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Newsom reacts to Kilmeade’s cold-hearted comments👇🏽

Do all opinions need to be given a fair hearing by the Premier?

The fine folks @pembina.org have done the math on the toll of Alberta's UCP government's open war on clean power. Essentially an entire provincial grid's worth of emissions-free energy projects have been cancelled. Spectacular own goal, well done, Danielle Smith and team!

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

Wow. That's bonafide courage. The Carney government is offside from the vast majority of Canadians here. It's time to reverse course here and respect the right to strike.

"Dr. James Talbot, the province's former chief medical officer of health, said the government appears to be doing everything it can to make this year's immunization campaign a "failure" by making it less available, less accessible and less affordable." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it

Great overview of the stakes of the zero-emission vehicle targets set out by Ottawa. I think the mandate is probably dead man walking. Another related issue is whether the tariffs on Chinese EVs remain in place. A broader question of industrial policy and canola tariffs vs affordable EVs.

Most Canadians Side with Flight Attendants in Dispute with Air Canada - @davidcoletto.bsky.social abacusdata.ca/most-canadia...

Even Fox News is reporting Trump is weak and Putin steamrolled him. Scary. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

Important new report from Pembina Institute that gets into the details of how employment trends in the oil industry have fundamentally changed, production growth doesn't mean jobs in the way it did during the previous boom/busts and decarbonization isnt a job driver. www.pembina.org/pub/drilling...

Been off social media for awhile, this made it worthwhile to return.

The fix is in for gerrymandering the Lethbridge West constituency out of existence. They can’t win it fair and square so now they’ll cheat. It’s highly unusual for a member of cabinet to intervene in an electoral boundaries process. open.substack.com/pub/davebert...

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Orban is a stone-cold anti-Semite, racist and has mobilized the power of the state to quash opposition, dissent and independent media. So it tracks that Smith is watching what he’s up to on immigration, I guess

No deal on tariffs Withdraws digital services tax Massive spending on defence Massive public sector cuts and layoffs Cuts funding to CBC and VIA Rail Not sure this was the mandate voters thought they were giving Mark Carney

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Hey Alberta! Remember when I said I wouldn't campaign on sovereignty act, provincial police force, and a pension plan? I lied. Seeing a pattern here? I don't have a mandate on these policies but that won't stop me from pushing ahead with them. #abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption

Once again, if 🇪🇺 or 🇨🇦 or 🇯🇵 or anyone else were serious about relocating American scholars & seizing scientific leadership from an 🇺🇸 stabbing itself for no reason, they would be spending orders of magnitude more than they are now on making that happen.

it’s worth making this more explicit: The NYT is suggesting Zohran lied by checking off both “Asian” & “African”, because (in their view) someone of Indian descent born & raised in Africa isn’t “truly” African. Which was also how Idi Amin justified expelling Zohran’s father & thousands of others.

We know why.

NEW EP: Episode 1877: Zombie Files @carterab.bsky.social  and @sphillipsab.bsky.social  tackle the issues that just won't die. Download, subscribe where podcasts are found.

In 2009, ADL said cartoonist Gary Trudeau referencing Jesus and the moneylenders was antisemitic, noting: "To speak of money-lenders harkens back the stereotype of Shylock, when Jews were forced by Christians to engage in usury.” So, in 2009, ADL believed Shylock was self-evidently antisemitic.

B.C. will be the engine of the new Canadian economy powered by clean and affordable electricity delivered by BC Hydro. ⚡️

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

The Government has settled a couple of the lawsuits from coal companies. We still don't know for how much. We don't know how much the UCP utter incompetence on this coal file will cost us, tax paying Albertans. So Premier, how much is the bill for your failure?

“At a meeting with constituents in 2019, Mandami told a 3-year old that Mandami had gotten the toddler’s nose. The real story was it was just Mandami’s thumb in his hand” - The NYT, probably

He said MASS DEPORTATION NOW but I didn't think he meant that there was going to be a mass deportation now.

Elbows down, I guess.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened to The Mainstream Media (tm) had they engaged the comment section, the trolls, the terminally online like this…15 years ago. It’s possible the business model, and public trust, would be in much better shape. Couldn’t be worse, come to think of it.

Paula does a great job here of explaining what progressive-minded Canadians need to know about Bill C-5.

Local arsonist expresses surprise that so many people are calling the fire department.

Yesterday, I heard @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social on Bulwark Takes w/Tim Miller flag concerns with conditions in ICE detention. Today, a Canadian citizen is dead in ICE detention. Canada needs to demand full accountability for the death of one of our citizens. 🇨🇦 Elbows up should mean something.

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Should we have an ICE-North? The provincial government would like to ask your opinion on this.

Why in the hell is Trevor Tombe attaching himself to this?

You’ve got to respect the hustle and it’s so, so great to see a campaign that has inspired people and got them excited about progressive politics.

What she said. #abpoli

In the 2023 election, Danielle Smith declared that "under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out of pocket for access to their family doctor or to get the medical treatment that they need." Starting soon, Albertans will have to pay for COVID shots. pressprogress.ca/alberta-will...

It is good to see Christian people doing Christian things.

🏗️Canada is in a nation-building moment — fast-tracking homes & infrastructure. But are we building with the future in mind? Lower-carbon concrete exists, but familiarity for workers and the building sector is key. Let’s bridge the knowledge gap & build smarter. www.pembina.org/blog/bridgin...

How in the heavenly stars is anyone supposed to make a HOUSING INVESTMENT DECISION under these conditions? So if I’m a builder/developer already worried about tariffs & supply chain disruption I can add political instability to my risk? Yeah no thanks.

Well teachers *aren’t* doing any of that, so there’s no problem here. As a parent I’m also not enthusiastic about *the government* torquing the curriculum, politicizing education about the human body and how it works, or blocking access to health care for some kids…All based on internet lies.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

As far as the “clueless Americans go on safari to find right wing Albertans to caricature” genre of reporting goes, this piece is mostly-ok. I have some notes, mostly just such credulous stenography of the usual bad-faith far-right suspects.

Some really good reading here. Check it out and give it a follow!

John Smith, who co-owns a cattle ranch between Nanton and the Rockies with his wife Laura Liang, said “to use the little bit of good, clean water we’ve got and make it dirty with coal mining is an extremely bad idea.”