Teachers and unions were first (Bill 2). Trans Albertans are next (Bill 9). The UCP's 2025 AGM Resolutions reveal a much longer list of folks whose rights are at risk from the party's use of the notwithstanding clause.

I feel attacked.

This could be us Alberta.

It doesn’t have to be like this.

NEW: The UCP government has cut funding for a program that provides support for Indigenous single mothers who have experienced domestic violence. www.albertanativenews.com/alberta-cuts...

"On Sunday, October 26, about 40 masked and uniformed Second Sons Canada and Frontenac Active Club blackshirts led by MacKenzie assembled in front of CBC headquarters in Ottawa with a banner reading 'CBC hates white people'. A similar number assembled in front of the CBC building in Regina."

Not seeing much analysis circulating about the NCW's invocation —just lots of (righteous) outrage. "Labour relations expert weighs in on Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause" www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Holy shit!

Successfully or not, one of the inspiring things of Lukaszuk's leadership is that we can't just sit on our ass expecting things to change.

I'll answer my own question: because they value the property claims (I refuse to use the language of rights in relation to property; there's a reason the Charter does not protect property) of offshore mining companies more than they the value the real human rights of Albertans. #abpoli

"When the volume goes up, caucus discipline gets harder. Cabinet calculus changes. Leaders look for off-ramps." open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Nicolaides is certainly on the defensive today. Good time remind Albertans that he only won his riding by 625 votes and there is currently a recall petition for him circulating. #ableg #abpoli

This whiskey will kill this burgeoning throat infection, right?

We can’t negotiate and we can’t rely on a narcissistic bully. You can only make them hurt.

Maybe we should think about whether we should allow antivax premiers like Danielle Smith to make it harder to get these?

“We heard for instance, there was this whole neighbourhood of Delton (upset about bike lanes) but when push came to shove, Ashley Salvador, a bike-lane advocate, won that neighbourhood with more than half of the vote.” edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Just have agentic AI hallucinate errors in a veterans service record, automate eliminating their benefits, and then pay the overworked staff nothing to correct the errors.

#yeg bylaws should require secure parking in all new buildings over 8 units.

I think an interesting story so far of the #yeg election is how ineffective the party politics was this election.

As forewarned, unnecessary changes to municipal voting ID requirements made by Ric McIver to appease the UCP's far-right fringe are causing major delays in voting. Watch for McIver to accuse municipalities of not being properly prepared. 1

Wife reporting lines not moving for 40 minutes in Ward Métis.

Notes on #yeg election: Lack of automatic registration is going slow things right down in the afternoon as people sign attestation forms.

🚨Covid Inquiry reveals yet ANOTHER former Minister has deleted all WhatsApp / text messages covering the pandemic years. 🤦‍♂️ Sir Gavin Williamson (former Education Secretary) revealed: "it is my practice to frequently delete such messages and not to enable back-ups"

Good video from @hankgreen.bsky.social about the AI bubble youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk?...

Let’s go people!

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Let’s get it done folls!

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Danielle Smith wants a fight with Canada, not a new pipeline www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/o...

BREAKING: Israel’s government just approved the first phase of the ceasefire deal and a ceasefire is supposed to go into effect immediately. Israel killed at least 29 Palestinians today, according to Al Jazeera.

Would we be in a better place if the History channel’s Nazi shows were less “look at how powerful these fuckers were” and more “look at these weird little freaks”?

In case anyone local recognizes this van/person (Terrible!)

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int... "...it takes just 260 videos, which could be as quick as 35 minutes, to form a habit on the app." "Watching 'short-form videos [tends] to lower one’s self-control, which then leads to more impulsive behaviors.'"

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

Canada could join the future lead by Electrostates but we got to keep appeasing all the morons we imported to Alberta.

The worst part of watching someone speed run Silksong is seeing them get to your 10 hour progress in 15 minutes.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Let’s fucking go #Alberta!

Do the ska elders know Fishbone was just on KEXP? @brooklynmarie.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social "You're not a Proud Boy, you're just a fuckboy drinking the Kool-Aid of a mad orange king."

Before nominations even opened in Edmonton's mayoral race, Tim Cartmell raised nearly half a million dollars — with half of that coming from sources tied to real estate, construction and development. How the development industry helped Cartmell get a head start: pressprogress.ca/how-developm...

Municipal leaders urge feds to focus on nation-building, not ‘nation-burning’ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/30/n...

I have to say in all my years as a journalist, I've never heard a government employee say that a youth should be assaulted for speaking their mind.

God damn I love the phrase “way over their skis”.

If you are in #yeg and interested in the toxic drug crisis, check out this film screening happening at Metro cinema next week! #ableg metrocinema.org/production/t...

I've avoided talking about this ongoing search in the hope of a positive outcome. This should be a wake-up call to the GOA on how they recruit, train, maintain, and deploy SAR resources in this province - at the very least, the lessons need to be shared widely www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dear Alberta, The "mRNA COVID vaccine averted substantial illness and death across age groups, and that this led to economically attractive results for both of the older age groups across wide variations in the parameters of the model." ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/... #VaccinesWork

FFS

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Musk is fully behind political violence and the mainstream press will pretend this didn't just happen

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.