Rakhi for Premier! 🧡 #abpoli #ableg

What smarter investment could Albertans make that to educate the children who live here? Why would we want to grow a permanent underclass of illiterate, innumerate youth? Our economy needs educated workers - not children cut off from hope.

I'm grateful to Rakhi Pancholi for not mincing words. #abpoli

Canadian authors, remember to register your books for the PLR program by May 1! For the first time, you are no longer required to mail things in—you can do it online.

Happy Lunar New Year Bluesky Buckaroos! Apparently the year of the horse can make rapid change. Here's hope it we see that this year.

Can't wait to read Talk Treaty to Me, by two incredible humans I'm lucky to call friends. . .

Thank YOU to @indiebookstores.ca! We're so excited to share this book with the world! Go grab a copy of Talk Treaty to Me from your local indie on Feb 24!!! ☀️🌊🌾

Happy PLR day to my fellow Canadian writers! I'm so grateful to everyone who has checked Badass(ish) out of the library! ❤️🇨🇦📚

Albertans: hardworking families shouldn't have to pay to clean up polluters' messes. Sign this petition telling the government to hold oil & gas companies accountable for their clean-up costs.

Oil and gas doesn't love Albertans back, that's for sure. And the UCP government's war on renewable energy is costing us thousands of great jobs. #ableg #abpoli

Superb owl Sunday is the best Sunday. . . #writersofbluesky

"If I were comfortable talking to real people, I would have a real job." Five minutes of hilarity and warmth about being a writer. #writersofbluesky www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuS...

It makes no sense for Alberta to flirt with nuclear energy when solar and wind (plus batteries) are so much cheaper and safer. If reliability is the argument, then geothermal is another excellent option. #ableg #abpoli #climate

Hey, Hey! The Coal Petition is here. Sign up to canvass but if you can't, bookmark this website so you know where you will be able to sign and tell your friends and family. Water Not Coal affects all Albertans! www.waternotcoal.ca

As Alberta landowner Dwight Popowich asks, "If conflict of interest rules can be sidestepped through consultancy contracts, what good are they?" Oil & gas polluters need to clean up their messes and pay their bills -- both what they owe landowners, and their grossly overdue taxes. #abpoli #ableg

I never met Catherine O’Hara. I have no charming Catherine O’Hara anecdote. I can’t even explain why the news of her death hit me so hard. But I know her memory will be a blessing to all who knew and loved her work, and the joy she brought to Canada and the world.

Objectively a good name for a snowplow though

This profoundly moving and important song has me sobbing at my kitchen table. Please share it widely. #minneapolis

Happy International LEGO day! Celebrate by sending a LEGO-themed postcard to Premier Smith and your MLA, telling them that oil and gas polluters -- rather than Alberta families -- should pay to clean up leaking, toxic wells. #abpoli #ableg postcards.cleanupyourmess.ca?utm_source=F...

Yager was a key architect of the Alberta government's "mature asset strategy," which proposes using taxpayer money to cover tens of BILLIONS in unpaid oil & gas cleanup costs that companies are legally obligated to pay themselves. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Essential reading for Albertans and, especially, the folks in our provincial government. #abpoli #ableg

How many Alberta MLAs will sign? “I, _____, MLA for _____, affirm that I am a proud Albertan and a proud Canadian. I am opposed to separatism and I will make my position known and clear to my constituents.” albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe... This photo is the stuff of nightmares. . . #abpoli #ableg

LATE BREAKING NEWS A vigil will be held TONIGHT at 8:30, by the fountain, on the north side of the Alberta legislature, as a memorial for the victims of ICE. Please attend, if possible, and share this post with others. #SayNoToICE #Ableg #Abpoli #YEG

This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good. Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

So heartening.

A relief to read some good (GREAT!) news this morning: "Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the European Union’s power generation last year, a report has found, in a 'major tipping point' for clean energy." Time for Canada to do the same! #cdnpoli #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🧵Canadian friends: if you want to vote for the next leader of the NDP, you have *just one week left* to buy a (cheap) party membership. After that, there will be a big English debate and lots of media coverage, but it will be too late to have a say. Only members can vote for leader. link below:

Mark Carney takes the sign out of the window. A brave and powerful speech, calling for middle powers to stop appeasing and pretending this is business as usual - and start building new alliances. I think this is the speech - and the PM - that a lot of Canadians have been waiting for. #cdnpoli #Davos

As dark as the last few days have been, the courage of the people of Minneapolis fills me with true hope. I do not know what will happen next. But in this moment, the love of community we see in Minnesota gives us all a beacon of light.

