Edmonton has had a disturbingly high number of frostbite amputations the last two winters. With freezing temps on the way, both the City and the Government of Alberta must do more to prevent people from freezing in the cold. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #yegcc

The toxic drug crisis is causing preventable deaths daily. CPHA's new position statement urges unified, evidence-based actions to save lives, reduce harms, and uphold dignity across Canada. Let’s prioritize solutions over stigma. Read more at: www.cpha.ca/toxic-drug-c...

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

My hot take is politicians leaving their parties after getting elected is good for democracy. I don’t care if they go indie, cross the floor, or start a new party. Anything to drive home the fact we elect individuals, not parties, even if we don’t act like it

Both the poison drug crisis & the climate crisis were declared emergencies. Both have been met with half-measures that fail while the far-right mobilizes and governments offer funding cuts and increased police budgets. Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast

New on our PODCAST: SFU prof and researcher Kora DeBeck joins us with her comments on the expansion of involuntary care in B.C. @garthmullins.bsky.social @canadahealthwatch.ca @sudubc.bsky.social @msthpetra.bsky.social @koradebeck.bsky.social tiny.cc/gf7u001

I know most of my followers probably know this, but just in context: A billion is a thousand million. A trillion is a thousand billion.

As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.

Alberta’s police watchdog clears two RCMP officers in the August 2024 shooting death of teenager Hoss Lightning Saddleback in Wetaskiwin. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

Was not expecting a funding boost for CBC/Radio-Canada in an austerity budget, and was really not expecting Eurovision to be a key part of that (the $150M is a one-time thing according to the tables, not ongoing)

Budget includes CBC funding boost, pitches getting Canada into Eurovision (Canada)

So so so pleased that my piece on social atrophy is out in the Open Society Foundation’s The Ideas Letter. I explore ideas in the last book but take them further. I bring in a bit more Marx, and think about how alienation and neuroplasticity are related. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-pe...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

3 MPs have now quit on Pierre Poilievre: Alain Rayes to sit as an Independent; d’Entremont to the Liberals; Jeneroux to leave the House. #cdnpoli

“The history of technology is that it always creates jobs,” says Liberal MP Evan Solomon of AI apprehension on 640 Toronto. Brother, I know you’re not a journalist anymore, but damn.

Join the CAJ's Canadian News Industry Peer Support (CNIPS) group for a virtual discussion on taking care of yourself while reporting on trauma on Nov. 19. Register now: https://beeid.org/75bf36212461

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social #ONpoli thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

WestJet Flight Attendants Launch Campaign Demanding Fairness and Respect alberta.cupe.ca/2025/11/05/c...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The City of Winnipeg is seeking feedback on a proposed temporary bike lane design for Wellington Crescent.

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

I was reminded of this old article featuring a quote from Chretien talking about land claims and money...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

She began fishing young, following in her father’s footsteps. When he fell ill and could no longer work, Madleen Kullab took his place at sea, becoming Gaza’s first and only female fisherwoman. Among the 285 bodies that have returned to Gaza under the ceasefire deal is that of Madleen’s father...

Winnipeg Seeks Feedback on Bike Lane Design for Wellington Crescent www.chrisd.ca/2025/11/06/w...

In a landmark decision in Canadian law, the Cowichan Tribes in B.C. have obtained Aboriginal title over a portion of land on the Fraser River. To explain what led to the decision, we need to go back in history to 1853.

The 15-year-old boy died Aug. 30, 2024, in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.

Folks curious to compare what helped catalyze #IdleNoMore can watch free, 2-part @aptnnews.bsky.social documentary I co-created with @anishinaboy.bsky.social ! ▶️ youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...

LIVING LANGUAGE RIGHTS by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine is officially here! Pick up a copy of this groundbreaking read at the book launch next Wednesday, November 12, 7pm, at @mcnallyrobinson.com!

In honour of the one year since he started his journey to the west, I wrote a letter to Dad in my free @winnipegfreepress.com newsletter Biidaajimowin.

The debate over D.C.'s expanded youth curfew was revived this week, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports: Lawmakers voted to reinstate the policy for another three months — with a looming debate about making it permanent.

The larger issue here is that, according to credible public health experts, the UCP govt is imposing an ideological, anti-vax agenda that will undermine public health for many years. A baby needlessly died of measles in Alberta because its mother was unvaccinated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in. grist.org/housing/disa... #RealEstate #Climate #Disaster #Housing

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Latest Data Shows the Rapid Growth of Heat Pumps in Canada. It's the Atlantic provinces (moving mostly off oil) that are leading the trend. www.theenergymix.com/latest-data-...

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

The Liberals' budget -- it mostly helps upper income people, it mostly helps men, it mostly helps war, oil and gas. Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage sandyandnora.com/episode-348-...

'This budget was a chance to build some of that trust. Sadly, it has failed, has failed to meet that moment' says Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: It sure sounds as if Premier Smith’s UCP will soon rip a page from the book of Depression-era Social Credit premier William Aberhart and repeal the province’s recall legislation as soon as possible, now that it’s being used against UCP MLAs. #abpoli

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

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People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles

Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”