Tomorrow, Edmonton hosts is annual Lunar New Year Festival at the Royal Alberta Museum. (Outdoor events cancelled due to weather, alas,) Did you know that Edmonton’s first Chinese immigrant settled here in 1890? Chung Kee arrived here from Calgary, via stagecoach, 15 years before Alberta existed.

"Smith is the most dangerous politician in Canada, launching an agenda not only of fear and greed, but one that seeks to undermine the country, its federal structure, and its spirit of tolerance and compassion. It is nothing short of evil, and it must be fought on all fronts."

A must read here for all Canadians, but especially Albertans via @emmettmacfarlane.com emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

Hey it’s me, a racialized person born in Alberta to an immigrant parent, with trans and queer friends, saying that the UCP does not get to determine who belongs here. All of us, and the Albertans yet to come, deserve to be here. And we must stand with Indigenous people to honour treaty promises.

Waiting for the Olympic hockey play by play announcer to realize the penalty called on Canada is Too Many Players, not Too Many Men.

Net migration in Alberta. Up, up, up, down, down, down. Net international migration to Alberta totalled 197 in Q3 2025, down 99% from 32,046 in the same quarter a year prior.

Relying on powers conferred by recent statutory amendments Mickey Amery, the province's AG and Minister of Justice, has just knee-capped the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre. First they came for the independent voices of civil society ... And then .... #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

Keep Calm and Carney On! Great speech Mr. Carney! I celebrated with a Danish beer, in support of our noble Nordic NATO neighbours!

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Guerrilla traffic safety gets me excited www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better. www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...

Today we remember the #Holodomor where millions of Ukrainians were starved by Stalin’s regime. It’s heartbreaking that, generations later, Ukraine is once again fighting for survival in the face of Russian aggression. Their grief echoes across time. We remember. We mourn. We stand in solidarity.

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"I dont think it's a secret, but we've always just wanted to be Sloan." ~ Yukon Blonde www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"She flung herself from the room, flung herself upon her horse and rode madly off in all directions." - Stephen Leacock described Danielle Smith aptly in "Nonsense Novels" (1911). #ableg #canlit

For a party that says it’s all about free market choice, the UCP is sure eager to quash any other political party that tries to use the word “conservative” in its name.

SCOOP: Alberta's UCP is suing two MLAs it kicked out of caucus in order to keep the Progressive Conservative brand outta their hands. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper

Fantastic freshly harvested fresh hop pale ale from Sidney's Small Gods Brewing and Victoria's Whistle Buoy Brewing. Fresh Cowichan Valley hops from Maple Bay Hops and Field Five Farms malt from North Saanich. With Jim Crace's 2013 novel, Harvest. #craftbeer

A lovely evening at Beth Shalom for a Kristallnacht commemoration with Bonny Reichert, and her memoir, How to Share an Egg, with @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. Food is the key to Bonny's life story, including growing up in Edmonton, and her father Saul Reichert's story of surviving the Holocaust.

Congratulations Laura!

@emmadonoghue.bsky.social explains why fact-based historical fiction still must negotiate with the truth.

The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions! https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto

Happy Alberta Book Day! That is, books published in Alberta by Alberta-based publishers. It ain't easy, so kudos to them. And kudos to books published by Alberta authors and Alberta-set books too. I did a bike ride in Edmonton as an homage to them all. @abbookpub.bsky.social

"We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity and kindness." RIP GREG NEWBY, Project Gutenberg CEO, Internet pioneer, accessible books hero. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Today's Alberta Book Day and we want YOU to join the fun! Check out how you can support your local publishers this #ABBookDay. Craving a specific type of book? There’s an Alberta book for that! All day, we’ll be sharing book recs to help you discover the diverse #ABBooks published here. #ReadAlberta

What's this then? A documentary film about legendary Edmonton storyteller Tony Cashman? I'm there! I hope @anakanaschofield.bsky.social can make it too! Broadview Film Festival broadviewfilmfest.com/festival/ #yeg

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart." #baseball #Bluejays

LET'S FRICKING GO BLUE JAYS! My heart can't take it.

Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian

Five years ago today, the UCP revealed it would evict 75 unhoused men from the McCullough Centre in Gunn, AB and lay off 63 unionized workers. Two years later, the government quietly signed a $20-30 million contract with a company owned by allies of Marshall Smith. 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Baseball and the beers of October: my Tomato beer guy column seems very au courant, n'est-ce pas? Did you know there was no beer at Blue Jays games from 1977-1982? #craftbeer thetomato.ca/beer-guy/bee...

Open Brew Day at Edmonton's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing. Open house and field trip day for beer nerds. October 25 to 6pm. #craftbeer

“Go Jays Go!” is "Aambe gwiing gwiish aambe!" #BlueJays

Love it. Winners today in Edmonton. #Bluejays

In order to save the village we had to destroy it.

"Help reshelve the books with pics of naked women in them that middle school boys have left strewn around Powell’s."

Should I watch clips of the Charlie Kirk funeral, or wait till Leni Riefenstahl edits it all together?

Kudos to Commissioner McLeod for speaking truth to power and insisting Danielle Smith follow the rules and the law. So refreshing!

Here's a rather delightful summing up of all the cool things Charles does, from standup to voice acting to novel writing vancouversun.com/news/charlie...

NEW POST: U of T prof's tweet on Charlie Kirk killing was bad, but so is the University's reaction emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/u-of-t-pro...

I spent an evening with PUP the band, who described themselves as “like Weezer but worse." Which is not true, but as Stefan Babcock said, "It’s easier to be disliked than liked." If you like rock music, check them out, and read about them here: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Montréal Mordecai Richler tour: reading Duddy Kravitz, bologna sandwich at Wilensky's Lunch and a Molson Export at Winnie's Pub.

Canada continues a national facepalm as the Alberta government pushes on with book banning. 🤦‍♂️ writersunion.ca/news/alberta...

Why are educators facilitating fascism? Do. Not. Obey. In. Advance. Fight, don't facilitate! Do nothing. Do not catalogue or remove books in classrooms or libraries. If Danielle Smith wants to remove books she can come and get them.

On to the next chapter. Turning the page. All that. My last day as CEO of St. Albert Public Library, Friday.

It must be so annoying for the Alberta Government when people implement the policies that they created.