100% approval of Quennevile pulling the goalie with four minutes left.

Turns out when you tell people your economic plans are the same as the UCP, people decide to just stick with the UCP. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Nurse and Bouchard together? 😬

The group who are trying to save the Memorial Organ at the University of Alberta have put together a website with links to a petition, information on the organ, and a list of people to contact. Please give it a look and share widely. #UAlberta #yegheritage

Historically this is the kind of the thing that would lead to revolution, but we’ve done such a great job of alienating the poor and elevating the rich in our society that it will barely make a blip.

A good sleep and a sunny day. I could weep from how normal and good I feel. 🥹

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

It’s not immediately clear to me why it’s necessary to create a new entity rather than maximizing the existing Canada Growth Fund and the (somewhat less similar) Canada Infrastructure Bank, other than that those were established by a different prime minister. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

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Just a bit of context, when Mintz hand picked people when he started his policy school, he selected, not via open competitions but via his own selection methods, 100% men. And the university let him.

🧵Jack Mintz has a new piece in the Financial Post arguing that men in Canada are being discriminated against through federal research funding allocation and Canada Research Chair hiring quotas. @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found this is simply misinformation.

The fired Boston Red Sox coaches in front of their plane back home. That’s Jason Varitek giving a thumbs down on the left. Alex Cora has been texting reporters he’s happy to be free. This is from his IG stories. Fucking incredible.

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The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

Great album cover.

Daredevil Season 2, apparently.

Heads up for Albertans.

Fuck John Henry.

My wife is on a yarn crawl, others are doing book crawls for Indie Bookstore Day. Me? I’m hiding in bed and refusing to look outside.

A beautiful performance at Convocation Hall today. In-between numbers they had members of the community list off the names of those U of A students and staff who died in WWI and WWII. Thank you to Marnie Giesbrecht, Tammy-Jo Mortensen and all who continue to fight for this beautiful organ. #UAlberta

As someone who was part of a choir that has sung in this venue many times, accompanied by a musician playing this very organ, this is such madness. They wouldn't raise the handrail/bars on the upper level for safety reasons bec it's a heritage site but they want to get rid of the organ?? What??

Who in their right mind would ever want to tear this down? #yegheritage #ualberta

In historic Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta. Concert starts at 5. #yegheritage #UAlberta

WTF, @ualberta.bsky.social ?! What reason could justify removal of the organ from Convocation Hall? How dare you trash this part of our legacy.

Also the Minister of Culture and Advanced Education, if the heart desires. They could stop this dead in its tracks very quickly.

Disappointed to see this. A) making this decision behind-doors is unacceptable, B) I can’t speak for other committees, but the Historical Board has some very real functions, and I’ve seen nothing to clear up who will be taking those functions over. #yegheritage

A reminder that there will be a performance at Convocation Hall today. Would be nice to see people there in support of the last-ditch effort to save the Memorial Organ.

I just read Tim Cook’s chronicle of Canadians in the Great War, “At the Sharp End”. Today is the 111th anniversary of the second battle of Ypres—a horrific slaughter but a miraculous story of sacrifice and courage. We owe the memory of those kids an organ.

Here’s Anna Lapwood, the organist for the Royal Albert Hall, dragging the University of Alberta for its decision to remove the Memorial Organ from Convication Hall/Arts Building. #UAlberta

@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social are you coming to Convocation Hall tomorrow, Paula?

Please sign this petition and pass along to others.

On Tuesday, Alberta's Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Rick Wilson told the Alberta legislature that he personally watched someone die in a supervised consumption site (SCS). This statement is demonstrably false and constitutes disinformation. #ableg

After having no one in the chair for the past few months, it looks like the UCP have appointed Brad Ferguson, son of former chancellor John Ferguson, as the new chair of the University of Alberta Board of Governors. #UAlberta kings-printer.alberta.ca/Documents/Or...

For the record, this could result in the disenfranchisement of thousands of people who have changed their name since receiving a birth certificate.

PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

MUNETAKA MURAKAMI!!!!! 5-game HR streak ties the longest by an MLB rookie, done 12x previously including once by another White Sox rookie — 1983 Ron Kittle (@EliasSports) also ties the White Sox franchise record for longest such streak, done 7x previously by 6 players

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Looks like there will be some organ performances at Convocation Hall on Friday. I’m going to attend. Hope others will join me.

Rock In Peace Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of Traffic, and his solo career and work with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Leon Russell, and more. Gone to the big gig in the sky.

Gen Xers.

So, uh, are we protesting? What’s happening? I will fully admit to not being capable enough to organize, but I’d like to join the party. This shit cannot abide.

Want to feel better about life? Watch the live action One Piece on Netflix. It’s, weird, beautiful, fun, and full of heart.

Munetaka Murakami has three home runs at 113+ mph already That’s tied for the most within a player’s first 9 career home runs since Statcast began tracking (2015), with: Elly De La Cruz Franchy Cordero h/t the wizard @jasonbernard.bsky.social

Agreed. It's the democratic equivalent of lead in the drinking water. The longer we wait to remove it, the more lasting the damage will be.

Still boggles my mind how unserious Canada is about disinformation, considering the deleterious effect it is having on almost every aspect of our society. I’ve had serious conversations with serious people about it, and their eyes glaze over.

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.