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I remember being in a bar in Ottawa…
What ever small, tube TVs they had were on. Volume WAY up for each song. Everyone stopped and watched. ❤️🎸
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Put up the tree today!
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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This is how a health system burns to the ground

canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t...
This is how a health system burns to the ground
Dr. Paul Parks explains how Alberta's dual-billing plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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NEW: This week on 'Whatever This Is' we explain why Danielle Smith’s pipeline hype hides something worse. Bill 11. A plan that lets doctors work public and private at the same time. Rich Albertans get a private pipeline of care. The rest of us wait longer and pay more.

NoTwoTier.ca #ableg #abpoli
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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here's the thing, Madame Premier: science doesn't care whether industry can afford a carbon tax. the world will continue to warm. as usual, you show no leadership and are instead trying to placate the separatist whack jobs in your party
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”

www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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And Mraiche flipped a property to Alberta Infrastructure and made a $300,00 profit in three months.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
Mraiche Profited from Quick Sale of Property to UCP Government | The Tyee
The multimillionaire under scrutiny for lucrative Alberta Health Services dealings made $300,000 on land he owned just three months.
thetyee.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Creating a VIP lane doesn’t shorten the line, it just lets the rich cut everyone else.

Healthcare isn’t a drive-thru. When you divert staff to serve the wealthy first, everyone else waits longer.

The answer is more staff for everyone, ffs.
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This story should be enough to end the UCP and Smith.
There is such corruption and incompetence in this government. Is anything even scandalous anymore?
Thank you @ctheriault.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Here's a gift link to a story that has more layers than a sack full of onions and somehow raises more questions on the story.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c440ab...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Gotta make sure that the white/Christian nationalists continue to hold the reins of power with in the party.
This is older than MAGA. This is a deep-seated ugliness that the party and its predecessors kept under polite wraps and is now feeling emboldened enough to be in the open.
UCP convention-goers voted to ban permanent residents and other non-citizens from being party members or voting to nominate candidates.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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As usual, an incredible episode of @ologies.bsky.social with - this time a second installment of GENOCIDOLOGY with Prof. Dirk Moses.

The first instalment was amazing, and this follow up episode just as incredible.

#Science #Knowledge #Scholarship #Humanity

open.spotify.com/episode/7JNj...
NEW 2025 Interview: Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY) Part 2 with Dirk Moses
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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For #GivingTuesday -- or any day: A mutual aid fund for friends in Gaza:

chuffed.org/project/hand...

For more context, we just released an updated 2025 interview with Dr. Dirk Moses on the genocide in Gaza:

www.alieward.com/ologies/geno...

CC: @mercedesdigsit.bsky.social
Gaza Hand of Salvation Initiative
Hello! Mercedes here — I’m organizing this fundraiser on behalf of a wonderful, big-hearted couple in Gaza: Tasneem Abu Sharekh and Nidal Abu Hassan. This initiative, dubbed “The Hand of Salvation,” i...
chuffed.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The UCP is just disgusting:
A few years ago the UCP took control of several major pension funds & forced them to let AIMCo control their investments. AIMCo then lost billions on what became known as the VOLTS scandal. 1/2🧶

#ABPoli #ABLeg #Bill12
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Canada needs some kind of political party on the left that could take the place of PM Harper's Liberals. Some kind of new party, a democratic one maybe.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Here’s our breakdown on environmental rollbacks in today’s Alberta-Ottawa deal. #ableg #cdnpoli
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning.

The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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“It’s cold today—so much for global warming!”

Weather is like your mood, while climate is your personality. One cold day doesn’t disprove global trends. In fact, warming can even disrupt weather patterns and cause some of the wild swings we see today!
Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Tax the billionaires
The rebuilt NDP should easily be able to craft a platform that resonates with Canadians:

-Climate policy

-Housing construction

-Free uni/trades school and properly funding unis/colleges

-UBI

-Living wage

-Trade with EU, Asia, LatAm

-EU style benefits (5 week vacation, 4 day work week, etc)
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Maybe our Prime Minister will see my latest Danielle Smith video and hire me as his new Minister of Hypocrisy, that would be fun

youtu.be/GVk54cla9zw
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Did you know Talking Climate isn’t just a newsletter? It’s also a podcast!

Thanks to the amazing Anne Cloud from Voice Over for the Planet, 32 weeks of episodes are already up and binge-ready.

Get your Good News, Not So Good News, and What You Can Do here ⬇️
Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
News Podcast · Subscribe to Talking Climate for a clear-eyed and hopeful look at climate science and solutions. Receive weekly climate updates on good news, not-so-good news, ideas on things to do, an...
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Coastal First Nations pres Marilyn Slett now: "Coastal FNs along w/ prov of BC will do everything in our power to protect our coast from the real threat of an oil spill... We will never consent to allowing oil tankers in our coastal waters. We will never tolerate exemptions to an oil tanker ban."
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM