Children. Earning. Their way out. Of Inclusion. This is the populist soul.

Alberta's Election Commissioner is taking separatists to court in attempt to force compliance with financial disclosure law. Alberta Prosperity Project Faces Court Date over Separation Referendum Role via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Backlash from the public 🤣 Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' #Ontario Ford 'felt the heat' after purchase publicized, now 'scrambling' to sell, says interim Ontario Liberal leader www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Rising food prices lead to increase in seed sales: #Saskatoon garden shop www.ctvnews.ca/business/inf...

Our skies are growing empty. There are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than half a century ago. In The Book of Birds, writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris explore our fading connection to the avian world: https://thewalrus.ca/billions-of-birds-have-vanished-in-a-generation/

Canada’s pensions were built by men, for men—and the consequences are still playing out. Women earn less, take career hits from caregiving, and retire poorer. Author Moira Welsh asks the hard question: Can a system built without women ever serve them? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-pension-gap/

“Absence is harder to track and feel than presence. The ghosts of gone birds fade quickly from memory,” writes Robert Macfarlane. “It does not have to be this way—but we will not save what we do not love, and we rarely love what we cannot name.” https://ow.ly/hCAN50YLrAm

Regina residents rally against proposed AI data centre before RM of Sherwood council vote www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thanks to Secretary of State Wayne Long and officials for today’s announcement on the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. We’re putting more money back in the pockets of Canadians by reducing pressure from rising grocery and essential costs and delivering real, targeted support

Grocery benefit and one-time GST top-up to land in Canadians' accounts in June The Liberal government's groceries benefit and GST top-up announced in January will begin landing in Canadians' bank accounts in June. #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

This is a shocking story. Congrats to @thenarwhal.ca on exposing this. LNG Canada in Kitimat – 🇨🇦's first major LNG facility – is now one of the highest sources of GLOBAL emissions for flaring, undermining claims that we produce the cleanest natural gas in the world: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

Nunavimmiut have plenty of ideas about how to wipe out TB in their territory, MacDonald said, and the study explored those ideas ahead of those generated by non-Indigenous researchers and politicians more than 1,000 kilometres to the south. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

Canadians! You have until April 20th (Monday) to fill out this survey on headlights! #cdnpoli #polcan tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

ICYMI: @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and Matt McIntosh spoke to a dozen sources, received a leaked document and interviewed Ontario’s environment minister for this story on the little-known water protection committees, tied up in the conservation authority changes: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour...

there's 28 stories here about Tuesday, from all over the province. this is a great thing that only CBC could do. it might shift your thinking about what's happening if you read and listen to all this together. read everything you can find about April 14. all of it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American Coots have started arriving and… good thing those giant, lobed feet are also pretty decent snowshoes 😂 #birds

The three countries pledge more aid to Cuba and say Cubans must decide their own future amid a US pressure campaign.

“We're in a climate crisis,” said Chantal Pelletier, one of the protest organizers. “…The billions… should be invested in renewable energy, like solar and wind, and in projects that are led by…Indigenous climate and environment experts.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/17/n...

For playing the game into their 80s, these hockey players are becoming Hall of Famers. The Saskatoon 60+ Hockey League is hosting a Canadian 80+ Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony today to recognize 36 octogenarian players and alumni. #yxe #Saskatchewan www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Six years after a coalition of four northern Manitoba First Nations banded together to conserve the province’s last major undammed river, the Seal River watershed is “on the cusp” of permanent protection.

Calgary’s Queer Elders provide guidance to youth in wake of Alberta’s transgender laws Many ageing members of the LGBTQ+ community once fought hard battles for their rights, from discrimination in the workplace to legalizing same-sex marriage. But recent events in Alberta have sparked renewed…

The proposed Highway 413 project in Ontario is set to pave over approximately 2,000 acres of prime farmland and over 400 acres of protected Greenbelt land. #FordFailed #FarmsFeedCities #HandsOffTheGreenbelt

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

"We are being asked to accept permanent environmental damage, long‑term public liability and water risks that can't be engineered away, all to support an industry in structural decline that contributes little in royalties and is largely owned by foreign investors."You tell 'em,@corblund.bsky.social.

Humble Premier buys private jet second-hand

NEW: The Ford government has purchased a second-hand private jet for the premier. Critics are calling it the gravy plane. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1180571...

Ontario takes over Billy Bishop Airport, promises to build it out for jets despite total lack of business case. Barely a month later, Ontario buys jet for Doug Ford. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Of course the former associate minister of mental health and addictions — one of the Ford government's architects behind the closure of safe consumption sites — lied about having a prestigious PhD in "Clinical Psychology with a Focus on Addictions." www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Nurses' union says Saskatoon hospitals dealing with more overdoses after PHR closure www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Patry can smell the fumes from her home, and she believes they are negatively impacting her health and that of her family and animals. But every time she calls the province's energy regulator, she says they tell her everything is operating as it should be." www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Before he died, Michael had lost hope. After years of being told that help was coming, he no longer believed his life could improve. We were told he was not a suitable candidate for a bed because they did not provide emergency treatment alanforseth.substack.com/p/comment-be... #bcpoli #addiction

'Not in the interests of the people at all': cross-country protests target LNG development www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/17/n...

Dr. Ryan Meili on the overdose situation in Saskatoon: Crisis in the Core open.substack.com/pub/ryanmeil...

Sask. Polytechnic announces more layoffs, bringing total staff cuts to 154 since July www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What's happening to healthcare in Alberta is potentially coming for all of us in Canada. Insurance companies will want this everywhere, and there doesn't seem to be much protecting Canada and its citizens at a federal level, @mark-carney.bsky.social. It's legitimately upending. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone. Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

'Climate change has thawed permafrost & increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers & lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the impacts on wildlife, fish, & the drinking water of Indigenous communities' e360.yale.edu/features/rus...

No shortage of water from Prince Albert to Meadow Lake and Hudson Bay 

I shovelled so much I can’t lift my arms which I think means I don’t have to do my taxes now?

'Maybe it’s not science fiction': Solar panels are causing rainwater to fall in one of the driest places on Earth www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-it...

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where after snow shovelling at home and what turned into nearly an hour of trudging to work through fresh snow I am ZZzZzzzzzz 😴. Gonna be a productive day 🤣