Took Mr. Crazy Guy (aka Hal aka Mr. Game 7) to animal care :( he’s gonna have a great life but still tough to say bye

New from me: UCP members will vote on a raft of policy proposals at the party's AGM, including resolutions • requiring temporary residents to pay more for healthcare • banning the display of flags on gov property representing “special interest groups" • buying the Alberta operations of the RCMP.

New from me: a man who committed a mass shooting at an Edmonton nightclub left a trail of clothing behind as he fled police, including ditching his distinctive boots. He managed to evade police almost two years, but the discarded garments proved his undoing. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

Has bluesky had a proper “here come the oilers” night yet

On our op-ed page: researchers make the argument that Edmonton might be the frostbite capital of the world, largely due to street homelessness. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

The owner of the old BMO site in downtown Edmonton, which has sat empty (or, perhaps more accurately, rubble strewn) since the old bank was demolished in 2018, is upset that the city has branded it a problem property. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Danielle Smith has repeatedly invoked the idea of Alberta independence, but documents show it is not an economic scenario the province is seriously considering.. zurl.co/ATsA2 #abpoli #Alberta

Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

NEWS: An Edmonton police officer has been charged for allegedly entering a woman's home while on duty and sexually assaulting her. He and the service are also facing a $1.5 million lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

ICYMI

Conservative Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux says he will resign his seat in the House of Commons after days of intense speculation that he would cross the floor to the governing Liberals. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

NEWS: An Edmonton police officer has been charged for allegedly entering a woman's home while on duty and sexually assaulting her. He and the service are also facing a $1.5 million lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

May regret wading into this, but I'm struck by how much coverage there's been of the Supreme Court's decision re: mandatory minimums for child porn, vs. the court's 2020 Friesen decision, which said emphatically that sentences for child sex offenders must go up. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

New from me: Alberta’s superior court has ordered an Edmonton man who punched, kicked and painfully restrained his dog to report to jail after rejecting his bid to serve his sentence in the community. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/c...

Latest from @jonnywakefield.bsky.social — Alberta’s superior court has ordered an Edmonton man who punched, kicked and painfully restrained his dog to report to jail after rejecting his bid to serve his sentence in the community. #yeg edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/c...

"The fact all those chances broke the way they did will start to feel much more inevitable than it was; a World Series whose outcome still doesn't quite scan will be made rational, & then just, & then meaningful. It will be worth remembering what it was actually like" defector.com/the-dodgers-...

Today on Facebook dot com: an account using AI to make fake Holocaust content for clicks (I can find no other instances of this image). Nauseating.

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

New from me: Federal oil and gas agency faces potential class action from Indigenous employees alleging toxic workplace edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/i...

Glad to hear Edmonton's new mayor is pro-Landmark City Centre, if this theatre closes I will be crushed edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...

🚨Scoop: Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont says he is considering crossing the floor to join the Liberal Party. He tells me he'll make a decision “in the next few days” after reviewing the federal budget. Other Conservatives are also being courted.

“If we felt we were being meaningfully consulted with, you wouldn’t see members of our bar giving donations to a party trying to put the hundreds of Albertans we employ out of a job.” - injury lawyer on why so many made corp donations to UCP. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ICYMI

New from me: a man who sold an assault rifle to an undercover police officer investigating his ties to an Edmonton-area right wing extremist group has been sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

Edmonton is in the midst of a rash of apparent arson fires targeting infill properties, not long after police dismantled an international conspiracy to extort money from homebuilders in the city's South Asian community. Scary stuff. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

I got to experience two teams I care about losing game 7s this post-season, including to each other. I am Julio Rodriguez’s locker room screams of the damned, for the rest of my baseball fandom

Hell

Awful

It is time

It’s only a game, it’s only a game

Sportsnet app down!!!!

This is excruciating

Baseball has run its course frankly

So excited for an IKF at bat in the 14th inning

Horror

Going to take advantage of all this emotion: does anyone want to adopt this cat, he’s an absolute treat

Ernie the prime minister of Canada clement

haha

Me to every blue jays player who does anything for the rest of the game m.youtube.com/shorts/JiA6Z...

It is so wild to see an athlete in these circumstances having this much fun??

This has gone from two shiny knights jousting on a field of honour to that scene in Deadwood where the two toughs bash each other to pieces in the mud

LETS GO

This would be so much better if Shohei was deeply unlikeable and not a seemingly pretty sweet dude

This guy literally followed my wife home, had to be picked up because he insisted on following across a busy road, and now he gets to watch game 7 of the World Series.

I haven’t gotten the sense the budget won’t pass, but if Carney has to fight another election six months after Elbows Up with this sort of thing on his record … I dunno

NEW: a 20-year-old “middle manager” in a series of extortion arsons targeting Edmonton’s south Asian community has been sentenced to 7 years Plus more details about the involvement of Harpreet Uppal, the gangster murdered alongside his 11 year old son 2 years ago edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/p...

Incredibly well done doc on the crime wave in my one-time home of Dawson Creek, pop. 12,000, where 15 people have been murdered since 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzvS...