According to their own rudimentary projections, separatists will need to renegotiate all of the economic ties with the rest of Canada and its trading partners in order to remain a functioning state. From scratch. As a lone party vs many. Without making a single concession. This is their "plan."

On this day in 1920, Sam Sniderman was born in Toronto. The founder of Sam the Record Man, he was a major promoter of Canadian music and helped develop the Canadian content broadcast regulations and the Juno Awards. 📸 Toronto Star

this New York Times article on the SpaceX IPO spends more time talking about the company's IPO day party plans and decor than they do the fact this is all a giant unworkable con orchestrated by an overt white supremacist huckster

Voting on whether to have a vote is a ridiculous lack of provincial leadership. Calgary is a globally connected city. Separation uncertainty is costing us jobs. We have real work to do: building homes, improving public safety, fixing infrastructure, growing our economy, and making life better.

Farkakte: In this instance, the outcome of farmischt reasoning.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli This is Danielle Smith's referendum. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down & follow the law. 🧵

ABs have we had enough yet??? Time to put pressure on the UCP silent partners... boycott their biggest donors. Here's where you can start (click on the link in the 3rd column): efpublic.elections.ab.ca/efParty.cfm?... #ableg #abpoli

“Albertans are now seeing Danielle Smith's government for what it is: undemocratic, authoritarian, and willing to bend to the whims of a loud, angry minority.” Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation would also like a word. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Corey Hogan, the Liberal MP for Calgary Confederation, responds to Premier Smith's announcement. x.com/coreyhoganyy...

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that there are no stupid questions.

Alberta will hold an October referendum on whether or not to have a binding referendum on separatism. Smith says she will vote to remain in Canada #Ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... For clarity: this is a referendum about having a referendum, not a separation referendum.

This is ridiculous.

Danielle Smith will win no friends with this “referendum for a referendum.” This is a disaster of her making. We will remember next year.

The Alberta government will add a question to a fall referendum, asking Albertans whether the province should stay in Canada — or kickstart the legal process for a binding separatism vote. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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In 1924, Edmonton city council voted to overturn a city policy that banned Black kids (and adults) from public pools. 102 years later, let’s remember our better angels. #yeg

Hey @jkparker.bsky.social, it’s been a while! Wondering if you can help with a data question? I’m looking for some historic neighbourhood level population data. I found this from 1966, but was wondering if I’m missing something?

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Modry also facilitated a now infamous phone call between Premier Danielle Smith and a pastor facing COVID charges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What would Stockwell Day say?

An Alberta man wanted MAID. Instead, he died in a Catholic hospital, waiting to be transferred. 349 Canadians who wanted MAiD had to transfer due to a facility’s policy in 2024: Health Canada data, by @stephaniedubois.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec... via @cbcnews.ca @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social

The Tyee has republished my post on Danielle Smith's fear-sowing, xenophobic, unconstitutional 'referendum' plans. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow & ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy .. the vision.” Rabbi AJ Heschel

@kathleenpetty.bsky.social Genuine question: would it be useful to hear from a First Nation or Métis legal or treaty expert about the treaty implications if Alberta were to separate from Canada? It feels like an essential part of the conversation that’s missing.

Today we have our second excerpt from Mountain Voices, our latest edited collection in our open-access book series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Take some time to read Gùdia (Mary Jane) Johnson's "A’ä˛y Chù’: By Itself Mountain" niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/a... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

"When a hospital staffer comes across someone about to use, they now face a difficult choice of turning a blind eye, having the person kicked off hospital grounds or directing them to a clinic they may not want to visit." #ableg edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

This whole Alberta pipeline discussion is the opposite of nation building. I feel that our nation building projects should be more along the lines of a national integrated carbon neutral electricity grid. A national high-speed rail system. Discussion of crownlands being returned to First Nations.

Rylan is Punk AF. Give this a listen.

My story on this and a whole lot more 💫 xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

New qual paper from our team detailing emergency department staff perspectives on how the pandemic impacted care of patients with opioid use disorder. 🧪 doi.org/10.1007/s436...

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents. I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.

Under the Compassionate Intervention Act, people with substance use disorder can be forced to take any prescription medication without consent. It doesn't matter if they have decisional capacity. While doctors are involved, ultimately a lawyer gets to decide what the treatment order will be. #ableg

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory. Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.

“When a government grants itself license to override physician judgment and patient consent, who - at any stage of life — will be next?” The AMA raising very serious concerns about the UCP’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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cleantechnica.com/2025/11/03/t... @bigclimate.bsky.social

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history Info sessions on November 11 & 21 niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n... #envhum #envhist #envstudies

“”Institutional neutrality” is an illusion that benefits those who have long profited from a hierarchy of rights that delivers social and economic advantage to only a few.” universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m... Good interview if only to showcase that not all tech bros are assholes. Full disclosure: I’ve edited Wikipedia @lulugn.bsky.social @jimmywales.bsky.social

If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️ Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...