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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Don't let hate win. Own your life and your choices.
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Jared Wesley
about 9 hours ago
2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy. Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
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What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/what-can-we-do?r=evscl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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David J. Climenhaga
about 20 hours ago
Finally, a forceful response to the UCP’s policy hot mess by the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi.
albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/fina...
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Finally, a forceful response to the UCP’s policy hot mess by the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi - Alberta Politics
Better late than never, Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi finally effectively hammered the governing United Conservative Party’s policy hot mess at a news conference yesterday morning marking the end of...
https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/finally-a-forceful-response-to-the-ucps-policy-hot-mess-by-the-ndps-naheed-nenshi
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Charlie Angus
1 day ago
Another one bites the dust. I heard Pierre Poilievre on TV yesterday ranting about the carbon tax. It was the same smarmy voice repeating the same dumbed down slogans. Meanwhile Canada is facing the threat of the Trump doctrine. No wonder this idiot is losing ground
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Another Conservative MP crosses floor to Liberals, brings party closer to majority
Conservative MP Michael Ma, who represents the Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville, is crossing the floor to the Liberal Party, according to a statement released Thursday night.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/another-conservative-mp-crosses-floor-to-liberals/
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
1 day ago
Can we please do this?
@albertandp.ca
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Many Albertans want private school funding scrapped, survey finds
A recent survey found a majority of Albertans would want the government to remove public funding of independent/private schools.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/many-albertans-want-private-school-funding-scrapped-survey-finds/
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The Breakdown AB
2 days ago
“Essentially, the chief electoral officer is saying, ‘Either trust me and leave these things with me and don't interfere in the independence of my office … or keep this garbage with you and deal with it in the minister's office,’”
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#cdnpoli
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Alberta amends Bill 14 after chief electoral officer raises red flag about 'partisan influence' | CBC News
The chief electoral officer copied all MLAs on a letter outlining his concerns, sent before the bill went to second reading.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-bill-14-chief-electoral-officer-partisan-influence-9.7010590
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Timothy Caulfield
3 days ago
Regular Coffee Drinking Can Protect and Restore Liver Health
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
"Regular coffee consumption is associated with lower incidence and progression of chronic viral hepatitis, ALD, MASLD, HCC, cirrhosis, and fibrosis."
#TeamCoffee
#TeamConfirmationBias
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Regular Coffee Drinking Can Protect and Restore Liver Health
A synthesis of research and a deep dive into potential cellular and molecular mechanisms reveals how coffee can help prevent and mitigate liver diseases.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/regular-coffee-drinking-can-protect-and-restore-liver-health-2025a1000wv7
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Andrew Scheer is a fucking idiot hence why he lost the election to be PM. Stop frothing you irritating moron!
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Pierre Polyester
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
5 days ago
Important deep dive into the nuance of current and proposed carbon pricing regimes for Alberta/Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Why a tonne of industrial carbon costs $95 in Alberta but credits sell for less than $20 | CBC News
A key part of the pipeline deal between Alberta and Ottawa is a “minimum effective credit price of $130 per tonne” on industrial carbon emissions, but already the two levels of government are talking ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-industrial-carbon-tax-compliance-headline-vs-market-price-9.7002223
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦
5 days ago
According to Poilievre all "manly men" in the resource industry are sexual assaulters. Make no mistake. This scrawny, weak, arrogant POS hates manly men (jealousy) just as much as he hates women.
#cdnpoli
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My favorite words is calling Trump a dycking dumb low IQ fucking pig
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David Hamer
7 days ago
Correct.
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Max Fawcett
8 days ago
The results of this survey must be *really* bad. Yet another rake this government has stepped on.
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Four inquiries launched after province declines to release results of Alberta Next surveys
Postmedia sought replies to questions on a provincial police force, Alberta pension plan, and denying services to some immigrants.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/four-inquiries-launched-after-province-declines-to-release-results-of-alberta-next-surveys
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Timothy Caulfield
8 days ago
Rage or real? Experts urge caution as X reveals location data
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Me: "Our information environment is increasingly becoming a rage economy, and what we’re seeing is bad actors — foreign individuals — monetizing our polarization."
