Alberta really really loves oil

Reading is still writing…right?

And here’s a tan and white French bulldog sitting by his stuffed birthday cake slice toy.

I wrote some reflections on The Bay and the connections to Métis culture for the Toronto Star. 📸 Ryan Jackson

I grew a dill forest while I was away

Venetian wine and break away roper pyjamas.

Went hard on French Vintage and now I’ll have to figure out how to pack my suitcase 😭

I went cycling in Amsterdam—terrifying and also fun

Amsterdam ❤️

Chowing down on delicious Icelandic hotdogs in Reykjavik

The #NMA25 Silver award for Photo Essay & Photojournalism goes to Amber Bracken for "The fight for life downstream of Alberta's tailings ponds — full of arsenic, mercury and leads," published in ‪@thenarwhal.ca

Thank you!!!

Here's Ottawa's statement on slapping sanctions onto extremist Israeli cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

I highly recommend the audio version, with Carter's words in his own voice. Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1kCV...

From 2022: my profile of Stephen Carter for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social www.sprawlcalgary.com/the-strategi...

Love their logo though ngl www.desmog.com/2025/06/06/s...

Absolutely incredible and infuriating story about a police officer who allegedly preyed on vulnerable women. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2400876...

APTN News is 25 and we’re looking back with the people who helped build it. InFocus guest host Karyn Pugliese sits down with Dan David, Bruce Spence, Todd Lamirande and Charmaine Straker to talk chaos, legacy and what’s next. Listen Thursday: podfollow.com/infocus

I come home tired and hungover from a journalist conference and the husb decides his is the moment to review our luggage situation. 😭

At the Alberta Republicans event and one of the speakers, Gordon Kesler has some very interesting political opinions.

A cowboy-hat-wearing lawyer from Calgary is making the case on rightwing media that Alberta should separate from Canada and become the 51st US state. But as @daniparadis.bsky.social reports, local Indigenous leaders aren't impressed. www.desmog.com/2025/05/20/m...

Meet the Calgary lawyer who is out pitching separatism on American television t.co/Q5C54eivD1

Tables @janapruden.bsky.social

Some slippers I made

They don’t know how to pay for hydrogen. That was my main takeaway from the convention.

Dudley Green stood in front of the driver in the Vancouver attack, and protected him from an angry, distraught crowd. “He needs to die,” one of the men said. 
“I don’t disagree,” Mr. Green told him. “But now is not the time.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7232de0...

One result I'm not seeing get a lot of attention: Aaron Gunn won. The guy who front-the most extreme parts of Poilievre's social and public safety agenda (he directed the "doc" Vancouver is Dying) will be heading to Ottawa.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Alberta doesn’t make political decisions on strategy. They do it based on vibes. So there’s no point in trying to reason it out.

Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2400876...

Just going drill baby drill in this victory speech.

At the Canadian Hydrogen Convention this week. It’s been quite an, er eventful, year for Hydrogen www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/a...

Pope Francis spoke to the church in Gaza every day since the war until his death. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2400876...

Wah. David, 🎶 you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me 🎶

The Gen Z hellscape has arrived. You now have to explain to employees that the argument they crafted by typing into chat GTP is wrong. 😆 you have to argue with a person about what a language model told them.

This is high art

🚨NEW ORCHARDCAST🚨 @daniparadis.bsky.social joins me to discuss the week that was in the 2025 🇨🇦 federal election campaign. We talk about candidate cancellations, the CBC's future and much more. www.readtheorchard.org/p/election-u...

Two of Canada's federal parties are promising to militarize the Arctic. Investigative journalists @davidpugliese.bsky.social and @daniparadis.bsky.social join host Cierra Bettens to give their take on what that means for the North and the people who live there.

"Rachel became a symbol of the threats journalists face. Now, she is a symbol of what it means when institutions fail to defend journalists." thank you karynpugliese.bsky.social for articulating this media failure karynpugliese.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

It’s noon now so I hope I have avoided most of the April Fools jokes.

Who'd have thought!? A Canadian fossil fuel company is funding a campaign against electric vehicles And of course he's a former BC Liberal environment minister Great work by @desmog.bsky.social @daniparadis.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/f...

Lots to say about this post, but I'm hung up on the caption. This man is ride or die for the Official Languages Act.

It's a "straight up gnawing on the baking chocolate" kind of news day

Stuck in a parking lot with a flat tire so AMA. (I’m also waiting for AMA)

The Alberta government is defending Smith's decision to attend a fundraiser for the group on the taxpayers' dime, saying it will be an opportunity to reach influential Americans. Among those Americans is Ben Shapiro — co-headlining with Smith — who said Canada could be the next Puerto Rico.

Trump's opposition to foreign wars was never deeper than his general opposition to doing things that require reading more than one paragraph or interrupting his golf routine and if you ever thought otherwise it's not too late to change your mind

not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously

I'd never heard of a party caucus putting a member on probation until this business with UCP and ex-minister Pete Guthrie, but there's much novelty in this Alberta Health Services saga... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The “cover” of today’s Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. #StrongAndFree

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