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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
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Yet more evidence that the "arm's length" Alberta Energy Regulator is a farce. The UCP govt told the AER not to enforce flaring rules, not to tell the public about it, and prostrate itself to the rogue energy companies and they did as they were told.
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Yet more evidence that the "arm's length" Alberta Energy Regulator is a farce. The UCP govt told the AER not to enforce flaring rules, not to tell the public about it, and prostrate itself to the rogue energy companies and they did as they were told.
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🚨about $47 MILLION LOST: The Sam Mraiche/AHS Scandal.
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🚨about $47 MILLION LOST: The Sam Mraiche/AHS Scandal.
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
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Meaningful demand sucks because it's not "AI", it's increasingly complex search-and-summarize-algorithms that spit out garbage, based on scanning and plagiarizing the fucking Internet, which is filled with garbage.
So glad our governments and universities are leaning into this stupid bubble.
So glad our governments and universities are leaning into this stupid bubble.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Meaningful demand sucks because it's not "AI", it's increasingly complex search-and-summarize-algorithms that spit out garbage, based on scanning and plagiarizing the fucking Internet, which is filled with garbage.
So glad our governments and universities are leaning into this stupid bubble.
So glad our governments and universities are leaning into this stupid bubble.
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Gunter is one of the originators of this perpetual grievance machine in Alberta.
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Gunter is one of the originators of this perpetual grievance machine in Alberta.
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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Agree or disagree?
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree or disagree?
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I would bet money that fossil fuel companies are ‘farming out’ fraudulent, anti-climate outrage from click farms staffed by people living in places that are suffering the most from the calamity caused by oil and gas emissions.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I would bet money that fossil fuel companies are ‘farming out’ fraudulent, anti-climate outrage from click farms staffed by people living in places that are suffering the most from the calamity caused by oil and gas emissions.
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When pundits talk about “de-risking” pipeline investment, they mean that we cover the losses and private companies walk off with the profits.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
When pundits talk about “de-risking” pipeline investment, they mean that we cover the losses and private companies walk off with the profits.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
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For-profit healthcare is going to help Danielle Smith's friends and make life harder for the average Albertan #yeg #yyc #yql #abpoli #ableg #FuckTheUCP #FuckSmith
Trump and the billionaires are completely fucking the American people over!
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
For-profit healthcare is going to help Danielle Smith's friends and make life harder for the average Albertan #yeg #yyc #yql #abpoli #ableg #FuckTheUCP #FuckSmith
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My understanding is that such abortions are rare to non-existent, because of the ethical problems involved.
This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.
This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My understanding is that such abortions are rare to non-existent, because of the ethical problems involved.
This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.
This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.
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Spread the word: Through Q3 2025, Solar & Wind have met *ALL* global demand growth to date. Get the details here. #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 🧵 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil fue...
ember-energy.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Spread the word: Through Q3 2025, Solar & Wind have met *ALL* global demand growth to date. Get the details here. #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 🧵 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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This is what Danielle Smith is priming Alberta for. This. And, incredibly, she's probably going to use our driver's licenses as the portal. But, Canadians have no idea how hard a for profit healthcare system sucks. So much out of pocket even when you have insurance. #ableg #cdnpoli
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.
Carney's latest pipedream explained
Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to see the Pathways Alliance project built in exchange for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast — a risky bet on the country’s economic future.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
So much corruption.
And Mraiche flipped a property to Alberta Infrastructure and made a $300,00 profit in three months.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
Mraiche Profited from Quick Sale of Property to UCP Government | The Tyee
The multimillionaire under scrutiny for lucrative Alberta Health Services dealings made $300,000 on land he owned just three months.
thetyee.ca
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So much corruption.
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And Mraiche flipped a property to Alberta Infrastructure and made a $300,00 profit in three months.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
Mraiche Profited from Quick Sale of Property to UCP Government | The Tyee
The multimillionaire under scrutiny for lucrative Alberta Health Services dealings made $300,000 on land he owned just three months.
thetyee.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
And Mraiche flipped a property to Alberta Infrastructure and made a $300,00 profit in three months.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
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Examples: Dynalife, the entire Alberta Recovery Model, chartered surgical facilities, etc.
Each worthless to the public, each counter to available evidence, each responsible for enriching government buddies.
Each worthless to the public, each counter to available evidence, each responsible for enriching government buddies.
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Examples: Dynalife, the entire Alberta Recovery Model, chartered surgical facilities, etc.
Each worthless to the public, each counter to available evidence, each responsible for enriching government buddies.
Each worthless to the public, each counter to available evidence, each responsible for enriching government buddies.
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Even if the Alberta government doesn’t get a pipeline built, never underestimate their ability to leverage projects to nowhere that move public dollars into private pockets.
Meanwhile, they’ll divide FNs against one another and deepen colonial harms. It’s their MO, and increasingly Carney’s too.
Meanwhile, they’ll divide FNs against one another and deepen colonial harms. It’s their MO, and increasingly Carney’s too.
plus obliterating Indigenous consultation through ministerial discretion, which is the win-win for the UCP and feds. Now the UCP get to combine lack of consultation with virtually unlimited criminalization powers via Critical Infrastructure Act.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Even if the Alberta government doesn’t get a pipeline built, never underestimate their ability to leverage projects to nowhere that move public dollars into private pockets.
Meanwhile, they’ll divide FNs against one another and deepen colonial harms. It’s their MO, and increasingly Carney’s too.
Meanwhile, they’ll divide FNs against one another and deepen colonial harms. It’s their MO, and increasingly Carney’s too.
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No one should be under any illusions about who the base of the UCP are.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
No one should be under any illusions about who the base of the UCP are.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
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1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
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“Imperial Oil has announced it will eliminate 20% of its workforce by the end of 2027, with most of the positions based in Calgary.”
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil announce major layoffs for Canada amid global restructuring
Experts says layoffs part of broader global trend in oil and gas sector
www.hcamag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Imperial Oil has announced it will eliminate 20% of its workforce by the end of 2027, with most of the positions based in Calgary.”
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
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Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.