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Claude just built a full CFO presentation from my Excel file. I didn't touch PowerPoint once. Comment "PowerPoint" and I'll send you the link. I've been a fractional CFO for years. Worked with over 100 companies. So when Anthropic announced Claude for PowerPoint, I had to know. Can it actually create a legitimate CFO summary? Or is this just another AI demo that falls apart with real data? So I tested it. Let me tell you why you should care. Here's what I cover in the video: → How to set up your prompts before you even start. Garbage in, garbage out. This step saves you hours of back and forth. → What happens when you upload a real three-statement model. Not some demo file. Actual financials with projections. → The moment Claude did something I didn't even ask for. I wasn't expecting this one. → Where it struggled. Because yeah, it wasn't perfect. I'll show you exactly what went wrong and how I fixed it. → The final presentation. 10+ slides. Charts, KPIs, commentary. And whether the numbers actually matched my Excel file. I said out loud at one point, "This would have taken me hours and hours to set up." Man, I was totally blown away. But here's the question I can't stop thinking about. What does this mean for my job? For analysts? For anyone who builds financial presentations? Watch the full video. I'll let you decide. Comment "PowerPoint" below and I'll send you the link.

@oliviakrolczyk_ donald trump wears make up you dumb ass

Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob says Canadian films are struggling because of “poor quality.” No. That’s not it. I love going to the movies. I’ve been going to theatres since I was a teenager. The problem isn’t the films. It’s the cost of concessions. Everyone wants popcorn and a drink at a movie. But when popcorn is $12, drinks are $8–$9, and snacks are $6+, a simple movie night suddenly costs a fortune. People aren’t staying home because of the movies. They’re staying home because Cineplex made movie night too expensive. 🍿

I’ve always admitted that @ABDanielleSmith is one of the most, if not the most, skilled communicators I’ve ever seen in politics. Which makes this, @DavidColetto’s latest poll, quite disturbing.

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened.

My stepfather always said "The elephant doesn't have to tell anyone he's big". This guy needs therapy. Its embarrassing. Eisenhower's generation would laugh at him. This is like dialog from a terrible B movie script. Or a Roy Cohn tutorial.

I don't know the source of this data but if true it is appalling. AHS had, by far, the lowest admin spend in Canada. Anything to replace it would be more but to double it? From a gov that complained about admin? This is sickening hypocrisy.

Wonky but interesting, Alberta looks set to abandon the fiscal framework it enacted in 2023, which limited deficits to no more than three in a row. This budget forecasts a 4th... plus this line. #ableg

Looks like Budget 2026 directly violates the fiscal framework (so will be abandoned in the implementation act?). Section 11.2(3) of kings-printer.alberta.ca/570.cfm?frm_is… would limit this year's projected deficit to ~$4.9B (I estimate). Instead, Budget 2026 deficit is $9.4B. #ableg

Dear Fellow Albertans, This letter is written not as a partisan, but as an emergency physician who has cared for more than 100,000 Albertans, a former MLA, and someone who has devoted a working life to this province. Across Alberta, the strain is obvious. Housing is scarce. Emergency rooms are overcrowded. Schools are stretched. The cost of living weighs heavily on families. Anxiety about the future is real and justified. This is not anger. It is concern, because moments like this demand leadership. When people are under pressure, leadership is not just about solutions, but about direction: an honest explanation of what is actually going wrong, and reassurance about who we are as a society while we fix it. In recent weeks, Alberta’s challenges have been framed by the Premier, Danielle Smith, in a way that has left many people angry, not at systems or long-standing policy failures, but at immigrants and other governments. That is deeply troubling. The frustration people feel is understandable. But much of that anger is being misdirected at immigrants. With the exception of Indigenous peoples, all Albertans come from families that arrived here seeking opportunity. Immigrants did not break Alberta’s healthcare system or tear up family doctor contracts. They did not close hospital beds or cancel planned hospital capacity. They did not under build housing, assisted living, long-term care, or schools. They did not dismantle community care. Politicians did. Every day in emergency departments, the consequences are visible: acute-care beds occupied by patients who should be at home or in long-term care; ERs functioning as inpatient wards; and population growth encouraged without matching investments in primary care, continuing care, and hospital capacity. In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem. Many of the people caring for seniors, staffing hospitals, and holding the healthcare system together today are newcomers themselves. Blaming them delays real solutions and divides communities. That lesson is personal. Growing up as a newcomer involved violence, black eyes and broken bones, and learning early what happens when fear is tolerated and adults look away. Home was not always safe either, shaped by alcoholism and domestic violence. Those experiences leave marks. What mattered most was a mother who taught that anger shrinks a life, while forgiveness, discipline, and service strengthen it, and that opportunity carries an obligation to give back. That belief led to decades in emergency medicine, the training of thousands of doctors, and public service at personal cost. Those experiences lead to a clear conclusion. Albertans deserve leadership that lowers the temperature, not raises it. Leadership that fixes systems, not finds scapegoats. Leadership that takes responsibility for planning failures and invests in capacity to match growth. For these reasons, Alberta needs a change in direction and ultimately, a change in leadership, so the province can unite around practical fixes rather than division. This is not about racism. It is about judgment, competence, and the ability to govern responsibly during difficult times. Alberta needs leadership that brings people together and focuses on solutions, not blame. Premiers Lougheed, Klein and Stelmach have led through very difficult times and would not take our province to this sharp edge. Albertans are much better than this. I am a Canadian, an Albertan and I am an immigrant. God bless Alberta. Dr. Raj Sherman @ABDanielleSmith @nenshi @FreeAlbertaRob @PfParks @NightShiftMD @Alberta_UCP @UCPCaucus @albertaNDP @TheBreakdownAB @ryanjespersen @cspotweet #yeg #yyc #ABleg #cdnpoli

This line was very eye opening! “In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem.”

Missing: The vast majority of judges donated to no political party. Add that to the graph and it looks radically different. This is appalling journalism. The politicization of the American judiciary is a blight on that country. Let's not do the same in Canada, thanks.

Danielle Smith’s address was a chilling moment that recalls some of the ugliest anti-immigration chapters of our country’s history. This is what demagogues do: pit the public against the most vulnerable and blame them for the very crises their austerity policies have created. Immigrants aren't to blame for Alberta's crumbling healthcare system, overcrowded classrooms, and strained social services — Danielle Smith and the UCP are. All federal leaders must come together to condemn Smith’s politics of division and stand up for the human rights of people who are our neighbours, friends and a part of our communities. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/artic…

After the Alberta is Calling campaign, Smith writing to Trudeau to demand more immigrants, and Smith musing about doubling Alberta's population to 10 million, now Alberta must control immigration to reduce it.

Alberta government spends $700 grand to flush $70 million down the toilet.

Here's a 2024 letter from Danielle Smith to Justin Trudeau complaining about federal immigration limits affecting Alberta. alberta.ca/system/files/P… #Alberta #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

Yes, Danielle Smith and the UCP government are still paying people to immigrate to Alberta, in case you were wondering. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg alberta.ca/alberta-is-cal…

Why is Alberta broke? The answer is actually bragged about in the provincial budget, every year. Alberta could eliminate its debt, invest in services, save billions, and still have the lowest taxes in 🇨🇦. Instead, immigrants are blamed. #ableg #cdnpoli

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How consumed by off-the-rails anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theories is the Alberta UCP? Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇 - Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB? - provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)? - educate about "vaccine injuries"? Dark Age 2.0.