Adrienne Tanner
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Freelance writer and columnist at Canada's National Observer, dog person, art lover, book fan
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Patrick Monahan
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DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend
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The implications of articles being written by A.I. and published by otherwise seemingly reputable sources are very serious. In this case the Deep Sea Mining industry is benefiting. Is it a mistake by A.I. noobs or is it done intentionally?
@parismarx.com
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
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The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost themselves.https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/04/opinion/alberta-solar-panels-fee-renewables-smith
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Alberta still doesn’t want to stick it where the sun shines
The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost thems...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/04/opinion/alberta-solar-panels-fee-renewables-smith
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How shortsighted is Alberta? The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost themselves.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/04/o...
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Alberta still doesn’t want to stick it where the sun shines
The fossil fuel capital of Canada is so loyal to oil and so myopic about the future, it is doing everything it can to deter solar installation, even for residents willing to foot the entire cost thems...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/04/opinion/alberta-solar-panels-fee-renewables-smith
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Gen Gerson told Elections Alberta about the voters list leak a month ago. They dismissed her complaint. They have some explaining to do, seems like!
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SCOOP: Jen Gerson: Elections Alberta's massive failure could have put people in danger. I tried to warn them.
The most unhinged people in the province may now have access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and there's nothing we can do about it
https://open.substack.com/pub/theline/p/scoop-jen-gerson-elections-albertas?utm_source=direct
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Update: RCMP now probing Alberta separatist group accused of illegal use of voters’ private information
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/n...
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Secret voter list sparks court crackdown and RCMP investigation into Alberta separatist app
Elections Alberta has obtained a temporary injunction against a separatist organization and political party for an app that allegedly built a database of voters drawn from the province’s list of elect...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/news/secret-voter-list-sparks-court-crackdown-rcmp-investigation-alberta-separatist-app
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just when you thought Alberta separatism efforts couldn't get any whackier.... This!
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Secret voter list sparks court crackdown against Alberta separatist app
Elections Alberta has obtained a temporary injunction against a separatist organization and political party for an app that allegedly built a database of voters drawn from the province’s list of elect...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/news/secret-voter-list-sparks-court-crackdown-against-alberta-separatist-app
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦
10 days ago
If you're looking for a place to practice medicine where: • you are valued and respected • you don't have to talk to a single insurance company • an entire community stands ready to support whatever you need... Hi. We're
#Nanaimo
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV75...
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Supporting Today’s Needs. Creating Tomorrow’s Healthcare.
Behind every patient is a healthcare worker who chose to be here. Across our region, more medical staff are making the move to Central and North Vancouver Island, bringing their skills, compassion,…
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David Ho
10 days ago
Sound on for this video. While on our bikes,
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Bruce Arthur
11 days ago
When people show you who they are, believe them
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15 days ago
Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India
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MeidasTouch
15 days ago
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.
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Good summary of a complicated issue here
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | How DRIPA drove the B.C. government to a crisis point | CBC News
When governments sign a document committing to obtain the free and informed consent of Indigenous peoples before approving projects affecting their lands or resources, do they mean it? That is the qu...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-dripa-crisis-point-9.7175559
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Buying a private jet is a let-them-eat-cake kind of move a Premier makes when he feels invincible. My take on Doug Ford's private plane purchase for
@nationalobserver.com
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/23/o...
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Hubris will be Doug Ford's undoing
In his “sorry, not sorry” apology for buying a private jet, Ontario's premier whined about the backlash he should have seen coming.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/23/opinion/hubris-private-jet-doug-ford-premier
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MatterMote
22 days ago
Lutnick on Canada: "They suck" Anyway, here's a picture of Howard Lutnick hanging out on Epstein Island with Jeff and the boys.
