Yes, that is snow you see in the weather forecast for Calgary. Snow.

Idris Elba! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tedds calls all the bullshit on those who dismiss concerns about the lack of funding clarity in the Spring Economic Update as “political economy.” 🫡✊🏻 www.routineproceedings.com/2026/05/15/r...

Is it Tubthumping by Chumbawamba?

Never ignore Lindsay.

'Beige is the colour of a former senior Liberal advisor showing up in the replies with the political-economy hand-wave like it is a gift instead of an insult' an absolute (necessarily so) scorcher from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/b...

Fantastic /s www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

new on DFTR. a senior liberal advisor calls the quiet defunding of equity infrastructure "just an explanation of political economy.” Bitch, please deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/b...

Or go camping…

Very much worth your time to read, from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social Link 👉 deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/p... #CanPoli

Stop trying to make fetch happen www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I think I'd ask what is "anti-democratic" about the ruling.

In other words, blame Jason Kenney. And stop trying to reincarnate him people. Looking at you, progressives

The court gave Danielle Smith an off-ramp for the referendum, and she is rejecting it. Of course she is. She is not fit for office. #PnPCBC

It's not clear that a judge would expedite an appeal so that an independence referendum could go ahead for Oct. 19. And if Smith calls a referendum herself, First Nations could challenge that right away on failing duty to consult.

The only logical reason for Danielle Smith to react like this would be if she were a separatist. Therefore, either Danielle Smith is insane, or she is a separatist.

Alice Cooper will perform his classic hit "I'm One Hundred and Eighteen."

Oh wow. The plot thickens. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

ADAP and AISH new regs just dropped yesterday. Why does the UCP hate people with disabilities so much. More to come but I just spent six hours at work with my shirt on inside out, three hours of in front of students so….

Kevin Warsh was just confirmed as next Fed chair. The only problem is we don't know which Kevin Warsh... The inflation hawk of 2006-2011? The sock puppet who doesn't know won the 2020 election? A public servant ready to grow into the job and lead? Someone else? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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Loblaws credits record profits to “raising prices on things humans need to live”

AND HERE'S SEMIFINAL NUMBER TWO SOFT SERVE DOWN ROWDY SPORTS TEAMS DOWN WINDSWEPT AT THE BOW, DOWN IT'S PIRATE PAK VS ORCA SIGHTING

A Canada for whom? via @lindsaytedds.bsky.social deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/p...

A reminder apropos the seemingly imminent Alberta-Ottawa announcement that it won’t actually be a pipeline deal, unless a proponent has suddenly materialized. It’ll be a deal to set the conditions for a pipeline (and various other forms of investment).

Smh

Some very important and powerful words in here, particularly around the expectation of gratitude for inadequate funding and programming by the government, as part of the workhouse mentality.

Must read.

Oh god, accurate. I have to actually google for academic calendar dates...and I still currently only get them for 2024-2025 and then have to click around to get 2026-2027...🤷

Huge thanks to @msthpetra.bsky.social @heartforward.bsky.social @davidkahane.bsky.social @davidbarrettyyc.bsky.social and others who have helped us out on this. Fund page is now updated with news coverage, press release and other information so keep checking back 🔽 chuffed.org/project/1808...

One paragraph in the Statement of Claim is absolutely chilling: "23. As the CPS officers battered ... Farrah told her arresting officers she couldn’t breathe, one said “if you’re talking, you’re breathing” and “that excuse expired two years ago” (a reference to the murder of George Floyd)." 4/4

In my former role as a Calgary Police Commission commissioner, I publicly asked a question on perceived political interference at the CPC meeting on May 29, 2024. Watch it here, time stamp 1:19:12 - 1:19:57. youtu.be/FwhcPvKU_pc 3/

Some commissioners asked questions. I asked the then chief of police if there was a concern with political interference. He said no. A year later @readtheorchard.org broke a story with the former chief's notes that showed the UCalgary response was discussed in detail with the Premier's office. 2/

I was a commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission when this situation unfolded. Calgary Police Service weren't regulars in the use of the gear deployed in this case. Most CPS members took the packaging & wrap off their shield during the violent conflict in Falconridge in September 2023. 1/

"Please, Ottawa, I want some more." New on DFTR. The Spring Economic Update says "A Canada For All." Read the document and ask who actually gets a stake, who is told to be grateful for the scraps, and why the workhouse is still in business. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/p...

Here's a link that is not behind a paywall. archive.ph/5wZ8o

I was up on campus (working) when CPS started to mobilize. I left. They didn't make it easy as many accessible entry/exit points were actually blocked. I then saw what was waiting at McMahon stadium driving home. I contacted students I knew that lived on campus and begged them to leave ASAP.

🧵 Why are we suing the Calgary Police? It’s hard to describe what happens to you physiologically while being smeared in public by powerful people. It’s a mix of uncertainty, fear, frustration, rage, indignation, and anguish, on a thick layer of pity — for self and others you know are in it, too. 1/

Here's a gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/332bc51...

gift link! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8363bd6... really, really important story here. parker's an incredibly dangerous person and his behaviour here needs to be corrected by the swift boot of the law

Behind a paywall, but fucking arrest him, arrest them all. We are done with them all “Separatist leader accused of misusing Alberta electors list refuses to co-operate with investigators” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

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Really just not the sort of thing one wants to have written about one's political fortunes. www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Most students that take 1st yr economics (micro and macro) take it because they have to (requirement) not because they want to. Now that doesn’t mean we don’t want to try to convince them to change course, but for those that teach in the condition, how do you approach teaching in this environment?

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It is the 30th anniversary of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Watch this to learn about how New regulations, including mandatory tracking chips, strict 2:00 p.m. turn-around rules, & high-tech drone operations, are redefining the experience for climbers www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41Q...

Grey day but the cats are checking out, from a distance, the mouse family that has made a home in the backyard and now we are just trying not to get the hantavirus