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Calgary city councillor Gian Carlo-Carra once voted to remove fluoride from the city water supply. Now, as the anti-fluoride movement is buoyed by a rising tide of misinformation, he explains why he changed his mind: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's oilsands have also continued to set new records. They hit 86.5 megatonnes in the latest National Inventory Report. (By comparison: Quebec's total emissions were 78.9 megatonnes that year.)

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Enraging to send my kids off to school to sit in a stifling, AC-less room that no public employee would be allowed to work from. These are the results of decisions our government has made, and continues to make, that just plainly don't prioritize children.

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Ontario heat wave prompts concerns about students, educators sweltering in schools, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #ClimateChange

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This is just what grocery stores are like here. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

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Catching up on the Senate's study of C-5. Pretty sure this illustrative clarification from @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social is my favourite part so far.

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CBC's Front Burner came to Alberta. I joined them to study how deep separatist sentiments run, through the lens of one small town: Three Hills. Pretty proud of the finished product: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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New substack on the one map of Canada and the U.S. you should be looking at. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...

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Saskatchewan’s decision to continue running coal plants would make it an unnecessary outlier and the last province to do so. The province has some of the best solar and wind resources in the country, which are only getting cheaper alongside battery storage www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Setting aside the question of what the Ontario Liberals should or will do, I'd like to highlight this point from @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social. It's really not obvious that long leadership races are inherently good or necessary. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

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not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

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New from me. On two days in Kananaskis. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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As the G7 kicks off, Canadians are largely positive towards the rest of the G7 and the leaders of those countries. There's one big exception. www.pollara.com/as-canada-us...

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Despatches from the Ottawa IKEA, perhaps the only IKEA in the world where a fake computer monitor in an imaginary home office displays the Library of Parliament's "Historical Information about Parliament" page. Is @parlcharlie.bsky.social moonlighting on the staging team? #cdnhist

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I spoke to this 100-year-old woman at a protest today. Ellie Newman. She turned 100 the month Trump was reelected. She's lived through the rise and fall of fascism, the creation of the modern welfare state and civil rights. Here’s what she told me: www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

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New from me. On next week's G7. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Environics' polling on Canadian pride remains fascinating because of both the long time series and the details on how it breaks down across region, age and party preference. www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...

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"We are not in Europe." Huge if true bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Thanks Trump. bsky.app/profile/park...

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I take a look at some of the recent polling numbers for the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre. www.thewrit.ca/p/weekly-wri...

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With 868 measles cases so far this year, Alberta has now exceeded its previous high mark set in 1986. 2025 now has the most cases since 1979. So I've had to expand this chart to include years prior to the modern-vaccine-program era:

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These numbers remind me of something Corey Hogan and I talked about that I didn't get into in my piece — what's a baseline level of "normal" support for separation or secession? Like what should we judging the recent Alberta polls against? bsky.app/profile/cana...

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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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I understand, in the abstract, the argument that provinces shouldn't individually have a veto over infrastructure. But I'm also unconvinced that, in practice, any province would agree that it shouldn't have a say over infrastructure in its jurisdiction. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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New from me. Wrote about Western alienation, Mark Carney and the Corey Hogan, the new Liberal MP for Calgary Confederation. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania

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Working on a new way of visualizing smoky days: Calendar-style charts. These show the number of 'smoke hours' (as defined by Environment Canada) each day in Calgary during the wildfire season in 2023, 2024 & 2025 to date. Thoughts / feedback welcome. Aiming to publish these soon-ish on cbc.ca

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Between 2002 and 2011, 165 Canadians - 158 military personnel and 7 civilians - died in Afghanistan, including 4 Canadian soldiers killed by American friendly fire. Let us remember them - even if our erstwhile allies would prefer to forget or ridicule their service and sacrifice. #cdnpoli

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Listening to QP. Apparently the federal government tabling a budget will lead to lower food prices. Huge if true.

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Apropos of nothing, it's perhaps not unimportant that our prime minister does not also hold the title of commander-in-chief.

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There is no "new normal" on a warming planet. As long as we keep adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, what's "normal" will keep warming, and we'll keep struggling to adjust.

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I think if I was Justin Trudeau I might actually be happy to see this. The Conservative argument against his Senate appointments was that they were all just Liberals in disguise. Now the Conservatives are happily welcoming some of those appointees into their fold. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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