Pediatrician Here 👋🏻 23 years as a doctor and I’ve received no bonus or kickback from anyone for vaccinating. In fact I lose money. Happily. Because healthy infants, children, and teens are MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN any amount of money in the world.

1/8 🇨🇦 ALBERTA GOVERNMENT WEAKENS KEY OVERSIGHT TOOL 🇨🇦 New legislature rules allow the province to delay answering official questions for years, sparking fierce backlash from opposition leaders. Source Lisa Johnson, The Canadian Press #AbLeg #CdnPoli #Democracy #AbPoli #Transparency

TODAY @ UofA! Dr Paul Parks @pfparks.bsky.social An Urgent Conversation: Our Public Health Care @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social Education Centre North University of Alberta Room 2-103 Edmonton #yeg #Edmonton #UAlberta #AbHealth

This article only sort of mentions the far worse problem than being bad for astronomy. These satellites re-entering are already damaging our ozone layer. And how the fuck does one asshole in one country get to decide any of this that affects the entire planet. musk can fuck off into the sun.

This week in theatre! Join us for a full lineup of new plays and new works featured at Springboards 2026 brought to you by Workshop West! Be sure to catch yours truly & the Edmonton Playwrights’ Circle as part of our Five Alive cabaret on Saturday! See you there, pals! #yeg #yegarts #Edmonton

Saturday! March 28th 2026 7:30pm Gateway Theatre 8529 Gateway Blvd NW Edmonton #yeg #Edmonton #yegArts www.workshopwest.org/springboards...

This is well worth a listen. ⭐️ #Alberta

The program represents a significant breach of Canada's democratic principles, even as they existed before the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He described it as racist, exhibiting the same ideas underpinning Indian residential and day schools. #Cdnpoli #PoliceState www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Read our report "The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2025" https://hri.global/flagship-research/death-penalty/the-death-penalty-for-drug-offences-global-overview-2025/ #DeathPenalty #DrugPolicy #HumanRights #HarmReduction #CND69 #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

Can I just say on behalf of myself and a lot of institutional academics I know, please please please just ask - we'd be delighted to send you anything we've written (up to and including our latest shopping list). Someone wanting to read my work makes my week.

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

​​We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year. Meta got $13.7 BILLION. Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND. Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them. We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.

No. No. Nine times no! Five very smart Albertans on why we need to call out these 9 referendum questions for what they are. And why we all have a role to play in speaking out. #ableg #abpoli #AlbertaUnbound #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

We analyzed the locations of 38 data centre campuses proposed in Alberta. Three quarters of them are in regions under high or extremely high water stress. Only three have been planned in low water stress regions, which comprise the majority of Alberta’s land mass.

S-M-R-T... "Kevin O’Leary’s off-grid Wonder Valley AI complex would require 7,500MW of gas-fired power to run, pumping out up to 30.5 megatonnes of emissions a year. That would effectively erase all the emissions gains Alberta achieved by phasing out coal-fired electricity..."

Let’s continue to explore what’s available in the NNELS Library Toolkit for Canadian libraries! Next up, we have marketing and promotional materials that libraries can use and adapt for their platforms and audiences.

Really good summary and debunking of the major arguments used by those claiming the former consumer carbon tax, and the current large-emitter trading systems (i.e. "industrial carbon tax"), are responsible for food inflation in Canada. Once again, spoiler: THEY'RE NOT. #cdnpoli

A lot of people think that "freedom of the seas" is like "freedom of the speech" but it's really more like "should you be able to drive on highways or should you expect to be waylaid by gangs on the way to the grocery store"

When I worked for the Government of Alberta, I drew the short straw and was required to go through the full vetting process for Top Secret briefings. I have some thoughts about Smith's request. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

fwiw my read on the threat to move ICE to doing TSA jobs is that Trump is looking for a way to back down on snatch squads without appearing to have backed down

Longhurst says the situation raises broader questions about Canada’s reliance on a paid plasma system #skpoli #cdnpoli

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

Smith continues to refuse to call a public inquiry. She now claims that the report that is ultimately produced by her chosen replacement for the current Auditor General will be something that she "takes seriously". #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Premier Smith is assuring us she has done no wrong. That's all the more reason for a full independent public inquiry. The Wyant report didn't cover it all, making further inquiry necessary. Enough UCP stalling. Keep the pressure on, folks! #FullPublicInquiryAB #AbLeg #CorruptCare #Alberta #AbPoli

Don’t even THINK of going to the US.

