On ep84 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show ➡️ @srslywrong.bsky.social on why rent control's good, actually ➡️ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social on a Waffle-aligned takeover of the 1971 New Brunswick NDP ➡️ + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep84... 🔶

On ep82 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show we bury the NDP w/ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social + @robrousseau.bsky.social at @unrigged.bsky.social media's June 13 Progressive Publics conference in Calgary. www.spreaker.com/episode/ep82... 🔶

Asked about Ayn Rand being included on the EPSB list of books that would violate the age-appropriate rules by the province, Premier Smith suggests Ayn Rand should be mandatory reading in schools.

This was a great listen.

Time to consider a new/old socialism

We formed a new socialist party, that will make Alberta pay, for real this time

NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...

On ep80 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show ➡️ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social on the New Nationalism ➡️ @policyalternatives.ca + @frapru.bsky.social talk non-market solutions on HOUSING PARTY ➡️ @rachelcairns.bsky.social's ABORSH www.spreaker.com/episode/ep80...

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption. In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Canada’s new respirator standard (CSA Z94.4-25) is a major step forward in protecting healthcare workers — but it’s facing opposition. WHN strongly supports this science-based policy and urges others to submit a public comment before the August 19 deadline.

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾 the team trace a brief history of Canadian nationalisms, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project, in order to better understand the current moment of rising nationalist sentiment. albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/e... 🔶

More than half of the members of the public appointed to Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel are United Conservative Party donors, with their donations ranging from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars, reports @readtheorchard.org www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_next...

Prime Minister Carney: “Elbows? I don’t recall saying anything about Elbows. I said ‘I’ll bow.’”

Left nationalism. It didn’t work the first time, but if we try it again, it also won’t work

incredible things are happening in Alberta

NEW EP: Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For? albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/e...

Carney's government has announced a plan for huge cuts, introducing radical austerity exceeding Paul Martin's cuts in the 1990s. Check out our episode all about it: Killing the Welfare State: Liberals and the 1990s albertaadvantagepod.com/2020/07/13/k...

The Government of Saskatchewan is planning to extend coal-fired power generation past federal mandates to phase-out coal power by 2030. Click here to oppose it! win.newmode.net/saskatooncli...

LIVE at the unrigged.ca 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium 'The Precarious Petrostate: What Does the Future Hold for Alberta?' w/ Ricardo Acuna (Parkland Institute), Joe Vipond (Calgary Climate Hub), Lisa Young (University of Calgary) and Kim Siever (The Alberta Worker)

Live at Calgary’s Royal Canadian Legion @albertaadvantage.bsky.social welcome @robrousseau.bsky.social at the 1932 birthplace of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to bury the @ndp.ca for an unforgettable, can't miss @harbingermedia.bsky.social + @unrigged.bsky.social live show ⚰️💀😭

Live at Calgary’s Royal Canadian Legion @albertaadvantage.bsky.social welcome @robrousseau.bsky.social at the 1932 birthplace of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to bury the @ndp.ca for an unforgettable, can't miss @harbingermedia.bsky.social + @unrigged.bsky.social live show ⚰️💀😭

Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 symposium this Saturday in Calgary w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday! RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/signin/?refe... 🔶

Absolutely fascinating ep! Made me wanna become pensionpilled lol

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾union researcher Tom Fraser joins Team Advantage to discuss the political economy of pension funds and the forgotten horizons of revolutionary possibility they once represented. albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p... 🔶

THIS WEEKEND!! Friday: The Death and Life of Canadian Social Democracy (an @albertaadvantage.bsky.social intervention) www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... Saturday: panels by @cjsw.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @briarpatch @theorchard and more www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv...

NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...

A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

CCF argued for conscripting wealth during WW2 but it didn’t happen then either

I might have a new favourite episode of the @albertaadvantage.bsky.social podcast! Dr. Palmer is excellent and discusses a wide range of topics using an anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist lens; including Trump and the current wave of Canadian nationalism. #CdnPoli #ABpoli

Palmer makes a pretty compelling case that anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggles have played out independently of each other in Canada, to their detriment. How to bridge that divide is a tough one though.

NEW EP: Colonialism and Capitalism: Bryan Palmer on Canadian History albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/04/09/c...

NEW from @readtheorchard.org: Liberal Star Candidate Helped Shut Down Pro-Palestine Encampment www.readthemaple.com/liberal-star...

On ep68 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show hear ➡️ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social reimagine democratic socialism ➡️ @srslywrong.bsky.social in conversation with @seanorr.bsky.social ➡️ @techwontsave.us on Silicon Valley's #cdnpoli creep ➡️ + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep68... 🔶

Potash Pete unquestionably has our vote.

Canadian woman has been imprisoned by ICE for the last 9 days over paperwork issues with a work visa while trying to enter the United States According to KGTV San Diego, she was transported to a detention facility in Arizona where she was "wrapped in chains" and kept in a cell with 30 other people

Oh yeah? Cool I'm expecting price controls for food, housing and transportation, regulation of the telecoms companies, clean water on all reserves, protection of workers' right to strike... oh no sorry he just means he's gonna make it more expensive to buy products from the US

SCOOP: I got a copy of the Calgary police chief’s hand-written notes from May 9 and 10, which show that he discussed the dismantling of a 🇵🇸 encampment at UofC with three Cabinet ministers and the premier’s chief of staff. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Alberta: more fake than Canada? You decide! Plus: separatist slam poetry! albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/i...

The main argument is that Social Democratic parties have moved away from their traditional leftist economic stance, leaning into market-friendly policies like privatization, deregulation, and cutting back on welfare - even though they’ve historically stood for equality and redistribution.

Germany’s SPD just had their worst results since 1887. But why are social democratic parties struggling? This study, covering 336 elections in 22 advanced democracies from 1965 to 2019, especially in the context of income inequality, offers some key insights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

SCOOP: Documents show the extent to which UCalgary administration was influenced by pro-Israel framing of the Palestine solidarity movement leading up to its short-lived encampment. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

The Edmonton Police Service named two interim chiefs today who will take the place of Dale McFee until a new police chief is hired. In 2012, one of them, Warren Driechel, was implicated in a steroid trafficking ring within the police force. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/f...

On episode 60 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show: ➡️ 'Peeping' Pierre on @srslywrong.bsky.social ➡️ post neoliberal industrial policy on @broadbent.bsky.social's PERSPECTIVES ➡️ James Wilt talks Winnipeg cops on @albertaadvantage.bsky.social ➡️ + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep60... 🔶

Join us at Establishment Brewing tomorrow (Tuesday) evening for a NFB Deep Freeze:

While there's attention on tarrifs, less attention on state of emergency Trump declared on US-Cdn border Canada is now doubling down on border miltitarization ($1.3 bill, surveillance tech, 25% increase in deportation). And not withdrawing harmful Safe Third Country Agreement (border wall w/ US).

"There's no need to chase after passing secular ideologies-CRT, DEl, Pride-when we already stand on a foundation that has held firm for centuries: the teachings of our Faith." Chantelle Dur, newly-elected CSSD Trustee for Wards 11 & 12 livewirecalgary.com/2025/01/23/c...

Workers are at risk of having wages rolled back 6.5 per cent by Sobeys. The company is also asking workers to pay back money that a judge ruled was paid to them by mistake in the past 18 months. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Promise made, promise kept: Thanks to the UCP, Alberta workers now face a significant ‘Alberta Disadvantage’ albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/prom...