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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
This is so revealing of who the new Premier is at heart and how he intends to be within Canada - will be fascinating to watch how Quebecers react to this.
J’ai pris note aujourd’hui de la nouvelle offre de Mark Carney d’obtenir le droit de m’assoir à sa table d’honneur à titre de spectateur, sans droit de parole ni droit de négocier au nom du Québec. Cette proposition revient à demander au Québec de rentrer dans les rangs, avec la vassalisation et l’invisibilisation du Québec que cela implique, en échange d’obtenir de meilleurs sièges de spectateurs pour regarder la partie. Comme premier ministre, je refuserai toujours que le Québec soit réduit au rôle de spectateur lorsqu’il s’agit de représenter et protéger les intérêts économiques et politiques des Québécois. La réalité est que nous sommes devant une stratégie de marginalisation du Québec sur la scène internationale et de subordination des champs de compétence du Québec à la volonté du fédéral. Je note à cet effet que tous les chefs de partis de l’Assemblée nationale ont indiqué hier que s’ils étaient dans la position de premier ministre et devant un tel sommet sur le territoire du Québec, ils s’attendraient à prendre la parole et à participer à part entière. À Ottawa, le chef de l'opposition officielle ainsi que le chef du Bloc Québécois ont également appuyé notre demande. J’ai donc pris la plume et j’ai écrit aux représentants de l’Union européenne pour leur rappeler que des ententes qui impliquent l’Europe et le Québec doivent forcément passer par le gouvernement du Québec, et à plus forte raison si le sommet se tient sur notre territoire. Le refus de nous donner la parole à titre d’hôte pour souhaiter la bienvenue à nos invités y est également mentionné. Je lance donc l’invitation pour une discussion bilatérale dans un meilleur contexte qui permettrait au Québec de ne pas être exclu. À ce titre, j’enverrai le diplomate en chef du Québec, Pascal Paradis, pour ouvrir ces canaux de discussion pour la suite.
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
"Never before had an Alberta government rejected the riding map drawn by a boundaries body."
Odds are strong that UCP will tilt election odds by stretching city ridings into rural Alberta. A new report, still supposed to be secret, shows at least three Calgary ridings are in play. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co… #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
Dear Ben, Launching a personal attack against an ER doctor for advocacy and using his right to free speech to participate in our democracy, is a new low. I don't get why you feel you need to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Because of who you are, you have a an automatic platform with reach that most people can only dream of. You don't need to pander to negative trashy elements. You could use your privilege for so much good instead. I wish you would talk to Catherine Clark about it for inspiration, and steer yourself in a direction that contributes something good for society. Because this isn't it.
Never met another ER doc who tweets as much as this one. He must have a machine that folds time and space. Seems to have found an additional 24 hours in every day, just to tweet.
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RT @MarcLevesqueEco: The rate hikes are the result of inflationary pressures brought upon us by rising gasoline prices, thanks to Trump's w…
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Replying to @Michell39214369
Business continuity strategy session for a client >.<
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I’ll see if I can get one done before my afternoon meetings
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
The private jet Bolsonaro used in his escape is linked to people involved in a major bribery scandal in Argentina involving Milei ally and government lawmaker José Luis Espert and Argentine alleged drug trafficker Fred Machado, currently jailed in the U.S.
🇧🇷🇦🇷🇺🇸 O jatinho usado por Flávio Bolsonaro para fugir aos EUA pertence a um sócio do narcotraficante argentino Federico “Fred” Machado, atualmente preso nos EUA, segundo a Revista Forum. A aeronave em questão é o Gulfstream G400 de registro LV-JQW, voando pela Baires Fly.
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
Replying to @shuvmajumdar
Donald Trump triggered two, large supply shocks. What exactly is there to be confused about?
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Replying to @Durmo2010
Takes the the tv shows movies and documentaries saved on the Internet Archive and turns it into a cable tv experience circa the mid 90s!
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
WOW! The Rath texts are real. Smith colluded with the separatists. Confirmed by Dani in the legislature today. And while she tried to spin them as just answering questions, she also makes it clear the texts weren't meant for Lukaszuk. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Going to be a must read
Canada will release soon its National Security Strategy - the first time in more than 20 years (!!) it does so. With colleagues @StephanieCarvin, Trevor Neiman and Wesley Wark, here is what we hope to see in it: cigionline.org/articles/a-na…
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
The UCP's report justifies gerrymandering by including equity for golf courses. No. For real. To graft parts of Springbank into Calgary, they cite golf courses. Because golf courses need representation more than voters. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
BREAKING!!! At Nenshi's presser on the UCP's Gerrymandering, it came out that the Ethics Commissioner has had to suspend his investigation into ministers accepting elite hockey tickets... Because it overlaps with a CRIMINAL investigation!
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RT @gmacofglebe: Can’t wait for Jivani’s question today in QP.
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
The NDP just put forward a motion for disclosure of all payments made during the UCP's gerrymandering report in order to know who advised the report, including what pollsters advised on "voting patterns". The UCP voted against it. (They actually haven't yet, but we're betting they will UCP press secretary style) #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
I was asked about this during a talk yesterday in Calgary, and my first thought was "why hasn't Rory had an chart about this in the last 24 hours?" Well, here we are. Look at the middle chart and the value of WCS *at Houston* before you start blaming pipeline capacity.
🇨🇦🛢️😱 Western Canadian Select crude differentials continue to get crushed, now $31/bbl below WTI in Hardisty, Alberta. That's tied for the widest spread in late-2022, and before that the late-2018 diff blowout that forced production curtailment in early 2019. But this time it isn't pipeline capacity shortages—the transportation proxy (far right chart) is completely line. This rout is being entirely driven by the diff at Houston, now at an all-time high of >$23/bbl. That normally means an issue with light-heavy quality, which is partly to blame here. But this time it's much more driven by our record-high tanker rate environment. Canadian heavy crude *re*exports out of the US Gulf Coast have historically gone as far as India, which is an exceptionally expensive trip (~10x normal) atm. Combine that with additional Venezuelan crude availability this year and you need to heavily discount your barrel to get someone to bite, and it's this small pool of marginal barrels that are dragging down the entire Western Canadian pricing complex. The brutal irony is that just at the moment Canada is finally diversifying exports to Asia that the long trip to Asia becomes a serious pricing vulnerability in this spiked tanker market. Tanker rates have also widened the spread between WTI and Brent, so WCS gets the double-whammy of the compounding diffs.
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Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 retweeted
François-Philippe Champagne on Paul St-Pierre Plamondon: "Two empty chairs in a single week, that's a lot."
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Beautiful morning!
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