Chris McGee

@Leigh_Phillips Never forget Lac-Megantic

This is crucial to understand in any anti-pipeline discussion: even after we stop combusting fossil fuels and hit net-zero GHG emissions, we will still need oil and gas for hundreds of non-climate-related use cases. After recognizing this, now ask yourself which is the safest, cleanest way to transport that oil and gas? By rail, by truck or by pipeline?

@emile_amajar @ljupc0 “I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms.”

@seeteegee @ljupc0 They only know about me as much as I'm willing to share

How can you despise the machines of loving grace ?

@emile_amajar @ljupc0 By the machines of loving grace

@seeteegee @ljupc0 By whom ?

Trump does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Persian Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@colinwalker79 @bataille_chris Can’t wait for the showrooms to open up here.

"BYD Showrooms Are Bustling Across Asia After Iran Oil Shock" At a BYD car dealership in Manila, demand for the company’s EVs is so high that they've seen a month’s worth of orders in just the past two weeks bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@ggreenwald @CSUNSHINE Dear God, we’re going to be having another Trump term in 2028, aren’t we? Canadian here, who doesn’t get a vote, but is seriously impacted by the election result.

@CSUNSHINE Only if she can convince normie Dems that they can win, which is going to be a very hard especially since the last two times they lost were with female candidates.

AOC will win the Democrat nomination for President in 2028.

New study finds that US COVID deaths were undercounted by ~20%. While COVID revisionists and antivaxxers are trying to con people into thinking we did too much, the data says the opposite: Governments didn’t implement public health measures effectively enough to save more lives.

@sideen_dan @HopfJames No more slowpokes?

@HopfJames There are no 5 MW nuclear plants. And never will be

A proposed New Hampshire bill would allow utilities to own nuclear plants, but only if the reactors are 5 MW or less. It also limits the total amount of utility-owned nuclear or gas generation to 10% of the utilities' total power. Article link in reply. New Hampshire currently has a merchant power market, where power suppliers earn whatever they get on a free power market. That, as opposed to a regulated power market, where utilities are able to charge ratepayers for all "prudent" costs, plus a fixed profit percentage. The article doesn't say so, but I think the utilities would be given (cost plus) rate recovery for the reactors they "own". If not, allowing them to own reactors would not have any tangible economic impact.

@sideen_dan @KatKanada_TM I thought that the conservatives trace their roots back to John A Macdonald. That first government was founded on a distrust of the US. Or is it that they are no longer legitimate conservatives?

@KatKanada_TM Canadians generally like the US & Americans. The current governmrnt ... not so much

Poilievre says his biggest takeaway from his US visit is the goodwill of the American people towards Canada. "Americans love Canada. [...] They want partnership & friendship with Canada." 🇨🇦🇺🇸

This is why 64GB of RAM is $1000

@sideen_dan @simongerman600 @KirkMMaxey Time to crack out the Roman measuring chain and check the length of those furrows.

@simongerman600 @KirkMMaxey It's simple. An acre is 1 chain by 1 furlong (66 feet by 660 feet).

Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…

Meningitis is one a few diseases where your child can be well in the morning and dead by the evening And if you’d ever seen it happen, you wouldn’t be debating whether to vaccinate or not Tragic and horrifying

IF ONLY a method to remove potentially deadly bacteria from raw milk had been invented!!

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

@KeruboSk Life changing experience back in ‘01, Scotland for two weeks.

Honest question: Could you travel alone for a week with no friends, no partner, just you? Or would that feel uncomfortable?

No, I do remember 1979 and was there in the US Congress. The Iranian people were really pissed off after 26 years of the Shah's larceny and tyranny, joined the Revolution and forced the Shah to flee. All good. Then the idiots in Washington gave asylum to the Shah in the US when the crowds wanted him home to face the justice he deserved. So 400 enraged students took the US embassy hostage and asked for three reasonable things: 1) send the Shah back to Iran; 2) Return something like $20 billion that was hidden off-shore; 3) apologize for the 1953 CIA coup that ended their democracy. The warmongers on the Potomac said hell no, sent in the rescue helicopters in the middle of night which turned into the Desert One Disaster----and the rest is history. Very simply---the fools on the Potomac ultimately saddled the Iranian people with the theocracy that has made their lives miserable.

Been digging into interprovincial trade barriers and trying to understand what actually works to get rid of them. Honestly, I’m a bit shocked Australia isn’t brought up more often in Canada. In the 90s, they had the same problem — fragmented state rules, licensing barriers, internal trade friction — and it was starting to hurt their competitiveness. So they acted. They passed the Mutual Recognition Act (1992): if something is approved in one state, it’s allowed in another. That opened their internal market immediately. Then they backed it with the National Competition Policy (1995): governments had to review and justify rules that restricted competition — and the federal government tied funding to actually making progress. They didn’t eliminate every barrier. They changed the system: open the market first, then force alignment over time. This forces progress on the biggest issues quickly. Result: ~2–2.5% GDP growth. ~$5K AUD per household. In Canada, we’re still treating this like a coordination problem instead of a mechanism problem. Feels like Ontario should be learning from New South Wales here — lead and open the market unilaterally. And Ottawa should be doing the same thing Australia did — using incentives, timelines, and accountability to actually get it done, tying internal trade reform to competition reform more broadly.