Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her Vive le Canada.
From my Alberta Unbound archives - a must-listen for Albertans tonight. Protecting Trans Kids: a Conversation with Alex Marshall and Kristy Harcourt. #ableg #abpoli #NotWithstandingClause #Alberta #AlbertaUnbound
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
From my Alberta Unbound archives - a must-listen for Albertans tonight. Protecting Trans Kids: a Conversation with Alex Marshall and Kristy Harcourt. #ableg #abpoli #NotWithstandingClause #Alberta #AlbertaUnbound
I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
I wrote this two years ago. Felt inspired to post it again today. Tomorrow, it may be more relevant than ever. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #cdnpoli #Alberta @albertaviews.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I wrote this two years ago. Felt inspired to post it again today. Tomorrow, it may be more relevant than ever. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #cdnpoli #Alberta @albertaviews.bsky.social
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I am SO excited to share this month’s episode of Alberta Unbound: my conversation with Calgary stand up Faris Hytiaa, a Sudanese-Canadian comic who is as insightful as he is funny. (With bits of his comedy woven in.) #AlbertaUnbound #yyc #Calgary #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Lethbridge #yql #CBC
Home and Laughing, with Faris Hytiaa
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November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am SO excited to share this month’s episode of Alberta Unbound: my conversation with Calgary stand up Faris Hytiaa, a Sudanese-Canadian comic who is as insightful as he is funny. (With bits of his comedy woven in.) #AlbertaUnbound #yyc #Calgary #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Lethbridge #yql #CBC
A reminder:
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A reminder:
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
I am SO excited to share this month’s episode of Alberta Unbound: my conversation with Calgary stand up Faris Hytiaa, a Sudanese-Canadian comic who is as insightful as he is funny. (With bits of his comedy woven in.) #AlbertaUnbound #yyc #Calgary #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Lethbridge #yql #CBC
Home and Laughing, with Faris Hytiaa
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am SO excited to share this month’s episode of Alberta Unbound: my conversation with Calgary stand up Faris Hytiaa, a Sudanese-Canadian comic who is as insightful as he is funny. (With bits of his comedy woven in.) #AlbertaUnbound #yyc #Calgary #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Lethbridge #yql #CBC
Images from a moving Remembrance Day service at Edmonton City Hall and the city cenotaph, hosted by the City of Edmonton and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. We shall remember. #RemembranceDay #Edmonton #yeg
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Images from a moving Remembrance Day service at Edmonton City Hall and the city cenotaph, hosted by the City of Edmonton and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. We shall remember. #RemembranceDay #Edmonton #yeg
Sigh. I took down my Senate Instagram account a few months ago. A mistake, perhaps, since there is now a fake Insta account pretending to be me - and well meaning but confused folks are tagging it. If you are still on Instagram, could you please do me a favour and report it as a fraud?
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Sigh. I took down my Senate Instagram account a few months ago. A mistake, perhaps, since there is now a fake Insta account pretending to be me - and well meaning but confused folks are tagging it. If you are still on Instagram, could you please do me a favour and report it as a fraud?
Interesting thread. I grew up in 1970s Edmonton in an affluent neighbourhood. But in the winter, everyone ate canned fruit, because fresh fruit wasn’t readily available. Mandarin oranges at Christmas were a huge treat.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Interesting thread. I grew up in 1970s Edmonton in an affluent neighbourhood. But in the winter, everyone ate canned fruit, because fresh fruit wasn’t readily available. Mandarin oranges at Christmas were a huge treat.
Yesterday, I had the honour of visiting Guthrie School, at CFB Edmonton. I spoke to a class of Grade 6 students about the Senate - and then laid a wreath at a Remembrance Day assembly. Pretty much every child at the school has at least one parent in the CAF; Remembrance Day hits differently here.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Yesterday, I had the honour of visiting Guthrie School, at CFB Edmonton. I spoke to a class of Grade 6 students about the Senate - and then laid a wreath at a Remembrance Day assembly. Pretty much every child at the school has at least one parent in the CAF; Remembrance Day hits differently here.
