Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Dale Smith
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For the Saturday crowd, my Loonie Politics Quick Take on the Conservatives' latest dumb idea of taking the GST off of used cars #cdnpoli
And now Dune.
Start Trek III on at the gym today.
Not my favourite of the films, but I’ll take it.
Guys. We don't need to refer to him as a "czar." It's not a thing in Canada. You're only embarrassing yourselves.
His actual title is commissioner. And no, despite the impression that @cdnpress.bsky.social may give you, "czar" is NOT short for commissioner.
For the late/west crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social on today's #SCC decision that allows a failed candidate in Alerta to sue the province's chief electoral officer. #cdnpoli
For the Saturday crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Supreme Court allows failed candidate to sue chief electoral officer #SCC #cdnlaw
This week's video roundup is now posted for C$7+ subscribers—your curated selection of the only good #cdnpoli interviews of the week.
I watched the politics shows so you don't have to.
For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics Quick Take on the ridiculous Conservative bill to remove the GST on used cars, and why that will only backfire #cdnpoli
As the U.S. claims its crackdown on drug trafficking at the border with Mexico is triggering more criminal activity from Canada, fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau is pushing back — saying the numbers "real...
Video Roundup: Week of June 15th by Dale Smith aka @journo_dale on Patreon. Join Dale Smith aka @journo_dale's community for exclusive content and updates.
Everyone's take on this is wrong.
A person with the means and inclination to move from Vancouver to Mexico, especially if doing so for safety reasons, is probably moving to a very safe part of Mexico. Whether it makes sense to draw any broader conclusion from this is a different matter.
The feds now with this anti-democratic bullshit?
Carney is destroying privacy, wants to limit access to info, and is eradicating state capacity in everything except the military. Dude is Stephen Harper's wet dream.
Moebius Stripper
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
Poilievre: I met a lady at the airport the other day who told me that she moved from Vancouver to Mexico so that she would feel more safe. Let that sink in. She feels more safe in Mexico than in Vancouver.
(Mexico’s homicide rate is more than 13x higher than Vancouver’s)
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Watchdog rejects idea of narrowing information law globalnews.ca/news/1191449... #ATIP #FOI #cdnpoli
Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says a federal proposal to narrow the scope of the Access to Information Act is a move in the wrong direction.
