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Are there other jobs where you frantically search for coffee before an imminent morning meeting, find a Tim Hortons carton in the break room, pour a cup, sip it, realize it’s ice cold and from the night before, and throw it in the microwave anyway, or is that just reporters?

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2023 “Public Health Guarantee” vs. 2025 public health policy in Alberta

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We've now exceeded 1,000 cases of measles in Alberta so far this year.

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A second body was recovered this morning. But it sounds like that may be it. "At this time, there are no additional persons reported missing and no additional unidentified vehicles at the trailhead located at Bow Lake," Parks Canada said in a release Friday morning.

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Details are sketchy right now but this sounds very bad:

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It took 21 months but, this morning I received the results of the Alberta government's pension plan engagement survey: 63% opposed to Alberta Pension Plan (APP) 10% pro-APP 12% undecided/unsure 15% other responses edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #ableg #abpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Good lord. Google is now serving up NHL "news" from a "reporter" who has "written" 79 articles today alone. The "articles" are pretty clearly AI-generated.

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"As Canada's measles outbreak continues to grow, the country is at risk of losing its measles elimination status — a bar set by the World Health Organization. ... if sustained transmission continues until October 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) can revoke the elimination status."

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At southern Alberta hospitals "visitors under the age of 16 must provide proof of MMR vaccination to enter the neonatal intensive care, pediatric, maternal child & labour delivery units. Critics of the province’s response say these actions have come too late, with cases already surging..."

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"This is saying if you want to prevent yourself from getting a serious illness and the serious consequences that go with it, if you have money you're fine. If you're a member of the working poor or a single-parent family, you're out of luck." –Former chief medical officer of health Dr. James Talbot

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"Alberta's rate of population growth slowed but the province still grew by 20,562 people in the first 3 months of the year, mainly due to permanent immigration and people moving from other provinces. The number of temporary foreign residents, meanwhile, declined for the first time in years."

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For nearly three years now, Alberta has been the top destination for people moving within Canada:

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

As usual, @3blue1brown.com knocks it out of the park with this video. Somehow manages to explain the math behind large language models in an accessible way and in under 8 minutes, to boot.

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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Dunno if you all know this but a while ago a bunch of CBC local stations launched "Free Ad Supported Television (FAST) channels" and you can watch them live on the web 24/7. You don't get those annoying pre-roll web ads but there are old-school commercial breaks. Here's Calgary's:

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"Elk Valley Resources, which operates four steelmaking coal mines in B.C.'s southeast along the Alberta border, said it is cutting 140 staff jobs. In an emailed statement from company communications manager Chris Stannell, Elk Valley blamed 'challenging market conditions' for the job cuts."

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Calgary craters in latest Economist index, falling from 5th most livable city in the world to, ugh, 18th. Now in the company of the likes of Toronto (16th) and Amsterdam (25th). Fortunately not yet plumbing the depths of London (54th) or Lisbon (60th). Whew. 🔗: www.eiu.com/n/copenhagen...

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These days daycares have apps that send you updates and photos and I was just informed that my three-year-old spent the morning doing Surya Namaskar (sun salutation yoga) outdoors on what looks like an absolutely gorgeous day and then had Sloppy Joes for lunch and damn that sounds like the life tbh.

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"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

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"The Meta AI app, which is the company’s competitor to the ChatGPT app, is posting users’ conversations on a public 'Discover' page where anyone can see the things that users are asking Meta’s chatbot to make for them."

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"Steven Crowchild said he 'prayed to my Creator' and 'really thought of those suffering around the world' in choosing to speak to Trump... He said that, ultimately, the U.S. president is 'just another person.' 'Some would say he's a horrible person, and we all know many reasons,' Crowchild said."

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103 cyclists suffered major injuries in crashes with cars in the last year on record in Alberta. 5 died. In 73 of those collisions, the driver made an "improper action" vs. 30 who were "driving properly." 🔗: open.alberta.ca/dataset/2502... Anyway, here's the RCMP reminding cyclists to stay safe:

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'My three-year-old has already had more smoky days in his short life than I had throughout my entire childhood.' Reflections on Rage, Worry & Wildfire Smoke in our latest newsletter: gooutside.substack.com/p/rage-worry...

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"Expanded cougar hunting was 'based on direction from [the] minister last year and input from stakeholders,' according to an internal email... Those stakeholders were limited to members of the Alberta Professional Outfitters Society and the Alberta Tree Hounds Association."

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The G8 became the G7 after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and was suspended from the group. Stephen Harper was the prime minister of Canada in 2014.

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You may have missed this because it was announced via a press release at 4:30 p.m. on Friday: The provincial government plans to start making Albertans pay for their COVID-19 vaccines, starting this fall.

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Working on (yet) another way to visualize wildfire smoke now vs. then. This chart is too tall to post as an image. You need to click on the link to the interactive version below and then scroll to see how different Calgary summers looked in the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s and 1950s:

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“Alberta's measles surge is so dramatic, the last time case counts were higher, Calgary did not have an NHL team, O Canada was not yet the official national anthem and gasoline would set you back 24 cents a litre.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Damn this nails it

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Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

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"If [federal] personnel are assaulted, Sherman said, 'Soldiers or Marines are allowed to take that person, detain them in place, wait for the federal law enforcement officer to come and arrest that individual.'"

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The head of U.S. Homeland Security is now describing the forces being deployed to Los Angeles, California as being there to "liberate" the city and state from its elected leaders. Then a U.S. Senator for California is physically shoved out the door of the press conference.

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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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