The times we live in

The former head of Alberta Health Services she has been subject to a campaign of intimidation since suing the Alberta government last year. Athana Mentzelopoulos speaks for the first time on the alleged harassment campaign. New from me: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Alberta Health Services' former CEO alleges she has been subject to an intimidation campaign since suing the govt. Athana Mentzelopoulos speaks about it publically for the first time --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social

The call comes shortly after the much-publicized death of Prashant Sreekumar, who died on Dec. 22 after spending eight hours in the ER at Edmonton’s Grey Nuns Community Hospital. On Wednesday, the Globe learned that he was actually one of three people who died in the Grey Nuns ER that day. #ableg

Doctors working in Edmonton’s major hospitals are calling on the Alberta government to declare a state of emergency because there is no more room to safely accept patients. #ableg @theglobeandmail.com

A podcaster who has been accused of harassing a potential witness in a high-profile wrongful-dismissal lawsuit against the Alberta government told solicitors that he was retained by an Edmonton-based lawyer for “unspecified work,” new court records show. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A former director on the board of Alberta’s health authority alleges he was singled out in a campaign of harassment and intimidation because he pushed back against Premier Danielle Smith’s government and its decision to fire the agency’s CEO. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Family grieving, government investigating after man dies waiting in Edmonton ER. Prashant Sreekumar waited more than eight hours as pain grew unbearable, his wife says, by Matthew Scace www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com

Former AHS director alleges he was under surveillance, harassed, because he is a potential witness in the lawsuit tied to Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to court docs Plus lots more --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social

Former AHS board member claims podcasters paid to smear him ahead of Mentzelopoulos testimony calgaryherald.com/news/politic...

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The public is entitled to the fruits of this process that has been conducted largely at their expense so that if they are asked to vote on Alberta independence, they have a tool that may help them make sense of the legal dimensions of the secession of Alberta from Canada."

Oh hey! A podcast on Sam Mraiche and his ties to the Alberta government! Including audio from when I asked Justice Minister Mickey Amery about his relationship to the businessman. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

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

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters to ask her advisors how/why Sam Mraiche was hanging out with her inner circle, watching the 2023 election results roll in. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social and Emma Graney

Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth. I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically. Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Sam Mraiche www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w/ @tomcardoso.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social

NEWS: Edmonton’s chief Crown prosecutor & a deputy are out of their jobs w/ little explanation. Source tells me Crowns are on edge, as it comes months after Edmonton police publicly slammed the Crown’s handling of a case — a move Danielle Smith said she supported edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...

SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Alberta’s United Conservative Party has filed a lawsuit against two of its former MLAs, alleging they have conspired to damage the party’s reputation by using the Progressive Conservative name. #ableg #abpoli @carrietait.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Alberta's Auditor General is racing to finish his investigation into healthcare procurement after the UCP govt rejected his proposed contract extension. He's done in April, 2026, and wants his probe wrapped then, too. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Insufficient disclosure obscuring billions in Alberta oil sands liabilities, advocates say. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

UCP MLA Scott Cyr says Wylie could always reapply for his job. The five UCP MLAs on the committee pass the motion: Cyr, Lovely, De Jong, Dyck, Petrovic. The four NDP MLAs on the committee vote it down: Sheppard, Miyashiro, Wright and Chapman.

Alberta students stage walkouts to protest province’s back-to-work order to teachers. With my pal @mattscace.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli @theglobeandmail.com

Great glimpse inside Alberta's separation battle, from the Nah, We're Good perspective. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social

Job opening. The Globe and Mail is seeking a Quebec-based reporter to team up with Eric Andrew-Gee. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

The report commissioned by the Alberta government into allegations of corruption in the health system is out and everyone should read the caveats spelled out by the retired judge at the outset to understand what's in there, and more importantly, what's not. #ableg open.alberta.ca/dataset/35ee...

People have words about Alberta Premier Smith enacting the notwithstanding clause to enforce bills that will affect their kids. “We'll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child,” says one parent. People have words. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-...

Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the Alberta government's nearly 200-page "tool kit" hops from one topic to another without context and barely aligns with the provincial curriculum. "It is incoherent." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Alberta’s decades-old practice of partly funding private schools is coming under fresh scrutiny as public schools sit empty with teachers on strike for the third day this week. #ableg #abpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Don't. Leave. Me. Hanging. [email protected] #ableg #abpoli

Pals, some news: I’m thrilled to be starting today at @theglobeandmail.com as a reporter in the Calgary bureau. I can’t wait to get to work and share important stories with this ultra-talented team. They set an enormously high bar and I couldn’t be more excited to start.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @mattscace.bsky.social

Alberta planning to use the notwithstanding clause. Some solid sleuthing by @reportrix.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Julie King-Yerex, co-owner of Magpie Books in Edmonton, said people have come into the shop ‘asking for our vicious compliance section.’ “ (By CP’s Aaron Souza) #Ableg #AbEd

NEW - The Alberta government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries. /via @jack-farrell.bsky.social @reportrix.bsky.social lethbridgeherald.com/news/nationa...

The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has cancelled an application hearing for a potential coal mine, a move that he acknowledged is “without precedent.” www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

New documents paint a picture of how Alberta’s measles outbreak began w/ a handful of isolated cases and started to grow into what is now the worst in North America, as public-health measures to control spread in some cases proved ineffective. #ableg #cdnpoli @theglobeandmail.com

From the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, Roses Bloom www.nytimes.com/card/2025/08...

New: Alberta regulations meant to keep old coal mines from polluting streams and lakes are failing, suggests a study by government scientists. One of the authors, a former Alberta government scientist, says the paper speaks to “regulatory inaction.” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Oh wow. Under an "unprecedented" new visa program, 280 Tuvaluans selected by ballot will be allowed to resettle in Australia every year before the whole country is submerged by rising water levels caused by climate change. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

In what world is okay for a group of men to assume that an inebriated stranger is their sexual plaything? Our world, unfortunately. I wrote about the Hockey Canada trial in today's @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“The PC Alberta name, logo and goodwill were being used by people with no right to it,” says UCP. “You can't own ‘progressive’ and you can't own ‘conservative,'" says Guthrie. More details from what’s come to light on this particular #ableg fight: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

When locals on the far west side of Jasper, Alta., returned to their homes last August, they suddenly felt a great distance away from their small mountain town. Some have taken to calling the area the "Republic of Stone Mountain." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Jasper mayor stands by report that criticizes Alberta government’s wildfire response. globalnews.ca/news/1129735...

"It was really hard for us to go back there," Chasmer said of Jasper, where she has conducted field research since 2021. "But I think that we can learn so much from this fire." www.rmoutlook.com/weather-news...

Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward. But targeting a reporter - hi! - with surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...