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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had breakfast with Brad Bradford and asked him what I think is the defining question of his campaign: Why do so many people from all ends of the political spectrum seem to dislike him so much as a person? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Richard Warnica: Does Brad Bradford believe in anything other than himself?

Bradford's relentless pursuit of success may also be his downfall.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

Well ya that's just how it works.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

This is why you don't try to tweet while walking home from a boxing class. It's both too nonsensical and too punchy (towards hot dogs for some reason)

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

I expected consequences for speaking my mind but NOT LIKE THIS

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

I feel like everyone is taking the wrong message away from my thread

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

It's the political equivalent of eating an apple to cancel out the hot dog you just ate. Nonsense, but feels right.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

(I don't know why I accidentally linked to an Icelandic site. Anyway.) This interview makes it abundantly clear this government is going to ignore its own requirements to advance whatever projects it wants and then point to the good it's doing elsewhere to justify it.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

His response is that you need to consider this project along the totality of what the government is doing (Pathways, ocean protection, clean electricity and so on). But that's not what the law says. The law — his government's law that they just passed last year! — is about individual projects.

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Heim - Mörkin lögmannsstofa

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

Ok sorry but Tim Hodgson's interview on Power and Politics really gives the game away. He's asked, isn't there language in Bill C-5 that all projects listed as in the national interest should be considered for how they *contribute to Canada's clean growth and climate goals*? Oh! There it is 👇

Factors
(6) In deciding whether to make an order under subsection (1) or (4) in respect of a project, the Governor in Council may consider any factor that the Governor in Council considers relevant, including the extent to which the project can
(a) strengthen Canada’s autonomy, resilience and security;

(b) provide economic or other benefits to Canada;

(c) have a high likelihood of successful execution;

(d) advance the interests of Indigenous peoples; and

(e) contribute to clean growth and to meeting Canada’s objectives with respect to climate change.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

It's the most Victoria kind of assault possible

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

Almost like there's a significant rhetorical and ethical overlap between someone who would choose to deny (or even celebrate) the Holocaust and someone who would make it their life's work to downplay the horrors of residential schools.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

Looks like residential school denial movement spokesperson Frances Widdowson hasn't bothered distancing herself from *literal Hitler lover* Simon Hergott since we revealed his repeated statements in favour of Naziism. Huh! www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/23/n...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

I wrote this two years ago, when the Roberts Bank terminal expansion was clearly heading toward some kind of approval — but well before another new oil pipeline was going to feed into it. This Pacific Link pipeline will add even more noise stress to the underwater recordings included in this piece:

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Critically endangered orcas in B.C. are struggling to navigate in a sea of shipping noise

Our need for transportation and shipping is causing a kind of pollution that’s invisible (and in this case, inaudible) to humans. What does all this noise mean for the 75 or so Southern Resident Kille...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

The verbatim transcript never does him any favours

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Gas prices aren't high because of taxes! Don't sacrifice billions of public dollars to fix what you didn't cause!

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Suspending gas taxes is the easiest move for politicians to make when gas prices are high and it's also the dumbest. It does very little to alter the material conditions of constituents, but costs a shit ton of money while slightly diluting the market signal that high gas prices should send.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

So here's my plan: free soda in the vending machines

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 01/10/2026

How much will this cost the province and what's the plan to patch the hole in the budget? We're currently running a record $13.8B deficit.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unexpectedly durable piece of Justin Trudeau's legacy: publicly financed pipeline construction.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 17/07/2026

Weird that we name bridges, highways, parks, buildings, ships, ports and more after people, but not oil pipelines. Do people not want pipelines named after themselves? I think we should try it out on this one. Call it the Mark Carney Decarbonized Oil Expressway.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Smith frowns like the woman in Obsession when Malbeuf asks Carney to clarify how many billions of public dollars will be put toward this project

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Jamie Malbeuf from CBC asks about there being "no" private sector proponent, which Carney laughs at because technically there is Pembina (again, at 10 percent).

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Ya it's unlikely. But bear in mind that RBT2 has been proposed for a decade now, since long before the new pipeline proposal.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Global News asks what comes next. Carney says conditions will be laid out, and final work on environmental processes etc. (Side note: we reported today that there's still a route on the table that could send it to Squamish or the Sunshine Coast.)

nationalobserver.com

A pipeline through Whistler, BC?

The route for Alberta’s one-million-barrel-per-day Pacific Link pipeline project has been described as ending in the Lower Mainland, near Vancouver. But documents show it could expand its footprint in...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

As a follow-up, she asks if this will spark a new boom for Fort Mac. He says "I wouldn't use the term 'boom,' I'd say 'sustained growth."

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

(But to be clear, no, he did not answer the question directly — there does not appear to be any firm commitment from oil companies to develop new projects to fill the new pipeline.)

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Amanda Stephenson from Reuters asks the key question: whether oil companies themselves are actually going to develop new oilsands projects to fill the pipeline. Carney says it's a tremendous commercial opportunity for them to sell oil at higher prices to wider markets.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney, speaking in French, says more than 130 Indigenous communities were consulted up to now, but more will be consulted going forward. That we're "just at the beginning of the process." (I think — the only person with worse French than Carney is me.)

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

"This is an inspiring moment in Canadian history," he says, saying the project proves "energy security" and climate action don't need to be at odds.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Interesting that the CEO of Pembina, which, again, will own just 10 per cent of the pipeline, is being given centre stage when the Canadian public is paying for 90% of it.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Shovels in the ground as early as next September, Smith says.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Smith touts the many many wins she got from Carney in exchange for, um. For... well, Anyway, she's pleased.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

The room-fillers behind Carney and Smith are getting antsy, half an hour into speeches.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Now its Danielle Smith's turn. She looked positively giddy the whole time Carney spoke.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney says the ocean protection measures announced earlier this week and the pipeline are all part of the same project. That's the same language he's used to describe the Pathways carbon capture project — in both cases, linking a major new oil project to a promise of environmental action.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

There it is: the "Pacific Link" pipeline officially listed as the first (so far only) project of national interest.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

"Pembina came on board as a private investor," Carney says of the only private stake — 10 per cent — in the otherwise exclusively publicly funded pipeline.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

A favourite talking point of late: "Canada will remain a country of high standards. But high standards do not require slow decisions."

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

He nods at "the existential challenge of climate change." While announcing a brand new oil pipeline.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

He's doing his pioneer-days history bit again

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Excellent work by @zoemas0n.bsky.social making a complicated topic very understandable. This is a very big deal that's completely buried within the coverage of C-39.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026

[The judge] “said in court on Tuesday that the pair ‘selflessly’ put themselves to the side for the cause. ‘Mr. Kalicum and Ms. Nyx have borne the burden of bringing a successful constitutional challenge, thereby doing the public interest a service at considerable personal cost’

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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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