Ric Hobbs

I am a bot. Nobody pays me enough to take credit for my views, they are my own.

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

@RobClarkTenor You got this 👍

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

@ScottTaymun Do you think it would do more to increase disparity of resources?

[Missin Curfew @MissinCurfew]

The #Oilers fans at Rogers belting out @ShaniaTwain is incredible

#EdmontonOilers | #LetsGoOilers

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

@codyw9 Crushed! Great job.

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

Go Oilers!

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

Ok LFGO! Just play your game!

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

I am no lawyer, but seems ridiculous to me.

[Sasha Yanshin @sashayanshin]

I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer.

The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software.

This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this .

You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well.

Going to have to learn some new tools.

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

@sashayanshin So the new company logo belongs to Adobe?

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

is it "trust us" or "trust the process"

[Scott Taymun @ScottTaymun]

Question... Where is line between Intelligence of questionable conduct by X, the legal right of X to defend themself, & public confidence in integrity of our democracy and institutions? Or, more simply, the line between transparency and "trust us"... 🤔 👇 https://t.co/66V5FSUaRC

[Scott Taymun @ScottTaymun]

"Then there is the matter of the trust of Canadians, and the honour of Parliament. No Canadian should be expected to cast a vote unsure whether a candidate on the ballot is in cahoots with a foreign power to distort the electoral system." ... 👇 https://t.co/4OwSKSuPVe

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

Nevermind 25, 20 year olds are not youths.

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

Scott Taymun: How to strengthen Canada’s state capacity https://t.co/X5pLa6ENel

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

Brilliant. Not front line GC who is over promising and under delivering. Scott Taymun: How to strengthen Canada’s state capacity https://t.co/X5pLa6ENel

[Ric Hobbs @rhobber]

@ScottTaymun I could see merits in this system. More important is performance measurement.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I pay what I owe.

Tomorrow I will wire transfer to the IRS

$288,000,000.00

This country has done so much for me, I’m proud to pay my taxes every single year.

Tag a former president that you know doesn’t

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

$120,000 truck and trailer protesting the carbon tax and freedom on the side of an Alberta highway during working hours. Seems like you’re doing ok with money and freedom. 🤡

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

‘This isn’t our grandparents’ Liberal Party’: The Liberals’ leftward shift in the Trudeau era

A Liberal political commentator (@andrewaperez) tweeted this week a common political claim: Canadian Conservative politics has undergone such a significant rightward shift in recent years that it’s barely recognizable for those who may have supported it in the past. 

No one disputes that Conservative politics have evolved in some ways over the years—in large part because the issues have changed, as have the interests and needs of Conservative voters themselves—though many would rightly contest the suggestion that “there is no longer a home for the sensible, reasoned conservatism” of one’s grandparents. 

But in any case, the commentator’s arguments about the Conservatives weren’t the most interesting or notable part of his tweet. It was his extraordinary claim that Canadian Liberal politics are only marginally different (“shifted to the Left to an extent”) than they were in the recent past. 

That thesis, which already seemed self-evidently wrong, was actually put to the test by this week’s parliamentary vote on an NDP motion concerning the Israel-Hamas war. That only three Liberal MPs voted against abandoning a major ally as it responds to a devastating terrorist attack and tries to recover its citizens who’ve now been held hostage for nearly 170 days is a rather forceful rebuttal. How else can one interpret it but as a radical shift in the centre of gravity of Liberal politics in Canada? 

The whole episode conjures in my mind the life and career of Charles Krauthammer, the great McGill-educated, American newspaper columnist, who went from writing speeches for Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale to becoming one of the most important conservative public intellectuals of the past half-century. When asked about his intellectual and political journey, Krauthammer used to invoke Ronald Reagan’s famous line: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me.”

His shift started on foreign policy as the Democrats became unreliable “cold warriors” during Reagan’s administration. He later became a more full-spectrum conservative on domestic issues, as he outlined in his 2013 best-selling book, Things That Matter. 

The Liberal Party’s own ideological transformation over the past decade or so has followed the opposite path of Krauthammer’s. It started with domestic policy where its abandonment of balanced budgets, single-minded focus on equity over economic efficiency, and full-throated embrace of identity politics signaled a major break from the past. The Trudeau-era Liberal Party no longer has room for past Liberal stalwarts like John Manley, Martha Hall-Findley, or more recently Bill Morneau. 

This week’s parliamentary vote showed that these trends have since moved to foreign policy. From a historical ally to withholding arms from Israel as it fights to protect itself from an existential threat, this is no longer our grandparents’ Liberal Party. 

It’s certainly not MP Anthony Housefather’s party. Housefather, who’s also a McGill graduate, told reporters following the vote that “a line had been crossed.” He’s since indicated that he’s contemplating his political future as a result. 

If he ultimately leaves the Liberal caucus, Housefather will regrettably be able to say: “I didn’t leave the Liberal Party. It left me.”

[Scribulatora @Scribulatora]

Political pollsters.

[Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @BrentColman]

Tbh this is actually a really underrated benefit of living in Edmonton, and we should really be marketing it a lot more.

[Judy Trinh @judyatrinh]

The cuts at Bell Media hit @CTVNationalNews hard this week. A thread about the some of the staff we lost. We keep hearing about the cost of news- I want you to hear about the value.
We’ve lost passionate journalists- who put their heart and soul into their work-