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I don't get to say this as much as I'd like: Yeah Alberta!

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This is an historic win! Young gender-diverse people in Alberta deserve to live authentically in safety and freedom. #ABpoli #ABleg #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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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! 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

Next Alberta surveys: Push polls with zero validity, consent baked in, and a mandatory propaganda video. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/next...

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Well teachers aren’t doing any of that, so there’s no problem here. As a parent I’m also not enthusiastic about the government torquing the curriculum, politicizing education about the human body and how it works, or blocking access to health care for some kids…All based on internet lies.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Police enforcement drives overdoses because people are pushed to use alone which increases the risk of a fatal overdose, and confiscating drugs makes people buy again (maybe not from a trusted source) thereby increasing their chances of being sold toxic drugs which increases their risk of OD.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I just want 'ai' to go away. The simultaneous widespread poisoning of knowledge; attempt to end-run professions that cultivate critical thinking; and sucking the joy out of everything while ramming unwanted technology down our throats is so exhausting. I just can't anymore.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Albertans have made it clear, they don’t want coal mining in our province. Despite overwhelming public opposition, Premier Smith and the UCP government continue to push forward with coal exploration in Alberta’s stunning Rocky Mountains. Why won’t they listen?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This Father's Day, I miss the fathers I lost in the divorce. Grief's fucking weird.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

US Airforce patrolling over the #G7Summit in #calgary #kananaskis

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I’ll just say, as a scholar of social movements, that, for those in power, there’s never a “good” way to oppose them or their system.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"We need a continuum of services and supports to address this toxic drug crisis," she said. "So removing one of those critical supports in that continuum or in that spectrum creates great risk and gaps in our community."

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I'm on board to abolish the monarchy, actually.

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the terms of this agreement being secret does not sit well with me. I think we (people of Edmonton) have a right to know whether or not Katz and his corporation are still providing this funding to Boyle. it was one of the conditions for social license for Katz's Ice District.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

Good morning friends. This kid is spot on 👏🏼💙

submitted 16 days ago • 756 comments

Ruling class is abandoning us to the climate change they created

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

you fucked up by asking for basic human rights. now we have to take away the basic human rights you didn’t have.

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Amazingly, this story doesn't mention climate change. I mean, that takes actual effort to write that headline and not ask WHY are "Smoke free summers a thing of the past" edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

“I think the world needs a lot more angry women to be honest.” -Greta Thunberg

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

That “no opinion” segment is a big problem.

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NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...

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Cancer grows too. Doesn't mean we should let it. Much less embrace it.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

finally we're getting some answers

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"Large class sizes, increasing classroom complexity, dwindling supports, and wages that do not account for these challenges or keep pace with inflation remain sticking points between teachers and their employers." #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli teachers.ab.ca/news/teacher...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

"To accommodate these students, administration said the school’s library, music room and wellness centre will all be converted into classroom space." This is why teachers voted to strike. And why we should all support them. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Bombshell story via @brettmckay.bsky.social about how Airdrie mayor Peter Brown and staff worked in secret with a developer and the premier's office to get a private hospital using money earmarked for upgrading a public hospital. theijf.org/controversia...

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Economists have long considered the youth unemployment rate the 'canary in the coal mine' for the economy. It is not about driver's licenses, it is about the economy. Wasn't the 8% corporate tax rate supposed to solve all our job woes, according to the UCP economic experts? 🤔 #abpoli

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These amorphous virtues of gentility that certain people love to invoke — nonviolence, civility, respectfulness, peacefulness, maturity — are worse than empty without accounting for differential power. A power differential is the difference between me running into a car, and a car running into me.

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

95% YES to strike action - that’s not just a vote - that’s a roar! I stand in full solidarity with the @albertateachers.bsky.social fighting for what they and our students deserve. ✊🏻🍎 #abed #publiceducationmatters teachers.ab.ca/strike-vote-...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

ATA Vote in Favour of Strike The #AlbertaTeachersAssociation (ATA) reported June 10 that 94.5% of members voted in favour of strike action. • For Strike Action = 36,862 / 94.5% • Against Strike Action = 1,552 / 4% • Total Votes - 38,997 cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/... #Alberta #AlbertaTeachers

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94.5% vote for strike over class size, wages & complex needs student supports. "AB teachers are sending an unmistakable message," (ATA Pres Jason Schilling)..."We are united...determined & we will no longer hold up a crumbling public ed system this gov fails to fund properly." #abed #ableg #abpoli

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Solidarity, ATA teachers. Thank you for standing up for our kids.

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Teachers in Alberta now have 120 days to strike (with 72h notice). If you haven't been paying attention, our concerns are; 🍎 class size and composition, 🍎 teacher workload, and 🍎 fair compensation. We need to restore the true Alberta Advantage; a world-class public education system. #ABEd

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Alberta Teachers’ Association members have voted 95 per cent in favour of strike action. The association has about 51,000 members in public, Catholic and Francophone schools. #AbEd #AbLeg

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

There is such a thing as the collective good, which sometimes outweighs what we may personally want to do or what might make us feel better at any given moment. it is HIGH time we acknowledged it existed again.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

The pipeline discourse may eventually drive me insane. Not because I think it should be verboten, but because of its weird disconnect with reality.

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Gender Reveal: Episode 187: Alison Bechdel For those of you paying attention to book bans in #ABpoli, a podcast I follow interviewed Alison Bechdel. They talk a little about "Fun Home," among other topics. Episode webpage: gender.libsyn.com/episode-187-...

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submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Crowsnest Lake is poisoned. Selenium from a coal mine owned by an Australian company has contaminated trout & whitefish. Where’s the UCP? Where’s Brian Jean? Fishing families, Indigenous treaty rights, and Alberta’s rivers are being sacrificed for coal profits. #abpoli #ableg #CrowsNest

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Yes! #ableg #abpoli

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Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza

submitted 19 days ago • 164 comments

Danielle Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta… “We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world” No really. She said that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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