January Meet-Ups - Part 1: 🌟 OPEN HEARTS Fridays: Jan 9 (online) & Jan 23 (in person) 🌟 TENDER HEARTS Tuesdays: Jan 6 (online) & Jan 20 (in person) 🌟 FLOWING HEARTS Tuesdays: Jan 13 (online) & Jan 27 (in person) 🌟 HARMONY HEARTS Wednesdays: Jan 7 (in person) & Jan 21 (online)

This article is worth reading: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Daughter lives in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Artic circle. It was plus temperatures there today. Warmest place in Canada today. They have lost their snow base which is vital for the Arctic. Climate change is real folks. Going to rain there..not snow. @markcarney.bsky.social pay attention.

Reading a series that is a modern day version of Jane Austen. It combines Regency drama/comedy with a dash of magic. The Ladies Occult Society is by @kristadb1.bsky.social and is delicious and captivating. I highly recommend it.

”Take your life as it exists today. Now imagine no Canadian passport. Imagine border checks to visit family in B.C. or Manitoba. Imagine your pension, healthcare, trade agreements, currency, and mobility all thrown into uncertainty, overnight.” open.substack.com/pub/colenotc... #ableg

Why our Healthcare matters!!

Spots left for CATTY, Creative & Art-based Therapy for Trans Youth (ages 13-17)! This program provides the opportunity to explore, grow, & build skillsets through creativity. Jan. 13 - March 3 | Tuesdays | 6:15pm-8:15pm Online www.skippingstone.ca/catty

January Highlights - Part 2: ✨ CATTY - Creative Art-based Therapy for Trans Youth (starts Jan 13 | online) ✨ AFFIRMING YOGA FOR TRANS FOLKS (Jan 21 | Every Body Stronger) ✨ HEARTS & CRAFTS - Teens (Jan 21 | Skipping Stone) ✨ TRANS ID CLINIC (Jan 22 | Skipping Stone) www.skippingstone.ca/learnmore

Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.

Danielle Smith, if you insist on having this divisive and economically damaging referendum on Alberta’s unquestionable place in Canada, bring it on, but make sure to ask the first approved question, condoned by nearly half million #ForeverCanadian Albertans. youtu.be/M51Rsv8U6Zc

I know it's Christmas Eve, but an Ontario animal sanctuary (pet pigs, horses, etc) just had their water tank system fail. It's going to cost over $3000 to fix it, and it's an emergency situation (the animals have to have water). Please donate/share if you can: www.ralphysretreat.ca

Skipping Stone offers free mental health programs including CATTY, Creative & Art-based Therapy for Trans Youth ages 13-17! This program provides the opportunity to explore, grow, & build skillsets through creativity. Jan. 13 - March 3 | Tuesdays | 6:15pm-8:15pm Online www.skippingstone.ca/catty

Tuning out CBS, tuning in PBS www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦

Debunk the immigration crime myth www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... "...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This is delightful and also, of course, fuck Bari Weiss for being the transparent tool of a corrupt and criminal administration

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

#CrushTheGOP 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 #BlueTsunami2026-2036 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

This needs a repost. Find a signing location and support public school for all.

Having opened door to Alberta separation vote, UCP changes rules to block competing referenda. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/havi...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

And the UCP wants our Canada Pension Plan, which they will then hand over to AIMCO.

If they can take away rights from trans-gendered people, they can take away yours. They only need to make up a story to rile their fascist base.

"Until Jamil Jivani discloses who is funding this movement, Canadians are left with a pressing and uncomfortable question: Who is paying for Restore the North, and what do they want in return?"

“Meanwhile, people freeze. This is what an extraction colony looks like in a modern democracy: the land is valuable, the people are expendable.”

Jimmy Kimmel has become the voice of America youtube.com/watch?v=2nph...

"Working with scientists both inside and outside of government, Cooke’s research found historic coal mines in the Crowsnest Pass continue to pollute nearby waterways decades after they closed."

Protect our CPP!

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

We really need a provincial government that works to make things better for ALL Albertans.

Our entire provincial government is made up of traitors and quislings.

The Old Strathcona Farmers' Market is a neighbourhood treasure in my riding of Edmonton-Strathcona. Now, The Side Door offers even more ways to shop local during the week! Make sure to check it out this holiday season.

I think everyone in Alberta needs to stay home on Monday.

“This is not simply a misunderstanding. It is a breach of good faith. It is a misrepresentation that affected the decisions made at the bargaining table & the understanding of Albertans.” The ATA is taking their fight to the Alberta Labour Relations Board! #abpoli #ableg #abed

This fall session, the UCP has nothing to show for helping with what matters to Albertans. Crowded classrooms, privatized health care, wasted money, and out-of-touch priorities show a government that isn’t working for you. You deserve better.

I have an online friend, a crafter, with a different approach to Christmas decorating:

I'm getting a bit tired of people saying Canada's Liberals are exactly the same as the Conservatives when the Liberals, unlike the Conservatives, are not interested in hunting trans people for sport You may think that's a small difference but it matters a lot to me, and I fucking see you

You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.

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“Only the federal government has the authority to make criminal law, so Alberta’s law should be ruled unconstitutional and struck down, the groups argue in their amended claim” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...

The combination of disastrous policies and poorly written recall laws are costing Albertans the better part of $10 million now. And that’s just the recalls, not the effects of those disastrous policies. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.townandcountrytoday.com/alberta-news...

Teresa is a mom near Vermillion. She's been struggling for years with unexplained health issues in her children, her animals and herself. Watch her story and send Premier Smith a postcard about leaking gas wells (link in comments) youtube.com/watch?v=jRdTOexdBog&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The #ForeverCanadian movement swept the province with Albertans gathering signatures on driveways, parks and festivals. The movement mobilized Albertans to stand up for democracy, for the province's role in Canada, and for Alberta's future. Join us at: Forever-Canadian.ca