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The info and privacy commish has opened 3 reviews into if the province followed ATI rules in withholding from me the early results of Alberta Next surveys OIPC involvement led GOA to release pension survey data to me, 21 months after I first asked edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #ableg #abpoli
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After tornadoes and fires, corporate speculators swarm disaster zones with cash offers, stripping families of generational homes. It’s disaster gentrification: exploiting trauma to flip land, displace the poor, and profit off climate catastrophe.
Worst abuser of our taxdollars ever! #StornawayStowaways bought a seat in Alberta! PP is a loser in Ontario, gtfo. imo
He who squatted in a taxpayer-funded mansion and forced a $2 million by-election attacked the PM's spending vt.tiktok.com/ZSAc89fau/
Wow, Don Braid is not mincing words. "School boards will now require proof that a kid was female at birth. Critics call this a gross invasion of privacy. More broadly, social laws that encourage people to formally rat on each other can have ugly consequences. They’re a prime tool of dictatorships."
FACTS: "So far in 2025, U.S. economy has added fewer than 600,000 jobs. Excluding the Covid-19 pandemic, that’s “the fewest for the first eight months of the year since 2009" -per WSJ This is ALL Trump! His tariffs are killing us. Under Biden in 2024, 2.2 million jobs created w/ 186,000 per month
The U.S. added only 22,000 jobs in August and unemployment hit a four-year high at 4.3 percent. A June revision showed a net job loss, ending a historic expansion and exposing Trump’s stalled economy.
53% of Canadian Women say the Conservative Party is ANTI-WOMAN. Up 16% from 2016. #cdnpoli
Mary Trump warns her uncle’s confusion mirrors their grandfather’s Alzheimer’s. She says untreated psychiatric disorders now collide with physical decline, leaving a paranoid, cruel president unraveling in public view.
This is what Poilievre wants to bring to Canada! #cdnpoli Crops Rotting in Fields With Undocumented Farmworkers Gone. foodinstitute.com/focus/crops-...
So much winning.
#boycottflorida
"When the Court says Trump is above the law, who speaks for the eleven dead on that boat? Their lives ended not in a battlefield crossfire or a clash between nations, but at the whim of one man emboldened by six justices who declared him untouchable."
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!
What’s happening in Fulton County Georgia right now impacts all of us when we go to the polls in 2026 and 2028. We owe it to ourselves & our country to stay informed. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Trump eyes control of New York’s 9/11 memorial, a sacred site built by families and survivors. Federal seizure would erase local stewardship and bend history into his propaganda while victims’ voices are sidelined.
⬇️⬇️ This is exactly right. It has ALWAYS been a scam. Always.
Alberta's unemployment rate is so high because the UCP's #1 job creation scheme is trickledown economics They give a tax cut to corporations & expect the wealth to trickledown to us as jobs This has been around for 50yrs & it has NEVER worked It's just a scam for conservative donors #ableg
I sat down with @MichaelAnsara.bsky.social, a leading activist & community organizer in the 1960’s & 70’s. We discussed his new book, “The Hard Work of Hope,” and lessons learned from the 60’s that can help to defeat fascism in America today. Have a listen.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
This article eviscerates Premier Danielle Smith in #Alberta. Please Advise! Albertans Are in Quite a Mood, Eh? Premier Smith’s town halls are airing mass deportations and seceding. Yikes? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent. As eager as we are to forget, #COVID19 is still with us, and we need to mitigate our risk, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
Epstein files are real.... This is a hoax....👇🏼
This is the kind gaslighting by politicians we’re seeing more of lately. If it WERE about “building a city that makes sense for everyone” then actual EVIDENCE supports building MORE safe infrastructure that would provide MORE choices. Instead he’s lying to try to make people resent people on bikes.
