Arnold Waxwing
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CJSR is powered by volunteers!
Almost every role at the station, from DJs, community outreach & research to the keepers of the vast music library, is filled by folks donating their time, energy & talents.
If you'd like to volunteer too, sign-up today: app.betterimpact.com/Application?...
Almost every role at the station, from DJs, community outreach & research to the keepers of the vast music library, is filled by folks donating their time, energy & talents.
If you'd like to volunteer too, sign-up today: app.betterimpact.com/Application?...
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
CJSR is powered by volunteers!
Almost every role at the station, from DJs, community outreach & research to the keepers of the vast music library, is filled by folks donating their time, energy & talents.
If you'd like to volunteer too, sign-up today: app.betterimpact.com/Application?...
Almost every role at the station, from DJs, community outreach & research to the keepers of the vast music library, is filled by folks donating their time, energy & talents.
If you'd like to volunteer too, sign-up today: app.betterimpact.com/Application?...
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Alberta’s government gave a sole-source contract to a PR firm to help sway public opinion on its education policy after the teachers’ union announced a strike in September. Read the details.
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#AbEd #alberta
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#AbEd #alberta
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Alberta’s government gave a sole-source contract to a PR firm to help sway public opinion on its education policy after the teachers’ union announced a strike in September. Read the details.
zurl.co/h1VU1
#AbEd #alberta
zurl.co/h1VU1
#AbEd #alberta
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Troy Forester, the officer alleged to have sent these inappropriate texts, may be familiar to you for other reasons: vice-president of the Edmonton Police Association; demoted in 2014 for sexual conduct towards a recruit; fined $22,000 in 2006 for assaulting a man at a traffic check-stop.
New from me:
An Edmonton woman who reported a sexual assault to police says the officer who was investigating her case hit on her in text messages. A criminologist questions how EPS handled the woman's complaint about his conduct. #yeg #yegcc edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
An Edmonton woman who reported a sexual assault to police says the officer who was investigating her case hit on her in text messages. A criminologist questions how EPS handled the woman's complaint about his conduct. #yeg #yegcc edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
Edmonton police officer reprimanded for inappropriate texts
An Edmonton woman who reported a sexual assault to police says the officer who was investigating her case hit on her in text messages. A criminologist questions how EPS handled the woman's complaint a...
edmonton.citynews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Troy Forester, the officer alleged to have sent these inappropriate texts, may be familiar to you for other reasons: vice-president of the Edmonton Police Association; demoted in 2014 for sexual conduct towards a recruit; fined $22,000 in 2006 for assaulting a man at a traffic check-stop.
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1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
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Maybe it’s not that TOO MANY students are getting emotional/psychological related accommodations when they don’t really need them, & more that record inequality, growing authoritarianism, climate catastrophe, & massive debt together are actually having a fraying impact on young people.
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Maybe it’s not that TOO MANY students are getting emotional/psychological related accommodations when they don’t really need them, & more that record inequality, growing authoritarianism, climate catastrophe, & massive debt together are actually having a fraying impact on young people.
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One of the most annoying things about this is the Bow Valley has one of the biggest actual papers left in Alberta because (I assume?) they can actually sell ads because of the tourism base. (Shout out the Rocky Mountain Outlook!) So what business problem is this solving?
A newsletter in Alberta’s Bow Valley is hiring a contract “reporter” to feed and babysit chat GPT. jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDeta...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One of the most annoying things about this is the Bow Valley has one of the biggest actual papers left in Alberta because (I assume?) they can actually sell ads because of the tourism base. (Shout out the Rocky Mountain Outlook!) So what business problem is this solving?
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Oct 2022: Marshall Smith becomes premier’s CoS.
Dec 2022: ROSC Solutions Group (RSG) co-founded by associate of M. Smith.
Dec 2022: RSG lands ~$25 million in procurement contracts not disclosed until Aug 2024.
2023: RSG gets 10s millions more.
2025: RSG owns 5 companies running on AB public $.
Dec 2022: ROSC Solutions Group (RSG) co-founded by associate of M. Smith.
