NEW EP: Student Power w/ @robertalexier.bsky.social (!!!) How does student activism differ between Québec and the rest of Canada? How can radical praxis can be maintained in a rapidly turning over student population? ALL THIS AND MORE: albertaadvantagepod.com/2026/04/07/s...

If you suggest that the Alberta NDP should not be subordinate to the oil and gas industry you get former MLAs in your mentions telling you to give up on the party and vote Green instead.

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 @robertalexier.bsky.social talks about how her new podcast STUDENT POWER places last summer's Palestine solidarity encampments within the broader history of student activism in Canada since the 1960s. www.listennotes.com/podcasts/alb...

The ANDP freakout over the Lewis win reminds me of nothing more so than the PC freakout over the ANDP win in 2015, which is kinda funny.

*Lewis wins* Nenshi: Even though Lewis was elected, we still like pipelines! Smith: they say they like pipelines but they don’t because Lewis is an eco-socialist And here is where I point out: automatically accepting the premise of your enemy’s argument before they even make it is a gift to them

I don't think this man believes in anything beyond his own career.

The Alberta NDP loves to let Conservatives frame their messaging and to boost the right wing narrative. They're scared of their own shadow and would hate to ever be caught standing up for something.

Nenshi's New Energy Plan is UCP-Lite Early responses suggest the only Albertans interested are UCP partisans and separatist trolls. Almost no news coverage. Zero. Nada. A major flop and embarrassment for @abndpcaucus. #ableg #abpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/nenshis-ne...

I just wish there was room in the Alberta NDP for people who wish the province wasn't run by and for oil and gas executives

So a giant fuck you to any and all Albertans who voted for Lewis, because the provincial party couldn't bear to be associated with anyone who gives a shit about the climate.

Yikes

If someone's focus on a political position is electability they've already lost the plot. You need to actually believe in things and want to improve peoples lives, not just vacillating between approved points you don't yourself hold!

reposting this for the Shannon Phillips fans in the chat bsky.app/profile/albe...

If no one on the "left" side of the political spectrum in Alberta can imagine a party that doesn't kowtow to oil and gas then I don't think we should be surprised if the rest of the country leaves us behind.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

A Black and Muslim lawyer says that Durham police ripped off her hijab and slammed her head into a desk. She was finishing up legal work in an interview room when it happened “without provocation.”

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Here is the independent panel's timeline of how risk was identified with the Bearspaw Feeder Main 20 years before it ruptured in June 2024.

 🚨 Due to a water main break last night on 16 Ave, Ward 7 residents in the communities of Parkdale, Point McKay and West Hillhurst are currently under a boil water advisory and all Calgarians are being asked to conserve water. Updates available at calgary.ca.

Budget drops and cork pops

In this ep we make the point that you can never have a budget as harsh as 1995 again unless you rebuild the welfare state first, which we haven't done. But I think I'm going to be mumbling the phrase "Minister Champagne is repealing the yacht tax" to myself for a while. 🍾

Truly a fate worse than death.

packing luxury tax breaks into your austerity budget is crazy. they're dabbing on us. they tricked you with a bunch of elbows up shit and now they're dabbing on us

NEW: After years of Canada claiming it won't support Azov Brigade due to its far-right ideology and neo-Nazi links, the Canadian Defence Attache in Ukraine met with Azov at the Embassy this summer. An Azov contact said it was a “friendly and open dialogue.” www.readthemaple.com/canadian-emb...

NEW EP: Escape from the Planet of the Mines: Canada's Resource Imperialism albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/10/14/e...

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away. They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

Watch: A new Calgarian is exploring his adopted city in a unique way, by turning his bike rides into art, and mapping out designs on his GPS app. Mark Villani has more. #yyc #calgary www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/vide...

Petition signatures needed! - Do you think the government of Alberta should scrap the Mature Asset Strategy and ensure oil and gas companies pay for cleanup? actionnetwork.org/forms/clean-... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Air Canada strike: “We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said. “If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”

NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...

As Netanyahu launches the final phase of his monstrous plan for Gaza, they are eliminating the few journalist witnesses still left alive. Unbearable that under Carney, Canada can’t manage more than occasional symbolic gestures. Sanctions, weapons ban, real consequences now!

Horrible news. Yesterday, a pickup truck driver hit & killed a one-year-old girl in Calgary. Today, a pickup truck driver hit & killed a nine-year-old girl in Spruce Grove, near Edmonton. Both happened just outside homes: One in the back alley, on off the front driveway.

Frankly it is frustrating. In the 10 years has seen a 1.5km extension west (12 Ave) and two 1.5km partial extensions south (11th St and 2nd St). A funded 15th Ave improvement has been delayed another year. Every community should be able to get the benefits the extension did for Sunalta. #yycbike

Beginning in Feb 2024, I became the target of an online harassment campaign that affected my personal and professional spaces. The individual behind it uses an anonymous X account to post defamatory, hateful, and inaccurate statements about me in response to posts made by me or posts about me.

NEW EP: Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For? albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/e...

Left nationalism. It didn’t work the first time, but if we try it again, it also won’t work

Some people who care about things are annoying about it. This is a personal attack on the things I'm annoying about.

I am over thinking of Ximena as a journalist. It's not the tired, reductive, divisionary take that wanting 5A infrastructure makes you smug ableist - it's that she would post this as engagement bait days after someone on a bike was killed while legally minding their own business. Don't engage.

Checking in on that elbows up thing

I’m so blown away by the size and fun vibes of Critical Mass rides these days. It gives me so much hope! @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social

30 years ago today: Alberta Premier Ralph Klein meets with Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. (📸News clip: Edmonton Journal, June 23, 1995)

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My second piece for the Guardian in a month! As promised, I wrote about Bill C-2 the border bill and how it’s MAGA-inspired www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I had extremely low expectations for Carney since the beginning, but he’s quickly managed to be worse than I could have imagined.

🧵 As unchecked climate apocalypse burns our forests and the city is filled with smoke — As slaughter, starvation and genocide continue in occupied Palestine — As unaccountable, anonymous ICE thugs disappear innocent people from the streets of the US —