Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦
@sphillipsab.bsky.social
Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors
Www.mbpolicy.com
Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Practitioner-in-Residence Fellow, University of Victoria
Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
Www.mbpolicy.com
Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Practitioner-in-Residence Fellow, University of Victoria
Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
Welcome to the Find Out phase of trying to be all things to all people, Calgary City Council.
NEW: Global News has learned the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has paused $129M in federal Housing Accelerator Fund money to the City of Calgary pending further clarity on citywide rezoning.
globalnews.ca/news/1154274...
globalnews.ca/news/1154274...
Calgary’s $129M in federal housing funds ‘paused’ pending citywide rezoning status - Calgary | Globalnews.ca
Calgary city council is preparing to debate a motion that calls for the repeal of the citywide rezoning policy in December, which would require a public hearing in the spring.
globalnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Welcome to the Find Out phase of trying to be all things to all people, Calgary City Council.
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NEW EP: Episode 1895: Much Fast
@carterab.bsky.social and @sphillipsab.bsky.social sort another week of Canadian politics into Take, Tweak or Trash. Zain Velji, as always, keeps everybody in line.
Download, subscribe where podcasts are found.
https://apple.co/4ol8kJD
#CdnPoli #ABpoli #ableg
@carterab.bsky.social and @sphillipsab.bsky.social sort another week of Canadian politics into Take, Tweak or Trash. Zain Velji, as always, keeps everybody in line.
Download, subscribe where podcasts are found.
https://apple.co/4ol8kJD
#CdnPoli #ABpoli #ableg
The Strategists
Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · Professional unprofessional strategists Stephen Carter, Corey Hogan and Zain Velji dissect the news of the day, pass judgment on strategy choices and lift back the curtain on how decisions are made. D…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NEW EP: Episode 1895: Much Fast
@carterab.bsky.social and @sphillipsab.bsky.social sort another week of Canadian politics into Take, Tweak or Trash. Zain Velji, as always, keeps everybody in line.
Download, subscribe where podcasts are found.
https://apple.co/4ol8kJD
#CdnPoli #ABpoli #ableg
@carterab.bsky.social and @sphillipsab.bsky.social sort another week of Canadian politics into Take, Tweak or Trash. Zain Velji, as always, keeps everybody in line.
Download, subscribe where podcasts are found.
https://apple.co/4ol8kJD
#CdnPoli #ABpoli #ableg
Elizabeth May bringing strong retired teacher energy to the chat
Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Elizabeth May bringing strong retired teacher energy to the chat
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Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week.
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week.
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
Is this real life?
Let’s give the credit to Zohran’s incredible political skills. He found ways to connect with Trump’s 80s NYC and charmed him like an unsuspecting grandpa.
Let’s give the credit to Zohran’s incredible political skills. He found ways to connect with Trump’s 80s NYC and charmed him like an unsuspecting grandpa.
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Is this real life?
Let’s give the credit to Zohran’s incredible political skills. He found ways to connect with Trump’s 80s NYC and charmed him like an unsuspecting grandpa.
Let’s give the credit to Zohran’s incredible political skills. He found ways to connect with Trump’s 80s NYC and charmed him like an unsuspecting grandpa.
92% of Albertans agree oil and gas companies need to foot the bill to clean up their mess.
Wow.
Wow.
“Albertans don’t agree on a lot these days,” said pollster Janet Brown, “but our research shows they overwhelmingly want the oil and gas industry to pay their bills.”
Read more at: reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
Read more at: reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
Albertans want oil industry to pay up: poll - Red Deer Advocate
92% say industry should pay cleanup costs
reddeeradvocate.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
92% of Albertans agree oil and gas companies need to foot the bill to clean up their mess.
Wow.
Wow.
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Delighted to see this.
Time for the environment to ride the wave of recalls and citizen initiatives!
This is the first legislative proposal (rather than a policy or constitutional proposal) under the Citizen Initiative Act.
Bonne chance & lots of hard work ahead.
