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Albertan by choice. Staff SRE @ Interval. Previously @chainlink @dapperlabs @salesforce @datadoghq. Hacks with Golang, loves scuba and 3 gun. Tweets are my own.

Calgary, Alberta
Joined December 2006
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Dear @JustinTrudeau In 2020 you prohibited my big game rifle, some small game rifles and my competition rifles. I replaced them, but today you prohibited every last replacement. I no longer have any legal hunting or competition rifles. I have no firearms that are useful as predator protection in the wilderness. I will take solace in the fact that I will keep them until you're all removed from office. And then I'll get them back and will continue the fight to enshrine property rights for all 🇨🇦. I will never forget that you have repeatedly used the threat of jail and death to steal my property, in order to prop up your failing @liberal_party. You've been playing politics with public safety for far too long - the game is up. Nobody believes anything you say, you're going to get crushed with a historic wipeout. #cdnpoli #ccfr
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The government’s entire reasoning for these bans is to prevent mass shootings. That’s their defence of it. They reference the small number of tragedies Canada has experienced, many with illegal guns which would not be impacted by the bans. Only legal guns owned by licensed owners are. To believe this reasoning, you’d have to believe that just by virtue of owning them, you’re susceptible to committing a mass shooting, but if you owned other guns you wouldn’t. It’s literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever experienced. 🇨🇦 They’re not for sale.
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Remember, the SCC didn't officially rule that gun ownership was a "privilege" until 1993. Before then, it was largely understood to be a right or at least a long standing fundamental freedom — something that would have (should have) been protected by part 2 of the bill of rights.
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They’ll never stop. The next types will be the “sniper rifles”. And so on and so on. Hunters wake up. They’re coming for yours too. Mine are just first.
AG: Hey justices, just incase things don’t go our way can you pretty please suspend your judgement by 12 months so we can just ban it all a different way now we’ve got a majority? Diabolical. They’ll never stop.
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AG: Hey justices, just incase things don’t go our way can you pretty please suspend your judgement by 12 months so we can just ban it all a different way now we’ve got a majority? Diabolical. They’ll never stop.
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Get ready for the "800-pound Gorilla in the Room" at the Supreme Court of Canada, starting Monday. @CSSA_CILA's counsel plans to make the perverse argument that the gun ban creates a public-safety crisis because the government cannot identify, locate and seize all the firearms it prohibited. @BurlewEdward is attacking the ban by making the government’s ability to track and collect our firearms the measure of public safety. That is a breathtakingly reckless premise to put before Canada’s highest court. Follow his logic. If missing ownership records are the crisis, Ottawa has an obvious answer: compulsory records. Mandatory declarations. Registration. Stronger collection measures. We don’t need CSSA’s counsel to give gun-control advocates, or the government ammunition. This argument hands it to them by the case. (Pun intended). His oral outline actually calls affected firearms “black market ghost guns.” That is extraordinary language for counsel representing the interests of Canadian gunnies. It invites the court to associate lawful ownership with criminal supply without establishing that connection. His own factum acknowledges that federal registration of non-restricted firearms ended in 2012. Yet he blames the 2020 ban for making those firearms untraceable. Overturning the ban would not magically produce the ownership records whose absence he presents as intolerable. His sweeping claims that safety controls disappeared collide with the original amnesty, which required continued licensing and retained storage and transport safeguards. Ed should understand the danger of telling the Supreme Court that firearms the government cannot comprehensively track and recover constitute an unacceptable public danger. His intention of undermining the bans risks supplying the justification for the next registry, the next reporting requirement and the next expansion of collection powers. The Liberal's bans didn't erase my serial numbers or set me up to distribute them in the GTA. Equating firearms held by LAGOs under an amnesty with smuggled and illicitly manufactured weapons undermines the distinction we desperately try to make, which is we are not the problem.
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The fact that this is an actual headline, suggest the level of critical thinking in Canada has dipped so low that those wacky warning labels you see like, “don’t use your hands/genitals to stop the chainsaw” are absolutely necessary.
