EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)
@siobhanftb.bsky.social
She/Elle EN/FR. Policy, critical public health, medical anthropology, cats. IU 651. Opinions are my own. Ex-journo under Siobhan O'Leary (bylines: Rewire.News, VICE, Shadowproof). Public speaker, irregular blogger. 🏳️⚧️ liberation now.
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I don't know who else needs to see this, but no, health care is not exclusively provincial jurisdiction. The federal government has significant powers under the Canada Health Act.
Whether or not they choose to live up to their responsibilities and use them is a different story.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
Whether or not they choose to live up to their responsibilities and use them is a different story.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I just want someone in that pool to say “I don’t think we need a lecture on manners from a guy who rapes children.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I just want someone in that pool to say “I don’t think we need a lecture on manners from a guy who rapes children.”
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Not just you. I am a journalist, and I’m perfectly comfortable saying some things are more important than “access.”
Actually, a lot of things are more important than access.
Actually, a lot of things are more important than access.
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Not just you. I am a journalist, and I’m perfectly comfortable saying some things are more important than “access.”
Actually, a lot of things are more important than access.
Actually, a lot of things are more important than access.
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They don't even have to edit them, my understanding is that Bondi can classify any Epstein file content she wants & in so doing exempt it from the release mandated by the bill.
Luckiest outcome would be someone producing evidence that *they* supplied the investigation, proving deception by omission
Luckiest outcome would be someone producing evidence that *they* supplied the investigation, proving deception by omission
At this stage there’s literally no reason to believe the admin, even if it releases more than you’d expect, are being forthcoming. It’s the opposite of conspiracy theory to look at the proudly lawless pattern of deception and raw power that this trump admin has engaged in then to conclude they’d…
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
They don't even have to edit them, my understanding is that Bondi can classify any Epstein file content she wants & in so doing exempt it from the release mandated by the bill.
Luckiest outcome would be someone producing evidence that *they* supplied the investigation, proving deception by omission
Luckiest outcome would be someone producing evidence that *they* supplied the investigation, proving deception by omission
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It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
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My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
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Why shouldn’t governments invoke the notwithstanding clause, if there is no political cost or moral hazard? If voters don’t hold them accountable? If we just shrug and turn the page? #ableg #abpoli #abheritage #Alberta #DelwinVriend #LeilaniMuir
Stripping Away Rights Using the Notwithstanding Clause. - Alberta Views
After a week of rancorous debate, Klein announced he would not invoke the notwithstanding clause on the landmark gay rights decision...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why shouldn’t governments invoke the notwithstanding clause, if there is no political cost or moral hazard? If voters don’t hold them accountable? If we just shrug and turn the page? #ableg #abpoli #abheritage #Alberta #DelwinVriend #LeilaniMuir
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I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
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Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
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Albertans need to continue to speak up. "UCP MLAs are feeling the pressure... If Albertans feel strongly about this government’s use of the notwithstanding clause, they need to keep calling and encourage others to do the same."
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What happens when you call your MLA?
An errant voicemail gives us insight into how the UCP is handling the backlash against its use of the notwithstanding clause. They're not doing well.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Albertans need to continue to speak up. "UCP MLAs are feeling the pressure... If Albertans feel strongly about this government’s use of the notwithstanding clause, they need to keep calling and encourage others to do the same."
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In this atmosphere, Albertans "cannot pretend that there is an absolute ban on abrogating Charter rights... The notwithstanding clause was never meant to be easy. It was meant to force precisely this kind of reckoning."
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Poilievre & the Notwithstanding Clause
The Conservatives have invited us to debate our rights. Will we take it seriously?
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In this atmosphere, Albertans "cannot pretend that there is an absolute ban on abrogating Charter rights... The notwithstanding clause was never meant to be easy. It was meant to force precisely this kind of reckoning."
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"By using the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively... the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights and bypassing the courts. They are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a free and democratic society." drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/defying-th...
Defying the Lougheed Doctrine
The UCP's repeated use of the notwithstanding clause is fundamentally unconservative (and un-Albertan).
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"By using the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively... the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights and bypassing the courts. They are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a free and democratic society." drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/defying-th...
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The UCP "jumps from possibility to inevitability to endorsement..., as if legal permission settled the matter. It doesn’t. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean we have to do it, & just because we do it doesn’t make it a good idea."
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Can they? Must they? Should they?
Three questions to answer about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The UCP "jumps from possibility to inevitability to endorsement..., as if legal permission settled the matter. It doesn’t. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean we have to do it, & just because we do it doesn’t make it a good idea."
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As expected, the UCP justified its use of s33 as "some combination of *we can* and *we have to*.
The real answer is captured in the flowchart below:
The UCP wants to strip Charter rights without lessening the harm on Albertans."
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
The real answer is captured in the flowchart below:
The UCP wants to strip Charter rights without lessening the harm on Albertans."
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
Why use the notwithstanding clause?
On laziness, impatience, and vengeance.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
As expected, the UCP justified its use of s33 as "some combination of *we can* and *we have to*.
The real answer is captured in the flowchart below:
The UCP wants to strip Charter rights without lessening the harm on Albertans."
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
The real answer is captured in the flowchart below:
The UCP wants to strip Charter rights without lessening the harm on Albertans."
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
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"By using the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively... the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights and bypassing the courts. They are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a free and democratic society."
#abpoli #ableg
#abpoli #ableg
The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults.
This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
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This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
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Populism, freedom, and democracy in Alberta (and beyond)
Lessons from my grade fiver's homework assignment
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November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
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The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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*coughNDP*
European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*coughNDP*
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An interesting thing here, given the news, is that the secretary of education is the defendant in a suit accusing her of turning a blind eye to the operations of a child molestation ring that, there is no dispute, operated within her business from the 1970s to the 1990s
This is a direct attack on our children & our future.
At a time when we need to be doing more to prepare our kids to compete in the global economy, Trump is going after the agency that strengthens American education. Once again, he's helping our adversaries & competitors.
At a time when we need to be doing more to prepare our kids to compete in the global economy, Trump is going after the agency that strengthens American education. Once again, he's helping our adversaries & competitors.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
An interesting thing here, given the news, is that the secretary of education is the defendant in a suit accusing her of turning a blind eye to the operations of a child molestation ring that, there is no dispute, operated within her business from the 1970s to the 1990s
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Over the weekend, Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of software firm Palantir, dumped all of his personal investments in Nvidia, the U.S. chipmaker whose products make generative AI possible.
Nvidia is responsible for over a quarter of all gains in the stock market over the past three years.
Nvidia is responsible for over a quarter of all gains in the stock market over the past three years.
The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach
While billionaires bet against the hyped up multi-trillion-dollar AI market, Canada’s government is doubling down
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November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Over the weekend, Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of software firm Palantir, dumped all of his personal investments in Nvidia, the U.S. chipmaker whose products make generative AI possible.
Nvidia is responsible for over a quarter of all gains in the stock market over the past three years.
Nvidia is responsible for over a quarter of all gains in the stock market over the past three years.