A quote from former Alberta premier Ralph Klein I hadn't come across before (in a column @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social wrote in 2024).
albertaviews.ca/stripping-aw...
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If we had the UK's ratio of people to MPs, we would have 392 MPs.
And it might be noted that the UK Parliament is generally credit with having much less party discipline and far more independent MPs than our own.
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Some quick math, using Wikipedia for population counts.
UK pop: 69,281,437 UK MPs 650 Ratio: 106,587
Australia pop. 27,400,013 Aus MPs 150 Ratio: 182,667
France pop. 68,606,000 French MPs 577 Ratio: 118,901
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It's funny to me that this piece mentions the ratio for Canada and the US, but then doesn't mention it for the UK, France and Australia.
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New from me. On this week's oddly dramatic vote and the reality of minority parliaments.
ANALYSIS | Nobody wants an election. MPs almost voted to have one anyway | CBC News
Taken together, this week's events might simply underline that MPs — and Canada's political culture writ large — are still figuring out this whole minority Parliament thing.
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New from me. On this week's oddly dramatic vote and the reality of minority parliaments.
ANALYSIS | Nobody wants an election. MPs almost voted to have one anyway | CBC News
Taken together, this week's events might simply underline that MPs — and Canada's political culture writ large — are still figuring out this whole minority Parliament thing.
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Well, this is insane and depressing.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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BC is not just ceding its leadership on EVs, but arguing against provincial leadership. Passing the buck on incentives (up to the feds) and wrt regulations "there should be one clear, harmonized sales target for the country to provide clarity..." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...
BC redrawing EV sales mandate, scraps adoption goal and leaves rebates to Feds
Adrian Dix told reporters on Tuesday that the 100-per-cent mandate in 2035 and a 90-per-cent goal for 2030 were no longer "realistic," and the NDP government would introduce legislation next year to r...
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Following the approval of the Budget itself, the Government introduced yesterday Bill C-15, the Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1. You can read it in all of its glory at www.parl.ca/Content/Bill...
Caution: it's 601 pages of legislation (634 total pages including cover pages and summary).
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https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-15/C-15_1/C-15_1.PDF
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