So proud of our comrades for holding the line. The solution is simple: pay them fairly and treat them like humans ✊🏻

The UCP wants to impoverish and humiliate the teaching profession. Fuck that. A healthy society has happy, well-paid teachers with 25-student or fewer classrooms.

YEG Bike Coalition doing some stellar work these days.

Thanks @yegbike.bsky.social for joining me on the doors yesterday!

”Bike lanes aren’t 100% useful to all people at all times so we shouldn’t have them at all.”

Car culture thrives on all-or-nothing thinking. Dedicate some part of the road to bikes? “You’re basically banning cars.” Safer speeds? “Oh yeah let’s all travel 5 km/h.” It’s like asking a child to clean their room and they respond dramatically “so you’re kicking me out? to live on the street?”.

Disagree with @keithgerein.bsky.social here re: bike lanes: "council might have saved itself some political headaches if smaller, quieter amounts were committed..." ANY amount is too much for haters. $20 MILLION FOR BIKE LANES, IN THIS ECONOMY? I'm glad council just went for it.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Despite the chilly weather, more than 150 people gathered for Coffee Outside to honour Dr. Darren Markland. We shared coffee, stories, and quiet moments, celebrating the life of an incredible person who touched so many lives. Thank you to everyone who came out. ❤️ buff.ly/FZvLjvA #yegbike

I love how he fully made up city council criticizing the police. Exactly when? 😂 And no, “may we please see your budget sirs” is not criticism.

So many #yegbike friends and neighbours came together this morning in memory of Darren Markland. Easy to love Edmonton today.

As @conradnobert.bsky.social put it, he was a mensch. Love to all. ❤️

Remember when that shock jock St. Albert radio guy was dissing bike lanes? I got mad and sarcastic at him on Twitter and he promptly blocked me. But Darren? Darren invited him for a winter ride, organized it and everything. Fucking St. Albert a-hole didn't deserve that at all. Darren. What a guy.

PM Carney made a statement on Dr. Markland’s passing. #yeg #yegbike

Dr. Darren Markland was the best of us. Physician, cyclist, advocate, citizen, friend. We will never forget his powerful legacy of compassion, service, and love. All Albertans are holding his family and friends close and we all commit to living his values and making this province a better place.

The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year. The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year. Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year. Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

When a shooter opened fire in City Hall, Michael Elliott cracked jokes about it on Twitter. Now, he's running to be a councillor in Tim Cartmell's party. This defender of the Thin Blue Line wants to bring that ideology to city hall this October #yegvote

"Although the province stopped tracking class sizes in 2019, educators say anecdotally their classrooms are becoming increasingly jammed." Honestly wild Alberta stopped tracking this data and we now have to rely on anecdotal evidence when it comes to a key issue holding up a new teachers contract.

Just your reminder that if the province paid what’s owed, your property taxes would be about 7% lower www.michaeljanz.ca/springsoba2024

NIMBYism is a huge cultural problem. It's been empowered for years where it becomes normalized into law, and the default of what we're used to. We need to end this culture of thinking we have the right to say what happens on other people's property, and who gets to live in our neighbourhood.

Troy killing it as usual.

Running candidates supported by the YEG Bike Coalition: yegbike.substack.com/p/who-were-s... Incumbent report cards: yegbike.substack.com/p/edmonton-c... #yegbike #yeg #abpoli #urbanism

wild-eyed right-wing ideologue: tHe OnLy waY to aTrAct doctoRs iS priVaTizaTion normal person: hey why don't we over them a sweet job where they can just focus on medicine

Selfie at $42m pedway. That’s 42% of the active transportation investment that seems to never be accepted. I hear next to zero commentary about this pedway.

CANADA RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #canpoli #cdnpoli #freepalestine

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

Three hours of this thing’s output heats and lights my single family home in Edmonton, Alberta, for the WHOLE YEAR.

This further solidifies my vote for @andrewknack.bsky.social. #yeg #yegcc #yegvote

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

Why wait? Start now. Tim and his double-dippers could return the big corporate donations and run as independents. They have until Monday. But they don’t serve the many, just the big money so they won’t. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

On this beautiful day, I want to again thank the Edmonton Police Service for doing absolutely nothing about noisy & illegal exhausts. #noisepollution

Just the Alberta government casually threatening to use a constitutional sledgehammer to block a handful of transgender kids from doing normal kids stuff like playing on school sports teams. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/18/a...

Whenever I imagine the future, as solar and batteries continue along the same trajectory as computers did, I feel hope. Who knew that we could have super computers in our pockets? What equivalent miracles will exist when solar and batteries are close to free?

Tim Cartmell and Better Edmonton are cheating. They're intentionally breaking election signage rules, and they're happy to use their large corporate donations to make any fines go away. They believe in a city where rules do not apply to the rich and powerful #yegvote

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What a nightmare to put a child through. This is a heinous and cruel policy.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

So, parroting the UCP line. Way to sell Edmonton out, Cartmell. @troypavlek.ca I'm looking forward to the requisite spanking that our local ambitious UCP boot licker so richly deserves.

Keith Gerein from the Edmonton Journal: "…the person who arguably had the best night was Coun. Andrew Knack..." Other candidates are making commitments that don’t add up. I am listening to Edmontonians who are telling me they want a responsible budget plan at City Hall. #yeg #yegcc #yegvote

My dad, born and raised in Zimbabwe, told me once, and only once, how, out with a gun as a boy, he killed a monkey, only because “I had a gun in my hand.” His deep remorse was painfully clear so many years later. He’s always been pro gun control and this is the only time I recall seeing him cry.

He could have mailed it in but nope Sohi giving his all for the city until his last day of work.

hello 911? yea its me again…uh huh thats right, theyre still posting his exact quotes

I cannot tell you of just how tired I am of Jason Kenney lighting a fire, pouring gasoline on it, then dumping a glass of water on it to look like he's "helping." And people Keep. Falling. For. It.

I love how I know so much about New York politics and how a few New Yorkers know a teensy bit about Edmonton politics ever since The War On Cars visited a while back! cc: @sgoodyear.bsky.social

🗳️✅ I’m happy to support my friend Michael Janz in his campaign for re-election to Edmonton City Council. I don’t live in his ward so I can’t vote for him but I’m happy to deliver some lawn signs this weekend. If you do live in Ward Papastew, consider voting for Janz on October 20.

💭 Did you know that 37% of Edmonton’s population doesn’t have a drivers license? This number includes children, but everyone, regardless of their age, has important mobility needs! Let’s build a city that supports everyone 💪 #yegcc

Edmonton mayoral candidates: Hardest working? Andrew Knack Politics closest to mine? Andrew Knack Most deceitful and manipulative? Michael Walters If I was ranking I would go Knack, Cartmell, Walters. Walters will sell us down the river harder than Cartmell will.