ICE raids are in product manufacturing plants, employees in fields, landscapers, hotels, construction sites, food vendors, churches and schools. There are not thousands of gang members or criminals found. It’s Trump & Stephen Miller’s fruitless search. MAGA was duped @cnn.com @msnbc.com @latimes.com
JUST THE FACTS: Nebraska voted 59.32% in favor of Trump. Now his policies are DESTROYING them. Migrant farm labor fled, China withheld $2 billion in soybean orders, residents face a $15 BILLION net loss, with $350 million gone from its tax base… So much winning! Enjoy. 😎✨
An orthopedic surgeon from Saskatchewan who recently returned from an assignment in Gaza is urging Canada to take stronger action. globalnews.ca/news/1139575...
Internal PMO polls show huge support for major hydro, road, port projects. #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1139186...
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My doctor is an immigrant. My dentist is an immigrant. The surgeon that performed my colonoscopy is an immigrant. Many of the people who provide me with services, daily, are immigrants. I am not Native, I am an immigrant. You, Pierre, and your wife, are immigrants. Shut the fuck up already!
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was singled out by Washington, D.C.
youtu.be/kQOXb0yTvFM?... #Canada #PMCarney
Epstein convicted. Maxwell convicted. Calling this a hoax is beyond disgraceful.
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians.
IMHO I don't envy the position that we voters put Carney in... things are probably far worse when it comes to dealing with Trump than we'll ever know. "Carney unveils billions in funding, Buy Canada policy to combat Trump's tariffs" #canada #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Carney #USCanada
Truth #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #abpoli #BattleRiver-Crowfoot
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
So, which CEO will score the final rose? Tune in next time for The Bachelor: White House Edition. 🌹 Read the full article: www.wired.com/story/tech-c...
And the Platinum GOP Lame Asshole Award goes to: Mitch McConnell. 2 Impeachments. 2 clear shots to stop the Orange Menace dead in his tracks. But no. It was more important to stack the Fed Courts and SCOTUS with Federalist fascists than anything else. Mitch is THE enabler. Spare us the bullshit.
They simply won’t let him be. During an immigration court hearing on Thursday, the Trump administration cautioned that if Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia succeeds in reopening his asylum case in the U.S., officials will move forward with efforts to send him back to El Salvador.
I'm very sorry. It's not the America that I thought I grew up in.
BREAKING: Trump's Fed Nominee just confirmed to @reed.senate.gov that he will NOT resign from the White House while serving at the Fed. President Trump is trying to take over the Fed and install his lackeys. Trump's takeover would make life far more expensive for American families.
Over 100K CT residents could lose Medicaid coverage. What towns may be hit hardest?... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/467uA1A
I just visited Naval Station Great Lakes that Trump is letting DHS use as they prepare to invade Chicago. The Navy cooperated and took the time to answer our questions. Trump’s DHS locked the doors and fled. That’s not how you act when you’re doing something legal.
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Trump said that he was fighting every day to "reverse" the economic damage that he blamed on his predecessor. The cost of electric is rising twice as fast as inflation. Eggs are still expensive. Gas is expensive. Tariffs are wreaking havoc. Now obeying lobbyists to hurt us even more. #Pinks
One of the first visible signs of President Donald Trump’s expected immigration-enforcement push went up overnight in downtown Chicago in the form of 10-foot high fencing surrounding the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in the Loop.
A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.
Trump and Republicans got rid of the CFPB's $5 cap on overdraft fees, allowing big banks to keep raking in profits off of struggling Americans. So just how much money are banks taking from consumers with these predatory fees? @sanders.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, and I are finding out.
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
Quebec City celebrates being tapped to host women's world hockey championship, world juniors 2027 will mark the first time #Quebec City hosts the women's world championship www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The FCC just voted to strip access to hotspots & Wi-Fi on school busses for millions of Americans without reliable home internet. Just as school begins, Republicans are cutting off the connectivity students and seniors depend on—while doing NOTHING to lower broadband costs in return.
Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.
The Trump administration is LYING about how long people are stuck waiting for help with their Social Security benefits. I pressed the Social Security Commissioner and got him to agree to an independent investigation. Instead of fudging the numbers, do your job and help people.
