Oh #YYJ. You are soooo dark today. Here are some flower photos from last week to remind us of when it was brighter out and why we live here. #flowers

Think about it: if you want to increase either budget, that’s one thing. But if you want to decrease either budget, (likely the library) and the police budget has to go down the same percentage, it would make for some interesting municipal council debates and likely some different outcomes. #yyj

I did a big account clean-up and want to say thanks to all the peeps who follow because I honestly don’t know what I’m doing here. #ButShePersisted Thanks for persisting with me!

There should be a law that requires all government advertising to say “Paid for by taxpayers” instead of “Paid for by the government of…”

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

This is such a good piece by Kelly Hayes organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...

Police always get more and libraries always get less. Here’s an idea: Tie the budget for police and libraries so if you raise the budget for police, you have to raise it for #PublicLibraries the same amount. #MunicipalBudget #YYJ

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal. Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

The epigraph of Michelle Good’s book, “Truth Telling.”

I posted this earlier but it was sweary and I deleted it because I try not to do this. My point was, this is not the same Mark Carney that is our PM. #TheTragedyOfMarkCarney youtu.be/V5c-eqNxeSQ?...

The brutal truth of it. #ForeverMasker #CovidIsNotOver #CovidConscious jacobscheier.substack.com/p/our-cultur...

To lay this on the shoulders of Indigenous peoples is despicable. Carney should have been the grown up in the room. I consider Carney’s actions an act of cowardice.

100%. There’s no “there” there. Carbon capture is a myth.

There is no appeasing Alberta. The Liberals should know that. Alberta UCP & Smith will do anything and sacrifice anything to continue to exploit oil and gas. They have no other model and no other ideas. They are the screaming toddlers of Canada. The Liberal federal govt has to be the grown up.

My Brain: "Psst, here's a great idea for your book." Me: "I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it." Morgan Freeman: "But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made." #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

I don’t need a device to doomscroll. I can do that just fine by myself, thank you very much.

They refuse to acknowledge that a huge reason Canadians aren't coming there is because they're led by a man who gets off on throwing innocent people in Venezuela torture prisons and checking our phones at the border for subversive memes. It's almost fascinating. share.google/mTZbIqyUWcJa...

Oil.

Campbell’s soup. (Shudder) Kraft singles, wrapped in plastic.(Wince) Might as well have been eating the plastic. Don’t forget Cheez Whiz. (Blergh) Part of the weird ultra processed food that made up my lunches as a kid. But Bioengineered chicken from a 3D printer? That really made my stomach turn.

A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...

“Albertans don’t agree on a lot these days,” said pollster Janet Brown, “but our research shows they overwhelmingly want the oil and gas industry to pay their bills.” Read more at: reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a... reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...

Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.

Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...

Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...

Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑

NO EXCUSES. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY ***RIGHT NOW*** BY THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT. IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND. McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over #NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg

Sometimes, I rewrite posts. It’s my website and I figure I can do whatever I want. I keep working at this one. It’s almost there. www.janecawthorne.com/an-essay-abo...

Both good. I always like, ‘Don’t be dick,’ but that’s just me.

One more batch of applesauce to make. So. Many. Apples. Still working through this bounty. #GrowYourOwn #NeighbourhoodSharing #UrbanFarming

If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment. You care about others? Prove it. Wear a mask.

Sunset #YYJ

“We’ve been sold AI as an emancipatory tool when it fact it is enslaving us. There will be a time, and for some people it is upon them already, when they will not be able to function in day-to-day life without AI.” open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

I felt seen in Alice Wong’s writing. I’m so grateful she was here. My heartfelt condolences to all of those who loved her and to all of us who mourn the loss of her. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...

Thanks to Lynne Melcombe for this wonderful review and for highlighting Julia Nunes’s piece, “The Next Hit.” It is about concussion, but also about our times. The hits keep coming, and somehow, we carry on. #concussion #gratitude lynnemelcombe.com/2025/09/29/u...

I spent the morning trying unsuccessfully to fix a bureaucratic bungle and thinking about disability and bureaucracy. We use all of our spoons trying to advocate for the simplest things. It is exhausting. www.janecawthorne.com/bureaucracy-... #disability #HealthCare #Wheelchairs

In the uncomfortable position of being the lone dissenting voice in book club tonight. I should be accustomed to this as I am also the lone masker—I’m always a dissenting voice in that way. #CovidConscious

Part of today’s harvest of apples from a neighbour’s tree. They are ginormous. No surprise, we are making applesauce. #NeighbourhoodSharing #GrowYourOwn #UrbanFarming

And is anyone working on regaining our “measles free” status? Is anyone proposing clean air strategies? Masks? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Heirloom carrots sliced in rounds. Very sweet. Yummm. #GrowYourOwn #BuyLocal #FarmersMarket

The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now. I. Told. You. So. Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole. Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

The way it's just taken for granted that police budgets get to up by double-digit percentages every year while every other department has to go weeping to Council, hat in hand like Dickensian orphans, to justify their very existence, is wild. #yyj #VictoriaBC

“Canadians are prepared to step up to set Canada on a secure and independent footing. But meeting those needs cannot come at the cost of dismantling the very programs that make our society equitable and our economy resilient.” - @kjscott.bsky.social

My ad hoc medical education can no longer keep up with my situation. Poor communication in health care causes unnecessary stress. It can also kill you. #ChronicIllness #HealthCareAdvocacy www.janecawthorne.com/poor-communi...

Conservatives crossing the floor to pass Liberal budget: Liberal supporters should consider what this implies and whether it is a thing to celebrate!

The Carney government is pretty much abandoning any pretense that they'll be tackling climate change in this budget.

2050 net-zero target. Well, we’ll all be fried by then. #ClimateDoom #Budget

I don’t want an #austerity budget. I don’t want to give up the #climate battle. I don’t want #Indigenous peoples to shoulder the burden AGAIN. I don’t want cuts to #HealthCare. None of this is what I voted for. It is what I was trying to avoid.

Going to a protest? Rally? March? Want to help others in the fight better understand the link between public health and anti-authoritarianism?