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A new update from @environmentaldefence.ca reveals that Big Oil held 159 lobbying meetings with the new Carney gov't in its first three months. That's 355 so far this year, nearly three every workday, often with top decision-makers. Canada deserves a gov't that serves Canadians, not oil lobbyists.
Grateful for a brief mid-week escape to the mountains with my brother over the past 2 days.
Every dollar more that the banks pull in in profits is a dollar less that the average person has. Of course the press pretends like thisbis à benign stat.
Alberta doubling down on natural gas for electricity generation means Albertans will pay even more on their energy bills. Our provincial government continues to put oil & gas industry profits before working people. www.pembina.org/media-releas... @jasonrwang.bsky.social @pembina.org #ABLeg #ABPoli
It's almost like Canada shouldn't be steamrolling ahead with new LNG projects. #CDNPoli
Critics warned Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy would shift billions in oil and gas cleanup costs onto taxpayers, citing liability estimates of $60 billion to $130 billion. discoverairdrie.com/articles/did... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #StoptheScam
Andrew Nikiforuk: "In an unprecedented move Rob Morgan, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, has bowed to intense bullying from an Australian-based coal company and cancelled a planned public hearing on a large underground project near the town of Grande Cache." A captured regulator. #abpoli
NEW: The Liberal govt’s misleading statements and policies have created much confusion about 🇨🇦 military exports to 🇮🇱 In this timeline, I explain what we know about the exports and track how the spin and deception has evolved over the past 2 years. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...
Eliminating due process is NEVER a good sign. In Alberta, they're starting with drug users. Who's next? This needs to be stopped. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove... @drugdatadecoded.ca
Democracy was never a gift from the ruling class — it was fought for by working people. Even then, we only got a shallow version of it. The original democratic demands — decommodification of essential goods, workplace democracy, control over finance — were abandoned. www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
Obviously I share the concern about the environmental footprint of AI. But my bigger concern is about the de-skilling of labour. I worry more about people being forced to participate in a world where we outsource our research, writing & artwork to AI — which just makes us appendages of ChatGPT etc.
Why stop at 32 hours? The reason we work so much is because we have a system that's oriented around profit instead of meeting human needs. Evidence shows we can provide decent living standards with only 1/3rd of our current resource and energy use. We *should* have a 13 hour work week.
More on this issue here from @albertawilderness.bsky.social albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r... #ABLeg #ABPoli
Last week, Rob Morgan, CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, unilaterally stepped in to cancel an already scheduled hearing. This is an anti-democratic abuse of process by the CEO of a regulator which is *supposed* to act in the public interest. static.aer.ca/prd/document... #ABLeg #ABPoli
Learning through organizing is beautiful. 🥹
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Progressive organizations across Canada need to re-create the 9-hour movement but for the 4-hour workday. Especially since evidence shows we can provide decent living standards for >8 billion people with only 30% of our current resource and energy use. www.rankandfile.ca/the-nine-hou... #CDNPoli
LOL I did!!!!! But honestly, let's run with it.
The lightning-fast deal reached after CUPE flight attendants courageously defied the back-to-work order proves the point: Air Canada had zero incentive to negotiate seriously while counting on federal intervention to steamroll workers' rights. @cupescfp.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
To be fair, so do the Liberals and the NDP. All of our major political parties are pro-corporation and anti-people to different degrees. Which is why we need a socialist alternative.
10 years (a whole DECADE!) since my 1st trip to Fogo Island and the 1st field-season of my MSc. This was a foundational experience for who I have become today, and I'll be forever grateful for the mentorship I received from my supervisor @brettfavaro.bsky.social & all the fishermen I worked with.
Group launches greenwashing complaint with securities watchdog against Enbridge, Cenovus #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/n...
The Alberta government doesn't have money to help support people with disabilities, meanwhile they're proposing to give BILLIONS in taxpayer money to delinquent oil & gas companies to let them dodge their cleanup obligations. #ABLeg #ABPoli
We need to end ALL unpaid work, and I would argue that includes time/resources needed to get to and from someone's place of employment. We barely have enough free time for ourselves, and wealthy companies should compensate workers for ANY time needed to do their job. #CDNPoli
Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the grid. After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage. grist.org/energy/hundr... #climate #Batteries #EV #Energy #Texas #TX
Carney government’s decision to intervene in Air Canada flight attendants’ strike backfired with public, new polling suggests Canadians overwhelmingly sided with flight attendants over Air Canada and Mark Carney’s government – including Carney’s own supporters
Stoked to publish the draft agenda & registration info for UCalgary Faculty of Law's "Closure Liabilities in the Energy Sector" conference, which will be held this fall (October 2-4, 2025). To maintain a workshop vibe, non-presenter registration is being *limited* to 30. Go to eur.cvent.me/KbDnxE
Alberta is making changes to its highly scrutinized COVID vaccine program to make shots free of charge for health care workers, but the majority of Albertans will still have to pay out of pocket. #abpoli #ableg
About 30 of us gathered at the Harry Hays building in #yyc today to say: stop pouring $$ into pipelines + carbon capture. We showed up because our kids deserve a liveable future. Let’s invest in wind, water, solar + battery storage. 🌍 💚 @coreyhogan.ca #cdnpoli #ForOurKids
IMO, when [most] people say post-covid, what they really mean is post-care.
