It’s natural to not want to associate with Nazis no matter how “nice” they are to you.
Just me trying to be a good ancestor. Former six-term councillor for the City of Calgary. I will never stop championing equity, climate action, and inspiring city-making. Treaty 7, She/her 🇨🇦
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It’s natural to not want to associate with Nazis no matter how “nice” they are to you.
This is what happens when you replace actual knowledge, expertise, experience, ability and even really basic common sense, with shockingly dumb patronage based on ego, corruption and racism. The United States probably now has the dumbest appointed government on the planet.
The UCP sowing chaos again. No better time to donate to the Alberta NDP. www.albertandp.ca
Mobility lanes move more than just people on bikes and they often create much needed space that our minimal sidewalks lack.
Stuck on repeat. But in times when most of our politicians do not come from poor backgrounds and many in society dream of becoming rich, these destroyers enjoy special protection.
This is fascinating. Worth ten minutes of your day…
🐿️🐿️🐿️ Alert: Alberta UCP projects a $6.3 billion deficit.
Navigating the city in a wheelchair should be part of the transportation onboarding process.
If the ban about sex and violence they would support banning youth from reading Atlas Shrugged and the Bible. But it's not about that, obviously. It's about empathy. They want to ban empathy, curiosity, and imagination.
And the 6.3 BILLION deficit.
School’s back... but instead of excitement, families are feeling anxious about the state of Alberta's classrooms. Join @amandachapman.bsky.social and me for an honest conversation about education in the province. 🗓️ Sept 4 | 7 PM 🔗 Submit your questions: www.albertandpcaucus.ca/events/event...
Books contain ideas. Ideas are dangerous. Only my ideas are allowable. Freedom. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
"Partisan intrusion on programming in K-12 schools and a strange fixation on gender identity and sexual orientation has become a defining characteristic of this UCP government." A legal analysis of the UCP's book ban legislation by a UCalgary law prof. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
I use the silver Toyota to haul livestock, feed, and a trailer quite effectively, and I think of it as a large truck. It's small beside the thing parked beside it, which is so huge it came up to my shoulder, and I worry the driver couldn't see me, much less kids or pets. I'm 5'5. This is absurd.
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
“You don’t have to be that smart to be an authoritarian. All you need is a complete lack of conscience and restraint, an insatiable desire for control, worship and revenge, and a simple understanding of what makes people afraid. Trump’s reptilian intelligence meets that inglorious standard."
Canadians have Stephen Harper - the guy who's been puppeting Poilievre through his entire political career - to thank for this. He's been championing American takeover of our media space for over a decade now. The below article is from June 2015. Maybe now, more Canadians will wake the fuck up!
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the UNGA later this month, FM Maxime Prevot announced, adding the country will also impose 12 “firm sanctions” on Israel aje.io/jw30im
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 ALBERTA Very high [No change] About 1 in 53 people in AB are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~8 higher -Long COVID ~7.9 higher -Hospitalizations ~14 higher -Deaths ~13.9 higher
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
He certainly was.
Oh no.
👩🏼🦽 ’Lego Grandma’ builds wheelchair ramps from Lego to make her town more accessible! Rita or ’Lego Grandma’ has been using donated Lego to build free ramps for businesses across her town Hanau in Germany since 2019 - a colourful, creative and sustainable way to make the town more accessible!
