BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

On ep101 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 radio show ➡️ youth radicalization and transphobia on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social's BUBBLE POP ➡️ 1983’s Operation Solidarity on @albertaadvantage.bsky.social ➡️ @youcaughtscott.com on the RCMP vs. Canadian Journalism ➡️ + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep10...

Radio-Canada apologizes after it aired a photo circulated by anti-trans hate groups online, falsely claiming it was a photo of the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Damaging and irresponsible, and this apology raises more questions about journalistic process imho. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here: www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

After 25 years of extreme wealth concentration, the top 1% own 23% of the wealth—up $3 trillion. Our new report w/ @bcpolicy.bsky.social sounds the alarm: to protect our democracy & sovereignty, we need to stop our slide into US-style oligarchy. Read it now: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Canada needs an independent podcast community. Challenge right-wing and corporate media - support @harbingermedia.bsky.social’s winter 2026 fundraising campaign at harbingermedianetwork.com/join/ 🔶️

What was Tony Clement doing in Epstein's helicopter? adamsnotes.substack.com/p/what-was-t...

'The more provinces that join Alberta, the greater the likelihood that it will lead to the dismantling of the Canada Health Act as the federal framework that upholds provincial public health insurance plans.' #Healthcare thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

“Current economic models systematically underestimate climate damages … the cascading failures, threshold effects, and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth” www.commondreams.org/news/climate...

i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

Everything about how we exist in society is a political choice. Continuing to allow people to be unhoused is a political choice. Unchecked grocery prices? A political choice. Potholes - political choice. Yeah, things must be weighed etc etc, but these are choices and we can demand better ones.

As ICE tactics escalate, scrutiny is turning to Canada’s role. Corporate contracts and arms links are prompting concern over complicity. rabble.ca/human-rights...

“Rath immediately became defensive at the mention of the movement’s coziness with the United States.” @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

Alberta's new legislation opens the door to American-style, two-tier health care, & with it, massive repercussions for people all across the country. Our friends at Parkland Institute are launching their new report on Bill 11 with an important and timely webinar this Tuesday, Feb. 3—Don't miss it!

NEW: I compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm. The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors. www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-jo...

According to Phillips, responsible thing for The Left to do is get a new pipeline built and make small incremental changes that will be instantly rolled back by Jason Kenney. Then join a GR consulting firm to collaborate with some partisan conservatives.

"If this is the NDP response to a foreign-funded secession movement that is already bombarding Alberta with a Brexit-style disinformation campaign, it’s not likely to work. It’s too long, too professorial, too nuanced, too nice, and frankly naïve." albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe...

Unions raise the average hourly pay of workers in Alberta by 10 per cent, or $3.40 per hour ($37.88 for unionized employees versus $34.48 for non-unionized). www.readthemaple.com/alberta-unio...

Happy holidays from the Harbinger podcast community inc. @srslywrong.bsky.social @techwontsave.us @albertaadvantage.bsky.social & @endofsportpod.bsky.social + shows from @pressprogress.ca @breachmedia.ca @independentnl.bsky.social @cjpme.org @broadbent.bsky.social & more See you in the new year💞☃️❄️

The memorandum of understanding has been a hot button topic for weeks now. A lot of First Nations have been voicing their concerns, but Treaty 8 First Nations were in Ottawa Thursday morning to make sure that theirs were heard.

Literal joke of a province

Friends of Medicare hears the stories of how the slow creep of private health care is impacting Albertans & health care workers. Yesterday, the AB gov't passed Bill 11 paving the way for two-tier health care - a violation of the Canada Health Act. Take action here: win.newmode.net/stopalbertas...

“It is no exaggeration to say that the passing of Bill 11 through the Alberta legislature is the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system that we’ve ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians,” said Chris Gallaway executive director of Friends of Medicare.

Unfortunately, after repeatedly using time allocation motions to limit debate, Bill 11 just passed third reading in the legislature. Read more here: www.friendsofmedicare.org/bill_11_brin...

On ep94 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 radio show ➡️ @emilylowan.bsky.social + @karlamarx1917.bsky.social w/ @rachelgilmore.bsky.social on BUBBLE POP ➡️ @desmondcole.bsky.social on THE BREACH SHOW ➡️ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social talk 'Champagne Neoliberalism' ➡️ + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep94... 🔶

HEY WHAT THE FUCK www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Calgary police withhold evidence of brutality as final UofC protest charges fall drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

My understanding is that such abortions are rare to non-existent, because of the ethical problems involved. This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.

The UCP membership just voted in support of banning third-trimester abortion, except when the mother's life is at risk.

UCP AGM is off to a great start

No conservative Premier of Alberta has successfully completed a 4-year term since Ralph Klein in 2006.

1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.

I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.

If you think you're playing 4D chess, you're probably not playing chess right and I'm not going to invite you to play chess anymore.

A handful of political economists and Parkland Institute researchers have been trying for decades to inform Albertans about how their interests --and those of Indigenous peoples--have been trampled by the oil sands majors, abetted by captured governments.2/ www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise. Coral reefs continue to die off. Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters. Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer. But at least we'll have a strong economy.

Strong and Free. Great province. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Senior economist w/ @policyalternatives.ca, @marclee.bsky.social, said the whole debate over interprovincial trade is simply political posturing so that provinces and the federal government can seem like they are doing something to respond to Trump’s tariffs. #cdnecon theprovince.com/news/will-ne...

Fantastic episode. Keep up the good work!

Budget drops and cork pops

AHS Nursing Care have served strike notice. www.aupe.org/news/news-an...

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 the team situate the federal budget in the current political moment, unpack what it means & ask how the "elbows-up", nation building rhetoric Carney campaigned on could actually have been implemented in Budget 2025 albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/18/c... 🔶

In this ep we make the point that you can never have a budget as harsh as 1995 again unless you rebuild the welfare state first, which we haven't done. But I think I'm going to be mumbling the phrase "Minister Champagne is repealing the yacht tax" to myself for a while. 🍾

Danielle Smith's Alberta government has announced that they will use the Notwithstanding Clause to protect three laws (all targeting trans people) from court challenges. NEW from me in @xtramagazine.com on the lies they're using to justify such a massive move ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

NEW EPISODE: Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/18/c...

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾 the team look at how organized labour in Alberta is responding to an existential threat as the province’s teachers are ordered back to work by Danielle Smith’s UCP. albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a... 🔶

I've been looking forward to this!! #ABEd #ABLeg #ABPoli #AlbertaTeachers

you should, genuinely, text resist to 55255, but the stern criticism in this episode is very correct. alberta labour seems to have been very unprepared for something that was obviously coming for years