Charles Rusnell
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social
Independent investigative journalist in Edmonton, Alberta. Ex Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Contact in confidence at journalismtips@protonmail.com
From the Alberta Prosperity Project website.
Bruce 🇨🇦@manitos2016.bsky.social · 2d agoSaw a Poilievre clip from an event today and his major slogan was "Faith, family, and freedom". WTF??? So anyone who's not christian, not in a "traditional" family, and who believes in civic responsibility and the means to achieve it is not welcome in the CPC's 🇨🇦. Cause we know that's what he means.
To fully understand why carbon capture is a failed technology, you need to contrast it with electric battery technology and solar technology - that is the competing technology. Carbon capture 'works' - but in the same way laserdisc films work. It works much worse than existing alternatives.
A great history of the big promises of carbon capture and the equally big failures of carbon capture technology to achieve much of anything.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2w ago“This is a dream that could truly change the world. Friends, the era of empty rhetoric on the environment is over. We’re taking real action that will produce real, tangible results.” — Stephen Harper, 2007 @meyer.bsky.social on 19 years of carbon capture promises: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...
@thetyee.ca first broke the story of Deer's criminal record July 21. thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta (Parody)@abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 6d agoThere is no shortage of convicted criminals in Alberta’s separatist movement. #abpoli #ableg #AlbertaSeparation #ABreferendum www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Clear-eyed assessment here via @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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As a life-long cyclist, including as a year-round commuter, what I have noticed since the advent of protected bike lanes is the increasing number of people, including many couples, in their 50s,60s, and 70s riding bikes that I never saw before.
Cailynn Klingbeil@cailynn.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about bike lanes for @theglobeandmail.com #yycbike #yegbike www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
If you don't know who @naheednenshi.bsky.social is, what he stands for as a politician, and how he thinks, this interview helps to fill in some of those gaps. It's worth the time. forwardweekly.ca/interview-wi...
Naheed Nenshi Wants to Save Canada. First, He Has to Break Through. | Forward Weekly
Forward Weekly feature for July 19, 2026.
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File this under scaling new heights of hypocrisy, Ric McIver encouraging people to get a mail in ballot. He was the minister who eliminated tabulators and tightened voter ID rules based on no evidence. The long line ups, and astronomical cost of the referendum to taxpayers are on him.
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦@daveberta.bsky.social · 2w agoEven after writing about Alberta politics for more than 20 years it’s still sometimes hard to fully understand and explain what is happening in our province. 🙃😬
Carbon pricing not only lowered emissions it gave more money back to the majority of people, especially to the poorest Canadians. Shame on all the cynical politicians who repeated lies about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
Important under-the-radar story Via Zoe Mason - Essentially, the UCP are eliminating citizen-involved boards that might criticize the govt's anti-environmental agenda. The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta's Environmental Protection via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta’s Environmental Protection | The Tyee
For two decades, government advisory groups have forged consensus. Now they’re being shut down.
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This is a great column. Jen Gerson nails it again. A must read.
Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸@maxp94.bsky.social · 2w agoScathing, and deeply necessary.
ICYMI Separatist Site Offers Donors a Piece of the 'Republic of Alberta' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
Peter Navarro went to prison for refusing a subpoena related to his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the capital. He has spread baseless claims about the 2020 election. Clearly he is a bad actor, as defined by @jayrosen.bsky.social and yet the National Post trots him out. 1
scott dagostino@scottdagostino.ca · 2w agoOnce again, the Canadian newspaper owned by Americans has hired one of the worst Americans to tell Canadians in this “Canadian” paper that we suck. Stop giving government grants to this shit, @liberalca.bsky.social 😡
You can't make up what goes on in Alberta politics. A third party advertiser offers citizenship and land in a sovereign Alberta for a $1,000 donation plus a chance to win a van. Separatist Site Offers Donors a Piece of the 'Republic of Alberta' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
Separatist Site Offers Donors a Piece of the ‘Republic of Alberta’ | The Tyee
For a $1,000 contribution, a consortium seems to promise land and citizenship opportunities. ‘Unethical,’ says an expert.
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Donate to this third party advertiser, get Alberta citizenship, and a chance to win a van, offered by a guy convicted of manslaughter for hiring a hitman who killed a Calgary businessman. Separatists Offer Donors a Piece of the 'Republic of Alberta' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
Separatists Offer Donors a Piece of the ‘Republic of Alberta’ | The Tyee
For a $1,000 contribution, a website seems to promise land and citizenship opportunities. ‘Unethical,’ says one expert.
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Dead easy to apply for a mail-in ballot. The link is in the column. Skip the Line, Not the Vote open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Skip the Line, Not the Vote
How advance polls and mail-in ballots are key to mobilization in Alberta this fall
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After two separate investigations into procurement corruption, and an ongoing RCMP criminal investigation of procurement, the UCP govt of Danielle Smith still awards a $300K contract to her former campaign advisor's company, claiming it was an open competition when there is no evidence of that.
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w agoDanielle Smith's office has awarded a $300,000 government contract to an advertising agency co-founded by her former campaign advisor.
Via @rorywh.bsky.social Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/a...
Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres
In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
Scoop! After years of the UCP making it out that there was o specific budget for "Your Province, Your Premier", it turns out that Albertans are paying A LOT! Like almost $10,000 a month a LOT! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
The cost of "Your Province, Your Premier"
Albertans are paying almost $10,000 a month for Danielle Smith's radio show...
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This is a extremely well written, fascinating read by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social. Highly recommend.
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3w agoAs with so much of current wellness industry, Mikhaila Peterson's brand is about rage, political identity, distrust mongering, and $$$. Reinventing Medicine Badly www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social Sum: BUNK about "the carnivore diet, mould, mitochondria, & psychiatric drugs"
Journalists in Canada should take some time to read this because lying by politicians and others in positions of authority is increasing exponentially. Prof. Rosen offers a reasonable pragmatic approach to addressing this scourge to democracy.
Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 3w agoSuppose you wanted to know what Rosen had to say about truth sandwiches. He too had helped publicize the phrase— and concept. Now you can go to "Jay Rosen's Internet Archive" and enter the phrase "truth sandwich." See what you get. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...
Don Braid claims a cluster of anti semitic far left Alberta NDP members cheered the murder, rape and torture of Jews by Hamas on Oct. 7. Can someone point to any evidence of that because I could find none. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Really great reporting here by a team of young journalists at the @pressherald.com under a headline that isn't weasel speak.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
Quote also applies to Alberta and its publicly funded expansion of private schools.
Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat a telling quote. www.propublica.org/article/priv...
Yet more troubling allegations against separatist leader Jeff Rath. ‘Pattern of behaviour’: Rath faces mounting questions over First Nation trusts | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1196773...
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Must read thoroughly reported story by Global National's Ashleigh Stewart about separatist leader Jeff Rath's many legal fights over money with First Nations. Jeffrey Rath fought for First Nations. Now former clients are fighting him | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1196445...
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Via Ashleigh Stewart Judge freezes $8.5M of Alberta separatist lawyer’s assets amid First Nation trust fight | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1196454...
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