In 2010, I was in Beijing to witness the inaugural "Confucius Peace Prize" set up in response to the Nobel awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Confucius Prize was a hilarious farce of a thin-skinned authoritarian regime.

Four more MLA recall campaigns have been given the green light to start collecting petition signatures, bringing to total number to 18. This batch targets 3 UCP MLAs and 1 NDP MLA. Calgary-Beddington MLA Amanda Chapman is the first opposition MLA targeted by the Kenney-era recall law.

Re-upping this as daily temps are set to plunge in Edmonton. Zero frostbite amputations is an achievable goal we all can work towards. City Council and the Government of Alberta can lead here by overhauling their winter emergency response efforts #yegcc #ableg edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Recall. #AbLeg #AbPoli #Alberta

Just want to get this time stamped somewhere. Canada-Morocco-Norway-UEFA A US-Austria-South Africa-New Zealand

PM Mark Carney and premier Danielle Smith may never get a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, but they're working to link Canada's energy future to fossil fuel production I spoke with @sethdklein.bsky.social about the climate carnage breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

New from me: An Edmonton woman who reported a sexual assault to police says the officer who was investigating her case hit on her in text messages. A criminologist questions how EPS handled the woman's complaint about his conduct. #yeg #yegcc edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

PoiLIEvre’s CPC delivers another conservative blow to Canada… oh… wait… ummm #CdnPoli #Canada

This guy gave a BB gun to an AI robot and asked it to shoot him. The robot refused to due to its safety settings. Then the guy asked the robot to pretend to be a robot who would like to shoot him…

Of course they did. Because 288 in-house staffers and $38 million dollars alone couldn't possibly be adequate to create some public spin to vilify teachers. The funneling of tax dollars to friends and donors will continue until we vote these grifters out. #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta government awarded PR firm sole-source $200K contract to run education campaign to sway public opinion during teachers' battle www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...

Lawyers have instructed Pete Hegseth to answer all questions about the Venezuelan boat attack with "I'm too trashed to remember."

The flaring limit has never been applied. The AER is largely gutted, toothless, and rarely has enforced anything.

A premium example of what the United States does in the light Canada does in the dark CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE

This is who Carney bending the knee to in #Alberta. Any perceived advancement will simply be dismantled down the road. Only a fool should expect Conservatives to negotiate in good faith. Rip up the MOU. Though it appears the Liberals may be complicit here too. #AbLeg #AbPoli #Canada #CdnPoli

I thought Carney’s perpetual capitulations to Trump was supposed to stop this? #Canada #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Technically, Carney never said who those up elbows would be used against.

👀 These allegations are damning, and suggest corrupt government dealings in mental health and addiction. It is long past time for a public inquiry to sort this all out. #ableg

Me, after being asked to leave Chili's after having one too many happy hour margaritas:

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

#cdnpoli Make it so Canada.

It’s like CEO Inception: the acting acting acting acting acting CEO. Which is on brand for this acting government.

“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/bradlafo...

I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it. The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

The UCP say they support people with disabilities in Alberta, but that is a complete lie. No one wants the changes to AISH or the clawback to the disability tax credit. Jason Nixon and Danielle Smith need to go and get lost. #yeg #yyc #yql #ableg #abpoli

They use the notwithstanding clause to not pay for resources that public education desparately needs. Guess where they spend? Private sector. The Webber academy donated 3m to its landlord (their holding company) - how much of that was taxes? But that is a speckle compared to this one! #recallucp

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

Max basically throwing in the towel with every politician that has no imagination for solutions that aren’t business as usual. Unlimited growth is a religion that has a nasty and predictable end. Putting 1 part CO2 in a temporary storage while releasing 15 parts to the atmosphere + methane leaks.

Yes! Why can’t we return to “normal” times where at a certain point, politicians would have a spine involving principles and ethics, and resign if they had crossed a line? UCP is now in the sub basement, well underground with no signs of conscience or care for anyone except themselves 😡 #ableg

It’s getting a bit tiring saying this but in normal times, this wouldn’t just bring down the government, it would be the end of the political and private careers of everyone in caucus. #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli #Canada #CdnPoli

🚨BREAKING!🚨 The NDP revealed yet another real estate deal involving Sam Mraiche and seemed to raise concerns he was might have been given the heads up to buy the building by someone in government! If you watch 2 minutes today, make this it! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Every right-wing movement is mirroring the others, and it will be Canada's turn soon enough

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein was never cast out of Silicon Valley’s inner circle. Docs unearthed via @bylinetimes.bsky.social show he stayed inside a confidential network linking Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates & Zuckerberg – now wired into Trump’s new tech order bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...

Following Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin's refusal to say whether or not a new pipeline would contribute to climate change yesterday, that makes two major figures in Carney's government who have been unsure about the environmental impact of a new pipeline to export oil to be burned overseas.

Dawn Farrell made the unusual claim before Parliament that the Trans Mountain pipeline fights climate change. The Major Projects Office, which she heads up, was unable to substantiate that claim, @woodsideful.bsky.social reports.

We need an Environment Minister that actually gives a fuck about the environment.

In the neoliberal world, there will ALWAYS be a crisis to avoid doing the correct thing for the planet. There is no future “get back to that”. Never was, never will be. Only option is to vote them out. Red and Blue. Complete wipe out. #Canada #CdnPoli

Here she is making a good case that Carney is particularly condescending to female journalists. Prime Minister Daddy indeed. open.spotify.com/episode/2Xnn...

So happy my girl @supriya.bsky.social is out here opinionating again: "When Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling ... it has joined the league of polite misogyny." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Why is the media consistently saying "energy," when they actually mean "oil and gas"? "Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc. This is obfuscation. It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.

this article—like much coverage of Lukaszuk's petition campaign this week—misses the other fifth way the UCP may react, which is to just screw with the petition procedurally. they could stack the committee to deliver their desired result. they could also vote to reject the committee's report.

CBC, which is hyperconcerned about diversity, inclusion and its brand, needs to publicly explain why it stays on a platform owned and maliciously manipulated by a virulent white supremacist.

STORY: Alberta ends negotiations with two firms tied to Sam Mraiche, the businessman at centre of health care controversy www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... with @tomcardoso.bsky.social

Sorry Red Deer. Sorry Lethbridge. You get screwed again by the UCP. But keep voting conservative, because one day things may change and work out for you. #abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption #abhealth #SorryNotSorry

They are admitting their conflict of interest, not even hiding the fact they’re turning their friends in to multi millionaires and UCP voters just don’t care. #AbPoli #Alberta

Max, respectfully, the 'last barrel' argument only works if entirely divorced from morality. If we were talking about asbestos would we still be jockeying to be the last barrel even though we know what it does to people? Oil's exponentially more dangerous. It's literally F-ing up the whole world now

Perhaps a photo of a child with end-stage subacute sclerosing panencephalitis on a ventilator - or a video of the seizures that preceded it.

Deft piece of bullshit politicking for PM Carney to act like he's doing reconciliation while setting First Nations up to be The Problem if they don't provide their consent, which is supposed to be sought *PRIOR*