Dale Smith
@journo_dale
Freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Author of The Unbroken Machine. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars. Nigellavangelist. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
My book, #UnbrokenMachine, is now available in all formats. Order it from your favourite retailer. routineproceedings.com/the-unbroken-m…
Given what we learned about people stalking and harassing @CarrieTait this week, this is quite the choice from AB Premier's Chief of Staff.
ICYMI, my YouTube episode on the evolution of the role of Government Leader in the Senate #cdnpoli #SenCA youtu.be/vN8VOoCYVxI
My weekend column:
Prosperity versus free to pollute? looniepolitics.com/prosperity-ver… via @LooniePolitics #cdnpoli #subscribers
New column from me at @LooniePolitics: Prosperity versus free to pollute? #cdnpoli looniepolitics.com/prosperity-ver…
ICYMI, my @LooniePolitics column: Carney names his new Senate Leader #cdnpoli #SenCA looniepolitics.com/carney-names-h…
For the Friday crowd, my latest YouTube episode on the evolution of the role of Leader of the Government in the Senate #cdnpoli #SenCA youtu.be/vN8VOoCYVxI
Roundup post: Reassuring Inuit leadership #cdnpoli Programming note: I am off until the far side of the long weekend. routineproceedings.com/2025/07/25/rou…
For the late/west coast crowd, my @LooniePolitics column: Carney names his new Senate Leader #cdnpoli #SenCA looniepolitics.com/carney-names-h…
In a decision some say fails to account for the lived realities of sex workers, the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a constitutional challenge of Canada’s sex work laws. @journo_dale has the details. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…
Which new, proposed pipelines or LNG plants should have been approved this week? List them.
So Carney comes out of the Premiers’ meeting with no projects planned; no pipelines; no new mines; no new LNG plants. Nothing. More talk. No action. As Canadians get poorer.
For the evening crowd, my latest YouTube episode on the evolution of the role of Government Leader in the Senate #SenCA #cdnpoli youtu.be/vN8VOoCYVxI
For the evening crowd, my @LooniePolitics column: Carney names his new Senate Leader #cdnpoli #SenCA looniepolitics.com/carney-names-h…
Wait, what? Has anyone proposed an actual re-route of line 5? The only company with the resources to do that would be Enbridge and I'd be surprised to see them work to strand their own asset? Did I miss something? @Rory_Johnston
For the morning crowd, my latest YouTube episode on the evolution of the role of Leader of the Government in the Senate #cdnpoli #SenCA youtu.be/vN8VOoCYVxI
For the morning crowd, my @LooniePolitics column: Carney names his new Senate Leader #cdnpoli #SenCA looniepolitics.com/carney-names-h…
Roundup post: Past the gushing, the premiers are up to their old tricks #cdnpoli routineproceedings.com/2025/07/24/rou…
For the late/west coast crowd, my latest YouTube episode on the evolution of the role of Government Leader in the Senate #cdnpoli #SenCA youtu.be/vN8VOoCYVxI
For the late/west coast crowd, my @LooniePolitics column on Carney's choice of Government Leader in the Senate, and why it's even more untenable for him to consider himself "non-affiliated." #cdnpoli #SenCA looniepolitics.com/carney-names-h…
The reason was the Conservatives objected to moving the “fixed” election date so that it wouldn’t fall on Diwali, because then some more MPs (mostly their own) would get pensions. The NDP decided to play along with that game, because they wanted to “be the adults in the room.”
Fun fact: the elections commissioner proposed an amendment to Bill c-65 last fall that would have closed the longest ballot loophole on signatures. Remind me: was there a reason legislation stalled in Parliament last fall? And did the CPC speak in favour of this amendment?
Fun fact: the elections commissioner proposed an amendment to Bill c-65 last fall that would have closed the longest ballot loophole on signatures. Remind me: was there a reason legislation stalled in Parliament last fall? And did the CPC speak in favour of this amendment?