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Chelsea Shields

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 14/09/2026
Canada wants proof that government can still get things done. Mark Carney’s answer? Pipelines, investment, and development. But writer Stewart Prest warns that if younger and marginalized Canadians are left behind, populist backlash may return. ow.ly/wWu950ZN3jy
On the left: a mirrored image of two Mark Carneys; the righthand Carney is blue, and the lefthand is red. On the right: text that reads “Canada’s most popular Conservative is Mark Carney. His economic agenda has scrambled the political map. The question is how long it can last”
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Danielle Smith and the UCP haven’t delivered a single triage physician in seven months. Another promise broken. Instead of fixing our overcrowded emergency rooms, Danielle Smith is focused on separatism and funneling more money into private health care.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“The problem with the distinct society notion in Alberta is that based on actual evidence, it’s preposterous. There simply is no evidence that Alberta is culturally different from the population of any other English-speaking Canadian province.” #abpoli albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/gett...
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Getting lawyers to wear cowboy hats for 10 days every July is the closest Alberta’s going to get to a ‘distinct legal tradition’ - Alberta Politics
Sorry folks, but encouraging Calgary lawyers to dress up in cowboy hats and Cuban heels like extras on the set of Yellowstone for 10 days every July does not a distinct society make. What’s more, it’s...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Very compelling article by @johnvaillant.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...
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What Happens When the World is on Fire
"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“Anesthesiologists, and in some cases surgeons, have been preferentially assigned to work in chartered surgical facilities over public hospitals, including in response to political influence exerted by CSF owners.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
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Rakhi Pancholi @pancholirakhi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Danielle Smith is a separatist Premier, and the UCP is a separatist party. They don't even believe in democracy. They don't respect our rights. This whole thing is a sham, and we won't stand for it. youtube.com/shorts/4ZvCg...
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WTH just happened in there! UCP CONFIRMED A SEPARATIST PARTY!
YouTube video by Rakhi Pancholi
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...
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Clarke Ries: How two Alberta judges shot separatist delusions to death
(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.)
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Pissing away oil booms is practically a shared pastime in Alberta. But the cost of pissing this latest -- and last-- one away will be higher than all the other ones combined. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/12/o...
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We’re in the midst of the last oil boom. Alberta is already pissing it away
Alberta should be using the windfall from the war in Iran to prepare for the future. Instead, it's busy trying to recreate the past.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My take on the BS from Alberta separatists: thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... So many harmful lies. For example, there is nothing subtle about how Alberta separatists scapegoat immigrants. To call this language a dog whistle is an insult to dog whistles. And the embrace of the "cowboy" myth?
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus
The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 16/04/2026
They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process. It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance. You know, real conservatives.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
UCP is O&G. "..Pembina’s Business Renewables Centre-Canada (BRC) reported that the moratorium had cancelled 8,600 megawatts of renewable generation, enough to power every home in Alberta, costing mostly rural municipalities across the province about $91 million per year in local tax revenue."
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I made an archive of articles on our political crises. Special sections for Epstein and AI! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/weathering...
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Weathering the Storm
How did we get here? How do we get out? Take a dive into the archive!
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/03/2026
Smith says she's cutting access to social support programs because she "heard that people were moving here just to be on social programs." This sort of hearsay framing is a dangerous rhetorical device employed by populists. Consider Donald Trump. +
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rakhi Pancholi made it very clear today… She believes that Smith’s rhetoric is absolutely fueling racism and bigotry in Alberta and called out her failure to condemn Bruce McAllisters recent bigoted comments. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 06/02/2026
Another year, another record high for Canadian oil and gas production. At some point, the oil and gas industry and its various proxies might want to face up to the fact that Liberal governments are actually good for their business, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
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Justin Trudeau never killed the oil and gas industry
The former prime minister's supposed hostility towards Alberta's defining industry is an article of faith among Canadian Conservatives. The facts tell a much different story.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/01/2026
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There are hundreds of emerg and internal medicine physicians who are currently pleading for emergency actions and provincial coordination of care to allow them to return to some semblance of functional care… But it appears the govt doesn’t believe their distress call. 12/12
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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Just reading @iandunt.bsky.social New Year's Resolutions. Do take a look; it's not only funny but moving - and the last two paragraphs really are words to live by this year.
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New Year's Resolutions for 2026
How to change your life.
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Richard Einarson 🇨🇦 @richardeinarson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week. Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca #ableg #abpoli #canpoli
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Today, government introduced Bill 9 legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to override a court ruling that protects youth access to gender-affirming care. This places government between a patient and their physician, undermining clinical autonomy. www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The rubble that Israel made of Gaza: “If you built a 12-metre wall around Central Park and filled it with rubble, that’s the amount that needs to be removed.” And it’s full of unexploded ordnance. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza
Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it! www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!
Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“Why are Albertans not more upset when trust is taken for granted? When leaders gamble with your future?” Chief Sheldon Sunshine of the Sturgeon Lake Cree has issued a public call to action for Albertans to find their voices. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2025
an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee 

“Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2025
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/08/2025
Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams
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Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams
Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 20/08/2025
Summer used to be the season we waited all year for, but this year Canada has faced drought, extreme heat and wildfire from coast to coast. Sadness at what's lost is understandable, @balkissoon.bsky.social writes. But what if we tapped into our rage — or love — instead? thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep...
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I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal
Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/08/2025
“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/08/2025
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who revived her ailing political career by peddling conspiratorial COVID theories, has designed a program that is not only punitive but discriminatory, bureaucratic and Soviet in nature, writes Andrew Nikiforuk. #abcovid #abpoli
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Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee
The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
4 Ministries, 4 Agencies, burgeoning numbers of separate orgs, 7 corridors, 14 advisory councils, 1000s of clinical service providers... AND ABSOLUTELY NO Integrated Operational Control of any of these entities. NONE NADA "Chaos" is being kind... buff.ly/VvOLqjk
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
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First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 08/05/2025
What’s at the heart of Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s separation rhetoric? Oil. Her position, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes, has been driven since the outset by the Free Alberta Strategy. It's a plan to back oil and gas — even if it means breaking up Canada. thenarwhal.ca/free-alberta...
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Alberta separatism plan is really about oil | The Narwhal
The Free Alberta Strategy has driven Danielle Smith’s government from the outset, a plan to back oil and gas even if it means breaking up Canada
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 22/04/2025
As Carney and Poilievre vie for votes, their promises to cut taxes for the middle class seem tailored to quell the anxieties of a middle class whose financial security is no longer a given. But the relief these pledges offer is momentary and could further tatter our social safety net.
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What Happened to Poverty as an Election Issue? | The Tyee
As politicians fixate on an anxious middle class, millions of Canadians are left out of the conversation.
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Kids suffering from cancer, being denied popsicles got the govt's attention... but sadly our seniors dying alone in our EDs, after days of being officially stranded and no in-pt care teams "responsible" doesn't seem to register. We desperately need to do better AB. 14/14
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/02/2025
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: In a statement in response to bombshell allegations that provincial officials improperly pressured Alberta Health Services to sign bad deals with private contractors, Danielle Smith took to social media Saturday to channel Richard Nixon and declare herself not a crook.
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Danielle Smith’s Troubling Response to AHS Corruption Allegations | The Tyee
The premier denies doing anything wrong, but doesn’t seek an independent inquiry.
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Richard Einarson 🇨🇦 @richardeinarson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Believe it or not, the Alberta government has quietly lifted the coal moratorium, once again exposing Eastern Slopes headwaters to exploitation and destruction. Join the fight to reverse this disastrous decision: saveourslopes.ca
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Restore Alberta's Coal Mining Ban Now
Against the overwhelming will of the people, the Alberta government has quietly lifted the coal moratorium, once again exposing these critical headwaters to exploration and destruction.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
My latest for the @theguardian.com: "These fires are a reckoning that begins with the question: Are fossil fuels liberating us, or holding us hostage?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #lafires
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We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant
We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🎪 Danielle Smith's puppet municipal political party has launched in Calgary 👎 ➡️https://www.projectcalgary.org/billionaires_first
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If you watch something today please take time to watch my thoughts on the crisis facing Canadian democracy. We are in deeply uncertain times and parliament is failing to step up beyond dumbed down partisanship. Democracy is not meeting the crisis of the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...
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Charlie Angus on State of Democracy In a Beavis/Butthead Parliament
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 03/12/2024
When will Pierre Poilievre’s free ride with Canadians end as he cruises toward taking over the country with a large majority? Michael Harris writes. #cdnpoli
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Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop | The Tyee
No more getting by with glib and shallow answers to these seven basic questions.
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