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“In its report, SAGO considered available evidence for the main hypotheses for the origins of COVID-19 and concluded that “the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.” 5 years in, WHO confirms natural origins most likely.

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EXCLUSIVE: I FOIP'd all the contracts Alberta Health Services has signed with Shoppers Drug Mart since 2020. They reveal the Loblaw subsidiary's deep integration into the province's mental health and addictions care system. www.theprogressreport.ca/contracts_re...

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In April, the UCP claimed Alberta had a $5B deficit & used it to underfund healthcare & education. Now, just under 4 moths, they announced $8B surplus. That’s $13B swing in160 days. How? They either misled Albertas or they’re fiscally incompetent.

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Ottawa is choking our oil production. 🙄 “Alberta oil production hits all-time record as producers ramp up for Trans Mountain completion.” #ableg #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1022998...

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1/ There’s a lot of focus today on Nike’s warning that the company expects to take a $1 billion tariff hit, but I want to highlight the people — besides U.S. consumers — who could bear the brunt of Trump’s policy. Thread 🧵

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Now that Bill C-5 has been passed - I have this message for my fellow Albertans. Here is an excerpt from the speech I gave Wednesday evening in the Senate Chamber. Short and to the point. Want a pipeline? Stop threatening to separate. #ableg #abpoli #C5 #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada

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BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.” A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️

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This is why negotiating with Trump is "very difficult." His aims keep changing. Is it about manufacturing jobs, revenue, border security, defence spending? Nope. Now it is about the ability of Canada to have its own tax system. Whatever the issue, for Trump the solution is always tariffs.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Hey Alberta! Heads up! Rising COVID hospitalizations in Alberta. Although gov't is no longer publicly reporting hospital outbreaks (last report April 16, 2025), there are now 4 hospitals on outbreak. Rockyview, Royal Alex, Leduc, and Miseracordia. Haven't this many outbreaks in a long time. 1/

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If anyone needs more empirical evidence that climate change is driving the uptick in extreme wildfire activity across western NAmerica, this is a good illustration.

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NEW: Alberta posts an $8.3B surplus in 2024, according to the government’s year-end fiscal results. This is significantly higher than Budget 2024 projections of a $355M surplus.

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"This website I'm quoting from, I don't know a whole lot about," a town councillor told his colleagues. "I just thought their words were better than mine." The site is run by "a group using an AI chatbot to craft talking points aimed at persuading local politicians to abandon net-zero programs."

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Reminder: Any tariffs Trump places on Canada mean Americans will pay the Trump tax for any imported goods from Canada while also reducing your exports because we ain’t buying shit. And we’re your largest trading partner. We don’t negotiate with terrorists or criminals and we won’t be bullied by one.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Eleven days apart.

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Trump saying talks with Canada are over, and says new tariffs are coming within a week. The Digital Services Tax he's complaining about has been in force for a year. (Though the first payment is due at the end of this month.)

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The Alberta government’s “surveys” are push polls with zero validity as a measure of public opinion and with consent baked in. If you participate, the only answers you can give will in most cases imply your agreement with Premier Danielle Smith’s plans. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight. You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on. Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump says he is ending all trade discussions with Canada and will be levying more tariffs against them in the next 7 days

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The premier is wrong. Support for separatism has been higher than it is now. Levels of other things, like class sizes, waitlists, oil production, cabinet members, selenium in the water supply... ...those have reached record heights. globalnews.ca/news/1126345...

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

I’ve gotten used to seeing AB push polls but Alberta Next “consultation” is outrageous. Just did the immigration one. From the very first sentence being a lie (no, we don’t have an open border policy) to options all having nudges, a dumpster fire in survey design top to bottom.

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

Projects include: - helping emergency doctors save time and improve patient care with an AI note-taking tool - evaluating the total amount of boreal forest available to mitigate climate change - creating apps that allow people with disabilities to overcome mobility obstacles.

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Alberta is failing on public health. In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases. That is more than half. We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.

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EXTRAORDINARY HOT NIGHT IN GREECE & TURKEY Dozens of stations with 30C/36C night minimum temperatures. Hundreds of records destroyed. It's one of the hottest nights ever recorded in the Mediterranean. Dawns with >35C. Next days MAX. 45/46C in Spain and thousands of records allover Europe again.

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The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base. “They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.” He even says soldiers were still on site. I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?

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She really just doesn't want anyone to actually pause and think about what a shitty job she's doing, eh?

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Residents of a northern Saskatchewan community ravaged by wildfire say they are upset, disappointed and angry with a provincial agency they feel was ill-prepared to fight the blaze. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/... #skpoli

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Isn’t it so patriotic of Danielle Smith to choose July 4, the USA Independence Day, as the day on which her pro-Alberta separatism Bill 54 is brought into force? Danielle, can you play the Star-Spangled Banner on your dog whistle? 🇺🇸 #ableg #cdnpoli

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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

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It's not a duty of journalists to repeat the claims of proven liars and pretend those claims are credible. That's the job of propagandists and enablers.

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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

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I mean. I was going to point out that the mayors of Edmonton and Calgary are both immigrants. As is the Lt.-Governor. But I doubt the people behind this vile hate campaign would find that a compelling argument. Gondek, Sohi and Lakhani are probably three immigrants they'd be happy to do without.

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Who, exactly, are these immigrants that have made Danielle so angry? Filipino nurses who provide our healthcare? American computer scientists who make Edmonton an AI centre of excellence? Ukrainian refugees who've opened new restaurants? West Africans who have revitalized our francophone community?

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“Alberta's emissions subsequently surpassed Ontario's and increased by 49% over the period from 1990 to 2023, primarily due to the increasing activity of the oil and gas industry.” #ClimateCatastrophe

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There are so many ways that the GoA controls the Alberta Energy Regulator whether through appointments to its board (eg Yager) or issuing increasingly specific directives. In this case directing removal of a bulletin limiting solution gas flaring. Zero reasons. Zero independence. #ableg #abpoli

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Because denying immigrants access to provincial programs... checks notes... helps bolster Alberta's sovereignty? This Alberta Next exercise is pretty thinly veiled. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Well listen, we need a scapegoat around here, and our other goats keep, well, 'scaping! The only alternative to a survey like this is showing up and doing actual work for a change and we are all very against that. #AbLeg

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Earlier today, Premier Smith announced plans to tour the province and hear from Albertans about how to improve the province's place in Confederation. Some thoughts.🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

CBC News had a bit with Danielle Smith complaining about how Canada has treated Alberta and underneath it the ticker said "Alberta oil production hits record high". You can't make this up. The struggle is real! Such a tedious outrage culture of entitled whiners. #cdnpoli

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"The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) last week issued a bulletin to announce the "removal of the provincial solution gas flaring limit," per a ministerial order by Alberta's Environment Minister Rebecca Shulz." What a surprise. #abpoli oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...

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Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

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Today Smith continued the gross mischaraterization of her book ban. She claims that books recommended for 18+ were included in the governments examples. None of the books cited were rated 18+. Most were 14+. /1 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

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Alberta's auditor general granted extra $1M for health procurement probe www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb... @reportrix.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

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