As Jody points out, the Alberta govt using the energy "War Room" to defend its Mature Asset Strategy should tell us something about who the strategy is intended to serve. The war room doesn't defend landowners or taxpayers, it serves the oil & gas industry. #ABLeg #ABPoli @jemphatically.bsky.social
The energy war room is late to the game, but they’re now joining the push to convince us that a plan to shift responsibility for the costs of old oil & gas sites to the public is cool. /more jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/the-war-ro... #ableg #cdnpoli #orphanwells #polluterpays #climate #environment
I mean it's not a new phenomenon. Marx and Engels published Capital Vol. 1 in 1867 which showed how companies tend to reinvest their surplus into fixed capital (automation, machines, technology) instead of variable capital (labour). But most Albertans don't understand political economy.
There's no better place than Calgary, heart of our Alberta Petro-State, to stand against taxpayer dollars going to wealthy #oilandgas companies. Tomorrow at noon. @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social @johnvaillant.bsky.social @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social #ClimateActionNow
That is a crazy stat, a nearly doubling of production while simultaneously halving employment
Labour relations is the process by which bosses and workers determine what workers will do. It is literally the backbone of commerce and citizenry.
As @drewyewchuk.bsky.social notes, the orphan well problem in Alberta continues to grow and will do so until the AER establishes an orphan fund levy at a rate that is consistent with the legislation. #ableg #abpoli
The latest inflation data for car & home insurance, by province. Alberta absolutely in a league of its own here.
Attention Albertans. Oil & Gas doesn't ❤️ you back. A new report from @pembina.org shows that oil & gas employment has dropped 43% since 2012 (per barrel of oil produced), despite a 47% increase in production during that same period. www.pembina.org/pub/drilling... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
I also feel like many "left" leaning or "progressive" spaces can be VERY unwelcoming to people who don't meet their purity tests. IMO the point isn't to have identical beliefs, but to be committed to some sort of shared activity.
Tylene Appel asked Pierre Poilievre about the riding’s $1.5 billion well cleanup problem. He dodged the question. therockies.life/letter-aband...
I'm glad to be here in Didsbury for a panel discussion with Q&A hosted by @c4re-for-ab.bsky.social . The provincal Gov't must not be allowed to slide cleanup costs from oil & gas onto farmers, ranchers, landowners and taxpayers. @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social
Our provincial government has seemingly limitless $$$ for handouts to profitable oil & gas companies and their wealthy CEOs. Meanwhile, they continue to defund our public services and other crucial community supports. #ABLeg #ABPoli
Breaking: Turning Point in Red Deer to close bulk of its programming as Alberta government pulls its funding in favour of "alternative delivery models." 1/ 🧵 @vancan19.bsky.social story: rdnewsnow.com/2025/08/14/r...
Anytime you hear about another UCP cut to social services, remember that our provincial govt is planning to push >$60 BILLIONS in unpaid oil & gas cleanup costs onto Alberta taxpayers this fall. The "Mature Asset Strategy" will let companies off the hook for cleanup at OUR expense. #ABLeg #ABPoli
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
Thank you!!!
‘Berta friends: don’t forget that today’s the day you can pre-order your COVID vaccine. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
REQUEST FOR HELP: Alberta/Mapping friends, does anyone know where I can find a shapefile with the boundaries of Treaty 7 territory? Need it for a mapping project. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
"Like any unaccountable bureaucracy, NGOs can begin to operate in their own self-interest. That does not always happen, but often enough, the survival and growth of the organization becomes its primary purpose." jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...
I find it fascinating how many Americans are still arguing over Harris being a better option than Trump -- the proof of what Harris would have done is laid bare in Canada with Carney. It's Trump lite, and he's setting up the pins for an absoutely more brutal Conservative swing back in 3 years.
