“RCMP also discovered the educators of the Mennonite schools are not accredited teachers, thus are legally considered adults supervising children.” ##abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1200863...

Student given strap at northern Alberta Mennonite school leads to assault charge | Globalnews.ca

A woman has been charged with assault after RCMP said a student was physically disciplined with a belt at a private religious school in the La Crete area of northwestern Alberta.

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Hear, hear‼️ Health misinformation erodes autonomy‼️ Vaccine mis- and disinformation isn’t just a threat to public health, but also to our autonomy theconversation.com/vaccine-mis-... "If we value autonomy for what it really means ... we must take action to address mis- and disinformation."

Vaccine mis- and disinformation isn’t just a threat to public health, but also to our autonomy

When we are mis- or disinformed, it is difficult to act with autonomy. We may make decisions that do not align with our beliefs, even when we seem to be acting voluntarily.

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Thank you Mexico 🇲🇽 Firefighters More firefighters from Mexico will be arriving later this week to #BritishColumbia #Canada

Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives want to launch a witch hunt against Canada's public health heroes - just like MAGA is doing with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Poilievre offers nothing to Canadians except warmed over crap from the American extreme right.

Part 2 of our Edmonton show is live! IWhat are the foreign interference risks that Albertans are facing because of Danielle Smith's referendum? Dr Patrick Lennox holds nothing back! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli youtu.be/wF_SAwPGn6s

Episode 8.38 - Live in Edmonton (Part 2) - Dr Patrick Lennox!

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"Approval was granted for the project by the AER without a regulatory hearing, despite formal objections over the project’s potential environmental impacts."

Dick Zoutman@dickzoutman.bsky.social · 5d ago

A coal mine expansion!?!?!? Ummmm……Canada is on fire and the government permits a coal mine expansion?!?!?! I have no words….

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

The data center sounds like an angry drone swarm — the last sound you hear on a modern battlefield before being blown up. I suspect this will trigger some serious PTSD in future veterans.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Here we go. Who’s next. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

Very important decision for the rule of law. And bodes well for our battles in Alberta

Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from me at @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: 'The arc of history bends toward judicial review' #SCC #cdnlaw

Archaeologists excavating on Triquet Island—a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada—uncovered a settlement dated to 13,600–14,086 years ago. ​

Canada Begins Construction on Wall

Mail in ballots open to everyone. #abpoli specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400

Hazel B. 🇨🇦@hab3261.bsky.social · 6d ago

So 37,000 people short of the 60,000 they wanted to hire which means long lineups. #abpoli

“The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

ABC Unleashes: Carr Wants a ‘Media Industry Too Fearful of Official Reprisal to Report the News Freely’

Get in Line or ‘Pay the Price’ In a scathingly-written regulatory filing...

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Following on the heels of the massive proposed gas-powered data center complex in Ohio led by OpenAI with backing from Nvidia, Anthropic moving forward with its own massive gas-powered data center complex in Texas with backing from Google. [gift link]

Exclusive | Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by Google

Google’s guarantees of power and lease obligations would help the developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project.

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See, it can be done ... "Portugal approves 33% windfall tax on oil companies' excess profits" www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Portugal approves 33% windfall tax on oil companies' excess profits

Portugal's government said on Thursday it had approved a 33% windfall tax on extraordinary profits earned in 2026 ​by oil and refining companies benefiting from an energy ‌price surge triggered by the...

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“Telling Albertans to choose between cleaning out your retirement fund and waiting years in pain for a needed surgery is frankly insulting, and goes against the principles of equitability and universality on which our public medicare system is founded”: FOM's Chris Gallaway

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 6d ago

“Did Danielle Smith really believe her re-election fairy tale in 2023, or was she deceiving us?” David J. Climenhaga writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Corb has filed his application for judicial review. This is good news. I look forward to seeing the formal record. I wdn't be surprised if there is some to-and-fro as to what Elections Alberta has to include. Ans: anything relevant to the decision #ableg #abpoli files.waternotcoal.ca/media/Filing...

We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.

BREAKING 🚨: SpaceX $SPCX falls to its lowest closing price in history and has now lost more than 50% of its value since June's all-time high 📉📉

AI-fueled inflation sticks, pain spreads. #finsky

Popular Information@popular.info · 6d ago

"AI is pushing inflation higher and further compounding longstanding affordability concerns in the process. Plus, these price pressures aren’t expected to go away anytime soon, and they very well could broaden.”

NEWS: What Kananaskis Country stands to lose if Avalanche Canada funding is cut

What Kananaskis Country stands to lose if Avalanche Canada funding is cut

“I’ve got in my budget that I’m hoping to get some money next year from Alberta, but if I don’t, I’ll have to cut something for sure,” says CEO of Avalanche Canada Gilles Valade.

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Economist Exposes West Coast Pipeline's Dismal Business Case *No Asian demand demonstrated *No private sector partner (Pembina Pipeline isn't really committed) *90% or more of capital from taxpayers *Other MAJOR risks Project is a BOONDOGGLE! #cdnpolitics youtu.be/pQvvwrAgMlM

Economist Exposes West Coast Pipeline's Dismal Business Case

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Canada says that illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory undermine 'peace, security and stability'.

Israel slams Canada for statement opposing West Bank settlement expansion

Canada says that illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory undermine 'peace, security and stability'.

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Exhausted crews battle wildfire as heat grips southwest France High temperatures revive smouldering embers, as exhausted crews lean on local volunteers to keep battle going www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

Exhausted crews battle wildfire as heat grips southwest France | CBC News

In Le Temple, a typically quiet country road lined on one side with with corn crops and the other, tight rows of pine forest, turned into a buzzing firefighting base Wednesday afternoon.

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BEYOND LOCAL: Private benefits to pastor cost Medicine Hat church its charitable status

Private benefits to pastor cost Medicine Hat church its charitable status

In both 2021 and 2022, the CRA audit found Zilinski received about $25,000 more in pay and benefits than was reported to tax authorities.

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Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.

@liberalca.bsky.social Do you care? The voters do.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

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.