Country music artist Corb Lund is preparing to launch a provincewide signature campaign aimed at halting new coal mining along Alberta’s eastern #RockyMountain slopes. Somia Lohia reports. #abpoli

My latest: With his new auto sector strategy and a plan to double grid capacity, Mark Carney isn't just talking a good game on diversifying our trade relationships away from America. He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...

What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

my latest: Jivani represents the people of Bowmanville-Oshawa North, which is all well and good, but that in no way means he has any authority or legitimacy whatsoever in negotiating with the US on a file as complicated and multifaceted as Canada-US trade. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/12/o...

Alberta's new two-tier legislation encourages a private health insurance market for services covered under the Canada Health Act. It's a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed+ profit-taking, not “European” health care @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A conservative Canadian broadcast news network is incorporating propaganda from U.S. dark-money-funded think tanks directly into its regular programming. Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli #CdnMedia #uspoli

'More of this fearless straight talk, please.' Via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/yes-this-i...

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

In the @nytimes.com, Mr. Kristof gingerly puts his finger on why, comparatively speaking, the general population in 🇺🇸America is so dumb.

Another year, another record high for Canadian oil & gas production. Record shows the federal Liberals have actually been good for Alberta's oil sands industry. Good to disabuse people in Alberta of this myth. But also, hardly a compliment of the Liberals. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/06/o...

ICE now has an $85B annual budget—the highest-funded US law enforcement agency. Its agents operate in five Canadian cities. Constitutional law expert Kent Roach explains what this means for Canadian sovereignty and Charter rights. https://ow.ly/in6O50Yat2z

I’m finding it painful to watch CBC platform mostly conservatives to gush praise at former Prime Minister Stephen Harper (they’re releasing his archival collection) with almost zero commentary about the awful things he did while in power & around the world since. The selective amnesia is nauseating.

NEW: Five months out from Vancouver's first FIFA World Cup game, two progressive city councillors want the city to pre-emptively boot US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ICE — off the pitch.

Alberta's Bill 11 puts Canadian medicare at risk. By @alonghurst.bsky.social #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The campaign by Alberta’s #UCP to remake the province’s health-care system has created chaos. But, according to a Tyee analysis, there has also been a steep financial cost. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

B.C. has halted work on a strategy aimed at ensuring taxpayers don’t bear the massive cleanup costs arising from abandoned industrial sites and disasters like the Mount Polley mine breach. @zoeyunker.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe recently criticized B.C.’s drug policies, saying the province’s approach to the ongoing #ToxicDrugCrisis is not evidence-based. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

She keeps getting chances to show some loyalty to Canada -- and keeps turning them away in order to defend Alberta separatists and their cause. It's who she is. It's time we all started saying it. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/o...

A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024 via BC Nurses Union www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve... #bcpoli

Okay, this is well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...

Does no one think it's strange that Doug Ford's Conservatives are holding their annual convention the same weekend as Poilievre's federal Conservatives, keeping his delegates away from Calgary and a leadership vote? Is Poilievre keeping ON moderates out? Is Doug eying CPC leadership? #cdnpoli

Ontario Conservatives - the party of transparency and accountability - ban all press from their annual convention. (Gift article) #ONpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This morning, we gathered with members of the Jewish community in Ottawa at the National Holocaust Monument — to remember the consequences of ignorance, hatred, and complicity.

On this day in 1945, the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau exposed the scale of Nazi crimes to the world and became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, the resilience of its survivors, and the guilt of its enablers.

Naheed Nenshi challenges UCP MLAs to sign a pledge to Canada and make their opposition to separatism clear. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Mr. Coyne’s piece in @theglobeandmail.com today makes many good points, and this is one of the most important: 🤷🏼🇺🇸😔🇺🇸🤷🏼

Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/a...

Call the burn ward.

Tension at the tennis: inside the high-stakes world of racket stringing

The liberal order is now totally dead, sovereignty is up for grabs and international law, always an imperfect affair, holds ever less meaning. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #uspoli #canpoli

A Glimpse of Hope That Alzheimer's Can Be Reversed thetyee.ca/News/2026/01... @crof.bsky.social @thetyee.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

I called number for the Local Matters campaign from the Canadian Media Guild on Facebook. The call was answered by an employee of the group behind Canada Proud, one of the loudest advocates for defunding the CBC. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...

Yes, agreed. But that doesn't mean we haven't dramatically overcompensated, as this latest round of data confirms. And now many of the universities - who weren't the abusive players in this - can't even reach the smaller allotted targets because students can't get visas they're supposed to get!

Drip by Drip, Poilievre Is Handing Liberals a Majority via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Yessss! The Tyee Can Now Give Tax Deduction Receipts via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Krugman is devastating: Donald Trump, Security Threat open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Canadian postal bank could be transformative—both to the post office, and to Canada’s monopolized financial sector. By @rromard.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com. The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.

Danielle Smith among the targets of the latest recall petitions approved by Elections Alberta yesterday. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/dani...

NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...