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Fun exchange on Reddit in which an Alberta driver learns they're paying TEN TIMES what a Quebec driver is paying for insurance on a 20-year-old vehicle.

Calgary no longer wants to administer a provincial program that reimburses low-income seniors for yard & snow services. Seniors can still hire providers directly, then apply for reimbursement. But they say they can't afford to pay up front & wait for the money. Surely there is some solution here?

'Why pick on us?': City cuts home services for low-income seniorsThe city has cut a program that offered free services for low-income seniors, leaving some worried about how they will manage.calgaryherald.com

"As a US counterpart told me during the USMCA negotiations in 2018, we are 10 times bigger than you, so we should get our way 10 times more than you do," writes Chrystia Freeland. "The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president’s tariffs are in fact part of the point."

Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?www.nytimes.com

"Yet with traffic deaths climbing in both cities, the province didn’t build a portal for people to report dangerous intersections or reckless driving. It built one for bike lanes." Via @cailynn.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Alberta’s bike lanes aren’t a problem to be solved – they’re how people get aroundI bike most days in Calgary, often with my two childrenwww.theglobeandmail.com

Incredible details from @rwarnica.bsky.social about the treatment he received in Calgary after daring to ask Ontario Doug Ford about his past comments on Alberta separatism at a press conference during Stampede. 🔗: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Any day our young kids see a garbage truck is a great day, in their books. Today was EXTRA special, though. The driver stopped and gave them these colouring books. They were so thrilled! Small things like this do so much to build community. Thank you to the driver and the City of @calgary.ca! 😊

Driving through Saskatchewan today I passed an elderly couple in a minivan with British Columbia plates. Their rear window had a large decal of a kitten wearing a red toque with a Canadian flag, smiling & holding up its paw with an extended middle finger. Above it, in block letters: TARIFF THIS!

This World Cup, defying many expectations prior to the tournament, has seen so many wonderful storylines to date. Cabo Verde's spectacular run. Europeans learning about Buc-ee's. Jonathan David's hat trick. The Scots drinking Boston out of beer. Has it now jumped the shark?

Corb Lund's petition on coal failed to reach the required number of valid signatures, Elections Alberta announced today. It deemed 24,000 of the 196,088 signatures invalid, after verifying a random sample of the total. That put it 5,644 short of the required threshold of 177,732 valid signatures.

Citizen Initiative Petition Verification Completed, Results Announced - Elections AlbertaEDMONTON – Elections Alberta has completed verification for the “No New Coal Mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains” citizen initiative petition. Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon...www.elections.ab.ca

Manitoba paid for my primary and secondary education. Quebec and B.C. paid for my post-secondary education. And now I live and work and pay taxes in Alberta. Here, @trevortombe.bsky.social tracks the net economic value of the many Canadians with interprovincial education, career & life paths:

The biggest financial transfer in Canada that nobody talks aboutWhy Alberta and B.C. are Canada’s biggest brain drain beneficiariesthehub.ca

Gah the rain lets up for a moment in Calgary and ... it's immediately smoky. 😷😞

Canadians' alcohol consumption peaked in 2008 and has fallen by nearly 20% since. Most provinces saw upticks in 2020/21, then precipitous declines after that. In AB & SK, per-capita consumption is down 2.3L of pure alcohol from each province's peak. 🍺That's 130 fewer beers, per person, per year!🍺

I'm currently selling a used car and have already encountered this particular scam. Be careful out there! (And if anyone who is NOT a scammer is interested in a 2008 Lexus RX350 with 244,000 kilometres in the Calgary area -- let me know!)

Selling your vehicle? Watch out for this scam growing in popularity | CBC NewsAn Ottawa woman is warning people who are selling their vehicle to be wary of scammers who try to lure sellers into purchasing vehicle history reports through fraudulent websites to obtain their credi...www.cbc.ca

Everything about this Wall Street Journal story on Polymarket paying influencers to post fake videos of them winning on Polymarket is nuts, up to and including the disclosure statement at the end about the Wall Street Journal's publisher being in a business partnership with Polymarket.

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Google AI, Claude, and ChatGPT each give different answers when trying to figure out the time difference between Calgary and Regina:

Calgary crowd after that Canada free kick that nearly tied it

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"Just under half of survey respondents said they were likely to leave ... if the province votes to begin the separation process. [Economist Trevor] Tombe said businesses left Montreal in the past amid debate over Quebec separation. 'I don't see why there would be any difference with Alberta.'"

Alberta separation could prompt potential $62B economic hit, business exodus: Calgary Chamber report | CBC NewsA new report released Wednesday by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce claims Alberta separation from Canada could spur a business exodus and result in a $62-billion economic contraction annually. Meanwhi...www.cbc.ca

A few folks have asked me about *home* insurance inflation in Alberta, too. It's also ... just ... wow. 😲

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳

Anyone know if the $225,000 household income threshold for those $100 Alberta energy rebates is in terms of total income or net income? Google of course is absolutely useless for this now, as it confidently asserts contradictory answers and cites sources that don't actually say anything about it.