Good for the Habs! Plus today's Canada news - from Obama to a pink Barbie Jeep

Habs win!

So the series is tied as they head to Montreal for the next two games.


When it got to 4-1, that was really the end for Buffalo

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Some Canada news
I'm sure it was just coincidental that there was a progressive think tank Canada 2020 going on in Toronto at the same time as the right-wing Canada Strong and Free Network was going on in Ottawa.
Our side got Carney and Obama while theirs got Poilievre and Hoekstra (who cancelled at the last minute anyway when he was "called to Washington for urgent meetings")

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I guess the reviewers thought Poilievre's speech on Thursday wasn't a barn-burner

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Alberta premier Danielle Smith spoke on Friday. I now think she is just trying to leverage the Wexit "Alberta separatism" boogeyman with Ottawa to get more funding for her own pet projects from the federal government, and so her deficits won't be so awful. But she is grabbing a tiger by the tail.

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Greg MacEachern on Danielle Smith: "She tied the MOU to the separatism referendum -- it does sound a bit transactional. The issue here is that she has dalliances with the separatists and allowed a lot of things to continue."

- Scott Robertson

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Karl Bélanger: "The Alberta separatists are speaking monthly with Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the leader of the Parti Québécois. They're talking, they're coordinating, and you can soon have a two-way front in Canada about national unity."

- Scott Robertson

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And more Canada news

The Globe and Mail is reporting tonight that Carney is not going to let Canada dither and delay his major projects (gift link)

In an effort to boost investor confidence, the federal government is proposing to reverse the order of pipeline approvals, allowing cabinet to green-light new projects prior to the completion of technical assessments and approvals.
The change is part of a raft of proposed new regulations and legislation that Ottawa says are all aimed at streamlining and speeding up the review process for industrial projects. The changes were released less than two months before Alberta is expected to submit a proposal for a new pipeline to the West Coast.
“This sends a message to investors and, frankly, to Canadian businesses that worry about our competitiveness,” Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Friday in Montreal.
“The government is going to ensure that we do all of these regulatory processes in a much more efficient and coherent way.”...
The proposed changes reach far beyond pipelines. New federal economic zones would include things such as transportation corridors, telecommunications networks, mines and energy production projects. The zones would be created through new legislation and cabinet would decide which types of developments would be preapproved in a given area, but there could still be project-specific conditions.
Energy ministry spokesperson Carolyn Svonkin pointed to B.C.’s Golden Triangle as a potential contender for such a designation, because there are already multiple proposed projects in the area.
The government says the zones would be contingent on provincial or territorial agreement and Indigenous consultation...

Basically, this will mean that Canada's default position is "yes", unless there's a damned good reason to say no.
I can't imagine everybody is going to be happy about this -throwing up roadblocks when somebody wants to do something has been The Canadian Way for a generation -but in the fight for Canadian sovereignty, we will need every advantage we can get.

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Honda just froze a $15-billion EV plant in Ontario. Everyone's filing it under "more proof the trade war is killing Canada's auto sector." But here's the thing: that's not quite the right file. Honda's decision is driven by collapsing EV demand in the U.S. after Washington axed its own $7,500 federal tax credit. New EV sales south of the border fell 27% in Q1 2026. Honda was already pivoting to hybrids. This is an American domestic policy story, not a CUSMA story. Meanwhile, the part of the trade war that is a CUSMA story? It's costing Americans too — and we've barely talked about it. U.S. automakers paid $12.5 billion in tariffs on Canadian and Mexican vehicles last year. Ford lost $8.2 billion. GM's profits fell 55%. Not every piece of bad news belongs in the same file. Knowing the difference matters if Canada's going to negotiate clearly.

- Leni Spooner

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This is beautiful

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And finally - only in Canada? Pity...

So this won an award for best news writing and honestly fuck yeah it was a labour of love www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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— Andrew Kurjata (@akurjata.ca) May 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM

Radio Television Digital News Association - regional for Western Canada. So goes to nationals now

— Andrew Kurjata (@akurjata.ca) May 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM