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Director of Public Art | Beltline Neighbourhoods Association. Host of the Palgary Almanac on CJSW 90.9 FM.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026
Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: In the @thestar.com, I wrote about how the most dangerous aspect of Alberta’s October referendum is the scapegoating of migrants for the province’s overcrowded schools and hospitals. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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The most worrying part of the Alberta referendum isn’t separatism
Nine questions are about immigration and immigrants.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Deciding … if this referendum and their actions constitutes treason requires us to understand its conspiratorial foundations, its connections to the global far right, and its malign intentions for the future of Canada.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read this in the context of the UCP's current scapegoating of immigrants. Alberta's Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. The plans include ramping up renewable energy from 55% to 80% of electricity generation by 2030. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045
Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest column is out today in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy, in which I explain how the “new climate denialism” is holding back progress in the fight of our lives, and how PM Mark Carney has become its lead practitioner. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Is Mark Carney a climate denier?
This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...
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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NDP Leader Avi Lewis says Carney’s government is “flooding the zone.” “We are in a crisis moment. We’re under economic attack from the United States and we need a crisis response,” Lewis said. 1/2
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#TellCarney #NoTreat&Release #StopSmith #IStandWithFortChip #StopSuncor #TarSands
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First Nations Chief threatens legal action against province if tailings water is released
The Chief said that the community is already suffering several cancer cases and the last thing they want is contaminated water supply.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026
I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Climate litigation against the Canadian government will be allowed to proceed 👏🏻 #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government dealt an early blow in climate litigation | CBC News
A federal court refused to strike down a climate lawsuit brought against the Carney government by Canadian youth.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 21/09/2026
The federal government tabled new legislation Monday to make sweeping changes to environmental and labour rules, in Mark Carney’s latest effort to remove what he sees as barriers to development in pursuit of his pro-growth agenda.
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Carney government tables sweeping bill to overhaul environmental and labour rules
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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Danielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale - Macleans.ca
The corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: I argue in the Globe that there’s less to Danielle Smith than meets the eye www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Danielle Smith is no separatist – she’s something even more dangerous
Smith isn’t the ideologue her opponents portray her as, but she is a power-seeking opportunist
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States. @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org
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Cricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
apple.news/An4LDiaz0SO-... That’s the brand, right Marlaina? 💀🪦 #SpeedLimits #UCP #ableg #abpoli
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Alberta on track to see the most traffic deaths in a decade: 'Disaster waiting to happen' — Global News
Alberta RCMP said based on historical trends, if the fatal collision pattern continues, 2026 could end with 274 deaths.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Water Not Coal has released a copy of a letter with concerns about Elections Alberta, including... - 2 directors being fired without cause - Multiple changes to how their petition was being verified mid process - A service manager & 4 supervisors quitting with concerns the process was compromised.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So there is in fact a "magic money tree", but it's not for fighting climate change or for public services.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: DeSmog looked at the companies behind 33 planned data centres in Alberta and found that less than one third could be data sovereign. buff.ly/SvjCnOH
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Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mark Carney is privatizing airports and allowing foreign investors (mainly American) to buy up the country. Slashing corporate tax rates and offering up vast amounts of resources for mining and extraction corporations. The country is for sale. Liberal voters were duped.
UST IN: Canada has announced to reduce marginal effective tax rate on new business investment to 6.4% from 13%, the lowest among the G7, and half the rate in the US, per the Globe and Mail

The changes will take effect right away and remain permanent.@sarobertson_
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Mark Carney on airport privatization: "We will seek private investment through long-term concessions to operate Canada's four largest airports, following best practice in other countries. The Government of Canada will retain ownership of the underlying land and assets."@KatusaResearch
Canada handed 300 of the world's biggest investors a 66-page pitchbook this week

▪️167 projects worth about US$425 billion

▪️63 of them are MINES

That's more than the clean energy, oil and gas, and data-centre chapters combined.
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tonight shows that Alberta's NDP is building huge momentum here in Calgary, and across the province. We know better is possible. The historic result in Calgary-Shaw proves it. Thank you to Kyle and to every single person who put in the work to get us here. /1
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 12/09/2026
The Alberta government is planning to take over the province's natural gas pipeline system to ensure tech companies and oil majors will have enough natural gas for their operations — even if it makes gas more expensive for Albertans, a leaked document reveals.
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Alberta could spend billions on public gas pipelines to fuel data centre boom, leaked document suggests
The document was presented at a Sept. 10 cabinet meeting by Energy Minister Brian Jean. It lays out an expansive plan to expand the province's natural gas network by bringing it under public ownership...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today's essential read for all Albertans. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-d...
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has an AI data centre masterplan | The Narwhal
Alberta mulls rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations, taking over natural gas supply systems, higher prices for consumers for AI data centre and oil push: leaked doc
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
VIRTUAL OPTION: For those not in Toronto, you can join the event livestream linked below. I’ll be in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, moderated by Shiri Pasternak. And OMG Carsie Blanton is stopping by before her show to kick us off with some revolutionary music!
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Rohadi @rohadi.com · 11/09/2026
More government handouts to friends of conservatives. The UCP are corrupt to the core and shame on any of you who continue to vote conservative thinking they're 'fiscally' responsible. Shame shame shame. By @drugdatadecoded.ca drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove... #abpoli #Ableg #cdnpoli
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Alberta government refuses to say why it gave millions to ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group incorporated in late 2022. By March 2023, it had $70 million in Alberta provincial funding. Now, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is deflecting requests for information...
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Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reaction to our scoop this morning on potential government plans to take control over natural gas pipelines in Alberta. With acknowledgement from the Alberta government. #abpoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oppo...
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Alberta’s alleged push for more AI data centres, oil and gas, sparks outrage | The Narwhal
‘For her foreign billionaire friends’: Opposition leader accuses Danielle Smith of possibly raising energy bills for AI data centres. Here’s a peek at the leaked doc he’s talking about
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: A leaked document indicates Alberta is considering rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations to take over the natural gas system and build new gas pipelines and taking on costly legal battles — in large part so AI data centres can have access to power, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
According to a leaked document, the government of Alberta is considering a massive overhaul of natural gas pipelines in the province, and billions in spending, to help drive an AI data centre boom. #abpoli #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-d...
thenarwhal.ca
Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last week, Smith posted on social media that “For every $1 of taxes a guest worker generates, taxpayers are covering $10 in services.” While this figure might ring true for many, it is far from accurate. I fact-checked Smith’s claims in my latest for @thetyee.ca
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Does Alberta Provide $10 in Services for Every $1 of ‘Guest Worker’ Taxes? | The Tyee
Ahead of a divisive referendum question, we fact checked Danielle Smith’s claims.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"These really contentious plans will give free rein to large polluters, put nature and species at risk, limit public participation and keep Canadians in the dark about the impacts to their health and safety. It's a huge abdication of responsibility from the feds."
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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is bullshit. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10/09/2026
Former and current staff at Ontario’s Ministry of Environment tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social that Bill 5, and the death of the Endangered Species Act, left them powerless in protecting at-risk species. “We were essentially silenced.”
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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Michael Janz @michaeljanz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Statement on the arena:
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 04/09/2026
Absolutely criminal www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...
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Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities
The oil giant won't need an environmental impact assessment before treating and dumping millions of litres of tar sand tailings into the Athabasca River.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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DANIELLE SMITH AND THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT IN GERMANY
The MAGA Maple crew are focused on replicating the dark success of the German Far Right in Canada. We need to know what we are up against.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'An American litigation funder is threatening to call in more than $100 million in alleged debt from Alberta separatist leader and lawyer Jeffrey Rath and his firm, Global News has learned.' globalnews.ca/news/1204911...
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Alberta separatist leader Rath faces $109M debt claim from US investors  | Globalnews.ca
An American litigation funder is threatening to call in more than $100 million in alleged debt from Alberta separatist leader and lawyer Jeffrey Rath and his firm
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
It was 20 years ago that I first heard of the devastating health impacts and cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan, home of the Mikisew Cree First Nation downstream from oil sands tailings "ponds”. 🧵 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...
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Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities
The oil giant won't need an environmental impact assessment before treating and dumping millions of litres of oilsand tailings into the Athabasca River.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
This is the government of Canada’s scientific finding. It is true. It is also a terrible message. Here’s what’s also true: 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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Changes to Canada's climate now 'irreversible,' federal report says
The impacts of climate change in Canada are now largely irreversible and average temperatures are expected to rise by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century, a new government report warns.
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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
26,000,000 Canadians. 930 communities. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, climate denial becomes impossible in a world on fire. There's still time to act. Phasing out fossil fuels needs to be humanity's primary mission www.theenergymix.com/26m-canadian...
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26M Canadians in 930 Communities Faced Climate Impacts So Far This Year, New Map Shows
More than 26 million Canadians in more than 930 communities, more than 60% of the population, have personally faced the impacts of climate change so far this year, the #ElbowsUp for Climate campaign r...
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
nightmare fuel the only way this level of carnage happens is because of high speeds isn't 17th ave sw a 40kph zone? www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Pedestrian injured in 17 Avenue S.W. crash, prompting road closure
A female pedestrian was badly injured in a crash on 17 Avenue S.W. on Wednesday.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 02/09/2026
NEW A months after incorporating, ROSC Solutions Group had over $70,000,000 in funding from Alberta's UCP government – despite senior officials knowing that the politically connected company was ineligible. Now, the UCP is stonewalling access to contract records. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...
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Alberta government refuses to disclose why it gave millions to ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group incorporated in late 2022. By March 2023, it had $70 million in Alberta provincial funding. Now, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is deflecting requests for information...
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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If cars can’t keep themselves off the sidewalk, maybe it’s time to accept that a 50 km/h speed limit is too fast for 17 Ave SW. 🤷‍♂️ #Yycwalk @natefor8.bsky.social
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's stuff like this that they are trying to distract everyone from by talking about bike lanes.
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than industry and governments may have expected
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BREAKING: West Coast Pipeline Won’t Recoup Its $43.7B Cost as Global Oil Demand Weakens
There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than ...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As Canada wonders why Danielle Smith seems more invested in advancing US national security priorities than Canadian... It's a good thing she never accepted the gift of a 19 day vacation from the US State Department on a program designed to do exactly that... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is awful. More incidents like this are inevitable the longer we let oil and gas companies delay (or avoid) the cleanup of aging and inactive infrastructure across the country. theijf.org/article/bc-c... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
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B.C. regulator let an oil company delay pipeline cleanup. Spills followed
CNRL has reported 45 incidents since 2020, when B.C. exempted thousands of its pipelines from normal clean-up timelines
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