Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 6hI hope next year we can buy orange long-sleeved shirts. By the time you get three layers on, there’s no sign of an orange t-shirt. 010
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 13hIf any Albertan is even slightly tempted to vote anything other than NO! to the first 9 referendum questions, run out and get yourself a copy of Marcello Di Cintio's PRECARIOUS: THE LIVES OF MIGRANT WORKERS (2025). Start reading, meet some workers, learn their stories. A powerful read, trust me. 120
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 14hlethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbri...lethbridgeherald.comActivist's effort delays major deforestation project in Crowsnest Pass — at least for a dayAlexandra Noad LETHBRIDGE HERALD Local Journalism Initiative Reporter One man’s act of bravery Tuesday has allowed trees to stand another day after he 110
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15hThis is a thrilling initiative. I would just love to participate in Indigenous-led plant knowledge tours (not for me to harvest, just to learn): www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca'Real reconciliation': Medicine trail partners Mi’kmaw communities, N.S. landowners | CBC NewsTrail is working with nine landowners to secure sites to harvest medicinal plants 150
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15hIf you're looking for Indigenous Literature to read this year, Richard Wagamese's One Story, One Song is a good starting point, plus his other books, especially his novel Medicine Walk. Tomson Highway's memoir Permanent Astonishment is fantastic. And Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Theory of Water. 154
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 29/09/2026My new book, “Dark Phoenix: The Rise, Fall, and Re-emergence of Danielle Smith,” is out two weeks from today! If you like my work on Alberta politics, please consider preordering it. Preorders are important in signalling demand to booksellers and media. Link below 👇👇👇 47024
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In addition to the obvious reasons such as suffering and deaths associated with the theft of our enviable Medicare system, I detest the theft by the UCP of public property and public infrastructure for private enrichment. 093
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam 151939585
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stepped outside with some recycling fir the blue bin and heard coyotes just to the west a kilometre or two, lucky me. 030
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Has Sam Mraiche started a rail line company? 64918
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just made another batch of Okanagan grape muffins because I’m in love with BC (or ON) coronation grapes. 🍇 The best grapes ever. 020
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You wouldn’t anticipate a govt that purports to cater to people who want “freedom” to dictate what Alberta students can study and tuition differentials based on their own imaginary job forecasts. 011
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I just finished reading Klein and Taylor’s End Times Fascism (2026), which contains significant material about the treatment of immigrants in the US, and am now moving on to Marcello Di Cintio’s Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers (2025, pbk) — for the Canadian context. 232
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m reading the conclusion to End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, and have been struck again and again by how much wealthy people abhor non-wealthy people deserving to earn a living. It’s as if being a billionaire is only meaningful if workers don’t struggle evento pay their bills. 020
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When I visited the Permian Basin last year—on a fact finding trip w members of the Mexican legislature—it felt like this had already happened. Massive machinery operating w/o oversight. Ongoing malfunctions, fires, unlit flares just pouring methane into the air. A ghost town emergency in process. 22711
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is an engaging article, or if you prefer check out the video in the middle of it: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caAs bear encounters rise in B.C., man uses motion-activated zombie to scare them away | CBC NewsMore than 33 bears have been killed by conservation officers in B.C. this year, including two that entered stores through automatic sliding doors in Hope and Squamish. It's led to creative solutions t... 110
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Need another reason NOT to buy US produce? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caWhistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC NewsA whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri... 031
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It might be a good idea to unplug it then. 191
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s not lack of sentiment but too much sediment from dams and landslides. Another intriguing fish story from The Tyee. 010
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm seeking an Indigenous student to do a masters or PhD with me, working on the Cape Churchill caribou project. Please reach out to me ryan.brook@usask.ca 0107
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Brian Jean - The AER is an arms length regulator! Also Brian Jean - I had the AER over for dinner! Also also Brian Jean - Here’s a roughly $20,000 raise for the board chair of the AER! Nothing to see here folks. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 1421197
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026With the separatist impulse polling at around 23% right now, I am reminded that that is very close to the number of Canadians are functionally illiterate, 19 - 25%. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caWith time running out, new poll suggests Alberta separatism support is slipping | CBC NewsWith a little more than three weeks to go until the Oct. 19 referendum, a new poll done for CBC News suggests support for separation has softened since spring. 363
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At Monterra Lakes [sloughs] it is the Year of the Coot. Hundreds of coots there yesterday, plenty of geese and only a very few other birds. 021
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m still reading End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World (p. 189), but kudos to writers Klein and Taylor for their courage in being able to look unflinchingly at the machinations and extreme manipulations of Big Oil, Big Data and Big Church and the interconnections among them. 120