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Rage or real? Experts urge caution as X reveals location data
Social media and tech experts are preaching caution as X, formerly Twitter, rolls out a new location feature meant to disclose which country account holders post from.
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/12/04/rage-or-real-experts-urge-caution-as-x-reveals-location-data/
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Jared Wesley
9 days ago
I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it. The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Alberta used notwithstanding clause to avoid costly arbitration with teachers, infrastructure minister says
Alberta infrastructure minister says the province invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back was due to cost.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/alberta-used-notwithstanding-clause-to-avoid-costly-arbitration-with-teachers-infrastructure-minister-says
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Pierre’s a fuckidiot
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9 days ago
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️🌈🍉
9 days ago
YES Recall Petition for Smith is approved. Ok Brooks-Medicine Hat let’s get those signatures!!
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca
10 days ago
No more. We are done.
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BC Reality
10 days ago
Alberta wonders why BC is opposed to tanker traffic? Because we know the history on oil/gas cleaning up after themselves
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Cult MTL
10 days ago
Mark Carney now leads Pierre Poilievre by 28 points as the best choice for prime minister.
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Mark Carney leads Pierre Poilievre as the best choice for prime minister by 28 points
Prime Minister Mark Carney leads Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre as the best choice for prime minister by 28 points.
https://cultmtl.com/2025/12/mark-carney-leads-pierre-poilievre-as-the-best-choice-for-prime-minister/
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Christina Gray
11 days ago
The Globe & Mail’s new report reveals Premier Smith met with individuals, who were later named in the CorruptCare scandal, while she was running to become UCP leader. We continue to call for a full public inquiry into CorruptCare.
#ableg
#abpoli
#corruptcare
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Robert Reich
11 days ago
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Max Fawcett
11 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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WTF is the UCP gonna do on Thursday with election changes. JFC they’re Finn ensure they rig things to ensure they win. Corrupt fucks
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
12 days ago
Double podcast alert! Been very much enjoying/ enthralled with
@volts.wtf
this week. In addition to the balcony solar episode I recommended earlier this week, here are two more. 1st: clean air matters! 1/2
www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
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What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-indoor-air-quality
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The Breakdown AB
12 days ago
WOW! In March, Danielle Smith justified not calling for a public inquiry in part because her new right hand man... (former
#YEG
Police Chief, Dale Mcfee) had looked into the corrupt care scandal The same one who the Globe showed was partying with Sam Mraiche!
#abpoli
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FranklyMyDear
13 days ago
Alberta's UCP Convention is a depressingly stupid spectacle; it is equally pathetic how RW media has gleefully pumped their hillbilly stupidity across the nation, and is astounding just how many illiterate, history denying/revising nitwits there are in the fold. Mud dumb stupid and SO PROUD OF IT.
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Sonya 🇨🇦
13 days ago
Stood in the cold for 5 hours today for the Recall Sawhney kick-off event in NW Calgary. Happy to report we had a steady stream of constituents who were eager to sign.
#RecallSawhney
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Jared Wesley
13 days ago
Seconds after I submitted my chapter for
@duanebratt.bsky.social
&
@jlisayoung.bsky.social
's new book on the Smith govt,
@carrietait.bsky.social
et al. published their latest piece on the CorruptCare scandal. Below is a table from my chapter with R. Mendoza. How many conditions do you spot?
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦
13 days ago
Canadians don’t want a petulant Maple MAGA Prime Minister who will kiss Donald Trump’s ass.
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Robert Reich
13 days ago
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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CaptainCoby
13 days ago
Separatists are going to destroy the UCP from within. Love it
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Druh Farrell
13 days ago
A pipeline in every direction wouldn't satisfy Alberta's extremists. It's never been about a pipeline, otherwise Notley and Trudeau would have been applauded. Dig a little deeper and it's about greed, guns, and hate.
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Charlie Angus
13 days ago
Anyone who thinks MAGA Alberta is going to be pleased with promises of a pipeline haven't been paying attention to the rage fire being stoked by Danielle Smith and her gang.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Braid: Smith draws boos at UCP convention with first mention of Carney deal
Premier Danielle Smith isn't personally challenged at this UCP convention, but still faces challenges from separatists and recall campaigns.
