Jason Markusoff

Writer, editor, TV & radio talker, still on this app in spite of it all.

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

A Cree elder came to a museum one summer, asking to find where his brother was buried. Farmer showed up, too, with long-faded grave markers. Inside the long quest to remember the children of Red Deer residential school: https://t.co/YUyeOP0NAy

[Alex @dubsa98]

As someone who works with transgenic mouse models for cancer research, this is objectively one of the funniest things I’ve seen a real life politician post

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Premier Smith cites an Elections Alberta deadline for keeping Water Not Coal from a 2026 referendum.

However, she seems poised to disregard an Elections Alberta deadline in order to redraw electoral boundaries for the next election.

https://t.co/j9cZhsJHX3

[Memarzadeh @ArashMemarzadeh]

the worker at the deli when I ask for 300g of black forest ham:

[CityNews Calgary @citynewscalgary]

The executive director of Premier Danielle Smith’s office says that instead of criticizing her, First Nations chiefs should fix their own communities, describing them as entrenched in poverty, drugs and violence. https://t.co/QI1tImmzbw

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

WOW — Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) takes a major whack at Trump’s Iran MOU

Wicker says the $300B fund “would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison”

[Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield]

From the inbox: two Edmonton 14-year-olds are facing criminal charges for allegedly using AI software to generate sexualized images of their classmates. Second such case in Alberta.

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

Since 2013, CBC has not taken ad revenue from Saturday night hockey.

This should, in theory, open up space for more Olympic sport broadcasts and allow CBC to bring in significantly more sports revenue.

[OneSoccer @onesoccer]

CanMNT 🇨🇦 captain Alphonso Davies is back training with the rest of his teammates, finally in proper boots again 👟 👀

3 days to go before Qatar in Vancouver ⏰

[Chris Jones @EnswellJones]

Just saw a family in Vancouver: dad in a Mexico shirt, mum in a Croatia shirt, son in a Canada shirt. No notes. Perfection.

https://t.co/oYFnNpCwit

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Um...

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

https://t.co/VCVFutity9 There are four faces of a political party: leader, caucus, central board, local constituencies. There is often disagreement between the four faces on issues/personnel/internal rules - but the issue of separatism is really important.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Paul Vieira @paulvieira]

Cenovus Energy CEO Jon ​McKenzie said Tuesday ‌Alberta's proposed 1 million barrel-per-day pipeline to ​British Columbia's ​Pacific coast cannot be ⁠financed by the ​private sector under ​Canada's current regulatory regime. https://t.co/osEvB0QORN

[Sarah Ryan @SarahRyanYEG]

Got an email from a viewer, saying other media have done a story and Global should pick it up. Story idea sounds suspiciously familiar. I go to the link... and it's MY STORY. A story I broke, that an AI site plagiarized. Straight up copy & paste :( #journolife #yeg #yegmedia

[Tyler Dawson @tylerrdawson]

Not a massive surprise, since Taber once tried (maybe succeeded) to ban swearing, yelling and spitting in public.

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

Alberta cabinet minister won't say if he supports keeping province in Canada. Other cabinet members lining up behind Smith's pledge to vote to stay. But Devin Dreeshen avoids answering, @markusoff reports https://t.co/iuGsA1pqYZ

Find out more at https://t.co/1zbPY5GAhV

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Minister Devin Dreeshen is asked how he would vote in the fall referendum.

He doesn't actually answer, but instead says the feds need to do more to make the case for the country to stay together.

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

This might end up being the most one-sided independence referendum to ever exist, lmfao

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Former Alberta Finance senior manager Lennie Kaplan knows his way around numbers.

And his calulator is painting a fairly dire picture for separation:

-Our economy shrinks by 7.2% in year one
-Personal income drops 6.2%
-Business invesment falls 8%
-Boosts trade costs by 12%

https://t.co/tgLNlafebR

[Tyler Dawson @tylerrdawson]

Late to this, but I can't help but notice the slogan is the same as that of the Alberta Prosperity Project and the Republican Party of Alberta.