THIS

The UCP has been in power for 51 of the last 55 years but according to Danielle Smith it's the family who arrived six months ago that is wrecking the province.

I re-read Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: on the banality of evil last spring/summer. It’s useful and helpful to remember that Eichmann’s job was head of deportations.

In 2024, Danielle Smith wrote a letter to Justin Trudeau to complain that they didn't get *more* immigrants than their planned allotment. (She also wanted more Ukrainians specifically, and we all know why). Receipts:

Listen to Max, folks. He speaks reason.

LMAO @albertandp.ca (the comment)! (Smith probably has a team USA jersey on underneath that.)

I do, in fact, remember the day when WTI sank to $28/barrel, we had a Treasury Board meeting that day, we were dealing with the upcoming Budget. I also remember the clear direction from Rachel Notley: we will not make Albertans suffer for the oil price roller coaster. And we didn’t.

So Basically the King is doing No Kings better than the Americans.

Hi @davidcoletto.bsky.social -- why did you choose these countries as a comparison for Canada rather than, I don't know, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?

One of my favorites, too!

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

Greatness isn’t built by breaking apart — it’s built by working together. We know better than to walk away. Our place will always be on Team Canada. 🇨🇦 youtu.be/Kr4V2A8-7Zg

My friends and I are already planning a trip to Minneapolis once the government changes and a process of truth and reconciliation has begun in America. Us Canadians will be staying away until that time. It’s scary, risky and we will not support the regime with our travel dollars. 🇨🇦

People in Lethbridge are literally the reason that Lethbridge can’t have nice things

Fascinating stuff 👇

Everything is local, and context is crucial. Journalism’s great contribution to liberal democracy is story for the purpose understanding: through facts, history and relationships. During a time of tragedy and grief, facts and history can help anchor us to our shared humanity.

The @lethbridgepolice.bsky.social Chief could follow Regina Chief: “We know we have much work to do to regain your trust …we are deeply committed to this work…When someone breaches our privacy policies, disregards their oath of office…it calls into question ethics& accountability of all members.”

Join @sphillipsab.bsky.social, Leah Ward and I for a new political podcast for people who know politics isn’t polite.

A new survey from Canada Pulse Insights finds 71% of Canadians agree with BC Premier David Eby that going to the U.S. to ask for help breaking up Canada is treason. That includes 56% of Albertans MORE: canadapulseinsights.com/post/treason...

Great job, Calgary! Giving people who don’t want to live next to “renters” because Renters Don’t Care About The Neighborhood (verbatim argument) the policy pen at Council is going very well. Congratulations to everyone involved in this royal cock-up

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Alberta is calling

The most ridiculous over reach in international diplomacy since Rudolf Hess crashed his plane in Scotland. This numptie needs a handler.

More of this please

I don't want any of this. I just want to be able to turn up and order a coffee from a person who is in a union and getting paid enough to live when I am out and about and want a coffee.

Thank you Max for raising this obvious fact

As I tell my students on a near daily basis, the most important terms in politics are inevitably contested, and finding the most useful definition depends on purpose and context.

Endless supply of care and feeding for traitors.

There are better names you could draw just from the Epstein files.

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

This seems even more scary on a day that was maximum scary. We knew the second Trump presidency would likely mean the end of the Republic but it was so difficult to imagine the future. Now we are in it. What will real resistance look like? That, too, I am having a hard time imagining.

If the Democrats were serious about meeting the moment every Senator and House leader would be in Minnesota this afternoon.

It is time for Canadian citizens of good conscience to start talking about divestment from a murderous regime. The reasons are obvious. Solidarity with Minneapolis. Respect for ourselves. 🇨🇦

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

The doddering old fool is just threatening us with a good time. A 100% tariff on our oil, potash and so many other goods and commodities tanks the American economy pretty well overnight.

Number of COVID-19 Shots Delivered in Alberta Drops By Half, Following $100 Fee and Other Restrictions “What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.” pressprogress.ca/number-of-co...

In my view it is not responsible for the left - in pursuit of attention at all cost - to do as algo-drunk conservatives do and promise things that are impossible/unconstitutional. Electricity is provincial jurisdiction. So is land use, with a few exceptions. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Make no mistake, America is coming for Alberta. This requires a response at the federal, provincial, and community level. Federally, the government must summon the ambassador for an explanation and, absent a complete retraction and apology, expel him. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I hope it's not lost on anyone that the exact same motherfuckers on the Canadian right who spent decades wielding the idea of Canadian Patriotism like a cudgel, talking about "real Canadians", accusing every opponent of "hating Canada", are now pivoting to a platform of literal treason

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

It is who you are.

Yesterday, @mark-carney.bsky.social may have given the most important speech of our era. Whether it proves to be so, however, depends on what happens next. If Canada is serious about charting a third way, it must act—notably in deploying to Greenland, and saying no to the "Board of Peace."

NEW EP 1903: The New World Order Starts Without Washington Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips dive into Carney’s China deal and a world where Washington can’t be trusted. What does it mean for auto workers, NATO, and sovereignty? Zain Velji hosts. 🎧https://apple.co/4ol8kJD #CdnPoli #ableg

Read it all

Quisling chart

Couple weeks back, Keir Starmer had to apologize for making a 6-7 reference at an elementary school.

It’s not a distraction. If it seems like far-right govts are very busy dismantling the world around you, it’s because all of those things are the Main Event. They want to do it all. It’s all their priority, not a massive circular distraction. There’s no conspiracy or marionette strings.

Honourable @evansolomon.bsky.social - my question to you is why isn't the GoC considering banning X considering the harm that platform is doing and the obvious We-Don't-Give-A-Shit attitude of its owner? Let's get this trending, people! #BanX #BanGrok