Edmonton has had a disturbingly high number of frostbite amputations the last two winters. With freezing temps on the way, both the City and the Government of Alberta must do more to prevent people from freezing in the cold. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #yegcc

Equally applicable to here in Edmonton where conservative and "progressive" councillors alike, parrot the exact same lines around "safety concerns" when what they are really talking about is visible poverty, but villainising the poor is a longstanding tradition in Edmonton City Hall.

It was stupid when the UK government accused them of being terrorists, which was then withdrawn, it's even more stupid now that Canada is doing the exact same thing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Continuing the long tradition of using the NWC for garbage policies like preventing marriage equality, compensation for victims of the Alberta eugenics program, and so on, it should be an indication that the policy is, in fact, bad. Shocking I know #abpoli

Almost like the government put no thought at all into the potential knock-on effects of passing a deliberately vague and generalised ministerial order in July, whoever could have possibly anticipated that? Certainly not the government 🤔 #abpoli

If you are uncomfortable with your child reading certain books, the answer is to have a level conversation with them about what you do or do not want them to be reading, not prohibiting everyone else from reading because you are incapable of parenting properly. #abpoli oop- who said that? 👀

Agree with Wab on all points. "The premier said he would instead like to see the federal government remove tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles so that country would drop its duties on canola, "if we're in the business of removing tariffs." " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ahh yes because America has shown that it's adhering to reason and interested in mutual partnership? You'd think we would have learned from history that appeasement doesn't work on megalomaniac dictators, but apparently, we haven't. #cdnpoli

I'm not sure that overt gerrymandering is as tolerated by the Albertan public as the UCP seems to think it is, but then they haven't got the best track record of having their finger on the pulse of much of anything lately. #abpoli

I'm donating to two Palestinian♀️in #Edmonton with families displaced in #Gaza. The goal: $10,000/month in recurring donations, to help 100s of people, currently scattered through Deir Al Balah, Gaza City, Jabalya, & Khan Younis / Al-Mawasi. Details here: chuffed.org/project/yegf...

Canada making demilitarisation a condition of recognising Palestine while it is literally IN THE PROCESS OF BEING INVADED BY ISRAEL is so utterly stupid, and so on-brand. We actually can recognise Palestine without conditions that are clearly unreasonable, given the circumstances.

If, after the last four years, you are running for city council or mayor in Edmonton and still propose doubling down on camp clearances and increasing police presence as a solution to the crisis on our streets, then I have serious concerns about your competence and critical thinking skills.

I really don't understand all the nonsense arguments against the potential for another doctors' strike here in the UK, when we know that even with the 20% pay increase from the last strike, doctors still have lower real wages than in 2008.

🧵Last year @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I extracted public data on 35,828 research projects funded by eight SSHRC programs to debunk the Alberta govt's claim that federal funding agencies favor “left-wing” or “progressive” disciplines. We now take one step further to analyze the data.

Fot those concerned about housing affordability, here’s information on the goal post shifting from 35% of income to 50%. 50% of your monthly income to pay for your mortgage (or rent even) is dangerous and unsustainable.

87 people died from drug poisoning in Edmonton in March, an all time record, but who cares! The real problem is obviously school library books 🙄 #abpoli

While the gov't has begun to pursue a program of federal program spending reductions up to 15% by FY 2028-29 it's continuing to be clear that Canada (at all levels of government) is disinterested in doing much of anything to remedy a crisis which continues to spiral out of control. #cdnpoli #abpoli

🌿 Phase 2 of the GoA's Engagement on its Plan for Parks is OPEN for comment until July 26th. Nearly 5,000 Albertans completed the first phase, and so much of your feedback is now in the draft plan. 📝 Get started with our survey guide (with @cpawssab.bsky.social) : cpawsnab.org/wp-content/u...

I'll be sad to miss this by just a couple weeks before I'm back in town, but I'm sure it's going to be a fun time! Check it out if you are in the area on Aug 30th! #yeg

I don't know why the government has made this decision, there's no indication that this will somehow guarantee good faith bargaining with the US, and a 3% tax on profits over 20 million is hardly a big ask from tech megacompanies. This is a bad choice #cdnpoli

At no point in the last 16 years have I ever thought "gee, what's really missing from the #yeg core is a Katz-owned event park, that would really turn everything around". Not once. Ever. #yegcc #abpoli

Updated satellite imagery means I can finally update my pet project tracking unoccupied urban space, derelictions, and surface parking lots in inner-city Edmonton! 🟠= Surface parking 🔵= Empty lots ⚫= Derelict properties 🟡= Redevelopments! (reflections and caveats below) #abpoli #yegcc

Congratulations @naheednenshi.bsky.social and @gurtejsinghbraryeg.bsky.social on your elections yesterday! 🧡

