1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Party on, dude! Maybe you’ll “get lucky” like your boss.

believe it, kid

I suspect it’s a goal for these ghouls to make LGBTQ people feel besieged and isolated and friendless outside urban centers you better know it’s not true. those of us showing up to public life in my mostly-small-c-conservative community are finding out: we have friends everywhere

Wherever our future takes us, our community will grow ever more resilient and continue to thrive, because: Each one of us is worthy, valued & loved beyond all measure, & while our hearts might be heavy, within each of them is a light full of beauty, strength, & power to change the world.

Thank you Mr. Peterson 🇨🇦 🎹 youtu.be/vPve6kZEJBM?...

Please sign this petition to stop Danielle Smith from using the Notwithstanding clause to harm trans children by taking away their Charter rights. #Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

Less than 0.2% of all adolescents ever get blockers or hormones and almost none get surgery as minors, but persecuting them really helps affordability.

One article about how the treat room for overpaid treat boys isn't as good now could be written off as oafish obliviousness. Five of them feels like a sincere, deliberate attempt to tell us that they know about the horrors the rest of us face, and they *do not care about any of it but the treats*

This right here illustrates the key difference between the Liberals and Conservatives, re: pipeline politics. The PMs pitch is "if there's a business case and FN partnership, the feds will get out of the way. PPs pitch is "we are building a pipeline, no matter what." Significant distinction!

Smith finally said it out loud... She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services. Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“Serious concerns were raised earlier this year about how a citizen initiative for a referendum on Alberta separation would be against Treaty and completely illegal" - Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations Grand Chief Greg Desjarlais. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Hey Canadians! It's not a Commons petition but it still would be helpful to Heather for you to sign this so as she pushes it in the House, she has numbers behind her. She is calling on the government to use the disallowance clauses in the Constitution to block the legislations Sharing is allyship

“We celebrate the courts ruling in our favour once again, and welcome this affirmation of the legal primacy of Treaty and the Crown-Indigenous relationship here on Treaty Lands.” Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations responds to today’s ruling. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Powerful speech by @naheednenshi.bsky.social defending trans and human rights (2:54 of video). UCP MLA Getson replied with U.S. talking points including ‘founding fathers’, Charlie Kirk and judicial enemies. (4:24) The agitprop is in the house. #ableg #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/live/tdRBh1A...

Progressive conservatives in Alberta: don’t get your hopes up about the Alberta Party just yet. #ableg globalnews.ca/news/1130455...

"This is one of the most consequential actions our government will take during our time in office." It certainly is. Trans rights are human rights, and justice has (once again) been miscarried by this government. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

Recall 'em all. Every last one of them. #abpoli #ableg #recalltheUCP

This is why the progressive left in Canada needs to care a hell of a lot more about national security and defense than they currently do. We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.

What a beautiful sight.

Unbelievable. Chills. Tens of thousands of teachers converging downtown just outside where Danielle Smith is addressing an audience. I’ve never seen anything like this. Time to listen up, Premier. Time for a fair deal. We stand with teachers. ❤️✊

The Alberta UCP never campaigned on denying health care for trans youth. Doctors warn these laws will drive up depression and suicide. Now they’re hiding behind the notwithstanding clause. No mandate. Predictable harm. Extraordinary abuse of power. #cdnpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Nope. Canadians don’t want provincial politicians denying human rights on a whim or to please MAGA. For example, withholding healthcare for AB trans youth was not in the 2023 UCP campaign platform. Thank you @mark-carney.bsky.social and @seanfraser.bsky.social and www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Today in Edmonton, at a rally in support of teachers and public education. Happy #WorldTeachersDay

Please support your local teachers.

Every Child Matters.

Sorry, no, exactly wrong, once again, U.S. citizens and businesses will “just pay tariffs” imposed by the U.S. youtu.be/3yP9xEc02gg?...

Danielle Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta… “We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world” No really. She said that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Tim Hortons - no longer Canadian owned - has pulled out of the Toronto annual PRIDE parade due to the United States' anti-woke movement.Disgraceful.Email headquarters and let them know this will not stand in Canada and BOYCOTT BTW: Blenz Coffee much better anyway and they are truly Canadian #canada

“I would ask for the slander and innuendo to stop” Danielle Smith, May 13, responding to questions about Railgate - it’s not slander if it’s true - it’s not innuendo if there’s evidence - it’s not going to stop On whose behalf is the Premier’s spouse attending secret government meetings? #abpoli

#NEW: Former Alberta UCP infrastructure minister Peter Guthrie has accused the husband of Premier Danielle Smith of working as an unregistered lobbyist, which allegedly included an attempt to meet with Guthrie about a major rail link between Calgary and Banff. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

The Alberta UCP is getting interestinger and interestinger. Now it’s allegations related to unregistered lobbying and potential corruption uncovered via FOIP (which itself is currently under UCP attack). Action starts at 57:10 of the video 1/4 www.youtube.com/live/uZ1QEnB...

The face of failure

Looks like there’s going to be quite the event at the Legislature on Thursday! Our only question is if Rick Wilson will be there or if he’ll “run and hide”… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

@mark-carney.bsky.social Need strings attached.. accountability. *Federal* money should go to the intended use.. cutting funds intended for people with disabilities is amoral, cruel & untenable.

Protests in Alberta tomorrow. Please consider reposting if you have people residing in Alberta in your network. Thanks! www.abresistance.ca

...or an even better headline could be "Over three quarters of Albertans are ok with the way things are"

Alberta can’t separate from Canada. More to the point, Alberta doesn’t want to separate from Canada. What we have here is: - transnational aggressors seeking to destabilize Canadian unity - Canadian news dominated by a U.S. hedge fund (Postmedia) - a comparatively small group of wingnuts 1/3

Never once has Poilievre asked his supporters to stop waving Fuck Trudeau or Fuck Carney flags in front of children.

Whenever the right unites, the wingnuts and fascists take over. U.S. Republicans + Tea Party = MAGA Canada Progressive Conservatives + Reform = MAGA Alberta Progressive Conservatives + Wild Rose = MAGA The CPC are not our parents’ Conservatives

Building a stronger Canada can only happen in full partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Thank you to the leaders of the National Indigenous Organizations for a productive and wide-ranging discussion today. It is the first of many.

Nikihk (nikihk.ca) is an Indigenous (Cree) owned company in Saskatchewan that makes all kinds of cleaning products for kitchen and laundry, and also some body soaps. They are eco-friendly and Sobeys carries it or you can buy online. I can't imagine ANYTHING being more Canadian than this! 🇨🇦🇨🇦 ⬇️⬇️

The first step to suppressing dissent is to instill fear. Make an example of someone. Someone visible. Someone vocal. Someone whose punishment will send a ripple of terror through the ranks of those who dare to think, to organize, to speak. Mahmoud Khalil is that someone. A thread: 🧵

Holy crap. Lagrange and Smith should step down now.