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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 7h

Alas.

There is always next year.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21h

I agree wholeheartedly with this piece from Lennie Kaplan -- who, it should be said, used to work for the War Room.

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Alberta wants pipelines. Ottawa wants proof

Lennie Kaplan • Without it, Alberta’s so-called “Grand Bargain” won’t hold

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22h

To wit.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 22h

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22h

For a certain audience of Canadian policy experts, I imagine there are no more exciting words than "automatic federal benefits" for low-income Canadians.

Though I also imagine the details matter a lot.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

It's really too bad there are no governments responsible for housing in the Toronto area.

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TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline.
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Fire regime changes in Canada: an update

Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Keystone XL being back in the news is a reminder that no debate in Canadian politics ever really ends.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2d

"I would never vote for Canada to become part of the United States"

🟢 Agree: 79%
🟡 Neutral: 12%
⚫️ Disagree: 9%

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

Canadians Firmly Reject Idea of American Statehood

Support for American statehood remains low across all age groups, even in more conservative provinces like Alberta

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

Also not sure what to make of the fact that it's (so far?) only five provinces signed on to this call for the federal government to completely abandon its arguments before the Supreme Court.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

I think lawyers outside those provincial justice departments might agree that that's a bold or novel argument, but there are other parts to the federal factum.

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ANALYSIS | What is the Supreme Court going to say about the notwithstanding clause? | CBC News

Last month, Justice Minister Sean Fraser stood accused by a Bloc Québécois MP of wanting to rewrite the Constitution. "On the contrary, we do not want to change the Constitution," Fraser said. "We wan...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

The premiers suggest they want the federal factum withdrawn in its entirety, but their arguments seem focused on only one part of the factum — where the federal attorney general argues the notwithstanding clause shouldn't cause "irreparable" harm to a Charter right.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

Attention is understandably focused on Washington, but this shouldn't go overlooked.

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5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

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Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social · 4d

Canada to move all future budgets to the Fall: www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

For context, here's the timing of every federal budget since 1867. Nearly 80% of of all budgets were released by May; 68% by April. #cdnecon #cdnpoli

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 5d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

So this seems to be going well.

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Smith calls Eby’s pipeline criticism ‘un-Canadian and unconstitutional’

Premiers of Alberta and B.C. disagree over which infrastructure projects should be fast-tracked by Carney

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

I also feel like it might give Carney too much credit to say he killed the carbon tax.

That thing was fatally wounded long before he arrived.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

Political rhetoric is easy to discount, but Carney still talks about combatting climate change as a "moral obligation."

That's at least something that could be held against him if he withdraws other policies.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

What does he do on industrial pricing?

Does he keep the EV mandate?

What does he do on home retrofits? (There's a new program for low-income households, but the federal loan program just expired.)

Does he move on climate finance disclosure?

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

But obviously his early retreats raise questions about where he's going to end up standing.

I think the real first measure of that will be the "climate competitiveness strategy" we're supposed to see this fall.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

I think, given the state of the policies when Carney came along, it's not hard to understand why he killed the carbon tax and paused the EV mandate.

I think there are also experts who would say you don't need the O&G emissions cap...

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How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

(That piece, by Bloomberg's @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, is very good. One of the best I've read on our current predicament.)

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

Well, there's a jarring sequence of words to read.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 3d

"Solar ... is now so cheap that large markets for solar can emerge in a country in the space of a single year."

Another historic milestone for the energy transition, which is doing things seemingly daily that I was told quite often until quite recently were impossible www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure I could make a good case at this point as to why normal people should care, except that I have this small hope that distinguishing between operating and capital spending might lead to a more useful discussion about what goes into a deficit.

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