Flora Cain
@floracain.bsky.social
Retired analyst. Not interested in "alternative" facts. FOREVER CANADIAN
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Spoke to a room of lawyers and judges tonight. Told them: when many Albertans picture the UCP base, they picture you.
They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding.
I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick.
All pluralists need to speak out.
They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding.
I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick.
All pluralists need to speak out.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Spoke to a room of lawyers and judges tonight. Told them: when many Albertans picture the UCP base, they picture you.
They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding.
I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick.
All pluralists need to speak out.
They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding.
I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick.
All pluralists need to speak out.
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It's official: The CDC is no longer trustworthy.
Its website contradicts 40+ high-quality studies involving 5.6 MILLION people.
The reason? RFK Jr. is Health Secretary.
This is what happens when politics replaces science.
Its website contradicts 40+ high-quality studies involving 5.6 MILLION people.
The reason? RFK Jr. is Health Secretary.
This is what happens when politics replaces science.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It's official: The CDC is no longer trustworthy.
Its website contradicts 40+ high-quality studies involving 5.6 MILLION people.
The reason? RFK Jr. is Health Secretary.
This is what happens when politics replaces science.
Its website contradicts 40+ high-quality studies involving 5.6 MILLION people.
The reason? RFK Jr. is Health Secretary.
This is what happens when politics replaces science.
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Berta.
Back to being an international embarrassment.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
Back to being an international embarrassment.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
Alberta Pushes Through Trans Policies Described as Most Restrictive in Canada
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Berta.
Back to being an international embarrassment.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
Back to being an international embarrassment.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
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Nenshi responded by saying Smith was deflecting and going "back to her usual thing about blaming the reptilian shapeshifters who apparently run AHS."
Bwahaha. I like this Nenshi.
Bwahaha. I like this Nenshi.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Nenshi responded by saying Smith was deflecting and going "back to her usual thing about blaming the reptilian shapeshifters who apparently run AHS."
Bwahaha. I like this Nenshi.
Bwahaha. I like this Nenshi.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
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Someone recently questioned me about whether I was actually being serious when I spoke of the serious threat posed to our nation.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Someone recently questioned me about whether I was actually being serious when I spoke of the serious threat posed to our nation.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
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Defence Department hiring public servants from other federal departments #Ottawa
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Defence Department hiring public servants from other federal departments
DND and the Public Service Commission have launched the Pathway to Mobility Initiative, with plans to hire an additional 2,400 to 3,000 people this fiscal year, with the potential for further jobs nex...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Defence Department hiring public servants from other federal departments #Ottawa
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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"Trump wants a peace deal that rewards Putin and punishes Ukraine. He wants a peace deal with no European input and which he can impose on Ukraine. He wants to get back to business with Putin as soon as possible and start making money"
Just sent out this free piece. There was a weird and widely spread attempt in the media yesterday to create a fiction, that Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and Russia was a rogue operation by Steve Witkoff. That finally fell apart--and it’s important that it did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This Deal Is Trump's--It Has Always Been Trump's
Hi All,
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Trump wants a peace deal that rewards Putin and punishes Ukraine. He wants a peace deal with no European input and which he can impose on Ukraine. He wants to get back to business with Putin as soon as possible and start making money"
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@theglobeandmail.com published my letter on Alberta’s proposed expansion of private healthcare.
Bottom line: it helps only a few, hurts the rest of us, and sickens our labour force.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...
#abopoli
#ableg
Bottom line: it helps only a few, hurts the rest of us, and sickens our labour force.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...
#abopoli
#ableg
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@theglobeandmail.com published my letter on Alberta’s proposed expansion of private healthcare.
Bottom line: it helps only a few, hurts the rest of us, and sickens our labour force.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...
#abopoli
#ableg
Bottom line: it helps only a few, hurts the rest of us, and sickens our labour force.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...
#abopoli
#ableg
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What do you call a group that demands total freedom, but panics the moment anyone demands theirs?
It’s a purity cult. If they override you, it’s stability. If you assert yourself, it’s chaos. They want to control who has a voice.
#ForeverCanadian upset that order, so they want to change the law.
It’s a purity cult. If they override you, it’s stability. If you assert yourself, it’s chaos. They want to control who has a voice.
#ForeverCanadian upset that order, so they want to change the law.
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What do you call a group that demands total freedom, but panics the moment anyone demands theirs?
It’s a purity cult. If they override you, it’s stability. If you assert yourself, it’s chaos. They want to control who has a voice.
#ForeverCanadian upset that order, so they want to change the law.
It’s a purity cult. If they override you, it’s stability. If you assert yourself, it’s chaos. They want to control who has a voice.
#ForeverCanadian upset that order, so they want to change the law.
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“The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten the rights of trans and gender-diverse people in the province.”
ccla.org/press-releas...
ccla.org/press-releas...
CCLA Condemns Alberta’s Use of the Notwithstanding Clause to Undermine Rights of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth - CCLA
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten t...
ccla.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten the rights of trans and gender-diverse people in the province.”
ccla.org/press-releas...
ccla.org/press-releas...
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Can we talk about THIS page for a minute?!?
AHS, while under the direct command & control of Smith and the UCP ACTIVELY destroyed evidence provided to them?
And records were withheld despite Smith’s promises?
The AG comes just shy of calling a coverup!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
AHS, while under the direct command & control of Smith and the UCP ACTIVELY destroyed evidence provided to them?
And records were withheld despite Smith’s promises?
The AG comes just shy of calling a coverup!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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6/6 The risk of a massive wave slamming into an #OilTanker is hard to quantify but terrifying to contemplate.
As Shugar writes: "Geology usually happens slowly, except when it doesn't."
