Shaun Dean

Although to be fair to the GNWT, so long as there is a federally-imposed debt limit, it doesn’t actually have monetary sovereignty and affordability is a very real constraint on its choices.

Shifting government thinking from “we can’t” to “how do we do the important thing?” is intriguing. In my GNWT career, it felt like looking for reasons not to do something was the frustrating default reaction to every new idea, with money being the ultimate excuse for preserving the status quo.

Deh Cho Bridge across the Deh Cho (Mackenzie) River at Fort Providence, Northwest Territories. (The government wishes it was) #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Louise Falls on the Hay River in the Northwest Territories, below Alexandra Falls. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Alexandra Falls on the Hay River near Enterprise, Northwest Territories. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Alberta-Northwest Territories Border: 60th North Parallel. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Peace River, Alberta. Twelve-Foot Davis, who was not twelve feet tall, but made his money on a twelve-foot wide gold claim. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Falher, Alberta. World’s Largest Bee. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Cabin did a great job of sharing the known knowns, but was there actually information to share most of the time? I suspect that internal disorganization and slow and ineffective decision making meant there wasn’t. Which is not a communications problem, it is a management and response problem.

Any emergency management agency has to have full authority to direct all aspects of response. So long as the preferred approach is for individual departments to sit at the table while reserving the right to make their own decisions for themselves response will be muddled and slow.

Telling the government what matters to you is an important way to help shape its decisions and exercise your democratic rights between elections.

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Interesting. PMs have traditionally been reluctant to put a northerner in ministries that deal with the north. Maybe a good sign that Carney intends to move away from treating the region like a dependency to be ruled, instead of a partner in Confederation.

Took my kid to see TMBG play two nights in the rain in San Diego two years ago. It was a whole lot of fun.

I was a little alarmed by today’s coverage of this story, which basically treated it as a serious and legitimate trade deal, not the denouement of a ridiculous whim. Normalizing the crazy by “analyzing” it as if it was real news is not helpful.

Nope. Not in this Innisfree. LOL

Mundare, Alberta. World’s Largest Sausage, “commemorating a century of sausage making”. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Vegreville, Alberta: World’s Largest Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter Egg). #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Innisfree, Alberta, home of the Cut Bank Penguin. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Wainwright, Alberta. Canada’s Largest Bison Statue. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Cut Knife, Saskatchewan: World’s Largest Tomahawk. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

North Battleford, Saskatchewan. A larger than average Mountie. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

This was the place where the bus from Regina to Saskatoon would stop for the meal break. I have had many a butter tart in Davidson.

Kenaston, Saskatchewan. Home of the “famous Kenaston Snowman, one of the tallest freestanding snowmen in the world”. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

Davidson, Saskatchewan. Half-way between Regina and Saskatoon and a good place to stop for a coffee. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction

This Golden Knights pre-game show is pure Vegas, and an embarrassment for the NHL.

The last Pope Leo (XIII) is a foundational source for Catholic social doctrine, including his definitive teaching on the rights of workers and the primacy of human dignity in the face of industrial capitalism in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

CN main line at Waldron, SK. We’re about 100 metres from the track and I can sit in the living room and watch the freight roll by; grain and oil cars heading west and flatbeds loaded with sea cans headed east from the Port of Vancouver towards the population centres of Central Canada.

Lesia, the World’s Tallest Ukrainian woman, bearing traditional welcome gifts of bread and salt. Canora, Saskatchewan. #AnotherRoadsideAttraction #SlavaUkraini

C’mon people, this is a preventable disease….

Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, a little more poignant on #RedDressDay. This city has a really complicated history with Indigenous women and while the memorial is welcome, I’ve always thought its location on a busy street well away from any foot traffic is part of the problem.