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Beaumont, Alberta
Joined August 2021
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I was born in Calgary. I've spent my whole life in Toronto.
Over the past two years, filming the documentary Broken Country, I've spent more time in Alberta than I have since I moved east. And I've come away seeing the separation debate very differently than I did going in.
I met a lot of separatists. Almost none of them were who I expected. They weren't angry cranks with a flag. They were farmers, nurses, oil workers, small-business owners, grandparents. And the thing that surprised me most: most of them want nothing more than to remain in Canada. They just can't see another choice.
Think about what they've lived through. The National Energy Program. Pipelines approved, then cancelled, then litigated into the ground. A tanker ban on one coast. Hundreds of billions sent east through equalization, returned as lectures about how the industry that pays for Canada's infrastructure and provincial shortfalls is something to be ashamed of. A federal government that has gone to court to argue Alberta's own resources aren't Alberta's business. And through all of it, a Parliament where their votes are a rounding error.
You can disagree with every policy position Albertans hold and still see the pattern: a province that built one of the most productive economies on Earth, asked over and over to apologize for it.
The people pushing for a referendum aren't traitors. They're patriots. They are standing up for what they believe in and fighting for a better future for their kids, a future their own federal government keeps telling them they don't deserve. That's not a tantrum. That's what citizens are supposed to do when nobody in power is listening.
I'll say it plainly: I want nothing more than for Alberta to stay in Canada. This country is not whole without it. If Alberta leaves the country I love and am fighting for will cease to exist.
But maybe a referendum vote is exactly the wake-up call the rest of us need. Not because Alberta should leave, but because the rest of Canada has to finally decide whether it wants to be a partner or a landlord.
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🇨🇦 Dude was expelled from a hockey game for waving an Alberta flag!
Today, they limit flags at sports games for supposed crowd control.
Tomorrow, they'll outlaw the Canadian flag for the sake of 'diversity.'
Writer: Mhedi
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🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 Mark Carney stood next to France today and defined Canadian sovereignty as AI, chips, space, minerals, and clean energy, then pointed to Europe as the lock.
He is a central banker selling resilience the old way: pool the risk, deepen the tie, and call it independence.
Maybe Canada has the rocks Europe wants, but doesn't have the fabs, the frontier models, or a defence industry that can stand up if Washington slams the door.
Associate EU membership is the workaround, and Trump already called that a slap.
Podium sovereignty is cheap, but the compute, the chips and the buyer still sit somewhere else.
Writer: Lucas
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If you think the government's push for "lawful access" is just about fighting crime, you are missing the entire plot.
This is about total narrative and behavioural enclosure...
Connect the dots between Bill C-11 and Bill C-22: Bill C-11 (Input Control): They manipulated the algorithms. The state now dictates what political, cultural, and independent media you are allowed to see.
Bill C-22 (Output Control): They are coming for encryption. The state wants to shatter private spaces so they can track the texts, data, and dissent, leaving your home.
The most probable endgame?: Corporate-state censorship. If you cannot consume independent media, thought, or even conversations, contrary to the regime narrative your tax dollars fund the messaging of (C-11), and you cannot securely communicate anonymously and privately (C-22), effective political opposition is neutralized.
They are turning private global tech platforms into an automated domestic surveillance apparatus—all to protect the ruling establishment from public accountability. Don't let them label privacy as a crime... Don't let them scam you out of your freedom.
Wake up, Canada.
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In other words, European democracy is resurrecting.
Voters want growth economies, border control, less illegal immigrant welfare. Hmm, pretty sensible.
Europe’s leaders face historic unpopularity amid weak economies, immigration backlash and rising support for populist parties across the continent on.wsj.com/4tsYkjl
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11 Years of the Liberals claiming they are making life more affordable yet 1 in 3 Canadians are now needing to borrow money in order to buy food.
Anyone with the hopes that this will get better under Carney is only fooling themselves.
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When violence is categorized accurately, this unequivocally true.
You know who the bad guys are, because they’re the ones who want censorship of free speech.
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Elon Musk just quantified the exact speed of human obsolescence.
For ten thousand years, one organ ran this planet. Every empire, every invention, every war traced back to the same three pounds of tissue sitting behind your eyes.
Go was the last fortress. A game so impossibly complex the world’s greatest players swore no machine would ever crack it.