"Canada could become a clean energy powerhouse that harnesses our natural advantages in renewable energy and critical minerals. Doing so could also lift our manufacturing sector to unprecedented heights, creating hundreds of thousands of new, well-paid jobs for Canadian workers." #cdnpoli #climate

New data shows that oilsands companies used 12% MORE freshwater (per barrel of oil produced) in 2024 - directly contradicting the energy regulator’s claims of improved efficiency across the oil and gas industry. www.albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Big deal. Smart: “Part of the EV quota will be reserved for cars with an import price of $35,000 or less, Mr. Carney said. The proportion of the quota dedicated to this category will rise 50 per cent by 2030, he said, “kickstarting the availability of more affordable electric vehicles in Canada.”

Time is running out to sign! If you'd like to sign, locations across Alberta are posted here: abfundspublicschools.ca #ableg #abpoli #abed

"We are living through the darkest moment I can remember, and in that moment one of the few bright lights—literal and metaphorical—comes from small-scale solar." Bill McKibben's Substack is required reading for me, bringing comfort and information alike. billmckibben.substack.com?utm_source=s...

my 2026 resolution is to stop talking about climate in terms of global mean temperature (will rise a couple degrees, sounds manageable, nobody cares) and start talking in terms of H bomb equivalents (holy shit, seems bad, WTF)

"The rapid global rise of electric vehicles is a warning sign for anyone who cares about Alberta’s future. For decades, predictions of oil’s decline have come and gone, making it tempting to dismiss EVs as another false alarm. This time, the threat is different — and very real." #abpoli #ableg

"We want our children and grandchildren to have a safe and healthy world; Canada needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035 and be near zero by 2040 to keep global warming to 1.5°C; We already have affordable clean technologies to help us do this..." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam." Increasing taxes on climate-trashing extreme wealth is a no-brainer. #climate

Albertans: Action is the best antidote to despair. And if that action involves cute LEGO postcards? Even better. Send a free postcard to your MLA and Premier Smith, telling them to make oil and gas polluters, rather than Alberta families, pay to clean up toxic, leaking gas wells. #abpoli

I wrote this column in January of 2025. It has aged all too well. I invite a re-read today.

As a historian of Latin America, I'm pretty sure the spelling is o-i-l, not d-r-u-g-s.

Tomorrow, Sunday Dec. 14th, the Edmonton Raging Grannies are delighted to have been invited to perform - Earth's Refillery Coop, 10831 95 St, Edm. We expect to be there ~ 1 pm. The petition to end funding of private schools will be available for signing, from 12 till 3 pm. Please sign ASAP. #YEG

I was born in Alberta and I'm raising my kid here. What the province's government is doing to our environment, our democracy, our rights, our schools, and our healthcare is wrong. (Read J. Wesley's full post for great tips on speaking up and speaking out to change our province's direction) #abpoli

So much for the claim that Alberta needs oil&gas to fund social services! Some of these companies don't even pay the taxes they owe, and the government knows it. MAGA (Make Alberta Great Again) Energy: sounds like satire, but it's all too real. #abpoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ener...

Send a free postcard to Premier Smith and your Alberta MLA, telling them to make polluters, rather than Alberta families, pay to clean up toxic gas wells across the province. Write your message and For Our Kids will print and deliver the postcards! postcards.cleanupyourmess.ca?utm_source=F... #ableg

Alberta folks: this one is for you! Click here to send free postcards to Premier Smith and your MLA, telling them to make oil and gas polluters, rather than Alberta families, foot the bill for cleaning up toxic orphan wells across our province: postcards.cleanupyourmess.ca?utm_source=F... #abpoli

"This is about oil&gas coming on my land, taking my land away from me. I can't use it." I have endless respect for Dwight and the long battles he's waged with negligent gas companies. The Alberta government is supposed to side with farmers like Dwight, not oil billionaires. #abpoli #cleanupyourmess

"The Global South is much further ahead than rich Western nations in the energy transition, primarily because they need cheap energy and are much better positioned for it." Yet Canada clings to dangerous fossil fuels... #cdnpoli #climate www.cbc.ca/news/science...