As usual, the programs on the choppping block are predominantly related to history, language, and culture. As governments across the UK adopt harsher stances to int students, the programs above are ironically often the first to go. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

I can't say I'm surprised, though it is astonishing how the UCP still pursues bad ideas like these despite their own surveys showing Albertans don't support them. #abpoli

Hear hear! Selinium leaching into waterways presents major threats to the health of communities and environments which rely on watersheads in the Rocky Mountains across the prairies. I hope the government takes this seriously! #cdnpoli

Making the best of a bad situation riddled with lawsuits.... by going ahead with a widely opposed project 🧐 I'm searching for sense and yet there's none to be found #abpoli #AbLeg

No matter which side of the Atlantic I'm on, I can't seem to escape universities whose administrations cut jobs while handing themselves juicy pay raises. Apprently keeping executive pay up with "market benchmarking" is more important that 200 jobs. 🫠 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm getting flashbacks to the UCP's rhetoric around post secondary, something about wanting young people to sell used cars? They've got strange fixations 😂 But for real, if the premier genuinely believes this, the UCP has no interest in meaningfully dealing with unemployment. #abpoli

The upcoming by-elections would be a good opportunity to change this, if the party is serious about winning the next election then people do need a clear idea of where the party stands, and what sort of vision it wants to bring going forward. #abpoli #AbLeg

The association of "lack of safety" with Immigration and asylum seekers is gross, and codifying anti-immigrant and anti-asylum rhetoric is in fact, not good. And neither is expanding the capacity for law enforcement to surveil vulnerable communities under the guise of "public interest" #cdnpoli

It definitely feels like the party has lost quite a lot of momentum in the time since the leadership race, and I'm not sure it's really internalised many (or any) of the reflections we've had on the recent elections in Alberta; it's felt a bit rudderless as of late. 🧵 #abpoli #AbLeg

NEW Janet Brown/CBC poll: 28% of Albertans would vote to separate, 67% would vote no. *Number of ppl who feel Alberta would be better off separate hasn't risen in since 2020, but feeling has intensified. *More Albertans feeling attachment to Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The UCP is just an amalgam of the fiscal corruption of the PC's and the unhinged social phobias of the Wildrose party, because they have nothing else going for them, they don't want to govern, they want control and money. #abpoli #AbLeg calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

Delton is fully residential, the bike lanes do not in amy way involve provincial funding, it's not "decreasing critical vehicle acces" and a lot more people than "military age males" use bike lanes. This is so inane it's quite astonishing really. #yegcc

Fixing healthcare in 90 days amirite 🤪 #abpoli #ableg

As per usual, it's less about vibrancy, and more about protecting business profit margins. If the goal is increasing property values in perpetuity, then a downtown that is meaningfully affordable isn't ever going to be realistically achievable, but then again that's clearly not the goal here.

Criminalizing the unhoused for being unhoused acomplishes nothing beyond inflicting harm on marginalized communities and re-asserting discrimination based on housing status. But of course, that's the point of these policies right? Looking at you Edmonton 👀 #abpoli

I am again begging people to understand that "that's illegal!" only matters if somebody does something about it. This includes "that's unconstitutional!" Turns out that these things are all agreements, not immutable laws of the universe.

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Rhododendrons and little lambs from my walk today!

In a shocking twist to nobody except maybe the UCP (who seem to not care what the public thinks) Alberta *still* doesn't like their bad ideas, including independence. Will this get them to stop pursuing it? No. But it's reassuring that we remain opposed to their plans. #abpoli

What Robin said.

Some particularly lovely views from a walk I took yesterday 😌

Two major elections, with two major Conservative losses who were widely expected to win up until recently, both losing those elections, and losing their leader's seats??? In this economy??? 😮

Siri, play "Save This House" by Spirit of the West please. #abpoli globalnews.ca/news/1116187...

Every time I think that there couldn't possibly any new chapters remaining in this particularly egregious episode of corruption, the UCP always surprises me! 😂 #abpoli

In other words, our premier has only just noticed that this is an extremely unpopular idea, which she would have grasped if she'd paid any attention to the mountains of polling showing Albertans being very against this from. The. Beginning. #abpoli globalnews.ca/news/1115959...

The only riding in the entire province where the Liberals would have been pushed from 2nd to 1st place if all of the NDP votes were added to it was Calgary-McKnight. The Conservatives won majority support in every single other riding. #cdnpoli

Her latest bill is nothing less than a blatant attempt at disenfranchising unhoused Albertans and Indigenous communities, and forcing us into referendums no one asked for. In fact no one asked for any of this, which is very on-brand for the UCP. #abpoli #cdnpoli