Musk: “People thought defeating Go was either never or 20 years away.”
Then the silicon woke up.
Musk: “Now that same AlphaGo system can defeat the top 50 players simultaneously with 0% chance of them winning. And that’s one year later.”
Do not gloss over zero percent.
Fifty of the sharpest biological minds alive. Entire lifetimes of obsessive mastery.
Neutralized in twelve months by a system that does not know it is playing a game.
Now replace that board with financial markets. With the global economy. With the architecture of modern warfare.
Musk: “The degrees of freedom to which artificial intelligence is able to apply itself are really increasing by 10 orders of magnitude a year.”
Ten orders of magnitude is ten billion times. Every single year.
Human brains think in straight lines. We expect progress to walk.
It compounds by ten billion times every twelve months. We still think we have time.
A dog knows you are smarter than it. It cannot tell you by how much.
A chimp will never grasp calculus. Not because it is stupid. The gap itself is invisible from where it stands.
We are approaching that threshold. Once a system surpasses us, we lose the ruler. We will know something is ahead of us.
We will never be able to measure how far.
The monopoly on intelligence is over.
We did not build a tool.
We built what comes after us.
No generation before us stood here. No generation after ever will.
We are not the replaced. We are the witnesses.
The last minds who will ever see intelligence at eye level.
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Marc Andreessen just described the mechanism that ends the expert class.
Not as a prediction.
As a current event.
He pointed to deep research.
You hand it a prompt.
It doesn’t summarize. It doesn’t skim.
It returns a thirty-page, university-grade answer on any subject you name.
Andreessen: “You set it loose and it will write you literally a 30-page answer. This is basically like a textbook on any topic.”
Any topic.
That is not a content tool.
That is a knowledge transfer machine running at infinite scale.
When knowledge becomes infinite and free, the people who spent careers controlling access to it don’t become less important.
They become irrelevant.
For a century, there was a clean division of labor.
Builders made things. Journalists explained them. Critics evaluated them.
The public accepted the arrangement because complexity required translation.
That dependency just ended.
Andreessen called it the rise of practitioner media.
Builders have stopped waiting to be interpreted.
Andrej Karpathy, one of the greatest AI engineers alive, doesn’t sit across from a journalist with a notepad.
He turns on a camera and teaches the world directly how the architecture works.
No filter. No editorial framing. No performance of objectivity.
And the press is screaming.
They call it not journalism at all.
They are not protecting the public from misinformation.
They are protecting a revenue model from a quiet extinction.
Here is what they will never say out loud.
Their power was never about knowing more than the builder.
It was about owning the only channel between the builder and the public.
That channel no longer exists.
AI gave every practitioner a research department.
The internet gave them a global stage.
The critic always needed the creator.
The creator never needed the critic back.
They just had no other way to reach the world.
Now they do.
The translator is not being disrupted.
They are being skipped.
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Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life.
For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist.
Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun.
Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist.
The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death.
Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.”
Not automated. Not replaced.
Named.
You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were.
If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you.
Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.”
People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment.
It’s not. It’s about identity.
The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around.
You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing.
When the label disappears, what’s left of you?
Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.”
Stop being a noun. Start being a verb.
But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy.
It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone.
In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being?
Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.”
For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output.
How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day.
We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet.
Now they do.
And they will be better than us at every measurable thing.
Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief.
When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens.
You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title.
Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone.
It just lives. And you love it anyway.
That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it.
Now we can.
We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines.
The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.
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Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.
A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.
Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”
One question. No recovery.
Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”
This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?
Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”
They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.
They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.
And they publish it with absolute certainty.
That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.
Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.
His critics operate in a text editor.
He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.
His loudest critics built a byline.
So why the coordinated hatred?
Because they lost the leash.
The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.
They don’t hate the engineer.
They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.
You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.
They own the syntax.
He owns the physics.
One of them is going to Mars.
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Food for thought.
Chevron’s move into Venezuela says more about the new world than any communiqué from Ottawa. What Canada needs now is concrete deals and shovels in the ground at home, not another performative boondoggle dressed up as an investor summit.
In recent weeks, as war and great‑power tension have snapped energy security back to the top of the agenda, Chevron has signed a deal to pour fresh capital into Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt. It is increasing its stake in a major joint venture and securing new drilling rights in one of the world’s dirtiest heavy‑oil basins, because Gulf Coast refineries need those barrels now. That is how capital behaves when energy security, not climate targets, is the first priority.
