The Predator's Table publishes August 1, 2026. You can purchase it now through Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/a/126451/979... I chose Bookshop.org and local and independent booksellers as the preferred purchase options for this book deliberately.
Grant Neufeld
@grantzero.bsky.social
😷 Social & environmental justice. Software development (apps & web systems, Swift, Ruby, accessibility, data modeling, workflow). Treaty 7 resident in Mohkinstis (territory which the settler nation “Canada” claims). he/they https://linktr.ee/grantzero
This week I wrote three stories, all surfacing from overlooked public documents in Alberta. On Monday, we revealed that power generators are expecting wholesale electricity prices in Alberta to triple when first data centres come online. 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...
nationalobserver.com
The UCP-controlled government of Alberta is viciously attacking people with disabilities. Adding more unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles to people’s lives, reducing their already extremely low income, and generally promoting misery. #ABLeg #AbolishTheUCP youtu.be/ARulIO_zqCE
Alberta is Making Life Harder for Disabled People — Here's How
YouTube video by Prairie Watchdog
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"When I first had the idea for LitResistance, I was feeling the weight of everything that’s going on in provincial politics,” Edmonton social worker and banned book subscription founder Robyn Wilson told The Tyee. 📚 @ximenaka.bsky.social reports. #ABPoli thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee
The club sends members titles that have been pulled from public library shelves. It joins a widespread fight against censorship across North America.
thetyee.ca
While Canada’s Premiers met this week, Alberta quietly reclassified all preventive testing as non-insured extended health services. Laying groundwork to delist health services from public coverage? Yet another step towards two-tier health care. www.friendsofmedicare.org/oic_step_tow...
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
Canada arguably has a Red Tory party — it just so happens to still be called “the Liberal Party of Canada.” Rachel Gilmore writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Mark Carney, Red Tory | The Tyee
The prime minister is causing a major realignment in Canadian politics. More proof came Wednesday.
thetyee.ca
And with that, solar will continue to bring real human and economic improvements. Read the full report here: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The solarisation of Pakistan’s energy economy | Ember
Distributed solar is driving up Pakistan's electricity demand, bringing huge social and economic benefits.
ember-energy.org
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...
‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
ricochet.media
What a week. Amidst the blur of World Cup shenanigans and Canada Day festivities, politicians dropped not one, not two, but three massive pipeline announcements. If pipelines such an economic boon, why are taxpayers footing the bill? thenarwhal.ca/three-pipeli...
Making sense of Canada’s pipeline flurry | The Narwhal
Politicians dropped three pipeline announcements this week. If they’re such an economic boon, why are taxpayers footing the bill?
thenarwhal.ca
From here out when someone says they're sorry I'm offended, I'm going to reply "No, be sorry that you're offensive. You wouldn't have to worry about my responses if you knew how to control yourself." Fuck half apologies.
Calgarians: There’s a new Wikipedia meetup group starting. Their first meetup is tomorrow, 2pm, at the Central Library downtown. #yyc Details and (free) registration info at: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:C...
Event:Calgary Meetup June 2026 - Meta-Wiki
meta.wikimedia.org
"It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption…" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill
With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access ...
eff.org
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
I know this might surprise some of you, but I believe people who treat women badly are unfit for public office (and most things).
Why we still using "high risk" to describe targeted communities? There is nothing high-risk about being Indigenous youth, sex worker, unhoused, or undocumented migrant This pathologizing language shifts focus from criminalization, colonialism & capitalism that manufacture high-risk *conditions.*
I got bashed for this page by certain folks. It's a joke, duh, and an exaggeration, duh, but it's based on reality (duh). Shops are generally better than when I was a nerd kid but shit definitely still happens.
One way to tell if someone is an organizer is whether they make calls to action at every single gathering where people are and whether they carry around propaganda to leave in public spaces.
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
The more immediate impact of the separatists' big bluff? Without having to provide any evidence, the separatists convinced many Albertans that they were capable of finding 178,000 people to sign a petition. Much like disinformation about crowd sizes, this makes the movement seem bigger than it is.
This part. Every settler needs to be defending Indigenous sovereignty and the obligation to honour treaties. Smith’s appeal and attack on “the rule of law” is most harmfully a delegitimizing of First Nations’ rights.
Danielle Smith insists that she can privatize Alberta’s health care legally. But in a 2021 podcast, she discussed how it would require “throwing out” federal law. @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social & @desaima.bsky.social argue that with Bill 11, Smith is dismantling public medicare with her eyes wide open.
Danielle Smith admitted she wants to ‘throw out’ Canada’s public health care law ⋆ The Breach
On a 2021 podcast, the Alberta premier wondered aloud if privatizing health care would require breaking federal law. Despite learning the answer was ‘yes,’ she’s still going ahead with it
breachmedia.ca
Recent research from other jurisdictions has emerged about the effectiveness of gender-affirming care for youth and the harms of restricting access to it. Corinne L. Mason and Leah Hamilton write. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Alberta’s False Claims on Trans Health Care | The Tyee
The UCP says its moves to limit care ‘follow the science.’ That’s not true.
thetyee.ca
Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)
As MOU negotiations continue, don’t forget: there's no credible pathway to a low-carbon grid in Alberta without building more renewables. There has been a 93% drop in new projects in Alberta. Find out why ⬇️ buff.ly/0zi5Qfi
