Mark Lisac
@marklisac.bsky.social
writer in Edmonton, Alberta; retired journalist; CFL fan. www.marklisac.ca
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Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
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Example bonkers resolution passed at Alberta UCP AGM?
"...ensure that mRNA products are not being injected into our livestock or food sources..." cuz "...never been proven to be safe..."
Huh? Impressive display of scientific illiteracy & conspiratorial thinking...
"...ensure that mRNA products are not being injected into our livestock or food sources..." cuz "...never been proven to be safe..."
Huh? Impressive display of scientific illiteracy & conspiratorial thinking...
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Example bonkers resolution passed at Alberta UCP AGM?
"...ensure that mRNA products are not being injected into our livestock or food sources..." cuz "...never been proven to be safe..."
Huh? Impressive display of scientific illiteracy & conspiratorial thinking...
"...ensure that mRNA products are not being injected into our livestock or food sources..." cuz "...never been proven to be safe..."
Huh? Impressive display of scientific illiteracy & conspiratorial thinking...
' “I’ve got a little tip for low-life criminals out there: if you don’t want to get shot, don’t break into someone’s house,” Smith said during her speech.' Like that happens every day in Alberta. Blatant parroting of U.S. politics. And some may read it as encouraging use of lethal force.
"It would also protect Albertans defending themselves from intruders, she said."
The Federal government has exclusive jurisdiction to legislate criminal law.
#abpoli
#criminallaw
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The Federal government has exclusive jurisdiction to legislate criminal law.
#abpoli
#criminallaw
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta to present motion against federal firearm 'seizure' program: Smith | CBC News
Premier Danielle Smith said her government will introduce a motion next week, through provincial sovereignty legislation, to defy the federal gun buy-back program. Smith made the announcement Saturday...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
' “I’ve got a little tip for low-life criminals out there: if you don’t want to get shot, don’t break into someone’s house,” Smith said during her speech.' Like that happens every day in Alberta. Blatant parroting of U.S. politics. And some may read it as encouraging use of lethal force.
Yep, "the Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney." That's the reality that's always papered over. It's never been fully united, despite the name. There's a permanent struggle for dominance, with the old Wildrose faction usually in command, and the only glue is fear of the loss of power.
The Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney spawns a separatist monster in its ranks. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/the-...
The Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney spawns a separatist monster in its ranks - Alberta Politics
The Frankenparty stitched together in 2017 by Jason Kenney from the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives has spawned a monster. Hard-line Alberta separatists who were tolerated by Mr. Ken...
albertapolitics.ca
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yep, "the Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney." That's the reality that's always papered over. It's never been fully united, despite the name. There's a permanent struggle for dominance, with the old Wildrose faction usually in command, and the only glue is fear of the loss of power.
G&M story on start of UCP annual meeting says: "Friday’s event began with a sermon that included a moment of silence for U.S. political commentator Charlie Kirk … ." Tells where many of their heads are: not in Alberta, not in Canada, but captured in a twisted U.S. media and cultural space.
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
G&M story on start of UCP annual meeting says: "Friday’s event began with a sermon that included a moment of silence for U.S. political commentator Charlie Kirk … ." Tells where many of their heads are: not in Alberta, not in Canada, but captured in a twisted U.S. media and cultural space.
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You mean like how I was being medically gaslit by my UCP eye surgeon in Alberta and he refused to do one unless I paid out thousands out of pocket or got to bill #ableg gov't a premium?
Or charging $4800 for necessary contact lenses that only cost 25% in my new province and fully covered?😬 #abpoli
Or charging $4800 for necessary contact lenses that only cost 25% in my new province and fully covered?😬 #abpoli
NEWS: Alberta seeks to change existing drug coverage, allow physicians to work in public and private sectors
#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
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#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
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Alberta seeks to change existing drug coverage, allow physicians to work in public and private sectors
Alberta's government seeks to change existing drug coverage, while allowing physicians to work both in public and private sectors.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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As I wrote about the “peace” deal, it was a plan for Russia & the US to divide up resources that should go to Ukraine in a sweeping attempt to comprise American security
Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
As I wrote about the “peace” deal, it was a plan for Russia & the US to divide up resources that should go to Ukraine in a sweeping attempt to comprise American security
Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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AI: Confidently wrong?
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
AI Search Has a Citation Problem
We compared eight AI search engines. They’re all bad at citing news.
www.cjr.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
AI: Confidently wrong?
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
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⬇️ The 1 year anniversary of continuous protests in Georgia 🇬🇪 against the pro-🇷🇺 regime. Look at the enormous crowds on hand, despite arrests and even torture, to let the world know that they reject this regime’s illegitimate claim to power. 🇬🇪🇪🇺‼️
(via @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social; 📷 Levan Zazadze) 👇
(via @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social; 📷 Levan Zazadze) 👇
Tbilisi now.
Day 366 of uninterrupted protests. A full year of arrests, crackdowns, repressive laws, and fines.
