For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

Last week, we released our Early Estimate of National Emissions, which showed 🇨🇦’s emissions progress stalled in 2024, with the 2030 target now out of reach. Join us on Oct. 2, 1pm ET to learn more and ask questions about our findings. Register here 👇 climateinstitute.ca/events/ask-m...

🛢️ Oil companies made billions 🏠 Left toxic wells near our homes 💰 Now want US to pay for cleanup 🚨 SAVE THE DATE: Oct 2, 7PM MT Virtual Town Hall - expose the scam, take action together. Register here: www.cleanupyourmess.ca/oct2-townhall #CleanUpYourMess #ABLeg #ABPoli #YYC #YEG

The U.S. is not going to be a reliable ally on any international issue for anyone in the foreseeable future. That really shakes things up...

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Alberta’s oil and gas well problem is a “giant stinking pile of shit,” the premier’s special advisor — who wrote the province’s strategy to address the issue — told a frustrated crowd in rural Alberta. @drewanderson.bsky.social was there. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

A great post of the damage to Canadian privacy in Bill C-2. I would add a smaller complaint: part 15 of Bill C-2 misappropriates the phrase 'Access to Information' in the new 'Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act'. (1/4)

We don't need to wait for the IJC's decision on the merits in the genocide case brought by South Africa against the state of Israel. States, including Canada @mark-carney.bsky.social must act on what we know now & BTW where is the CBC's coverage of this report? #abpoli #cdnpoli

Critics say the decision challenges the Alberta Energy Regulator’s credibility in a province ruled by a political party committed to fast-tracking resource development. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli

This is the 3rd in a series of blog posts on Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, including a look at how the SCC majority judgment on ss 25 & 15 of the Charter is being applied by lower courts. Great working with @jwatsonhamilton.bsky.social and @roberthamilton.bsky.social on this one!

A complex new wrinkle in the Alphabow bankruptcy: they are now in a legal dispute with MEGlobal Canada ULC about the ability to transfer a CO₂ purchase agreement as part of a reverse vesting order. I cannot tell how it will end, but it will cause more delay. www.ksvadvisory.com/docs/default...

The War Room has a propaganda piece for the new AER CEO. The key quote from Yager is : “The conclusion everybody involved in the review came to is the AER is an independent regulator that needed more direct industry participation, so here we are.” (1/2)

Gobsmacked by a decision (August 21) of the new CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator to overrule a hearing panel's decision on a matter under the panel's active consideration. I have news for Mr Morgan. He is not god and he does not have the "absolute discretion" he claims to have. #ableg #abpoli

The AER quietly provided an updated official liability figure for conventional oil and gas: "As of August 2025, the total estimated liability is about $37.9 billion",up from $36 billion in July 2024. www.aer.ca/regulations-...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

7 out of Ontario's 8 bat species are endangered, including the little brown bat. But in Shawanaga First Nation, where hundreds of bats have moved in, a unique species-at-risk program brings the community together to help them. New from @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/shawanaga-fi...

New Post: The Orphan Well Association Annual Report 2024/2025: The Sequoia Settlement Hits the Orphan Inventory ablawg.ca/2025/08/18...…orphan-inventory/

New Post: Canada’s Internationally Wrongful Climate Acts ablawg.ca/2025/08/15...…ful-climate-acts/

NEW: An annual child poverty report shows that almost 1 in 5 children in Alberta live in poverty. For children from single-parent families, that figure increases to half. www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_2025...

"The penalty is appropriate and should not be changed." ‼️ CNRL will be fined $278,000 for its failure to prevent birds from nesting on an island that formed in its tailings pond: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The company appealed to reduce its fine, which the Alberta Energy Regulator rejected.

51 whats? Also, good thing nothing lives in creeks, I guess. The AER compliance dashboard is a joke.

New War Room article says 'mature assets' include "94,000 wells that are “decommissioned” (wellbore cut and capped, surface equipment removed but site reclamation incomplete)". But that cannot be correct. A decommissioned but unreclaimed site is (1/2) www.canadianenergycentre.ca/understandin...

The Alberta government’s 2023 renewables moratorium may have done lasting damage. New data from @pembina.org shows Alberta’s renewables queue just hit a 4-year low. A steep drop for the province that once led Canada in new clean energy capacity.

