Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”

Who is Sam Mraiche? An inside look at the health care controversy that has roiled Alberta and the businessman whose dealings with the government have come under scrutiny. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #abpoli #cdnpoli #corruption #healthcare

“Hospitals and health-care facilities are constantly running without appropriate numbers of staff. Albertans suffering while waiting for treatment will be forced to spend money they can’t afford to get the treatment they need. For those without that option, wait times will just get longer." #abpoli

These three Citizen Initiative questions are being applied for! Get ready to start signing, canvassing, and promoting! workeragenda.ca/get-involved/ #abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union

OMG, so much this! #abpoli #cdnpoli #union #Solidarity

Sounds like Alberta... No rural doctors, still voting Conservative.

#BritishColumbia U.S. regulator issues safety warning for e-bike brand’s batteries, which are also sold in B.C. Rad Power Bikes disputes the characterization of some of its batteries as defective or unsafe www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pack of 24 boxes of tissues fits perfectly 🙌 (we took two bikes so I could add this since it was on sale 😆)

"What is being billed as the world’s largest aircraft made a lengthy appearance last week as LTA Research took its electrically powered rigid airship out for a few loops around the San Francisco Bay area." avbrief.com/airship-show... #AVbrief #aviation #news #aircraft #airship

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

Can we get this in Halifax please #BikeHfx

Yep. Never felt more betrayed by and suspicious of the political establishment in this country as when they allowed one of the best PMs our country has ever had to be forced to resign over absolutely nothing. NOTHING – no scandal, no envelopes full of cash… And that’s when I knew we were fucked.

Yeah. I did, too.

In the war against public spending, infrastructure, services, and supports, we are ALL the "undesirables". #abpoli #cdnpoli #urbanism

Birds are people too. (If birds are even real, that is.)

So what is the UCP calling trans folks today? They've been promoted from "human feces" to "castrated livestock". Great job sounding a bit more progressive, UCP! /s I guess the point is to stick so low to the bottom that you can never get worse. #abpoli #cdnpoli #transrights #humanrights #lgbtqia

Carney's government says preemptive use of the clause, before courts can review a law, undermines the Charter. "We are going to stand ardently in defence of the Charter and the rule of law, and thankfully it will be the court and not a federal or provincial government who will make the decisions."

What a disgrace. Trump comes on as the tough guy gangster and nobody believes him. The United States is no longer a nation anyone can put trust in.

Every day Jasmine Crockett goes to work serving the people, she is risking her life. Black, woman, Democrat, opposed to Trump ... she's at risk every minute of the day.

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

They bargained until 11pm every night, then finally had a response from the employer with 1 minute on the timer! Now we have yet to see if the membership will ratify the new agreement. #abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union #healthcare #strike

There is Power in a Union! #abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union #healthcare #strike

AHS blinks! We have a tentative agreement – please return to work AUPE members have set a new standard in health care and the labour movement. https://aupe.org/news/news-and-updates/ahs-blinks-we-have-tentative-agreement-please-return-work

The largest (legal) Essential Services strike in Alberta history has been averted, and an agreement has been met! There is power when people unite! There will be a press conference at 11am, livestreamed from the AUPE facebook page! You should be able to find it at the link below. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Today Alberta Health Services nursing care goes on strike across the province. Here are the facts: #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #strike #Solidarity #union

A must read. #yegbike #abpoli #urbanism #yeg

Oh wow, it's already here! :o #wicked2

Not sure the cause, but all the traffic lights in the west end are out along 95 Ave all the way to 170 St, and some other corridors like 98A Ave right up to 178 St. Kind of scary, but to be honest Edmontonians drive better in these situations (employing some degree of caution) than they usually do.

This is how you lead and represent. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cbt... #abpoli #transrights #transgenderdayofremembrance

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, honoring the memory of trans folk whose lives were lost in acts of anti-trans violence, following Transgender Awareness Week since the 13th. 2 days ago the UCP stripped trans youth of their Canadian Charter rights in order to pass 3 hateful anti-trans bills.

“I look at the Americans. I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota. They’ve been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta as well.” - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith during a Q&A in Gibbons, Alberta on April 12, 2023

Merry Christmas, Alberta! #abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #humanrights

I hear a common refrain that THE CITY NEVER LISTENS TO OUR FEEDBACK from the anti bike infrastructure crowd. But then we go out and have a municipal election and the pro bike lane candidates in their ward just absolutely wedgie the anti-bike candidates. #yegbike

AHS nursing care goes on strike this Saturday, November 22nd! Nurses have given their strike notice this morning. The wage gap has grown increasingly between Registered Nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) along with Health Care Aides, while the scope of their work continues to expand.

This is Transgender Awareness Week. It's no coincidence that the UCP passed anti-trans legislation on this week, and invoked the notwithstanding clause to strip charter rights and shield the UCP from judicial oversight. Haters need to ridicule and mock, and show utter contempt. #abpoli #HumanRights

First it was the right to assembly, now to be free from DISCRIMINATION! Danielle Smith calls the existence of trans kids the most urgent threat to the safety of other children. Statistically you are probably not trans, but these fundamental rights belong to all of us. They will come for yours next.

Interesting... I didn't know this connection was so deep. (And no, I'm not including MTG as a credible source, but the Times of Israel sure are fired up about her comments, lol.) #uspol #israel #epstein

The House of Representatives voted 427-1 to approve the Epstein discharge petition, which was offered by Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie. #uspol #epstein

"Not all settlers." - Benjamin Netanyahu #freepalestine #westbank

When people are scared of Trump's America and you have to tell them that Danielle Smith's Alberta is much worse. #abpoli #fascism #education #yeg #yyc

Good quotes, but that's still a lot of words to say that the only purpose of the UCP's municipal parties was to buy an election with big money. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli #yeg

Among the commitments now inscribed in its Back to School Act is a requirement to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years. But what wasn't clear is that the 2025-26 provincial budget had already allocated funding for exactly this purpose. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Four days later, another driver hit a kid on their bike further down Wellington Cres. The next day we blockaded the intersection, renewing our call for the marked bike route to be made actually safe to bike on. We asked, whose kid is next?

The next day, hundreds of people on bike and foot blocked the road during the evening rush hour. The community vowed that we would no longer allow the city to treat deaths on our roads as unavoidable accidents, as the reasonable cost of our car-centric transportation system and development pattern.

This Alberta movement is unifying through K-Pop Demon Hunters. :D #abpoli #kpop #kpop_demon_hunters

In the UCP's Alberta, there is no longer any such thing as a "preventable disease". #abpoli #cdnpoli #yeg #healthcare

Quite an entertaining substack on the prison toilet paper queen, Ghislaine Maxwell, who keeps top officials at Camp Cupcake prison as her "bitch": fightthefire.substack.com/p/roll-on-gh... #uspol #epstein

I noticed that while my Android phone can't recognize my face at all, my iPhone will unlock by face but only with my glasses. That makes me wonder if it would recognize other people as me if they wear glasses. I feel like those episodes of Gintama when Shinpachi is only recognized by his glasses.

Edmonton leads the world in frostbite cases, not because our weather is special in any way, but because of our poor healthcare response and the way we (mis)treat our unhoused population. Read my full response to a great opinion piece in the Edmonton Journal written by UofA professors and physicians: