amnesty.ca/press-releas... Amnesty International Canada’s response to the #Alberta government’s use of the notwithstanding clause: “The Charter was never meant to be used as a political tool to single out and withdraw protection of vulnerable groups.” #abpoli #noqueens #judicialprocess

QUOTE: "[Wylie] said AHS and the government claimed legal and cabinet privilege over many documents, in some instances without clear reasoning. Wylie also said some records his office requested were destroyed, including notebooks kept by a former chief executive officer of AHS fired in 2024." 2/2

It seems every frikken day there is a new assault on Albertans' rights by the UCP horror show. #abpoli

You might remember the B.C. white nationalist conference I covered a few months back, Exiles of the Golden Age. Well, @antihate.ca just identified 18 attendees -- and CBC got two more. Naturally, these dudes have been crashing out. So I gathered some favourites for your viewing pleasure:

Bluesky had a real "Paradox of Tolerance" moment, banning Patton Oswalt for raging against the normalization of child sex trafficking. Everyone knows the President of the USA raped children The whole GOP (and Megyn Kelly) are preventing consequences. Without the Rule of Law, we get woodchippers.

Obama's team was in the Situation Room for the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. Trump's team used the Situation Room to kill the release of the Epstein files.

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

The corruption just doesn't stop. Globe and Mail exposes collusion with Australian coal grubbers by Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Rob Morgan | Crowsnest Headwaters #ableg #abpoli #ClimateChange #albertaenergyregulator https://www.crowsnestheadwaters.ca/p/globe-and-mail-exposes-collusion

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

... so, after all the noise the Canadian government has made about foreign election interference, is there any possible justification for continuing to allow malevolent foreign oligarchs to marinate Canadians in far-right propaganda? #cdnpoli

Even in the midst of all the UCP's incompetence and corruption, getting rid of the person investigating #CorruptCare is a big "I have fired the horse inspector!" moment. #abpoli

Gosh, thanks, Google (whose algorithms have long pushed users toward extremist content, because profit is everything and humanity is nothing, to Google).

I can’t stay silent while Alberta considers using the notwithstanding clause to strip rights from trans people. This is cruelty disguised as policy. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #abpoli #cdnpoli

Clear-cuts in headwaters of the Highwood River watershed? These Albertans are saying "No Way!!" @y2y.bsky.social @nancyholan.bsky.social @janellemarietta.bsky.social @hollyhoye.bsky.social @newsandcoffee.bsky.social @therealdangercat.bsky.social @preambulator.bsky.social @jeffdaniels64.bsky.social

Looks like Dale Nally just signed away some of Alberta to foreign companies. Beacon (a foreign-controlled entity) to acquire the large tracts of "controlled land" necessary for their multiple projects across rural Alberta. #DaleNally #ABleg #ABpoli

I am not mutilated.

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

Watching Nicholaides get DESTROYED by Vassy Kapelos is the highlight of my day. "Who would want to work for your now after you have done this?" #ableg #abpoli #abed www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaqG...

It’s common sense, but not part of any government platform. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. #Health #Wellness #PreventativeMedicine #CdnPoli #Affordability thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

...one more. #yegbike #yycbike The distribution of Dec-Feb Highs for various winter cities (plus Toronto). Alberta gets some of the extreme cold of the rest of the prairies, but it also a lot of warm days (so studs are a good idea). public.tableau.com/shared/3D3BX...

Well, voting took about an hour longer than normal and instead of learning the results tonight we won’t have any idea who won until late tomorrow — but at least it cost us an extra $1.3 million! And all to combat voter fraud that categorically does not exist. Great new system, thanks UCP. #abpoli

For those keeping track... "Alberta Strong and Free": United Conservative Party "Canada Strong and Free Network": New name for what used to be known as the Manning Centre "Strong and Free": Alberta's new licence plates "Truly Strong and Free": Republican Party of Alberta

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Life under the boot of fascists.

"Education now risks becoming the next frontier: Starve the public system, watch it struggle, then present privatization as the solution. Alberta’s actions follow that script." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Claiming there is an "insurrection" is as plainly a lie as claiming the trickle of drugs from Canada is a "national emergency". But he got away with that one because the Supreme Court decided courts shouldn't have any power to stop Trump from violating the Constitution openly. It won't stop.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

🍞🥛 While kids go hungry, Conservatives mocked a National School Food Program as “bureaucracy.” They didn’t just vote against it — they laughed. This shows what’s at stake: other parties pledge more for schools, Ford’s PCs look backward. 📌 www.instagram.com/reel/DPCa6ks...

'It is the hour of freedom or death’ Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia

Hahaha "What could he be trying to say?!"

gives a new meaning to mandatory staff retreat

Alberta allies please be loud! Our kids need you more than ever. Tell your MLA you will not stand for the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #cdnpoli

The UCP and their Take Back Alberta bullshit is going to get people killed. They know this, and they don't care. #abpoli

"Surely someone else will say something before it’s too late."

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Kash Patel has the look of a guy who just Googled “how to FBI” five minutes before the press conference.

47 is full of shit. #USPoli #NeverForget #CanPoli #CdnPoli #AbLeg #AbPoli

Even by MAGA standards, this is horrifying.

As usual, the UCP refuses to tolerate the idea of ordinary Albertans getting any sort of benefit. They stripped away the $200 from AISH recipients, and now they're taking away affordable dental care. #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta has the second highest unemployment rate of all of the provinces in Canada. Good thing the UCP is laser focused on… Book bans and trans kids? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Everyday. Every hour. Not just at Calgary Pride. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

CORRECTION. The UCP has not banned just over 100 books from Edmonton Schools. If this list is accurate, they have banned over 200. Here is the list we have been provided. 1/2 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“What we are seeing in Alberta is as extreme as we’ve seen in the southern United States and other centers of book banning” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anyone who remembers Tienanmen remembers how the normal tank crew wouldn't drive over a guy waving bags, so the Party brought in special tank crews that gladly drove tanks over unarmed sleeping students. I think we all expect Hegseth to choose based on a similar lack of basic humanity.