Spent a decent portion of Christmas fuming at Richard II for being an absolute clod. Irredeemable. Terrible king.

Watching an nba broadcast and it turns out I am still capable of being shocked by the quantity of sports betting ads!

Annual reminder that the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album is the only Christmas album that will make you want to run through a damn WALL www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMs...

News from the last court sitting of 2025: a 22-year-old who shot up a house as part of a sprawling extortion plot targeting Edmonton’s Indo-Canadian community will likely be deported to a country he left as a child after finishing his sentence edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

The shots of Rogers Place from the north side will never not confuse me

Bonkers story from @matthewblack.ca: Lawyers for a former AHS board member claim a self-described political fixer, along with an indy publisher, have been paid to smear their client in an effort to discredit & dissuade him from testifying in the wrongful dismissal suit from the agency’s former CEO.

Sharing again so I can get more "really how is this news I stand with Mark Carney!" replies

New from me: On New Year's Eve 2015, two men were arrested in connection with what was then Edmonton's largest fentanyl seizure. They were finally sentenced yesterday after a 10-year delay. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/t...

News: an Edmonton police officer has been acquitted of assaulting an Indigenous man who claims he stopped to help at a traffic accident and walked into the middle of stolen catalytic converter investigation. Third EPS assault acquittal this year that I know of edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...

Why did he have to call it the Defiant 😭

From court yesterday: a man who set fire to half a dozen homes in Edmonton’s Alberta Ave neighbourhood at the behest of late landlord/alleged drug dealer Abdullah Shah/Carmen Pervez has been sentenced to 12 years in prison edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/d...

Former Liberal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault gets default judgment in suit against ex-business partner edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

New from me: I asked Edmonton’s new police chief about photos obtained by @carrietait.bsky.social et al of his predecessor, Dale McFee, at Oilers playoff games with Sam Mraiche/government ministers edmontonjournal.com/news/dale-mc...

Cool new program from @cajournalists.bsky.social that connects Canadian journalists with pro bono legal counsel. There is nothing quite so reassuring as having a story lawyered caj.ca/launch-of-la...

Big "Edmonton is Fine!" energy

My biggest takeaway from today's Statistics Canada population release.

For the lunch crowd.

When the bridge hits mid celly www.tsn.ca/world-junior...

New from me: I asked Edmonton’s new police chief about photos obtained by @carrietait.bsky.social et al of his predecessor, Dale McFee, at Oilers playoff games with Sam Mraiche/government ministers edmontonjournal.com/news/dale-mc...

Looking through old debates on floor-crossing. Stephen Harper had an underrated sense of humour.

A woman was charged with sending a threatening email to ex-justice minister Jon Denis. Courts learned somebody had faked the email through a Czech website. Quite the story from @robsonfletcher.com & Meghan Grant www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

News: an ex-Edmonton youth worker is being sentenced for child luring & possessing child sex abuse material. Crown wants 4 years in prison, defence is seeking a conditional sentence, available in the wake of the SCC decision striking down the mandatory minimum. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...

As Alberta completes its first full year without coal in its power supply mix, renewables (wind, solar, and hydro) have reached 22% of total generation and natural gas makes up 78%.

Apparently the Carney government keeps using British spelling in official documents and Canadian English enthusiasts are not happy about it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Word I would have gone with is “perfunctory” dailyhive.com/vancouver/qu...

Canucks rebuild plan: • unite the Buium Bros • several more Petterssons

Grimly hilarious that the only real playoffs success the Canucks had with this core was when they were locked down in a hotel in Edmonton.

We read excerpts of Manufacturing Consent in the media studies course I took in first year, and while I don't discount the entire thing I think for most the takeaway is simply "mainstream media bad, don't trust them!" So anyway this is kind of interesting.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

My puck knowledge is not particularly deep, is one of these guys an obvious upgrade over the other? (Jarry and Skinner, the NHL website somehow doesn't include their names in this stat box)

Watching Slow Horses and has anyone seen a good explanation of the training exercise the main character botched because I really don’t understand it.

Latest from @jonnywakefield.bsky.social — Man accused of attacking Edmonton sex trade workers pleads guilty to choking, robbing woman edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

Says here there are 36 data centres seeking approval to connect to the Alberta energy grid. Seems worth noting that just last year we were risking brownouts in -30 (though I think a major new gas project has come online since then) edmontonjournal.com/business/cou...

The city of Dawson Creek is in severe drought, leading to a proposal to build a $100M pipeline to ship in water from a different river. Their plan to pay for it? Sell more water to industry www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Incredible 1870s energy from this headline

What a nightmare: "Auger’s unit charged a 17-year-old boy with multiple offences, including making & distributing child sexual abuse & exploitation materials. Police allege he used AI to create sexualized photos of teen girls from Calgary high schools." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Seems to me most AI use cases depend on people waving away really basic facts, like how an animated reproduction of a dead family member is not, in fact, that family member

Over the last hour, the Nooksack overflow zone is now inundated. Another 'major' flood is now forecast. Still probably won't be as large as 2021. But a whole bunch of water is headed north towards Abbotsford.

"Drivers drive the way they do because they get away with it. Every time someone speeds through a school zone without consequence, the message is clear: These laws are optional." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

New from me: A convicted murderer who downloaded gambling apps, met up with women and stayed at a hotel while on work release has lost a bid to avoid transfer to a stricter prison. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

New from me: A convicted murderer who downloaded gambling apps, met up with women and stayed at a hotel while on work release has lost a bid to avoid transfer to a stricter prison. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

A Lloydminster, Alberta man who police say owned Confederate and Nazi flags, as well as multiple firearms, is facing charges after allegedly threatening groups of people online. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/l...

Trump threatens new "very severe" tariffs against Canada to spur domestic fertilizer production

The Alberta government sure looks like it’s going to try to rip out some bike lanes in Edmonton and Calgary calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Doing family Christmas today for ease of parental travel. I’m never going to recover. Stuck 19 days in the future forever.

@matthewblack.ca gets results! edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Oh my god it’s going to be the B.C. version of the Avignon papacy

Wowowow