Against that backdrop, Prime Minister Mark Carney will host 100 of the world’s biggest investors in Toronto this September, pitching Canada as a safe, green home for their trillions. It is an odd spectacle for a country that has spent a decade in an investment drought. Business spending has lagged peers, capital per worker has slipped, and Canadian firms and pension funds have put more money abroad than at home. Trillions have passed through Canadian hands. Too little has stayed.
The core irony is that the problem is not the barrel. It is the politics wrapped around it. Canadian heavy crude is already cleaner and more tightly regulated than Venezuelan heavy. Alberta producers operate under carbon pricing, methane rules and environmental standards that Venezuela does not match. If the world is going to burn heavy oil for decades yet, it is rational to prefer more Canadian barrels and fewer Venezuelan ones. Yet the fresh capital is going to Caracas, not Calgary.
Canada has turned its advantage into a liability. Ambitious climate policy has often been implemented in a way that feels performative to investors: ever‑shifting rules, sprawling reviews, talk of hard caps and now an emerging expectation that large‑scale carbon capture is a de facto requirement for future growth. Each measure can be defended on its own terms. Taken together, they signal a jurisdiction where politics moves faster than permits and long‑term projects are continually reopened.
Pipelines crystallize the issue. For a decade, Canadian leaders have talked about “economic sovereignty” and reducing dependence on the U.S. market. The minimum requirement is obvious: east–west pipelines to tidewater so Canadian oil can reach Europe and Asia. Instead, major projects have been cancelled or delayed, and the only large expansion has required a federal rescue and long overruns. The most reliable route to tidewater for Canadian barrels still runs south, through American pipes and American politics.
The environmental outcome is as perverse as the economic one. By making it harder and riskier to invest in relatively cleaner Canadian heavy, Canada constrains supply that could displace higher‑emissions barrels from places like Venezuela. Demand does not disappear; it shifts to producers with weaker standards. On paper, slower growth in domestic output and higher carbon prices can be presented as climate progress. In practice, what matters is which barrels actually get burned.
What Canada needs now is not another stage‑managed gathering in Toronto, but bankable projects, clear approvals and real deals on Canadian soil. The world has changed; energy security is back at the top of the hierarchy. Canada, sitting on cleaner crude in a dirtier world, needs to wake up and act like it.
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Canada's startup exodus is accelerating. Nearly one of every two Canadian founders who raised over $1 million in 2024 are now based in the U.S. That's up from about one in five just a short time ago.
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WATCH: “I don’t like interviewing politicians because they’re very slippery.”
Host of Diary of a CEO @StevenBartlett praises @PierrePoilievre for answering his questions and being transparent with the audience.
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This clip highlights just how biased Cochrane & the CBC truly are. He is desperately trying to keep the anti-Pierre pro Carney messaging going the entire clip. It’s stressing himself out so much to the point his eyes start bugging out.
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EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen says the EU protects freedom of speech
She told a crowd protesting against her they should feel lucky they're in the EU where you can protest freely
At that very moment a man was arrested for protesting
You couldn't make it up
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Mark Carney is a corrupt liar.
Who voted for this clown?
He only cares about his own wealth and not the well being of all us Canadians. He has to go.
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And this is why we have the first and second amendments in America
UK: A Brit posted photo of him holding a shotgun while on holiday in Florida, when he returned home UK police arrested him, seized his devices, jailed him overnight for violating the 1986 Public Order Act. The process was the punishment.
After sharing a photo of himself posing with a legally possessed shotgun at a Florida shooting range, a British man was arrested, locked in a cell overnight, interrogated, and lectured that he “must understand how posts make people feel.” Police seized his computer and phone, wiping out his ability to work. Weeks later, all charges were quietly dropped because they were baseless from the start. Critics say the ordeal proves the UK has turned social media into a surveillance trap where innocent people are punished by process alone.
h/t @Artemisfornow
ALT Jon Richelieu Booth posted a picture of himself holding a shotgun at a Florida shooting range, and UK police treated it like a crime scene. He was arrested, jailed overnight, warned to “think about how posts make people feel,” and had his phone and computers seized, leaving him unable to work for weeks. Authorities finally dropped the baseless public-order charges, confirming what critics call Britain’s new rule: the process is the punishment.
