Charles Rusnell
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social
Independent investigative journalist in Edmonton, Alberta. Ex Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, CBC. Contact in confidence at journalismtips@protonmail.com
The statement issued by Pierre Poilievre this morning.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The statement issued by Pierre Poilievre this morning.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
One in eight Americans need federal aid to buy food
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
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The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
One in eight Americans need federal aid to buy food
Reposted by Charles Rusnell
By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.)
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
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By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.)
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.
The ostriches have been culled and that particular H5N1 outbreak has finally been contained.
Here is @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's reliably excellent account of the entire ordeal.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Here is @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's reliably excellent account of the entire ordeal.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.
After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Have your say on highway speed limits
Alberta’s government is engaging with Albertans on increasing speed limits on rural highways.
www.alberta.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
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Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns
Edmonton MP says he is not crossing the floor and did not provide a reason for his resignation
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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As I've written elsewhere, the UCP can invoke s33, but they are not required to.
The government's defenders will equate ability with necessity and righteousness. But those are not the same thing. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/can-they-m...
The government's defenders will equate ability with necessity and righteousness. But those are not the same thing. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/can-they-m...
Can they? Must they? Should they?
Three questions to answer about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause
drjaredwesley.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The landowners don't like the fact that their tax dollars and the dollars of other taxpayers are subsidizing deadbeat oil and gas companies
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The landowners don't like the fact that their tax dollars and the dollars of other taxpayers are subsidizing deadbeat oil and gas companies
The larger issue here is that, according to credible public health experts, the UCP govt is imposing an ideological, anti-vax agenda that will undermine public health for many years. A baby needlessly died of measles in Alberta because its mother was unvaccinated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The larger issue here is that, according to credible public health experts, the UCP govt is imposing an ideological, anti-vax agenda that will undermine public health for many years. A baby needlessly died of measles in Alberta because its mother was unvaccinated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Via @drewanderson.bsky.social
‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal
The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Via @drewanderson.bsky.social
‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
@nytimes reports former Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mark Joffe was muzzled and not allowed to fully communicate during the measles outbreak. UCP govt makes international headlines again.
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@nytimes reports former Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mark Joffe was muzzled and not allowed to fully communicate during the measles outbreak. UCP govt makes international headlines again.
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
The group collecting petition signatures for a citizen's initiative to defund private schools in Alberta seem well organized. They have a website with a professionally shot video that seeks to highlight the disparity between public and private school funding.
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Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
abfundspublicschools.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The group collecting petition signatures for a citizen's initiative to defund private schools in Alberta seem well organized. They have a website with a professionally shot video that seeks to highlight the disparity between public and private school funding.
abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.
CP legend Bob Weber retired* in 2024 & I had the privilege of hosting his farewell talk, which you shd watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF57...
*Turns out Bob can’t quit journalism & thank the galaxy for that. Bob’s latest in @albertaviews.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli
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*Turns out Bob can’t quit journalism & thank the galaxy for that. Bob’s latest in @albertaviews.bsky.social #ableg #cdnpoli
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Mature Asset Strategy - the Latest Dirty Cleanup Scheme - Alberta Views
The Mature Asset Strategy is a report on the thousands of wells and pipelines that dot Alberta years after the oil and profits are gone.
albertaviews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.
Via @jlisayoung.bsky.social does not mince words about the UCP's authoritarian dumping of Auditor General Doug Wylie.
Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
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Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
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Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
Fall has arrived in Alberta.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Via @jlisayoung.bsky.social does not mince words about the UCP's authoritarian dumping of Auditor General Doug Wylie.
Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
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Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
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Reposted by Charles Rusnell
There is no evidence to support that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research.
If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded.
I will link our original piece below.
If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded.
I will link our original piece below.
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There is no evidence to support that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research.
If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded.
I will link our original piece below.
If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded.
I will link our original piece below.
Really great reporting and critical analysis here.
