Some of the women also reported being targets of racist comments by medical staff, who told them they “have too many children,” they “cost the government too much,” and they should “stop having [kids],” because they are “irresponsible” and “bad parents.”

A few years ago, NRCan determined that installing solar on just rooftops could meet 76% of our energy needs. Rather than making energy security and affordability a national priority, we’re making sure our energy needs continue to grow exponentially. natural-resources.canada.ca/science-data...

Rates of IPV are 1.8 times higher in rural areas than urban- at a time when Alberta has higher than national rates overall. And yet, the ACWS say provincial funding is being cut at several rural shelters- and they're urging the UCP to hit pause on that decision. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Doesn't speak for me, either. I don't touch the stuff. Storytelling is a human endeavor. Publishing is a human endeavor. Writing and reading and being-read is all about humans reaching out to humans. No AI. Fuck AI.

Wednesday, May 27, ↑26.0°C ↓14.1°C, 0.1mm rain Total: 14,820 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,614 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,131 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 1,031 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 1,013 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 897 Belgravia Rd Foot Bridge SUP: 727 100 Avenue E of 107 Street: 683

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

jfc

my god

Are you looking for a speaker for your conference, convention, or symposium? Does a labour journalist sound like the perfect type of speaker for your event? Contact me about your speaking opportunity. albertaworker.ca/speaking/

1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

insane to me that @patagonia.com is suing incredibly impactful drag queen and climate activist Pattie Gonia for “harming their brand” is Patagonia not a brand for the LGBTQ+ community or for climate activists? because you’ve spent a lot of time pretending to be both.

Unregulated AI is posing a threat to jobs, the environment, life and our very essence of being human. All to benefit the toxic tech overlords. My latest on killer AI and the apps that will read the books for you. youtu.be/oSgGOf2xfAk?...

Not sure if this is a hot take, but the apparently frequent cheating or borderline cheating with Ai in University seems to me less about Ai and more about how sick the system has gotten. Compare for example to learning from a teacher to graft trees. In that case, cheating would be absurd. Why?

I need to bookmark this for every time a student tells me that the thing they like about math is how there is always only one definite answer for anything

Sorry what the fuck there are actually over 71 THOUSAND definitions my god en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclo...

The referendum petition launched by musician @corblund.bsky.social, to ban coal mining on the eastern slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, is now in its final weeks. An excellent time to repost my 2024 interview with Corb about coal, cows, community and composing. #AlbertaUnbound #abpoli #ableg

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-2 #smbc #comics

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

A name like that and he becomes an oil and gas executive instead of going into differential geometry. Shame

NEW The Alberta government’s fight to close the two busiest supervised consumption sites is in the bottom of the ninth. The pinch hitter it calls to bat? A freshly minted PhD in economics nobody’s heard of. drugdatadecoded.ca/albertas-exp...

The stakes in this referendum are too high to sit it out. We need to build a solid case, not just for staying put, but for a stronger Alberta within a better Canada. That's why I'm joining other prominent conservatives in making the case for Alberta to lead, not leave. www.leadnotleave.ca

A child bluebird is terrorizing the birdfeeder demanding every bird feed it the food that is literally right there

Across age, gender, region, education, income level, and political affiliation, only two subsets in Alberta would vote against staying in Canada: 1) UCP voters 2) Federal Conservative voters

the cargo bike

US man doesn't understand why Canada won't give bully nice foot massage.

Gerrymandering for dummies.

Carney's hit list.

If only our kids had the same freedom as poultry.

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

Five tips to avoid prematurely releasing your referendum announcement

First a referendum on independence. Now a constitutional amendment to limit s35. Is Premier Smith deliberately sabotaging her own pipeline bid by threatening to remove treaty rights? Or are her advisors just that naive? nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

AI tech mogul confused why expendable human capital booing him during commencement address

Basically every single historic urban neighbourhood that people look at as popular, desirable, heritage, and nostalgic is illegal to build now. those places that people love ARE the missing middle that we can't build anymore of.

"bikes can be useful for some people" one of the most controversial things you can say in the social media space.

🧵 Once again, the CBC is refusing — both on the radio report this morning and the web version linked to here — to acknowledge the Halifax Examiner, this time from Joan Baxter's @joannalh.bsky.social ground-breaking work on a story 1/

Danielle Smith promotes delusional history of U.S. and Canadian constitutions to promote separation referendum. albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/dani...

*Referendum 1: Do you want a referendum? If yes: Have referendum. Call function *Referendum2 If no: Don't. Call function *Same Old Whining ------------------------ *Referendum2: Do you want to leave the country? If yes: Give pipelines back to country / end If no: Call function *Same Old Whining

Hantavirus, Ebola - a broken Center for Disease Control. Trump and RFK Jr in charge and a guy who ran a podcast called the Erection Connection. They are your front line of defence. We are playing Russian roulette with super-spreaders. My latest: charlieangus.substack.com/p/warning-shot

I’ve got $50 riding on my belief that the question is unnecessarily convoluted because they asked ChatGPT to write it. #ableg

Premier Smith continues to give separatists the upper hand. With tonight's announcement, she has provided them several advantages in the "referendum-on-the-referendum" campaign. 🧵

Premier Smith has left a lot of important questions unanswered about this fall's separation referendum.🧵

Albertans - Ok, so the province was doxxed, everyone is expecting Smith to announce a separation referendum question on Thursday and wildfire season is coming, that about it? Measles - Don't forget about me! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is 2 questions. JFC. The knobs who want to run their own country can’t even fucking ask a simple yes or no question. What a fucking clown show. Can we get some adults to take the wheel from these fucking bonobos? It’s like Tounces the driving cat is running this embarrassment of a province.

The Never-endum.

I think the Canadian federation will be unable to survive if we decide that federal-provincial politics will be conducted by governments walking around sticking shotguns in their mouths.

Important column. We can’t look away from things like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

UCP plan to railroad a separation referendum onto this fall’s ballot goes off the rails. albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/ucp-...