#ableg #abpoli
Time for the environment to ride the wave of recalls and citizen initiatives!
This is the first legislative proposal (rather than a policy or constitutional proposal) under the Citizen Initiative Act.
Bonne chance & lots of hard work ahead.
#ableg #abpoli
⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
This afternoon, country music artist @corblund.bsky.social headed to #Edmonton to submit his application to Elections Alberta for a petition to prohibit coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of the Rocky Mountains.
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli
This afternoon, country music artist @corblund.bsky.social headed to #Edmonton to submit his application to Elections Alberta for a petition to prohibit coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of the Rocky Mountains.
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The Premier’s job is NOT to trample on Alberta’s constitutionally protected human rights. Now, she makes herself the first Premier in our history to use the notwithstanding clause, not once, but FOUR TIMES in three weeks!
Whose freedoms will be stripped away next? #bill9 #abpoli #ableg
Whose freedoms will be stripped away next? #bill9 #abpoli #ableg
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents.
I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.
I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.
Today, Alberta introduced Bill 9 and invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield three anti-trans laws from constitutional challenge. These laws deny gender-affirming care to youth, erase 2SLGBTQI identities from schools, and ban trans girls and women from sports.
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents.
I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.
I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.
On yesterday’s Patreon episode, Carter and I discussed pressing affairs of state, such as how to tell your MLA how *!?!!% furious you are at their use of the notwithstanding clause to override Albertans’ Charter rights.
@carterab.bsky.social and @sphillipsab.bsky.social explain how to *properly* swear at your elected representative in the wake of the Tanya Fir voicemail scandal.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nD1qWSvLFtY
#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
https://youtube.com/shorts/nD1qWSvLFtY
#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
How to Swear at your Representative
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
On yesterday’s Patreon episode, Carter and I discussed pressing affairs of state, such as how to tell your MLA how *!?!!% furious you are at their use of the notwithstanding clause to override Albertans’ Charter rights.
This is why the progressive left in Canada needs to care a hell of a lot more about national security and defense than they currently do.
We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.
We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.
🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
@eupha.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is why the progressive left in Canada needs to care a hell of a lot more about national security and defense than they currently do.
We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.
We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.
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reminder that a major factor in the under-funding and under-diagnosis of ME/CFS & Long Covid is medical misogyny
Medical Dialogues: 'Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here’s why'
'Research published in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID..'
medicaldialogues.in/pulmonology/...
'Research published in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID..'
medicaldialogues.in/pulmonology/...
Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here’s why
Research published today in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID-especially those who develop chronic fatigue syndrome-tend to...
medicaldialogues.in
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
reminder that a major factor in the under-funding and under-diagnosis of ME/CFS & Long Covid is medical misogyny
At the BCNDP Convention -
Eby’s biggest standing ovation so far comes for his pledge that a BCNDP govt will never - ever - override the right to bargain and negotiate using the notwithstanding clause.
Eby’s biggest standing ovation so far comes for his pledge that a BCNDP govt will never - ever - override the right to bargain and negotiate using the notwithstanding clause.
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
At the BCNDP Convention -
Eby’s biggest standing ovation so far comes for his pledge that a BCNDP govt will never - ever - override the right to bargain and negotiate using the notwithstanding clause.
Eby’s biggest standing ovation so far comes for his pledge that a BCNDP govt will never - ever - override the right to bargain and negotiate using the notwithstanding clause.
It’s going well here in Alberta, government totally looking out for the regular folk, no problems, thanks for asking
WOW, just wow, look at those rate increases in Alberta!
More Alberta Advantage!
More Alberta Advantage!
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
It’s going well here in Alberta, government totally looking out for the regular folk, no problems, thanks for asking
Civil disobedience is foundational to democratic society.
“A protest group has set up a blockade to keep crews from building what it says is an “illegal bridge” to access a region of the Rocky Mountain forest that’s scheduled to be clear cut.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Protesters establish ‘peaceful blockade’ of southern Alberta logging access road
A protest group has set up a blockade to keep crews from building what it says is an 'illegal bridge' to access a region of the Rocky Mountains that’s scheduled to be clear-cut.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Civil disobedience is foundational to democratic society.
