Jason Markusoff
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When you look at the totality of all the Alberta institutions and programs Danielle Smith has begun to reinvent or reshape… it’s a lot. And a lot of risk. By me:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Danielle Smith reworking Alberta's everything, everywhere all at once | CBC News
The premier makes no apologies for an ambitious reform agenda. But the more a government dismantles and rebuilds, the more risk there is for road bumps, growing pains and outright mistakes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-ambition-analysis-1.7416708
about 1 year ago
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Jen St. Denis
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As the only (I think?) local reporter in Tumbler Ridge, Trent Ernst has been heroically covering the tragedy unfolding in his town. Most of his reporting is happening on Facebook, which you can find here, along with links to his Patreon.
www.facebook.com/tumblerridge...
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Sarah Rieger
about 17 hours ago
The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...
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J. Kelly Nestruck
about 17 hours ago
Live on YouTube:
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đź”´ LIVE: 10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
YouTube video by CBC News
https://www.youtube.com/live/-SIOpuEOCcc
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Andrea Woo
about 17 hours ago
Premier David Eby speaks with media after 10 killed, including shooter, in Tumbler Ridge. “I know that one of the things we do best is look after each other, and I’m asking British Columbia’s to look after the people of Tumbler Ridge tonight.”
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Jen St. Denis
about 18 hours ago
A few years ago, my colleague
@amandafollett.bsky.social
wrote this portrait of Tumbler Ridge, a former coal mining town.
thetyee.ca/News/2020/11...
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Amanda Follett Hosgood
about 18 hours ago
Tumber Ridge is not just idyllic but resilient. It has seen mines open and close and reopen. It has embraced wind energy, made unprecedented dinosaur discoveries, hosts epic adventures and reinvented itself through tourism. Thinking of everyone there as the town faces the unimaginable days ahead.
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Just took a brief rabbit-hole trip to my insane fake-live-tweeting of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics to mark the 25th anniversary of the Games.
x.com/calgary88live
I look at it now, and it mainly makes me nostalgic for when Twitter wasn't a cesspool.
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Oliver Moore
2 days ago
'Potentially' is doing some heavy lifting there
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
4 days ago
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Arin Arcady
4 days ago
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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Anne Applebaum
6 days ago
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
6 days ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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Marsha McLeod
19 days ago
906 days. That's how long Meta's been blocking news in Canada. Doesn't matter if the outlet is based in Canada, the U.S. or Germany – we can't read it. Small non-profit or legacy newspaper. Can't read it. Posts made before Aug. 1, 2023? Nope. But disinformation, AI-generated spam, that'll pass.
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Plus, she spoke for about a solid minute in French! Maybe not quite passably, but decently?
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I wondered how Danielle Smith in her speech at CPC convention would handle her chumminess and accord with Mark Carney. Simple. Don’t mention him, talk about Trudeau and Guilbeault, the historical villains. And the crowd loved it. Repeated standing ovations.
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Tu Thanh Ha
11 days ago
Alberta's separatists are currently drawing the attention of Quebec media and one aspect highlighted by Journal de Montréal is that two of the movement's prominent figures, Mitch Sylvestre and Jeffrey Rath, are Franco-Albertans.
www.journaldequebec.com/2026/01/31/d...
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Des francos à la tête des séparatistes albertains
Le chef du PQ Paul St-Pierre Plamondon entretient des liens avec eux.
https://www.journaldequebec.com/2026/01/31/des-francos-a-la-tete-des-separatistes-albertains
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Alberta separatism: at this federal Conservative party gathering, it's a rather sensitive subject (even if people are happy to talk about it, and even sign pro-independence petitions).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta separatism casts shadow over Conservative convention | CBC News
There’s an acute awareness and sensitivity at the Conservative Party convention to the political issue of separatism. It's now at the centre of Alberta politics, particularly within conservative circl...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separatism-conservative-party-pierre-poilievre-9.7068928
12 days ago
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Doug Saunders
12 days ago
Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.
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The Narwhal
13 days ago
Carol Linnitt, co-founder and editor-in-chief, provides an update on The Narwhal’s court case against the RCMP. Amber Bracken finished cross-examination late Jan. 28. It took more than 12 hours. To learn more about the trial visit
www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
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I mean, at least when RCMP arrested photographer Amber Bracken covering a protest, the Trudeau gov didn’t direct it or gloat
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A rough field guide to Alberta conservative political conventions, and why Poilievre’s will be more convention-al than the wilder UCP weekends.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Why Pierre Poilievre's convention in Alberta won't be like Danielle Smith's | CBC News
United Conservative meetings have become fights for control of the party. But it's clearer who's in control at the federal Conservative event.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/federal-conservative-convention-ucp-pierre-poilievre-analysis-9.7065705
13 days ago
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney, viewed more positively than negatively in ALBERTA. Yes, the province consumed with a petition to leave Canada largely because of the Liberals. Abacus poll:
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Andrew Kurjata
12 days ago
So I emailed the business unit about this, they did some research and.... yep. Frozen juice from concentrate is gone
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
13 days ago
The leader of the separatist citizen initiative campaign is a UCP constituency president and a large number UCP members support Alberta separatism. This is a big part of Smith’s political base.