It would be foolish to be unprepared.
Dan Shugar The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
As Shugar writes: "Geology usually happens slowly, except when it doesn't."
It would be foolish to be unprepared.
Dan Shugar The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis
Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
6/6 The risk of a massive wave slamming into an #OilTanker is hard to quantify but terrifying to contemplate.
As Shugar writes: "Geology usually happens slowly, except when it doesn't."
It would be foolish to be unprepared.
Dan Shugar The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
As Shugar writes: "Geology usually happens slowly, except when it doesn't."
It would be foolish to be unprepared.
Dan Shugar The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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6/6 It's a high-stakes negotiation pitting economic ambition against environmental legacy & Indigenous rights.
If signed without B.C.'s blessing, the political pipeline might burst before the oil flows.
Stephanie Levitz & Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
If signed without B.C.'s blessing, the political pipeline might burst before the oil flows.
Stephanie Levitz & Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Liberal MPs say any Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal must have backing in B.C.
Cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault and MP Jonathan Wilkinson hesitate to support accord without seeing it, but won’t oppose it yet either
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
6/6 It's a high-stakes negotiation pitting economic ambition against environmental legacy & Indigenous rights.
If signed without B.C.'s blessing, the political pipeline might burst before the oil flows.
Stephanie Levitz & Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
If signed without B.C.'s blessing, the political pipeline might burst before the oil flows.
Stephanie Levitz & Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Apparently, Danielle Smith and the #UCP have decided they’re going to have to destroy health care in order to save it.
That’s about the most positive spin that can be put on their plan, revealed by the Globe and Mail Tuesday. #abpoli
That’s about the most positive spin that can be put on their plan, revealed by the Globe and Mail Tuesday. #abpoli
Danielle Smith’s Secret Plan to Destroy Public Health Care | The Tyee
A leaked document reveals the UCP is bringing in two-tier care.
thetyee.ca
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Apparently, Danielle Smith and the #UCP have decided they’re going to have to destroy health care in order to save it.
That’s about the most positive spin that can be put on their plan, revealed by the Globe and Mail Tuesday. #abpoli
That’s about the most positive spin that can be put on their plan, revealed by the Globe and Mail Tuesday. #abpoli
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TL;DR
The AG finds that the Dynalife fiasco was yet another fiscal disaster for taxpayers courtesy the UCP, and that Adriana LaGrange meddled in matters that should have been exclusively AHS' domain.
The AG finds that the Dynalife fiasco was yet another fiscal disaster for taxpayers courtesy the UCP, and that Adriana LaGrange meddled in matters that should have been exclusively AHS' domain.
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
TL;DR
The AG finds that the Dynalife fiasco was yet another fiscal disaster for taxpayers courtesy the UCP, and that Adriana LaGrange meddled in matters that should have been exclusively AHS' domain.
The AG finds that the Dynalife fiasco was yet another fiscal disaster for taxpayers courtesy the UCP, and that Adriana LaGrange meddled in matters that should have been exclusively AHS' domain.
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"When procurement and governance and accountability breaks down, it's always Albertans who pay the price."
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
dynalifey
edmontonjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"When procurement and governance and accountability breaks down, it's always Albertans who pay the price."
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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I just called the premier’s office to express my opposition to Bill 9 and the use of the notwithstanding clause. Wait time was about 5 minutes.
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
The UCP: the NOT WORTH STANDING government.
Call the Premier’s office:
780-427-2251 (Edmonton)
Toll free: 310-0000 (in Alberta)
Call the Premier’s office:
780-427-2251 (Edmonton)
Toll free: 310-0000 (in Alberta)
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I just called the premier’s office to express my opposition to Bill 9 and the use of the notwithstanding clause. Wait time was about 5 minutes.
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
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The UCP, and their supporters, are claiming that S33 needed to be used to prevent sterilization of children. But no evidence is provided about the amount of surgery occurring below 18 (puberty blockers are not the same thing as surgery). Is it 0, 5, 50, 500, 5000?
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The UCP, and their supporters, are claiming that S33 needed to be used to prevent sterilization of children. But no evidence is provided about the amount of surgery occurring below 18 (puberty blockers are not the same thing as surgery). Is it 0, 5, 50, 500, 5000?
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Finally huge Kudos to the crew at @cape-acme.bsky.social! Volunteer Drs. Mili Roy, @drmelissalem.bsky.social + @samanthagreen.bsky.social!
And incredible staff with Dr. @latemper.bsky.social, @robb-barnes.bsky.social and Nola Poirier!
An amazing team that accomplished so much to save our world!
Fin
And incredible staff with Dr. @latemper.bsky.social, @robb-barnes.bsky.social and Nola Poirier!
An amazing team that accomplished so much to save our world!
Fin
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Finally huge Kudos to the crew at @cape-acme.bsky.social! Volunteer Drs. Mili Roy, @drmelissalem.bsky.social + @samanthagreen.bsky.social!
And incredible staff with Dr. @latemper.bsky.social, @robb-barnes.bsky.social and Nola Poirier!
An amazing team that accomplished so much to save our world!
Fin
And incredible staff with Dr. @latemper.bsky.social, @robb-barnes.bsky.social and Nola Poirier!
An amazing team that accomplished so much to save our world!
Fin
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Dr. Joe’s COP30 diary day 10.
The final day! (For me)
Some reflections on what has happened and some hope for the next two days of negotiations.
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The final day! (For me)
Some reflections on what has happened and some hope for the next two days of negotiations.
1/
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Dr. Joe’s COP30 diary day 10.
The final day! (For me)
Some reflections on what has happened and some hope for the next two days of negotiations.
1/
The final day! (For me)
Some reflections on what has happened and some hope for the next two days of negotiations.
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