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Time to shake up that Canadiens PP unit. Needs some net-front presence. Needs a Xhekaj - either one. Take away the ‘tender’s eyes, as they say.

Fowler snapped that left leg pad out in rapier-like fashion. Among many other saves. Ayoye!

Like Paula Abdul, the Canadiens on a power play are straight up lost in a dream, don’t know which way to go.

The urban Red Maple, its setting soon to be a busy urban skating rink. Montréal, monsieur.

“We are here and Vucic is gone!” Serbians celebrate the ouster of long-ruling Aleksandr Vucic as a victory for democracy. But what will their new leaders deliver? My report from Belgrade

When the expansion Winnipeg Jets played the Canadiens at home for the first time on 15 December 1979, the Jets promoted the occasion with Tuxedo Night. The fans dug out the formal wear to honour Les Glorieux. Then they beat Montreal 6-2. Tonight’s soirée is a classy caper, also. Heritage, indeed.

Trump's plan to reinstall Bolsonaro (junior edition), with support from Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, has failed

Yes! youtube.com/shorts/15L2F...

Do that stupid fu king dance for me, Krasnov. @deadder.bsky.social

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Amazing. First Orban, now Vucic. The Kremlin has unexpectedly lost two of its top allies in Europe…

It’s really not that hard to say this!

This afternoon, my husband & I walked up to a newish pharmacy in our neighbourhood to get flu & Covid shots. The pharmacy is located in a long-vacated branch of the Royal Bank, in a slightly tatty strip mall. The young pharmacist told us he emigrated to Canada 10 years ago, from Nigeria via the UK.

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thescore.com/s/37479854 Syracuse beats Bill Belichick’s UNC 31-30 in OT. Oh, baby.

People Get Ready youtu.be/NdKEbnS1eBE

"THE CLOSING STAGES of midterm season have highlighted one of the ugly contradictions of the Trumpist movement: The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls from sexual predators are also smearing an actual child rape survivor."

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Im-Beckable spadework by Beck on that Canadiens goal.

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The people who would vote for the odious, morally rotten Vivek Ramaswamy are the same people who would vote for the morally rotten Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Most up to date Alberta referendum results here. Ridiculous constitutional questions defeated. Racist anti-immigrant questions pretty clearly against the Charter and based on tired American tropes succeeded. results.elections.ab.ca/8400 #cdnpoli #ableg

So, Albertans are solidly for Canadian unity, but sharply divided in their own province, especially on immigration.

Why voters aren't buying Trump's Bribe-a-Palooza: "he's mortgaging our future. He's mortgaging our morality." @justinwolfers.bsky.social on today's "To the Contrary" podcast.

Danielle Smith didn’t draw a line in the sand for UCP separatists, she instituted a gentle policy of ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

Blake’s Take is worth your time.

Reinbacher goes top shelf on a breakaway. One hopes Josh Anderson was watching.

Yes it is. Very sad.

There’s only so much you can do for a province that bases its identity and economy on a volitile and declining resource governed by international forces. #cdnpoli #ableg

"An arsonist wanting credit for putting out the fire"- @lukaszukab.bsky.social says Smith deserves "zero" credit for the referendum results. He slams her for dividing Albertans & wasting taxpayer money on a question that should’ve been settled in the legislature. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Danielle Smith put out a message to UCP supporters on twitter. UCP has to remain united otherwise the NDP wins. And they would destroy Alberta (again). Open borders, defund the police, give taxpayer drugs, censorship of free speech, eco-extremists, and be led by Avi Lewis. x.com/ABDanielleSm...

Documents like these are insightful because they suggest the government is knowingly acting out of step with public opinion (and many of their own voters):

When the PQ lost the 1980 referendum 60-40, René Lévesque said: “À la prochaine fois.” Danielle Smith, having coddled and pandered to UCP separatists for years, having lost 75-25 in a useless referendum she engineered, pivots to, “Show’s over, folks. Seppies, get out of my party.” Words fail.

Infinite fossil fuel consumption is the tailing pond the smirking, perfidious Danielle Smith is prepared to die in. Bitumen is energy and it’s essential to both Alberta’s ‘way of life’ and Canadian unity, according to her. Solar energy, wind power? Not on her watch.

Chutzpah juiced to levels rarely seen.

“It was the most egregious political hoax inflicted on the Alberta public since Social Credit printed funny money.” — Don Braid

You’ve gotta be strong, gotta show strength. Land of the Free, home of the Brave.

No different than the CAQ scapegoating temporary workers after it asked the federal gov’t to allow it to double the permitted share of temporary foreign workers in Quebec to tackle labour shortages back in 2021-22. These folks rely on voters’ political amnesia.

Great (and sadly accurate) line: “I am painfully aware of the power imbalance between facts and feelings in our political discourse and I understand that repeating these truths has the same general outcome as pissing into a gale-force wind.” Article is a good read—highly recommend.

Danielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

thescore.com/s/37397484 Nifty goal by Slafkovsky, but this is a key reason Nurse is in San Jose not Edmonton. Slaf gave him a Linda Rondstadt (Blue Bayou).

Naheed Nenshi on the immigration questions: "I am happy to have a conversation on numbers. I am not happy to have a conversation on the dignity of newcomers, and I'm not happy to have people voting on whether other people should have human rights."

HOT TAKE: Let’s stop spending 100s of millions of dollars to hold referendums to break up a country the vast majority of Canadians love. Our forests are burning, we live among the unhoused, and the superpower to the south is talking annexation (again). There are better ways to spend our money.

Consequences, now we’re talking.