Ian King

If you liked anything I've said or Tweeted lately, don't worry. I'll disappoint you soon.

@alexcerne Their real audience isn't in Alberta. When you realize that, it makes sense.

@IanKing The one group of political commentators for which that dunk can never work.

That's a big stretch by Hogan. Gunn suggests building refineries, that's dumb enough for any amount of attacks. But hey reminding your constituents about the NEP implemented by your party? A great tactical success

@alexcerne No Liberal, especially an Alberta Liberal, can resist the "oh, are you proposing some sort of National Energy Program?" dunk.

Gunn's tweet is really dumb. There's lots of successful ways to attack it. But the grand strategist missed them all.

A friend of mine posted a picture of the current state of the Gloucester Apartments on Woodrow Place in Wolseley. It is being sold as a tear down due to major structural issues. Here's a look back at its history before it is gone! winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.com/2026/03/28-woo…

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@AlexRMcColl @GK_Fellows @ExnerPirot All the LNG supply is trucked in, so yes. The only gas production I know of in Yukon was in the southeastern tip but that's long been shut in and abandoned, and in any case it flowed to Fort Nelson.

@IanKing @GK_Fellows @ExnerPirot Makes sense. I’m still a little surprised that none have been built. You’d think it would be low hanging fruit given the climate, are natural gas distribution issues the limiting factor?

👀 Canada’s energy policy has come full circle. To reduce electricity demand and risk of blackouts, Yukon is cutting EV subsidies and instead is incenting propane and heating oil for home heating.

posted six hours too early, that's a €150 surcharge

This was like the Holy Grail to have as a kid in the 80s. You felt like a millionaire if you got this for a birthday, payment for lawn work etc.

@GK_Fellows @AlexRMcColl @ExnerPirot All their thermal power plants are recips, so the opportunities to harvest waste heat are limited compared to turbine generation.

@AlexRMcColl @ExnerPirot Up there? None I think.

This is why we need to bring more STEM education into the arts. So you don't end you with employed adults like this unable to understand the beauty of the world around them.

Stephen Lewis, former Ontario NDP leader and global AIDS advocate, dies at 88 theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Avi Lewis was, quite plainly, not who I wanted to win the leadership of Canada’s NDP. But I’m a strong supporter of “loser’s consent”, the idea that in any democracy—for it to be a democracy, the losing side must accept the result. Unlike Nenshi and Beck, I’ll certainly still be knocking on doors for the NDP, wishing that I’m wrong and that Lewis’s win will not after all result in the collapse of the party. I hope he has learnt lessons over the course of his campaign, and is willing to course-correct and apologize. And he does have some very good ideas alongside the bad ones! However, I’d also like to see the construction of an organized, self-aware “loyal opposition” within the party, that works with the Lewis team on policies and projects where they are salutary, that is willing to face up to the *many* errors of previous leadership teams (including Layton), but that is very clear on *the purpose of social democracy* rather than some vague “progressivism”, and understands why social democratic parties right across the West have been declining in vote share for three decades. Crucially, such a loyal opposition would be one that: - critiques the pathologies of markets rather critiques “megaprojects” just because they’re big; - embraces industrial policy, not opposition to industry; and that recognizes that state-shepherded re-industrialization is the sole pathway to social democratic revival and the main inoculation the world has against right-wing populism; - understands that Martin Luther King Jr-style universalism is the solution to very real questions of social inequality, not identitarian oppression olympics; - backs evidence-based, practical, industrially-aware pathways to solving climate change not in spite of global warming, but because variable-renewables-only eco-austerity and opposition to mining retards emissions mitigation while throwing industrial workers under the bus; - seeks excellence in public services and abundance in the economy as a whole, not NIMBY blockage by unelected NGOs or state capacity outsourced to Deloitte/McKinsey consultancies; - fights for the whole of the working class—including private sector and industrial workers, not solely public-sector unions and gig-economy workers (they are important, of course, and the latter desperately need to be organized into unions, but they’re not the only workers out there, and also often do not have the same structural, economic leverage as private-sector and industrial workers); - aims to rapidly achieve economic and social equality of First Nations within and as full citizens of Canada rather than “Land Back” quasi-separatism; that rejects noble-savage condescension and self-hating “so-called Canada” rhetoric; - recognizes that libertarian drug policy was a criminally, spiritually disastrous response to the murderous and dysfunctional War on Drugs, that is immiserating the commons that are the streets of our cities and towns, and these are not the only two policy options, i.e., that compassionate, recovery-focussed policy is a liberation from the enslavement of addiction, not an attack on bodily autonomy - takes the struggles of young working class men seriously, from financial insecurity to online gambling to depression and anxiety and social isolation, and ends all poisonous, bigoted (and vote-destroying) talk of “toxic masculinity”; - also takes the threats to Canadian sovereignty seriously, both from Trump but also especially in the Arctic, and soberly recognizes the military spending trade-offs this may entail; - actively confronts the performative radicalism that, for example, calls to defund or abolish the police or even to abolish the family, or undermines the struggle against Netanyahu’s monstrous crimes by turning a blind eye to the monstrous crimes of Hamas; - And understands that civic patriotism is no barrier to cosmopolitanism, and finds pride, not shame, in our country and what we have achieved since our founding.

