A message from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union in solidarity with striking colleagues at the Alberta Teachers' Association. Un message du Nova Scotia Teachers Union en solidarité avec les collègues en grève de l’Alberta Teachers’ Association. @albertateachers.bsky.social #abpoli

Edson, Alberta. #albertateachers #abpoli #ableg #abed

Time to repost a classic. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

The measles outbreak is driven by antivaxxers and every illness and death is their fault. It’s well past time we made that very clear. #Vaccinate globalnews.ca/news/1146161...

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

If you go back to the 1950s, there were earnest debates around the world re: whether growing public funding of universities was a Good Thing because government might one day try to dictate what univesities could teach. By the 90s this was considered laughable. No one is laughing now.

Pierre Poilievre looks at this data and his takeaways are food inflation today is "70% above target" and the situation is "even worse than Trudeau". You can judge how intellectually honest that is. But real solutions to real problems take more than rhetoric, gimmicks, and spin.

Support from a *former* UCP Cabinet Minister (now with the Alberta Party) for TEACHERS and STUDENTS. Alberta doesn't have to be this way, elections have consequences. #ableg #abpoli #abed

www.reddit.com/r/alberta/co... #abpoli #ableg

I have to say in all my years as a journalist, I've never heard a government employee say that a youth should be assaulted for speaking their mind.

At tonight’s “consultation”… When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more. Listen to the clip yourself… It’s… Telling. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Honestly, put me out of the personal tax business and support automatic tax filing.

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Albertans deserve better than corrupt crony governance. www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/al...

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

A guy in Winnipeg made a 45-minute fully produced feature-film version of "Steamed Hams" modelled after Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, so don't you go saying Canada is broken www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

Conservatives keep saying gov't debt drives inflation. A theory that makes sense, right? Spend more, more money in system, inflation. But it's wrong. Real world data says the opposite. And if you solve for the wrong thing, you won’t fix the problem. We can’t afford that. 🧵

Let's talk about the Conservative line of attack on food inflation. Has food gotten more expensive? Yes, and there's work to be done. But for them to suggest this is a uniquely Canadian problem is exactly the problem with politics these days.

This week, Parliament is back from summer recess. But what does an MP do all summer?

Fun with circular logic: ⚪️Obtaining a birth certificate in Alberta requires photo ID, such as a driver’s licence or passport. 🔵Under this new law, obtaining a driver's license will require a passport or driver's license. 🔴And getting a passport requires a driver's license or birth certificate.

My thoughts on Alberta's push to add citizenship markers to driver's licenses. It's not about election integrity or convenience. It's about a culture war and discriminating against immigrants. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

“Growth should pay for growth” is a political choice to socialize the benefits of immigration while privatizing its infrastructure costs onto younger cohorts, insulating established homeowners and corporations from financial responsibility. Read here:

Stop complying in advance.

The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

I wrote about how RFK Jr.'s supposed linking of Tylenol and autism are nothing but a return to the dark days when society used to blame autism on unloving mothers. via @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Most people in Mexico and Canada say the United States is their country's greatest threat. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Hey AB parents, check this out: abteach.cc/StudentFundi... Find out how many extra teachers your kids school would have if funding matched Saskatchewan, or Manitoba, or the national average. Here’s Churchill High in the CBE (chosen at random) #abpoli

This absolute banger

What strikes me about this is the page counts of these books. Gender Queer has 279 pages. The Government uses 4 pages from it as examples, but one of those just mentions masturbation in the text, another shows non-sexual nudity. I think we all know it’s the queer that is the real issue for them.

Michelle Obama: Sometimes it's nice to eat carrots. RFK Jr.: I want to bring back smallpox. The Atlantic:

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Happy Labour Day, everyone! Here's a quick thread on what organized labour won for everyone: 🧵

This is a socialist bike lane. 👇 It’s between a socialist sidewalk and a socialist driving lane for cars and trucks. All are fully funded by property taxes collected by the City from property owners or indirectly from renters of property. #Calgary

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

My lawn signs are starting to pop up across Ward 7. Sign up to get yours here: www.mykeatkinson.ca/sign-request

When I became a Senator, I started flying a lot. Back and forth from Edmonton to Ottawa - not to mention flights to conferences and events. I had never before understood the archaic way that flight attendants are paid. The clock only starts when the airplane door closes. 🧵

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

No actually. People should see these pictures. No fucking cops or corpos at pride. Ever.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

NEW: Spain cancels plans to buy US-made F-35 fighters, a day after India paused all US military orders. They join Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland & Germany in shunning US defense deals. Swiss leader, Balthasar Glättli: “Those who hurl rocks at us in trade shouldn’t expect gifts in return.”

Every young Aussie dreams of pulling off this prank on unsuspecting Americans, and to do it on national TV, to a renowned rapper, makes it all the sweeter.

Al Jazeera Media Network signs joint letter stating journalists being starved to death ‘deliberately, and in real time’.

1/ Canadian govts appear to have decided that they can not or will not fund higher education properly. But they won't admit this, preferring to tell institutions to enshittify themselves and shut up. There are two options: one is slow starvation, the other is radical deregulation.

Calgary's crime severity was on the rise from 2014 to 2019 but has since been falling, and last year hit not quite a record low, but almost. It's also well below the national rate now: