Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
@lynetteshultz.bsky.social
We all need to tell and tell until all our stories of death and near-death and gratuitous life are standing with us to face the challenges of the present.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
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Sixty children have died in the care of this government over the last year.
We cannot ignore the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and the UCP must do everything in their power to ensure these kids have the support they need.
youtube.com/shorts/L2Mmy...
We cannot ignore the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and the UCP must do everything in their power to ensure these kids have the support they need.
youtube.com/shorts/L2Mmy...
60 children died in the care of the UCP government last year. This is unacceptable.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sixty children have died in the care of this government over the last year.
We cannot ignore the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and the UCP must do everything in their power to ensure these kids have the support they need.
youtube.com/shorts/L2Mmy...
We cannot ignore the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and the UCP must do everything in their power to ensure these kids have the support they need.
youtube.com/shorts/L2Mmy...
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Guys, I know it's not the point, but I gotta know:
When it comes to porn, what does the premier consider "classic"?
When it comes to porn, what does the premier consider "classic"?
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Guys, I know it's not the point, but I gotta know:
When it comes to porn, what does the premier consider "classic"?
When it comes to porn, what does the premier consider "classic"?
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
Slovenia has declared two top Israeli ministers personae non grata over “genocidal statements” and other violations of Palestinian human rights, barring them from entering the country.
Slovenia Becomes First EU Country to Declare Israeli Ministers Personae Non Grata Slovenia Bans Israeli Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir for “Genocidal Statements”
Ben-Gvir and Smotrich incite “serious violations of the human rights of Palestinians,” the government said.
buff.ly
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Slovenia has declared two top Israeli ministers personae non grata over “genocidal statements” and other violations of Palestinian human rights, barring them from entering the country.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
The Jasper Wildfire review is damningly clear about one thing: the UCP government exploited a life-and-death moment to play political games.
And in their response to this report, rather than accepting responsibility and promising to do better, they lash out, insult others, and refuse any blame.
And in their response to this report, rather than accepting responsibility and promising to do better, they lash out, insult others, and refuse any blame.
July 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Jasper Wildfire review is damningly clear about one thing: the UCP government exploited a life-and-death moment to play political games.
And in their response to this report, rather than accepting responsibility and promising to do better, they lash out, insult others, and refuse any blame.
And in their response to this report, rather than accepting responsibility and promising to do better, they lash out, insult others, and refuse any blame.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
“Danielle Smith says a policy introduced by Hungary’s ultranationalist leader Viktor Orbán is an “interesting” idea & thinks it would be worth taking a “closer look” to see if the policy could be effective”
Policy advice from Orban now?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
pressprogress.ca/alberta-prem...
Policy advice from Orban now?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
pressprogress.ca/alberta-prem...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Floats Tax Discounts to Motivate Women to Produce More Babies
Danielle Smith tells Sherwood Park town hall that Hungarian far-right leader Viktor Orbán has an 'interesting' idea to reduce immigration
pressprogress.ca
July 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Danielle Smith says a policy introduced by Hungary’s ultranationalist leader Viktor Orbán is an “interesting” idea & thinks it would be worth taking a “closer look” to see if the policy could be effective”
Policy advice from Orban now?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
pressprogress.ca/alberta-prem...
Policy advice from Orban now?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
pressprogress.ca/alberta-prem...
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Great case study on #DoughnutEconomics that's useful for KS4/5 Social studies, Economics, Business or Politics. It's also relevant to Science and Geography.
Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town
A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Great case study on #DoughnutEconomics that's useful for KS4/5 Social studies, Economics, Business or Politics. It's also relevant to Science and Geography.
Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Climate is a multiplier of the cost of living crisis,” points out @jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social.
“We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”
“We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”
July 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Climate is a multiplier of the cost of living crisis,” points out @jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social.
“We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”
“We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.
Every single one.
Every single one.
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
www.tpr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.
Every single one.
Every single one.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
The Big Beautiful Gulags Bill. www.eschatonblog.com/2025/06/step...
Stephen Miller's Personal Domestic Military
I know all they want to do is talk about Medicaid - and they should! - but "putting it on the record that I was against this" is something I...
www.eschatonblog.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Big Beautiful Gulags Bill. www.eschatonblog.com/2025/06/step...
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Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.
The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
🚨BREAKING: #MitchMcConnell was just publicly confronted in the Senate hallway by young people for GUTTING #Medicaid and green jobs while accepting $3M from Big Oil.
He looks like a deer in headlights!
We need more of this‼️
He looks like a deer in headlights!
We need more of this‼️
June 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
🚨BREAKING: #MitchMcConnell was just publicly confronted in the Senate hallway by young people for GUTTING #Medicaid and green jobs while accepting $3M from Big Oil.
He looks like a deer in headlights!
We need more of this‼️
He looks like a deer in headlights!
