Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 14h

Coming to an Alberta Legislature near you. 🍻

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

🪧 Alberta teachers on strike! I took a deep dive into the issues fueling the teachers strike and the roots of Danielle Smith’s UCP’s animosity towards teachers and the ATA: daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

2 19 65

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 2d

New publication, from @loleenberdahl.bsky.social, Bianca Jamal and me - trying to make sense of recent events in Canadian federalism:
Defiance: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Shifting Dynamics of Canadian Federalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defiance: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Shifting Dynamics of Canadian Federalism

This research notes focuses on the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments’ addition of defiance to their repertoire of conflictual inter-governmental behaviors. Between 2019 and 2024, the two provinc...

www.tandfonline.com

3 10

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Rob Breakenridge @robbreakenridge.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to be joined by @maxfawcett.bsky.social on the latest episode of The Line: Alberta.
We discuss the premier's recent pipeline announcement and the underlying politics around this debate
www.alberta.readtheline.ca/p/podcast-pa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FuN...

Parsing the premier’s pipeline announcement and how this issue is shaping Alberta politics

YouTube video by The Line

www.youtube.com

1 6

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

👀 Breaking the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red Deer.

daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

22 32

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 1d

This is b/c of section 5(1.1) of the Building Canada Act, introduced by the BQ at 3rd reading. I haven’t had time, but an intrepid reporter might want to go through the House Transportation Committee’s report & Hansard for the votes. #cdnpoli #ableg

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Alberta will need B.C. government’s backing to build proposed pipeline: energy minister | CBC News

Canada’s energy minister says Alberta will need to get its neighbouring province on board in order to see its proposed pipeline project to the West Coast come to fruition.

www.cbc.ca

1 11 22

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 1d

They should give him the first annual Montgomery Burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence.

Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 1d

18 47 470

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

👀 Breaking the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red Deer.

daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

22 32

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing 👍

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

The Pension War Room @yomeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Some sober analysis here. Highly recommended reading on how teachers went from being part of the solution to to part of the problem.

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

🪧 Alberta teachers on strike! I took a deep dive into the issues fueling the teachers strike and the roots of Danielle Smith’s UCP’s animosity towards teachers and the ATA: daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

1 2 6

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 1d

Alberta families are struggling, so why are our taxes funding PRIVATE schools? "Some of the private institutions receiving generous public funding include elite schools tailored to Calgary’s wealthiest families and charge more than $20,000 in annual tuition."
daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

6 42 130

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 1d

Strikes are hard. Worker solidarity and support for one an other is what will assist in winning this strike.

Alberta teachers look for ways to make ends meet as historic strike enters 2nd day | CBC News

Some Alberta teachers are trying to figure out how to make ends meet without their regular paycheque as a provincewide strike entered its second day Tuesday.

www.cbc.ca

3 19

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

🪧 Alberta teachers on strike! I took a deep dive into the issues fueling the teachers strike and the roots of Danielle Smith’s UCP’s animosity towards teachers and the ATA: daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

More than 51,000 teachers launched the largest strike the history of their profession in Alberta

daveberta.substack.com

2 19 65

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1d

🪧 Alberta teachers on strike! I took a deep dive into the issues fueling the teachers strike and the roots of Danielle Smith’s UCP’s animosity towards teachers and the ATA: daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

1 4

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2d

Those who agree - "I would never vote for Canada to become part of the United States"

🟢 All: 79%

🟢 Women: 81%
🟢 Men: 76%

🟢 Boomers: 93%
🟢 Zoomers: 74%

Read it here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Canadians Firmly Reject Idea of American Statehood

Support for American statehood remains low across all age groups, even in more conservative provinces like Alberta

canadianpolling.substack.com

11 58

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 2d

Like many of the big successes of the entrepreneurial oil industry, the Alberta government has invested heavily in Carbon Capture projects over the past 2 decades. Nearly $2 billion dollars worth of public funding I believe.

1 1 7

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 3d

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

18 220 580

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 3d

We’ll see what happens on October 20. I haven’t paid too close attention to what’s happening in Calgary, but I think progressive candidates in Edmonton have spent a lot of time harping about parties when they probably should be focusing on defining a progressive narrative in this campaign. 🤷‍♂️

1

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 3d

Depending on what the results are on October 20, one of the lessons of the 2025 municipal elections could be that progressives should have spent less time complaining about political parties and more time taking advantage of their fundraising, voter ID, and consistent branding advantages. We’ll see.

Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 3d

Tim Cartmell alone has raised as much money as EVERY other candidate outside his party COMBINED.

Tim & his Timbits have pulled in over $1M of big corporate dollars, with another $200k for the party.

The unprecedented flow of big money into our local election is staggering.

2 10

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social · 9d

The real danger lies not in the growing size of today’s deficit, but in failing to plan prudently for what comes next.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Trevor Tombe: The budget warning that Canada cannot ignore

thehub.ca

12 5 14

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 3d

Well played, sir.

4

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

The Alberta Worker @abworker.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Safeway wants to roll back worker benefits

Remember, this is the same company that wanted to take back raises last year that they had already paid their workers.

albertaworker.ca/news/safeway...

Safeway wants to roll back worker benefits

Remember, this is the same company that wanted to take back raises last year that they had already paid their workers.

albertaworker.ca

4 22 33

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 4d

Incremental AHS update: Raymond Wyant has submitted his interim report, according to govt. Deadline for final report remains Oct 15. Govt "remains committed to releasing the final report following its delivery."
Note: Govt did not answer q about *when* exactly that would be.

4 14 27

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 4d

Alberta teachers’ strike begins, affecting around 700,000 students

About 51,000 teachers walk off the job after province’s offer rejected by 90 per cent of union members

www.theglobeandmail.com

4 4 35

Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦

Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 4d

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

5 32 90