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
“Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally…that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used & understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.” Judge Kaplan, 2023 There’s a sexual predator in the WH.
I can’t even. 🤦🏻♀️
Keep an eye on this potential settlement. Google could pay $$$ to Donald Trump to settle a dubious lawsuit all while Trump’s Justice Department tries to break up Google’s monopoly. This could be another example of how giant corporations are enabling Trump’s authoritarianism.
Prices are up just in time for back to school. Thanks, Donald Trump.
"Mr. Putin is the cause of this war—he's the reason for the killing. He is not going to dictate the terms of the peace," says PM Carney when asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin's rejection of a proposal for Western troops being deployed in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. #cdnpoli
DoD Sec Pete Hegseth (fascist felon Donald Trump conspirator) bragged: "We smoked a drug boat & there's 11 narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean." LOGIC 101: It's more likely the speedboat was trafficking humans than smuggling drugs. www.reuters.com/world/americ... Impeach Trump!
READ MORE >> www.kshb.com/life/money/s... An estimated 2.4 million fewer Americans will collect food stamps in what's considered the largest cut to SNAP in history. (Photo: Allison Dinner/AP)
The fucking secdef saying “we smoked a drug boat” is one of the most disgustingly pathetic things I’ve ever heard.
Umm … it’s pretty stupid.
Can’t wait for that moron to be hauled before the international criminal court at The Hague!
Judge Dismisses Newsmax’s Lawsuit Against Fox News Just Days After It Was Filed
While many Democrats have bowed to Trump’s power grabs, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker stands out for his willingness to fight back. “Turning America fascist will be much more difficult if blue states learn from Gov. Pritzker.” From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/dM2B8z7
Is war with Venezuela the ultimate goal?
One of the few remaining serious journalists at Fox News asks a very good question about reports that Hegseth just had 10 *stealth fighters* deployed to Puerto Rico allegedly for "counter-narcotics."
In 2021, PS110 teacher Matthew Jensen was killed in a hit-and-run on McGuinness Blvd, the site of countless injuries and deaths. Led by @emilyassembly.bsky.social + Make Mcguinness Safe, Greenpointers thought they had won a street redesign — until Adams admin corruption halted work.
The Department of Transportation is killing a proposed Biden administration rule that would have required airlines to provide cash refunds to passengers whose flights were significantly disrupted—handing airlines a huge victory.
I also read that there is no way that boat could make it 1,000 nautical miles to the US. They mentioned some technical things that are over my head, but I did understand gas being an issue.
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
🚨GREAT NEWS! California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii have created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.” New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
And seeking the Nobel Peace prize after sending a missile into a boat and killing 11 people in international waters? Yeah, right!
Why, though? 🤡
Please share: Orangeburg Co. animal shelter asks for help to find homes for 30 surrendered dogs share.google/odOhCQFof1OZ... #adopt #foster #orangeburg #southcarolina
Chicago, protesters have gathered outside the ICE facility where detainees will be "processed" throughout the upcoming DHS surge. A vehicle with a masked agent inside arriving for work reversed and turned around after activists and clergy planted themselves across the driveway.
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
🚨 The Ministry of Health has confirmed an #Ebola outbreak in Kasai, #DRC. We're deploying rapid response teams to support health workers & help contain the outbreak alongside local partners. https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IntlMedCorps-DRC_Ebola2025_SitRep01.pdf
Maybe if you didn't shut down battery factories with ICE raids you'd be able to store the energy.
Another ICE agent has arrived for work. One masked agent inside the unmarked car. No detainees. Protesters and clergy immediately move into the driveway. Broadview police move in and are asking people to move out of the way.
Another statement by the Trump Energy Secretary that is remarkable for its sheer stupidity.
Such a petty minded man-child!
Trump hates Kemp. This is trump’s way of personally attacking him. Georgia tax payers invested in this plant.
Removing a dictatorship is much harder than preventing one. substack.com/@garrykaspar...