The FOIPs that compose this scoop from @drugdatadecoded.ca cost him more than $1K. If you have the means, support his vital work. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

A technical oil & gas law post on the Q of whether this particular gross overriding royalty (GORR) is legal or equitable. IMO the ABCA's analysis is incomplete because neither it nor the trial judge grappled with the fact that when the GORR was created the grantor only had an equitable interest.

People claim oil and gas in Canada isn't subsidized, but that's not true. Governments give away billions each year to hugely profitable companies through direct funds, tax breaks, preferential financing and more (including a pipeline). An explainer. #ableg #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/oil-and-gas-...

Appalling behaviour on the part of the AG. s 2.1 of the Act expressly authorizes the CEO to seek the Court's opinion. This section was amended in the last session to provide timelines. If the AG didn't want the CEO to use it the UCP shd have removed it and left it to judicial review. #abpoli #ableg

When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay rent they owe to landowners where they have wells, the Alberta government pays it for them. The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024

New Post: Who’s Afraid of the Proposed First Nations Clean Water Act? ablawg.ca/2025/07/17...

New Post: New Standards (or is it a Book Ban?) in Alberta K-12 Schools ablawg.ca/2025/07/15...

A new contender for funniest page I've received in an Access to Information release.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... No numbers, no details #Alberta #coal

Reuters reporting that oil and gas producers in Alberta flared (i.e. burned off excess) natural gas to the tune of 912.7 million cubic metres in 2024. By my math, that would emit about 1.8 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. Or roughly the equivalent of Alberta's entire cement industry.

Reading this stuff and experiencing total destruction to my mind. The federal government does not want to destroy Alberta oil and gas and they have never tried. The belief the federal government is trying to crush Alberta oil and gas is an irrational lie. If you believe it, you are getting scammed.

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

This July, Cnds with disabilities are due to start receiving an extra $200 per month from the Canada Disability Benefit. Except in Alberta, where that income will flow to the prov'l government. The AB Gov't must reverse its decision to claw back this benefit: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

The civilian oversight commission for the Canadian Forces military police says the police are routinely disobeying the law. www.mpcc-cppm.gc.ca/corporate-or...

SCOOP: A controversial decision to increase cougar hunting in Alberta — including in parks — was "not based on science" but rather "direction" from the Minister of Forestry and Parks and input from hunters, @drewanderson.bsky.social has learned. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coug...

www.reuters.com/business/hea... This is not good at all. RFK Jr wants to destroy US medicine.

My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness. Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Alberta will contribute to reducing emissions by accelerating drilling. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

The part of Smith's defence of coal that surprised me was her claim:"If we're not prepared to look and find middle-ground solutions to allow for industries to proceed while reducing our environmental footprint, you're going to find that different industries become the next on the hit list" (1/2)

New Post: Provincial Referendum Legislation, Citizen-Led Secession Proposals, and Non-Derogation Clauses ablawg.ca/2025/06/11...

Alberta's 'Access to Information Act' came into force yesterday and FOIP was repealed. The change is not good, as I explained when the new law was introduced as a bill.

The democratic and.rule of law constraints on Canadian executive branches are deficient. Nothing done in secret is effectively bound by law or democratic accountability.

With 868 measles cases so far this year, Alberta has now exceeded its previous high mark set in 1986. 2025 now has the most cases since 1979. So I've had to expand this chart to include years prior to the modern-vaccine-program era:

In my view, Bill C-5 was written to satisfy people tricked by industry lobbyists into believing the assessment process for major projects is pointless red tape. The assessment process protects against badly planned projects that become destructive and wasteful. Haste will make waste.

I think this is a mistake. Everyone loved the santa suits. They should have gone the other way and added fake white beards to complete the look.

My favourite part of this article is the justification government gave for why they are not allowing the scientists to talk to the press: they "are not trained spokespeople." (1/2) www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Mountain top removal coal mines in the historic Crowsnest Pass present a clear and present danger to downstream fish populations even decades after their closure, according to a new scientific paper funded by the government of Alberta. Andrew Nikiforuk writes.