J. J. Gats
@jgatner.bsky.social
Teacher in YQL who loves nature, art, games, music and the Leafs. Overall, basically an X refugee just looking to read about the news.
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🧵 Alberta is Canada's #RightWing, Conservative™️, #FreeMarket capital. This is where these ideas get to SHINE.
Question 1: How come our students are starving? #abpoli #cdnpoli
Question 1: How come our students are starving? #abpoli #cdnpoli
I see Danielle Smith and the UCPs plan to turn us into a Red State continues…
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Alberta leads Canada in number of students showing up to school hungry: organization
Alberta leads the country in the number of students showing up to school hungry, according to the Breakfast Club of Canada.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🧵 Alberta is Canada's #RightWing, Conservative™️, #FreeMarket capital. This is where these ideas get to SHINE.
Question 1: How come our students are starving? #abpoli #cdnpoli
Question 1: How come our students are starving? #abpoli #cdnpoli
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“What our paper, I think, makes fairly clear is that there’s pretty much an utter failure of environmental management regulation and enforcement in relation to coal mining,”
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Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal
An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
thenarwhal.ca
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“What our paper, I think, makes fairly clear is that there’s pretty much an utter failure of environmental management regulation and enforcement in relation to coal mining,”
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Today, turn your amp to 11
December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Today, turn your amp to 11
Let’s get our voices heard!
Pledge or volunteer to collect signatures via www.coalpetition.ca
Let’s get them more signatures on their second go around.
Let’s get them more signatures on their second go around.
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Let’s get our voices heard!
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Landmark Alberta legislature sitting raises questions on politicians and rule of law
From me today after Alberta’s assembly got out of dodge for the holidays:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/landm...
From me today after Alberta’s assembly got out of dodge for the holidays:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/landm...
Landmark Alberta legislature sitting raises questions on politicians and rule of law
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government has wrapped up a fall legislature sitting featuring landmark legislation that raised questions on where political authority should end and the ru...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Landmark Alberta legislature sitting raises questions on politicians and rule of law
From me today after Alberta’s assembly got out of dodge for the holidays:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/landm...
From me today after Alberta’s assembly got out of dodge for the holidays:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/landm...
This morning’s commute is going to be sp-ICY!
a cartoon rabbit is swimming in a lake .
ALT: a cartoon rabbit is swimming in a lake .
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December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This morning’s commute is going to be sp-ICY!
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Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them
Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government.
@abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government.
@abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/government...
Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them
Albertans need to shout that message to their power-hungry premier
markhamhislop.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them
Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government.
@abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/government...
Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government.
@abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/government...
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Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift?
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
YouTube video by Energi Media
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December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift?
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
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𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕:
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Pope Leo speaks out AGAINST Trump's peace plan for Ukraine
YouTube video by Sign Of The Cross
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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕:
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
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"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
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Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta | CBC News
Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountain...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta
Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta | CBC News
Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta
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"Last Friday, the Alberta government cancelled negotiations with two companies, owned in part by Mr. Mraiche...That move deepened the mystery surrounding the government’s actions, and leaves fundamental questions unanswered."
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Globe editorial: The questions unanswered in Alberta’s health care procurement controversy
The province has called off negotiations for two private surgical facilities, but the mystery surrounding the government’s actions remains
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December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Last Friday, the Alberta government cancelled negotiations with two companies, owned in part by Mr. Mraiche...That move deepened the mystery surrounding the government’s actions, and leaves fundamental questions unanswered."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
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#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
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#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
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This is among the most democratically dangerous things Danielle Smith has said.
She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people."
We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.
She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people."
We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is among the most democratically dangerous things Danielle Smith has said.
She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people."
We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.
She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people."
We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.
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Alberta government awarded PR firm sole-source $200K contract to run education campaign to sway public opinion during teachers' battle
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Alberta government hires PR firm during teacher strike! 🤯
Read the full story and comment on TownAndCountryToday.com
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December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Alberta government awarded PR firm sole-source $200K contract to run education campaign to sway public opinion during teachers' battle
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
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My Spotify age is so old, they used size 24 font and mailed it to me.
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My Spotify age is so old, they used size 24 font and mailed it to me.
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I enjoyed - and learned from - Brett Salkeld's book 'Transubstantiation'.
His more recent work in the area of Catholic schools/education is extremely important and very timely.
I recommend his book and the accompanying 'Making Every Class Catholic' podcast series: www.youtube.com/@brettsalkel...
His more recent work in the area of Catholic schools/education is extremely important and very timely.
I recommend his book and the accompanying 'Making Every Class Catholic' podcast series: www.youtube.com/@brettsalkel...
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I enjoyed - and learned from - Brett Salkeld's book 'Transubstantiation'.
His more recent work in the area of Catholic schools/education is extremely important and very timely.
I recommend his book and the accompanying 'Making Every Class Catholic' podcast series: www.youtube.com/@brettsalkel...
His more recent work in the area of Catholic schools/education is extremely important and very timely.
I recommend his book and the accompanying 'Making Every Class Catholic' podcast series: www.youtube.com/@brettsalkel...
Advent-urists…? Unite??
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Advent-urists…? Unite??
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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.”
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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...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“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...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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re: DynaLIFE - A new auditor general report says Alberta taxpayers were hit with over $100 million in unnecessary costs, along with service disruptions such as delays and lab mistakes.
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Full report (PDF, 48 pages): www.oag.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
#Alberta #abpoli
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Full report (PDF, 48 pages): www.oag.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
#Alberta #abpoli
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
re: DynaLIFE - A new auditor general report says Alberta taxpayers were hit with over $100 million in unnecessary costs, along with service disruptions such as delays and lab mistakes.
www.oag.ab.ca/auditor-gene...
Full report (PDF, 48 pages): www.oag.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
#Alberta #abpoli
www.oag.ab.ca/auditor-gene...
Full report (PDF, 48 pages): www.oag.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
#Alberta #abpoli
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