The illegitimate, pro-Russian regime must end.
📷 Levan Zazadze
Day 366 of uninterrupted protests. A full year of arrests, crackdowns, repressive laws, and fines.
The illegitimate, pro-Russian regime must end.
📷 Levan Zazadze
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
⬇️ The 1 year anniversary of continuous protests in Georgia 🇬🇪 against the pro-🇷🇺 regime. Look at the enormous crowds on hand, despite arrests and even torture, to let the world know that they reject this regime’s illegitimate claim to power. 🇬🇪🇪🇺‼️
(via @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social; 📷 Levan Zazadze) 👇
(via @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social; 📷 Levan Zazadze) 👇
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This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
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WASH POST: “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed Hegseth’s order to leave no survivors.”
Lawless. Murder.
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Lawless. Murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
WASH POST: “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed Hegseth’s order to leave no survivors.”
Lawless. Murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Lawless. Murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
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Even now, thinking about himself
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Even now, thinking about himself
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How consumed by off-the-rails anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theories is the Alberta UCP?
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How consumed by off-the-rails anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theories is the Alberta UCP?
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
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US Ambassador to Canada: But let me tell you, I go around the country and people will say, “Pete, you just don’t understand why we’re so mad about the 51st state.” And it’s kind of like, “Yeah, you’re right. I don’t.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
US Ambassador to Canada: But let me tell you, I go around the country and people will say, “Pete, you just don’t understand why we’re so mad about the 51st state.” And it’s kind of like, “Yeah, you’re right. I don’t.
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Two main arguments keep on surfacing when I raise concerns about Dual Billing and the fact that at this point it is nothing more than a govt edict with no plan/specifics whatsoever
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Two main arguments keep on surfacing when I raise concerns about Dual Billing and the fact that at this point it is nothing more than a govt edict with no plan/specifics whatsoever
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Opinion: Why Alberta’s dual-practice model puts patients first
I want to express my support for the bold structural reforms the Alberta government is implementing to address our broken health-care system.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Two main arguments keep on surfacing when I raise concerns about Dual Billing and the fact that at this point it is nothing more than a govt edict with no plan/specifics whatsoever
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Two main arguments keep on surfacing when I raise concerns about Dual Billing and the fact that at this point it is nothing more than a govt edict with no plan/specifics whatsoever
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Putin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Putin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
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Kennedy sharpens vaccine attacks, without scientific backing medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11... by @celinegounder.com
"...part of a broader strategy to foster uncertainty about vaccine safety..."
"The whole RFK Jr. assessment is really prone to cherry-picking."
"...part of a broader strategy to foster uncertainty about vaccine safety..."
"The whole RFK Jr. assessment is really prone to cherry-picking."
Kennedy sharpens vaccine attacks, without scientific backing
As the federal government prepares for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has intensified his attacks on al...
medicalxpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Kennedy sharpens vaccine attacks, without scientific backing medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11... by @celinegounder.com
"...part of a broader strategy to foster uncertainty about vaccine safety..."
"The whole RFK Jr. assessment is really prone to cherry-picking."
"...part of a broader strategy to foster uncertainty about vaccine safety..."
"The whole RFK Jr. assessment is really prone to cherry-picking."
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Don’t worry Albertans, Adriana Lagrange found ONE doctor who thinks their private pay plan will be great.
About that doctor, “Chin's Twitter feed is filled with retweets that question COVID-19 lockdowns and the value of vaccines, including videos of People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier. “
About that doctor, “Chin's Twitter feed is filled with retweets that question COVID-19 lockdowns and the value of vaccines, including videos of People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier. “
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Don’t worry Albertans, Adriana Lagrange found ONE doctor who thinks their private pay plan will be great.
About that doctor, “Chin's Twitter feed is filled with retweets that question COVID-19 lockdowns and the value of vaccines, including videos of People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier. “
About that doctor, “Chin's Twitter feed is filled with retweets that question COVID-19 lockdowns and the value of vaccines, including videos of People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier. “
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Hey AB, while the govt promises to push more anesthesiologists and OR nurses from our hospitals with Dual Billing, and do more care in private surgical facilities, take a look at this graph!
These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey AB, while the govt promises to push more anesthesiologists and OR nurses from our hospitals with Dual Billing, and do more care in private surgical facilities, take a look at this graph!
These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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The exposure of so much fakery on X—MAGA influencer accounts revealed to be non-American mixed with fake screenshots showing false countries of origin—is an epistemic nightmare come to life. Not that everyone falls for it, but that people don't know what's real, and have excuses to dismiss anything.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The exposure of so much fakery on X—MAGA influencer accounts revealed to be non-American mixed with fake screenshots showing false countries of origin—is an epistemic nightmare come to life. Not that everyone falls for it, but that people don't know what's real, and have excuses to dismiss anything.
Hilarious, but also scary in its way.
The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words:
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hilarious, but also scary in its way.
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Kyiv today.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Kyiv today.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.