bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News

An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...

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Today is the last day to request a special ballot (mail-in) for the referendum. Election day will be a complete mess, so avoid the lines and vote by mail. specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400

My transcription software keeps transcribing "Crowsnest Pass" as "Christmas past" and I smile every time.

And the media should treat as such. The separatist leaders are loons and grifters. Giving a platform to folks who think the King of England is scheming to assassinate them and people who have "allegedly" stolen millions of dollars from First Nations is dangerous.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 4d ago

What's happening in Alberta is even more batshit than I ever thought. Danielle Smith is a dangerous psychopath, and the AB separatist movement largely exists because COVID broke far-right brains, and is led by Christo-fascist religious white nationalists, relying on dark money. 2/n

“Sylvestre also says he’s on the record a hundred times saying he does not want to start an Alberta separatist party and wants nothing to do with a new party.” Separatists are inherently lazy. Going the Quebec route by starting a party and winning an election is too much work for these grifters.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 4d ago

Completely predictable, completely inevitable. #abpoli calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

I just remembered that I had wallpaper from Disney's The Black Hole in my childhood bedroom, just in case any of you doubt my coolness.

"...she is little more than a political opportunist whose primary ambition is wielding state power to reward her allies and discipline her enemies." I have been waiting a long time for someone to say this out loud.

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · last wk.

NEW: I argue in the Globe that there’s less to Danielle Smith than meets the eye www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I took home an Alberta Magazine Award for my story about Danielle Smith’s war on trans kids last night. I’m thrilled. Go read it at @albertaviews.bsky.social.

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Can we hurry up and put Ms. Rachel in charge of everything already?

"A judge has denied Tamara Lich permission to travel internationally while she serves a 12-month house-arrest sentence, including on a Caribbean cruise" are actual words an actual person had to write.

Quebecers could equally claim that their taxes paid for federal expenses in Alberta, such as grants for public transit, wildfire fighting or subsidies to oil companies. “Sacré bleu,” they could rage, “stop subsidizing those western bastards!” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee

The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.

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This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social · last wk.

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“They’re technically alive, I guess, if you want to call that living. They open and close sometimes, but, I mean, so does a wallet. If you’ve used a wallet, you know more or less all there is to know about clams.” theonion.com/biologists-a...

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams

WOODS HOLE, MA—Saying they saw no conceivable reason to bother with the bivalve mollusks, biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced Thursday that there was absolutely nothing to...

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Oh, just wait until the right wing free speech brigade hears about this!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

Anyone stupid enough to believe Trump will spend more than a trillion dollars to give out $5000 cheques is already stupid enough to vote Republican anyway.

NEW POST: You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...

You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves

Over at journalist Paul Wells’s newsletter, he has opened the door to guest columnists on the Alberta secession question.

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In which Derek Fildebrandt makes the case for Alberta separatism and says the not-very-quiet part out loud. "Rapid mass migration dilutes our voting power." Sorry, "our"? Who's the "our" here? paulwells.substack.com/p/derek-fild...

Derek Fildebrandt: Bertasplaining independence to the Rest of Canada

In a guest column, the Western Standard publisher explains why he’s voting to Leave

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Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

Details of Cardiff and Miller’s kinetic installation, The Marionette Maker.

From a confirmed source within the Calgary Board of Education... Over 1000 kids across Calgary are being denied an education. Because of UCP changes to the Education Act, over 1000 kids are being denied an education because of delays in immigration processing. Over 1000.

The chief characteristic of Alberta separatists is bigotry, followed closely by gullibility.

Arrivederci, Barilla. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Gal Gadot’s Goodles Mac-and-Cheese Startup Acquired by Pasta Giant Barilla

Goodles, the mac-and-cheese brand co-founded by actress Gal Gadot, announced a deal to be acquired by the Barilla Group, the world's largest pasta company.

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The entire Alberta separatist movement will collapse.

MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social · 3w ago

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down

The mail-in ballots for the xenophobic referendum questions and the referendum to think about maybe having another future referendum come with a threat of a $50k fine and up to two years in jail if you are able to go to advanced or regular voting places. Glad to see the UCP fucking this up, as per.

A happy surprise. Precarious nabbed a nomination for the J. W. Dafoe Book Prize. dafoefoundation.ca/2026/09/01/2...

Hey wow @theglobeandmail.com this is new to me and I hate it a lot.

Holy crap. Danielle Smith issued an "Alberta Day" statement this morning... And then reissued it, removing the acknowledgement of First Nations peoples in Alberta. And included a shout out to oil and gas instead. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

And who doesn't love pecan pie with a side of shrimp?

Tea Pain@teapainusa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

I wish the CBC asked Notley and Kenney about the other nine referendum questions. They're as important as separation, if not more so, because they have a reasonable chance of passing. And this would be a disaster. youtu.be/Clp4fK9qwQA?...

Notley, Kenney set aside differences, advocate to keep Alberta in Canada | Power & Politics

YouTube video by CBC News

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