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve just skimmed this but it looks as if it contains some good suggestions for schools, parents and businesses dealing with permanent daylight saving time. Sunrise is going to be just before 10 a.m. refdesk.ca/blog/alberta...refdesk.caAlberta's Move to Year-Round Daylight Time: What Families, Businesses, and Night-Shift Workers Should Do NowService Alberta Minister Dale Nally confirmed April 20, 2026 that Alberta will move to year-round daylight time, overriding the narrow 2021 referendum result that rejected the idea 50.2% to 49.8%. Leg... 043
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If Smith wanted to know what “Ulbertans,” as she calls us, think, she could read her letters and emails. And for free, not for $130 million. 000
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What is the #Nuvaxovid COVID vaccine and how is it different? @paulseaman.bsky.social and I have put together a comprehensive document summarizing the available information regarding the main differences between Nuvaxovid and the more common mRNA based #COVID vaccines. 🧪🧵1/ #Novavax #Vaccine 28638
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Quote: This data includes information on a fish’s parentage. “We can actually tell it came from those two parents, the age of the fish, what hatchery released it and any other data about the parents,” he said. 020
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦ConnieL 🟥🍁🟥🐝🌲 Living with COPD @connieskp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Anyone! Who values your free health care (up to now) needs to sign. Smith and Ford want to bring in the 2 tiered US style privatized version. We, the undersigned, People of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to Vigorously enforce the Canada Health Act www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...ourcommons.caSign this Petition - Petitions 0117
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦NDP @ndp.ca · 22/09/2026Today @avilewis.ca, MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social and labour leaders came together to send a clear message to Mark Carney: Canada's airports are not for sale. If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... 415871
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026No More Gods. The Case to Ban Artificial Superintelligence via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...thetyee.caNo More Gods. The Case to Ban Artificial Superintelligence | The TyeeA prescient computer scientist unpacks the frightening danger posed by self-directing AI bots. 021
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just read chapter 2 of End Times Fascism and learned about the extent of alliances between US and Israeli fundamentalists. But I can just barely force myself to read about the dead metaphors and other extreme manipulations of ordinary people by religious operatives. 🤢 110
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Premier Smith went down to Nashville [she claims] on a vacation [she claims], imbibed too much torch and twang, and came back maudlin, but with renewed energy for lying to and manipulating Albertans. 151
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Instead of a radio call-in show, she should have a soap opera. As the Stomach Turns would be a good title. 0101
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026by Myself and Dr. Roberta Lexier "We call on Premier Smith to do the right thing: Cancel the referendum until we fully understand the accusations surrounding EA. Start an investigation into what happened. And fully resource the organization entrusted with ensuring Alberta’s democracy."edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Cancel referendum in light of Elections Alberta controversyWe call on Premier Smith to do the right thing: Cancel the referendum until we fully understand the accusations surrounding EA. 214057
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026NEW: For @macleans.bsky.social, I wrote about how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is fusing corporate and state power to help build what I call the New Authoritarianism. macleans.ca/politics/dan...macleans.caDanielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale - Macleans.caThe corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government 617294
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just starting to read this book. www.indigo.ca/products/unt...indigo.caEnd Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein, (Hardcover) | IndigoOne of The Guardian's 'Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2026' • Quill & Quire Fall 2026 Nonfiction Pick • A CIBA Fall 2026 Pick A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Ch... 001
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yup. #ableg plennox.substack.com/p/the-chief-... Via @patricklennox.bsky.socialplennox.substack.comThe Chief Electoral Officer Must Postpone the Alberta ReferendumElections Alberta is in over its head 02416
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026People will cut out artificial food dyes, spend hours at the gym, drink vitamin infused water…and then go to the airport and rawdog breathing in an airborne pathogen that can disable you permanenty and is basically guaranteed to be there. 9411160
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of the professors (and writers, mentors, publishers, and friends) who profoundly influenced my life has just died, Dr. David Arnason. He was larger than life. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...winnipegfreepress.comLauded Manitoba author chronicled life in the InterlakeLongtime Manitoba author, editor and professor David Arnason died on Monday at age 86. 183
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026PM hired his wife. Just doing whatever he feels like doing. 200
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’m always shocked when I glimpse just how tiny a spirit someone can have. 100
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Patel: It was the sheep's fault. She shouldn't have worn that suggestive wool coat. 710124
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...thetyee.caNo, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The TyeeThe vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give. 053
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A colleague on traveling through a privatized airport: 1/2 010
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How does it make sense to pour additional money into defence while selling our airports? I don't want this, @mark-carney.bsky.social 031
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nicely written mini-essay on the fear that AI could decide to eliminate humans. lylel.substack.com/p/the-real-f...lylel.substack.comThe Real Fear: AI Is Like HumansAre humans frozen in the headlights? 000