Gnocchi Thompson
@gordondouglas.bsky.social
The cheeriest of Ottawa's famously cheerful local populace.
I hope you like bad tweets.
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I hope you like bad tweets.
Cohost on The Rhetorizer, A Show About Books.
Season 2, Noir:
https://pca.st/episode/4a17f31a-2404-4b22-8674-e4f480cb5f26
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Alberta oil companies and their proxies behave in bad faith??? What? No!
Danielle Smith has been saying for months that an agreement on oil would "take the wind out of the sails" of a resurgent independence movement. What if that was not correct? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Danielle Smith’s oil deal with Mark Carney was supposed to quiet Alberta’s separatists. Too bad they didn’t get the message
Separatists swiftly criticized the lack of immediate action on a pipeline and the agreement from Alberta to increase its industrial price on carbon.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Alberta oil companies and their proxies behave in bad faith??? What? No!
Haven't seen any good headlines about the pipeline mou yet.
We could have seen:
Crack Pipe: Carney sinks to new low in major projects bender
Carney Pipes Down Canada To Mixed Reviews
Pied Piper Carney Plays New Climate Tune, But Will Canadians Follow?
We could have seen:
Crack Pipe: Carney sinks to new low in major projects bender
Carney Pipes Down Canada To Mixed Reviews
Pied Piper Carney Plays New Climate Tune, But Will Canadians Follow?
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Haven't seen any good headlines about the pipeline mou yet.
We could have seen:
Crack Pipe: Carney sinks to new low in major projects bender
Carney Pipes Down Canada To Mixed Reviews
Pied Piper Carney Plays New Climate Tune, But Will Canadians Follow?
We could have seen:
Crack Pipe: Carney sinks to new low in major projects bender
Carney Pipes Down Canada To Mixed Reviews
Pied Piper Carney Plays New Climate Tune, But Will Canadians Follow?
Going to say this for the last time, but Mark Carney proudly announcing a road map to give Alberta a pipeline, after nearly a year of saying we need to build more pipelines, is a sign he wants a pipeline.
Is Mark Carney Crazy Like a Fox? Max Fawcett Thinks He Is
This is a fascinating conversation about Thursday's pipeline MOU in which I play a supporting role to @maxfawcett.bsky.social.
#ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/SXqH8bzymm4
This is a fascinating conversation about Thursday's pipeline MOU in which I play a supporting role to @maxfawcett.bsky.social.
#ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/SXqH8bzymm4
Is Mark Carney Crazy Like a Fox? Max Fawcett Thinks He Is
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Going to say this for the last time, but Mark Carney proudly announcing a road map to give Alberta a pipeline, after nearly a year of saying we need to build more pipelines, is a sign he wants a pipeline.
Here's the thing about Tarantino: he's undeniable because Pulp Fiction might be the most influential and cool film of the 90s. He's got his super fans who will rave over every film since. I suspect the critical re-examination of his career will not treat most of his movies as masterpieces.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here's the thing about Tarantino: he's undeniable because Pulp Fiction might be the most influential and cool film of the 90s. He's got his super fans who will rave over every film since. I suspect the critical re-examination of his career will not treat most of his movies as masterpieces.
My main takeaway from today is that Mark Carney makes Justin Trudeau look like Otto Von Bismarck.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My main takeaway from today is that Mark Carney makes Justin Trudeau look like Otto Von Bismarck.
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
Carney has been pretty clear that he wants major projects including pipelines built. He doesn't talk about that many different things. If you think he doesnt actually want a pipeline, that's based on trying to project something on to him rather than anything he said and now done.
But is this abandonment of principle, or savvy politics at a low cost? @maxfawcett.bsky.social argues it's the latter.
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Carney has been pretty clear that he wants major projects including pipelines built. He doesn't talk about that many different things. If you think he doesnt actually want a pipeline, that's based on trying to project something on to him rather than anything he said and now done.
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Something that is easy to forget in all the "Carney is a political genius / Carney is a political naif" argle bargle is that climate policies matter. Environmental regulations matter. Getting rid of them may or may not achieve a political end — but it's guaranteed to have real-world implications.
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Something that is easy to forget in all the "Carney is a political genius / Carney is a political naif" argle bargle is that climate policies matter. Environmental regulations matter. Getting rid of them may or may not achieve a political end — but it's guaranteed to have real-world implications.
Sorta funny how often the term "conservative backlash" appears as a trope in media but never liberal or left wing backlash.
Anyway with Carney cutting deals like a right wing crackpot now ks better than never for the soy uprising.
Anyway with Carney cutting deals like a right wing crackpot now ks better than never for the soy uprising.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sorta funny how often the term "conservative backlash" appears as a trope in media but never liberal or left wing backlash.
Anyway with Carney cutting deals like a right wing crackpot now ks better than never for the soy uprising.
Anyway with Carney cutting deals like a right wing crackpot now ks better than never for the soy uprising.
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The MOU goes much farther than many people expected, giving Alberta's oil producers literally every item on their list of demands, while getting basically nothing in return. Alberta will negotiate a carbon price, something the province had already agreed to the last time Ottawa gave them a pipeline.
