Mark Mac Lean

I think I need the math explained to me (a mathematician): how would the new home cost reductions for new home buyers work under the BC govt's preferred scheme as opposed to under the federal govt's plan?

📊Alberta Referendum: Ask a Clear Question, Get a Clearer Result 📉New polling from the Angus Reid Institute finds significantly less support for Alberta independence when voters are asked directly about leaving Canada. 338canada.ca/p/alberta-refe…

I need to talk about Sen̓áḵw. This word has been in the news for years, and I still hear it mispronounced constantly—by journalists, politicians, and well-meaning people who just haven't been shown how. It's a word from the Squamish Language. Let me walk you through it. 🧵

I was at Imperial College during the week leading up to the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote. I asked colleagues I was visiting why no one seemed to be talking about the vote. They all said the vote was expected to be No, so there wasn't anything to talk about. Final vote: 51.9% Yes.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces free universal healthcare for 130 million citizens starting next year.

For those pondering the logic of Smith's question, try this simpler version: Would you like to stay inside or would you like to go outside? If the possible answers are YES or NO then logic says answer YES if you want to do either one of the options and NO if you want neither.

Berkeley law has introduced a new, much stricter AI policy law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl…

The clown show in Alberta continues.

The CMS is pleased to announce Dr. Bruno Staffa (Rice University) as the recipient of the 2026 Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize. La SMC est heureuse d'annoncer que le Dr Bruno Staffa (Rice University) est le lauréat du Prix de doctorat Blair Spearman 2026. cms.math.ca/news-item/dr-b…

Stephen Wright appointed dean of #UofT’s Faculty of Arts & Science ➡️ uoft.me/cpH

#vanpoli RT Vancouver cuts cooling kits as B.C. faces more record-breaking summer temperatures - The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

My latest, on the absurdity of Canada, one of history’s most successful nations, surrendering to the likes of David Parker, Mitch Sylvestre, and Jeffrey Rath theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

@acoyne @gmacofglebe In related news, when Danielle Smith says she is consulting with Quebec on the judge's ruling, denying her petition for a referendum on separation, this is the guy to whom she is referring. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/0…

Whoa! Alberta judge throws out petition for separation referendum theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

That's @deAdder's take: #cdnpoli hilltimes.com/cartoon-deadde…

This is a disappointing piece, based as it is on that old Twitter-argument standby, the imputed double standard — which isn’t a double standard. I’ve never said or implied that it’s okay for Quebec to deploy the “knife at the throat” but not for Alberta. I’ve spent my whole career attacking its use by Quebec nationalists; Alberta’s separatists and their fellow travellers are only the latest to try it. And I stand by the point I made on the panel: no federation, no country, can operate on the basis that if we get our way on any given issue we stay, but if we don’t we’re gone. You can’t run a book club on that basis. No country could, and no country, other than Canada, does. There’s a reason Canada has, uniquely among the major democracies, spent the last 60 years perched on the verge of dissolution. It’s the same reason we’re now headed for not one but two referendums on secession, even as the president of the United States threatens to devour the pieces. It’s because, all but uniquely, we have tolerated the idea that secession is a legitimate “option,” and that the only response open to the rest of Canada is to make regular ransom payments to forestall it. To allow for the possibility is to invite it.