As I wrote in @xtramagazine.com, age verification is bad tech, and it is going to just harm so many people unnecessarily, most especially queer and trans people.

Using what age verification tools, exactly? This is going to end so very badly. This is just more internet surveillance, and politicians cannot get that through their heads.

This week on ‘Whatever This Is’, we are calling out the great con. Danielle Smith keeps bragging about Alberta's prosperity, but she forgets to mention it is not happening to you. Every time Danielle Smith says the economy is strong, we need to ask: strong for who? #ableg #abpoli #canpoli

I've reported for years—including immediately after Butler—that Trump has a long history of taking only *seconds* to figure out how to spin a disaster to his own advantage. An *unproven claim* that he wanted to come back out and have the event go on would be consistent with this.

Opinion: The local news crisis is also a public health crisis www.statnews.com/2026/04/24/l...

What the fuck are we doing here

What does Ontario's government not want you to know? bsky.app/profile/isaa...

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

This is about Alberta's dual system that will allow the rich to jump the queue for surgeries by paying for diagnostic tests/imaging. The author, Steven Lewis, knows far more about how healthcare systems work, and should work, than Adriana LaGrange.

Hey. Hi. So.... My DMs are open.

Globe and Mail reporter Carrie Tait named journalist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for her dogged pursuit of a spending scandal in Alberta. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @nna-ccj.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @carrietait.bsky.social for being named Journalist of the Year for her ongoijg investigation into the Alberta government health care procurement scandal. 🏆 www.newswire.ca/news-release...

When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

This poster was originally made by the black panther party.

“Her reporting did more than chronicle events: it altered the province’s political landscape, triggering real consequences and forcing accountability at the highest levels of government.” Congratulations @carrietait.bsky.social!

So, recap: the UCP violated our charter rights by using the notwithstanding clause rather than bargain with teachers and now we have a teacher shortage so they’re introducing a program to produce underqualified “teachers” to meet the teaching shortage they created? Great work, everyone /s #ableg

Cat's outta the bag I guess. It is I, referendumb man! Hopefully you enjoy the site. Happy to chat about it, my DMs are open, as they say. If you like it, share it!

"The U.K. government admitted carbon emissions from data centers could be 100 times greater than previously thought, prompting fresh concern from MPs and campaigners over the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence."

When someone shows you who they are… #abpoli

“Disservice to young people & to parents, the taxpayers funding education" The UCP is fasttracking a path for skilled pros, tradespeople and more to alleviate a teacher shortage But Lisa Starr, new Pres. Association of AB Deans of Education is raising concerns podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Danielle Smith’s using your $ to run a website telling you how to vote in the referendum she’s using your $ to hold this fall. UCPropaganda on the public dime. And she has the gall to pass a law to make UCP the judge of what’s considered “neutral” in our schools? I had some thoughts. #abpoli

The way tech bros run this country and are never, ever truly held accountable is astounding. How about you cut the town a cheque for millions of dollars to cover therapy and community healing? A billionaire writing a letter and nothing else is insulting.

The US CDC on the brink: “80% of the CDC's highest positions are vacant, with directors of 20 out of 25 centres having left. An estimated 2000 staff, almost one in five, have been fired, and about 300 are on administrative leave.”

This is quite good. albertareferendumb2026.ca#top

“Canada can demonstrate leadership in this moment. It can be a beacon of hope, speaking out in multilateral spaces. The benefits will be enormous. Canada’s reputation will increase. LGBTQI people will thrive...” halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/24/c...

So someone made this. And in a time when no one seems to be fighting back against these awful, racist, useless referendum(b) questions, this gave me a glimmer of hope. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #referendumb #Alberta

This story is making serious waves around Alberta cities suffering the fallout of UCP drug policy, including Red Deer and Lethbridge. The latter city has lost one in two hundred residents to drug toxicity since 2020. Difficult to imagine that scale of death. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

For those whose anger has been reignited by the referendum questions on immigration, check out the analysis i wrote for @thetyee.ca earlier this month. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Quote: "...that’s connected to this broader question about police: Why are they able to get away with certain behaviors or actions that would get other people punished, prosecuted, or sent to jail or prison?" Police unions - associations - operate in a similar fashion in Canada. It's not good. 1/

“I’ve actually seen them collapse and die right in front of me,” says Minister in charge of supervised consumption sites about his visit to a site. Funny, I heard from inside the site that not only did this not happen, the minister was so impressed he wanted to send everyone donuts.

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

More on Alberta’s boundary mess… CBC News election unit analysed the maps: the main report would have produced a 7-seat margin of victory for UCP. The minority report by UCP appointees? A 23-seat win, with many seats narrowly flipped in Calgary. W/analysis by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Private facilities do not create new capacity; instead, they cannibalize it. As they expand, public operating rooms remain empty as staff are prioritized for private facilities” Drs. Kaylene Duttchen & Paul Parks #alberta #bill11 #cdnhealth

International tuition subsidizes domestic students’ studies since provincial governments cut domestic student funding while telling universities to behave like businesses and make up the rest of the missing funding. Domestic students will be compromised.

It isn't your fucking business how people choose to exercise autonomy over life and death decisions, motherfuckers.

Danielle Smith & the UCP have passed multiple laws making it harder for you to vote. Even while they pass laws to protect shady behaviour by separatists & UCP allies. One set of rules for you, another for their friends. That’s life in Alberta under the UCP. #abpoli

Danielle Smith doesn't believe in democracy, Albertans, or anyone but her separatist friends and party supporters.

“If the premier is so confident she’d win an election, call an election!" Chatted with ABNDP leader Naheed Nenshi about the UCP's new referendum website, the electoral boundary controversy and why he believes Premier Smith has lost Albertans' confidence. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n...

WHY ON EARTH ARE WE HAVING A PETITION IF YOU’RE GOING TO LEGISLATE THE CHANGES ANYWAY, QUEEN?

“I’m not neutral. I’m not going to be a bystander in this. We are going to actively pursuading the public that this is the direction we want to go.” “This is the position of our government.”

When asked if she would accept the will of the people as reflected in the October referendum... Smith's response? "I'll judge it at that time" Literal quote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

And it will most especially affect trans people.

For the record, this could result in the disenfranchisement of thousands of people who have changed their name since receiving a birth certificate.

Alberta Premier says she's hoping for desired referendum results and may not listen to Albertans if they don't deliver the results she wants. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @mattscace.bsky.social

Alberta launches lobbying campaign ahead of October referendum on immigration, constitutional reforms. Smith: "And if I don’t get a mandate, then we’ll have to address what we do at that time.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

migrants. pay. taxes.

Let's take a closer look at Alberta's newly unveiled referendum website. albertareferendum2026.ca/immigration-...

Elon Musk and his hollow-eyed DOGE dogboys are mass murderers, and it should follow every one of them to their graves

Worried about gerrymandering? Pay attention to the closest races from Alberta's 2023 election. Fifteen of the twenty closest races were in Calgary. daveberta.substack.com/p/worried-ab...

And, as we’ve come to expect, this will be steeped in loaded rhetoric and selectively chosen facts. The base framing is grievance politics and the “other” as the enemy that takes advantage of the “average” Albertan.