In the age of AI garbage, the joy, creativity & talent in this video is so incredible. Losers "prompting" AI music will never, ever understand.

Exclusive: European financial stability officials are debating whether to create an alternative to Federal Reserve funding backstops by pooling dollars held by non-US central banks in a bid to reduce their reliance on the US under the Trump administration, sources say reut.rs/47OPvJf

I keep telling this story. Imagine a vast orchard, bequeathed to the Boomers by their parents. They spend their working lives tending it, growing it, selling the apples and cider. They show it to their kids, and they say, "It'll be up to you to keep this going when I retire." (cont.)

There are multiple signing opportunities today, November 13, in Calgary-Bow to recall the Education Minister and one signing event in Airdrie-East to recall MLA Pitt. Visit Operation Total Recall to learn more. #yyc #Calgary #Airdrie #ableg #abpoli #OperationTotalRecall operationtotalrecall.ca

BA.3.2.2 nearly 50% of recent Western Australia sequences—perhaps on a path to dominance there? In this latest batch, there's another furin-cleavage site (FCS)-adjacent ∆QT sequence. It's very closely related to the first one, so there's now no doubt that the deletion is real. 1/3

“Well everyone else was doing it too” is never a worthy excuse. Just because practically no one masks or keeps up with the alarming science on COVID doesn’t exempt everyone from responsibility. #MaskUp and protect yourself and others. In the future, you’ll be glad you did.

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Fun fact, Twin Cities: that giant stripe in the sky all of you are posting right now? I think that’s a STEVE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE

Hey Calgary (and probably all of Western Canada) aurora borealis right now! Look Northwest. You can see the red even without your phone.

On the good news side, our handwashing compliance is up 0.325% year over year!

A togglable "I'm an adult with kids and a job" feature that assumes you only get to play once a week, and dumps a summary of what you were last doing/your current objectives in a corner tooltip on loading a save.

Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 ALBERTA SEVERE [no change] About 1 of every 81 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 12.8 x higher -Long COVID: 6.6 x higher -Hospitalizations: 14.1 x higher -Deaths: 21.6 x higher

This is heartbreaking. We have 🇨🇦 seen deaths, and an uncontrolled outbreak, and now lost elimination status after nearly 3 decades having it and almost 6 decades of work to eliminate measles. Measles is a deadly virus, and the vaccine to prevent it is safe and effective. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region. Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...

"...mistrustful of vaccines since the COVID-19 pandemic." - This slow moving disaster started well before the pandemic. But the abandonment of public health certainly cinched it

MAJOR UPDATE: apnews.com/article/louv...

The budget. It puts $5 billion into “health infrastructure,” which sounds like healthcare funding. But is it? My breakdown for Canada Healthwatch looks at what’s new, what’s missing, and why health is now being framed as infrastructure.

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

We know lots of you have been asking 3M for a Black Aura - like mask for consumer use. Today we're excited to launch a new product to fill that hole in the market! Introducing the headband version of BreatheTeq KN95. Available in black and white.

Remembering Indigenous Veterans Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe n.d.

Donating made easy, PayPal is now available for Calgary-Bow to donate to the campaign. If you live in Bowness, Crestmont, Cougar or Valley Ridge; Coach, Osprey or Trinity Hill(s); Greenwich, Montgomery, Patterson, Prominence, Wentworth, West Springs, or Wildwood. #give recallnicolaides.ca/donations/

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

3.5 million Canadians as of June 2023...

This is a total outrage and has crippled SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking and evolutionary analysis. Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.

@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund: pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

I’ve used WA Health’s COVID-19 wastewater surveillance page to estimate the number of infections of BA.3.2. I estimate ~1,100 BA.3.2.* infections in Perth for the latest week, and ~5,700 over the 11 weeks since BA.3.2.* was first detected. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #BA_3_2 #Australia #WA #Perth 🧵

For those keeping score, the premier: 🔵has already started picking her voters (through voter suppression laws). 🔴wants to choose who can run for office (only "serious" candidates qualify). ⚪️now wants to decide which MLAs deserve to be recalled (and which ones get to keep their seats).

And here it is. When the first instinct of a so-called independent regulator is to call the Minister’s office for their “input” you don’t have an independent regulator #abpoli #ableg

“It’s an historic fuck-up” Pierre Poilievre’s week couldn’t get any worse, and yet it did. It will be a miracle if he even makes it to the leadership review. #cdnpoli

CPC down one more MP, this time from Edmonton. I suppose the only good news for Pierre Poilievre is that Jeneroux is choosing to resign instead of crossing the floor. #cdnpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

👀👀 “Documents related to Summit coal decision raise more questions about Alberta Energy Regulator’s independence”: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #ableg h/t @nigelb.bsky.social

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

10,812 AUPE nursing care members have voted to strike, with 219 against for a 98% vote towards labour action. Breakdown of percentages below:

1/A new report on children and youth. The alarming part is not in the absolute numbers - its the pattern! Persistent vascular & inflammatory injury in a pediatric population following a virus that many still claim is mild in kids. 📢Major public health red flag www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Corporate and union donations are back in Alberta politics. And as @markusoff.bsky.social found out, one party benefited from that change much more in the last quarter. #AbLeg

There are more of us than there are of them.

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Woke up today to the news

Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult. But not impossible. Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇

Alberta's Auditor General is racing to finish his investigation into healthcare procurement after the UCP govt rejected his proposed contract extension. He's done in April, 2026, and wants his probe wrapped then, too. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Not even hiding the blatant entitlement anymore. The Premier's Office continues to remove all checks and balances on its power. The courts, the legislature, the Auditor General, independent agencies, the federal government, voters and candidates they don't like... This is getting ridiculous.

This morning at the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices...UCP majority introduces a motion starting a search committee for a new auditor general. NDP MLA David Sheppard says Doug Wylie wants to stay on two more years. Wylie is reviewing the allegations of inappropriate health contracting.

Continuing to deconstruct, and then build again, Alberta's health bureaucracy one brick at a time. If the subject-matter were not so serious we'd all be laughing out loud at the contents of this press release. #abpoli #ableg #recall

Part of a general UCP policy of gutting or defunding (or in some cases both) accountability mechanisms. We see the same thing in access to information where inadequate funding leads to delays & dysfunction as demonstrated by @drewyewchuk.bsky.social in many @ablawg.bsky.social posts. #abpoli #ableg

Today Elections Alberta requested $13.5 million to be able to administer recalls and referendum. The UCP committee in charge revised their request to just over $1 million. And then voted it through. The UCP just defunded recall/referendum. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Happy Monday! #ableg Question Period will begin shortly... #abpoli

Important issue.Talk to your councillor - we need to stop elevating cars as *the* mode of transport in this city to the detriment of everything else. It is killing people.

South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...