In @nytopinion
“When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you?” our columnist M. Gessen writes after speaking with Jewish Israeli dissidents.
“When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you?” our columnist M. Gessen writes after speaking with Jewish Israeli dissidents.
Opinion | These Israeli Dissidents Can Show Americans How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
And why it matters so much to try.
nyti.ms
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Really great reporting and critical analysis here.
The UCP govt has created a fifth health agency to provide IT, HR, data services etc to the other four, with a fifth CEO, Maureen Towle.
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The UCP govt has created a fifth health agency to provide IT, HR, data services etc to the other four, with a fifth CEO, Maureen Towle.
This is extremely troubling. The UCP are becoming increasingly authoritarian. They are dumping Doug Wylie, likely because he intervened, in the public interest, in the AHS CEO lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is extremely troubling. The UCP are becoming increasingly authoritarian. They are dumping Doug Wylie, likely because he intervened, in the public interest, in the AHS CEO lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
This raises questions about the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta's ability to self regulate. How is that the costs of long-term environmental clean-up liabilities contained in audited O & G company financial statements have been independently determined to be grossly underreported?
Jeff Jones continuing to do yeoman’s work bringing the O&G closure liability fiasco to #ableg and #cdnpoli.
Willful ignorance at the top — among the c-suite, auditors and investors — will keep pushing this bill down onto taxpayers’ lap.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Willful ignorance at the top — among the c-suite, auditors and investors — will keep pushing this bill down onto taxpayers’ lap.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Insufficient disclosure obscuring billions in Alberta oil sands liabilities, advocates say
Shareholders of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies could face a shortfall of tens of billions of dollars tied to spent wells, oil sands mines
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This raises questions about the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta's ability to self regulate. How is that the costs of long-term environmental clean-up liabilities contained in audited O & G company financial statements have been independently determined to be grossly underreported?
Incredible story about the complete corruption of a state chief justice. Canadians who think judges should be elected should read this a cautionary tale.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Incredible story about the complete corruption of a state chief justice. Canadians who think judges should be elected should read this a cautionary tale.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
ICYMI - If you live in Alberta, get vaccinated, don't get in an accident, don't go to the hospital. The healthcare system is a mess as flu/Covid season starts.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
‘Pure Chaos’: Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis | The Tyee
Experts say AHS data obtained by The Tyee further indicate the system faces being overwhelmed.
thetyee.ca
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ICYMI - If you live in Alberta, get vaccinated, don't get in an accident, don't go to the hospital. The healthcare system is a mess as flu/Covid season starts.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Charles Rusnell
If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
This story deserves more attention. The UCP govt handed over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and is now refusing to explain why.
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This story deserves more attention. The UCP govt handed over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and is now refusing to explain why.
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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🧙🏻Hope your Halloween is a skele-TON of fun🧛🏻
Eat to your heart’s content, scream in the streets & dance till you drop 💃🏻🍭🕺🏻
Have a fa-BOO-lous Halloween 👻 🎃 🐾 😄 🧟
HAPPY HALLOWEEN #BlueSkyFriends
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Eat to your heart’s content, scream in the streets & dance till you drop 💃🏻🍭🕺🏻
Have a fa-BOO-lous Halloween 👻 🎃 🐾 😄 🧟
HAPPY HALLOWEEN #BlueSkyFriends
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October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🧙🏻Hope your Halloween is a skele-TON of fun🧛🏻
Eat to your heart’s content, scream in the streets & dance till you drop 💃🏻🍭🕺🏻
Have a fa-BOO-lous Halloween 👻 🎃 🐾 😄 🧟
HAPPY HALLOWEEN #BlueSkyFriends
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Eat to your heart’s content, scream in the streets & dance till you drop 💃🏻🍭🕺🏻
Have a fa-BOO-lous Halloween 👻 🎃 🐾 😄 🧟
HAPPY HALLOWEEN #BlueSkyFriends
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