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The MOU goes much farther than many people expected, giving Alberta's oil producers literally every item on their list of demands, while getting basically nothing in return. Alberta will negotiate a carbon price, something the province had already agreed to the last time Ottawa gave them a pipeline.
Turns out the only voters who latter live in Alberta and the rest of us are bystanders.
UPDATE: Carney, Smith sign pipeline deal, open door to changing B.C. tanker ban
cheknews.ca/carney-expec...
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Carney, Smith sign pipeline deal, open door to changing B.C. tanker ban
An agreement between Ottawa and Alberta that could clear the path for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific will also require a 75 per cent cut in methane emissions over the next decade, a source tells Th...
cheknews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Turns out the only voters who latter live in Alberta and the rest of us are bystanders.
Mark Carney capitalizing on an unprecedented opportunity to change the country by rushing through an agenda that would have been backwards a decade ago is going to make him one of our worst prime ministers.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Mark Carney capitalizing on an unprecedented opportunity to change the country by rushing through an agenda that would have been backwards a decade ago is going to make him one of our worst prime ministers.
The Stumble Manifesto
Full memo is now posted to the PMO website: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding
PREFACE At this pivotal global moment, Canada and Alberta, working closely with Indigenous Peoples and industry, must work together cooperatively, and within their respective jurisdictions, to foster ...
www.pm.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Stumble Manifesto
Incredible that literally no one votes for privatized Healthcare and yet all governments seem to be pursuing it.
#Opinion: Alberta is turning public hospitals into private businesses. Will Ontario follow? l
Iris Gorfinkel: Alberta is turning public hospitals into private businesses. Will Ontario follow?
Ontario doesn’t have a Bill 55 by name, but a version of this is already taking shape through expanding for‑profit clinics and extra fees.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Incredible that literally no one votes for privatized Healthcare and yet all governments seem to be pursuing it.
Oh, so we're fucked fucked
Carney: "In combination with the Pathways [carbon capture] project ... it will mean Alberta barrels are among the lowest emissions in the world."
Also mentioned: Data centres, nuclear power, removal of net-zero power regulations, emissions cap gone.
Also mentioned: Data centres, nuclear power, removal of net-zero power regulations, emissions cap gone.
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Oh, so we're fucked fucked
Bolduc making up for missing one one timer from Hutson by absolutely burying a second one timer from Hutson.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Bolduc making up for missing one one timer from Hutson by absolutely burying a second one timer from Hutson.
Low key insane to exempt beneficiaries of this slush fund from the Act. If someone spends 1 dollar from a grant on a redevelopment, and pinkie swears its for something training related, then poof, they can do whatever the fuck they want on any property they own?
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Low key insane to exempt beneficiaries of this slush fund from the Act. If someone spends 1 dollar from a grant on a redevelopment, and pinkie swears its for something training related, then poof, they can do whatever the fuck they want on any property they own?
@raaleh.bsky.social nailed it with his theory of THE GAY ECONOMY
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
@raaleh.bsky.social nailed it with his theory of THE GAY ECONOMY
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
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The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
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Hello, please see attached. They want to sign on Monday so we have our work cut out for us before then. I have a prior family engagement this weekend, but I’ll be available for update calls 9pm each night. I’ve put time on your calendars for those. Let’s get started.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hello, please see attached. They want to sign on Monday so we have our work cut out for us before then. I have a prior family engagement this weekend, but I’ll be available for update calls 9pm each night. I’ve put time on your calendars for those. Let’s get started.
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My column on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's recent concerning rhetoric: defector.com/can-zohran-m...
Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys? | Defector
Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what goes on there, I want his administration b...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My column on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's recent concerning rhetoric: defector.com/can-zohran-m...
Oh they're doing an annual Worst Canadians List like it's the annual best books reading lists? Petty but refreshing!
What is gaslighting?
The narrative that Canada is not a patriarchy in need of a Feminist strategy.
40 richest *men* in the country, w/ women only appearing under the rubric “Family” (i.e., Thomson + Rogers).
The narrative that Canada is not a patriarchy in need of a Feminist strategy.
40 richest *men* in the country, w/ women only appearing under the rubric “Family” (i.e., Thomson + Rogers).
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
There's a new billionaire topping our list this year. Here are Canada's 40 wealthiest people—and how they made their money.
macleans.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Oh they're doing an annual Worst Canadians List like it's the annual best books reading lists? Petty but refreshing!
Easiest answer in the world it's the Verhoeven Schwarzenegger crusader movie
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Easiest answer in the world it's the Verhoeven Schwarzenegger crusader movie
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As a Jew it doesn’t seem that hard to understand that if people are protesting outside a synagogue because they think it’s pro-Israel, that’s antisemitic but if they’re protesting outside a synagogue because it’s hosting an event encouraging people to move to illegal settlements, that’s fair game.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As a Jew it doesn’t seem that hard to understand that if people are protesting outside a synagogue because they think it’s pro-Israel, that’s antisemitic but if they’re protesting outside a synagogue because it’s hosting an event encouraging people to move to illegal settlements, that’s fair game.