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Alberta is restricting when the Treaty 6 and Métis Nation flags are flown at schools to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Pride flags will NEVER be allowed to fly. But you can fly the Vatican City flag. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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Senator Paula Simons on the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum: "‘We can’t let the anti-immigrant, anti-migrant rhetoric of the toxic Trump regime colonize our imaginations and trick us into thinking that Alberta has an immigration problem when it doesn’t." #ABPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Our Alberta Advantage @ouralbertadvantage.bsky.social has been doing great work, educating people about all 10 referendum questions. Now, they are looking for volunteers to help drive people to the advance polls next week? Can you help?

This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.

New Book! New Book! ENJOY. ENDURE is a travel journal from my time in Vietnam 2023. AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27th (Cause it's World Tourism Day) You can go look at my storenvy for more. A few other items got updated as well. meredithmcclaren.storenvy.com I am doing it. I am doing the commerce thing.

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social sat down with Jennie Rose Halperin to talk about how generative AI is destroying library collections, and how digital marketplaces like Amazon are being inundated with AI slop which makes it harder for independent publishers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0x...

Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...

Chelsea Vowel is someone whose work you know, even if you don't know it's from her. She's someone who has influenced Canadian politics as a whole for a decade and is in need of support, if you are able.

The referendums aren't creating racism. They are surfacing and normalizing it. globalnews.ca/news/1203819...

TRUSTNO1, an unofficial X Files zine, currently accepting artist contributor applications until August 24th 👽 For-profit, print-only, all art! Email your portfolio/art samples to trustno1.zine@proton.me

BEYOND LOCAL: BREAKING: Alberta regulator rejects massive natural gas power plant proposed for AI data centre near Olds

If you are in Alberta, double check that you are registered to vote! Somehow I wasn’t but now I am! You can check here: www.voterlink.ab.ca

X FILES FANS WE ARE BACK! 👽🛸 TRUSTNO1: THE (unofficial) X FILES ZINE VOL. 2. With @nicodelort.bsky.social @blackdragonpress.co.uk Now accepting art submissions until August 24. Email trustno1.zine@proton.me with images/your portfolio 🚬

My dashery store is on sale! Get a silly thing, go on! ◉‿◉

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Like her hero Donald Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has always understood that populist movements like her United Conservative Party are based more on tribal identity than serious policy. #abpoli

I have launched a running list of the groups, politicians, and individuals who are campaigning or taken positions in the Alberta separation referendum debate. I will be updating this page as I receive new names, so please click on the link and bookmark it to keep up to date.

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

I interviewed someone that was detained at Delaney Hall and then suddenly deported. This comic follows some of their story. thank you to my patrons for the suggesting this topic, and E for willing to be interviewed.

We have studied the Montreal shooter's manifesto, discussed it in a community of experts, and read the coverage and reactions. This article is a good start. Other commentary has focused on the wrong parts and covered up violence towards women. So let's talk. 🧵 montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fired back at First Nations chiefs for accusing her of treason saying it was "disgraceful." The chiefs voted unanimously at a Calgary meeting to call for an RCMP investigation into Smith and the UCP on a fall separatism vote.

‘They hate us more now’: Treaty Chiefs rally against #Alberta separatism At Treaty Unity rally in Calgary, First Nation Chiefs warn Alberta’s separatism has imported #Trump’s politics. New from @brandimorin.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/t...

A recent survey published by Ipsos suggests support for separation from Canada is both limited and decreasing in Alberta — a trend that @djclimenhaga.bsky.social is betting will grow more evident as Albertans start paying attention to what Premier Smith and her government have perpetrated. #abpoli

Treaty is forever.

Ok so the committee meeting for the Forever Canada petition has taken a surprise turn. After hearing from proponent Thomas Lukaszuk, Minister Nate Glubish made a motion to recommend the legislature send the petition and committee report to the lt-gov for the purpose of calling a referendum Oct 19

Eight of us weigh in on the court's separatist petition ruling. thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...

Albertans are starting to organize, demanding governments establish adequate regulations and provide sufficient information on the risks artificial intelligence and its outsized homes pose. @ximenaka.bsky.social reports. #abpoli #AI

“Burying a book is nearly as effective as burning it.”

My latest for Alberta Native News: www.albertanativenews.com/22705-2/

I break down the saga of separatists, voter list abuse and an ever-spiralling mess that's emerged on today's Front Burner pod. The FB team NAILED the episode's title. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Elections Alberta says over 550 people accessed the database with the leaked personal info of nearly 3 million people under investigation. And Alberta’s privacy watchdog now says she’ll be doing her own probe too. From me and @reportrix.bsky.social: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

At least one UCP staffer attended April 16 demo of database that used restricted personal information. albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/at-l...

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Final updated file on Alberta voter list breach today: feat. privacy commish law reform call, Smith saying no, Elections Alberta pointing finger at Gov, Gov pointing it back, Nenshi calling for emerg committee meeting, and the 4:50 release from McClure. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Wiiiiild *Elections Alberta gets court injunction for separatist group to pull down its searchable voter list *Court told the list was provided by Republican Party of Alberta, an upstart separatist party *Unauthorized use of voter list: Really, really illegal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Premier Danielle Smith’s government is launching a propaganda blitz that will use Albertans’ tax money to persuade people to vote “Yes” next fall on a series of ballot questions on constitutional and immigration questions. #abpoli

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/...

Absolute legend, Dorothy Thunder, my language mentor and former colleague. What a beautiful piece about all the incredible work she does! indiginews.com/features/thr...

💥The UCP government is introducing a motion in the legislature to spike the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replace it with an MLA committee and an advisory panel that will redraw the new riding boundaries for the next provincial election. 👀

It’s a good ol’ fashioned (digital) letter writing campaign! Support your public library before they censor it away. www.caplibraries.ca/stand-up-for...

The Bouncing Souls Plot North American Tour

imagine “pope leo is weak on crime” being the thought that fought its way out of that pudding brain. what others must still be trapped inside.

The #ableg bill echoes Idaho's, but then goes further. The state's 2024 law defines obscene materials. Alberta's proposed law does not - it creates very broad powers to regulate public libraries. Alberta's gov says they're focused on one thing, to be written in regulations. ICYMI: shorturl.at/Zcsi2

NEW: On the final day of arguments for First Nations efforts to quash the approval of a separatist referendum petition at the Court of King's Bench, chiefs raised questions about collaboration between government and separatist lawyers. www.readtheorchard.org/p/chiefs-rai...

Back today for arguments from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. The gist of their case is a bit different from yesterday (and unlike Sturgeon Lake names separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre as a defendant) edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Via @jaredwesley.ca Why Danielle Smith's Populist Referendums Are Dangerous to Democracy via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...