Let's tell the truth about bear encounters and coexistence. If you've had a bear encounter this year, it was amazing and nothing happened, tell me about it. Email your story (3 sentences or less) and 1 photo to [email protected]. post it on your socials too and tag me and the Minister.

The UCP is totally supportive of an industry that is destroying the liveability of the earth. But if a handful of pre-teen Albertans wants puberty blockers and other gender-affirming care, it’s the Notwithstanding Clause for them.

Sound familiar, Alberta? Coming soon to your driver's license.

Wondering why the UCP is waiting until Wednesday to strip trans rights using the notwithstanding clause? The Auditor General is releasing his report into the Dynalife fiasco on Wednesday. www.oag.ab.ca/news-section... They don't think Albertans can chew gum and walk at the same time.

WOW, this Calgary Symposium on Climate looks AMAZING! Free to sign up & open to anyone to hear from Katharine Hayhoe and other local experts- Calgary case studies on saving money, cutting emissions & reducing climate risk at home, campus and work. Nov 17-21 ONLINE www.calgary.ca/environment/...

This is extremely interesting, though it’s possible shiitake are already living their best lives and don’t want to get jobs and work in data processing centres.

I just walked by the window, and I saw two pure white birds fly and land on a neighbour's roof. Not gulls. Not with the bulb-like body of a pigeon. More svelte.

If Albertans are just going to be governed by the Notwithstanding Clause on every issue and non-issue, do we really need a premier and if so what for? Anybody with a strong enough stomach and a big one-time cash payment could look googly eyes 👀 at Trump as she did.

Me & my UCP were excited to trample all over the charter rights of teachers, we’re going to do it again! This time to transgender people, because we hate anything we don’t understand and that’s why we hate everything! Sign: transactionalberta.ca/direct-message #abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption

Read this short thread for the information about public vs private medical care but also for the word ‘incidentalomas.’*

Deer-a-rama. A doe with two of this year’s young being mercilessly pursued by a buck with little 1st-year antlers. I almost shouted at him “No means no!” Or “She’s not into you!” I’ve always detested those guys who know you don’t want them but try to wear you down. 1/2

Pursuant to what I posted earlier today about CCS:

everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this

I think the reason AI data centres are being pushed is primarily because they use up a lot of fossil fuel and thereby provide an alibi for continued and accelerated extraction.

So happy to publish an essay in this collection! It's called: "Alien Invasion and Multispecies Justice: Representations of Circumpolar Ecosystems in Contemporary Inuit Sci-Fi Horror Cinema." I wrote it b/c I really wanted more people to see Slash/Back. Watch it! It's really good!

"Disappearance Studies," CFP for special issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ar...

This made me laugh. Albertans and people who oppose book-banning will find it amusing: albertaviews.ca/viciously-we...

I’m beginning to grasp why monster theory has emerged as a nascent field these past few years.

I just finished reading Billy-Ray Belcourt’s new poetry book, The Idea of an Entire Life (2025). He’s going to be the Paget-Hoy writer giving a reading and talk at the U of Calgary on the evening of March 5th. Details TBA.

Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is the winner of the Hilary Weston Nonfiction Prize, 2025. www.writerstrust.com/awards/hilar...

I wrote to AB Minister of Forestry and Parks March 20 and received a reply today: "To legally hunt in Alberta, youth must be 10 years of age." My questions to him included can youth at 10 or 12 hold a rifle or shotgun up and steady? Little arms and all that. This is the answer.

When healthcare becomes about profit, both the "health" and "care" elements are removed. #Ableg #ABpoli

I'd just typed that it is going to be +14 C today on Nov. 13th..and I looked up from my laptop and see the hill about a k away turning green in front of my eyes. I think they are spraying that grass/chemical mixture on the disturbed hillside. No more prairie grasses or wildflowers!

Title of my next op-ed: "Did Work Ruin the Workplace?"

Read this article for the information about the UCP extending silica mining but also for insights as to how power is exercised here. Ex-politician picks up the phone, and presto!!

Canadian nonfiction prize nominees; winners TBA two days from now. www.writerstrust.com/awards/hilar...

Just dialed the AHS number to make an appointment for a locally administered Covid vaccine, and the message each time is “call failed.” Guess there’s no such number.

Reading students' reading / experiential journals from my August course. For one entry, I offered them the prompt to create a resumé for one of the trees in the Calgary Tree Inventory. Both that I have read so far are brilliant, witty, and formatted like a real resumé. One is for "Barktholomew."

Suggest a new license plate slogan: Alberta Wrong and Measly

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

I’m only on p 42 of Lorne Fitch’s new book Conservation Confidential, but it’s lively and brimming with knowledge about Alberta’s natural history, biology, hydrology AND easy-reading. Good Xmas gift for the Albertans on your list and probably SK readers too. I’m in the sturgeon section. Amazing.

Isn’t this how most everyone played soccer at school in Canada?

I just watched this episode of The Nature of Things on the discovery of ancient human footprints in New Mexico and how the sedimentary layers in which they appear backdate the presence of humans in N. America by at least 10,000 additional years. #timeimmemorial www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

Eats shoots and 🍂 🍃 🍁?

I'm certain I can't hike 120 km/h. Aside from that bad pun, the UCP is a bottomless pit of terrible ideas. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm really sick of this: being led in Alberta by a party that is not Albertan, that says its prayers to the most lunatic US president in history. The Forever Canadian signature drive has proven 456,000 times that this is not an Albertan sentiment.

Exit, as if pursued by a bear.

The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link. In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.

"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths." "You couldn't put your finger in the water." Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this. News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin... Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌎 🧪

#AxeTheVaxTax sign the letter axethevaxtax.ca

HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.

Informative article about how many trees are being logged out of the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, and how many more the company plans to log: calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...

I'm hoping the FIRST Muslim mayor in North America, @naheednenshi.bsky.social, and the Alberta NDP MLAs will together draw energy and renewed encouragement from the win of the SECOND Muslim mayor in North America.

I remember listening to Brian Jean’s final campaign speech and he spoke at a Grade Two level of comprehension. No exaggeration.

The whole post but especially the first sentence.

Look at this. The hurricane downed and washed away the vegetation. One of my students told me today that the soil of her dad's farm just washed away. He has no farm now.

Deer crossing the river.