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Sorry, not sorry
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Canada's National Observer
20 days ago
Watching the US circle the drain in the hands of a corrupt egomaniac has struck fear in our hearts, and lowered the palatability bar,
@adriennetanner.bsky.social
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The left is cheering for leaders they don’t really believe in
It is strange to see progressive voters rooting so wholeheartedly for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Hungary's Péter Magyar, leaders who, let’s face it, lean pretty heavily to the right.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/opinion/left-leaders-carney-orban-magyar-conservative
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My big question on this one is where weee his bellwether advisors? Such obviously bad optics.
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Catherine McKenna
25 days ago
If oil prices remain at current levels for the next 12 months, the Canadian oil industry is on track to make $90bn in profits, which is $60bn more than it would have earned without the war...Applying 15% rate on excess profits of oil industry could generate $9 billion over the next 12 months. ⬇️
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Max Fawcett
27 days ago
Memo to the federalist forces in Alberta: stop fucking around and start fighting.
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/o...
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The pro-Canada forces need to fight like their country depends on it
It's easy to dismiss the Alberta separatist movement as a bunch of poorly-informed malcontents who are motivated by some combination of fear, anger and selfishness. Just remember: they said the same t...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/opinion/alberta-separatism-canada-response
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦
27 days ago
“
#Trump
at some level knows he’s failing politically, cognitively and physically and wants to take it all down with him, the way that ancient rulers were buried with their slaughtered horses and servants.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction?CMP=share_btn_url
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Aunt Hagatha
29 days ago
Rare image of a stork delivering a baby!
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦
30 days ago
Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!
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Jay Willis
about 1 month ago
Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.
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Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That
The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/alabama-supreme-court-jennings-v-smith/
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Larry Neufeld
about 1 month ago
Canada and Mexico must work together to help Cuba survive its dire humanitarian crisis
theconversation.com/canada-and-m...
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Canada and Mexico must work together to help Cuba survive its dire humanitarian crisis
Collaborating on providing aid to Cuba in its time of need could serve as a strong foundation for improving Canadian-Mexican relations.
https://theconversation.com/canada-and-mexico-must-work-together-to-help-cuba-survive-its-dire-humanitarian-crisis-279542?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Canada's National Observer
about 1 month ago
Doug Ford's latest attempt to crush the efforts of Ontario cities to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/09/o...
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Doug Ford's dirty new housing law
Ford’s proposed new legislation will eliminate the requirement for cities to set greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution reduction goals and could even remove existing tools they have to promote green building.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/09/opinion/doug-ford-dirty-law-emissions-climate-housing
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Shawn Micallef
about 1 month ago
I've joked that Carney has taken so much of Poilievre's platform that he's only left with cutlure war issues. With Gladu, Carney has brought a culture warrior into the tent. 🤷♂️
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I mean, who hasn’t teleported? Batshit crazy. No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Alberta government doesn't think an impact assessment is needed for Kevin O'Leary's monster data centre even though it will use about 24 million cubic meters of water annually — roughly 460,000 people's lifetime consumption.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...
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Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre
Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Obse...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/news/alberta-scraps-environmental-assessment-kevin-olearys-worlds-largest-data-centre
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I’ve seen fake lashes like this and they’re kind of horrifying. These are real!
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Eva Holland
about 1 month ago
Exciting news in Canadian media: widely beloved editor Alison Uncles is leading a new nonprofit outlet focused on solutions journalism! Be Giant went live today:
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Our Mission & Team
Be Giant is a Canadian editorial platform dedicated to ambitious, high-quality journalism about the people, places, and ideas shaping the country's future.
https://www.begiant.ca/about
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Don’t read too much into the Western NDP premiers’ disapproval of Avi Lewis. His ambition to shift the party in a left/green direction is precisely why he won the leadership race.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/02/o...
