Vision Zero for motorists, who regularly injure or kill pedestrians and other vehicle occupants 👎 “Vision Zero” for trams, on fixed guideways, keeping them moving at half the speed of motorists 👍

This is, by far, the best, most accurate and extremely well argued analysis of the power of Danielle Smith's communications style that I have read. This deserves to be widely distributed and as Markham notes, the Alberta NDP should take note.

People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms? Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people." Anything that punctures that myth helps. +

Smith finally said it out loud... She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services. Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Underlying all of this is the fact that most people can't or don't conceive of life without the private automobile as the primary (only) method of transportation, including the people who make decisions about our infrastructure.

Mayor @jeromyyyc.bsky.social has an opportunity to seize the moment & demonstrate the skills he possesses as a leader and consensus builder. Instead of talking about a total teardown of blanket rezoning, #yyccc should focus on a #yycplan rezoning renovation. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

It's so hard to keep a straight face when someone will be like "North Korean spies stole my shitty blockchain ape drawings" and that is 100% what actually happened. Everything about it is just so absurd.

In "Poverty segmentation: The challenge of the 'working poor'," I challenge the misconception that poverty doesn't happen to people who work. The reality is that the largest group of people living in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. maytree.com/publications...

We're here to serve. #bikeshoplife #yycbike 🥹

The populist playbook is being speed run here... (Playbook: bsky.app/profile/bren...) bsky.app/profile/live... #yyccc #yycplan

No ethics. No expertise. No rule of law. Just hate and harm in three pieces of legislation with transgender kids being made into political pawns. The horrible tale, by @reportrix.bsky.social. What a thing to have to report. Respect. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/alb... Just horrible.

No notes. ✊🏾👏🏾

Today is a dark day but our pledge to transgender and gender diverse people in every part of the province is this: we will never give up and we will never stop fighting for your rights. - Senator Kristopher Wells 2/2

Today, on International Human Rights Day, Albertans woke up in a province where the rights of one of our most vulnerable minorities have been overridden by a government whose only concern is its own ideological base. 1/2 nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/10/a...

When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.

I would strongly argue we don't need to learn. We know. The City knows. We just continually choose to not do it to the scale it needs to be done. And with the modest budget adds for this year - we can both celebrate progress and know it's not enough. #yyccc #yycwalk www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The Canadian ethos is fundamentally egalitarian. Not equal outcomes, but equal dignity. Not equal wealth, but equal worth. We believe that public systems exist to protect people, not to sort them. To lift people up, not mete out punishment for circumstance. “Smith rejects this.”

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

"Outsourcing institutions did not make our government modern; it dissolved the foundations of competence, and now we rent it back at a premium because the capacity no longer exists inside the state at all. A government that cannot do its own work cannot defend the public interest."

Gee, maybe because they’re gonna lose them all? Cuz they’re violating the law on the regular?

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange suppressed information about measles cases that health officials told her the public should have. Another must read from the Globe.

Limbless, the Black Knight concedes.

As Calgary deals with a 10-year high in traffic fatalities, including more than a dozen pedestrian deaths, millions are being approved for pedestrian safety. Details on potential upgrades included in a city briefing note. #yyc #yyccc #yyccc buff.ly/yKcoL2m

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

Chabot will then turn and give CPS all the money they ask for. And this motion will make the lives of CPS members, and obviously those who are struggling, much more difficult.

Looking forward to having to pay $4/trip next year for this… (no, no I’m not. It’s deplorable to pay so much for so little) #yyccc #yyctransit

I had Calgary Transit leadership as dependably disappointing... not malicious. The support and advocacy to remove the 12 and under free fare as well as the free fare zone has flipped my opinion. #yyccc

Tour de force of investigative journalism here. Globe obtained evidence and made connections that Judge Wyant did not. Also, Globe confirmed former Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee was guest of Sam Mraiche at Oilers game. EPS failed to be forthright with me when I raised this in a previous story. 1

On @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social, we coined the term "Cancel Culture Grift Economy" to describe how this works.

Every time I get behind the wheel of a car, I remember that I am wielding a weapon that can cause untold destruction, I wish more drivers thought about that, especially the ones that cavalierly almost run me over on a regular basis.

I’m heartbroken by the severity of Camilla and Alejandra’s injuries, and that their family first learnt of the collision from seeing ambulances close to their home. With 450 pedestrian collisions this year on Calgary roads... 1/2 globalnews.ca/news/1154373...

Alberta municipalities missing out on millions from green energy projects. #ableg #abpoli calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

holy shit I don't usually like to share substack articles but this one is valuable

Apropos of nothing in particular…

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

The Stargate is notoriously known for enabling the Goa'uld to access other planets and enslave their inhabitants. Those who don't know their Sci-Fi Channel originals are doomed to repeat them.

Picard’s point on AB’s new “dual practice” plan: evidence shows letting surgeons bill public & private won’t fix wait times, it likely lengthens them, drains staff from public hospitals, adds red tape, and undermines access. A solution in search of a problem. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/70a7e73...

It would have meant the addition of roughly 25 items each month to public hearing meeting agendas. #yyc #calgary #yyccc buff.ly/x3iRl6F

Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.

They're not even hiding it. Resolution #29 at this month's UCP AGM promises to roll back reproductive rights. Don't think they'll use the notwithstanding clause to do it? I've got a lab testing contract and boatload of Turkish Tylenol to sell you.

TL;DR The AG finds that the Dynalife fiasco was yet another fiscal disaster for taxpayers courtesy the UCP, and that Adriana LaGrange meddled in matters that should have been exclusively AHS' domain.

Premier Smith - as someone who has had the “physical surgery” of mastectomy (whatever you mean by that - I’m not sure what non physical surgery) I can confirm that it does not in any way impact my ability to have children

“My own experience prescribing puberty blockers has demonstrated enormous psycho-social benefits in youth who feel a quiet desperation watching their bodies change in ways they can’t control […] A puberty blocker provides them with a pause […] with no effects on fertility, and is 100% reversible.”

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run

UCP introduces Bill 9; Protecting Alberta's Children (from accessing healthcare) Act Notwithstanding rights afforded to them by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; notwithstanding rights protected in the UCPs "Alberta Bill of Rights"; notwithstanding Human Rights. #ableg #abpoli

"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

It's rare we're in agreement with the Fraser Institute on urban policy however they absolutely nail the reasons why this move to repeal blanket rezoning is a bad idea & goes against the free-market conservative values many pushing it on #yyccc claim to hold. calgarysun.com/opinion/colu...

The media needs to stop rwading the government's talking points on Bill 10. Aside from jury duty and voting, I have yet to find a single provincial program or service that requires Albertans to verify their citizenship. So how does this remove red tape?