Never to be mentioned again. But $0.1B for bike lanes in Edmonton that you can *see with your eyes are actually there* was harped on for years.

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

My heart just dropped to the floor.

More "play as a social and environmental justice issue" content - not only are facilities like this free, accessible and social, but they will be increasingly important in environmental and climate crises, to mitigate pollution and extreme weather.

I think that maybe the way that… like, fandom has become all parts of life and not just the entertainment parts is leading to bad things. Like people treating complaints about minor Internet celebrities the same as those for their politicians

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself. Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

The UCP says teachers must out LGBTQ+ students to their potentially abusive parents, but premier Smith says it's not okay for UCP MLAs to tell people if they signed a separation referendum. #AbLeg

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?” And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

Home security systems are safety theater. They make us feel like we’re in control, but they don’t actually reduce the risk of violence. If anything, they’re a part of a broader, predatory industry that exploits our fears and *increases* the risk of violence to keep us spending money.

As taxes go up, infrastructure continues to decay, rents rise and homelessness increases, we can look to this tiny constituency of wealthy Calgarians with outsized political influence who would sabotage our city's future to avoid the "irreparable harm" of having a rowhouse on their block.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Once again, I will deploy the comparison of these guys using a forklift at the gym.

A really good reminder that the Conservatives who show up for a leadership review are not the soft Conservatives that every party relies upon to win. You gotta balance those groups and the CPC has failed to do so.

I'll shut up about AI the day an AI system demonstrates one original idea. Because right now all it seems capable of doing is deluding a lot of people into thinking that *synthesizing information (and disinformation) readily available on the Internet* and replicating patterns = real research.

Americans demand to know who they have to bomb to lower gas prices

For centuries kings ruled by "divine right" Magna Carta 1215: "free men" (barons) protected from illegal imprisonment, unlimited taxes. Martin Luther Reformation ~1516: separate state from church. Industrial Revolution peak ~1820 (UK). 2026: let's not wait ~100 yrs to separate state from corporation

For the tech world, education *is* a chore, you want to get the bare minimum as fast as possible before jumping in and making big bank at a start up, or as an entrepreneur yourself. Everything in the path of wealth or power or validation *through* these things must be discarded.

who could have known that the Ponzi scheme of low taxes and delayed infrastructure maintain would one day have to be paid for? True in city infrastructure, true for climate change.

My fav claim about the federal spending power is that it lets feds intrude on provincial areas of jurisdiction by "abusing their power of taxation"... as if provinces don't have taxation powers. Reality: provinces keep their taxes low on the backs of their demands for federal money!

The 66th pedestrian incident in 2026 happened on Mar 09 at 21:03. It took place at Southbound Deerfoot Trail at 32 Avenue Exit Ramp NE in Mccall. This was the 14th incident in ward 10 this year. ##yyccc##yycwalk

I like the implication that Bluesky is actively hostile towards exactly 3,200 users. The thirty two hundred are homo sacer.

Staggering. $35,000 per Calgarian. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Realistic. Medieval monasteries in Europe would keep valuable books chained down for a reason!

If you are wondering how upzoning in Edmonton is going; when I moved into my place last year it was $1300 for a 1 bed. Now my landlord is offering a slightly larger unit for $1200. Its crazy! If I wasn't moving cities I'd be down there renegotiating my lease as we speak @growtogetheryeg.bsky.social

Oh, and if we're talking about using Canadian oil and gas to lower Canadian fuel prices? That's the National Energy Program, Pierre. Did you want the National Energy Program?

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t. And someone really poorly trained him in economics. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/p...

"The prime minister hasn't approved a pipeline" would be a stronger argument if anyone was proposing to build a pipeline.

You can’t control oil markets, geopolitics, or the price on the sign outside the gas station. But you can control how dependent you are on it. Adding bikes to your household transportation mix is one of the simplest ways to make your lifestyle more resilient, financially, physically, and mentally.

Reminder

We deserve better trains

I will never understand how someone thinks he's doing a favour for women by praising them for being in his proximity.

I have a lot of ~feelings~ about the Minister of Women and Gender Equality putting so many resources into Men's Health but I am seeing some pockets of greatness that feels encouraging. Naming toxic masculinity as a problem, for one!

This oil price shock will obscure what’s increasingly become Alberta’s shaky advantage over everyone else. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now. PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

Oh sure it’s not like people who play videogames would be interested in obsessively tracking things like this and then becoming extremely angry about it

This might be one of the greatest shots that I have ever seen.

i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later

it can't tell if the output is true because *it has no concept of truth*. The only thing it "knows" is "this output is correlated" It is structurally indifferent to truth

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.

Banger episode of The Panalysts today. (spoiler: they’re all bangers) youtu.be/ZJh-KcnzOOo

"Every dollar directed toward normalizing AI art generation is a dollar that didn’t go toward a muralist, a poet, a filmmaker, a ceramicist... Every institutional stamp of approval on this technology makes the next round of cuts to human artists that much easier to justify."

This site is great

Reminder that daylight saving time is the jet lag equivalent of a trip from Toronto to Halifax, or Calgary to Vancouver, without even the hassle of packing a bag. If you find the time change to be difficult, that's a skill issue.

passé: burrito taxi in vogue: boba train

This is a pro-fun account. There’s a lot going on, times are hard and they aren’t going to get better any time soon. Celebrate your half birthday.Make up holidays.Find reasons to gather, party and fellowship.Find your people.Spend time with family and friends. Ignore anyone in opposition to fun.

Phrases like “I’ve been told,” “I hear,” or “people say” serve several purposes: -Plausible deniability -Signal amplification -Dog whistling -Test ballooning -Deflecting And it's just a whole lot easier than actually investigating the severity or sources of problems.