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Avi Lewis is the political conscience we need right now
It would be a mistake to assume the disapproval of provincial NDP in the West is a sign that Lewis will not be able to breathe new life into the moribund party.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/02/opinion/avi-lewis-ndp-leader
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Canada's National Observer
about 1 month ago
We have lost a giant, and a hero to countless social justice activists across Canada and around the world,
@sethdklein.bsky.social
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Farewell to one of Canada’s greatest social justice champions
Stephen Lewis was a movement leader, a brilliant orator, one of Canada's most consequential UN ambassadors and a driver of change for HIV/AIDS patients.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/31/opinion/farewell-social-justice-champion-stephen-lewis
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
One of the Canadian politicians to watch is Manitoba Premiere Wab Kinew. Pulling no punches in talking about “the Epstein class.” (For the USians/others about as: this is probably the most popular Canadian politician besides Mark Carney.)
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
about 1 month ago
Rubio discovers the concept of misplaced priorities.
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Canada's National Observer
about 1 month ago
The latest environmental threat comes from Big Tech, which has come knocking with proposals for more than 40 data centres throughout the province. But Alberta does not have a great track record of standing up to corporations with harmful pitches, writes
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It would be nice if Alberta did the right thing
There may be some suitable Alberta data centre locations, but the proposals to build in drought-prone areas seem far too risky
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/26/opinion/alberta-data-centres-ai-water-scarcity
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Building data centres in drought-prone areas is a terrible idea. They use a lot of water to cool equipment. Alberta has some tough choices ahead. Will they do the right thing?
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It would be nice if Alberta did the right thing
There may be some suitable Alberta data centre locations, but the proposals to build in drought-prone areas seem far too risky
https://tinyurl.com/2s3ad74b
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Max Fawcett
about 2 months ago
Jesus:
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We must stay out of Iran. The last thing Canada needs now is its troops engaged in a war halfway around the world that might not even depose the religious despots currently ruling Iran.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/18/o...
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It's your war, President Trump. Leave us out of it
If Prime Minister Mark Carney is asked to join the war on Iran or the Hormuz protection brigade, Canada should follow Germany’s lead and respond with a hard no.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/18/opinion/iran-war-trump-carney-hormuz
about 2 months ago
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
My column this week speaks to this point that Trump is plainly incapable in acting in a way that isn’t self-destructive. (gift link)
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Opinion | The Alternate Universe of Donald J. Trump
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Rebecca Bollwitt
about 2 months ago
We NEED free, accessible, public events and Car Free Days connect many neighbourhoods, community groups, charities, artists, makers, vendors. This would have been such a loss: Thanks to
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Cloe Logan
about 2 months ago
CivicSearchlight is now available for free for everyone, built by the amazing
@rorywh.bsky.social
for
@nationalobserver.com
. It allows you to search municipal meetings across the country with keywords, and is really helpful for understanding how a topic has moved through time and jurisdictions. ❗☺️❗
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Civic Searchlight is now free to use
You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/09/news/civic-searchlight-now-free-use
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It's amazing anyone runs for office. The biggest sacrifice aspiring politicians make in this social media age is the incessant nasty trolling from people with differing political views.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/11/o...
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We're lucky good people still choose brutal politics
The biggest sacrifice aspiring politicians make in this age of social media is the loss of privacy — or even worse, the incessant nasty trolling from people with differing political views.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/11/opinion/frances-bula-vancouver-city-council-politics-harassment
about 2 months ago
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Tim Board
2 months ago
Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?
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Andrea Woo
2 months ago
Within this story from
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and
@jenstden.bsky.social
: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
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COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee
Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/05/COPE-Councillor-Mayor-False-Drug-Accusations/
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Canada's National Observer
2 months ago
Politicians like Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou who spread lies about a colleague for political gain undermine trust in our political system. They don't deserve our respect or votes,
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Vancouver deserves better than Sim’s lies
The readiness of Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou to slander a colleague is far worse than any harebrained policy they might propose or past controversial decisions they have made.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/opinion/politicians-lie-disinformation-sim-drugs
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The Tennessee Holler
2 months ago
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
2 months ago
I've been told that Ken Sim told his team that a stranger waived a physical photo at him during a Chinatown event and falsely claimed that it was Orr dealing drugs on Christmas Day. The mayor doesn't remember the specific contents or style of the photo, and can't remember who showed it to him.
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shauna
2 months ago
yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from
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