@moebius_strip This is the same CBC that promoted "alternatives" that make you bring in your own containers and work for your purchases.

@cselley It's where the (stable, government-backed) money is.

Call for theories: Why are popular musicians, who I imagine vote monolithically NDP, so susceptible to Liberal bullshit?

I want to provide a brief update and an explanation of why some of you haven't heard back from me after reaching out. First of all, my wife's treatment continues. We are deep in the chemo grind. It's too soon to say how it's going, in terms of the ultimate result. But she's had an encouraging result thus far and has tolerated the awful reality of chemo well. I couldn't be prouder of her. The future I dreamed of and took for granted is being bought every time she sits in that infusion chair and suffers. I hate that. It's awful. But it is, in the words of WASP men everywhere, what it is. Many of you, on a fairly regular basis, are asking for updates. I don't give personal updates on request. I'm not being a dick about this. I'm just trying to preserve my sanity. It's A LOT to get 10-15 people "just checking in" every day. It means I can't ever escape cancer. I'll be trying to work and relax and my phone will ding and, oops, now I'm giving a well-meaning person a full medical update and I'm right back in it again. So I'm not doing that. Key family and friends get regular updates as necessary and warranted by medical developments. My public statements are going to be more rare. But we're still here. She's going amazing. I am so proud of her and grateful for her. I told her the other day that she's more than just my dream come true — and she was, in ways she will probably never understand. She's STILL my dream. All my dreams of the future life I wanted and once expected were centred around her being here with me. Where we'd be. What we'd do. Things we would do and go together. The details changed, but never the core. She herself was, and is, my hopes and dreams. It's a hard diagnosis and a hard fight. But she's doing as well as I could have expected. Maybe even a bit better. I know many of you have been praying for her and our family. I ask that you keep doing that. It might be working. MG

Matches what I've seen, and I'm sure for some, it's exactly the point. "Nenshi is going to repeat Notley's mistakes" etc., believing that 100-proof Lewis would inspire AB or SK voters, making the NDP more competitive there. Not the way I see it...

Brian Topp on Avi Lewis's strongest soldiers: "Judging by their online chatter, some of these people want to take a blowtorch to the NDP’s provincial cousins... They will make it more difficult for Mr. Lewis to find common ground in his party, should he want to"

@BobbyBorkIII Hey, where's the 25% of rent-geared-to-income units in that housing? No agrivoltaic rooftop and LEED Platinum-Iridium certification is gonna get caught up in staff review. Oh, and you ARE aware that you need to add these very specific bird friendly window treatments...

After a process of extensive public feedback, the architect has revised the proposed ballroom to conform to the wishes of the local community. The site now features metro access, bike racks, energy sustainability, more housing, surface level parking, and a Tatte to anchor the new commercial district. This is why public consultation is so important for the success of any new building project.

@Le_Roke It's much more Canadian to commemorate a bureaucrat!

Wait, they aren't named after Juno Beach? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Awar…

"You guys" is a tell of having been checked out of Canada for a very, very long time.