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Author Curtis Gillespie considers five possible futures for the premier in this week’s Forward Weekly feature. forwardweekly.ca/whats-next-f... #ableg #abpoli #canpoli

New: AI data centers’ indirect water use - water consumed by power plants to generate electricity for power-hungry server farms - is magnitudes larger than the facilities’ onsite water consumption and is largely undisclosed. Free link. With @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The GoA is letting these stealthy data centre permits just slide on through. Typical

When younger I looked forward to and embraced winter and related sports. Now it’s more about winter’s relief from the incessant noise/small dick energy pouring out of the exhaust pipes of motorbike psychopaths.

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. 🧵

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

"Danielle Smith, eat all the shit that's ever been shat, you septic tank of a goblin." Don't sugar-coat it, Henry Sir. www.instagram.com/reel/DdhRE4Y...

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Goodness. We probably don’t even have a Jays’ run this year.

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

Sure. Ok. Why not. Add it to the list.

Disappointed to see the Alberta gambling ads now on the Jay’s telecasts. Historically, some years, Alberta has made more revenue from gambling and liquor than energy, which, you know, is very much on brand.

Honest Government Ads nails it again: youtu.be/MSZgoFyuHC8?...

Over estimate the benefits Understate the costs Privatize the profits Socialize all the costs

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

This decision has the smell of algae in the reflecting pool.

Alberta’s Premier is awful and corrupt.

Why is Carney being such a knob about Trump’s idiotic disastrous war, from start to ‘finish’ ?

Dale Smith on the UCP: '[as] Gerson points out—these people think that they’re strategic geniuses for engineering conservative victories in Alberta.'...'None of this is going to end well, in part because these are deeply stupid and unserious people, and the country is going to suffer as a result.'

SCOOP: Premier Danielle Smith appointee to Invest Alberta's board is not an accredited accountant, despite claiming so for more than a decade: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

Exhausting horseshit from Smith.

If all these data centers go ahead Albertans are screwed - Farms are screwed Ranches are screwed Cities are screwed They contaminate the water and use all our power In return, a handful of Albertans will be employed This is NOT a good deal for Albertans #ableg #abpoli

And in this same article a Biron quote that Albertans might think about: ‘Building renewables was an option “I never heard that anybody ever regretted”, he said. “I don’t see any downsides for renewable energy.” ‘

Ontario fast-tracks FOI changes that would shield Doug Ford’s phone records from public. Ewwww. Albertaesque.

As the old saying goes: a hit dog will holler. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Danielle Smith's government just keeps finding new ways to protect their corruption from proper investigation and prosecution.

Carney should sit Gladu next to NDP floor-crossers Idlout and Begum (election pending). It’ll give them a chance to discuss their shared value(s).

“Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment” Because of course they did. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...

It just gets worse: the U.S. Forest Service being dismantled was not something I had considered.

The Premier of Alberta, who helped usher in a vote to declare independence from Canada, talked up Ivermectin at a Forum obsessed with thinly-veiled antisemitic conspiracy theories about international bankers. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Maybe there is a former senior AHS bureaucrat who knows about this and other pertinent issues?

A phase out of incentives for Alberta doctors (stipends) could have a substantial effect on the availability of hospital care, starting April 1. Not only did surgeons warn of potential cancellations, but ER docs and hospitalists are warning of a potential hit to emergency and inpatient care #ableg

Completed the headlights survey linked below. It seems to be a concern everywhere (though I thought it was regulated in the EU?).

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Danielle Smith launched a "Alberta Open For Business" campaign designed to double Alberta's population by 2030. And now she's blaming immigrants and Ottawa for our failing underfunded education and health systems - and her major budget deficit.

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thinking about the dems' plan to fully fund ice on condition they stop doing already-illegal crimes

Pets are the best.

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Danielle Smith wrote to Mark Carney demanding her say in the appointment of federal judges... And also threatening that if she doesn't get a say, she will withhold funding for new judicial appointments. Because crime and justice or something. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

As @jenleecbc.bsky.social reports, many Alberta patients are not getting cardiac or cancer surgery within recommended times, and increasing private surgical capacity hasn’t improved the situation to date #AbLeg #AbHealth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quick primer from last March on why buying the F-35 poses such an enormous security risk to Canada. Hint: It's not about jobs and only slightly about who's responsible for repairs and maintenance. blaynehaggart.com/2025/03/08/t...

Smith: "I wish I could direct the judges” "She added that she recently wrote to Mark Carney proposing more provincial involvement in judicial appointments “so that we start choosing judges in Alberta that reflect the values of how we want them to operate here.”" Ponder that for a moment. 🎁

Two years ago, private companies were lined up to build new renewable energy powerplants in AB, w/ ZERO subsidies from the AB government. We led the country by a wide margin. Then, oil lobbyist Danielle Smith happened. First to last in just two years. Thanks, Dani 😞. #ableg #cdnpoli