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David Staples

@davidstaplesyeg

Albertan. Provincial and National Affairs columnist Edmonton Journal. Honored to write for the wisest and sanest readership in Canada.

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Only two city councillors got it right on infill, Karen Principe and Jennifer Rice. They both had the common sense to limit redevelopment to 4 units on a single family lot in a single family neighborhood. No one was else did.

Terry Newman (@tlnewmanmtl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spoken like someone who doesn't have a 16 year-old. No. They do not have skin in the game. They are living at home with their parents, still figuring themselves out. 16 year-olds haven't developed their own critical thinking faculties. Most 18 year-olds haven't. Exactly

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How did we let Canada’s nursing programs get taken over by this cult? None of this crap they’re teaching at Western University has anything to do with nursing

How did we let Canada’s nursing programs get taken over by this cult? None of this crap they’re teaching at <a href="/WesternU/">Western University</a> has anything to do with nursing
Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The question isn't "What age should we let people vote?"; it's "What age can a person participate in society as an adult?" If they can vote, they can also: - buy alcohol, guns - get a credit card - go clubbing - appear in porn - be tried and sentenced as adults Not OK for 16.

Bjorn Lomborg (@bjornlomborg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spain keeps claiming that solar and wind didn't cause the blackout (lack of spinning momentum to ensure power stability) but they've increased their gas power use by 41% to "stabilize the country’s power network" using gas "as a reinforcement of electricity supply security"

Spain keeps claiming that solar and wind didn't cause the blackout (lack of spinning momentum to ensure power stability)

but they've increased their gas power use by 41% to "stabilize the country’s power network"

using gas "as a reinforcement of electricity supply security"
Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, Javier Milei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5

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"Why is Marxism-Leninism so attractive to young people and to intellectuals? Why? We have this history, which is a bloody mess....Young people are attracted to impatient, quick, total transformation of the world...There's a simplicity to the ideology." dwarkesh.com/p/stephen-kotk…

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Hey City of Edmonton & Andrew Knack real quick question... What the hell is happening here? Could you send someone out to do some real quick math? There is at least 80% site coverage here. Absolutely NO ONE is buying that it is 42%. And I want to be there when it is measured.

Hey <a href="/CityofEdmonton/">City of Edmonton</a> &amp; <a href="/AndrewKnack/">Andrew Knack</a> real quick question... 

What the hell is happening here? 

Could you send someone out to do some real quick math? There is at least 80% site coverage here. Absolutely NO ONE is buying that it is 42%. 
And I want to be there when it is measured.
* W. Brett Wilson * (@wbrettwilson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey Air Canada - just a heads up - If I fund 100 people in gifting them a shirt that simply pokes fun at a TERRIBLE prime minister we punted - are you going to block all of the recipients on your flights? Who calls the shots in your planes? Morons? junonews.com/p/exclusive-ma…