We need more of this‼️
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Every proposal Danielle Smith’s “Alberta Next” project is floating would either be vastly expensive or require backing from other provinces and Ottawa. By me:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Which 'next' is Danielle Smith's Ottawa-affairs panel steering Alberta toward? | CBC News
New provincial surveys propose either massively expensive Alberta agencies, or huge reforms that impact federal government and other provinces.
www.cbc.ca
June 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Every proposal Danielle Smith’s “Alberta Next” project is floating would either be vastly expensive or require backing from other provinces and Ottawa. By me:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I just need you to look at these graphs, remember that fascism runs on fossil fuels, and come to some conclusions that involve collective action items:
2 years ago year to date, fossil gas output on California's main grid was 93% higher than solar output
In 2025, solar output is 32% higher than gas output
Gas output has dropped 41.4% and solar output has risen 50% in 2 years
Battery output has also risen 215%
In 2025, solar output is 32% higher than gas output
Gas output has dropped 41.4% and solar output has risen 50% in 2 years
Battery output has also risen 215%
June 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I just need you to look at these graphs, remember that fascism runs on fossil fuels, and come to some conclusions that involve collective action items:
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Good thing there's no such thing as underground water that we wouldn't want to contaminate...
"Let's just hide our toxic mess, so that we can increase production and make even more."
Absolutely ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Alberta to explore injecting oilsands tailings underground as one management option
EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it is considering letting oil companies inject wastewater deep underground as a way to manage the toxic tailings that are accumulating in the oilsands.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Good thing there's no such thing as underground water that we wouldn't want to contaminate...
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“Although Smith will sue Ottawa at the drop of a hat, she apparently can’t lift a legal finger to defend the Rockies, Alberta’s iconic backbone.” 💥
#ableg #abpoli
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
#ableg #abpoli
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The Stink of BS at Premier Smith’s Coal Town Hall | The Tyee
The rowdy meeting’s air reeked of government deception. Locals were having none of it.
thetyee.ca
June 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Although Smith will sue Ottawa at the drop of a hat, she apparently can’t lift a legal finger to defend the Rockies, Alberta’s iconic backbone.” 💥
#ableg #abpoli
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
#ableg #abpoli
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
There are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.
Pentagon Now Has More Troops in LA Than in Syria and Iraq Combined, According to Public Figures
The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.
buff.ly
June 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
There are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.
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Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown, without council's knowledge, and without the knowledge or consent of Airdrie citizens, pursued a private hospital using city resources in concert with a big developer, Qualico, and with the premier's advisor Rob Anderson, who is unelected. There should be a public inquiry.
Bombshell story via @brettmckay.bsky.social about how Airdrie mayor Peter Brown and staff worked in secret with a developer and the premier's office to get a private hospital using money earmarked for upgrading a public hospital.
theijf.org/controversia...
theijf.org/controversia...
Controversial Alberta private health centre helped behind the scenes by Airdrie mayor, documents reveal
Internal emails show how the mayor and city staff helped draft and pitch a proposal for a publicly funded, privately delivered urgent care centre in Airdrie, Alta.
theijf.org
June 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown, without council's knowledge, and without the knowledge or consent of Airdrie citizens, pursued a private hospital using city resources in concert with a big developer, Qualico, and with the premier's advisor Rob Anderson, who is unelected. There should be a public inquiry.
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
Danielle Smith says Alberta’s record-high youth unemployment rate is because “kids don’t have their driver’s licenses.”
Our young people deserve better.
They deserve a government with a real plan to create opportunity and good jobs, not one justifying this crisis with wild excuses. #VoteforBetter
Our young people deserve better.
They deserve a government with a real plan to create opportunity and good jobs, not one justifying this crisis with wild excuses. #VoteforBetter
Would someone please tell Danielle Smith that a driver’s license is not an economic plan?
June 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Danielle Smith says Alberta’s record-high youth unemployment rate is because “kids don’t have their driver’s licenses.”
Our young people deserve better.
They deserve a government with a real plan to create opportunity and good jobs, not one justifying this crisis with wild excuses. #VoteforBetter
Our young people deserve better.
They deserve a government with a real plan to create opportunity and good jobs, not one justifying this crisis with wild excuses. #VoteforBetter
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Via Andrew Nikiforuk. Remember how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has complained about free speech restrictions? The govt scientist who produced the report is not allowed to speak to the media.
Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish | The Tyee
A new study warns against new mines in the area, finding toxic selenium pollution persists for decades.
thetyee.ca
June 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Via Andrew Nikiforuk. Remember how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has complained about free speech restrictions? The govt scientist who produced the report is not allowed to speak to the media.
Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
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INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook
And it's no accident they were released today.
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Reposted by Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta
A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics.
This is not normal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is not normal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News
The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...
www.cbc.ca
April 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics.
This is not normal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is not normal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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What Wab Kinew sorcery is this?
**stares blankly in Albertan**😶
**stares blankly in Albertan**😶
April 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
What Wab Kinew sorcery is this?
**stares blankly in Albertan**😶
**stares blankly in Albertan**😶