Hear from all 5 candidates vying to be #RedDeer mayor on a new episode of The Everything Red Deer Podcast, plus one last chat with current Mayor Ken Johnston, who shares some advice for whoever replaces him in a few weeks. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/4Xvd...

Have opinions on living in #RedDeer? The city wants to hear from you. Survey closes Sept 29! Results will be delivered to council in November. engage.reddeer.ca/LiRD

Dncan Kinney: sobeys has locked out workers at their balzac warehouse and teamsters local 987 is calling on albertans to boycott sobeys, safeway, freshco, voilà, m&m's meat, and petro-canada convenience stores to support the workers. i will be boycotting my local freshco.. x.com/duncankinney...

The next Red Deer petition signing for forever canadian is at Safety City from 6pm to 8pm today, August 19/25!

I find this argument extremely persuasive: taking humiliation seriously as a political force has enormous explanatory and normative value This also ties into @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's argument about affective pleasure as a motive in cruel conservative politics

What comes next for me? Well, I'm also leaving b/c of an opportunity I couldn't turn down. I'll be writing & editing at The Tyee where I hope to have more time to spend on big stories while helping with the publication's news and politics coverage. (I'll be based full-time in Lillooet.)

I'll highlight more of my thoughts from this document in the days to come. But in the meantime I'd encourage everyone to have a read and become informed on this critical topic: buff.ly/P6oubtk 10/10

Can a democracy die of embarrassment

Good morning! For @defector.bsky.social, I wrote about the most pleasant pop culture surprise of my year so far: the delightful North of North!

@charles_h_martin, not on #Bluesky, on #23andMe

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

Not with a shot but a whimper... so ends the saga of #Novavax vaccine (non)production at Canada's publicly owned Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC). www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

"Tomorrow's solutions cannot be yesterday's habits." www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/en-macrons...

Sounds good to me. “Retired patent lawyer Andrew Reddon said that 🇨🇦should retaliate by reverting to a compulsory licensing regime for U.S. drug patents that allowed generic drug manufacturers to pay a fee and obtain a license to sell a patented drug cheaply in Canada”

~Wow! This is how to put your province/country first!

Bad times make collectivists. Collectivists make good times. Good times make individualists. Individualists make bad times

What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading

American science benefited greatly from European fascism by a combo of offering a haven for refugee scientists and poaching others. Canada and the U.K. should capitalise as much as possible from American fascism - it’s a colossal opportunity to both do good and to benefit for the future.

I think a lot of people have mutual aid confused with charity on here, maybe because folks most often see it in the context of fundraiser asks (which are great!). I want to talk a little about what it looks like in everyday life. Because we need it more than ever. Government is getting shredded.

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

I gotta give it to the USGS. This is a really good timelapse of the beginning of the eruption at Kilauea today.

They added Edmonton. [Clip of Ron Burgundy screaming I'M SO HAPPY] Do hashtags work? Let's try some. #pwhl #yeg

A Red Deer man living with substance use disorder has filed a legal action against the #Alberta government for its plan to close the city’s only supervised drug-use site next year, a move he says violates his Charter-protected rights and will put his life at risk. @theglobeandmail.com #abpoli

"here is our chance to free our health decision-making patterns from American leadership, and to build vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing capacity at large scale domestically." ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deon...

Thank you to everyone who has donated or shared the GoFundMe for @willygrant.bsky.social & Glenn. In less than 12 hours, we have raised $8,520! I have increased the goal to $50,000 in hopes that Glenn can pass peacefully tomorrow knowing he is not a financial burden to Willy. gofund.me/7d1563c0

Every day when I go visit The Husband at the hospital, I read him out all of your messages of love & support. You make him feel like he has done some good by sharing his ALS journey so openly. He would like to thank each of you for coming to his 27 month long "Ted Talk".

Together again. #EndALS #MAiD

Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/

The main goal of the challenge is described as: 'Set in the snowy biome of the Pimachiowin Aki and with the winter activity of dog sledding in First Nation communities within Manitoba, student teams will design a dogsled race course inspired by Mario Kart'

As this place grows, I’m definitely starting to see more of the non-troll exhaustion engines pop up: pedantic explanations, mild condescension, misplaced subject-changing and replies-hijacking. I don’t always block for this stuff, but I do mute. You can direct your actuallys to the bottom of a well.

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

To try and get into using this, here is the thread of Terrible Christmas Things™️

Just off BBC Radio Scotland, talking about 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿ScotRail's decision to sign up to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet for all their Highland trains. I think I rather upset presenter Kaye Adams with this story of space junk falling from the sky...😬🔭 ℹ️: www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

really hoping to avoid the burn it to the ground, rise from the ashes trajectory

Lagrange firing & sanctions justified, rules judge #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmonton.ctvnews.ca/red-deer/cou...

I think that’s my space

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

I saw this just before Shabbat came in, and I've been thinking about it all day, because I think that while the event itself is lurid and enraging, *this* is the part we should pay close attention to. Oklahoma teachers are showing us that noncompliance works.

~I'm a rural ER doctor & I feel the need to publicly apologize My colleagues & I cannot fix these problems ourselves Trying to fix the problem has pushed some of us to leave the profession. In fact, the effort to look after ourselves may worsen services. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tapping the sign again that says "the most political thing you can say as a scientist is: science is not political" 🧪

Pod Save is the Joe Rogan for people who listen to The Daily

BREAKING: Judge rules against former Red Deer Catholic school trustee, Monique LaGrange, on first part of judicial review rdnewsnow.com/2024/11/14/j... #ableg

Just skimming the Antiviral Annex of the Canadian #Pandemic #Influenza Preparedness: Planning Guidance for the Health Sector (Updated Nov 2018). Is there more current info on the NAS and NESS antiviral stockpiles, or does this reflect current practice? www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Thank you to everyone who's been Sharing our AHS Closure/COVID Outbreak Map! Almost 124K+ Views and growing! google.com/maps/d/u/0/v... As always a HUGE HUGE HUUUUUUUUGE Shout out to the amazing webmaster/unofficial assistant CMOH @frazzleheadlc.bsky.social for her very hard work on this!

“The law has been disastrous for many independents, who were more reliant on the lost Facebook referral traffic and now find that many of their journalists do not count for the purposes of Google money.” How? By “[…] limiting the calculation of employees to those receiving T4 tax slips.”

The reason Elie Weisel said "no one is illegal" is because declaring people as "illegal" is an early step to creating a permission structure for mass dehumanization and genocide. That's why it matters. We are in the business of words. Accuracy matters in the word business. Intent and context matter

What is that Sherlock Holmes quote? Thinking of it as #BCCDC traces all the possible vectors... "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” #H5N1