Dec 2022: RSG lands ~$25 million in procurement contracts not disclosed until Aug 2024.
2023: RSG gets 10s millions more.
2025: RSG owns 5 companies running on AB public $.
A few companies have made a great deal of money under the Alberta Recovery Model and there's little to show that they have actually delivered on the outcomes Albertans expect. Are people's health outcomes better off with a two-tier, American-style healthcare? The answer is almost always NO.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oct 2022: Marshall Smith becomes premier’s CoS.
Dec 2022: ROSC Solutions Group (RSG) co-founded by associate of M. Smith.
Dec 2022: RSG lands ~$25 million in procurement contracts not disclosed until Aug 2024.
2023: RSG gets 10s millions more.
2025: RSG owns 5 companies running on AB public $.
Dec 2022: ROSC Solutions Group (RSG) co-founded by associate of M. Smith.
Dec 2022: RSG lands ~$25 million in procurement contracts not disclosed until Aug 2024.
2023: RSG gets 10s millions more.
2025: RSG owns 5 companies running on AB public $.
What's the political equivalent of being murdered in a hail of bullets on the front lawn of your suburban home? Former EPS chief and top Alberta bureaucrat Dale Mcfee has overseen a couple gangster regimes now. They don't end well for the top men. How the Mirache regime ends will tell the tale.
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What's the political equivalent of being murdered in a hail of bullets on the front lawn of your suburban home? Former EPS chief and top Alberta bureaucrat Dale Mcfee has overseen a couple gangster regimes now. They don't end well for the top men. How the Mirache regime ends will tell the tale.
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Sounds like we need to charge everyone for parking.
'You start adding 20 to 24, cars for one building at the end of our road, and we may not be able to park in front of our building': Five years after Edmonton made parking optional for infill, rage builds #yeg
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edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
'Hate what's happening': Five years after Edmonton made parking optional for infill, rage builds
Five years after council voted to make providing parking space optional for most infill, ire continues to build in affected neighbourhoods.
edmontonjournal.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sounds like we need to charge everyone for parking.
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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
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.
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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 8:11 PM
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.
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I’ve been a secondary school teacher for 20+ years - a whole generation. Once upon a time there were jobs available for students ill-suited to the rigour of university. They went to work and that was their lifes’ trajectories. Those jobs are gone now, replaced by gig work and exploitation.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’ve been a secondary school teacher for 20+ years - a whole generation. Once upon a time there were jobs available for students ill-suited to the rigour of university. They went to work and that was their lifes’ trajectories. Those jobs are gone now, replaced by gig work and exploitation.
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Infantilising them does not achieve a thing. Blaming university is unhelpful. Considering the change in society and how capitalism has created gig work to replace solid, secure employment is the way. Kid These Days ™️ are still the same. It’s the previous generations that screwed them over.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Infantilising them does not achieve a thing. Blaming university is unhelpful. Considering the change in society and how capitalism has created gig work to replace solid, secure employment is the way. Kid These Days ™️ are still the same. It’s the previous generations that screwed them over.
there's lots of hockey to enjoy in the city of Edmonton that isn't a locus for corruption and graft. Citizens would be better off spending their dollars at USports or ACAC. Sure would be nice if local, independent media covered such events. How about it @taprootedmonton.ca?
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
there's lots of hockey to enjoy in the city of Edmonton that isn't a locus for corruption and graft. Citizens would be better off spending their dollars at USports or ACAC. Sure would be nice if local, independent media covered such events. How about it @taprootedmonton.ca?
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UCP AGM 2025, baby
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
UCP AGM 2025, baby
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Tour de force of investigative journalism here. Globe obtained evidence and made connections that Judge Wyant did not. Also, Globe confirmed former Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee was guest of Sam Mraiche at Oilers game. EPS failed to be forthright with me when I raised this in a previous story. 1
On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Sam Mraiche
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w/ @tomcardoso.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social
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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 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Tour de force of investigative journalism here. Globe obtained evidence and made connections that Judge Wyant did not. Also, Globe confirmed former Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee was guest of Sam Mraiche at Oilers game. EPS failed to be forthright with me when I raised this in a previous story. 1
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“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
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Another winter of the Blatchford paths open and them not appearing on the Snow & Ice map from CoE.
