👀 "Anesthesiologists in Calgary are being scheduled by senior Alberta health managers, in response to government directives, to work in CSFs, sometimes against their will."

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Tracing one warm line Through a space so wide and savage

Flip the parties, but this playbook sounds familiar.

I kinda think Canada should proudly claim the Battlestar Galactaca approach to AI.

Premier Smith's Chief of Staff, Rob Anderson, would be OUTRAGED teachers were stripped of their freedom of expression... if he wasn't a huge hypocrite. "How dare we think we can do that? What kind of society do we think we live in?" #ableg #abpoli

Premier Smith is lying that she was not aware what theTrudeau government’s plan were on immigration and was surprised by the numbers because here is a letter she wrote to the PM asking to increase Alberta’s allocation of immigrants in 2024. www.alberta.ca/system/files...

"I learned actual facts from David Staples" is about the biggest self-own I can think of.

UCP members vote in committee to replace auditor general Doug Wylie, forcing rush to complete health procurement report. He isn't sure he can finish before a newbie takes over. Column calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #UCP

The year is 2028. The AFL sues The NDP government for some nebulous reason. The NDP government settles by paying AFL $15 million out of court. Doesn't explain why. Everyone moves on. Really?

Whoever wrote Smith's bio for the Abu Dhabi conference...

Latest from @matthewblack.ca — The Alberta government has missed a deadline from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) to release access to information requests that include the results of the province’s Alberta Next surveys. #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

It was a bit politically short-sighted to piss off high school students who will be voting in the next provincial election.

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

You're not supposed to email it out if its Protected A!!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

The press release from @asilvalining.bsky.social that started it all, 18 Nov 2019.

Well that came really full circle for me.

As the Premier goes to meet with Saudi Arabia to talk oil, remember it wasn't all that long ago the UCP government ran these ads about Saudi oil:

As a political leader, having to book a visit with a foreign oil company a whole year in advance is a sign of weakness.

"Fellow honourary members, I rise today to introduce to the House an Act to Amend the Succession to the Canadian Crown..." (This is a joke)

I see the problem, Alberta teachers didn't have a "DONT TREAD ON ME" Gadsden flag in their classrooms like Premier Danielle Smith does. /s Hypocrite. #ableg #abpoli

Anyone else catch his "well classroom problems are caused by immigrants coming from *outside* Canada, not immigrants from *inside* Canada"? (I am paraphrasing)

Mark my words: one day, the UCP opposition will heckle the NDP government for raising teacher raises simply so they can overcome the "loss of rights" premium teachers now charge for working in Alberta.

In 2004, Klein knew it was a problem. In 2019 we knew it was a problem. The only reason they say they didn't know is because they didn't care to measure.

BOLO for these stolen bikes.

AMA Section of Pediatrics sent a letter to Minister of Education Nicolaides outlining concerns with the growing gap between children's needs in our classrooms and available classroom resources. www.albertadoctors.org/news/news/in...

I am aware of all the reasons why the federal disallowance power can't/shouldn't be used. Still, I kinda hope its on the table...

Lagassé and MacDonnell: Constitutional hardball doesn’t always pay off | Ottawa Citizen share.google/VY22wFD3WYSG...

Oh wow. Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.

If only someone could have predicted... www.facebook.com/share/v/1CwT...

"Well I am sure the empires are tired too" "Well they weren't that great when they weren't tired"

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights? An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote. I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

Listen up, Gumshoes, some rights have been pilfered in the Canadian Province of Alberta and the crafty culprit has hightailed it to one of her frequented hide-aways somewhere in the world...

Good point.

Now I am wondering if the NWC shields a challenge as to whether a statutory punishment is unreasonable?

It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.

Just so we are clear: after Thursday, when you cross the provincial border into Alberta, you will have fewer Charter rights than any other Canadian.

As education dominates QP in #ableg, my story of overcrowded schools, last year in music, kids only got to use instruments for half the year, the other half of the year they used their bodies as instruments because there were not enough musical instruments for the kids to learn year-round.

This is a beautiful new locker room at St Pius in Kansas City. They are a private religious school that accepts taxpayer vouchers for partial tuition. Anyway, the kids at the public school down the road from me learn to run track when they go to track meets — they don’t have a track of their own.

As the Teacher’s strike continues don’t forget the Province was budgeting a below inflation 13.2% increase in public school funding by 2027/2028 while Private schools is funding set to increase by 30% in that time. They ain’t governing for all of us folks. www.theprogressreport.ca/budget-2025-...

But Alberta can't pay the teachers... right. The Alberta government broke this process too and it's costing us $95M to say sorry to coal developers. Coal! Add this to the other one they had to settle too.

Demetrios passing the buck? So much for the principle of Cabinet Solidarity.

We may find out soon if school administrators really do share camaraderie and solidarity with their @albertateachers.bsky.social union kin, or will cave to being agents of the employer, pressuring teachers to cheat on work-to-rule.

We took all the time to hand-count each vallit because it was ostensibly more trustworthy only to recount-by-hand because we don't trust it? The same hand recount that could also be done with tabulators?

The Alberta School Councils’ Association asks for sustainable solutions. "Any mediation framework that limits discussion of classroom realities - such as class size, complexity, & supports - cannot lead to a lasting or fair resolution.” 💯 #abpoli #ableg www.albertaschoolcouncils.ca/about/news/p...

So TBA failed to get a single school board trustee elected, municipal parties largely were a flop and the UCPs first choice for mayor lost? Not terrible.

Guess my kids can feel a little better about their signed Hoffman baseballs.

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series. For the first time since 1993. Game 1 is Friday night, 8pm ET, in Toronto.