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Kelly Blidook @kblidook.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder - as we watch results from NL election - that even if PCs secure more seats than Libs, John Hogan will remain Premier & would have first opportunity to test confidence of House.

If PCs lead but remain below 20 seats, it's very possible we'd have a Liberal govenment continue.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 11h

Election night in Newfoundland.

Best riding names. Best accents.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNx...

N.L. Votes: Election Night 2025

YouTube video by CBC News

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 13h

Nice work.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump calling his ceasefire deal “Peace in the Middle East” doesn’t make it so - no matter how many world leaders (none of them the belligerent parties) gather to applaud..

What he’s done is restore something like the pre-Oct. 7, 2023 status quo, which was a long way from peace.

My take

At leaders’ summit in Egypt, Trump unveils fuzzy commitment to ‘peace in the Middle East’

Trump managed to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. But what comes next is unclear

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 18h

DEADLINE TODAY: Apply for a CAJ mentorship, the program i wish wish wish existed when I was getting my feet under me in journalism.
Fall mentors include:
💥Kristin Nelson (Boston Globe's Spotlight podcast)
💥Michelle Cyca (The Narwhal)
💥Nathan Vanderklippe (Globe and Mail)
caj.ca/programs/men...

Mentorship - Fall 2025 - Canadian Association of Journalists

Fall 2025 Mentor Bios Below you will find an alphabetic list of mentors for the Fall 2025 round of the mentorship program. Each mentor has their bio, who they are looking to mentor, the languages they...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20h

Trust in the Supreme Court?

Pretty solid and pretty consistent.

cdnsurveystuff.substack.com/p/judging-th...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20h

This data is a couple years old, but when last Environics checked, the public was not exactly clamouring for legislatures to have the final say over individual rights.

www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20h

I still tend to be skeptical of complaints about judicial activism, but putting that aside, I'd like to see some evidence that pubic trust in the courts has been damaged.

nationalpost.com/opinion/opin...

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 21h

Unlike 1995 there's no social housing budgets for Liberals to cut.

Graph showing annual affordable/social housing builds from 1960 to 2000s. The number flatlined during the years that the Chretien and Martin Liberals were in power.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

Budget cuts: Not actually painless

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 21h

In deficit-worry pieces like this Saturday's in @theglobeandmail.com, the praising of the 1995 budget doesn't include considering those of its effects that worsened human misery.

If we're reliving the 1990s, let's not repeat the cruelty

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

For Canada’s finances, it’s looking like 1995 all over again. How will today’s Liberals handle it?

Once again, the country is being led through a polycrisis by a pragmatist Liberals surrounded by activists. There are lessons in how Chrétien and Martin handled this last time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

New from me. The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war | CBC News

The debate about the federal deficit — or, more specifically, the health and wisdom of federal fiscal policy — remains something of a phoney war, with little substantive engagement. But perhaps, with ...

www.cbc.ca

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

I will not stop pointing out that the emissions cap target for oil sands is slightly below that of the Pathway Alliance's own commitment they made, in print, for emission reductions by 2030 of 22 million tonnes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screenshot from the wayback machine capture of the Pathways Alliance press release which states:

PHASE ONE Pathways Alliance advances net zero
emissions plan
October 14, 2022
Significant progress achieved on early-stage work for oil sands carbon capture and storage network CALGARY - Oct. 14, 2022 - The Pathways Alliance, representing Canadas six largest oil sands companies, is advancing early work necessary to build one of the world's largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the oil sands
region of northern Alberta. The CCS project is the primary focus of phase one of Pathways Alliance's ambitious plan to reduce annual emissions
from oil sands operations by 22 million tonnes by 2030 and achieve a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 3d

New from me. The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war | CBC News

The debate about the federal deficit — or, more specifically, the health and wisdom of federal fiscal policy — remains something of a phoney war, with little substantive engagement. But perhaps, with ...

www.cbc.ca

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

Alas.

There is always next year.

a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it

ALT: a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 4d

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

troymedia.com/politicslaw/...

Alberta wants pipelines. Ottawa wants proof

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

troymedia.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

To wit.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 5d

🔥 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.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

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 · 5d

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

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

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 6d

"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

open.substack.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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 · 7d

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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