My understanding is that such abortions are rare to non-existent, because of the ethical problems involved.

This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.

Is a pipeline tied to their approval though? I seem to recall all of BC's court battles against the TMX failing. And Carney seems to have dispensed with even mentioning First Nations consent in the memorandum.

How do you figure? He led the conservatives within a hair's breadth of a crushing victory, and was only stopped by the deus ex machina of Trump's trade war.

People will sour on Carney shortly enough and PP will be our next PM.

The son of a prime minister is a political outsider?

Just circling back on this one, from what I remember McPherson dodged the pipeline question on every occasion that it came up tonight.

McPherson was Notley's preference in the the nomination battle, chosen because she wouldn't rock the boat on the oilpatch. For me that rules her out for leader.

The replies to Guilbeault's resignation post on this site were interesting to me, in that it was 99% liberals thanking him for taking a stand. Maybe that's not representative, but I had expected to see a lot more people defending the "at least it's not PP" government.

Well I missed that when it came out, looks interesting! And it's got that trademark Barking Dog audio compression.

Saying nothing at all was an option.

I wonder about that. Which is better for Smith's electoral fortunes: the promise of a pipeline, or an intransigent Ottawa to rail against forever?

I'm familiar with the CIAs history of ops. But like, it's possible that the guy just had grievances with the US and went off.

I don't know what happened yet. I know it's tempting to fill in the uncertainty, but that's something to be resisted.

It seems a little early to be so certain about this, don't you think?

Yeah shut up loser.

Same as it ever was? NATO's an extension of the US.

I mean, the US probably blew up Nordstream, and how did Germany respond? They just ate the loss.

There was some murmur in the news recently about Europe setting out to secure its own interests, and I'll believe it when I see it.

We can fit more turrets on there.

Now I'm not a lawyer, but I'm just going to post a few clips of the Alberta Elections act here ...

Become ungovernable.

I think it's going to have to be the hand grenade for me.