Just another reason Edmonton is the best city in the world :)

This is exciting!

My first PR contribution to Canada Spends was merged today! Looking forward to contributing more. Build Canada 🇨🇦

Canada's outdated capital gains policies are driving entrepreneurs and investors away. We need competitive tax reform to keep talent and investment here, building the businesses of tomorrow. Today, Canada has two policies to encourage builders to start businesses the Lifetime

So I'm writing a monthly newsletter that I expect will have exactly zero appeal except to the people who actually know me. But we'll see! Monthly Meandering #1 open.substack.com/pub/brendansme…

Live purely guided by your own internal compass, nothing else. Don't listen to anyone else but yourself, only do what you think is interesting or correct. For better or worse, I had this quirk as a personality trait and got into a lot of trouble for it over the years. It's very

Beautiful evening to take your canoe for a walk

We are not going to compromise reliability or affordability of the grid, but we are going to make sure someone’s application is not sitting on a desk for weeks without action. digitaljournal.com/tech-science/a…

Alberta's proposing to tax canoeing. 🙄

In a global society, people can and do vote with their feet. That doesn't mean we should just let those with power (of any kind, money, talent, expertise, connections) dominate an issue. But it does mean we should consider the effects of policy.

The core is because we've solved boredom. We have filled every waking moment from birth to death with something to do. And there are ever more impressive and exciting things to do and pursue once we've gotten bored of the last thing. This suppresses our impulses to have sex and

Make climate action fun again :)

This surprised me and is actually wrong. We should be celebrating our successes not by putting down our other successes. Alimentation Couche-Tard was founded 45 years ago (in 1980) and is worth 67B. Barick Mining was founded 43 years ago and is worth 54B. Constellation

I I couldn't stop thinking about Elsie MacGill while the RCAF snowbirds flew over Edmonton. She built 1,400 planes during WWII. The 9 planes flying overhead is an incredible sight. Trying to imagine 1,400 warplanes is incredulous. Making them is even more ridiculous. But she

There should be more software in the world built by non-tech people. It constantly annoys me that non-technologists don't have capability to make tools that tech people have. v0, lovable, bolt, replit, cursor help but then throw you happily off a cliff.

Google flights has a chemtrail warning

You know our airline industry is awful when Air Canada literally won't let me login to buy a flight

There are so many places that I want to go in Canada that are so uneconomical to get to (both in time and cost). Geography is our biggest trade barrier. Our country was literally founded on overcoming our geography, we should start working on that problem again.

It's really hard to love places you don't understand. Growing up in Peace River, visiting family out east in Sydney and settling in Edmonton gifted me with the understanding and the love of this country. This place is so ridiculously incredible from coast to coast to coast. I