Habs Rule (almost)!
Montreal wins 6-3 over Buffalo, and will be going home with hopes to take it all on Saturday night's game 6Montreal will be rocking!
They stick together don't they
Next, this is a great piece about the Montreal hockey fans: Charlie Teljeur continues:
Roundup of comments on the Alberta Separatist referendum
They stick together don't they
Some additional detail about that crucial decision to leave Dobeš in after the Sabres scored three on him, and about the goal coach who made it, is in this NHL article here.View on Threads
Next, this is a great piece about the Montreal hockey fans: Charlie Teljeur continues:
...what makes this Montreal unique is the sheer understanding and appreciation of nuance. Big hits and unbelievable stickhandling draw cheers everywhere but in Montreal it’s an appreciation for the little things that makes all the difference.
Seeing the excellence in the overlooked skills beyond a hard shot and thundering check. These are hockey things Montrealers really notice. The little things that turn simple plays into works of art.
And if hockey is viewed here as art then, by extension, Habs fans are both the connoisseurs and the creators of it. If Connor McDavid can redefine what it is to be a professional hockey player then this fanbase rewrites the notion of what it is to be a hockey fan in terms of culture and sophistication.
Crowds here just recognize the sentence structure of hockey and see the beauty in each word. In every word. Truth be told, the city of Montreal just does hockey different - and better - than any other place on the planet....
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Considering that Denver and Las Vegas are only 600 miles apart, maybe we should call this the "Short-Hop Series"?The Vegas Golden Knights will take on the Presidents Trophy winner Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Finals. Who you got? 🤔
— TSN (@tsnofficial.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Roundup of comments on the Alberta Separatist referendum
CBC's At Issue panel discusses this week's news from PM Carney and Danielle Smith
TL,DW (too long, didn't watch): First discussion was about Carney's electricity strategy announcement and what impact this will have on climate change goals. As Coyne noted, Canada is in a different world than it was a decade ago - economic resilience and connections are crucial to Canada's future now.
TL,DW (too long, didn't watch): First discussion was about Carney's electricity strategy announcement and what impact this will have on climate change goals. As Coyne noted, Canada is in a different world than it was a decade ago - economic resilience and connections are crucial to Canada's future now.
The next discussion was about how Danielle Smith seems to be setting up a separation referendum in Alberta now, in spite of the court decision that rejected the petition. Coyne notes her hypocrisy - while she loudly calls herself a proud Canadian, she is going out of her way to enable a group of people who want to break up the country. Hebert notes that voters in Quebec know whether they're supporting a separatist party, but in Alberta Smith would be asking Albertans to vote on something she did not campaign for.
From Bob Fife
From Bob Fife
From former Conservative MP James MooreRobert Fife on separatists taking over the UCP: "Where's the Margaret Thatcher in Premier Danielle Smith? We don't see it. She says she's an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, well the Iron Lady would have just told these people, 'Get lost.'"
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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From former Edmonton MP Randy BoissonnaultJames Moore: "This is a political problem for [Danielle Smith] and her continued leadership of the party that she crafted by bringing people into the party that are now commanding. But her political problem should not be a national unity problem."
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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I'll bet this was news to Smith and the separatists, too:Randy Boissonnault: "You cannot sit down with the feds and negotiate a new deal that will make Albertans more prosperous and Canada stronger on a Monday and then put a referendum question on the ballot on Friday. The Premier needs to pick a lane."
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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In What now?!? An Alberta Politics newsletter, Lisa Young writes"If it's a referendum on separation in any province, it has to be consistent with the Clarity Act," says PM Carney when asked about the prospect of a referendum on Alberta separation. "Ultimately Parliament has a role in making the judgment about the question," he adds. #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) May 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Albertans are trapped on the Highway to Hell. We’re stuck on a bus whose driver will only listen to the rowdies crowded in the front of the bus, shouting at her to go faster so we make it to our hellish destination: Referendumtown.In The Line, Clarke Ries writes
We’ve been on this bus for a year now. It’s starting to stink.
There have been off-ramps, but the driver wouldn’t take them. There was a petition on the back of the bus that we should vote on a different destination. The driver ignored it.
There have been exit ramps along the way, but the driver has swerved to avoid being in the turn lane.
Today, the bus has approached a three-lane exit ramp marked with arrows, flashing lights and a neon sign saying: “THIS IS YOUR BEST OFF RAMP: TURN HERE!”
The driver shook her head and kept us pointed toward Referendumtown....
