Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors
Www.mbpolicy.com
Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦
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If you want a cutting edge analysis, of course you’d want three panel members in their late 70s!
They feed their refineries with low-cost AB bitumen, whose production profits flow to US-owned companies, who don’t have to pay much in the way of an onerous royalty or corporate tax rate, and whose emissions costs and environmental footprint costs are pretty well entirely externalized
But ok
Poor Pete, he does have one or two friends, for sure…
…it’s just politically toxic for Poilievre’s caucus members to admit it
It’s almost as if the “legitimate grievances” of the AB separatist crowd weren’t
1) legitimate
Or
2) actual grievances
At all?
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Canada’s AI and online harms strategies will be in the news over the next few days of the G7.
I recommend following @alexpanetta.bsky.social for a delightfully-informed Canadian tech-journo perspective.
His Substack is also worthwhile.
#cdnpoli
We love Canada, and we're here to stay. Read a few reasons why — and add yours.
UCP announces Jack Mintz will lead independent panel to determine the costs of separation.
Other members include Ted Morton, Adam Legge, Alex Pourbais and Janice MacKinnon.
Final report is expeceted late summer.
Hoekstra: You know, some people said, "Pete, do you have any friends in Canada?" I don't know, I've got to think about that.
Anthropic's powerful new Mythos-level model stopped while rendering my Daily AI briefing note. Its security flag went up.... simply because I mentioned its own system card!
"Five years of flat resentment index scores among these UCP supporters — despite changes to carbon pricing, renewed pipeline planning and intergovernmental agreements — suggests that the grievance is not transactional."
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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦
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New survey data suggests Alberta separatism is concentrated among UCP voters, not broadly shared across the province.
Hoekstra: We think a strong Canada across the board is good for the United States, it's good for North America, and it's probably good for the world. And who knows? If Canada's a rich country, maybe a few of those dollars will actually flow south.