And those of us who have lost their health to post-COVID condition thank you for it!
I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me
About 1 in 4 American adults got a covid vaccine shot during the 2024-25 virus season, a fraction health care experts warn could be smaller this year as millions wrestle with conflicting advice from the government and trusted medical orgs about the value of a shot. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And those of us who have lost their health to post-COVID condition thank you for it!
It’s got to be the phones.
And the giant vehicles that make it impossible to see people in front of them.
And of course the phones.
And the giant vehicles that make it impossible to see people in front of them.
And of course the phones.
Same in Calgary.
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
The number of people dying on Edmonton roads is rising, reaching its highest point since 2015. edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/11/13/t...
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s got to be the phones.
And the giant vehicles that make it impossible to see people in front of them.
And of course the phones.
And the giant vehicles that make it impossible to see people in front of them.
And of course the phones.
Honestly, it was an opportunity for @jeromyyyc.bsky.social to cook on his opposition to the arena deal, a left/right Venne Diagram of No Socialism For The Rich, and his position on it is one I 1)respect the daylights out of and 2) I think allowed him to make his first real pitch to lefty voters
At last night's @thestrategists.ca event, @jeromyyyc.bsky.social was asked by @sphillipsab.bsky.social sky.social about what Manning Centre beliefs he still holds. He brought up #yycbike lanes (context here calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...).
Manning report criticizes city's methods of collecting cycling data
A Manning Foundation report is accusing the city of poor data collection and a misunderstanding of Calgary’s diverse cycling population.
calgaryherald.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Honestly, it was an opportunity for @jeromyyyc.bsky.social to cook on his opposition to the arena deal, a left/right Venne Diagram of No Socialism For The Rich, and his position on it is one I 1)respect the daylights out of and 2) I think allowed him to make his first real pitch to lefty voters
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If you are IN CALGARY this week, this would be a must-see for politicos.
#ABMunis
@abmunis.bsky.social
#ABMunis
@abmunis.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If you are IN CALGARY this week, this would be a must-see for politicos.
#ABMunis
@abmunis.bsky.social
#ABMunis
@abmunis.bsky.social
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A public option — for housing, telecommunications, or groceries — doesn't have to dominate the market.
"[It can] exist to keep private companies from profiteering and to offer a more affordable alternative.”
– @angella.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca
Read more at thewalrus.ca/are-we-going...
"[It can] exist to keep private companies from profiteering and to offer a more affordable alternative.”
– @angella.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca
Read more at thewalrus.ca/are-we-going...
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A public option — for housing, telecommunications, or groceries — doesn't have to dominate the market.
"[It can] exist to keep private companies from profiteering and to offer a more affordable alternative.”
– @angella.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca
Read more at thewalrus.ca/are-we-going...
"[It can] exist to keep private companies from profiteering and to offer a more affordable alternative.”
– @angella.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca
Read more at thewalrus.ca/are-we-going...
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Bought my tickets. Who’s going?
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bought my tickets. Who’s going?
Saw a Canadian leftist-personality take a Mamdani victory lap this week, conveniently leaving out that 2 Dem women won Governorships with huge margins.
Look, it’s about winning everywhere we can - so we can do everything we can for people. Meet voters where they’re at. Reject the litmus test.
Look, it’s about winning everywhere we can - so we can do everything we can for people. Meet voters where they’re at. Reject the litmus test.
I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Saw a Canadian leftist-personality take a Mamdani victory lap this week, conveniently leaving out that 2 Dem women won Governorships with huge margins.
Look, it’s about winning everywhere we can - so we can do everything we can for people. Meet voters where they’re at. Reject the litmus test.
Look, it’s about winning everywhere we can - so we can do everything we can for people. Meet voters where they’re at. Reject the litmus test.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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“I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”