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 friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Colleague Jo Horwood and I tried to find out, how many books were pulled off Alberta school shelves as a result of the gov't order? And what books were they? Turns out, the names of the books are a secret #AbLeg #AbEd www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada cannot wait for cooler heads to prevail in the US, because they won't. The US is an imperialist power with territorial ambitions in its near abroad, and must be treated as such.

NEW: A podcaster accused of harassing a former AHS director said he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, court docs show. That lawyer has ties to Sam Mraiche, who owns companies at the centre of Alberta's procurement controversy. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social

50 million barrels of oil is around how much Canada exports in 2 weeks. 🇨🇦🛢️

Petition 10K signatures short as first deadline looms in burst of Alberta recalls From me today (after some well-treasured time off over the holidays): www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

🤠 Working on my first Alberta politics column of 2026. I am hoping to publish it in the next few days.

Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada

News: Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is suing the Alberta gov over steps taken to enable a separatist referendum, saying it did so despite knowing it would violate treaty. Suit also contains a summary of statements from separatists re: seeking Trump admin support edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is indeed the object of the game, and G7 leaders are playing it remarkably well. Five stars for 2026 so far

Oil markets aren’t all that concerned or speculative about what happened this weekend in Venezuela. WTI is up marginally but trading where it was at New Years Eve. #cdnpoli #abpoli #trump #maduro

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Rubio: Venezuela military operation was simply implementing an arrest warrant. Trump: Venezuela military operation was about oil, regime change, and Donroe doctrine to take Greenland, Cuba, and whoever else we want.

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

For the Sunday readers, my look ahead at the year in Canadian defence: open.substack.com/pub/philippe...

Robert’s Bank (south of Vancouver) now under consideration for a west coast oil pipeline terminus. Also sounds like Kitimat is sensibly out of the running, even for Smith. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

The Globe editorial board on Trump casting aside the international rules-based order and going for raw power grabs, and what it means for Canada: [gift link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...

With David Frum on Venezuela, spheres of influence, and the deeper implications of Trump's foreign policy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...

This is a dangerous and irresponsible response. Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong. Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

Trump is transactional. This isn’t about narcotics, it’s certainly not about “helping the Venezuelan people”. It’s about the $billions in oil money they now plan to extract. And likely, in no small part, to gain leverage in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations with their largest trading partner.

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

“We don’t need their oil…”

At the current show on Le Guin's life and work in Portland, visitors can try out her old typewriter. She bought it used in 1966, after she sold her 2nd novel, Planet of Exile. She typed A Wizard of Earthsea on it, Left Hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed...

This could be the start of a pre-election cabinet shuffle. 👀

A pollster says separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec are unlikely to succeed as long as Canadians feel a persistent sense of insecurity and anxiety about the future. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/31/a...

🤠 It has been a big year in Alberta politics and a big year for Daveberta. Using Substack’s metrics, which combine traffic, likes and subscriptions generated, here are the top 10 columns I published in 2025. daveberta.substack.com/p/top-10-dav...

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🤠 It has been a big year in Alberta politics and a big year for Daveberta. Using Substack’s metrics, which combine traffic, likes and subscriptions generated, here are the top 10 columns I published in 2025. daveberta.substack.com/p/top-10-dav...

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

An Alberta Conservative MP is calling for Ottawa to end a U.S.-based company’s domination of sightseeing attractions in Banff and Jasper National Parks. calgaryherald.com/news/politic...

I’m taking it easy this week to enjoy the Christmas break with my family and friends but I did take a few moments to look at some of the top columns I published this year and wanted to share that list with you today.

Here it is! My annual round-up The Best and the Best of 2025. open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

🤠 This year marked twenty years since I launched Daveberta. I shared some thoughts and reflections about two decades of writing about Alberta politics earlier this year. Here’s a link to that column in case you missed it. open.substack.com/pub/davebert...

🤠 This year marked twenty years since I launched Daveberta. I shared some thoughts and reflections about two decades of writing about Alberta politics earlier this year. Here’s a link to that column in case you missed it. open.substack.com/pub/davebert...

Edmonton Mayor @andrewknack.bsky.social’s letter to the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. h/t @michaeljanz.bsky.social

We’ve made our latest MBP Intelligence (my day job!) podcast free - a 2025 wrap up unlike any other. Check it out: Apple: lnkd.in/e5Bcd8GF Spotify: lnkd.in/ewMm_JwY

A fun end to a wild news year! Thanks to fellow panelists @faliceemo.bsky.social and Janet Brown, plus @markusoff.bsky.social for putting together a great quiz, even if I remain unconvinced by the accuracy of your use of "invoke." www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

It’s clear that Premier Danielle Smith’s governing United Conservative Party is using a “flood the zone” strategy but there were many times when it looked like the government was just flying by the seat of its pants and no one was really in control of the political agenda.

It’s clear that Premier Danielle Smith’s governing United Conservative Party is using a “flood the zone” strategy but there were many times when it looked like the government was just flying by the seat of its pants and no one was really in control of the political agenda.

The province receives recommendations from panels all the time, and premier & gov't take or leave ideas as they please. But this is different. This panel was *chaired* by Premier Danielle Smith. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🤠🙃 As 2025 comes to an end, it’s hard to describe the past twelve months in Alberta politics, but Edmonton-Whitemud NDP MLA Rakhi Pancholi summed it up well in the opposition’s year-end press conference by describing it a “wild ride.”