Bravo, @paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Bravo, @paulisci.bsky.social
Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today, Dr. David Wishart, a professor of biology AND computer science at University of Alberta won Canada’s highest honour for science & engineering, the Herzberg Gold Medal, for his work in metabolomics. I had the joy of being there with Dr. Wishart and his family. #yeg #UAlberta #Edmonton #NSERC
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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My latest column for @albertaviews.bsky.social - on why we need a made-in-Canada verified traveller program. #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #abpoli
Verified Travellers - Big Donald is Watching You - Alberta Views
The Canada Border Services Agency says applications for Verified travellers NEXUS cards started dropping noticeably after Trump’s election.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest column for @albertaviews.bsky.social - on why we need a made-in-Canada verified traveller program. #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #abpoli
My latest column for @albertaviews.bsky.social - on why we need a made-in-Canada verified traveller program. #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #abpoli
Verified Travellers - Big Donald is Watching You - Alberta Views
The Canada Border Services Agency says applications for Verified travellers NEXUS cards started dropping noticeably after Trump’s election.
albertaviews.ca
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest column for @albertaviews.bsky.social - on why we need a made-in-Canada verified traveller program. #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #abpoli
Well. I was asked - on rather short notice - to speak at a public event this morning. Being a good sport, I agreed. I prepared a 45 minute presentation, as requested. When I showed up, there was no one there. I guess I’m not much of a draw! I hope this afternoon’s speakers attract a better house.
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well. I was asked - on rather short notice - to speak at a public event this morning. Being a good sport, I agreed. I prepared a 45 minute presentation, as requested. When I showed up, there was no one there. I guess I’m not much of a draw! I hope this afternoon’s speakers attract a better house.
CanCon Candy - standing ready to welcome ghouls and goblins and princesses and superheroes with two Canadian classics: Wagon Wheels and Old Dutch potatoes chips! #Halloween #yeg
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
CanCon Candy - standing ready to welcome ghouls and goblins and princesses and superheroes with two Canadian classics: Wagon Wheels and Old Dutch potatoes chips! #Halloween #yeg
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The Senate passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, with four Republicans joining Democrats to rebuke the administration's trade policies a day after they voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil. https://cnn.it/3WuHEKo
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Senate passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, with four Republicans joining Democrats to rebuke the administration's trade policies a day after they voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil. https://cnn.it/3WuHEKo
Behind a paywall - but if you subscribe to The Logic, here is their story on my efforts to create a domestic sovereign “fast pass” for verified Canadian travellers. thelogic.co/news/senator... #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #yeg
Senators want Canada to get its own Nexus-style program for domestic travel - The Logic
For flights within Canada, a Nexus card is a ticket to the airport fast line. But getting one means answering to Uncle Sam.
thelogic.co
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Behind a paywall - but if you subscribe to The Logic, here is their story on my efforts to create a domestic sovereign “fast pass” for verified Canadian travellers. thelogic.co/news/senator... #cdnpoli #NEXUS #SenateofCanada #yeg
Oh - and also remove the Westminster parliamentary system of government, the Royal Family and public health care! So there’s that.
“In order to turn the page to become a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” said Bruce Pardy, the exec director for Rights Probe, at a right-wing political conference in Calgary. 🚫🇨🇦 #abpoli
Alberta Separatist Pushes for End of Indigenous Rights at ‘Unity’ Conference | The Tyee
‘In a free Alberta, Aboriginal rights should not exist,’ argues We Unify panellist Bruce Pardy.
thetyee.ca
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Oh - and also remove the Westminster parliamentary system of government, the Royal Family and public health care! So there’s that.
Late to the party - but I just have to say that in my Jewish family, we always called my dad’s first cousins -and he had oodles - Aunt and Uncle. What else would you call them??
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Late to the party - but I just have to say that in my Jewish family, we always called my dad’s first cousins -and he had oodles - Aunt and Uncle. What else would you call them??
Today, the Senate transport and communications committee heard from two leading experts in labour law and strikes, Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and labour lawyer Paul Champ. Given the news from Alberta, I had questions. #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli
Democratic or not? Governments ordering strikers back to work
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today, the Senate transport and communications committee heard from two leading experts in labour law and strikes, Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and labour lawyer Paul Champ. Given the news from Alberta, I had questions. #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli
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Oh wow.
Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.
Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Oh wow.
Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.
Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.