Dave Dormer
@davedormer.bsky.social
Journalist and storyteller, freelance reporter, communications strategist. Bylines in CBC, CTV and the Calgary Sun
Cannabis historian @Cannanaskis
Cannabis historian @Cannanaskis
Calgary’s Aerospace Innovation Hub aims to turn talent and capital into scale betakit.com/calgarys-new...
Calgary’s new Aerospace Innovation Hub aims to turn talent and capital into scale | BetaKit
The hub aims to support more than $50 million in investment into local aerospace firms.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Calgary’s Aerospace Innovation Hub aims to turn talent and capital into scale betakit.com/calgarys-new...
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"Our digital lives are now gated in a way that makes it harder or more expensive for us to reach the information we’re looking for...
The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms."
Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:
The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms."
Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:
The year enshittification became undeniable | BetaKit
So many tech systems that we interact with in our daily lives seem to have degraded beyond usability, or, as Cory Doctorow puts it, enshittified.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Our digital lives are now gated in a way that makes it harder or more expensive for us to reach the information we’re looking for...
The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms."
Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:
The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms."
Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:
It took 11 months for Pete Pearson to be denied legal access to psychedelic-assisted therapy by Health Canada.
But it only took a few weeks for him to be approved for MAID.
Advocates like @therapsil.bsky.social say that's not right.
open.substack.com/pub/davedorm... #psychedelics
But it only took a few weeks for him to be approved for MAID.
Advocates like @therapsil.bsky.social say that's not right.
open.substack.com/pub/davedorm... #psychedelics
When access to death is faster than access to care
How one case is raising uncomfortable questions around terminal care and the use of psychedelics in Canada
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It took 11 months for Pete Pearson to be denied legal access to psychedelic-assisted therapy by Health Canada.
But it only took a few weeks for him to be approved for MAID.
Advocates like @therapsil.bsky.social say that's not right.
open.substack.com/pub/davedorm... #psychedelics
But it only took a few weeks for him to be approved for MAID.
Advocates like @therapsil.bsky.social say that's not right.
open.substack.com/pub/davedorm... #psychedelics
Trump’s post about Rob Reiner is not normal behaviour.
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Trump’s post about Rob Reiner is not normal behaviour.
The arrest is the result of a joint investigation between the military’s National Investigation Service and the RCMP’s national security enforcement team.
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Canadian military intelligence member charged with espionage, says DND | CBC News
A non-commissioned member of the Canadian military intelligence branch has been charged with passing classified information to a "foreign entity," the Department of National Defence revealed late Thur...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The arrest is the result of a joint investigation between the military’s National Investigation Service and the RCMP’s national security enforcement team.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Calgary tech talks about a different kind of energy at Innovation Week
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Calgary tech talks about a different kind of energy at Innovation Week | BetaKit
Innovation Week is now four full days of seminars, master classes, and networking mixers with events hosted at offices, workspaces, and hubs across the city.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Calgary tech talks about a different kind of energy at Innovation Week
betakit.com/calgary-tech... #yyc #tech #innovation
betakit.com/calgary-tech... #yyc #tech #innovation
I like writing explainers: www.cannanaskis.com/history/2021...
How Tommy became Chong — CANNANASKIS
by Dave Dormer It was a simple act of generosity at a downtown Calgary jazz club that would have a profound impact on the course of Cannabis History. The year was 1957 and the place, the Foggy Manor...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I like writing explainers: www.cannanaskis.com/history/2021...
“It was never meant to be introduced in the middle of a long-standing process, to force a particular outcome.”
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Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
Dave King was was there when clause was born in Alberta cabinet. It was never meant to be used for the benefit of the government itself.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“It was never meant to be introduced in the middle of a long-standing process, to force a particular outcome.”
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The bill legislates a new collective contract that will run retroactively from Sept. 1, 2024, until Aug. 31, 2028. calgaryherald.com/news/politic... #ableg
Alberta introduces back-to-work legislation, imposes new contract to end teachers strike
The Alberta government is ordering thousands of striking teachers back to work and imposing a four-year collective contract.
calgaryherald.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The bill legislates a new collective contract that will run retroactively from Sept. 1, 2024, until Aug. 31, 2028. calgaryherald.com/news/politic... #ableg
This seems like an exercise in data collection more than security. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News
The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This seems like an exercise in data collection more than security. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Trump increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% 'over and above what they are paying now' | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced on social media he will be increasing tariffs on Canada by "10 per cent over and above what they are paying now" because of an advertisement by the Ontario go...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Happy 7th Canna-versary Canada!
The battle to legalize cannabis took 95 years … 34,876 days to be exact!
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The battle to legalize cannabis took 95 years … 34,876 days to be exact!
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Why Cannabis was legalized in Canada — CANNANASKIS
The fight to legalize Cannabis in Canada took nearly a century. We told you in a previous post about how it was made illegal in April 1923 with a simple announcement in the House of Commons that...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 7th Canna-versary Canada!
The battle to legalize cannabis took 95 years … 34,876 days to be exact!
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
The battle to legalize cannabis took 95 years … 34,876 days to be exact!
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
Tomorrow marks seven years since cannabis was legalized in Canada.
Read about how and why it was made illegal in 1923.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
Read about how and why it was made illegal in 1923.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
Why Cannabis was made illegal in Canada — CANNANASKIS
“There is a new drug in the schedule.” Soon after those words were spoken in the House of Commons by then-health minister Dr. Henri Beland on April 23, 1923, Cannabis became illegal in Canada. A num...
www.cannanaskis.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Tomorrow marks seven years since cannabis was legalized in Canada.
Read about how and why it was made illegal in 1923.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
Read about how and why it was made illegal in 1923.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2020...
It’s beginning to look a lot like …
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like …
Let’s Go Canada!!! 🇨🇦
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Let’s Go Canada!!! 🇨🇦
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Hundreds gather to remember Darren Markland: beloved doctor, cyclist and health advocate edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Hundreds gather to remember Darren Markland: beloved doctor, cyclist and health advocate
About 200 family and friends got together at Constable Ezio Farone Park in Downtown Edmonton Friday to remember the Royal Alexandra doctor.
edmontonjournal.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hundreds gather to remember Darren Markland: beloved doctor, cyclist and health advocate edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Ice cream truck just made a pass though the neighbourhood with the song blaring … 5 pm on a Tuesday in late September is dedication.
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ice cream truck just made a pass though the neighbourhood with the song blaring … 5 pm on a Tuesday in late September is dedication.
Turns out people have been using cannabis a lot longer than previously thought.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025... #cannabis #history
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025... #cannabis #history
Cannabis timeline pushed to 20,000+ years — CANNANASKIS
Research paints a 20,000 year timeline of cannabis, and it could go back further
www.cannanaskis.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Turns out people have been using cannabis a lot longer than previously thought.
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025... #cannabis #history
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025... #cannabis #history
Reposted by Dave Dormer
Research is pushing the origins of Cannabis use back in time: More than 20,000 years
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Cannabis timeline pushed to 20,000+ years — CANNANASKIS
Research paints a 20,000 year timeline of cannabis, and it could go back further
www.cannanaskis.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Research is pushing the origins of Cannabis use back in time: More than 20,000 years
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025...
www.cannanaskis.com/history/2025...
Drove to BC for the weekend and stopped in Golden for lunch. An A&W teen burger combo and a teen burger was $25 and that is INSANE.
August 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Drove to BC for the weekend and stopped in Golden for lunch. An A&W teen burger combo and a teen burger was $25 and that is INSANE.