The geopolitical ecology of mining: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The Alberta separatists have branded themselves as Stay Free Alberta. Click on the post below to see the parody website someone with a sense of humour has built.

The AB govt and industry CEOs want to saddle everyday Albertans with oil & gas clean up costs through a new plan called the Mature Asset Strategy (MAS). But it's not too late — send a letter demanding that companies pay for cleanup! postcards.cleanupyourmess.ca/ @forourkidsalberta.bsky.social #ABLeg

Petition e-6990 with the House of Commons: Amend the CPP Act to require that any province seeking to withdraw from the CPP must first obtain the consent of at least 2/3s of the other participating provinces that do not operate their own comprehensive pension plans #abpoli #cdnpoli

Just finished Sarah Hall’s marvellous novel Helm and am beginning this Danish novel in translation: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

First book I’m reading in 2026: bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

Did you know that “When you take a drink, enzymes in your mouth convert even small amounts of alcohol into high levels of acetaldehyde, a carcinogen”? The idea that moderate drinking is good for you is an industry-manufactured myth. My dr: “Cancer LOVES alcohol.”

I got “blissful,” believe it or not. Mmmmmmm.

#Canadian #Comedian #MarkCritch killing it with the end of year/Christmas messaging from the #WhiteHouse. #NewYear 2026 #cdnpoli

I opened the door to test whether the outside temp matched the weather app and saw a bald eagle circling over my house. I went to Calgary and by chance found the butter-tart ice cream I’d been on the lookout for for months. On the way home saw two hunting coyotes. +6 so I went for a walk. Good day!

I found Chapman’s butter tart ice cream! Calgary Co-op @ Rocky Ridge. Opposite the frozen perogies case at the end of the frozen vegetables freezer. #yyc If you’re looking at the perogies, the butter tart ice cream is right behind your back. Might be with the other ice creams too. Don’t know.

[We] call upon the Government of Canada to: 1. Initiate the constitutional amendment process under Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982, to formally recognize universal access to healthcare and education as constitutionally protected rights for all Canadians; www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Alberta under Danielle Smith and the UCP: Best province for disease: flu, measles, TB, and STDs.

@mark-carney.bsky.social FYI

Rogers with Shaw has billed me for “Xfinity,”which I don’t have and don’t want, and just sent a message telling me to subscribe to it. Also I don’t have a tv. Am I in for an epic battle to try to preserve the $89/month plan I have? Or shop some other company?

This novel is brilliant. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Easy-peasy. I donated this morning.

I miss PM Justin Trudeau’s Xmas card with good pictures of his family. Just clip art cards from the Liberal Party this year and no card from the current PM.

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

In December I taught my last class, marked my last term work and today I marked my last exam. Ever. Retiring Dec 31. Hard to encompass what it might mean.

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Strongly agree. Here's my review from last May: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

A squirrel is out at -25 C, -29 with windchill, unusual, and s/he’s got her tail wrapped along her spine to keep warm. They stripped the tamarack of cones long ago. She moved to the chokecherry and ate the one remaining berry.

It’s nearly Christmas. I can’t wait to give the gift of holding power to account for shitty decisions. Subscribe and donate to: @thenarwhal.ca @thetyee.ca @nationalobserver.com @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca @readthemaple.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @theijf.org

"The premier’s vision is to plunder [ #Alberta ] with abandon, sell off our infrastructure and resources to for-profit businesses, and leave our future well-being to chance and charity." When they trot out the "little string of pearls," look out! It's a bad sign.

Amazing Premier #WabKinew strikes again with legislation to help #healthcare workers in #MANITOBA. LEGISLATING #NURSE TO #PATIENT #RATIOS. THEY HAVE HIRED 3500 nurses in that province‼️ #cdnpoli #MANpoli #MBpoli

Just started reading Helm, by Sarah Hall, as my students write their final exam. Loving it so far, p. 17.

Healthcare in #Alberta at this very moment under the UCP govt of Danielle Smith:

How will AI strengthen Ottawa’s electricity grid? By providing mega amounts of plagiarized electricity?

From the DM’s… So patients are discharged from hospitals to seniors homes that can’t support them to free up space in hospitals… But they go back to the ER because those facilities can’t support them. The UCP haven’t solved healthcare… They’ve created a mobius strip.

The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know: Thread [1/12]

NDP MP Heather McPherson calls on Prime Minister Carney to void the unconstitutional Alberta law stripping Canadian's rights by using disallowance, to defend the Charter & protect trans kids. Also, to end all health care transfers to Alberta that fund private for-profit companies. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Read this short interview, and then fill out the quiz below: If Alberta were to separate from Canada, how long would it be before it was the "51st state" of the US? a) 25 years b) 10 years c) 5 years d) 11 minutes e) 0 minutes flat. It would be baked into the contract. archive.is/2025.12.13-1...

This story of dam removal and salmon returning is simply amazing.

@juneflanagan.bsky.social simply fyi

ARE WE WORRIED ABOUT CHICKEN AUTISM WHAT THE FUCK

Grovel up, punch down. The UCP way.

Was it the ridiculous Andrew Scheer who was bemoaning not being able to say 'Merry Christmas' anymore? Send him Timothy Snyder's latest blog about how LLMs are ruining Christmas songs: snyder.substack.com/p/the-inhuma...

I really liked this cbc Ideas podcast about what Julian Napolean is doing in N BC. I put it on to help me fall asleep again in the middle of the night but instead I was engrossed and stayed wide awake. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Signed. Imagine passing legislation to make it perfectly fine to lie to Canadians!!!

Alberta: We demand to be taken seriously. Also Alberta: get your 2-year degree in benzo addiction with a minor in fascism curiosity!

I saw a large bald eagle today as I was driving home from Calgary.

Excited to share tomorrow night on YouTube the premiere of our #KeepingtheDreamAlive video fundraising for the Tiny Toes campaign of East Kent Hospitals Charity Please support the track by buying & sharing here: orcd.co/keepthedream And join us for the premiere - we'll share the link tomorrow!

@kimmannix.bsky.social I just opened my new issue of Alberta Views, and it opened to p. 20 and your prose poem. I threw my tv into the recycle depot, but I like to think I’m that supple.. Congratulations on it and your new book.

It would be ironic if Danielle Smith twisted the laws to accredit Peterson’s personal “academy” — with zero presence in Alberta — given the way this govt pressured and harassed Athabasca University to move faculty to Athabasca, AB.

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

Dec 9th we celebrate #RecallMcDougall from Calgary-FISH-Creek with a little fish and a suitcase cause we want to send him packing. #RecallSmith #RecallAmery #RecallArmstrong-Homeniuk are excited that their paperwork has been approved by EA. Merry X-Mas Alberta! #RecallThemAll #AbLeg #ABpoli #CdnPoli

Worth reposting

I’d like to see the Law Society pull his credentials for doing this exact thing.