We are launching one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of 2SLGBTQI+ children’s picture books in the world at the IBBY International Congress this week in Ottawa. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

Canadian senator debuts largest queer picture-book collection in the world | Xtra Magazine

Alberta senator Kristopher Wells partnered with IBBY Canada to launch a publicly available collection of more than 300 LGBTQ2S+ picture books

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“As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in.” “The Metals Co., headquartered in Vancouver, has received the thumbs-up from Trump to mine the deep sea. But it wasn’t Trump’s place to give the thumbs-up.” #CdnPoli #Conservation #DeepSeaMining 

The Vancouver Company Working with Trump to Mine the Deep Sea | The Tyee

As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in. A Tyee special report.

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MondoAB@mondoab.bsky.social · 10h ago

Evil beyond measure. Humanity is cancer. "Deep-sea mining will cause more damage to the oceans than climate change, pollution, ocean acidification, global warming and oil spills combined, said Cherisse Du Preez, head of deepwater ecology at Fisheries and Oceans Canada." thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Disinformation alert: While "mail-in ballots" are prohibited this fall, voting by "Special Ballot" is allowed. The OC states that the process "does not prevent advance voting... or voting by a Special Ballot..." "Special Ballot" is simply another term for voting by mail.

Tiffany Forster@eclectif.bsky.social · 14h ago

Jared, have you seen this?

Questions 1-5 in the upcoming referendum are about denying provincial services to immigrants on works visas Never mind that these immigrants pay taxes This will deny healthcare & education to 1000s of kids #NoToTheNine This cannot be my #Alberta #ableg #abpoli www.elections.ab.ca/elections/re...

You guys… This ain’t that. All this OIC means is that the referendum cannot be conducted by mail only. Special ballots are mail in. They are allowed, just not as the only method. And available. And you should sign up. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...

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How about: 💔👇 "What's the province done to cause this?" "The memo said a recommendation for the city to advocate for additional supervised consumption services or overdose prevention sites is “no longer applicable” with provincial policy directions leading to the closure of sites in Alberta."

How Edmonton is responding to a record number of overdose deaths | CBC News

Edmonton city councillors say they were shocked to learn that a record number of people fatally overdosed in the city last year.

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Fixed it: We’re transforming our economy — and some of the biggest LAYOFFS WON'T take time. F this guy. share.google/gMqN9aoNA7uZ...

Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump

Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.

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Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’re transforming our economy — and some of the biggest payoffs will take time.   That’s why we’re focused on giving Canadians a boost today and a bridge to a better tomorrow.

Our annual fundraiser: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Neon Nights for Human Rights! CJHR 3rd Annual Fundraiser

The Coalition's Totally Rad 80s Fundraiser!Join us for our 3rd Annual Fundraiser for the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights. Join us for a radical Trip…

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This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear

The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country

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Private registries have no business vetting citizenship. They have no right to make copies of documents or demand they be handed over. Ultimately, the UCP is creating their own database of who is Canadian by birth and who isn't. That should scare people. #ableg #abpoli

"Pharmacists have been told they will be allowed to give out provincially funded COVID-19 vaccines to eligible Albertans once again this fall." This story slipped under the radar I can only assume this policy changed because there's an election in 2027 #ableg #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pharmacists preparing to give out free COVID shots to high-risk Albertans again this fall | CBC News

Pharmacists have been told they will be allowed to give out provincially funded COVID-19 vaccines to eligible Albertans once again this fall.

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Oh wow, and the #UCP gov't is giving them how many millions of dollars? #abpoli #ableg share.google/xCiIEYYvjhIN...

Woman charged with assault after child allegedly hit with belt at Alberta private school: RCMP | CBC News

A resident of Cleardale, Alta., was charged after a boy was physically disciplined with a belt at a private school earlier this year. Police found the practice was being used at some private Mennonite...

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The Real Reason the UCP Is Expanding Private School Funding | The Tyee

Alberta’s private school lobby is vocal, well organized and aggressive. And devoted to the UCP.

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What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.

As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News

Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...

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"Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides’ Calgary-Bow riding received three times more contributions in 2025 compared to the previous year. And most of that money can be traced back to private school operators and childcare companies." theijf.org/brief/privat...

Private school, childcare companies top donors to Alberta education minister’s constituency association

The Calgary-Bow constituency association got three times more contributions in 2025 versus 2024

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These fuckers better hope there's no afterlife, because I can't even conceive of what punishment awaits those who intentionally destroy a biosphere.

I'm just so disgusted by Canada's political class. The vast majority of them are pro-genocide, they use a CSAM site, they're gleefully pouring gas on a burning world. They're truly the worst of us.

Every single Liberal MP who hasn't left the party in disgust should be ashamed of themselves. But they won't be. You need to have pre-existing ethics and morals to actually be ashamed of yourself for breaking them. I cannot believe how shitty our leaders are right now. It's beyond belief.

National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · 2d ago

Ottawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/o...

From the Alberta Prosperity Project website.

Bruce 🇨🇦@manitos2016.bsky.social · 2d ago

Saw 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.

I am helping a new mother, still a youth herself and her young brother. Their dad and brother died tragically last month. Setting up grief counselling. They have no means. Does anybody know of a low cost vet for thier kitten to get needles, neutered? He's so important to them right now.

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

The problem with pandering to conspiracy theorists is that as soon as real issues that act as scaffolding for their theories are addressed, they'll just find different "facts" to plug those holes in their worldview. The worldview is what they believe in, the facts they use to support it are fluid.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

I think MPs should have to be in office the same number of days as other public servants. They like their hybrid arrangements? Then everyone else gets them too. And I think voting on legislation from their phones should be illegal, and the fact that any MPs have done it should be a massive scandal.

National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · 2d ago

Years after the pandemic, MPs are divided on hybrid Parliament rules nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/y...

Big thanks to @thewalrus.ca for reprinting my takedown of Tim Hortons Canada's new Harry Potter collab ✨ "No one wants this. Even the people who haven’t given up Harry Potter—none of them were banging down Tim Hortons’ door specifically to demand this." thewalrus.ca/nobody-asked...

Nobody Asked for Harry Potter Donuts | The Walrus

The new Tim Hortons collaboration will only fuel J. K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade

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If it separates, Alberta would have to reckon with fact that nearly all the oil it exports to US gets shipped through other Canadian provinces. By me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | An independent Alberta's U.S. oil exports would mostly be piped through other provinces | CBC News

Canada and separated Alberta could reach pipeline shipment deals. But there are no guarantees in trade talks, experts say.

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Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges, Prosper Heri Ngorora, Constant Same Bagalwa, and Wilson Mcmakin report. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #EbolaOutbreak

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10