Possible category suggestions for next year:
* Most impactful political operative. Someone not in public office who has had significant political impact in the province over the past year.
* Hardest working journalist, covering provincial and/or municipal politics in Alberta.

There’s a mistake in your post. He is not “worth” $500 billion. He is “hoarding” that money.

NO EXCUSES. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY ***RIGHT NOW*** BY THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT. IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND.

McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg

Seems so simple, and yet so clever. Thank-you for sharing!

Now I want to see that video… do you still have a link for it that you could share, please?

Finally, the single-most prescient writer: Octavia E Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents”. Published in the 90s about our present time. The only dystopian fiction I’ve seen that presents a meaningful path through the dystopia.

Not a book, but: the TV series most relevant to the current state of the world is the late 90s b-list sci-fi series “Babylon 5”. It takes some getting into (the first season was a bit rough), but the series as a whole is completely worth it. Politics, media, conspiracies, revolutionary underground…

“Reflections of a Siamese Twin” by John Ralston Saul, for Canadian political history.

“Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree” by John Goddard. For many reasons, but especially how colonial powers are structured to optimize exploitation and oppression.

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley. Many lessons, but especially his strong example of the value of being open to learn and change—especially when in positions of leadership.