1. Charles is 100% correct. 2. Quote: "Reached by phone Tuesday, police association president Andrew Tummonds declined to comment. “We’re still dealing with our lawyers to see where we’re gonna go,” Tummonds said." Explanation -- This kind of situation leaves the police union in a 'pickle'. 1/

This all sounds rather familiar. Policing culture is not one that embraces challenge, criticism, hard questions, equity and inclusion, or truth to power. The union will actively work to eliminate & undermine visible, vocal, and veracious challengers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

It'll be interesting to see who hops on the flight tomorrow.

I laugh when I’m asked to give a thumbs up. It’s a joke about my late mother. When she was in ICU, the nurses would say, “give us a thumbs up.” I told them, “don’t ask her to do that, ask her to raise her hand, she thinks thumbs up means ‘up yours’ & she won’t do it.” Classic mother-daughter moment.

Quote from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social story: "“A lot of promises made by a lot of these councillors that were hired was the climate fund, right? I believe that’s honestly a waste of money,” said Landon Johnston, councillor for Ward 14." Councillor Johnston thinks this ⤵️ is a waste of money. Sigh.

Remembrance Day, increasingly for me from childhood, became focused on the music used in the remembrance services as both a chorister and a clarinetist. The music for me, that has always triggered my emotions is Arkwright's "O Valiant Hearts" with the Harris tune. www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandw...

Quote: "“A lot of promises made by a lot of these councillors that were hired was the climate fund, right? I believe that’s honestly a waste of money,” said Landon Johnston, councillor for Ward 14." www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... Councillors are elected, not hired. And on the environment ... sigh.

Don't know how those journalists in the budget lock up do it. The federal budget is 493 pages, it's dry, and execpt for the odd graph, it's mostly in black and white. It's a slog of a read & I primarily just bookmark paragraphs to which I will return later. To crush it & report on it is something.

Phillips said she will proceed with a $400,000 lawsuit filed against several Lethbridge Police Service members for invasion of her privacy, and some details from the ASIRT investigation may inform her case. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

WTI oil price is under $60/bbl. Premier Smith & Finance Minister Horner are probably panicking. Wait for fear & rage filled messages that sound like the sky is falling in the richest province in the country. Expect blame to be placed on the usual suspects: teachers, immigrants, nurses, Ottawa...

Quote: "...women are being chased out of public life, by unconstrained hate groups, online trolls and far-right extremism. In one of the world’s strongest democracies, this is becoming the new normal."💥 Q.E.D.

More needs to be said about the strength and bravery of @sphillipsab.bsky.social to have gone through this for 8 years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Only surprise I have is that Caylan Ford would take her $7 million vengeance lawsuit to Wilson Laycraft since Jason Kenney is an advisor at Bennett Jones. Surely he could've tried to do a solid for her to make up for having to end her candidacy. Kaycee Madu does litigation, could've called him too.

Hello, Calgary... is this thing on? Calgary Police Service's Operation Order was a targeted violation of Calgarians who experience houselessness, use drugs & other substances, live with mental illness, and/or commit petty crime (transit fare evasion is a crime of $3.80 that comes with a $250 fine).

Quote:"Jamaica has...robust disaster-financing program of all Caribbean nations. In addition to the $150 million it will get from its cat bond, it can tap $300 million in contingent credit from the Inter-American Development Bank and draw a $92 million payout from a parametric insurance program." 1/

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I watched so much baseball in the last month that I missed that Rogers added a fine arts channel (classical, dance, opera, and jazz) to my cable package. Right on. www.mezzo.tv/en

Maybe you don’t like turkey, or it’s too expensive, or just not worth the work. Here are 22 Thanksgiving recipes for a turkey-free table. nyti.ms/3WGcf7M

Ahead of COP30, I looked at the legacy of the Paris Agreement for this weekend's @theglobeandmail.com. Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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?...

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I've said it before, I will say it once more. Every city councillor & the mayor in Calgary should have to take transit at a minimum once per week from their residence in the ward to work (i.e.: City Hall) and return home. We would immediately have improved transit service if they were using it. 🚌🚉

God, please just see everything. 🙏🏾

It's always lovely to see the Jack Singer Concert Hall, my concert hall IYKYK, sold out, to the tippy top, for a Weklund Centre concert with Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience. Members of @calgaryphil.bsky.social are on stage. It is going to be an epic show.

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Holy doodle!

TW: sexual assault

The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four items are under scrutiny in this sweep: ▪︎ Houselessness ▪︎ Substance use ▪︎ Mental illness ▪︎ Petty crime Items are often connected & are also often distinct, one item does not determine another condition. Hopefully we'll hear the statistics soon on how many were housed instead of just ticketed.

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Quote: "The storm wiped out homes, businesses, crops and livelihoods, costing damages estimated to be equivalent to around a third of the island nation’s GDP." Hurricane Melissa 🌀 is the climate crisis in real-time in the Caribbean & Jamaica. Global work on climate finance, mitigation is overdue.🇯🇲

Michelle Obama’s book details how the media’s fixation on her arms was used to ‘otherize’ her

London mayor sees parallels in Zohran Mamdani’s victory: ‘Hope won’

Alleged political interference, again.

Disappointing.

I don’t know if anyone will believe it but he came up with this idea all on his own (my help was just in how to look at existing laws to find examples of how different parts are written)

Quote: "About 70 percent of Mexican women aged 15 and over will also experience at least one incident of sexual harassment in their lives, according to the UN."

Not only did the AER's CEO unlawfully interfere with the hearing process for Summit's Mine 14, he called the Minister's office for "input" pretty much as soon as the application for reconsideration came in. That's a foul. #abpoli #ableg @cpawsnab.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Quote: "“Silence in the face of injustice means injustice wins.”"

As someone who acknowledges the work of nurses, technicians & other healthcare workers daily (I'm a cancer patient, the daughter of a nurse & I have surgery scheduled in 4 weeks) I understand the conditions too well in Alberta. If they strike, I won't cross their picket line. Respect. Solidarity. ✊🏾

Man gropes Mexico president as she speaks with citizens on the streets

Large majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free “Quebec and Alberta are the only provinces charging for the COVID-19 vaccine, which has been universally free since the pandemic.”

Quote: "The Queen Elizabeth prize is awarded annually to engineers responsible for groundbreaking innovations which globally benefit humanity." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Yes, brother... 👏🏾

Finland's former prime minister Sanna Marin has a new memoir