Janet Brown once said that "entitlement is kryptonite" for Alberta conservatives. To the extent opponents (within the UCP or in other parties) are able to tie together the premier's actions and affiliations (Saudi and Corruptcare), and make that a core focus, the chances are lower that she skates.

Tomorrow AM, we drop a powerful episode of Alberta Unbound’s - a sharp analysis of Alberta’s 9 referendum questions, from political scientists @melomas.bsky.social and @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social, political strategists Ken Boessenkool and Zain Velji, and constitutional lawyer Pat Paradis. #abpoli

Where did these 9 questions come from? What do they mean? And how should Albertans respond? If you’re an Albertan - or someone struggling to understand Alberta - you will want to listen. My guests did not pull their punches.

Good news! 😃 Monarch Butterfly population surges 64% in Mexico ground.news/article/mona...

"this is like a bookstore ripping the covers off the books it puts on display and changing their titles." 🤦‍♀️ I've been using DuckDuckGo for a couple of years now and encourage you to also switch away from Google Search (and probably other Google products as well).

It was a time of great ‘predictable and preventable’. Labelling predictable and preventable phenomena/events as ‘uncertainty’ is a choice. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ableg

$1.49 DAY GUY!

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

Disappointing response to shuttering the safe consumption site in Calgary from the mayor. #Populism

This is excellent, take a read! The govt keeps spouting numbers, keeps spending more, but outcomes keep getting worse for pts... they aren't going to listen to HC experts until ABs make them...

Mobile Canvassing for Fort Saskatchewan & Area! Sign the #WaterNotCoal Petition Daily from 12:00 - 7:00 pm Note: We will bring the petition to your door! Just email us: [email protected] #abpoli #ableg #FortSask #FtSask #FortSaskatchewan #Strathco #WaterisLife www.waternotcoal.ca

Today is World Down Syndrome Day. #WorldDownSyndromeDay As Teresa Heartchild says: See the Ability ❤️ www.teresaheartchild.com

Alberta is one of only two provinces that doesn’t have accessibility legislation to help ensure people with a disability are able to fully participate in our communities. The UCP want to keep it that way by voting down Bill 206, the Accessible Alberta Act. youtu.be/9di0WuL3JXU?... #abpoli

Are you a journalist referring to the "Alberta model" of anything? Because if you are, then in reality you're just a propagandist doing their job for free.

I got the same IP spear phishing email from the so-called "Canadaland tipster" linking to a page on Canadaland's website with an IP tracer I'm aware of several other journalists who've also received this If you received this too, please DM or email me: [email protected]

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

Don't miss our townhall in 📍Grande Prairie TOMORROW, or 📍Spruce Grove, 📍U of A, and 📍Edmonton in the next few days! Details & RSVP: friendsofmedicare.org/UrgentConversations

Another day, another incredible stop on FOM & @pfparks.bsky.social's Urgent Conversations townhall tour across Alberta! We spent yesterday evening in Drayton Valley, where we heard locals' pressing concerns about accessing health care in their community. People are worried about the direction ...

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

My CBC Sask interview on the disturbing paid-plasma situation and the broader concerns about a for-profit industry that feeds off economically precarious people www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

A side note: If you’re in one of the states that would rather kill you than let you have self-determination, and you took a drug? NO YOU DID NOT. Do not admit to it. There’s no test for Mife or Miso. (and in those states, do your damnedest to use oral route, not vaginal insertion.)

The Afroman trial has been a trip. He was so damn good on the stand I could watch him do that for a living.