I've known a lot of former cabinet ministers. I've known exactly one who smuggled Mikhail Baryshnikov into the West, stuffing the world's greatest dancer into a shitbox car full of vodka and barreling past the reach of the KGB. Jim Peterson. And such a kind, gentle man #RIP

Next update is tomorrow at 8:30 a.m.

Fire is still 16 kilometres southwest of Fort McMurray and 1,000 hectares in size.

Regional Fire a chief Jody Butz expects conditions will be better tomorrow, but the evacuation warning is still in place. #abfire24

The wildfire is burning 16 kilometres southwest of Fort McMurray and is 1,000 hectares in size.

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I added my two cents to a wealth of smart analysis from Janet Brown and Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas about the 'chaos theory' of Alberta politics this week on West of Centre hosted by Kathleen Petty Struggling to make sense of the mayhem? You are not alone 🙂

If anyone is curious about my book, have a look at this incisive article from Kyle Duggan in POLITICO's Ottawa Playbook today

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Finally.

No one who planned this has a mother, obviously:

Arrests taking place as police move forward ⁦U Calgary⁩

About half dozen flash bangs used by @calgarypoloce as the remaining
Protesters are being forced to move off the @ucalgary property

A few UCPers are telling me the new Alberta ethics commissioner isn’t in this 2019 campaigning photo that a candidate posted. Weird, given fact Barker thanked her former nomination rival in the post.

I will always remember Rex Murphy as the voice that tied our country together (in English Canada) through CBC radio’s Cross Country Checkup.
As host, he helped us understand each other through respectful dialogue.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/re…

Some smart fact-checking by Nojoud Al Mallees here. nationalnewswatch.com/2024/05/09/bus…

A how-to on interviews from Anna Maria Tremonti?
Yes please.
(early-bird conference ticket sale ends soon!)
caj.ca/caj24

and the joke is
when he awoke his
coffee was covered in woke lids

Gannett fired Sarah Leach, an editor overseeing 26 community papers in four states, for talking to Poynter about the company’s plan to stop restaffing small papers.
poynter.org/commentary/202…

NEW: Calgary Transit says ridership in the first quarter of 2024 has risen 21% over the same time last year to 25.5M trips.

March 2024 also broke a ridership record on the CTrain with 8,792,500 boardings in a single month, beating the previous record set in November 2014.

#Analysis : If there was any doubt remaining that Alberta's moratorium on renewable-energy projects was a political decision, it was erased by internal documents released to the public last week. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… .