Kayle Clark🇨🇦
@kayleclark.ca
Centrist. Anti-fundamentalist. Contaminated site engineer (P.Eng. AB/SK). All tweets are personal. @kaclk on Twitter, and @caelclark on Threads. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
I'll be honest, I've been loling at freakouts over the MOU.
We'll still see if anything comes of it, there's no proposed *project* as of now. But a good move by Carney.
We'll still see if anything comes of it, there's no proposed *project* as of now. But a good move by Carney.
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'll be honest, I've been loling at freakouts over the MOU.
We'll still see if anything comes of it, there's no proposed *project* as of now. But a good move by Carney.
We'll still see if anything comes of it, there's no proposed *project* as of now. But a good move by Carney.
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Canada and Alberta are focused on what we can control: building a stronger, more sustainable, more competitive, and more independent economy together.
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Canada and Alberta are focused on what we can control: building a stronger, more sustainable, more competitive, and more independent economy together.
The number of pro-Trump “American” accounts on Twitter being exposed as being from Africa or Asia is about as expected.
Social media has been terrible at fighting foreign propaganda and ops. 2016 is an obvious example.
Social media has been terrible at fighting foreign propaganda and ops. 2016 is an obvious example.
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The number of pro-Trump “American” accounts on Twitter being exposed as being from Africa or Asia is about as expected.
Social media has been terrible at fighting foreign propaganda and ops. 2016 is an obvious example.
Social media has been terrible at fighting foreign propaganda and ops. 2016 is an obvious example.
This is why I’ve never warmed to the idea of PR, which would fragment Parliament even more.
The idea it’s going to lead to “more compromise and better working Parliament” just isn’t supported by the evidence of current minority parliaments.
The idea it’s going to lead to “more compromise and better working Parliament” just isn’t supported by the evidence of current minority parliaments.
Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment.
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is why I’ve never warmed to the idea of PR, which would fragment Parliament even more.
The idea it’s going to lead to “more compromise and better working Parliament” just isn’t supported by the evidence of current minority parliaments.
The idea it’s going to lead to “more compromise and better working Parliament” just isn’t supported by the evidence of current minority parliaments.
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Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment.
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment.
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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"How did we end up in a world where truth doesn't matter," they asked
It might be, when you're fighting to save democracy or fight for what is objectively a good cause, and in this case RW propaganda is the root cause of our troubles. The US used propaganda extensively in WWII. Counterpropanda *is* propaganda, and it may or may not be truth based.
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"How did we end up in a world where truth doesn't matter," they asked
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This is extremely troubling. The UCP are becoming increasingly authoritarian. They are dumping Doug Wylie, likely because he intervened, in the public interest, in the AHS CEO lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is extremely troubling. The UCP are becoming increasingly authoritarian. They are dumping Doug Wylie, likely because he intervened, in the public interest, in the AHS CEO lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
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And yet this is where we are today Kayle:
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And yet this is where we are today Kayle:
Oh no the gerontocracy is mad that they might not get as mud free taxpayer money (OAS is paid from general revenue and is not a pension, it’s literally a transfer from working class people to rich wealthy old people)
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oh no the gerontocracy is mad that they might not get as mud free taxpayer money (OAS is paid from general revenue and is not a pension, it’s literally a transfer from working class people to rich wealthy old people)
No couple making over $100k of income each year should be receiving OAS.
This budget will test whether Carney is ready to cut OAS waste to make room for real priorities. That means standing up to those who demand untargeted Old Age Security hikes that would pad six-figure retirements and leave too many seniors poor. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
No couple making over $100k of income each year should be receiving OAS.
Fuck everyone in #yeg illegally setting off fireworks again this year.
Fucking worst people. And of course there’s never any enforcement @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
Fucking worst people. And of course there’s never any enforcement @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Fuck everyone in #yeg illegally setting off fireworks again this year.
Fucking worst people. And of course there’s never any enforcement @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
Fucking worst people. And of course there’s never any enforcement @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
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Good news for the King.
There is precedent for stripping a royal title from a troublesome family member: Henry VIII decreed that his daughters were no longer Princesses
One wrinkle: He did so by declaring them illegitimate.
There is precedent for stripping a royal title from a troublesome family member: Henry VIII decreed that his daughters were no longer Princesses
One wrinkle: He did so by declaring them illegitimate.
October 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Good news for the King.
There is precedent for stripping a royal title from a troublesome family member: Henry VIII decreed that his daughters were no longer Princesses
One wrinkle: He did so by declaring them illegitimate.
There is precedent for stripping a royal title from a troublesome family member: Henry VIII decreed that his daughters were no longer Princesses
One wrinkle: He did so by declaring them illegitimate.
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can't wait to create website where i take all the information and pictures and sentences of scientific american and post it as my own and then say "growing pains!" if my illegal actions are highlighted and then not change anything
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
can't wait to create website where i take all the information and pictures and sentences of scientific american and post it as my own and then say "growing pains!" if my illegal actions are highlighted and then not change anything
“It’s not unusual because some place no one has ever heard of has one”
Extra boards are not more democratic, as seen in the US where everything has democratically elected boards who have basically no accountability because no one cares enough about them.