If the energy war room is for it, then you know something's being hidden, left out, or manipulated. The war room is a propaganda mill. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
The FOIPs that compose this scoop from @drugdatadecoded.ca cost him more than $1K. If you have the means, support his vital work. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
SCOOP 🧵 Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
The Alberta government’s 2023 renewables moratorium may have done lasting damage. New data from @pembina.org shows Alberta’s renewables queue just hit a 4-year low. A steep drop for the province that once led Canada in new clean energy capacity.
Under neoliberalism, the fetishism of quantity & the ideology of growth has come to dominate care, education & scholarship, to the detriment of all these sectors, while the quantity of waste has become increasingly deadly for large segments of the world population. monthlyreview.org/2025/07/01/c...
🚩Old Alberta coal mines are polluting rivers and endangering wildlife, says a new study by government scientists. The study is "a warning flag" for future coal projects in the province, says a former Alberta government scientist in charge of environmental monitoring. www.cbc.ca/1.7599449🌎 #abpoli
Canada, we have a problem. Hundreds of thousands of aging and inactive oil + gas wells are polluting our land/air/water + threatening our health. This is unfinished business that must be tackled with smart policy. Check out this great report by @pembina.org on the issue.👇 @cape-acme.bsky.social
Agreed!
Given the number of inactive wells on the landscape, the report highlights a need for policies that "disincentivize long-term well inactivity." Yet the AB govt's proposed Mature Asset Strategy risks leaving many wells unreclaimed AND shifts the burden for cleanup onto taxpayers. #ABLeg #ABPoli [2/n]
A new report from @pembina.org found that half of the suspended wells in AB & BC have been suspended for >10 years. These wells leak methane & other pollutants into the the air & water, with some serious leaks unresolved for years or decades. [1/n] 🧵 www.pembina.org/pub/unfinish... #ABLeg #CDNPoli
#Alberta paid $30M+ in land rents for delinquent oil & gas companies in 2024, according to media reports this week. It’s just one of the financial, health and safety risks posed by the 500K+ unused wells across Canada. More in our new report 👇 1/2 buff.ly/Fhcc7YZ
Beach bodies are OUT. Bog bodies are IN. We just wanna rot.
Farmers are losing their livelihoods due to lack of water, Indigenous communities are raising alarms, but this municipality in northern Alberta is full steam ahead on hosting the largest AI data centre on Earth. www.theenergymix.com/alberta-muni... #ableg #cdnpoli #water #drought #AIdatacenters
In related news: Another MASSIVE subsidy is incoming if Albertans don't stand up and tell our govt NO. Alberta's "Mature Asset Strategy" threatens to let oil & gas companies walk away from $60 BILLION worth of unpaid cleanup costs, putting taxpayers and our public services at risk. #ABLeg #CDNPoli
People claim oil and gas in Canada isn't subsidized, but that's not true. Governments give away billions each year to hugely profitable companies through direct funds, tax breaks, preferential financing and more (including a pipeline). An explainer. #ableg #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/oil-and-gas-...
Do you think that disrupting a cinema takes the same effort and tactics as disrupting a genocide? We are talking about different things here. The freedom convoy shut down Ottawa, and in doing so they got what they wanted. A country that abandoned public health and safety measures during a pandemic.
Why do you think that disruption is easy?
Preach. "Leftwing debate is never only about theory. It must be about theory and practice. It’s about how well we can apply the theory that we have learned through studying leftwing philosophies to the things that we try to achieve..." noraloreto.substack.com/p/anonymity-... @nolore.bsky.social
New research by @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social and @world-beyond-war.bsky.social shows that Canadian companies sent 175,000 bullets to Israel in April. This can't be allowed to continue. Arms embargos, cancelling trade deals, expelling diplomats—we laid out some options to break Canadian complicity👇
Many left-leaning Canadians are quick to dunk on right-wing groups like the freedom convoy w/o realizing they are out organizing us. I may disagree with the convoy's goals, but at least when they got pissed off they became disruptive. Where are the groups blockading Ottawa for Palestine? #CDNPoli
At this point, has Mark Carney made any decisions that Pierre Poilievre wouldn't? So far he's playing nice with Trump, promising massive cuts to federal programs so he can spike military spending, and passing multiple bills of dubious constitutionality. An absolutely deplorable record so far.
