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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10h

more of this please, Alberta civil society

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10h

The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat…

Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 5h

I find this a useful graphic.
Others may as well.
attribution on the bottom.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 4h

Ooooo!

Danielle Smith just issued a new set of rules for staff accepting gifts!

(Even though there’s questions about the last rules being followed)

And it has…

A notwithstanding clause!

Because UCP!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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kpausqian @pausqian.bsky.social · 1h

The more shocking thing...at least it should be, is that it's only creating a conflict of interest. Most of these documents have "the appearance of a conflict of interest".

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10h

The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat…

Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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DaOldGuy🇨🇦📎🍁- part owner of Canada @daoldguy.bsky.social · 8h

The Alberta Funds Public School petition signature collection has started in Medicine Hat. My wife is one of the certified canvassers. Currently, we're going door to door. As time goes on, we'll be doing pop-ups. Let's get it over the top AB.

#abpoli #ableg #SupportOurTeachers #PublicNotPrivate

Photo of the Alberta Funds Public Schools petition question asking, "Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?" The sign has a white background. The letters for "Alberta Funds Public Schools" are red. The question letters are black.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7h

“the UCP motion to limit debate on Bill 2 and pass the Back to School Act in one day is corrosive to democratic accountability”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

ablawg.ca/2025/10/30/b...

Back to School Notwithstanding the Charter

By: Shaun Fluker and JD students registered in the Public Interest Law Clinic Legislation Commented On: Back to School Act, SA 2025 (full citation unavailable at publication time) PDF Version: Back…

ablawg.ca

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

Fact check: EVs are still the future, no matter what the Trump administration tries to do to forestall it.

The question for Canada now is whether we want to participate in that future or get stuck in the past.

maxfawcett.substack.com/p/yes-evs-ar...

Yes, EVs are still the future

Why we need to ignore the naysayers and actually look at the data

maxfawcett.substack.com

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

I will be so sad/angry if the Canadian taxpayer ends up footing the bill for this.
Especially since there is a non-zero chance the damn thing won't work at all.

And the middle finger to the "polluter pays" principal.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 1d

Talks to capture oil sands industry’s emissions in Alberta gather momentum

Discussions ramped up slower than many in the sector expected, but Ottawa’s Bill C-5 has sparked a new sense of urgency

www.theglobeandmail.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Look we’re not saying that we just posted the most timely panel episode we’ve ever produced for our patreon supporters…

But…

We totes just did.

For everyone else, look for it in two parts starting at 8 PM on Sunday!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 23h

This is a fantastic interview from Vassy Kapelos at CTV holding and Nicolaides has no good answer for her questions

#ABPoli #ABleg

youtu.be/AaqGi6D3xKU?...

'Prolonged outages affect students academically': Alta. minister on ending teachers strike

YouTube video by CTV News

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #YYC!

Looking for a way to let Demetrios and the UCP know how you feel about them revoking teachers charter rights?

Thursday, students are gathering at his office to send a message!

Let them know they aren’t alone!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Smith is utilizing school boards to send out this letter to parents…

But missing from it in all of the spin is the fact that she REVOKED teachers charter rights.

Almost as if she knows that what she did was an overreach and parents would be appalled.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 1d

NEW: In my latest for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, I take a look at the world of offshore tax havens.

ricochet.media/labour/class...

The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality

While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 1d

I second this

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disordered @disorderedyyc.bsky.social · 1d

The hypocrisy of Premier Smith's current Chief of Staff, Rob Anderson:

The government is acting like a "dictator" by ripping away legal rights to impose a settlement.

"That's wrong. That's not the Alberta way. That's not what we do here."

#ableg #abpoli

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

I'm goign to be radical here and suggest people listen to scientists instead of billionaires when it comes to what we should do about the ever-worsening climate crisis.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

What the Alberta government just did should worry all Canadians.

When they legislated striking teachers back to work, they went a step further:

They used the notwithstanding clause.

This is part of a worrying trend.

@emmettmacfarlane.com helped me break it down:

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

Call for help!
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.

a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .

ALT: a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .

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kpausqian @pausqian.bsky.social · 1d

@readtheorchard.org's Kennyism book is great and helps to explain both Kenney and the UCP.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

What is a book you read that was foundational to your understanding of politics, power and the way the world works?

Would love some recommendations!

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Anytime anyone claims that Smith used the Notwithstanding clause in a way that Peter Lougheed would have approved of…

Feel free to share this from his 1998 paper that makes it clear that absolutely isn’t the case.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s this sink in. Bill 2 overrides:

• The Labour Relations Code;
• The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act;
• The Alberta Bill of Rights;
• The Alberta Human Rights Act;
• The Education Act.

All without vigorous debate or consultation with Albertans.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a...

Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work

Alberta teachers are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights, writes columnist Don Braid.

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Charlie Golf | FUND ALBERTA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS 🏫 @charliegolf.ca · 1d

Well, as I go back to work today, what can I say that won't land me in hot water? I know...

I'm going to channel my anger at the UCP toward the hopefully to-be-successful Demetrios Nicolaides recall petition. May the odds forever be in the residents' favour.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #abed

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