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Alberta has a consequential referendum coming up in October. We hope to contribute to the public conversation by mapping the social media landscape before the vote. With no party or elected politician campaigning on separation, who are the voices driving the online conversation?

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I'm so interested in how the left have galvanised around heat pumps, and the right have seen them as an unnecessary green policy. But then air conditioning is seen as a polar opposite culture war with the environmentalists fixated on emissions. It's the same technology!

it really is a shame twitter blew up. theres such an obvious benefit to having a single space where most people are

A Media Ecosystem Observatory report revealed YouTube channels claiming to cover Canadian politics from an Albertan perspective, actually run by faceless, Dutch content creators. Co-author of the report @chrispyross.bsky.social and UBC's @cjten.bsky.social joins today's episode lnk.to/bigstory

I wonder what that recent bump was?

I wrote about floor crossings and how a tweak to electoral reform can defang the illegitimate majority discourse. I made a webpage showing the proposal: chrispross.github.io/electoral-re... Read here: chrispyross.substack.com/p/introducin... @fairvote.ca

Zeke appeals to all political stripes 😂

I made the plots in this brief, happy to discuss more with interested people (and take plot feedback haha)

Has Jeff ballingall seen the Last Jedi

In the era of affordability politics, making clean energy cheaper may be a more viable emissions mitigation strategy than making dirty energy more expensive. My latest over at The Climate Brink digs into the debate:

Just here for the visualisation

I appreciate how difficult this post must have been to write. Good line at the end: "No more grandiose rhetoric please: all I want for Christmas is some concrete delivery of long-promised climate change policy by Canadian governments."

it is 2022. I am watching people yell about the economic data & the vibecession discourse it is 2023. I am watching people yell about the economic data & the vibecession discourse it is 2024. I am watching people yell about the economic data & the vibecession discourse it is 2025. I am watching...

Facebook's old mission statement was: "To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” Its new thing: Oh, you wanna share more than two links? That'll be £10.

Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed information from its website about the human causes of global warming, linked to greenhouse gases. Instead, the EPA now only references natural causes, which is scientifically inaccurate. e360.yale.edu/digest/epa-w...

It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years. The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:

Ottawa will provide an additional $1.17 billion to Alberta in order to extend the federal-provincial subsidized child-care program for another year. The previous agreement was set to expire April 1, 2026. The new deal will run through March 31, 2027.

Don't sleep on Garamond

Climate scientist Simon Donner has resigned as co-chair of the federal government’s Net Zero Advisory Body. www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

The #CharlieKirk shooting has sparked widespread debate about political violence. So, we surveyed Canadians to evaluate their perceptions of the event and political violence, comparing our results to U.S. data when available. Here's what we found 🧵 #cdnpoli #uspoli

Influencers are the internet's new information brokers, setting the pace for political conversation that traditional outlets and organizations struggle to match. Our latest brief maps these creators' role in Canada's digital landscape between Jan. 2024–July 2025. 🧵 #cdnpoli

Thanks to The Line for running this piece I wrote. I look at how partisans in Canada disagree on where it is important for emission reductions to take place. A difficult topic to broach in today's public opinion environment! www.readtheline.ca/p/chris-ross...

WEEKLY UPDATE: WEEK 3 OF CANADA’S 45TH FEDERAL ELECTION🚨 As Canada approaches its federal election, we're witnessing a surge in generative AI (GenAI) content that poses serious challenges to the integrity of our information ecosystem. 🧵⬇️ #GenAI #Deepfakes #CanadaElection2025

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