Trump Commerce Secretary attacks Canada: "They have basically been feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades. They have their socialist regime and it's basically feeding off of America ... why do we do our films in Canada?” @atrupar

"The country’s largest petroleum producer and largest pipeline operator just put some key pieces on the board... On Friday morning, energy infrastructure giant Enbridge outlined plans to expand its Mainline network by up to 400,000 barrels per day." - Chris Varcoe | Calgary Herald Read more: calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…

There are no true atheists—just those who claim to be. The all-knowing God of the Bible informs us that he has made it evident to all people that he exists, but unbelievers try to suppress that knowledge (Romans 1:18). In Romans 2, we read that God has given everyone a conscience about right and wrong. While atheism is a blind faith (really a faith that lacks credulity), its followers will still cry out, “We are not part of a religion!” Why do they plead this? First, if atheism were identified as a religion, atheists fear that their views might get kicked out of public places—like government-run schools. Second, these secularists will be less likely to be able to deceive children into thinking that their teachings (supposedly “neutral”) are not in conflict with the religious beliefs of students. Secular is not neutral; it is anti-God. The Bible nowhere teaches neutrality but informs us that one is either for or against Christ. There is no in-between. Secular humanistic religions—like evolution, atheism, and agnosticism—are part and parcel of the same belief system. These worldviews have free reign with tax-supported dollars not only in America but also in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and many other countries. It’s ironic that under the rallying cry of “let’s keep religion out” of the public arena, secularists have kicked Christianity out of the classroom and have replaced it with another religion (their religion): the religion of naturalism, which is atheism. How are you preparing children for the post-Christian religious world their living in?

Quit fear-mongering! Nobody needs to go bankrupt because they got sick. You can have a solid public-private mix in healthcare where far more people get their needs met and it costs us all less money. Other countries do it. Are Canadians so dim that we can't pull it off?

Autonomous delivery e-bikes: > 25x cheaper than autonomous car > 6x speed and throughput increase over sidewalk robots > favorable vehicle classification for regulatory / insurance > extremely low emissions

Some of the conversations about #longcovid (LC) are delusional, frankly wrong and will actively harm people. Learn to think through the groups of possibilities first after loosely defining #longcovid as the sequeala of the acute infection (perceived as a respiratory infection with some extra stuff by most). For example, in the absence of concrete evidence to the contrary (no such evidence exists), LC includes phenotypes of 1) irreversible damage (think myocardial infarction/stroke both in the covid and in the non covid settings), 2) potentially reversible (think autoimmunity/inflammation/vascular involvement after the virus has left the body) and 3) reversible damage (vital persistence leading to inflammation as a localized continuation of the acute infection, think of a urinary tract infection). Therapies against: 🛑irreversible damage can never exist unless longevity/regenerative medicine research delivers in some unidentified time point after 2050, 💔potentially reversible autoimmune damage may exist but will probably require lifelong therapy unless CRISPR/CAR-T/CAR-NK deliver 🥳potentially reversible may exist, but will require prolonged and complex regimens that potentially vary according to local sites affected. Since no therapies have clearly been identified for any of the three and research has not even started for the feasible (2 and 3) categories, one is left with *prevention of infection* as the only mechanism to reduce the prevalence of #LongCovid after repeated infections at the societal level and time to heal (perhaps) the 💩 sequelae at the individual, hoping that the time to recovery will not be long enough to a) lose many productive years of one's life and b) potentially reversible damage to evolve to irreversible one (think of polyarteritis nodosa in chronic hepatitis B, cryoglobulinemic vasculitis and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in hepatitis C and liver cancer in both hepatitis B and C). If you are fine with hoping that you don't need to practice prevention against covid because therapies against #longcovid are just around the corner (this is the DELUSION), be my guest; after all #UDoU. But please don't peddle your copium to the gullible.

It’s wild that public sector unions are fighting against a double-digit salary increase and the hiring of 3000 more teachers. The times are changin’!

Critics like to say an independent Alberta would be “landlocked” and unable to get its resources to market. That couldn’t be further from the truth. If BC ever refused to allow Alberta access to tidewater, we could simply stop supplying them with fuel. All the fuel in the Lower Mainland comes from the Burnaby refinery, which is supplied by the Trans Mountain pipeline. If Alberta shut off the taps, the entire Lower Mainland would run out of fuel in less than five days. An independent Alberta wouldn’t be landlocked. It would be highly leveraged in any negotiation.

BC Premier Eby has decided on his own to create his own version of Canada No Pipelines No Property Rights No Progress Really BC ? Is that what you voted for? #AlbertaSeparation

A prime minister is supposed to represent all Canadians, including Albertans, our concerns, our prosperity, and our future. Not belittle or laugh at us. This one does not care about Alberta, he has made that clear. He is not my prime minister.

Good heavens. Then why have laws for legislators at all? Win an election and do anything and everything you want - legal or not - cuz you’re elected? There’s a word for that and it’s not democracy.