ICYMI - A rare inside view of the UCP push to embed the private for-profit surgery industry in Alberta - no matter the cost, even to cancer patients. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

SCOOP: Alberta's UCP is suing two MLAs it kicked out of caucus in order to keep the Progressive Conservative brand outta their hands. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper

Brazen lying here by @daniellesmithab.bsky.social. As reported, unchallenged, by @nytimes , Smith's govt stopped Chief Medical Officer of Health Mark Joffe from making statements at critical times during the measles outbreak. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

On Nenshi’s midterm reintroduction to Alberta voters and the not-so-NDP folks he’s brought on for the coming fight. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@nytimes will never be accused of overstatement.

In this story, Cameron Davies says he met with podcaster Megyn Kelly. Google Megyn Kelly news today. nationalpost.com/news/another...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Ruemmler is responsible for conduct and reputational management at Goldman Sachs.

Small-town Kansas newspaper granted $3 million and apology over police raid reut.rs/4i6GwGD

This is a story you could write from a fill-in-the blanks template in nearly every police service and the RCMP in Canada, right down to the police commission saying they have taken steps to address it. They never do anything. It's been like this for decades. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The statement issued by Pierre Poilievre this morning. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

One in eight Americans need federal aid to buy food

By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.) By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.

After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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The landowners don't like the fact that their tax dollars and the dollars of other taxpayers are subsidizing deadbeat oil and gas companies

The larger issue here is that, according to credible public health experts, the UCP govt is imposing an ideological, anti-vax agenda that will undermine public health for many years. A baby needlessly died of measles in Alberta because its mother was unvaccinated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Via @drewanderson.bsky.social ‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

@nytimes reports former Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mark Joffe was muzzled and not allowed to fully communicate during the measles outbreak. UCP govt makes international headlines again. Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

The group collecting petition signatures for a citizen's initiative to defund private schools in Alberta seem well organized. They have a website with a professionally shot video that seeks to highlight the disparity between public and private school funding. abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.

Via @jlisayoung.bsky.social does not mince words about the UCP's authoritarian dumping of Auditor General Doug Wylie. Fall Fashion Update: Alberta open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

There is no evidence to support that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research. If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded. I will link our original piece below.

Really great reporting and critical analysis here.

The UCP govt has created a fifth health agency to provide IT, HR, data services etc to the other four, with a fifth CEO, Maureen Towle.

This is extremely troubling. The UCP are becoming increasingly authoritarian. They are dumping Doug Wylie, likely because he intervened, in the public interest, in the AHS CEO lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

This raises questions about the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta's ability to self regulate. How is that the costs of long-term environmental clean-up liabilities contained in audited O & G company financial statements have been independently determined to be grossly underreported?

Incredible story about the complete corruption of a state chief justice. Canadians who think judges should be elected should read this a cautionary tale. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

ICYMI - If you live in Alberta, get vaccinated, don't get in an accident, don't go to the hospital. The healthcare system is a mess as flu/Covid season starts. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

@jaredwesley foresaw this last year. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024...

If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

This story deserves more attention. The UCP govt handed over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and is now refusing to explain why. Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Fascinating story about how Jamaica gambled on climate insurance and now it will pay off. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Order in council dropped late this afternoon that rescinds the previous gift policy for UCP premier's and ministers' staff. But does this mean the premier and ministers can still accept Skybox tickets and other expensive freebies?

An Australian vulture company that funds lawsuits made a massive profit off the UCP government via Andrew Nikiforuk. Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

U of A president Bill Flanagan says the university can't, and shouldn't, be morally certain about Gaza. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/defe...

Have said this before but follow @disorderedyyc.bsky.social. They are highly skilled at finding contextual video, like this one.

Via @readtheorchard.org The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality: ricochet.media/labour/class...

Fascinating research, entirely applicable to Alberta. plus.flux.community/p/disinforma...

Populists like Danielle Smith also skip legislative and judicial scrutiny. Invoking time allocation. And the notwithstanding clause. Because they can't hack the hard work of liberal democracy. It's not conservative at all. It's negligently lazy.

But the Calgary Police Commission says it is bound by privacy rules not to disclose any information about why Chief Mark Neufeld and other senior officers left the force?

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