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Polling Canada
13 days ago
A reminder that Albertan independence is not popular Pollara found Albertan independence at 19% Ipsos found it at 28% Research Co found it at 31% (Which I covered below) All had strong majorities against independence Read it here:
canadianpolling.substack.com/p/albertan-i...
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Albertan Independence? Meet Reality
UCP voters are split, while NDP voters overwhelmingly oppose leaving Canada
https://canadianpolling.substack.com/p/albertan-independence-meet-reality
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Andrea Woo
13 days ago
"Treason": BC Premier Eby reax to Financial Times report that separatists w/ Alberta Prosperity Project met w/ Trump officials 3x since April and will again next month seeking $500b line of credit to “bankroll the province” if independence referendum passes
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Chris Hayes
13 days ago
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.premium/idf-accepts-gaza-health-ministry-estimate-of-over-70-000-palestinians-killed-in-the-war/0000019c-0918-dec4-adfd-fd5dde830000
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A rough field guide to Alberta conservative political conventions, and why Poilievre’s will be more convention-al than the wilder UCP weekends.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Why Pierre Poilievre's convention in Alberta won't be like Danielle Smith's | CBC News
United Conservative meetings have become fights for control of the party. But it's clearer who's in control at the federal Conservative event.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/federal-conservative-convention-ucp-pierre-poilievre-analysis-9.7065705
13 days ago
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Andrew Lawrence
13 days ago
“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
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Trey Lawson
13 days ago
In honor of Anton Chekhov’s birthday, I’m just going to leave this right here.
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Andrea Woo
14 days ago
Objectively a good name for a snowplow though
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Brian Platt
14 days ago
Leger has the Liberals out to a 9-point lead over the Conservatives now. The spring election speculation is not going away any time soon.
leger360.com/wp-content/u...
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eke
14 days ago
Applebaum means this literally lol it is hanging above a picture with his granddaughter
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Comes a few weeks after Danielle Smith derided courts as "gatekeepers" getting in way of democracy, and used legislation to quash judge's ruling on validity of separatist referendum.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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15 days ago
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The front page of Alberta Courts website is now joint statement by chief justices of all three court levels, proclaiming the importance of judicial independence.
albertacourts.ca
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Bailey McCann
16 days ago
Is it a good sign when local newspapers are doing tear gas explainers
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Osita Nwanevu
17 days ago
I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
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MPinGA
18 days ago
It was the NBA cancelling games that got everyone’s attention on COVID.
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In a way, Trumpworld’s new hunger for Alberta is a big blow to the province’s separatist campaign:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | The more Trump allies covet Alberta, the less popular separatism may get | CBC News
Independence movement leaders cheer on U.S. cabinet member's praise, but resist talk of Alberta becoming part of States.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-separatism-scott-bessent-9.7059168
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He’s coming after Canada’s natural penguin preserves, and I say we just give them all to him if he drops today’s threats along with the auto and steel tariffs.
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when you thought you ordered a JD Vance interview but it was off some drop-shipping site based in Turkey
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Sam Brody
20 days ago
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story (spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
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Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
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Emily Farris
20 days ago
The “don’t take down history” crowd is awfully silent.
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The Save-On Foods guy is running to lead the BC Conservatives??
20 days ago
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Rob Delaney
20 days ago
Calling him “Mr. Dilbert” is what sets the Onion apart.
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Holy actual fuck.
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Andrew Kurjata
22 days ago
I need you to see what is going on on Murdoch Mysteries these days
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Janet French
21 days ago
I truly hope you or your loved ones are not among the people who are suffering or experiencing a worse outcome while waiting for care in an Alberta ER and/or hospitals. However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story.
#AbHealth
#AbLeg
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Minister says Alberta emergency room deaths and poor outcomes are exceptions to the norm | CBC News
As Alberta doctors raise red flags about seeing what they say are delays in emergency room care, the province’s hospitals minister says he doesn’t think cases that the doctors have recently highlighte...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-emergency-rooms-hospitals-jones-9.7053920
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Chris Turner
21 days ago
China smiles cunningly, content in the knowledge that its stealth turbine technology is working as planned
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Jimmy Thomson
22 days ago
At a CAJ event not long ago, I wandered into the Indigenous reporting breakout group. I was the only non-Indigenous journalist there. Dan welcomed me with (literal) open arms and then proceeded to make fun of me for the rest of the hour. An absolutely lovely person.
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Kanien’kehá:ka journalist and Indigenous news trailblazer dies at 73 | CBC News
Thaioronióhte Dan David, a renowned Kanien’kehá:ka journalist who helped establish the news department of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dan-david-obituary-aptn-9.7051642
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