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Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors Www.mbpolicy.com Adjunct, University of Lethbridge Practitioner-in-Residence Fellow, University of Victoria Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Should we have an ICE-North? The provincial government would like to ask your opinion on this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Why in the hell is Trevor Tombe attaching himself to this?

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

You’ve got to respect the hustle and it’s so, so great to see a campaign that has inspired people and got them excited about progressive politics.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

What she said. #abpoli

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

In the 2023 election, Danielle Smith declared that "under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out of pocket for access to their family doctor or to get the medical treatment that they need." Starting soon, Albertans will have to pay for COVID shots. pressprogress.ca/alberta-will...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

It is good to see Christian people doing Christian things.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

🏗️Canada is in a nation-building moment — fast-tracking homes & infrastructure. But are we building with the future in mind? Lower-carbon concrete exists, but familiarity for workers and the building sector is key. Let’s bridge the knowledge gap & build smarter. www.pembina.org/blog/bridgin...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How in the heavenly stars is anyone supposed to make a HOUSING INVESTMENT DECISION under these conditions? So if I’m a builder/developer already worried about tariffs & supply chain disruption I can add political instability to my risk? Yeah no thanks.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

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 6 days ago • 1 comment

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 8 days ago • 738 comments

As far as the “clueless Americans go on safari to find right wing Albertans to caricature” genre of reporting goes, this piece is mostly-ok. I have some notes, mostly just such credulous stenography of the usual bad-faith far-right suspects.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Some really good reading here. Check it out and give it a follow!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

John Smith, who co-owns a cattle ranch between Nanton and the Rockies with his wife Laura Liang, said “to use the little bit of good, clean water we’ve got and make it dirty with coal mining is an extremely bad idea.”

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 10 days ago • 159 comments

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

There is absolutely no point to police disciplinary processes. None. They should drop the artifice. It’s a farce and a waste of everyone’s time.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Prognosticating doom and despair is not only nihilist and exhausting, it’s also unmoored from reality. The truth is, we don’t know what will happen, and good things happen every day. So we must always work for better. Who knows, the corrosive cynics might just end up surprised - and wrong.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

I am similarly driven up the wall by the credulous coverage and framing around pipelines. Whenever a politician says, “we are going to build a pipeline,” or a journo says, “do you support building a pipeline,” the answer has to be, “WHO IS WE?!?!?” There is no private sector proponent. None.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

This is the argument to invite MbS, which, fine. It's quite arguable that in the world as it is, pragmatism is the most important thing. But there is a loss of any pretense of morality in foreign policy to this, too.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Murdering and dismembering a Washington Post journalist is not a Canadian value. Murdering a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil due to their opinions about India’s politics is also not a Canadian value. The PM should be ashamed of himself. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

This is spot on. Bluesky is an echo chamber, and that is a cause for some concern. But the problem is social media generally, not choosing one platform over another.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I do not understand why we are not collectively freaking out.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Wild scenes out of LA tonight. Very worried about how the Trump admin might respond.

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Saskatchewan’s North is burning in the worst wildfire crisis in living memory. Nearly 15,000 people have been forced from their homes. Today, I wrote to Premier Scott Moe urging him to formally accept federal assistance — including military, policing, and communications support.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments