SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
🇨🇦 Dwain B 🇺🇦
@notwayne.bsky.social
Chief sandwich maker, car washer and haiku writer in residence. I used to design structures now I just admire them.
600 homes burned to the ground. 60K people evacuated. This is huge and we’re barely even noticing anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate
Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spo...
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Did that hike in 2002. Not sure I would make it to the top today. Well done PM Carney!
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 4d agoLast weekend in Gros Morne. We really do live in the most beautiful country in the world.
NO to all 9. On October 19, 2026, Albertans have a clear choice: ✅ Reject every referendum question. ✅ Vote to remain in Canada. ✅ Responsible growth. United future. #NoToAll9 #RemainInCanada #StrongerTogetherAB
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
You better read this. If you have to pay out of pocket for preventative healthcare testing, how much damage will that do? People already punished by the disparity economy in Alberta won’t pay for testing. Health issues will rise, sick days will impact businesses. Death tolls will increase.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2w agoWhile Wab Kinew was speaking about the greatest possible nation building project that Canada could undertake is public healthcare... Danielle Smith quietly privatized a huge swath of Albertan's healthcare. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Snapped this pic while on my break from raking the forest floor. Yoho NP.
Gotta love a great bridge, especially a natural one. Yoho National Park.
Trump Slaps Fiery Tariff on Canada & SAVE Act Takes Voting Cues from Olive Garden youtu.be/Hfg94T3WOAA
Trump Slaps Fiery Tariff on Canada & SAVE Act Takes Voting Cues from Olive Garden | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
wired.com
Losing with grace is another lost skill. Too many participation medals or too many “leaders” that think life is a zero sum game. Anyway, congratulations to Spain on a well played tournament! #WorldCup
Robbing our children. That’s the Alberta way.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 4w agoAlbertans insist on nurturing their grievances. Fine. They might want to think a little more about the ones they have with their own provincial governments -- and the scale of damage their decisions have done. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/07/o...
I could get behind this. Still have a few themed shirts from my Engineering Week bands in the closet that might fit (probably not).
Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 4w agoI wish Calgary would embrace other themed costume weeks like it does Stampede. There should be a week where we dress up like magicians. Another where everyone is now a zebra. It would be good.
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
bloomberg.com
How a Calgarian created Canada’s flag (www.sprawlcalgary.com/canadian-fla...) An excellent read on Canada Day.
How a Calgarian created Canada’s flag | The Sprawl
George Stanley proposed ‘a simple red and white’ design.
sprawlcalgary.com
Casper was out and enjoying the green hills of Calgary yesterday.
It would be a good time to remind ALL Albertans that this Premier and this government does NOT have a mandate for what they are doing to fair and equitable HC Access. They ran on a Public Health Guarantee. The Premier lied, and simply cannot be trusted.
Finished reading Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine - Anna Reid. Well written blend of history and travelogue. Updated to include the Maidan protests and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Good account of the country’s tragic history and good context for the current war. Slava Ukraine!
Alberta has produced a lot of good people over its history. Preston Manning is not one of them. #abpoli
Petzie (AMW) 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦@amwpetzie.bsky.social · 2mo ago
If the premier wanted this to look above board and impartial, she would have picked from the many retired judges who don't have a recent history of donating to political party. Instead, we get this:
NigelBankes@nigelb.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere's the retired judge appointed to serve as chair of the UCP's gerrymander committee. Thanks @daveberta.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
