🔴 NEW: German defense ministry officials want Berlin to build its next fighter jet with Sweden and Spain — rather than accept the UK’s offer to join its program, docs show. It sets up a major choice for Chancellor Merz after Germany’s FCAS project with France collapsed. 🧵

🇩🇪🇸🇪 Pick Sweden over British fighter jet offer, #German defense officials. "suggests using Saab's #Gripen E fighter as a technological stepping stone" Nice recognition. Unlikely ofc. But Gripen will be around another 30 yrs or so. Herzlich willkommen. politico.eu/article/german-d…

Besides immigration, the next great ideological battle in Canadian politics will be between NIMBYs and YIMBYs. What's interesting about this particular fight is that it does not fit seamlessly into the traditional political divide in Canada the same way immigration does. Many conservatives, for example, fantasize about building sixplexes in laneways attached to 16-plexes in quiet, detached single-family-home neighbourhoods. There's also a strange reaction to this AI-slop picture on the right, where many are racing to show their support for the idea of allowing retail businesses to operate inside quiet residential neighbourhoods. With most YIMBY ideas and the strange ritualistic endorsement that people display on social media, there's always a sense of quiet hypocrisy. We all know that most outspoken YIMBYs would actually be deeply upset if a giant data centre were built in their neighbourhood. We all know that if the choice were theirs, they would probably not live in a home next to an extremely busy corner store or restaurant. There's always nuance to this debate, and ultimately major projects and housing do need to be built. I look forward to seeing how this great debate plays out over the next 5 years.

Alberta's vote is over, but first-past-the-post keeps separation alive: it gives a separatist leaning UCP power provincially and locks in near one-party opposition to Ottawa federally. Proportional representation breaks this two-party trap and restores balance at both levels.

Trump on Bombardier: “I always viewed them as a Canadian company. You know what I’m talking about. But now we find out they have a presence here, and we’re not hurting them if they’re in Kansas.” By @jendlouhyhc: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Election day polls are individually pretty small, so those locations are completing the count for Q1-Q9 pretty quickly. The special ballots, which had hundreds of thousands of votes for only 87 polls, are much chunkier and will be reporting Q1-9 later.

And the last update for the night with 46% God Bless Alberta

Latest Alberta Pollara Poll modelled out 🟠ANDP: 49 seats (+11) 🔵UCP: 38 seats (-11) 🟠Alberta NDP Majority Government (+/- change from 2023 election)

Oldest NIMBY fallacy in the book: when a teardown bungalow sells for $1.5M and is replaced with $2M duplexes, affordability has worsened. But the alternative was a $3M mansion.

Sweden's first GlobalEye. Unveiled. Own the advantage. Read the press release here: saab.com/newsroom/press-rele…

Last night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck an airfield in the Voronezh region. Four Su-34 aircraft were destroyed and two more Su-34s were hit. The Russians used them to terrorize our people. These very warplanes were ready to launch new attacks on Ukraine and were loaded with aerial bombs. Our Long Neptune missile was used to strike the target. I thank the warriors of the Ukrainian Navy for their precision! Our long-range sanctions also reached a site in the Oryol region used to store and launch attack drones. A target was also hit in the Black Sea. These are our justified responses to all of Russia’s terror against Ukraine. Russia is dragging out the war, so our long-range operations will continue.

It's a big day today