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Ok, hear me out. We put all these secret PRC bases on on Google Maps and label them as Jewish owned businesses. Then because we’re Canada (aka the Wild West) the local antisemitic/pro-Palestine/Muslim Brotherhood crew does their thing and shoots the place up and burns it to the ground. Then we can deport the PRC operatives and arrest the domestic terrorists which should finally start addressing our antisemitism problem. Win win.
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They should have called this budget The Grand Illusion! The revenue predictions are delusional, as is the GDP growth forecast while the net debt calculation relies on using every penny in the CPP, military/RCMP & public sector pension plans despite almost all of that money being allocated to cover pension payments. The debt to GDP ratio has increased 5 years in a row, even after the Finance Minister declared that lowering that rate was a key fiscal anchor. On the homelessness front, the very same @liberal_party gov issued a plan in 2017 to cut homelessness in half. As of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, homelessness has increased 160% from 2017 levels. The liberals are the masters of economic spin & making grand promises they never keep! Oh in the case of this specific Minister, ensuring her husband’s company gets good big dollar federal gov contracts 😎 #TheGrandIllusion
Canada has the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, giving us the capacity to invest with ambition. Budget 2026 puts that strength to work by expanding our energy infrastructure, helping businesses grow and making life more affordable. It also sets a path to end homelessness within 10 years, connecting housing with the care people need to stay housed. A stronger economy must give Canadians greater security in their daily lives.
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First, stop calling them police stations, it implies some sort of legitimacy. They’re a hostile forward operating base. Second, kick the doors down, handcuff and black bag everyone in there and put them in a detention centre and arrange deportation. Third, summon the Chinese ambassador and advise him that if his country tries that shit again he can pack his bags and a major review of Chinese owned companies will be conducted with extreme prejudice.
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Like many Canadian industries, our media companies were slow to adapt, slow to innovative, slow to recognize the changes in how Canadians wanted to consume news and information, slow to reimagine and reconfigure their old business models. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re still struggling to understand why they have lost the trust of so many Canadians. Faced with these realities, the Canadian government does what Canadian governments do — reward failure with taxpayer money.
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The journalism tax credit now extends to Bell, Rogers, Corus and Quebecor: $501M over five years, $85M a year permanently. Nearly every major news organization now depends on federal support. Companies reliant on government are less likely to criticize it. michaelgeist.ca/2026/11/from…
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This is 100% true. Your reliability in general should be *higher* with agent written code, as measured by error rates, SLO violations, client regressions etc. If you’re having more or equal incidents now than when you were manually writing code, that’s likely a “skill issue”.
Replying to @thorstenball
Agreed. We have shockingly few production errors these days. E.g. panic from a missing nil-check happens once every couple of months, and usually involves legacy code humans partially wrote. At this point, if I write it by hand you are going to get more bugs.
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It is now impossible for (almost) anyone in Canadian journalism to question or object to government subsidies for anyone or anything and expect to be taken seriously
And that’s the end of a free and independent press in Canada. Link is in comments
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The Carney government's new immigration figures are them telling you, as clearly as they possibly can, that your simple desire to live in a country with competitive wages, affordable housing and accessible publuc services can get fucked.
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Oh no, no, I didn't vote to give my friend billions of dollars. Only my colleagues, whose jobs all depend entirely on my good graces, voted to give my friend billions of dollars.
PM Mark Carney on Telesat: "I haven't been involved in those decisions and therefore had no recusal or other role in that."
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So in the USA when they're unhappy with the Economy, they Fire all their Politicians. In Canada, we keep them in power for 12 Years, give them a Raise and Blame other countries.
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If you live in Canada, and are not a US citizen, please repeat after me: “I’m not a US citizen. I need to pay more attention to the affairs of my own country, and our politics, rather than obsessing over America’s. I cannot vote in US elections, therefore I should not act irrationally or base my entire personality over the outcome of those elections. I cannot blame a foreign president or political party for all the shortcomings and problems our nation is struggling with.”
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Asked one of our developers how he uses his AI agents and he just sent me this:
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