Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening This is horrific news

“she described meeting with the group that spearheaded Project 2025, the plan to rapidly overhaul the U.S. government under President Donald Trump“ #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

From the DM’s… This is Danielle Smith’s disintegrated system she swore she would fix in 90 days. 3 years ago. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I have signed, have you? Please make time to sign for Alberta to be forever part of Canada. #AlbertanInCanada

People have words about Alberta Premier Smith enacting the notwithstanding clause to enforce bills that will affect their kids. “We'll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child,” says one parent. People have words. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-...

The $87 billion climate cost has always been, very clearly so, a long-term cost to the economy and not a direct City of Calgary cost to taxpayers—in fact many stories, and admin have pointed this out. But some candidates keep using this number to campaign on. livewirecalgary.com/2025/10/13/8...

I know we like to feel smug and shit but how do you think provinces like #alberta and #ontario are going to implement “involuntary rehabilitation”? Do you know how many people are companies are salivating at getting public tax dollars to do just 👇? It’s a fucking privatization scam

“But abandoning public education also lets governments relinquish their responsibility to support an equitable, democratic society. It increases the disparities between the privileged and everyone else.” The UCP is absolutely a threat to this.

1000% AB gov used AI for some/most of the toolkit.

An estimated 25% of property tax in Edmonton goes directly to the Alberta government for EDUCATION, in 2025, and the city has no control over how it's spent. Smith will do anything to get out of funding public education. Tim Cartmell wants to enable her. #abpoli #yeg #education #union #Solidarity

As premier, I am often forced to make some really difficult decisions. Decisions that will affect people for generations. Decisions that affect me, my party, my friends, and our pocketbooks. I stand by my decisions. #abpoli #ableg #abteachers #abstrike #yeg #yyc

#Alberta Next Panel wasn't about polling Albertans. Polls already said we don't want an Alberta police force instead of the RCMP. We said we wanted the #CPP -not a APP. Already said we want to stay in #Canada. #Next was expensive propaganda to shove fringe #UCP ideas down our throat.

1/8 🇨🇦 ALBERTA PRIVATE SCHOOLS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AS STRIKE CONTINUES 🇨🇦 As the province-wide teachers' strike enters its 2nd week, the contentious issue of #PublicFunding for #PrivateSchools has been thrust into the spotlight, a new opinion piece argues. Red Deer Advocate #AbLeg #AbEd #ATAstrike

Incredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social. Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-... The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually. By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought. Learn more on #IndigenousPeoplesDay: https://scim.ag/3KGvYBs

We are so close to our goal. Please, look up your closest petition signing location on this website and take a minute to add your name to the list of proud Canadians. Our #ForeverCanadian volunteers are at 68 locations across Alberta. Find them here: www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Bruce “Spanky” McAllister shut down a students mic during the “Alberta Next” panel so that young man couldn’t get his message across… Well… Evan’s back. AND he brought friends for a panel discussion on Alberta Education! #abpoli #cdnpoli #abed www.youtube.com/live/ReKD6Mn...

We're so screwed. "Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications."

Alberta high school students organizing a free tutoring service for other high school students is peak activism. Please share far and wide. Many students can benefit from this. And think of the solidarity, community building, and friendship creating opportunities.

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much. This is literally what happened before rezoning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin. 4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short 4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China 5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market The whale’s profit: $192 million

For the 2nd year in a row I am doing the Thanksgiving dinner for the extended fam. Last year I killed it, this year I expect some sort of calamity.

Jets/Broncos giving London fans a real punting showcase this morning.

Am I the only one thinking Sonya Sharp & Communities First want to have it both ways on rezoning? Or, as with the billion dollar arena deal, are they just hoping nobody will notice? #yyc #yyccc #calgaryelection #calgaryvotes

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

just don't feel like seeing Tron. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Just finished Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me. I found his writing since I enjoy noir but it is different. Cranks the darkness up. Visceral and will stay with me. And 70 years later a reminder that our nostalgic Kodachrome vision of the 50s doesn’t capture the full picture art at the time.

Wow, there it is. COUNCILLOR MIAN: “there were many of us around the table who struggled with the arena decision, right? We were like: This is a huge decision. It's a lot of money. And it was largely led by the Communities First folks.”

Dave Coverly

On Oct. 11, 1979, the first episode of the revival of The Littlest Hobo debuted on CTV. Based off a 1958 movie and 1960s TV show, it aired for six seasons and 114 episodes. With its famous theme song, it is beloved by generations of Canadians. This is the story. 🧵 1/11

In which I debunk some very common (and popular) myths about renewable energy and the energy transition. Warning: It's long, pedantic, and full of charts. open.substack.com/pub/maxfawce...

She wants a fight with Ottawa, not a pipeline. And she’ll do almost anything — including damaging the prospects of a new pipeline — to make it happen.

How long has this been going on you ask? February 10, 2020 "The cuts come at a time when school boards are also dealing with 13,000 additional students. The ATA said it breaks down to $441 less per student." globalnews.ca/news/6533781...

Alberta separatist lawyer reprimanded for second time in four months @matthewblack.ca edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

It is weird to live in a time when the people I know who tend to speak the loudest and most often about how companies always seem to be ripping them off or do a bad job will turn around and say sincerely that governments should be run more like companies.

It is interesting to see ICE protestors are wearing inflatables because it sure sends a message if they are strong armed but I also genuinely wonder if they lessen the impact when pepper balls are being used on them?

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around #Antarctica Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

I believe it is likely some UCP donor got a sole sourced contract to provide this shoddy mess based solely on how they have handed out contracts in the past.

So I know a teacher who subs for the CBE and they told me in a homeroom at a Calgary high school there wasn’t enough desks for all the kids. So even if this is true - and I sure would like to see this research - I think kids should get to sit down in the morning.

Alberta’s teachers are on strike. Each passing day is another day the government refuses to fund classrooms properly.

Exactly. They caused the problem by underfunding, and siphoning billions to private/charter schools. 4 billion since 2019.

👀 Breaking the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red Deer. daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.

Striking Alberta teachers, province to resume bargaining talks Tuesday NEWS from me today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

pressprogress.ca/how-developm... Beware who you vote for in Edmonton. Cartmell = UCP

The Alberta Medicial Association is raising the alarm on the disintegration of healthcare into silos that will only create barriers for patients. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli