Luke Smith

ragged claws // silent seas. deputy editor // @thehubcanada.

[Luke Smith @lukegraemesmith]

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[Ethan Strauss @SherwoodStrauss]

This guy gets it https://t.co/FN4YGIInhg

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

"Canada also needs a model of federalism in which the national government actually asserts the national interest, one that doesn’t require side payments to do what it was established to do. Simply put: we shouldn’t have to spend tens of billions of dollars as we’ve done in recent days with the new pipeline project to do what’s manifestly in the national interest."

[Luke Smith @lukegraemesmith]

“Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book”

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

[The Art Curator @SeekAfterBeauty]

Perseus (1921), by John Singer Sargent

[imp @Imp111h]

Gertrude Fiske
Strollers, 1926

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Carl von Marr

[Aelith Loves Art𖣂 @aelith4ever]

Anna Passini on the balcony of Palazzo Priuli in Venice, by Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903)

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Charles Hermans - Bal Masqué

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

The Bell of Huesca - José Casado del Alisal, 1880

[Stephen Staley @stevestaley]

Incredible research from Dave Snow demonstrating with rigour what we continually see anecdotally - justice is not just elusive in Canada; increasingly, it isn't even being pursued.

[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

https://t.co/xVHbubYaHX

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

Aaron Sorkin is the spiritual godfather of the politics of progressive glibness, of which the Trudeau catastrophe was the nadir--a CanCon knock-off of the preening Obama White House.

I wrote about his latest highly-polished middle-brow schlock drama, "The Social Reckoning."

[wanye @xwanyex]

Absolutely nobody:

Ethicists: “we’ve been working on a list of humans it’s OK to kill. Babies, sick people, stuff like that.”

[Harrison Lowman @harrisonlowman]

Me in @TheHubCanada today: Sooner or later, Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) and Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) are going to have a big fight about pipeline politics.

"Their incentives have now put Poilievre and Smith in direct conflict.

Smith’s political survival largely hinges on the deal becoming a reality. While she’s given up the Liberal prime minister as a foil, the federalist premier needs to prove to voters that she can ensure Alberta is heard by Ottawa.

Meanwhile, as leader of the official opposition, Poilievre needs to prove Carney is incapable of building big national projects. The MOU not becoming a reality is the keystone to his theory that while Carney is making multiple announcements from behind a podium, he’s actually delivering little on the ground. If the pipeline fails, Poilievre benefits more than anyone.

But this MOU-shaped cleavage doesn’t just affect their personal relationship, it risks forming cracks within Canada’s national Conservative voter base and the overlapping United Conservative voter base in the Wildrose province.

It also risks feeding a narrative that sees a pessimistic Poilievre not just sounding like B.C.’s anti-oil sands NDP premier, but sounding an awful lot like separatist leaders looking to split up the country.

These two incompatible approaches could reach a boiling point as we inch closer to the October independence referendum (on a referendum)."

https://t.co/PSWm8Lgm8s

[Kelden Formosa @KeldenFormosa]

When the Kamloops graves news broke in May 2021, I was teaching at a Catholic school with many Indigenous students. It was intense.

Today, in @TheHubCanada, I remember what that was like--and how I now think about Kamloops, historical truth, and real reconciliation, five years on.
https://t.co/8ofIWn7A75

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Tara Henley discusses the "mass graves" story journalistic malpractice "There's the assumption that we were being kind and compassionate and empathetic by not being skeptical."

"I also just want to say that there is also the cancel culture element to this story."

"Terry Glavin very courageously came out and covered this story very early on and saw himself, someone who has been concerned with Indigenous issues for decades, called horrible, horrible names by his peers."

"And then just the last thing that I want to say is that when you decline to live in the world of facts, when you dwell in the realm of narrative, there are unintended consequences to that." @Aaronpete_ @TerryGlavin @TaraRHenley @Pagmenzies @harrisonlowman

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

The term “socialism” gets thrown around a lot these days, but as @Sean_Speer describes in this excellent piece, the CRTC, via Bill C-11, is truly turning into an old-fashioned socialist bureaucracy, obsessed with trying to centrally-plan a huge segment of the Canadian economy:

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

My thoughts on the Alberta-Canada agreement

https://t.co/hcU4sB7gKH

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Hot take: euthanizing babies is bad

[Harrison Lowman @harrisonlowman]

The (un)kindness of strangers: The death of the Canadian Good Samaritan

"There are the causes of violence, then there is how we as Canadians choose to respond to violence in the moment. Too often, we don’t respond at all. Too often, we walk by strangers in need. Too often, we abdicate the obligations of our citizenship.

Canada has a Good Samaritan problem. It’s an early warning sign of societal decline and threatens this country’s social cohesion."

A feature I wrote for this weekend for @TheHubCanada on why Canadians, especially in our cities, are keeping their heads down and headphones in when they see fellow Canadians in need. And why we risk become like China, where “Mind your own business” or “You’re on your own” is the main mantra, and the Good Samaritan has nearly gone extinct.

The piece begins with an experience last summer, when myself and a group of bystanders had to form a protective shield around a women attacked, lying in a pool of her own blood, to stop the gawkers and picture-takers.

https://t.co/UE1zaCCXAT