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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Anyone who's ever had a tax agency clawback disability or child benefit, or been challenged on a business parking expense stares in disbelief Some delulu conspiracy theorist claims CRA owes him $40m because he's a sovereign citizen, and CRA dutifully coughs up said $40m www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From @keithgerein.bsky.social: "It takes some gall for Smith and her heavily rural cabinet to disregard all that and declare they know the issue better than Edmontonians after a few weeks of listening to the NIMBY crowd that lost the last election." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

New from me in the Edmonton Journal: All Edmontonians will pay the price for Smith's repeal of the zoning bylaw edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #yeg #yegcc #yimby

Sources tell me Danielle Smith will force Edmonton to repeal its zoning bylaw. Smith's UCP loyalist friends in Edmonton Neighbourhoods United, whose agenda lost in the last election, asked for her help, just like she helped the separatists. Local democracy is dead.

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Is infill "destroying" Edmonton's neighbourhoods? Here are the facts: 📊 Only 1% of RS-zoned properties redeveloped since 2024 🏡 Half of new units have 3+ bedrooms 🚇 Density is clustering near LRT 📉 Most mature neighbourhoods have fewer people than 50 years ago #yeg #yegcc #yimby

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo... I went on QAA recently to talk about what's going on structurally in the State Department with migrant panic rhetoric, the Office of Remigration, and long-term efforts to reshape the organization forever.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

On Sept. 13, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in #Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One MSF staff member was injured in the strike.

Listening to UK talk radio this week, once again struck by the inchoate grievance of even mainstream right-wing Caller after caller who cannot name a single real problem, yet are overwhelmed by panic that the country has been taken from them and they are losing somehow

The new Canada West Foundation report on the costs of separation begins with a ritual recitation of grievances by none other than Ted Morton, in case you wondered whether the business community has figured out the role it unwittingly played (and plays) in advancing the separatist cause. 🧵

This isn't the first time the USA has placed 50% tariffs on Canada. In 1890, the USA's Tariff Act was touted as a way to build up American industry, but the true goal was forcing the annexation of Canada. It backfired and made Canada stronger. This is the story. 📸 LoC 🧵1/10

Congratulations, Ezra Levant. You have relegated the CPC to the political wilderness for years to come and undone groundwork that had been laid by Stephen Harper. 1/ www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Folks are understandably taking @mattyglesias.bsky.social to task for the 'HR training' focus, but I am struck by the inability here to recognize an educational failure. It is *your* (/our) job to explain to those voters that the collapse of democracy *will* have a greater impact on their lives.

So much this. One can be opposed to what Israel is doing without being anti-semitic. We can quibble over whether Israel has engaged in genocide (I think it has). I don't think we can quibble over repeated war crimes at scale and with much repetition. 1/2

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There really is a tweet for everything

2013 Southern Alberta floods 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire 2024 Jasper wildfire When Alberta needed help, Canadian troops, pilots, doctors, nurses and crews came from across the country. Canadians helping Canadians. Vote Against Alberta Separation 📸 Department of Defence

Jen Gerson: "The momentum here right now is on the side of people who treat the idea of the Republic of Alberta as a kind of religious movement. It's a millenarian movement ... heavily influenced by the kind of nihilism that infects a lot of the broader MAGA movement."

This is why I spent the last decade beating my head off my desk, trying to convince people that there is no way to please unpleasable right wing reactionaries. They don’t want to fix anything, they *don’t want to be happy*. They want to be very angry at people they hate and wish harm upon.

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

This is more than enough justification to hold a public inquiry.

This is a deeply, *deeply* shameless -- and shameful -- op-ed. Allow me to explain why. #cdnpoli 🧵 🧵 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

More on Alberta’s boundary mess… CBC News election unit analysed the maps: the main report would have produced a 7-seat margin of victory for UCP. The minority report by UCP appointees? A 23-seat win, with many seats narrowly flipped in Calgary. W/analysis by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The horrific killing by Israel of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is a clear war crime. Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings globally in 2025 & 2024. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Alberta premier rejects Opposition claims UCP interfering on electoral boundaries Commissioner Susan Samson says “something or someone” sure did, but she doesn’t expect to ever learn the truth. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Five alarm fire for democracy in Canada. Not just Alberta. The whole country. Not hyperbole. When we take away effective representation, we no longer have a real claim to being a liberal democracy. If Alberta gets away with this, other provinces will follow.

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process. It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance. You know, real conservatives.

The UCP govt is rejecting the electoral map proposed 3 weeks ago. A govt motion that could come as soon as this morning outlines the new process which will be overseen by a UCP-led committee, will not allow for public input, and grow the number of MLAs from 87 to 91 #ableg #abpoli

I would like more people to care about whether things are actually true, even — especially — when it concerns arguments for your side

American aid has dried up. Europe's aid is being held up by a Putin stooge. Canada has the power to finance Ukraine's self-defense: so let's do it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star... (Posting again because the link didn't unfurl properly the first time.)

SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation. www.theglobeandmail.com/appview/cana... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

Taken Sept 21, this image shows the full extent of the destruction of Beit Hanoun, a former city of 50,000 people that the IDF has methodically demolished. The two clusters of remaining buildings in this 3.25-sq-mile area circled. Everything else has been razed by earthmovers and demo charges.

Throughout the next month, I am going to explore some of the name origins for communities in each province and territory. Today, it is Alberta. Here are the name origins for 10 Alberta communities! 🧵 1/12

“If we're relying on the RCMP to save us from foreign interference during a provincial referendum, it’s not gonna happen. And I would say the same for CSIS and for any kind of regulatory body, frankly,” said security expert Patrick Lennox. Story by #ableg @iciemmanuel.bsky.social

Pluralism asks a lot more of our leaders than populism does. It asks them to do the hard work: to negotiate, to build consensus and buy-in, to explain trade-offs honestly, and to accept blame when decisions are unpopular if necessary. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

If Alberta Separatists want to be taken seriously, they need to form their own party and run candidates for MLA. newrepublic.com/article/2069...

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot: Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus. It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it. It was published today. macleans.ca/politics/i-d...