I was on the @ualberta.bsky.social campus today for the unveiling of this remarkable art installation by Metis painter Christi Belcourt. It’s called In My Grandmother’s Time, and it blends traditional motifs from Metis beading and embroidery with digital technology. And it’s gorgeous. #ualberta #yeg

SCOOP - Elections Alberta has been investigating the Alberta Prosperity Project since Jan. for failing to register as a third-party advertiser. Alberta Prosperity Project Faces Court Date over Separation Referendum Role via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

equivalent to half a million spotify streams for those keeping track

They’re calling him the wealthiest independent musician of all time

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Hello! Today you can find On My Side’s “Born & Buried” out wherever you get your music! Here’s a cool little thing I made using live footage of D & Bert playing at their release show at The Aviary.

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

Call or write the Premier and Minister of Justice and tell them to stop cheating and accept the majority map from the independent commission. Premier Smith: 780-427-2251 [email protected] Minister of Justice: 780-427-2711 [email protected] 2/2 #abpoli

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

SCOOP Alberta's UCP government appears to be a laughing stock inside of other conservative governments discussing the unconstitutionality of its involuntary treatment legislation. Find out who's trash-talking tough love: drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-pres...

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election: A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public. This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

heated chivalry

the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade

trudeau was willing to smile with fingers crossed behind his back, carney is just bulldozing over all of it

Last week, @policyalternatives.ca put together an urgent call for Canada to tax the profits that the oil and gas industry is making off the war in Iran. Yesterday, the best Carney could do was removing tax on average people, further defunding the state. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Editors and newsrooms, be on notice: if this Alberta government demands a correction from you, they may very well be lying. They were lying here. Do not grant them a correction on the weight of their words alone.

What McKay and the IJF detail here is very concerning. There is a certain professional courtesy between government communications staff and journalists—abusing it to demand a false correction is a serious ethical breach.

Alberta’s government asked media to edit or delete our story on Edmonton EMS overtime. We filed access to information requests and fact-checked them instead. zurl.co/R8T9Y

Study measures housing insecurity among Black youth in Edmonton edmonton.taproot.news/news/2026/04... #yeg

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Edmonton hospital admins are filing disciplinary actions against some doctors, revoking their hospital privileges and filing complaints to the regulatory college in the fallout over a contract dispute. Lawyers and the AMA say it needs to stop. #AbLeg

Littke something to pin on Insta after the wave of A/I slop from this weekend

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

I am a family doctor and public health researcher, and I oppose Carney’s cruel cuts to refugee healthcare. I join healthcare workers in 9 cities across the country today to demand access to publicly funded universal healthcare for ALL regardless of status. #NoCutsToCare

The people of Fort Chipewyan are being poisoned. Canada, we must not look away. indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-d...

There’s still a federal sales tax on bicycles.

Anyway, we need to go back to bands getting popular the old fashioned way, by taking hostage a radio station with realistic looking squirt guns and winning the heart of a recalcitrant disc jockey who is mad at management and then releasing a number one hit record while in prison for your crime.

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

What kills me if the pull quote about prescribing it to teenagers. It is fully banned in the UK, thanks in large part to the Daily Mail, for only one group of teens: trans kids.

I believe you mean “so badly”

Two students and a professor are suing the University of Alberta for violently dismantling the peaceful pro-Palestine encampment in May 2024. Back when it happened, a number of law professors—including myself—signed an open letter objecting to police brutalizing our students over protected speech.

I’ve been hearing a number of concerns about these from constituents. Please reach out to the Edmonton Police Commission as City Council is unable to change their decision: edmontonpolicecommission.com/contact/

Some current and former school trustees say a new bill eroding school board autonomy signals the Alberta government plans to eliminate elected trustees. The minister says he has no plans to do so. #AbLeg #AbEd www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Police told us that body cams would be used to hold them accountable and to prevent abuse. Instead, they're going to be used to surveil the entire public—and then to send all the surveillance data to a robot false-positive generator that is accountable to no one.

Every other day it's like "male singer exposed for running sex trafficking ring with his celebrity friends" and we're supposed to be mad at Chappell Roan for not being nice enough in an imaginary encounter she never had?

anyone wanna go with me to visit the giant UV seam / unfinished strip of halo in the arctic?

When I was a child, teachers sat the best girl students next to disruptive boy students. The girls were responsible for keeping the boys calm so that the teacher could continue teaching. This sort of emotional regulation by proxy, using girls and women to calm boys and men, still happens.

this is known as an “executive order” in the usa but in canada we just call this lunch

If you are upset about the federal budget and the funding cuts to cultural heritage, please send a letter (no postage required) or email your MP, Minister of Canadian Heritage Marc Miller, and Prime Minister Carney. Find addresses here: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

I’ve never really been like “I want to go to Coachella” but this makes me wish I was there this year

SCOOP: New details about the facial recognition bodycam project by Edmonton police — including that the AI model was provided by an Israeli company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surveillance in Gaza. www.cbc.ca/9.7157991

Mikisew Cree First Nation Billy-Joe Tuccaro sharing results of study commissioned by FN. He says results show that cancer rates are higher than Alberta average by 25%. Points the finger at the energy industry.

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

It's been almost 4 months since the tragic WR death at the GNH, and over a week since a stabbing in the RAH WR... and nothing is improving. There has been a lot of talk, but no action. A thread🧵: 1/10

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years