The other little red, drove past it last night, that's the hole in the sidewalk for the network build out but is not filled (snow clearing will be a major PIA here).
The other little red, drove past it last night, that's the hole in the sidewalk for the network build out but is not filled (snow clearing will be a major PIA here).
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Another winter of the Blatchford paths open and them not appearing on the Snow & Ice map from CoE.
The other little red, drove past it last night, that's the hole in the sidewalk for the network build out but is not filled (snow clearing will be a major PIA here).
The other little red, drove past it last night, that's the hole in the sidewalk for the network build out but is not filled (snow clearing will be a major PIA here).
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weird opposition strategy for the AB NDP to keep standing up and saying "we'll do everything the UCP is doing, in fact we did it first"
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
weird opposition strategy for the AB NDP to keep standing up and saying "we'll do everything the UCP is doing, in fact we did it first"
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I couldn’t even get to the pipeline stuff because I was so horrified and angry about the AI/data centre stuff.
Here's the Carney-Smith pipeline MOU: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding
PREFACE At this pivotal global moment, Canada and Alberta, working closely with Indigenous Peoples and industry, must work together cooperatively, and within their respective jurisdictions, to foster ...
www.pm.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I couldn’t even get to the pipeline stuff because I was so horrified and angry about the AI/data centre stuff.
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Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one - Alberta Politics
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert, she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one, with sketchy details to follow. Then, just like that, Alberta’s premier could call an ...
albertapolitics.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...
@taprootedmonton.ca has an AI problem.
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
@taprootedmonton.ca has an AI problem.
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In this article a family member says they’d like to see the crossing’s pedestrian lights upgraded to traffic lights (because drivers do not respect soft limits), and then there is a quote from the police telling pedestrians to take responsibility for themselves and avoid stepping in front of cars. 😵💫
Family of two girls hit by minivan calling for change to northwest Calgary intersection
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Family of two girls hit by minivan calling for change to northwest Calgary intersection
Alejandra Graham, 18, was walking her little sister, 10-year-old Camilla Graham, to school when they were hit by a minivan in a pedestrian crossing.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In this article a family member says they’d like to see the crossing’s pedestrian lights upgraded to traffic lights (because drivers do not respect soft limits), and then there is a quote from the police telling pedestrians to take responsibility for themselves and avoid stepping in front of cars. 😵💫
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Don Weitz, 'a leader in the anti-psychiatry and disability rights movements', delivers an impassioned speech following the police killing of Otto Vass in Toronto, Aug. '00.
Tooker Tapes Archive Project v.205
🧵 w/links
youtu.be/0hzkvex14Rk
Tooker Tapes Archive Project v.205
🧵 w/links
youtu.be/0hzkvex14Rk
Don Weitz RAGES against Police for killing Otto Vass - Tooker Tapes v.205
YouTube video by Kelly Green
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November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Don Weitz, 'a leader in the anti-psychiatry and disability rights movements', delivers an impassioned speech following the police killing of Otto Vass in Toronto, Aug. '00.
Tooker Tapes Archive Project v.205
🧵 w/links
youtu.be/0hzkvex14Rk
Tooker Tapes Archive Project v.205
🧵 w/links
youtu.be/0hzkvex14Rk
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CBC devalues its journalism by becoming no more than a YouTube channel. Now our national broadcaster is turning into AI slop.
This is the enshittification of CBC and Canadian news in general
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
This is the enshittification of CBC and Canadian news in general
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
How CBC News will use AI responsibly to benefit our journalism — and keep your trust | CBC News
CBC is launching a new campaign aimed at reminding Canadians how our journalism can provide a safe harbour from the fake news and AI-generated content roiling through our feeds. As the campaign begins...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
CBC devalues its journalism by becoming no more than a YouTube channel. Now our national broadcaster is turning into AI slop.
This is the enshittification of CBC and Canadian news in general
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
This is the enshittification of CBC and Canadian news in general
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...