Employment growth since April ("Liberation Day"): United States: +119,000* Canada: +166,200 * The U.S. number is expected to be revised down.

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME

The Rubber Duck Museum in Point Roberts, Washington is moving across the border to Tsawwassen Mills, BC. The owners say Canadians have stopped coming, and tariffs have driven up the cost of ducks. Listen Here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Union representing 16,000 Alberta nurses and healthcare staff vote 98 per cent in favour of striking edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Teen Vogue has done some of the best political reporting in the US over the past decade. This is a tragedy.

My latest in the @edmontonjournal.com on the province’s pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to override the Charter rights to strike…. And to meaningful bargaining… of 50,000 teachers #ableg edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

AB's Minister of Education admitting live that he only started looking at the way other provinces handle class sizes *last night*: #abpoli

Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian

The Premier is ordering teachers back to work by invoking the notwithstanding clause from the airport lounge. #ableg

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Speaking to @energimedia.bsky.social today, GilMcGowan made it clear… Danielle Smith has just touched off an economic firestorm. And union leaders will be responding “province wide”. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #generalstrike

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

If the govt can just dictate the terms of a contract—skipping past binding arbitration and legislating away recourse rights—and the public accepts that, well, then what reason would govt have to bargain in good faith with any public sector employees going forward? Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.

Doug Ford: "My champion Wab Kinew, he's 100% behind it. Another champion, Premier Eby, as well ... total different political stripes than I am but we're all sticking together." Reporter:"Danielle Smith doesn't like the ads, though..." Ford: "Of course Danielle Smith doesn't like the ads..."

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...