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Knitting, coffee and shenanigans in YEG Treaty 6 🇨🇦… oh, and a recovering retired public servant…
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CONGRATULATIONS #ForeverCanadian volunteers!

Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!

Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.

www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Citizen Initiative Petition Verification Completed, Results Announced - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Elections Alberta has completed verification for the “Alberta Forever Canada” citizen initiative petition. Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, has determined under section 10...
www.elections.ab.ca
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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How many years ago was it that the Edmonton Police were trying to bust Diotte in an undercover drunk driving sting? Now they're posing for photos with him. But he was a Sun journalist back then, writing negative columns about photo radar. Now he's pro law and order so he gets an EPS photo op.
Former EPS chief Dale McFee's overt politicization of his role has apparently opened the door for his successor Warren Dreichel and EPS officers to attend political functions. If the EPS has any photos of an EPS chief and officers attending a federal NDP event, please post them.
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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www.theglobeandmail....

This highlights what so many HCWs have been worrired about: the UCP government cannot be trusted with the operation, the funding, or the integrity of our health system.
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Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Shut

This

Shit

Down

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Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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
dynalifey
edmontonjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Let’s stop calling it the ‘notwithstanding clause’.
In practice, it’s actually the neofascist proviso.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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So is Mark Carney going to go along with the suspension of human rights by MAGA government in Alberta?
You cant' do nation-building by allowing an autocratic government to suspend the charter rights of citizens.
Just say no Mark.
it's pretty straightforward.

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to stop court challenges of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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With this leaked document it will be difficult for the UCP to deny their endgame is to privatize healthcare in Alberta. As is the case with the dismantling of AHS, there is no evidence to support this. To the contrary, both will further weaken the public healthcare system.
SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.

Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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When the UCP uses the notwithstanding clause tomorrow, watch defenders say, "it's totally legal" or "we had no choice."

They're deflecting.

The UCP wants to exact as much harm on transgender folks as possible. And they know their actions are not justifiable in a democratic society.

Who's next?
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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So...

The final ASIRT report on the alleged illegal surveillance of former Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips by the Lethbridge Police Service is out...

And this is a WILD ride with a Spotify ending you aren't going to want to miss!

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November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Decoration Day, Armistice Day and Remembrance Day have all been days to honour Canada's veterans.
For a time, our day of remembrance fell on the same day as Thanksgiving.
But Remembrance Day as we know it has been celebrated 1931.
This is the story.

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November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Never forget the original anti-fascists…
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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From the DM's...

Just in case Smith's bafflegab wasn't clear...

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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...
“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
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🇨🇦 CRACKS FORM FOR ALBERTA'S UCP 🇨🇦

In a sharp new column, Don Braid argues that "knobs are starting to fall off" the #UCP government.

He details a series of escalating "incidents and irritants" that suggest, halfway through its second term, the government's lustre is fading.

#AbLeg #AbPoli
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
One can be sad and proud at the same time… well done #bluejays. You rallied a country and gave us something to cheer for.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Poilievre says he’d invoke notwithstanding clause to overturn ruling on child porn sentences.
This asshole would run the whole damn govt on the notwithstanding clause. Trampling our rights and bypassing courts and the rule of law for his MAGA agenda. #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Poilievre says he’d invoke notwithstanding clause to overturn ruling on child porn sentences | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if elected he’d use the notwithstanding clause to overturn Friday’s ruling from the Supreme Court striking down mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing...
www.cbc.ca
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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NEW POST: No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/no-the-sup...
No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a decision striking down mandatory minimum sentences in the context of possessing or accessing child pornography.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Dear Alberta,
We have a serious problem with this government, who claimed it’d fix health care in 90 days. Seems pretty clear to me they meant “start dismantling it in 90 days,” because it has only gotten worse. And now stories like this are coming out. #ABleg globalnews.ca/news/1150372...
Boy with cancer’s chemo appointment cancelled amid Stollery space shortage | Globalnews.ca
An Edmonton mom said the Stollery Children's Hospital urgently needs to grow after a shortage of beds meant her son Ben was turned away from his scheduled chemotherapy treatment.
globalnews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?

An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.

I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The legislation is supposed to embargoed until tabled, but if this is accurate…

Smith is invoking the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.

Which is an admission that she is violating charter rights.

It is a dark day in Alberta.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM