Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
@daveberta.bsky.social
🇨🇦🌾🏔️ Proud Canadian and proud Albertan. Writing and podcasting about Alberta politics, elections and history since 2005. 🤠 Subscribe: https://Daveberta.Substack.com
🗞️ Edmonton Journal coverage of the first Heritage Day in 1974 (on page 62! Remember when newspapers had that many pages?)
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 2d agoIn 1974, the government of Peter Lougheed declared the first Monday in August to be Heritage Day, an official holiday to celebrate multiculturalism and our heritage roots. #Alberta #ableg #abpoli
Only about 100 days left until ski season starts again. ⛷️
Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social · 3d agoWhich reminds me, it is time for ski dreams. I turn into a troll in the smoke. I am ready to resume my winter personality.
Hey everyone, I have some news: I'm creating a new project today called @thewatchdog.ca The Watchdog's editorial mission is to protect the public and defend democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism. Sign up here as it gets ready to launch: www.thewatchdog.ca/p/sign-up
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Mark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a Bubble
Alt: Steve Carell calling it a bubble on a phone call in The Big Short, because I couldn't find a gif of the stripper in Florida telling him about the multiple properties she owned as investments
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d agoMicrosoft had its best stock single day stock performance since 2008 this week and Amazon is now ripping as well. The reason for both is that demand for AI services is skyrocketing and they can’t build datacenters fast enough to keep up. It’s a gold rush and the hyperscalers have found the gold
🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social
🤠☀️Working on a new Alberta politics column. I’m planning to publish it in the next few days.
'Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta' changes name to 'Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations' in response to what they call "unprecedented political climate being fostered by the current Alberta government.”
Fun exchange on Reddit in which an Alberta driver learns they're paying TEN TIMES what a Quebec driver is paying for insurance on a 20-year-old vehicle.
Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
True Irish legend and why oh why do we keep losing the good ones while we suffer pure evil ones. 😢 RIP. ☘️ 🎶
Julie Cohen ❌👑@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · last wk."Raise your hopeful voice. You have a choice." RIP Glen Hansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...
Surprised Costco hasn’t done this, like they did with gasoline
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 7d agoThe unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?
they’re calling it the least sympathetic complaint in human history
Futurism@futurism.com · 7d ago"I have no idea how to get around this."
Feeling a little choked about this today. I saw Glen Hansard perform with Markéta Irglová in Seattle back in 2023. It was a great outdoor show. The two of them brought so much talent to the stage.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.Breaking News: Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” has died at 56 in a motorcycle crash.
Breaking News: Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” has died at 56 in a motorcycle crash.
Glen Hansard, Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56
The Irish singer-songwriter, who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” died in a motorcycle crash.
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I spoke to CBC Edmonton AM about the Alberta govt bringing in two-tier diagnostic testing The evidence is clear: it will increase wait times for those in medical need while allowing the wealthy to get their treatment first. Albertans stand to lose #abpoli www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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My forthcoming book was named one of Indigo’s most anticipated books. You can both pre-order it AND eat into Indigo’s profit margins until Aug. 2. www.indigo.ca/products/dar...
If anyone is interested in hiring this award-winning journalist, I'd be pleased to give a reference check extolling how talented and competent my former colleague and co-union steward @emmaarkell.bsky.social is to anyone interested Exhibit A:
PressProgress Labour Reporter Emma Arkell Wins Silver Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Labour Reporting
Emma Arkell reported on anti-LGBTQ+ harassment targeting teachers and education workers for Xtra Magazine last year
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Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · last wk.This is my last working week as the labour reporter at PressProgress. I received notice a little over a week ago that the labour reporter position is being terminated and I’m being laid off.
Scoop: The Liberal government is sitting on a proposal from Meta that could restore news to Facebook and Instagram in Canada. But Playbook has learned the offer is now caught up in broader Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Elections are decided by those who show up. Albertans who want our province to remain part of Canada need to show up to vote on October 19 or it won’t just be a weird fever dream we wake up from on October 20. It could be a weird new reality.
Weird fever dream? Sleepwalking? What is even happening in Alberta right now?
Albertans need to get out and vote on October 19, 2026
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One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.
July 25th's storm pushed the July total up to 242.5mm, which is Blatchford's 3rd rainiest month on record. #yegwx #yeg The only months with more were 269.1mm last month, and 282.7mm in 1901. (and one more big storm could catch either of those) public.tableau.com/shared/XJ56W...
This weekend there are many locations across Alberta to claim your free #ForeverCanadian lawn sign. Check this website for locations: www.forever-canadian.ca/en/lawn-signs Locations are updated daily. Spread the word!!!
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Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi explains why he thinks scapegoating immigrants is fundamentally UnAlbertan. Watch the full interview with Naheed Nenshi by Forward Weekly Editor Omar Mouallem here: forwardweekly.ca/interview-wi...
