To argue for her demand that Alberta get more control over judge appointments, Danielle Smith has been repeating a lie.

Calgary city council signals it may revoke the downtown free fare zone.

Tomorrow evening in Edmonton, the Candian Pension Plan (CPP) admin is holding a public information and consultation event at the EXPO Centre. Civil society and labour groups including Public Interest Alberta and the AFL are encouraging members to attend this. www.cppinvestments.com/public-meeti...

In Calgary tomorrow evening, Common Horizon is hosting a workshop and letter-writing session for people concerned with the Alberta government's Mature Asset Strategy, a policy that would dump responsibility for cleaning up polluted oil well sites onto the public.

Is the MOU between Smith's government and Carney's actually going to get hammered out in time? Both sides are signaling that they anticipate not getting things done by the deadline.

Alberta has a serious disinformation problem, its government weaponizing “experts” willing to cash in credentials for power. Last year, that tactic — and those people — were leveraged to help close supervised consumption sites across Ontario. drugdatadecoded.ca/inaccurate-d...

We asked eight LGBTQ2S+ community leaders and advocates across Alberta to share their top resources for trans youth in the province. This is what they said:

The data centre will consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...

A week before releasing a budget expected to have a great big hole in it thanks to dropping oil prices, Danielle Smith says Alberta has to talk about immigration. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Premier Danielle Smith said she doesn't know how much newcomers cost Alberta’s health care and education systems, despite scheduling a referendum to ask whether social services to those residents shd be limited b/c of cost www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social and friend

U of A president Bill Flanagan placed between the far-right anti-woke UCP and federal EDI requirements for funding. thegatewayonline.ca/2026/02/u-of...

Don's analysis here is backwards. the separation and immigration+sovereignty referendums aren't in conflict, they're synergistic. expect huge cross-pollination between the organizers of both efforts. and if they both end up on the same ballot, each referendum will help draw in voters for the other.

The political discourse in Alberta may soon be the foulest it's been in years, as the UCP and its allies gear up for a newly-announced referendum campaign against immigrants.

An arbitrator has ruled against the AFL in a dispute between the fed, Unifor 445 (which represents AFL staff), and UFCW 401, finding that the AFL violated the Union Security Clause of their collective bargaining agreement by bringing in an outside worker who wasn't represented by their union.

The white nationalist dog whistle is so obvious. So enraging. And so predictable from this new MAGA brand of Canadian conservativism.

It was only a matter of time before poor budgeting choices and corruption while systematically denying the realities of the economy caused the ruling party of [insert country/state/province here] to place the blame on foreigners.

The big pitch in Danielle Smith's anti-immigration address to the public tonight: yet another referendum, this time on the question of immigration, to be held on October 19.

The 'Turkish Tylenol' debacle reaches its expected end. Alberta paid $70m to Sam Mraiche's MH Care Medical to import this medicine from Turkey, at a drastically inflated price, as a stunt to outdo the feds during a supply shortage. By the time any of it arrived, the shortage was already over.

Dr. Wesley's prediction likely to be correct; the UCP government and their alt right media auxiliaries have been beating the anti-immigration drum pretty hard for at least a few months now. Not just as an appeal to the fringe, but also as an excuse for lack of progress on health and housing.

Commenting on Canada's latest federal immigration numbers, executive director in the Premier's office Bruce McAllister gets real blood-and-soil with it. "Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage has worked so well here?"

Where are the triage liaison physicians the government announced would help overtaxed ERs starting Feb. 1? The AB govt and health authorities won’t say if any are working. I asked 7 times in two weeks. #AbLeg #AbHealth

🧵In this new op-ed in the Edmonton Journal, @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I debunk the myth that EDI hiring and “reverse discrimination” happened at University of Alberta. In actuality, the U of A has not made any advancement in EDI hiring.

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has mused about cutting or limiting public services for temporary residents. It turns out that already happened last month with public health insurance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth

Alberta MP and NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson is calling on the feds to shut down the five ICE offices located in Canada. One of those offices is here in Calgary.

So Smith claims Alberta has “distinct legal traditions” as the basis of her threat to withhold $$ for new judicial appointments without more say. It increasingly feels like the distinct legal tradition here is absence of the rule of law, though that is pretty new. apple.news/AEaOehjN7TtK...

"The coal industry hired at least 14 government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes, records show."

In case you missed it—the AFL has a podcast now, featuring president Gil McGowan and published under Ryan Jespersen's "Real Talk" brand.

An Alberta county is apparently violating the Recall Act in order to assist the separatist petition and no, which county it is will absolutely not surprise you.

Alberta's Green Party, which exists, has announced a new interim party leader.

"'There's hundreds of sites around Alberta that used to be grocery stores but were then blocked when the old grocery store had a merger or an acquisition or they moved out,' Janz said in an interview Thursday with CBC Edmonton's Radio Active."

“The gov't says they want people to recover and I have done that. I built my life piece by piece. Dragging this back to court and losing the privacy I have built, that is going to cause harm to my life, my reputation. I’m just confused honestly. Why this? Why now?” #ableg apple.news/ALAY20nxMTpu...

I got tossed out of an Alberta separatist celebration this week after asking the organizer about his group's weird US ties pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

Wellington Advocacy, the conservative government relations firm founded by Kenney campaign manager Nick Koolsbergen in 2019, has announced a hot new hire: the federal NDP's most-loathed former leader.

The Breakdown (Nate Pike) has been awarded three quarters of their legal fees in the case launched against them by MHCare and Sam Mraiche.

The Alberta Progressive Tory Party is down to one Tory.

"The province was once the epicentre for clean electricity in Canada, but Business Renewables Centre-Canada, an organization that facilitates and tracks investment in renewable energy, says 2025 marked the first time in seven years that no new wind power was announced."

"Oakey was previously demoted in 2024 after pleading guilty to sharing a video with other officers of himself and a female colleague engaged in sexual activity. He also admitted to distributing nude photos of the same woman in 2018 and 2019, according to multiple reports."

Who indeed. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Last week, I showed how the Alberta government conceals up to 89% of ambulance dispatches to overdoses / drug poisonings in public reporting. Now Mike Parker, president of the Alberta union that includes paramedics, reacts to the data. He's not pleased. READ: drugdatadecoded.ca/how-do-you-r...

Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag. 10/20/26.

NEWS: Edmonton police have fired Dan Behiels, the detective who claimed EPS brass had a corrupt relationship with notorious landlord Abdullah Shah/Carmen Pervez Hearing found Behiels was frustrated over a failed investigation & that he is not a whistleblower edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

Alberta judges urge respect after Smith said she wants to 'direct' them NEWS from me and @reportrix.bsky.social today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Timing of Trump regime’s deadly occupation of Minneapolis probably isn’t ideal for Alberta’s separatists. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/timi...

With Hootsuite making rounds for its contracts with ICE, here’s a longstanding one it had with Calgary police that looked an awful lot like scraping social media for facial recognition. They reeeeally didn’t want me to get these documents. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

Number of COVID-19 Shots Delivered in Alberta Drops By Half, Following $100 Fee and Other Restrictions “What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.” pressprogress.ca/number-of-co...

Union letters claim civilian Edmonton police staff facing workplace sexual assault, harassment #yeg edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/01/22/c...

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social Power engineers ratify first collective agreement It took them about a year after unionizing to get their first contract. albertaworker.ca/news/power-e...

Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe...