The absolute easiest endorsement I can make this election season is for @ashleysalvador.bsky.social Truly, Ashley is one of the best councillors we've seen in decades. She's incredibly intelligent, but personable and doesn't condescend. She deftly builds consensus. We need her back.

After making $4-billion in profit last year with near-record amounts of oil production, Imperial Oil is cutting 20% of its employees. Oil jobs are not the future. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...

Imagine claiming the Alberta Next Panel is about ensuring respect from Ottawa and ensuring all voices are heard, and then you yell at a young Albertan publicly that he needs to be spanked for asking a fair question and expressing an opinion. Absolute peak hypocrisy.

Utter contempt and disrespect from Bruce McAllister. Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.

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We’re excited to launch our tool that helps you find out how the candidates running for mayor and city council in Edmonton align with you on the issues that matter most. blog.taprootpublishing.ca/2025/09/26/t... #yegvote #yegcc #yeg

A beloved ICU doctor dies and thousands mourn, including the prime minister. Dr Darren Markland did medicine with his heart and soul and a poet's pen. Column. calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #ableg #abpoli #abhealth #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli #yeg

How much money did the RCAF lose last year? More or less than $1bn over revenues generated by services provided,?

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Morning M'Orange Billie Rae Busby 2023

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Who is she protecting kids from? Their doctors and their teachers? Extrapolating this to see that she doesn’t trust professionals to make professional decisions.

"Postmedia has spoken to parents and coaches of junior-high girls, who don’t want to reveal their names for worry that their teams or girls may be punished."

Sports participation is a protective factor against a whole host of negative outcomes, including early adolescent substance use. This policy is wrong and directly at odds w/ the UCP's stated goal of preventing addiction + promoting a 'substance-free life'. #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

In their quest to control everything, the UCP government is discriminating against Alberta girls. "Everybody, when they go to school, deserves to be able to participate in all aspects of it. Having such overreaching steps is not appropriate.” #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

What a nightmare to put a child through. This is a heinous and cruel policy.

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

And no, there was no era when folks were magically exposed to multiple perspectives and made tolerant. The problem isn’t the “silos.” It’s that the silos are gone. For example, the entire MRA movement can be seen as a reaction to the fact that men have had to hear from women.

these posts really blow up the theory that he was antifa and the theory that he was groyper AND the theory that he was an irony-poisoned nihilist. there's still a lot we don't know but based on this, he may well have been the last thing anyone expected: Just A Guy.

America’s online culture wars are a clear and present threat to Canada’s future. Here’s how we can avoid importing it into our politics — and why we should look carefully at those who do. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/16/o...

happy tuesday from the best video on my fyp this weekend

Who is served by narratives that dehumanize people, narratives that play on people's deepest fears and desire for safety? And where else are we seeing those fear-based leadership tactics being employed, and what are the consequences? open.substack.com/pub/civicg...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Over the last few days, I’ve learned that this guy who said vile things about me and those whom I love was coded and sold as a young Mr. Rogers to a very receptive audience. Has helped me understand the general response. Journalists, however, are really blowing the moment by going along with it.

As city columnist for the Edmonton Journal, I wrote often about the crisis of homelessness. I was naive. For years, I thought people wanted to help those living on the street. It took me ages to realize that many people just wanted the homeless gone, someplace away, out of sight and out of mind.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

these are great fall outfits

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

they should invent logging on that is good for you

I put together a primer on Charlie Kirk — and paid some special attention to his relationship with Nick Fuentes and the Groyper movement. There's no hot takes or sweeping declarations. Just some useful background. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...

🚲 #yeg is making progress on safe streets—but every step forward sparks bikelash. Loud voices want to rip out bike lanes + safe crossings. This fall’s election decides whether we move forward or slide back. Join us to support bike and climate friendly councillors 👉 buff.ly/5rjhbYl #yegbike #yegcc

What an exhausting time to be able to read

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

I’d love to see a national fire service, helping De Havilland accelerate water bomber production, and a national power grid be announced tomorrow, but it will likely be a government-subsidized pipeline announcement that has to be held indoors, because the air quality outside is too dangerous. 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is worth a read. There's a strong tendency to dismiss all anti-vaxxers as thoughtless or dumb, and having interviewed Lydia I can attest she is neither. What she does do is speak to fear, finding community and the psychological discomfort of abandoning a core truth she thought she knew.

Seems bad.

Folks who think it’s great that governments prohibit 13 year old trans girls from playing on the school volleyball team will turn around and tell you that regulations prohibiting oil companies from tipping arsenic into the local waterhole are gross government overreach. I’m sick of these people.

Banning The Handmaid’s Tale is so on brand for this government it’s actually kind of funny.

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‘Berta friends: don’t forget that today’s the day you can pre-order your COVID vaccine. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

I've been trying out some of the use cases that people around me have been doing. Writing reports and emails at work, interview prep, even some therapy type questions. Some work better than others but all of it just leaves me feeling empty.

Hoping this reaches more than a few Albertans. Thomas Lukasuk's petition to keep Alberta a part of Canada is now eligible to collect signatures. Be mindful of any fake petitions circulating. I suspect there will be shenanigans from the premier's base. www.forever-canadian.ca

It has one of the lowest conviction rates of any crime in Canada.

Precisely. I've said this before, but there are such striking similarities between this case and the uOttawa hockey team case. A major one being that in both cases, the men themselves admitted to really disgusting, obnoxious, and I would say, misogynistic behaviour. And still played the victim.

Babe, you want me to believe that this woman signed up to get cross-examined by 10 different lawyers for over a week because she just wanted attention? Revenge? Felt guilty about being slutty? There is no version of reality where you can convince me of that.

For everyone sweltering in the east: current weather in Edmonton. We clearly need some weather equalization.

Sometimes when it feels like there is nothing redeeming in the world or the news feels overwhelming, I make it a point to email coworkers or people in other departments to let them know how much I value them. Trying to spread a little positivity helps it not seem so crushing.

Well teachers *aren’t* doing any of that, so there’s no problem here. As a parent I’m also not enthusiastic about *the government* torquing the curriculum, politicizing education about the human body and how it works, or blocking access to health care for some kids…All based on internet lies.