Fuck. Fuck capitalism, and privatized health care! Sorry for your "situation". I know you're not alone down there. Alberta! You sure you want this?

"Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 3, 1979, and Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States on November 4, 1980."

AmeriKKKa "Donna Hughes-Brown, an Irish citizen, who has lived in the US legally since she was 11, was apprehended over issues relating to two bad cheques she wrote, totalling $80 (£59), more than 10 years ago."

Thread from Parksy. This one jumped out .. as the situation is very bad, but HCWs are afraid to report as the UCP may target them. UCP "values".

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Cool story. Torpor versus hibernation. Bears don't really hibernate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Since becoming minister, Loewen has spent $37,600.79 on international trips promoting hunting and the Minister’s Special Licence — significantly more than previous ministers, who averaged about $5,445 annually."

Over and over. It seems his family materially benefits from his decisions. The mere appearance of conflict of interest should disqualify him from his cabinet position. www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/a...

The Liberals sent too many immigrants to Alberta! "In light of Alberta’s unique labour challenges, I am requesting that your government immediately increase Alberta's Provincial Nomination Program allocation to 20,000 annually in 2024, 2025 and 2026." ~Danielle Smith www.alberta.ca/system/files...

Thread from Parksy. Explaining the Grey Nuns situation, and how it is not simply a triage failure.

😮 "When China weaponized antimony, it revealed something far more dangerous than a supply chain vulnerability. It demonstrated that the United States cannot manufacture bullets, fire artillery, or build night vision goggles without Beijing’s tacit permission."

No moral obligations? #UCPKills "Alberta’s government quietly eliminated its public reporting dashboard of COVID-19 outbreaks in acute care facilities, saying the province is under no legal obligation to continue publishing the data in a “post-pandemic context.”" www.rmoutlook.com/beyond-local...

Great and disturbing thread. But brief comment on Covenant. covenanthealth.ca/about/govern... albertapolitics.ca/2024/06/tyle...

MLK JR Not much has changed.

Bill 8 (passed in fall 2019) removed the previous cap of 15 charter schools permitted to operate in Alberta. Bill 15, or the Choice in Education Act (effective Sept. 2020), allowed new charter school applications to bypass public school board adjudication. www.supportourstudents.ca/charterexpan...

Once a fixer always a fixer. DW had seemed to be rehabilitated, but money talks. His profile on X says "Journalist". I don't think so.

What Smith embodies is something political theorists increasingly describe as libertarian authoritarianism, a paradoxical but now well-documented phenomenon in which the language of freedom is used to justify the concentration of power, the erosion of democratic norms, and the dismantling ...

I’m not sure this is correct. My understanding is the proponent withdrew its environmental application due to substantial revisions of its proposal and will apply again in the new year ablawg.ca/wp-content/u...

I don't know the validity of all of this but it's interesting reading. A lot of it has been reported previously, but a bit of a new slant. gangsterismout.com?p=16234

Well well well. Wallace and Di Fiore. "in contempt of court" ? "Wallace and Di Fiore have collaborated over the past six months on a series of podcast-style videos that have drawn around 2,000 views each on social media platform X and a few dozen on YouTube." edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

TLDR 👇 Final post in a great thread.

#NoWarButClassWar "So there you have it. Carney is asked to do the dirty work for the ruling class. They need to slash social services, attack unions, layoff public sector workers and thoroughly gut regulations and corporate taxes." www.marxist.ca/article/the-...

"While the Liberals claim to have cancelled permits for weapons bound for Israel, a new report exposes that claim as a complete deception. .. In other words, the “heart” of one of the primary instruments of the genocide is made in Canada." www.marxist.ca/article/new-...

This is where capitalism is taking us. More and more unhoused seniors. 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh FFS. Danielle talking about protecting the children with her hate bills ..

It's more than a cold or the flu.

Fight for your right to water FFS✊

✊👇 Edward Abbey would approve.

I don't think shrooms and pot makes me a user in this case, but if you fit the bill below, please sign. Lives and wellness are in the balance.

This is not sustainable. What the fuck are we doing to the planet? "Research .. found that data centers on average consume about 300,000 gallons of water a day. Even closed-loop systems that reuse the same water repeatedly need millions of gallons of water." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sigh. So many negative effects but "The Economy". "More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more caloric, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause malnutrition, even in population groups that currently have enough to eat." phys.org/news/2025-11...

This!

Amazing intelligence. 😮

AI is not being developed to make most of our lives better. And it won't. On that note UBI! "AI is growing faster than the systems built to power it. An analysis reveals that U.S. data centers could generate emissions equal to 10 million cars and consume enough water for 10 million homes by 2030."

Seems to me there is a social contract with government, that we pay taxes and government provide services and infrastructure. UCP wants to use our tax dollars for pet projects and to prop up industry. They get tax cuts, we get the burden.

This plus the data centres that Dani announced. Where's the water? "The world’s largest carbon capture and storage complex planned for northern Alberta could use most of the surplus water in the giant Cold Lake-Beaver River basin, potentially forcing water rationing in the province. "

The financial cost comes from the fact that these bases will be established, operated and maintained with Canadian tax dollars, money that would otherwise have been available for social programs, health.. pvonline.ca/2025/12/16/the-alphabet-soup-strategy-how-canada-hides-its-military-base-system/

As Trotsky explains, “In the epoch of imperialist decay the trade unions can be really independent only to the extent that they are conscious of being, in action, the organs of proletarian revolution.” www.marxist.ca/article/labo...

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💔 Of course there is also the profit angle with the UCP.

I suppose the UCP policies are "working" as intended. Like the upswing in amputations for the unhoused. Cruelty is part of their ideology.

Talking 'bout a revolution. ✊

How's that for Nation Building? Not sure about the Chess analogy. This seems more like checkers. Or X and O's.

Alberta needs a moratorium on this. All this drilling for non-fossil fuels??

I don't know in what Amerikkka this is shocking.

"Alberta has closed one of three supervised consumption sites in Edmonton, continuing the push to shutter such locations as the province moves away from overdose prevention to focus on recovery and treatment." Actually: "moves away from overdose prevention". Period. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Imagine. Feed cleanse! 🥰

It goes a lot deeper than rape and abduction.

What a surprise.

The situation is even more stark for the four largest Canadian bitumen producers, according to a recent report from [..] Canadians for Tax Fairness. are 73 percent foreign-owned, and 60 percent U.S.-owned, the report shows. Canadian investors control only 27 percent of these “Big Four” sands giants.