Liam G. MacKinnon

Québécois né au NB. Sens, Jays & Pats fan. Formerly a political staffer. Co-host: @OnePieceAway Views = my own. Audentes Fortuna Juvat.

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

Look, the only correct take about watching Paul McCartney at 83 in 2026, on SNL no less, is that it’s a privilege to still witness him do this

Has anyone shaped music quite like him? https://t.co/vbrQU0k6Fl

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

None of the reported trade frameworks include meaningful salary going to the Leafs, which makes me wonder if this maybe wasn’t as close as people are making it out to be. If no one was willing to take on Laine’s contract, Hughes was pretty much handcuffed at the deadline.

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

One of the biggest holes I’ve noticed in the reporting of this purported Habs/Leafs deal is the cap math.

How on God’s green earth was MTL - a cap team - ever going to fit Matthew Knies under the cap for the remainder of the season without a large contract going back TOR’s way?

[Marc Lévesque @MarcLevesqueEco]

Unequivocally good news on the Canadian employment front this morning. Employment rose by a huge 88,000 positions in May, the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 6.6% and private sector jobs rose by 56,300 positions, also a very substantial gain.

[Philippe J. Fournier @338Canada]

📊Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Léger:

🔴LPC 50%
🔵CPC 34%
⚜️BQ 6% (26% in QC)
🟠NDP 6%
🟢GPC 3%

→ https://t.co/hCSBx0dVZF

[Léger, May 29-June 1, 2026, n=1,532]

#canpoli

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

i’m not sure we’ve ever seen this level of fraudulence exposed to this degree in the conference final

[Marc Lévesque @MarcLevesqueEco]

statistically insignificant. The only way you even get the -0.1% that some of the press is reporting is by annualizing the data (which is just as insignificant, as an annualized number) In sum, better to stick to Statcan’s assessment of their own data.

[Marc Lévesque @MarcLevesqueEco]

A small note about the GDP data. The press is reporting it as a small decline in Q1. But the opening sentence of the Statcan report says this: « Real gross domestic product (GDP) was unchanged in the first quarter of 2026 ». Why? Because the decline was -0.036%, which is 1/

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

The new McCartney album is brilliant.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

After decades of insisting The Everly Brothers were the greatest band of all time, Sir Paul McCartney has finally changed his tune

Reflecting on his legendary career, the Beatles icon admitted: “We were the greatest band ever” ⤵️
https://t.co/5FlJQjAmyo

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

5v5 High Danger Chance For %

CAR
vs OTT: 51.3%
vs PHI: 62.7%
vs MTL: 66.7%

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

By the numbers, it’s fairly clear which of Carolina’s three opponents gave them the toughest test. You can cite playoff fatigue as a mitigating factor for MTL, but OTT also played with a depleted blue line.

Per NaturalStatTrick, CAR 5v5 xG%

vs OTT: 53%
vs PHI: 59%
vs MTL: 69%

[🧹- blitz 🍁 @timstutzleglazr]

This is massive amounts of copium but if you averaged the “Deserve To Win” percentages across each series against Carolina (so far):

Ottawa: ~38.2%
Philly: ~25.4%
Montreal: ~25.2%

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

(Yes, Carolina has a 69% 5v5 expected goals share despite a 6-2 loss.)

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Paul McCartney: America was where all the music we loved came from. Rock and roll, the blues, it was all from America. The land of the free, the greatest democracy. That was what it was. And still is, hopefully.

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

Lighten up.

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

I admire Colbert's wit & I don't think he should have lost his show *but* elite liberals throwing themselves encomia parties with A-list celebrities as their form of symbolic resistance amounts to nothing politically & is part of what brought us to the current ideological impasse

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

This is a good point. Voting for a referendum in the referendum on a referendum does not actually trigger a referendum.

It would just “commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada.”

NB there is no “legal process required under the Canadian Constitution” to hold a “binding referendum” on separation. The constitution makes no mention of either separation or referendums. And any referendum on the subject could not possibly be binding on anyone. Least of all the premier.

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

I’m genuinely curious how one would demonstrate that the Habs are better than the Sens “by far,” because statistical analysis would suggest otherwise.

@SaraCivian

[Sara @SaraCivian]

Me when my team is 8-1 in the playoffs like did you think they were going 16-0? These Habs are the best team they’ve seen in the playoffs BY FAR. It doesn’t really have to do with past narratives at all. They’ve finally faced a bouncey, vibey team. They can lose one game

[Evan Scrimshaw @EScrimshaw]

On yesterday’s two Quebec polls, the state of the PQ’s campaign, why Fréchette’s rising polls are neither a mirage nor Carney 2.0, and why Manchester’s greatest band explain why PSPP’s referendum promise was so good, yet so so damaging —>

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

Hell yeah.

[Liam G. MacKinnon @liamgmackinnon]

@mariedrousse @Prominent_Bryan Ça explique votre défaite après une avance de plus de 20 points dans les sondages. :-(