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-smith-waves-ottawa-deal-at-ucp-convention-but-separatists-and-recalls-still-challenge
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Robert Reich
14 days ago
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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The Breakdown AB
14 days ago
From the DM’s… As if Smith recalling her own recall legislation wasn’t bad enough… Apparently she’s also moving forward with LEGISLATION to ban the word “progressive” from political party names. Like, banning the word.
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Pierre Polyester
19 days ago
Just as an FYI, Pierracite Poilievre over on Twitter is taking a massive beating. I struggle to find positive comments on his tweets now. Wow, what a swing. Its brutal. And I love it.
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Castanet.net
19 days ago
Fears over plastic contamination prompts nationwide recall of many Yoplait yogurts (Canada)
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Fears over plastic contamination prompts nationwide recall of many Yoplait yogurts - Canada News
Many of Yoplait's yogurts have been pulled from Canadian shelves after the company shared fears over pieces of plastic in some products.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/585650/Fears-over-plastic-contamination-prompts-nationwide-recall-of-many-Yoplait-yogurts?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=referral
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Cult MTL
20 days ago
"If you just lived your entire life on the internet, you'd think that everybody is angry all the time. It’s big business to be a rage farmer. The more we push back against darkness, the more light we will see and feel. This album is absolutely a manifestation of that."
@thedears.bsky.social
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The Dears go all in on their new album Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!
An interview with the Montreal band ahead of the release of their new album Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!
https://cultmtl.com/2025/11/the-dears-go-all-in-on-their-new-album-life-is-beautiful-life-is-beautiful-life-is-beautiful/
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The Breakdown AB
20 days ago
Shane Getson openly lied in the Legislature this week. He said on multiple occasions that the Supreme Court of Canada had said that possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials is "OK". The Supreme Court said no such thing. /1
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The Breakdown AB
22 days ago
Berta. Back to being an international embarrassment.
#abpoli
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
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Alberta Pushes Through Trans Policies Described as Most Restrictive in Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/world/canada/alberta-trans-policies-canada.html
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BC Reality
22 days ago
When CPC MP's and their supporters try to draw out how great the USA is for investment, business etc etc. Remind them the minimum wage in the USA is $7.25/hr and you're on your own for healthcare!
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Jared Wesley
22 days ago
Spoke to a room of lawyers and judges tonight. Told them: when many Albertans picture the UCP base, they picture you. They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding. I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick. All pluralists need to speak out.
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Jared Wesley
22 days ago
The UCP has abandoned conservatism. Not just Lougheed's brand. Klein's brand, too. The party lost its grip years ago. It's time for conservatives in this province to speak up about it.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jared-wesl...
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Philippe J. Fournier
24 days ago
🔵New polling from the Angus Reid Institute shows impressions of the Conservative leader eroding, most notably among 2025 Conservative voters. 📊The latest from
@canadianpolling.bsky.social
for the 338 newsletter ↓
www.338canada.ca/p/poilievres...
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Poilievre's Numbers Take Another Hit
New polling from the Angus Reid Institute shows impressions of the Conservative leader eroding, most notably among 2025 Conservative voters.
https://www.338canada.ca/p/poilievres-numbers-take-another-hit
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Max Fawcett
22 days ago
Peter Lougheed was one of the key drivers behind the inclusion of the Notwithstanding Clause in our Charter. He'd be horrified by how — and how often — Conservative premiers like Danielle Smith are using it today.
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/20/o...
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The use of the Notwithstanding Clause is out of control. It’s up to voters to stop it
The architects of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms thought the Notwithstanding Clause would only be used in exceptional circumstances. Conservative premiers seem determined to prove them wrong.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/20/opinion/notwithstanding-clause-conservative-politics
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Max Fawcett
23 days ago
The UCP strikes again.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta's bid to privatize lab services wasted more than $100M: auditor general | CBC News
Alberta's auditor general has released a report detailing numerous failures in process and lack of due diligence by the province in its attempt to privatize community lab services.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-report-dynalife-9.6985328
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