Happy Labour Day! This is the day when we honour and celebrate the history of the Canadian Labour Movement. Did you know Americans took the idea for Labor Day from Canada? Or that the holiday dates back 130+ years? This is the story! 🧵 1/9
GOOD THREAD: One more consequence of too many parked cars in cities (and one more reason to replace surface parking with trees and people-places). All those parked cars are making hot cities even hotter. (at a minimum, choose a white car.) #UrbanHeat
Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: buff.ly/39H6cqB. We need to do better. Use less, buy less, waste less. #ActOnClimate #climate
Israel murders journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I figure the average person will become - or already are - numb to these frightening headlines. But what they can’t avoid is the real-world impacts these facts entail. And those impacts can’t so easily be ignored, as their severity and frequency grows. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary ☀️⚡️ Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
Authoritarianism thrives when people believe they can’t act—but the truth is, we are not powerless. This week's educational vid breaks down five concrete strategies you can use right now to push back. youtu.be/HEmxKSUgdoQ
ICYMI, some useful advice to us in Australia on tackling big tech, from @mariaressa.bsky.social - but has broader relevance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The U.S. should be a cautionary tale, of imbalance in economic power higely in favor of corporations, with fear & hatred spread by corporate media (esp. a particular one that infiltrated many households becoming THEIR main source of "news" but marred with omissions, exaggerations & outright lies).
That's it👆and now,the propaganda is instantly available virtually world wide,spreading as fast as a deadly virus,people dont know who or what to trust or believe,so choose the narrative that most fits them,it becomes tribal, them V us,once the division has been set,then next comes the fall
"Some shoppers committed to the Buy Canadian movement worry that if grocers face no repercussions, "maple washing" will persist." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
@margaretatwood.bsky.social is a goddamn national treasure.
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
STARTER PACK: I’ve got packs with different approaches, but ICYMI this one is specifically about those accounts that are good at changing the commmunication & conversation about better cities. Obvious people like @tomflood.bsky.social & less obvious like @dieworkwear.bsky.social. go.bsky.app/7iNmiCU
"Under the common law and the dictates of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Crown was, and still is, bound to secure access to Indigenous lands only with their agreement, obtained at an open, public meeting of each nation." @liberalca.bsky.social #canpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The latest issue of Renew- the UK's long running newsletter on #renewables renewnatta.wordpress.com/.../2014/11/...
Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first. Germany has seen boom in balcony solar, but murky regulations mean North America slower to adopt www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
Canada take note!
Canada is arming Israel—and Liberals can’t stop lying about it. New video from @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/canada-is-ar...
An estimated 55,500 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women require an urgent nutrition response.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
What we name things in cities matters. Especially things that were built with a lot of public money and should be helping define the city. We sell names too often, and too cheaply, and too often to the same damn companies (yes you Rogers). Good article by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social, give it a read.
To bear witness to injustice comes with responsibility. The responsibility to act, to take meaningful action. To help change the political and structural conditions that allowed for injustice to occur in the first place.
NEW: Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...
Running the numbers is how you can start knowing your city's financial health. We've described how a city can appear fiscally healthy during periods of rapid growth, as new development brings in one-time revenue.
The Hub's #YouthClimateActionBursary provides financial support to youth climate activists in Calgary who are either attending a post-secondary school here or have graduated from a #YYC high school & are attending post-secondary education elsewhere. Details www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/youth_climat...
Over 150 international media outlets mobilising for Gaza journalists - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-150-international-media-outlets-mobilising-gaza-journalists
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Did you know that the most heat pumps per capita are installed in the coldest countries in Europe? In Sweden, Finland and Norway there are now more than 40 heat pumps per 100 households, more than in any other country in the world. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
"This is why liberals operate solely in reactive mode when it comes to Trump: Trump is the one constant when all else is chaos. This is a very unhealthy habit. We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Things are going swimmingly in 'Berta. NA leader in measles cases, only province to charge for COVID vaccine, a separatist Trump sycophant for a Premier, repeated attacks against people w/ disabilities, book bans, billions & billions in waste, a $6.3B deficit... www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
🛑 Stopping deforestation is an emergency brake solution with far reaching benefits. Read more in this insights piece by Jonathan Foley drawdown.org/insights/how...
@CBCNews @CTVNews @globalnews Words of wisdom - a reminder to "journalists"
1. Redirect police budgets to social services, stop criminalizing the unhoused and provide care, compassion and treatment 2a) Massively invest in housing and stimulate local economy by reforming procurement so more firms can participate in fair processes w/fair contracts; design competitions 1/
This is exactly why road safety advocates want physically protected wheeling lanes. #roadsafety The way this idiot is operating their 3000lb weapon of mass destruction is more common than uncommon these days.
