Berta. Back to being an international embarrassment. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...

Ugh. Yet MORE MAGA-style madness. AB aims to curtail regulatory bodies from sanctioning workers www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Reality: - reg response to spread of misinformation rare (few "silenced") - misinformation does great harm (um, measles status?) - privilege of being prof comes with standards

Alberta: Please speak up against Bill 9 and the Notwithstanding Clause while the legislation is being debated in the Legislature. Here's two initiatives that send messages to elected officials & will keep you informed of next steps: transactionalberta.ca savethecharter.ca #ableg #abpoli #CanPoli

The UCP has abandoned conservatism. Not just Lougheed's brand. Klein's brand, too. The party lost its grip years ago. It's time for conservatives in this province to speak up about it. www.readtheline.ca/p/jared-wesl...

This is a UCP MLA calling for a referendum on abortion inside of the legislature. They’re coming for abortion. Under his eye. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Rainbow orgs have released a statement: “The banning of puberty blockers is an example of government overreach and political attacks on healthcare… it is an unprecedented and inherently discriminatory use of the Medicines Act to deny healthcare to a particular population on the basis of their sex”

🚨NEWS: NDP Leadership Candidate Tony McQuail had a message for his donors on my podcast today: Don't send him any more money, for now. Send it to fellow candidate @votetanille.bsky.social until she raises enough to survive the next cut off. Watch as Tony made news (and almost made us all cry):

NEW: In the latest episode of Headlines, I talk about Alberta’s impending health-care strike, Jeffrey Epstein, Saudi investments in AI and more. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here. This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.

Peter Lougheed was one of the key drivers behind the inclusion of the Notwithstanding Clause in our Charter. He'd be horrified by how — and how often — Conservative premiers like Danielle Smith are using it today. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/20/o...

Want to know what trans youth really want and need? Read our report, which is the most comprehensive research conducted in Alberta. Making legislative changes without actually consulting with the young people most impacted in immoral & unethical. www.macewan.ca/c/documents/...

The nerve these people have

I hear a clip from this episode was used in the latest Canadaland series on how everyone is antisemitic. I’d suggest listening to the full interview rather than Jesse Brown’s blabbering, but I’m a bit biased. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

We know the play book. They are coming for reproductive rights next.

Narrator: “Hey, Joe, remember yesterday when you lamented about how crazy of a week it was in #ABleg and I told you it was only Tuesday?” Me: “Yeah, why?” Narrator: “Well, it’s Wednesday, so here’s this.” Me: “Motherf$&@%*!” #Alberta www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️ This afternoon, country music artist @corblund.bsky.social headed to #Edmonton to submit his application to Elections Alberta for a petition to prohibit coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of the Rocky Mountains. #MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli

Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics. What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us? When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids? It's disturbing:

Can we talk about THIS page for a minute?!? AHS, while under the direct command & control of Smith and the UCP ACTIVELY destroyed evidence provided to them? And records were withheld despite Smith’s promises? The AG comes just shy of calling a coverup! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The UCP strikes again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

During the same week that the UCP is expanding privatization, the auditor general finds that government interference cost taxpayers over $100 million. How can anyone deny it’s the government that’s the problem? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

#Alberta’s auditor general estimates the government’s failed effort to privatize community lab testing services left taxpayers on the hook for about $109 million. More here 👇 #yyc #yeg #ableg #abpoli @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

“Alberta nursing-care staff will walk off the job this weekend, forcing the cancellation of some elective surgeries, after the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) served strike notice early Wednesday.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten the rights of trans and gender-diverse people in the province.” ccla.org/press-releas...

On Alberta, trans youth, and the Danielle Smith’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th Charter rights override in a month: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There’s no question Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen will make Alberta’s highways deadlier with his plan to raise speed limits in several locations. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. 🚗 #abpoli

I suspect there will be a lot of people lashing out at the Carney government over the MOU that's been leaked today. I'd encourage them to read this first. The biggest hurdle in the way of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, by far, has yet to be cleared. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...

The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is further evidence of their populist approach to policymaking. Pluralists -- whether progressives committed to minority rights or libertarians prizing checks & balances on government power -- must stand together against this over-reach.

I have never ever ever been making this reference. The smiling man refers to a face I made at a raiders game in 2023

"If we become inured to abuse of the notwithstanding clause, the rights of all Canadians will be at risk. ...It remains up to all of us to push back and make our voices heard—just as Albertans were brave enough to do 25 years ago": @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. albertaviews.ca/stripping-aw...

This is what's at stake. The UCP is not only dodging its responsibility to explain how Bill 9 is in any way proportionate or justifiable in a free and democratic society. They are putting children at far greater risk of suicide.

Yet ANOTHER evidence-free & disastrous policy move by Alberta. NO evidence will help system. On the contrary: > costs < equity > inefficiencies < quality Are they TRYING to ruin AB? Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public & private services www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Wednesday at 8! With the UCP again invoking the notwithstanding clause to rob Albertans of their charter rights, you do NOT want to to miss this conversation with the Alberta Students Association! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Hard not to be both depressed & infuriated about these regressive, science-free, & cruel actions. AB to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Very obviously, NO evidence these MAGA are laws needed.

The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults. This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵 drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...

Alberta government eyes legal changes to let physicians work publicly and privately Public health defenders say it’ll weaken an already weak health system. NDP says call an election over it — Premier Smith says no. Also from me today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

You could produce the same chart for oil and gas, another sector that overwhelmingly favoured Trump. As @therickwilson.bsky.social said: everything he touches dies.

“When a government grants itself license to override physician judgment and patient consent, who - at any stage of life — will be next?” The AMA raising very serious concerns about the UCP’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I don't want to hear Danielle Smith ever describe herself as a libertarian again.

It’s worth remembering that the UCP aren’t just robbing Albertans of their charter rights… Amery openly conceded that these laws also violate the Alberta Human Rights Act and the Alberta Bill of Rights. That the UCP just rewrote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I knew that this day was coming. The UCP had been warning for months that they were going to take away the rights of transgender people (not just children but adults too). I thought I was prepared. But I am still very angry that it has happened.

That’s 4 invocations of Notwithstanding Clause for Danielle Smith within a month, with this these of transgender policy bills set to stand regardless of the Charter rights they violate. The premier mused about Alberta behaving more like Quebec in Confederation. This is one way to do it.

Moments after the new revalations in the “corrupt care” scandal… Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause in a sweeping attack on parents, sports and trans youth. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta. Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.

BREAKING: @globeandmail's @CarrieTait reports that @ABDanielleSmith's govt plans to amend legislation to enable Alberta doctors to offer services in both the public and private spheres. Smith's blueprint is hiding in plain sight. Be afraid, Alberta. youtu.be/n9_gGtNd91w

Alberta keeps saying it plans to "double" oil production by 2035. But the math here doesn't come close to mathing --- and it has nothing to do with Ottawa's policies. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...

Join Dr. Parks as he talks about the state of healthcare with a focus on rural communities. #abpoli #ableg #alberta #ABresistance

SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Here is a picture from the 2023 provincial election campaign. See if you can spot the differences.

“This is definitely two-tiered medicine,” said Braden Manns, a professor of health policy at the University of Calgary.” A new plan from the UCP would massivley expand private for profit family care. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...