Erik Fleming

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

“You hear someone in the back of the phone call yell 2 for 2. We never felt anything bad from them…it’s sad they even have to apologize for anything.”

@Abbey18Murphy spoke on the camaraderie between the Men’s and Women’s USA teams.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

A must watch. Especially for Canadians.

Niall Ferguson captures the essential point with remarkable clarity: to make sense of Donald Trump, one must first grapple seriously with nineteenth‑century American history and the evolution of U.S. economic policy. Trump’s outlook is best understood in a Jacksonian frame, rooted in a long tradition of American populist nationalism rather than in the lazy and ahistorical Hitler analogies that dominate much contemporary discourse.

Ferguson is also correct that, by the 2000s, the United States was on an unsustainable strategic and economic trajectory, and a major inflection was inevitable. China is a major player in this tragedy. Trump is one manifestation of that structural break, not an inexplicable aberration. Instead of indulging in emotional caricatures or pathologizing Trump Derangement Syndrome, particularly common in Canadian commentary, observers would do far better to study the underlying historical and policy context that Ferguson brings into focus. This interview should be treated as required viewing for anyone in Canada who wishes to move beyond reflexive outrage and toward an informed, historically grounded understanding of the Trump era.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@JeromyYYC the city DA planning and SDAB process to R-CG zoning is a comical farce harming residents to enrich developers. I applaud you starting the repeal process, but these inept actors need direction to apply common sense and discretion in the interim https://t.co/Z12vU0jc0Y

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

Marda Loop is being torn apart yet again because emergency vehicles can't get by the sidewalk extensions.

Breathtaking incompetence from the City of Calgary.

They have taken years and destroyed that whole neighborhood

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

Canada’s new “Canadian Identity” minister @s_guilbeault just deceived Canadians saying we don’t need more pipelines because the TMX pipeline is only 40% full and peak oil will be in 2 years.

The facts are that TMX, which just opened and would have been built entirely with private dollars if Ottawa hadn’t made it impossible for the original proponent to build it, is already close to capacity.

Further most estimates of demand for bitumen shows it growing for several more decades and that it will be needed to replace declining U.S. conventional oil fields.

This is just another example of how misleading and destructive this former environment minister was to Alberta’s and Canada’s economy and investment climate.

We ask for the new environment minister @juliedabrusin to disavow his comments and commit to working with Alberta to build new pipelines to access new markets.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@Kent_Wilson No. 1 is an Athletic writer that understands the market, writes more than just game summaries and mailbags, and isn’t using the job as a temporary stop to go back home. Nucks/Oil/Jets Athletic coverage is so much better. And Francis might as well be writing team press releases.

[Paul Mitchell @PaulMitchell_AB]

Breaking…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: “We are not phasing out any part of our oil and industry. In fact, we’re going to unapologetically double our oil and gas production” because “Alberta is an energy superpower.”

Smith promised new pipelines, oil and gas facilities, petrochemical plants, hydrogen plants and more.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@FlamesNation Blake Coleman…

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@LaurenBelfoy I’m 90% sure they just photoshopped Seattle landmarks into the background of the team poster 😂

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@DarrenWHaynes Better question. Why are we always good in years we have quality expiring UFAs (who we then lose for nothing), and bad in years we don’t? A quirk that is not ideal from a team building perspective.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@FeitsBarstool This is literally every game for the Flames, and yes it is extremely demoralizing.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@jkamckenzie New Flames reporter who isn’t a national writer trolling us from Montreal please @TheAthleticNHL

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@hailey_salvian Kyrou, Neighbours, Tarasenko

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@will_nault Guess he can’t read a map to check the latitudes of Copenhagen (no. 2 on the list) and Calgary, not even accounting for the amount of sunshine… yikes.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@Zer0PucksGiven Yes, Kesler and Schneider retired as proud Canucks and never wanted out. People forget that. Miller next.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Adam Lowry puts 🇨🇦 Canada in front!

His power-play goal gives Canada a 2-1 lead in the 2nd period.

#IIHFWorlds

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@FriedgeHNIC When is CAL/EDM game 6? Went to bed after Coleman’s goal

[Scott Wheeler @scottcwheeler]

This was called a good goal this season. Sharing for no reason in particular.

[Chris Gear @vangearman]

I am shocked that Coleman’s goal has been disallowed. If that’s a kicking motion, no goal off a skate should ever count.

[Erik Fleming @flemdog7]

@BizNasty2point0 And it’s not just on the ice!