City or province is elected and accountable
Extra boards are not more democratic, as seen in the US where everything has democratically elected boards who have basically no accountability because no one cares enough about them.
City or province is elected and accountable
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“It’s not unusual because some place no one has ever heard of has one”
Extra boards are not more democratic, as seen in the US where everything has democratically elected boards who have basically no accountability because no one cares enough about them.
City or province is elected and accountable
Extra boards are not more democratic, as seen in the US where everything has democratically elected boards who have basically no accountability because no one cares enough about them.
City or province is elected and accountable
Zoomers are the worst
Those who agree - "If the US offered all Canadians full US citizenship and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar/personal assets into US dollars, I would vote to become part of the US"
🟢 All: 16%
🟢 Boomers: 6%
🟢 Zoomers: 24%
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
🟢 All: 16%
🟢 Boomers: 6%
🟢 Zoomers: 24%
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Canadians Firmly Reject Idea of American Statehood
Support for American statehood remains low across all age groups, even in more conservative provinces like Alberta
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Zoomers are the worst
No where else in Canada do they have this weird structure.
Only in Vancouver do you get extra bureaucracy.
Only in Vancouver do you get extra bureaucracy.
BREAKING: B.C. Municipalities Minister Christine Boyle has put forward an amendment to the Vancouver Charter that will only allow the city to eliminate the Vancouver Park Board through a referendum.
Buckle your seatbelts, folks.
Buckle your seatbelts, folks.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
No where else in Canada do they have this weird structure.
Only in Vancouver do you get extra bureaucracy.
Only in Vancouver do you get extra bureaucracy.
People who think Carney is no different than PP are as stupid as the people in the US who thought there was no difference between Trump and Harris.
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
People who think Carney is no different than PP are as stupid as the people in the US who thought there was no difference between Trump and Harris.
We’re actually not. The “business as usual” model is something like 2-3 degrees right now. Not ideal, but it’s nowhere near where scientists thought it was 2 decades again (like 8 degrees).
Catastrophizing helps no one.
Catastrophizing helps no one.
Based on just about every model we’re too late on climate anyway.
But as I said when I was a teacher, climate change doesn’t have a pause button.
But as I said when I was a teacher, climate change doesn’t have a pause button.
October 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We’re actually not. The “business as usual” model is something like 2-3 degrees right now. Not ideal, but it’s nowhere near where scientists thought it was 2 decades again (like 8 degrees).
Catastrophizing helps no one.
Catastrophizing helps no one.
This is exactly what happened in Alberta btw.
Enviro groups slammed Notley for “not doing enough” and outright encouraged people not to vote for the Alberta NDP. Then the UCP was elected and they are worse.
Sabotaging good for not being perfect is something you can’t do in politics.
Enviro groups slammed Notley for “not doing enough” and outright encouraged people not to vote for the Alberta NDP. Then the UCP was elected and they are worse.
Sabotaging good for not being perfect is something you can’t do in politics.
I would gently suggest it's more about understanding that pushing too hard on this lever right now will a) backfire, and b) help elect/empower governments that would do far, *far* less on this issue.
October 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is exactly what happened in Alberta btw.
Enviro groups slammed Notley for “not doing enough” and outright encouraged people not to vote for the Alberta NDP. Then the UCP was elected and they are worse.
Sabotaging good for not being perfect is something you can’t do in politics.
Enviro groups slammed Notley for “not doing enough” and outright encouraged people not to vote for the Alberta NDP. Then the UCP was elected and they are worse.
Sabotaging good for not being perfect is something you can’t do in politics.
It’s really not clear what DFO wants here.
Do they just want Marineland to release them into the ocean and say “good luck, no longer our problem”?
If they go bankrupt (CCAA), what do they imagine will happen?
Do they just want Marineland to release them into the ocean and say “good luck, no longer our problem”?
If they go bankrupt (CCAA), what do they imagine will happen?
Marineland’s request for federal funds to care for belugas ‘inappropriate’: minister
Marineland’s request for federal funds to care for belugas ‘inappropriate’: minister
Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says Marineland’s request for emergency funding, in a letter that warned 30 belugas at the park will otherwise be euthanized, is “inappropriate.”
www.ctvnews.ca
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It’s really not clear what DFO wants here.
Do they just want Marineland to release them into the ocean and say “good luck, no longer our problem”?
If they go bankrupt (CCAA), what do they imagine will happen?
Do they just want Marineland to release them into the ocean and say “good luck, no longer our problem”?
If they go bankrupt (CCAA), what do they imagine will happen?
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Safe seat members face strong incentives to endorse interest group laundry lists regardless of the politics, which then defines the national party brand in a way that is hard for frontline members to overcome in an era of nationalized politics.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Safe seat members face strong incentives to endorse interest group laundry lists regardless of the politics, which then defines the national party brand in a way that is hard for frontline members to overcome in an era of nationalized politics.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...
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my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
I’m sure Bluesky will be very normal about his very mundane (and not at all new) observation.
Firing workers in America is a swift process. Europe’s way is much more cumbersome. This is holding the continent back
How Europe crushes innovation
Labour rules devised in the 20th century are hobbling Europe in the 21st
econ.st
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I’m sure Bluesky will be very normal about his very mundane (and not at all new) observation.