EDMONTON – A final report into allegations of corruption in Alberta government health contracts says it was widely known two staffers were in conflicts of interest but no steps were taken by senior officials.

Local woman wakes up, uses all the red tape cut by the UCP to create an art installation at the legislature that tapes the Conservative MLAs and premier together in a ball while teachers, healthcare workers, people on AISH and anyone else can air their grievances, makes oatmeal.

Now do homeless shelters.

New mandate letters! And Danielle Smith has directed Rick Wilson to introduce forced treatment to Alberta! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Seems like an important time to re-up this piece from @drugdatadecoded.ca … Vote wisely YEG… drugdatadecoded.ca/a-message-to...

Survey results are in! Tune in throughout the week as we post responses of our candidates thoughts on Edmontons Drug Poisoning Crisis. First up: Mayoral Candidates! #yegcc #yegmunicpalelections #yegelections2025 #yegmayor #yegmunicipalelections2025

Shameful. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Four months ago, I sounded the alarm about the shortage of sterile drug consumption supplies across Alberta: drugdatadecoded.ca/recovery-alb... Now, the UCP government is making it official, blaming 'overspending': www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @jenleecbc.bsky.social

“If we don’t want people using drugs outside you have to give them a safe place to use. If you don’t want them on the street, we need to give them housing.” Brandon of @4bharmredux.bsky.social on Cross Country Checkup. #CareIsNotCoerced www.cbc.ca/radio/checku...

A heavy conversation today about the "Compassionate Care" Act on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. A couple of claims raised our eyebrows, and some fact checking is in order. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....

buff.ly/YmbdhQg Everyday in our overflowing EDs we see the ramifications of homeless political policy: more policing simply = more catch and release to NO SUPPORTS and nothing to help break the cycle.

Candidates in the upcoming Edmonton municipal election should be asked if they think it's an appropriate use of public money for the Edmonton Police Service to maintain a unit to monitor the social media of critics, including journalists. thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...

A timely opinion piece. Edmonton's winters have been hell for the unhoused for several years now, and as temperatures drop all of that's about to come right back—frostbites, risky encampments in the woods, people piled into transit centres and buses for warmth, all of it.

Between Edmonton Police interfering in an ongoing case and Calgary Police endorsing political candidates, we’re seeing law enforcement in this province cross lines that will only erode the public’s trust in their activities. You should also not vote for any politician who believes this is ok.

We need more spaces like Ambrose Place which was named in honour of my friend Ambrose Daniels.

The days between my son's birth (Oct 6) and his death (Dec 19) are always the most difficult. I can already feel the intense grief settling in my bones. It's unrelenting. #grief #childloss

Homeless Edmontonians 1) have the right to exist in public spaces, 2) need drop in spaces to rest, visit, and heal, and 3) need a place to call home. How will you vote on Oct 20? edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Another day of reconciliation day is over, yet the children of Indigenous mothers continue to die from a poisoned drug supply. 🧡💔🧡

Join us Oct 3 at Edmonton’s Garneau Theatre for an Ecological Grief Dialogue & Film Screening – The Magnitude of All Things with Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo. 🎬🌍 Free event + popcorn & soda! CAPE AB will have a booth, so come say hi! www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-he...

Why not just fund public education???

this. every word.

Justin Trudeau promised a “total renewal of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples.” Ten years later, Mark Carney’s Building Canada Act has Indigenous leaders protesting and filing legal challenges. What future is left for reconciliation? thewalrus.ca/trc-introduction/

We’re excited to launch our tool that helps you find out how the candidates running for mayor and city council in Edmonton align with you on the issues that matter most. blog.taprootpublishing.ca/2025/09/26/t... #yegvote #yegcc #yeg

Local woman wakes up, sends her love to those attending Coffee Outside in Edmonton to celebrate Darren Markland, makes oatmeal.

The #UCP is causing anxiety for people with disabilities who face a $200 benefit cut by losing #AISH and being forced on the new ADAP benefit. Taking money from those already vulnerable. The Alberta model! Contact your MLA and tell them to scrap it. #ABpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Teens a minority of AB min. wage workers in 2024 albertaworker.ca/news/teens-a... #factsmatter

“The leaked documents outline that the UCP government’s increase in Albertan’s drug co-pays have been designed to cost Albertans $18 million in new fees.” Via @janisirwin.bsky.social on FB

The fact that the UCP are going to stop tracking deaths of Albertans waiting for treatment, tells me that it's going to get worse I mean, why else would they stop counting 🤷🏼‍♂️ #ableg www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

When a great light goes out, it is not for the rest of us to surrender to the dark. It means that the rest of us still here have to burn all the brighter.

11/11 Powerful evidence that the practice of "street sweeps" is not a benign act of civic tidiness, but a dangerous policy that directly increases the risk of #overdose, #violence, and #isolation for the most #vulnerable residents in #Vancouver. Michelle Gamage, The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Who is she protecting kids from? Their doctors and their teachers? Extrapolating this to see that she doesn’t trust professionals to make professional decisions.

As things get worse, and as pts are suffering and dying, there will be no ability for our system to work in a coordinated fashion to try to mitigate severe overcrowding... There is ABSOLUTELY NO operational control of our entire HC system anymore... Govt broke it...

Can confirm this is happening in AB, and getting worse. Some sites have > 1/4 leaving the ED without being seen... and we have good data that show some of them are really sick and/or have NO OTHER care options. This will get worse this fall and winter AB🧵 buff.ly/PP1X3Ox

Wildfire smoke now kills more Americans than car crashes—41,000 people per year. For decades air quality has been improving, but not anymore. It won't help that the Trump administration is loosening regulations on factory & power plant emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

Why does he still have a job while Kimmel gets cancelled?

Alberta, this is you too actually, right now.

Helen Kennedy, executive director at Egale Canada, "When our governments abuse their power by invoking the notwithstanding clause to limit the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it's not just an attack on queer and trans communities, it is an attack on all Canadians."

Personally, I think genocide is the most dangerous thing anyone can do, far more dangerous than anything these rappers have done. And I think most people would agree with that assessment. Just not most Canadian politicians.

I must have missed this “Presidential Determination” piece of imperial American propaganda—it’s getting hard to keep up with the USA’s rapid descent into overt fascism. A short 🧵 www.state.gov/releases/off...

Is this what you call winning, Premier?

"Who is served by narratives that spread fear and even dehumanize people who are struggling, narratives that play on citizens’ deepest fears and desire for safety?" On 'Ruining Downtown' open.substack.com/pub/civicgoo...

My thoughts on Alberta's push to add citizenship markers to driver's licenses. It's not about election integrity or convenience. It's about a culture war and discriminating against immigrants. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

“When clear signs and evidence of genocide emerge, the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity. All States are under a legal obligation to use all means that are reasonably available to them to stop the genocide in Gaza.” -Navi Pillay, UN Commission Chair www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

There is no justifiable reason to add citizenship to a driver’s licence. It violates privacy and invites discrimination. We need policies that unite rather than try to divide us.

A driver’s license is meant to certify your ability to drive, not your legal or immigration status. We have a passport for that.

AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

Many of us have pointed out for years that governments‘ ongoing refusal to allow the community to protect itself with a regulated supply is eugenic and even genocidal —consider the 8-fold higher Indigenous death rate in AB. This is a mask-off moment in the US, which is taking cues from Alberta. 🧵⬇️

it’s murder, not euthanasia. “involuntary lethal injections” are murder.