@emmettmacfarlane.com: "Instead of any sort of nuanced debate over the validity of specific mandatory minimums... we get blind outrage from the politicians... who will leverage the average Canadian’s ignorance to their political benefit." 💯 open.substack.com/pub/emmettma...

“Really, really disheartening, really frustrating and really stressful,” said Erica Thomas about their experience this week at the Stollery Children’s Hospital We honestly need more pts/families to tell their stories... sadly these are not rare events 1/4 buff.ly/vIaVqzi

“The provincial government has cut funding for an Aboriginal Counseling Services of Alberta (ACSA) program that provides support for Indigenous mothers who have faced domestic violence” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.albertanativenews.com/alberta-cuts...

UCP government defenders: "Slippery slope arguments are lazy." Danielle Smith: globalnews.ca/news/1150516...

Time's up for Ring Cameras Turn 'em off

In response to Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause, labour groups are vowing retaliation. Danielle Smith's attack on bargaining rights has unions raising the spectre of a general strike: pressprogress.ca/alberta-labo...

What Stuart Stevens says is perfectly obvious, and something you will not see reflected in any of the major media coverage.

This story deserves more attention. The UCP govt handed over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and is now refusing to explain why. Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Slap this quote on the side of Air Force One, the White House, your front lawn, everywhere. We should hear this on every media outlet and echoing through the streets.

Why your Halloween chocolate goodies don't taste the same anymore. They may no longer be made of "chocolate". 🎃 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/c...

COVID is far from gone... in fact it may be hitching a ride on your next business or leisure trip. airspothealth.com/a/blog/coron...

The Pentagon just admitted it. Per Rep. Sara Jacobs (via Annie Grayer of CNN), officials said they "do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes." No proof. No trial. Just execution. It's murder.

🎯3min clip shared by @keithmuise.bsky.social on Twitter: CBC clip: Long COVID is underdiagnosed, researchers say, and there’s work to be done to change that www.cbc.ca/player/play/... [ I'm linking to the CBC video, so I tucked the link to Keith's tweet in the ALT text ]

The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat… Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Have said this before but follow @disorderedyyc.bsky.social. They are highly skilled at finding contextual video, like this one.

Public schools have added 800+ funded teacher jobs since a caucus filled with former educators won the 2023 election. The province says there’s been a 6% increase in these positions, but didn’t share enrolment data to contextualize this change #wfp #mbed www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records. We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility. They’re disappearing people. No due process. No accountability.

Great thread on union history

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

Canadians have a right to be furious about this.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

In explaining why to be a truly separate country, Alberta must abolish Aboriginal rights, Bruce Pardy accidentally explains why Alberta can never become its own country. Indigenous rights precede Alberta's existence as a province. Real genius, that one.

Tories like Lougheed designed the notwithstanding clause. Tories today need to stand up and defend it against populists like Danielle Smith. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

TORONTO – A new report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says every dollar the government invests in the arts generates $29 in economic activity. 

three essential reads for Albertans today. 3 of 3/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/o...

Remember when Danielle Smith condemned the "arrogance" of a government for passing laws in a matter of days? Now she's rammed through a law stripping teachers' charter rights in a single day. Seems the "democratic process" no longer matters to her now that she's in power. #ableg #abpoli

ATA president Jason Schilling at today's press conference: “Teachers will comply with the law, but make no mistake—compliance is not consent. The Association will fight this abuse of power with every tool the law provides and every ounce of conviction we possess.”

Danielle Smith is using the notwithstanding clause to protect herself while crushing individuals' Charter rights. That’s not freedom, that’s cowardice. And Albertans won’t stand for it.

True North Strong Free fuck the Vichy regime of Danielle Smith nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/28/n...

Oh wow. Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.

Buckle up, Alberta.

A lot of questions today about how Danielle Smith -- the "libertarian" and "conservative" -- could use closure & the notwithstanding clause to remove Albertans' Charter rights. The answer: she's neither libertarian nor conservative. Is the province or her party, though? We'll soon find out.+

New legislation idea: if a government wants to invoke the notwithstanding clause, they must immediately hold a referendum or election. If the government wants to trod on people's Charter rights, it's only fair to ensure the people agree with the reasoning. Nothing to fear if acting in ppls interest.

Last night the UCP made slaves of every worker in #Alberta You might think that's an exaggeration but it's what I see when I think it through Now any employer can double workers hours, cut their pay, no benefits, no time off If we complain we will be forced to work using the Notwithstanding clause

At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg

The Premier is ordering teachers back to work by invoking the notwithstanding clause from the airport lounge. #ableg

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights? An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote. I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

Alberta uses Charter's notwithstanding clause to order striking teachers back to work From @reportrix.bsky.social and me today, with updates to come as government sits into the night to pass the bill. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Every Albertan should be outraged. Our govt just rammed thru a full on attack on our constitutional rights. If they’ll do this to our teachers, nobody’s constitutional rights will be safe. This cannot be allowed to stand.

And just like that, the “Days since Alberta was a national embarrassment” counter is back to zero.

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

Speaking to @energimedia.bsky.social today, GilMcGowan made it clear… Danielle Smith has just touched off an economic firestorm. And union leaders will be responding “province wide”. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #generalstrike

🛩️ 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Premier Danielle Smith is jetting off to Saudi Arabia and Dubai just as her UCP government is expected to invoke the constitutional sledgehammer known as the Notwithstanding Clause in its legislation to force striking teachers back to work. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

It’s been getting harder and harder to shake the feeling that Premier Smith cares more about oil than actual Albertans. It’s one thing to suspect that, but having it confirmed like this is something else entirely.

ICYMI - Crisis looming for Alberta healthcare system already in chaos, experts say. 'Pure Chaos': Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...