Ian King

Politics, energy, etc. Ex-journo, now process/instrument guy. Ex-Vancouver, now the patch and the bush. Otherstuff as needed. Views mine alone. king.ian @ gmail

[Ian King @IanKing]

If you liked anything I've said or Tweeted lately, don't worry. I'll disappoint you soon.

[Ian King @IanKing]

Could not find a better illustration of the anti-abundance mindset that looks progressive on the surface, but ultimately serves the bosses while servicing the grunts.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The European Commission literally shut off air conditioning but only for floors 1-7, where people of lower rank work.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

The fact that Europeans built hospitals without AC is truly mystifying to me. We can argue about whether it's good/necessary in homes, I suppose, but the people in hospitals are the most likely to die of heat stroke!

[Ian King @IanKing]

LFG!!!

(For the critics, feel free to read that as "liquefied fracked gas" or "liquefied fossil gas" if it makes you feel self-righteous and clever.)

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

Eby drops hint before his first-ever trip to China, he's coming back early to join Mark Carney for a July 2 announcement about LNG Canada phase two.

[Ian King @IanKing]

This didn't age well

Now I want my snark to age worse

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Canadian men play better. Showing creativity and poise. Moments of real magic.

[Ian King @IanKing]

Well, I may as well join the rest of the country in taking the day off to watch the match and down pints. (Isn't that what you do every day off? --my wife)

[Ian King @IanKing]

@moebius_strip I'm impressed that someone can combine the hammer and sickle with the Elbows Up "our highly functional institutions are run by Experts Who Know Best and you don't know how good you've got it" trope.

[Ian King @IanKing]

No need to click "show more" to know who wrote this passage!

Absolute truth: I got a Hub subscription to read @howardanglin's review of that Elbows Up book. It didn't disappoint - the review, that is. Book performed as designed.

[Harrison Lowman @harrisonlowman]

“Starmer is not merely a product of The System, he was birthed fully formed in boxy suit and socialist spectacles from the constipated cloaca of a flow-chart of sub-committees deep in the most convoluted corner of it: the legal division whose product is a sort of procedural molasses designed to gum up the works of every other part of The System and from there the country at large. No one moves without the legal division’s approval, and only then after so many layers of analysis that by the time you get to “yes,” you’ve forgotten the “why.”

Everything Starmer did and everything he thought was a product of The System. He has no identity apart from it, and it’s impossible to discern where Starmer ends and The System begins. An X-ray would reveal that where you and I have skeletons, Starmer has an organisational framework; where we have reflexes, he has internal reviews; he metabolises in inputs and outputs.”

@howardanglin in @TheHubCanada

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[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ https://t.co/DgDFRfZ1Hk

[Brad West @BradWestPoCo]

I guess a little less corporate gatekeeping and a little more community building is too much to ask from FIFA. Regardless, Go Canada! https://t.co/9xY7IsNAlh

[Ian King @IanKing]

@mario_canseco Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

[Ian King @IanKing]

@Prominent_Bryan That used to be the rule before 2001 for sure, maybe even 2016. American agent: okay, Canadian going for the usual gas and cheese border run or maybe vacation? Have fun. Canadian agent: are you bringing back non-cartel dairy? Undertaxed booze? FESS UP, TRAITOR!

[Ian King @IanKing]

Oh come now. I have been reliably informed that many Toronto progressives will range as far afield as Parkdale and a short distance beyond. True, the land between Etobicoke Creek and 12 miles west of the Coast Meridian is terra incognita for many, but fairness must rule.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

It’s incredible how many downtown Toronto progressives, who normally would be mortified to be seen going west of Ossington (except on the airport UP train) have suddenly become completely obsessed with Alberta politics

[Ian King @IanKing]

How facts-and-figures worked through the end of the 20th Century. Surely, somewhere in the @cbcasithappens files is a list with the distances between Reading and most of England.

[Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield]

Weird old newspaper office find: a pre-web Edmonton Journal library doc denoting the distance between Edmonton & various localities. Small town crime & breaking news stories used to end with “#### is XX km southwest of Edmonton,” & presumably someone had to measure it on a map

[Ian King @IanKing]

Framing this debate over abundance as one between performance-based versus bureaucratic cultures makes me cheer for abundance even harder.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

@ArmandDoma The left anti-abundance campaign is an intra-left struggle for status and nonprofit funding. Ineffectual legacy organizations are upset that they have to compete for funding with outcome-oriented new groups.

[Ian King @IanKing]

IDK, if it were real it'd be mostly harmless and a nod to a bit of popular Alberta history.

[Western Freedom Standard Pitchbot @WesternStd]

BREAKING | Government confirms Stampede Wrestling event on Legislature grounds will mark Danielle Smith's birthday

[Ian King @IanKing]

How I prefer my off days: go for a decent ride, then recharge at a well-decorated taproom. Rinse and repeat.

[Ian King @IanKing]

BREAKING: the next Worthwhile Canadian Initiative just dropped 👇

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

1) Part 1: Dismantle Supply Management, while maintaining tariffs on US Dairy imports. Doing into under the guise of "strengthening Canadian ag in the face of American threats" gives you the political capital to undo a system everyone knows sucks. Work with Canadian dairy farmers to increase trade in these products to Europe and Asia. Bolster free trade deals to other allied partners. Lean on Canada's brand as a clean and wholesome nation to build the export industry.

[Alex Banks 🇨🇦 @alexcerne]

Bruce Arthur, JJ and now Rachel Gilmore?

The man has exquisite taste in Canadian political Twitter enemies

[Ian King @IanKing]

This is brutal. Regardless of how a region votes or the government of the day's tastes, the Massey crossing was worth doing in a timely manner instead of this.

Feds should be saying "Canada has to build things cost effectively again. Come back when you figure out how."

[Jas Johal @JasJohalBC]

Hearing from Ottawa the BC government is asking for $4B in federal funding towards the Massey Tunnel crossing. Feds have been told costing for 8 lane tunnel is now estimated at $11B. That’s $7.5B more than the original 10 lane bridge. #bcpoli

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

A lot of great Hockey Night in Canada memories on the ice, but few things off ice could top Dave Hodge uh expressing his frustration over technical difficulties.