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Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais
"To make the road design code safer: 1. Reduce design speed 2. Reduce standard road widths 3. Replace accident with crash 4. Delete 85th percentile rule 5. Delete Level Of Service 6. Raised crosswalks at all schools" @brenttoderian.bsky.social @wesmars.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
Just following your instructions, madam.
Banning Atlas Shrugged was a step too far for Smith.
🍁🛢️ Canada’s oilpatch creates 43% fewer jobs per barrel than in 2012. @pembina.org warns of deeper cuts ahead as global demand peaks and clean energy surges, putting new fossil projects at risk of becoming stranded assets. More: www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-...
Interview w/Chief Na’Moks, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief about @MarkJCarney's announcement today that MPO will be headed by Dawn Farrell, located in Calgary. youtu.be/-SulBQzM9P8
Paid staff didn't hit the sweet spot of banning *just enough* books.
"Christian"
THIS IS THE STORY! Call out the specific people doing this, and their extremist agenda. There is NO “good faith” here. And call out how the United Conservative Party UCP “governing” Alberta is encouraging and enabling all of it, for power and radical ideology.
A constant in Danielle Smith's political career is that it's everyone else's fault. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
For a full year, @premthakker.bsky.social pressed the US to investigate the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab. We document his yearlong reporting and investigation in our film “One Year Since Israel Killed Hind Rajab. Why Has the US Ignored the Murder of a 6-Year-Old Child?” youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM
The UCP loves FREEDOM and hates CANCEL CULTURE. Oh wait.
Why the Internet Is Worse Than Ever On the “enshittification” of the online world—and how Canada can clean it up #Canada macleans.ca/society/why-...
"Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, cyber attacks, and the weaponizing of migrants." - Ursula von der Leyen Slowly, Europe is waking up. Very slowly.
Meanwhile in Canada "MORE PIPELINES!!!" - #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #abpoli newatlas.com/energy/large...
Would be pretty cool to have a thriving renewables industry that provided a steady, reliable stream of income, jobs and taxes to rural Alberta right now. But nope. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...
The number of people needed to produce a barrel of oil has been declining since 2012 -- and no, it isn't Ottawa's fault (it's happening in Texas too). If we want to create jobs in the future, they have to be jobs *of* the future. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...
I do think showing up to City Council meetings with those photos and saying "the French figured out how to do this and you're telling me you can't?" Would work in a lot places tbqh
Alberta's rugged individualism is a myth. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We are breaking ground at 275 Merton, a partnership with CreateTO, the Housing Secretariat, + Priority Development Review. 30% affordable + deeply affordable Rent-Geared-to-Income units. Using a “checkerboard” approach, affordable homes are integrated throughout! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Is a distraction. Alberta is on track for a $6.5B budget deficit.
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
Preposterous before we are generous.
Such a good book.
"Christian" and "fiscal conservative" should forever be in air quotes.
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
A school bus, but on bikes! I recently joined parents, kids, and volunteers for a community ride to celebrate the launch of @bikebusedmonton.bsky.social. #yegbike
This is going to cause a mess
Surprise! Looks who’s backpedaling and blame shifting due to the outraged public. Don’t blame ESPB, this book banning belongs solely to the Alberta Government.
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
Pump the brakes for garter snakes during migration: Alberta Parks
Just in time for Calgary Pride. Here’s a notable list of queer books from Alberta authors and publishers that Danielle Smith also probably doesn’t want you to read. readalberta.ca/articles/rea...
🐿️ Reminder: Alberta's UCP budget deficit now at $6.5B
Police culture.
Seems like a good time to donate to your local public library.
Independent Senator @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social on the backlash against international students. albertaviews.ca/stop-scapego... #Cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #backtoschool
