floating a thought for feedback: if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't, I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information

SCOOP: Two senior Alberta Health Services procurement officials were also briefly directors in a numbered company linked to MHCare, a supplier that has been awarded $$$ in business, The Globe and Mail has found By @tomcardoso.bsky.social, @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social and friend

The one thing the girl must accomplish to escape the house is to remember her past.

Calcifer would *never*! He consumes hearts and plaits of hair and the occasional fried egg, and is powered by the despair of his enemies.

“Too often when public services are cut, the burden is shifted onto the individual or the community. Cuts to Canada Post will be borne by those least able to carry them and by rural communities that have been all but abandoned.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This is great, so glad this is happening. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...

Hey! If we applied the same can do attitude to UNIVERSITIES as we do to late night, we could get them back to their mission of serving the public good too!

SCOOP: A consultant advising Alberta Health Services on private surgical facilities simultaneously negotiated with AHS on behalf of a company vying to open such a clinic, according to a confidential report obtained by The Globe. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

It's me: I'm Rebecca.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

"What is therefore worth stressing is the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has been unable to autocrat its way out of a paper bag." Let us hope, for the sake of Alberta, that Smith's aspiring autocrats are incapable of learning from their friends' failures. Likely, but not a given.

After difficult news today, a bright spot: the always delightful @domsball.bsky.social at @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social delivering a scathing deconstruction of Irishness, capitalism, the project of ethnonationalism and Guinness ... While pouring one out to lubricate the lecture. Time-defying indeed.

Grieving today, for too many reasons.

Canada also recognising Palestine today after refusing visas to @kneecapceol.bsky.social for actually recognising Palestine for what it is.

Words to avoid: “diversity,” “equity,” “empathy,” “justice,” and “chronic venous insufficiency.” Words you are encouraged to use: “woke,” “triggered,” “snowflake,” “vermin,” and “r-word” (also, any other words that begin with one letter and a hyphen).

Even more so when it's your child's friends and classmates who are being targeted, excluded, deadnamed, and outed.

Had to read this thread twice to realize it wasn't referring to Alberta's Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health 😒

More US-style vaccine bullshit coming to Canada. Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Keep refusing to sign the forms. This legislation is not only unnecessary, it is sexist and discriminatory. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

This is literally some dystopian shit. Flagrantly contrary to the Charter, but also just plainly immoral backwater garbage. Danielle Smith has no business running a lemonade stand, let alone a province. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12. Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live, or how badly their provincial gov’t ignores science, health guidelines & their citizens.

they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?

I just need to know why every news headline right now isn’t Holy Christ Have You Seen This Fascist Shit

Now that the UN Commission, chaired by a judge who headed the tribunal in Rwanda, has affirmed that Israel is perpetrating genocide on 4 different grounds, will we hear from those who dismissed, and in some cases denigrated, colleagues for raising the alarm? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Hospitals are overwhelmed. COVID wastewater levels are rising. Albertans are struggling with affordability & access to timely health care. But instead of action, the AB government keeps creating barriers to care—like $100 vaccines! Watch FOM on CTV👇 Full story: www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

They are going to follow the Brexit model to a T - including creating chaos around the question, the govt actively putting its thumb on the scale for Leave, enabling organized disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and tossing in a little whiff of cordite just in case Remainers get notions.

"Public hospitals should have *competition* to provide medically necessary healthcare!" Says woman whose only ideological consistency is self-interest.

The face when you realise that Alberta now has a more restrictive vaccination policy than Virginia: 😒

Folks, that is *not* why Smith & Co. are so keen to add citizenship - and personal healthcare numbers - to provincial driver's licences. Can we stop parroting govt press releases and just for once actually do some critical journalism?!

Excellent breakdown of the UCP government's changes to disability benefits and the burden these policies will impose on disabled people and on healthcare providers.

Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by.

QT with your weekend plans

It's unfortunate that the Carney government thinks that only resource extraction and male-dominated sectors are worthy of "nation-building projects" Quality, affordable child care based on a fairly paid workforce is a nation-building project @sharongregson.bsky.social #ChildCareNow

I'll forgo the ghosts of grand house avenues – all driverless coaches, headless horses in finest tack – for lonely lane phantoms. Narrow paths that refuse space for spirit avoidance, routes where the only way home is shade-troubled. This is my haunted hodology. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

Today's haunting: The Irish are singing songs again About famine by design. Who else knows that an gorta mór Rhymes with holodomor? What else will it have rhymed with, When my children read History books yet to be written?

If you value education, please stand with teachers - literally, physically on the picket lines and in solidarity in virtual spaces. #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We are at that critical stage in the erosion of liberal democracy where I am reading resistance posts on here and trying to determine which ones are from Alberta.

The comments made by one of Premier Smith's chief advisors to a community leader challenging book bans were vile and reprehensible, and absolutely intended to demonize. I sincerely hope Anderson enjoys his Find Out phase.

Coming soon to a province in between Saskatchewan and British Columbia 🙄 At this point I wouldn't be surprised if this is the model for Smith's "revised" book ban to be announced tomorrow.

"Women’s rights are often the first on the chopping block because they are symbolic battlegrounds where leaders can signal their commitment to preserving an imagined moral order." Women, racial and gender minorities, disabled people, labour movements, intellectuals ... It's a well-worn path.

The ILT in-house Health and Wellness specialist offered sage and comforting words of advice to all the staff during our group hug this morning that I feel obliged to share with you: "You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."

As the US decimates its public health surveillance and capacity to respond new pathogenic threats, Canada is cutting off its own knees Canada just doesn’t get it Public Health Agency of Canada is cutting 10% of its employees as it continues to shrink its workforce www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The ghost story walks with us still. It refuses to banished. A more entertaining companion is harder to imagine. It attends as I explore the lanes, sits beside me at the pub’s fire. I mind not its form – floating torso, screaming skull or pale blue orb – its presence is always welcome. – #CLNolan

See also: The Woolsey decision on Joyce's Ulysses. I'm thinking of sending Premier Smith and Minister Nicolaides a page a day until one or both of them resigns out of desperation.

Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

Quick reminder: Writing is labour Rewriting is labour Editing is labour Reading is labour Teaching is labour Syllabussing is labour Thinking is labour Academic work is labour

Albertans, school board trustees, teachers, sports coaches, healthcare providers, and every single one of us. Do not comply in advance. Find small acts of noncompliance. And remind Smith that it's termed "malicious compliance", but we can be "vicious" when we need to.