
Alex Boyd
Senior Journalist - Digital News at BBC
Senior Journalist @bbcnews. Former Deputy Editor at Reach. @uop_journalism graduate. All views my own. Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Alex Boyd
Premier Danielle Smith announced on Thursday morning Alberta would challenge the constitutionality of the national clean energy regulations it claimed would see its residents “freeze in the dark.” In her latest salvo against the rules, Smith painted a colourful picture of what she says would happen if “Ottawa has its way,” and the regulations, which would push electricity generation to net zero by 2035, come to pass: “Families would be bundled up in their winter coats while sitting down for...
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Alex Boyd
The flags and T shirts for sale on Amazon have already been updated — same profanity, same maple leaf, new name: F**k Trudeau is out, and F**k Carney has arrived. The Liberal victory was not a landslide for political newbie Mark Carney as the country remains deeply — sometimes angrily — polarized.
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2 weeks ago |
wellandtribune.ca | Alex Boyd
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Alex Boyd
It was a stunning reversal of political fortunes in this country, and not just for central bankers born in the Northwest Territories. Watching results pour in, you’d be forgiven for thinking Canada was a two-party race. But a race it was, ultimately won by Mark Carney’s party. Expectations had been upended when U.S. President Donald Trump mused about making Canada the 51st state and began unrolling punishing tariffs, swiftly reordering electoral priorities.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Alex Boyd
The man has his phone out to film, a classic internet gotcha shot, as he demands to know why the advance polling station doesn’t have pens. A weary-looking woman in a dark blazer responds that the government supplies pencils. “Why are they pencils?” demands the indignant unnamed voice from behind the phone, speaking over a cardboard Elections Canada ballot box. “So somebody can change it?” he continues.
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