An aging substation caused Montreal’s latest blackout. Its replacement is still years away

I’ve been looking back at Brexit through the rear-view mirror of Alberta’s runaway referendum train. And I’ve been studying David Cameron, the British prime minister who called for the Brexit referendum in 2013. Ran a re-election campaign on the promise of one. Was handed a majority government in 2015 in part on the basis of that promise. Ran a campaign to remain in the European Union in 2016. Lost. And then resigned the next day. I’ve been thinking about how the story of David Cameron and his Conservative Party differs so starkly from the story of Danielle Smith and her United...