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

No punches pulled in this analysis of the presently-disappointing response to the strike-breaking Bill 2.

The resistance is going to be texted. Enjoy our rant!

NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255 albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

NEW EP: Escape from the Planet of the Mines: Canada's Resource Imperialism albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/10/14/e...

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.’”