Albertans wondering about the UCP fixation on people who are trans may wish to read this article. E.g.,: “At a purely tactical political level, the opposition to climate action is using anti-trans rhetoric to build its base.”

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Gas in Cochrane, AB today: $134.9. Gas in Calgary today: $121.9. Eighteen kilometres apart within the same half hour.

Overheard a snippet of conversation among six or eight very churchy restaurant patrons tonight. They were hot on Jesus but cold toward Danielle Smith allowing prescription prices for seniors to go up.

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

When Klein introduced the Class Size Initiative Grant to reduce class sizes, it was never avaliable to private schools. When the UCP eliminated this grant in 2019 (and at the same time eliminated class size reporting) they effectively transferred money from public to private schools.

@asle-us.bsky.social University of Alberta, Edmonton.

So I guess Danielle Smith is suffering today. She bought all that Trylenol (most of which was never used) and now her hero RFK Jr. links it to autism. Hard to keep up with the bad medical advice!! Maybe we should leave it to real medical professionals.

We have the sky back from the smoke, and the mountains, and the way the fog is right now it looks as if there is a large lake between here and the mountains. Maybe Lake Agassiz returned in the night. Details are back too.

As a CDN I feel a bit guilty about it because i don’t subscribe to The Calgary Herald or The Globe and Mail, but I subscribed to The Guardian this morning. I love the environmental articles,***** the level of the writing, the Books section, their fashion journalist Jess Cartner-Morley etc.

Using the PB system for rating air quality it is “instant mild headache with slight lassitude” out there today.

Thank you to former PM Justin Trudeau. 👍👏 The Moderna facility in Laval, Quebec will soon be rolling out Canadian made Covid vaccines. Hopes of later producing RSV & some Cancer fighting vaccines. HUGE!!! 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

Premier Danielle Smith is making good MAGA progress in Alberta too with no obstetricians available on weekends in some towns in rural Alberta.

Chair in Trans Studies, UVic: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Nothing screams “protecting kids” like trampling their rights with the notwithstanding clause. Danielle Smith’s UCP government isn’t safeguarding anyone. They’re just proving how far they’ll go to legislate cruelty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dutch late night TV has its take

People who presumably go to church every Sunday, and yet mistake hate for love. It makes you wonder. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Yes, I’m teaching intertextuality tomorrow.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

True, our enrolment numbers are up this year.

A very worthwhile read.

And to use immigrants as a wedge to drive privatization of healthcare and education. The UCP believes that no one will object to immigrants being deprived of these necessities, and then the rest of us will be next to lose them.

This late afternoon as I walked along the river path I saw a limping doe drive off one of three fawns following her. I assume all three were hers. As she turned on the fawn, so too did one of the other fawns. The rejected one was clearly distressed. I saw and heard it a few minutes later crying out.

See #ucp identity politics below. I thought they were opposed to that kind of thing. I guess this is the #UCP’s version of #DEI.

PM Carney telling the truth isn’t embarrassing. Conservatives pretending Ottawa runs BC Ferries is. They know better — but hope Canadians don’t. BC Ferries runs its own business. The PM’s job isn’t to indulge Conservative conspiracies. Leadership requires facts, not fiction.

Okanagan grape muffins in the oven. Ready any minute now. Coronation grapes.

Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada? If you are 18+, a Canadian citizen, and are ordinarily a resident of Alberta, you're qualified to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition. Here in Calgary, there are 31 locations available for signing today.

Co-op had Hardbite turkey dressing potato chips for sale today so I guess I’m ready for Thanksgiving. May buy a pkg of cranberries to go with them on the actual day. 🦃🍒

My yard is alive with grackles, a blue jay and a hawk in the sky above.

I had never heard of this Kirk fellow until he'd been shot, and I googled him. But unless I am mistaken (possible) he wasn't a politician, was he? So WHY are media outlets and others saying he was "assassinated"? He was merely shot like all the other people, including children, who've been shot.

Maybe for their next issue Maclean’s could interview six people who can’t do basic math and let each of them ramble on spouting all their errors in addition and multiplication.

Local woman wakes up, starts a banned book club for the handful of politicians and parent groups who haven't read any of the books they're offended by and that'll occupy all their time so they can leave the rest of us to read whatever we like, makes oatmeal.

Preparing for this week’s classes by rereading poetry Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild to the accompaniment of the sounds of bird feet and feathers in the eavestrough just outside my window.

🚨 due by 10:30 am MST today‼️ PLEASE ✍️ this petition to ask the Auditor General to review the privatization of nuclear ☢️ development in Canada. 🛑

Just a reminder when your Premier lies to you about the national health recommendations for Covid vaccines, the recommendation is everyone over 6 months of age can get one #yyc #yeg #yql #abpoli #abhealth

Canadians, 👀 at this petition. Point form and a crazy notion. Check it and sign if you can.

A public service announcement: If you have tips on who’s behind oil and gas companies in Canada that aren’t paying their bills, please contact Drew Anderson over email at [email protected] or securely over Signal at @Danderson.78. #ableg #fossilfuels #orphanwells thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...

Worth a listen. #RFKJr #vaccines #MarshFamily

This is amusing: thebeaverton.com/2025/08/aws-...

“whereas in bonobo apes sex of all kinds is used as a social lubricant, a method of easing tension, and even to express the excitement of finding a tree in fruit.” Love the third one.

There are extremely good reasons why strychnine was banned in the first place and there has been plenty of time to work on other options that are effective and safe. You would have to search hard to find a more painful way to die. Plus it kills anything. www.canadiancattlemen.ca/daily/conser...

Albertans, this is very handy for finding locations where you can sign the ForeverCanadian petition:

Vicious, malicious or delicious, the school board’s response had the desired effect, drawing an avalanche of opprobrium, including a message from Atwood herself.”

I told my first-years yesterday (while wearing my mask to teach in) that I haven’t been sick since 2020 and someone in the room gasped.

Danielle Smith’s book banning is amounting to another “bozo eruption” of her own making.

😱 Moral panic! UCP book ban explodes as government on brink of major labour dispute with Alberta's teachers. Read all about it: daveberta.substack.com/p/moral-pani...

The Law Society of Alberta has disbarred both John Carpay and Jay Cameron of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms for hiring a private investigator to surveil Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal. documents.lawsociety.ab.ca/wp-content/u...

Yep, certain people in the private sector believe they're the ones propping the public sector up. It's the reverse. Private enterprise benefits enormously from the collective nature of governing systems and public services. When we allow the latter to erode, only the 0.1% richest benefit.

Last thing I will post tonight about the HPV vaccine is this: It not only prevents cervical cancer, but also penile cancer and anal cancer. So boys should get it, too. (Also, statistical modelling clearly shows that is boys are vaccinated, cervical cancer is eliminated faster)