Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦

Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦

@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

U Calgary associate professor. Communications policy and various random thoughts, usually music.

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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

Once again, Carrie Tait doing some great journalism. Local news in Alberta can't or won't do this level of investigative reporting.

Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social

SCOOP: The RCMP is investigating fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering in connection with Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to a letter filed in court www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

theglobeandmail.comRCMP probe potential fraud, money laundering in Alberta health care procurement controversyLetter filed to court shows charges are being pursued as police investigate the province’s health contracts
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

This is not out of the question: Trump blames his impending loss on Canada. Crazy notion at any other time in the last 200 years.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

Looks like the Trump administration is setting up a pretext for future retaliation against Canada by redefining legitimate political criticism, economic countermeasures and public advocacy as “election interference.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

cbc.caU.S. Embassy says Carney government brushing off 'potential interference' in midterms | CBC NewsThe U.S. Embassy in Ottawa says the federal government is brushing off concerns about "potential interference in U.S. elections" after Prime Minister Mark Carney insisted that Canada is not getting in...
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
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"Enough already". Well said. Fawcett is one of the few who has consistently called out the fictitious core of the separatist argument.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social

The separatists are going to lose today’s vote. But if Alberta’s political class doesn’t stop feeding and inflaming their bottomless sense of grievance and victimhood, we’ll all end up losing in the end. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

nationalobserver.comAlberta needs to grow upThe separatists are going to lose Monday's referendum. The rest of the province should use the defeat as an opportunity to finally put their well-tended grievances in the past and look towards the fut...
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

I'm still amazed that the President of the U.S. can just publicly spout utter nonsense and the general population doesn't bat an eye. Lesson for future leaders: just lie incessantly...there's no political consequence.

Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

Interesting and timely new initiative by The Walrus and Friends of Canadian Media.

Friends of Canadian Media@friendscndm.bsky.social

🎙️ Who gets to shape Canada’s media future? In Episode 1 of CanConversations, @rajshoan.bsky.social, @jenniferhollett.bsky.social & Peter Miller unpack what’s changing, what’s at stake — and why it matters now. The conversation is just getting started. 🎧 Listen: friends.ca/canconversat...

Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

big news in Calgary tonight.

Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social

This by-election in Calgary’s deep suburbs, in a seat UCP won last time by 14%, had potential to become either a clear warning about Danielle Smith and referendum politics in urban Alberta, or about the NDP leadership of Naheed Nenshi. And well whaddya know. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caAlberta NDP win in Calgary-Shaw byelection | CBC NewsUnofficial results from Elections Alberta show NDP candidate Kyle Campbell has won Calgary-Shaw by a margin of 582 votes over the UCP's Mike Derry.
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
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This little detail is buried far down in the article: "They wanted to be able to review and potentially dictate the terms for Canada’s trade agreements with other countries, a Canadian official said." How is that not the headline? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...

nytimes.comHow U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade WarDetailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

"By walking away, Mr. Carney chose a road that no major U.S. ally has taken: With his country’s economy on the line, he stood up to President Trump and refused to accept the administration’s offer of a new trade relationship with tariffs permanently baked in." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w...

nytimes.comCarney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade WarCanada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
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"Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in a statement that it had been the American side that introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”" Here's hoping these details are leaked by morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

nytimes.comCanada-U.S. Trade Talks Collapse; Washington Imposes New TariffsMark Carney suspended talks and will take out retaliatory tariffs against the United States after days of negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse.
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

The media is really buying in to Trump's "deadline" tactic, which is classic reality TV. Let's hope the rumours about complete capitulation on the media sovereignty front are unfounded. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

cbc.caCanada 'anxious' to avoid new tariffs, says advisory board member - Canada, U.S. negotiators meeting again to finalize trade deal ahead of new tariff deadlineRalph Goodale, a member of the Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations, told CBC's Power & Politics , "we have been anxious" to avert the paused U.S. tariffs on nearly $30 billion in...
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

If it is in your musical alley, and even if it isn't, I suggest giving a listen to "Were the Watchtowers" by Richard Parry of Arcade Fire and the late great Dallas Good of the Sadies. Lovely send off to a great Canadian musical artist who left us far too soon.