...here we are, stuck on a bus on the Highway to Hell, wondering if there’s a court that’s going to put down a spike strip in front of the bus to puncture its tires. Because that’s the only way we’re stopping!
The main purpose of the courts, when you get right down to it, is to force bullshit into contact with reality. This is inconvenient for bullshit artists, disconcerting for bullshit believers, and an immense relief for the rest of us.In Alberta Politics, David Climenhaga writes
Justice Leonard of the Court of King’s Bench in Lethbridge has just brought a certain amount of relief to most Albertans with her decision yesterday to quash Elections Alberta’s approval of the secession referendum scheduled for this fall.
The battle to kill a bad idea that just won’t die isn’t quite over, but separatists across Canada who dared to hope that the summit of their dingbat ambitions was within view are now staring up from the bottom of the mountain at a climb to the peak that just got far longer and a lot less forgiving.
It should never have come to this. Alberta separatism polls terribly, and the closer you look at the numbers, the worse they get....
Unfortunately, we are blessed in Alberta with the premiership of Danielle Smith, who has devoted her most energetic efforts since taking office toward shielding separatists from the reality that their pet project is asinine, unpopular, and unconstitutional....
...Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi, sensing a moment that might work for his faltering New Democrats, thanked the First Nations “for fighting for our country with your time and money.”In his Routine Proceedings blog, Dale Smith writes
“This referendum violates treaty rights, it would cost Albertans hundreds of millions of dollars, and is now tied to serious public safety concerns thanks to the largest data breach in Alberta’s history,” he said in a statement.
“The Premier says that she’s exploring other ideas,” Mr. Nenshi continued. “Here’s an idea, Premier: call off the referendum and put this to bed.”
“This petition is dead. This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist.”
Mr. Nenshi concluded by saying that no one is above the law – not even this premier. Count on it, though, Ms. Smith, her advisors, and Alberta’s separatists will have other ideas about that.
...[Danielle] Smith has instead declared that this decision is “anti-democratic” (which it absolutely is not, and this is populist rot), and that she will appeal it, because she wants this referendum to happen, either under the bullshit justification of a “relief valve” (which never works—it just makes things worse), or to get leverage from the federal government, not that it’s good leverage because it’s just driving away investment from the province because nobody wants to put money into a separatism situation where the uncertainty cranks up to eleven. But this will also mean that the separatists who control Smith are going to demand she just do a government-initiated referendum, which she has absolutely no democratic legitimacy to do, and which also can’t get around the duty to consult. After all, it’s treaty land, and the treaties are with the Crown, not the province of Alberta, which was not even in existence when those treaties were signed. Nevertheless, Smith has proven she is a separatist, in spite of her protestations...Dale also has a number of very good BlueSky posts, like this one showing Smith as a hand-puppet of Alberta Separatists:
And in his National Security and Intelligence newsletter, Wesley Wark summarizes the conspiracy theories in Alberta and Quebec:
Nothing better than a juicy conspiracy theory to bolster your political chances and play to the instincts of your base. For a leading advocate of Alberta separatism, the “Alberta Prosperity Project,” conspiracies are everywhere. The Federal government is keeping Alberta down, of course, but it gets better, the feds are actually controlled by the Chinese communist party and driven by Marxist-socialist policies (hold on, are we talking about Mark Carney???). The WHO, the UN and the World Economic Forum are all waiting to get Alberta in their clutches. These organizations, the APP proudly says, don’t match Albertan values and an independent Alberta will have nothing to do with them. (It will, however, restore Christian values). COVID-19 was some kind of hoax and a manufactured excuse for federal over-reach (hello Truckers!). And on and on. But they missed one trick—that someone, preferably the federal government, was spying on them.Basically, these Alberta separatists are nuts, aren't they.
Now we have that card being played by the leader of the provincial separatist Parti Quebecois. The PQ’s leader, St-Pierre Plamondon, claims to have “information” related to federal spying on his party but admits he has no proof and no way of investigating. But who needs evidence when you know your history? ...
Moving on to Trump/China
I don't pretend to have any knowledge about the economic and geo-political issues between China and the US (and in that ignorance, I join Trump, his Cabinet, his staff, his acolytes and his billionaire bros!) but here is a smattering of cartoons and posts about Trump's trip:
This video picked up that they had added a cushion to Trump's dinner chair:
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And a few comments:My grandma used to tell me she was “just resting her eyes,” but I knew she had dozed off. The difference, she wasn’t the President of the United States in the middle of a televised meeting.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Watch: Trump is going to be just as loyal to Taiwan as he was to Ukraine. Donald swoons before ruthless authoritarian power.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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