What an outstanding win
Alex Newhook is from St. John's, NFLD, by the way, and he scored the game-winner against Tampa in Game 7 of that series too.
Great interview here with Dobeš - the interviewer notes they have already played 14 tough games and Dobeš says "I could play 14 more!"
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The fans in Montreal:
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The Sabres are a great team - I was touched to find out they play the Canadian national anthem at all their games just because so many Canadians come over to watch. And here's another example of respect:
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This old tweet is still true:
Now, on to the Hurricanes.❄️ 🏍️ 🚁
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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First, we got a major story on Monday in Press Progress by editor Luke LeBrun:
Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan RepublicansThe story has lots of denials on the record, but LeBrun also traces a complex web of relationships from Alberta to Michigan.
Donald Trump’s top envoy to Canada says he was unaware a voter identification app that he previously endorsed and promoted was used by an Alberta separatist group at the centre of a major Canadian political scandal.
US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, who is also personally acquainted with both the app’s founder and the founder’s wealthy step-father, denies any knowledge of the app’s use by Alberta separatists to identify the names and addresses of supporters of a potential referendum on the province separating from Canada.
“I was not aware of the relationship,” Ambassador Hoekstra told PressProgress about the apparent collaboration between an Alberta separatist group called the Centurion Project and a Michigan-based right-wing political group called 10xVotes.
David Parker, a far-right separatist organizer, cites 10xVotes as his inspiration for launching the Centurion Project and claims the American group has been quietly working with him behind-the-scenes for over a year.
The issue of foreign support of Alberta separatist groups has been an open question since the US State Department confirmed earlier this year that Trump administration officials have held multiple meetings with Alberta separatist leaders.
The Centurion Project is currently under investigation by Elections Alberta, Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP into how the group obtained private data about nearly three million Albertans allegedly sourced from the province’s official list of electors. The massive data breach is being described as potentially one of the “most significant privacy incidents” in Canadian history.
... In his statement to PressProgress, the US ambassador acknowledged having promoted the 10xVotes app in his earlier role but flatly denied any personal involvement or financial stake in the voter identification tool.
...The app has been publicly endorsed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of the website Infowars. The app was also showcased on an episode of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast....
And on a side not, apparently David Parker has now left Canada for Texas.
Second, we also got the news on Monday about the Pentagon kiboshing a Canada-US defense panel:
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Don't forget: Elbridge Colby is also the U.S. official alleged to have called in the Vatican's envoy and threatened to install an Avignon papacy if Pope Leo XIV didn't toe the Trumpists' line. Colby is a scuzzbg.
(Sorry, I can't paste a link. But there are tons of stories about Colby trying to strongarm the Vatican.)
Canada should never have accepted Hoekstra as ambassador given his deplorable stint in the Netherlands where he violated international law by hosting a fundraiser for a Dutch far-right political party. He should now be sent packing from Canada too.
The trouble is that technically no Canadian law may have been broken because politicians exempt themselves from the laws that apply generally. Privacy laws? Pfft, those don't apply to political parties. Foreign interference? Terrible, except when we hire foreign, mainly US, political consultants to run our campaigns and rely on fundraisers run by foreign-controlled, mainly US, corporations.
Hey, I HAD forgotten about that. Thanks
Considering what a lightweight Hegseth is, it sounds like Colby thinks he is running the place now.
So as far as I can tell, this defence board thing runs NORAD, which is a Canada/US thing mostly about using radar installations in the north of Canada to detect Russian missiles, planes etc. coming over the pole towards the US.
So like, if we didn't happen to be allies with the US, there's no way Russia would be attacking CANADA with that stuff. It's all about things hitting the Americans. Why they want to use as leverage their departure from an agreement that was all about helping the US do the sensors they needed to do, ON OUR TURF, I don't understand.
But If they don't want to be involved any more, then fine. To the extent that Canada built the radars, we can keep running them but not send the data to the Americans. To the extent that the US built the radars, we can mothball them, disassemble them, and ship them back to the US; they can do what they want with them just not on Canadian soil.
Hoekstra is smarmy, isn't he. The LeBrun piece was carefully written but the evidence is damning
They used to be afraid of Russia, but now Trump and his minions have decided it's easier to just give dictators whatever they want overseas.
It has the hallmarks of an abusive relationship. Showing any interest in others causes the abuser to ramp up the abuse. This leads to placating behaviour like this:
"On Tuesday, Carney said his government will continue ramping up defence spending and is clearly taking action through measures such as upgrades to NORAD's infrastructure."
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