith is now asking Ontarians and Quebecers, in the middle of an active attack on their livelihoods, to attenuate their anger about Trump by dredging up legacy resentment about a former PM.
Her framing is profoundly cynical. Only Smith could try and disguise a deliberate and manipulative redirection of anger as an appeal for empathy.
Her sequence: exploit resentment, blur unlike things together, be unnecessarily divisive at the exact moment solidarity is worth most. The central move is to manufacture an internal enemy while an external one threatens us. The effect is to weaken one of Canada’s strongest assets in confronting Trump: a united national front.
Smith talks about others' anger while she is the one who is now stoking it on purpose (to divide Canadians rather than directed at the outrageous American tariffs).
After the sad spectacle of Smith's self-serving communication and weak leadership this week, the more justified anger in Alberta may be directed at a premier whose instinct, when Canada is attacked by a foreign power, is to gratuitously revive old regional resentments and signal more sympathy for the aggressor than solidarity with her own country.
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🇨🇦 BREAKING NEWS 🇺🇸
American President Donald Trump renames Ontario "Dontario," sparking widespread outrage as angry crowds gather at Queen's Park.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded quickly calling Trump "an immature bully and a total loser" before threatening to jump up and down and hold his breath until Trump stops with his childish nonsense.
More to come as this story unfolds.
Mark Dietz
Calgary Regional Alternative Press.
$ALS vibes
Trent Boehm retweeted
He's back! @ShaleTier7 with a new guest piece today, explaining the ongoing energy situation.
Quite a few people have asked me in the last couple weeks, "can you get that gas guy back for a Hormuz explainer?" and we're thrilled to have him again. Enjoy!
a16z.news/p/the-energy-situa…
Can confirm
71% of Waterloo's best engineers leave Canada (UWaterloo SE Class of 2022 graduate survey).
And nobody riots.
In any other country, a 71% talent export rate would be a national emergency. In Canada, it's Tuesday.
The problem isn't the people who leave. They're rational. The US pays 2-3x more, taxes less, and builds things that matter.
The problem is the people who stay and never ask why the system is designed to make leaving the rational choice.
Canada doesn't have a brain drain problem. It has a demand problem. Nobody demands better. Not from the universities. Not from the employers. Not from the government.
The best leave. The rest adjust. The cycle continues.
Every country gets the talent retention rate it deserves.