Canada isn't on this graph, but I think would be somewhere near the top left, in tier 1 or 2. High-cost, low value tar, but not providing a lot of net fiscal contribution, due to low taxes and high subsidies, relative to the large non-oil economy.

A sovereign Alberta would be in the same vertical position, but waaay over to the right of Saudi. The Saudis have been diversifying away from oil for 25+ years. AB has been trying to undiversify for 50.

Awesome playoff atmosphere at the #Ottawa Charge game tonight in the old Civic Centre barn. 1 goal game. Goalies standing on their heads. Terrible refereeing. The Charge pulled it off. Honking and cheering on Charge Way (Bank St). The good stuff!

84% of AI projects failing entirely or failing to scale, and 64% of CEO's still throwing money at them.

Pretty obvious what part of the company needs to be replaced.

https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

Trump's ambassador talks like Canadians are just going to forget everything and it's all going to blow over after a small tariff rollback.

Sounds like he's never been elbowed in the face before.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11172734/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-relationship-carney-ambassasdor-hoekstra/

#elbowsup

This is a great episode about Poillievre's history of worship at the alter of Monetarism & Milton Friedman.

Monetarism is the discredited economic theory that pretends govts don't create money, used as THE excuse for austerity and responsible for 50 years of economic declines in #Canada #cdnpoli

[The Breach Show] The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada #theBreachShow
https://podcastaddict.com/the-breach-show/episode/197138560 via PodcastAddict

Feeling it after piling 5 full/bush cords of wood on the weekend.

Glutes, hamstrings, hands & forearms.

This was mostly from trees damaged in last fall's hunt camp blaze.

decent day for non-eating birds too. These were heard during about an hour in the blind.

Quite a different list from what I had 2 years ago, 500m away, during the same season.

Also heard Sandhill Cranes and Loons early in the morning.

The Mom in this house is not getting a wild turkey today. Too many hawks around. Perhaps one will be more cooperative later in May.

The vet recorded it as nice during the checkup, but the other evaluators recorded it as mean/wild.

Cleaner is a valiant cat rescuer and probably won't send it back.

Should be entertaining weekly updates.

My cleaner has accidentally adopted a feral cat from the humane society. 🫣

A miniature orange tiger that growls and can open the sliding glass door.

Listened to some new #cdnpoli podcasts recently, fishing for post-election analysis.

Didn't care much for Sandy & Nora.

Enjoyed The Breach.

Will listen to a few more episodes to see how it goes.

Over the past ~24h, the GFS has entirely changed it's mind about double tropical storms bracketing Nicaragua, with one developing into a Cat4 after May 20. No tropical storms at all.

Smooth sailing for now, but maybe the GFS will return to it's ways.

nothing wrong with the article, I'm just annoyed to hear that BS is circulating.

While this is mostly about newcomer girls playing hockey, I was stunned by the mention that some have said "a hijab can get tangled in a helmet".

Ridiculous and bigoted.

Long hair management is serious business in hockey, and most girls of all backgrounds wear hijab-like kerchiefs, bands, cloths, tubes, etc to keep the hair out of their face. Hijab is no different. All hijab!

#Hockey and hijabs: New to Canada and the sport, these girls have found their game | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hockey-and-hijabs-new-to-canada-and-the-sport-these-girls-have-found-their-game-1.7526851

GFS still going on about the Caribbean hurricane around mid-late May. On this run, it actually develops tropical disturbances in both the Pacific and the Caribbean, then develops the Caribbean storm into this Cat 4...

Euro model develops neither.

Watched a bit of 18yo Canadian WTA rookie Victoria Mboko today, vs. wildcard Ariana Zucchini. Mboko won a spot through qualifying. Will rocket up the rankings.

Looked very strong and fast.

Unseeded Andreescu steamrolled another wildcard.

24th seeded Fernandez has a bye.

Diallo, Auger-Alliasime, and Shapovalov yet to play.

6 Canadians in the Rome tournament is great!

#canada #tennis

Unusual reverse flow for #ottawa, as the west edge of a huge back eddy slowly finishes moving past Ottawa. It's not followed by an active, sharp cold front. Doesn't seem to be a "back door" cold front either - that's when we end up on the west edge of a sharp cold tongue of air moving south - also causing backwards weather.

Recirculating reverse flows like this can cook up severe storms for Ottawa, but this one doesn't seem to have much going on.

went around, skirting the hot zone by about 200km, safely into China

I dunno about flying through there tonight Ethiopian Airlines 672...maybe go around.

#t1d

Canada desperately needs a public insulin manufacturer again - CCPA
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canada-desperately-needs-a-public-insulin-manufacturer-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canada-desperately-needs-a-public-insulin-manufacturer-again