Damning. A new report is exposing hundreds of Canadian arms shipments to Israel. I’ll be covering this today. The press conference should be starting any minute now. armsembargonow.ca/report/
A new report exposes Canada's role in supplying weapons to Israel for its genocide in Gaza, contradicting claims by the federal govt that it stopped supplying weapons to Israel. For nearly 2 years, Canada has misled the public about its role in Israel's genocide. armsembargonow.ca/report/ #CDNPoli
This is a fucking joke, we can't let disabled Albertans keep 200$ from the federal government, and we are forcing people on aish to apply for the tax credit, which can 400$ for the doctor to fill out the paperwork so we can take it away 🤬 #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #yql
if anybody suggests I should be revived by AI please sue them into oblivion on my behalf. when I'm dead I want to be dead you don't get to enjoy me beyond my time on this planet. feel free to use this post in the lawsuit
What's worse is that the Alberta govt is treating non-payment by delinquent companies as a given and including payment on their behalf in our provincial budget. The 2025-28 fiscal plan includes "$25 million per year for surface rights compensation payments previously not included in budgets" #ABLeg
When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay rent they owe to landowners where they have wells, the Alberta government pays it for them. The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024
Alberta spent $150M in public money since 2010 & $30M in 2024 alone covering unpaid compensation to landowners for delinquent oil and gas companies. This problem will only grow the longer Alberta delays making O&G companies clean up their inactive wells. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... #ABLeg #ABPoli
Grandfather of 6 challenges senior advisor to Danielle Smith over conflicts of interest, sole-sourced contracts worth nearly a half a million dollars. It’s another ethics scandal. My latest story. #ableg #cdnpoli #orphanwells #fossilfuels #polluterpay www.theenergymix.com/ethics-compl...
It's been strange seeing people react positively to the ICJ's new climate ruling when the ICJ also ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent acts that violate the genocide convention, and yet the genocide continues apace. Without any sort of meaningful enforcement, ICJ rulings are meaningless.
NEW: The Canadian military is awarding 2 contracts worth a total of $169 million to an American company whose subsidiary a federal jury found legally responsible for the abuse of three Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib prison. www.readthemaple.com/canada-award...
Part 2 is from this article: "And if Albertans think they pay too many taxes, they might look to the revenue-rich oilpatch to help with the load. Last year, the contribution of Alberta taxpayers to the provincial coffers was $3 billion higher than bitumen royalties." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Link to part 1 here: www.linkedin.com/posts/martin...
Landowner Calls for Probe Into Alberta Energy Regulator Board Member Over Conflict of Interest www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Tf... #ABLeg #ABPoli
$150M is bad, but it's also pennies when you consider the incoming bill of $60B-$130B worth of unfunded oil and gas cleanup that the government is planning to pass onto taxpayers (which threatens our public services). #ABLeg
I would say that this is more of an issue of capitalism than it has anything to do with bipartisan electoral politics. When laws and regulations threaten profit growth they will be thrown aside by whoever is in power to ensure the continued profit of corporations.
This isn't a UCP specific issue. Royalties weren't touched by the Alberta NDP during their time in power either.
Continued here: bsky.app/profile/phil...
Oil & gas companies in CAD posted $150B in profits over the past 5 years (2021-2024 inclusive). That's profits, not revenue. In 2024 alone, companies paid out more than $13B in shareholder buybacks & dividends. We don't need austerity budgets when we can make polluters pay. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
All this to say that we CAN and we SHOULD be getting substantially more from these companies than we currently receive. Oil and gas companies should be held accountable to pay for cleanup, AND we should increase royalties so that we can redistribute the money to fund our public services. #ABLeg
Two things Albertans should know about oil & gas royalties. 1) Since 1970, AB has received $335B in royalties, meanwhile there are $320B (w/ inflation) in unfunded O&G liabilities. Essentially erasing what we received. 2) In 2024, taxpayers contributed $3B MORE than we received in royalties. #ABLeg
A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG
If you want the Alberta Ethics Commissioner to investigate conflicts of interest by David Yager, sign up here. It’s fast and easy! Flag David Yager’s potential conflicts of interest to Alberta’s ethics watchdog - Ecojustice | Ecojustice ecojustice.ca/take-action/...
The Premier's own hand-picked special advisor is at the heart of a conflict of interest complaint after multiple sole-sourced contracts. Did we mention he also sits on the board of Alberta's Energy Regulator? Albertans deserve better.
Today, Dwight demanded an investigation into potential conflicts of interest in the #MatureAssetStrategy process. Conflicts of interest at high levels of public administration are against the law. And it’s in your power to flag them. Take action now 👉https://bit.ly/46jfb07 Footage: CTV’s W5
On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾 the team trace a brief history of Canadian nationalisms, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project, in order to better understand the current moment of rising nationalist sentiment. albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/e... 🔶
"Mature Asset Strategy" - heard of it? It's another devious slam to landowners and the Alberta public by....who else? The GoA. crowsnestheadwaters.substack.com/p/mature-ass... #ABleg #ABPoli