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This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Is Trans Mountain's Profitability an Accounting Illusion? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Is Trans Mountain’s Profitability an Accounting Illusion? | The Tyee
How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are.
thetyee.ca
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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A Year of Health Science Under Siege via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
A Year of Health Science Under Siege | The Tyee
When leaders mirror Stalin by promoting false dogma, we must defend evidence-based reason. Lives depend on it.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Let’s all support Global TV as they enter their pirate radio era.
CBS News issues takedown orders for axed ‘60 Minutes’ story after it ‘mistakenly’ aired on Global app
“On Monday, our Canadian broadcast partner, Global TV, mistakenly published on its app the “Inside CECOT” segment that CBS News decided to delay for a future broadcast,” said a CBS News representative...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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When Canada invests in carbon fairy tales, we all lose www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/23/o...
When Canada invests in carbon fairy tales, we all lose
Behind shiny pipes and piles of money lurks a fairy tale that Canada can produce, refine, ship and burn oil, with substantial carbon dioxide (CO2) being captured and harmlessly pumped into the ground,...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel report has dropped and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib!
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Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel report has dropped and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib!
Albertans paid $2 million for gruel this thin? No wonder the UCP released it on the Friday before Christmas
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December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Devin Dreeshen pushes ahead with pet plan to make Alberta highways more dangerous
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Devin Dreeshen pushes ahead with pet plan to make Alberta highways more dangerous
Transportation minister passes off straw poll with no statistical validity as evidence public supports raising speed limits
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December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn
Darius Snieckus, Rory White | Analysis, Business | December 18th 2025
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit
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With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit
Thanks to Danielle Smith, about the best thing we can hope for is that Alberta will soon become an international joke
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December 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Record Frostbite Amputations are a Crisis, Not a Success Story www.friendsofmedicare.org/record_frost...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Finally, a forceful response to the UCP’s policy hot mess by the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi
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Finally, a forceful response to the UCP’s policy hot mess by the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi
Opposition and government parties mark the end of the fall 2025 legislative session with predictably different spin
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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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What Can We Do?
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What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
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December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Passing of Bill 11 Brings Two-Tier Health Care to Alberta www.friendsofmedicare.org/bill_11_brin...
Passing of Bill 11 Brings Two-Tier Health Care to Alberta
Passing of Bill 11 Brings Two-Tier Health Care to Alberta
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Danielle Smith's Dangerous Attack on the Courts via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Danielle Smith’s Dangerous Attack on the Courts | The Tyee
Conservatives helped build Canada’s judicial system, which preserves values true conservatives hold dear.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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There’s an AI-powered conspiracy machine selling ‘Truthwear’ merch to Canadians, and my friends at the National Observer unmasked the person profiting from this account.

The story shows what happens when people are given incentives to publish fake information, at scale, all with the help of AI:
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land
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Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land
It can no longer be denied the UCP is a separatist party; if its leaders had a shred of honour, they would drop the pretence
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December 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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From the Editor: So, this is going well... medicinehatnews.com/commentary/o...
From the Editor: So, this is going well... - Medicine Hat News
sschmidt@medicinehatnews.com After multiple sources suggested last week the UCP government was planning to either amend or repeal altogether its own Recall Act in response to a number of MLAs now faci...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Real conservatives respect and defend courts
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Real conservatives respect and defend courts
Danielle Smith does not, and that's democratically dangerous.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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UCP trots out woke-gun-grab hysteria in hopes of keeping its MAGAfied far-right critics on a leash
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UCP trots out woke-gun-grab hysteria in hopes of keeping its MAGAfied far-right critics on a leash
Scratch an Alberta separatist, 51st Stater, Trudeau-hater, anti-vaxxer, or F-flag purchaser, and you’ll find its almost always about guns
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December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Cancelling of Surgical Contracts Reaffirms Need for a Public Inquiry www.friendsofmedicare.org/cancelling_o...
Cancelling of Surgical Contracts Reaffirms Need for a Public Inquiry
Cancelling of Surgical Contracts Reaffirms Need for a Public Inquiry
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December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Expect an Alberta election call shortly, before anyone realizes that pipeline to Prince Rupert is unlikely ever to be built
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Expect an Alberta election call shortly, before anyone realizes that pipeline to Prince Rupert is unlikely ever to be built
Danielle Smith didn’t exactly cross the floor again, but yesterday’s announcement was ‘close enough for government work’
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November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/n...
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Bill 11 is bringing in American-style two-tiered health care, that could cost us just to see a doctor. Albertans didn't vote for this! www.friendsofmedicare.org/bill11_two_t...
Bill 11 bringing American-style two-tiered health care to Alberta
Bill 11 is bringing in American-style two-tiered health care, that could cost us just to see a doctor. Albertans didn't vote for this!
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November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Cringe as they may be, don’t assume Canada’s radical far right is going to fail, warns high-profile social media commentator
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Cringe as they may be, don’t assume Canada’s radical far right is going to fail, warns high-profile social media commentator
Rachel Gilmore, ‘your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist,’ addressed the Parkland Conference in Edmonton Saturday
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM