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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · 1d

“‘It's early days, but I already have people ready to apply to collect signatures, and just people with a little more spare time than normal that are really interested in helping out,’ she said.”
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#yeg #yyc #abed #ableg #abpoli

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.

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 2d

Since Jan, I've been part of a team inc EJ colleagues, @lillebuen.bsky.social & his MacEwan U j-students working on a series re: how food service venues are inspected in AB
We uncovered shocking findings re: the state of the system, inspection frequency, & recurring violations.
Part 1 out today
#yeg

Crawling bugs and half-baked enforcement: Alberta’s restaurant inspections a recipe for foodborne illness — Investigation

Lax inspections, excessive violations and poor transparency in Alberta's restaurant inspection system is a recipe for foodborne Illness

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI - Parker Vows He and Take Back Alberta Will Escape Punishment via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Parker Vows He and Take Back Alberta Will Escape Punishment | The Tyee

Elections Alberta ordered fines and prosecution in February. But authorities have not acted.

thetyee.ca

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · 12d

Smoother than the stairway to street level one step over

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · 13d

And I bought a bike!

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · 13d

Sept. 27, 2025 @ 1:45 p.m. - Both the funicular and elevator are online.
This was my first trip.
#yegfunicularstatus

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 16d

SCOOP: A consultant advising Alberta Health Services on private surgical facilities simultaneously negotiated with AHS on behalf of a company vying to open such a clinic, according to a confidential report obtained by The Globe.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Adviser on Alberta’s use of private clinics was also working for company vying for contract, confidential report says

Potential conflicts of interest outlined in document at centre of health procurement controversy

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 22d

NEW: The Alberta Teachers' Association and employers are returning to the bargaining table Friday.

See short decision from the LRB, to resolve the complaint the government filed earlier this week.

Note the outstanding issues: two pay items and coverage of COVID vaccines. #AbLeg #AbEd

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 23d

My latest. "This plan looks less like streamlining and more like risk stacking: more data on more cards shown to more people, with unclear guardrails and unfunded administrative burdens.

"...The citizenship marker project will likely be scuttled on the shores of logic, logistics or law."

Seven Big Concerns about Premier Smith’s New Citizenship Markers | The Tyee

Plans to alter what Alberta driver’s licences and ID cards tell authorities need a rethink.

thetyee.ca

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · 27d

So cool!

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Aaron Sousa ✍️📻 @journosousa.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICYMI: 'It makes people want to read': Stores see sales spike after Alberta book ban

From me today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/... via @cdnpress.bsky.social

'It makes people want to read': Stores see sales spike after Alberta book ban

EDMONTON - An Alberta government order banning some books from school libraries doesn't appear to be deterring people from reading them, say managers at several bookstores.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Michelle Bellefontaine @mbellefontaine.bsky.social · Sep 2

Big scoop from @jack-farrell.bsky.social and @reportrix.bsky.social at The Canadian Press

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta government pauses ban on school library books with sexual content | CBC News

Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says in an email to school boards that the government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries.

www.cbc.ca

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · Aug 30

What could possibly go wrong? www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada’s border agency plans to use AI to screen everyone entering the country — and single out ‘higher risk’ people

The tool is expected to launch as early as 2027 and is meant to help border services officers decide whether to refer travellers and the goods they are carrying for

www.thestar.com

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thibaut Bruttin, director general of Reporters Without Borders, said press freedom advocates had never seen such a severe step backward for reporters’ safety.

“They are doing everything they can to silence independent voices that are trying to report on Gaza." www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say

Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists Monday, according to health officials, including one who days earlier had reported for The Associated Press on children being tre...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · Aug 21

I just want to say that all my burritos were stuffed with actual beans.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · Aug 21

SCOOP: How Alberta's measles outbreak spiraled out of control.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @alannasmith.bsky.social

Internal documents show how Alberta’s measles outbreak began to spiral out of control

Records offer clearest picture yet of where cases popped up and how the province and one community impeded some health officials’ efforts to stop the spread

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Michelle Bellefontaine @mbellefontaine.bsky.social · Aug 21

AISH recipients despair over province’s changes to disability programs.

“It's been made very clear that I'm a burden on this government, that they view disabled people as burdens, that we don't have any worth or value unless we're working. It’s gut-wrenching.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AISH recipient, advocates worry about Alberta's new disability benefit program | CBC News

A new discussion guide about the upcoming Alberta Disability Assistance Program reveals that many Albertans with severe disabilities will receive lower personal benefits after the program launches nex...

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Aug 20

In a reversal of previous plans, the Alberta government now says it will cover the cost of COVID vaccinations for health-care workers this fall.

Most Albertans who are not health-care workers will still have to pay.

Alberta to cover COVID vaccines for health-care workers after all | CBC News

Two months after announcing most Albertans would need to pay for COVID-19 vaccines if they want one this season, the province now says it will cover the cost for health-care workers.

www.cbc.ca

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Aug 20

New: The Alberta government is reversing course on changes to its expense disclosure policy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta government altering course on expense disclosure policy | CBC News

At a cabinet meeting held Tuesday, a decision was made to change course on plans to alter the Alberta government's expense disclosure policy.

www.cbc.ca

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Realizing now that my problem isn’t with pedal pubs per se so much as the WOOOOOOOOOing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 13

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”

- Vital Knowledge

@politico.com 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Aug 13

"An Alberta Conservative MP is blaming the Liberal government for a pair of contentious provincial bans on outdoor activities, saying federal officials didn’t do enough to stave off tinder dry conditions in Atlantic Canada."

She "wouldn’t say whether she objected to the provincial bans themselves."

Conservative MP says federal inaction on wildfires led to Atlantic Canada forest bans

An Alberta Conservative MP is putting a pair of contentious provincial bans on outdoor activities at the foot of the Liberal government

nationalpost.com

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · Aug 11

“Israel’s military has claimed responsibility for the assassination in a statement, falsely claiming al-Sharif led a unit of Hamas’s armed wing.”

Israel kills five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza City, including Anas al-Sharif

Al-Sharif’s killing comes after Israel stepped up a smear campaign against the correspondent in recent weeks.

www.aljazeera.com

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Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · Aug 10

“In keeping with a new provision introduced in the policy that published expense reports be available for five years, the government also removed eight years of expense reports that were previously available on its website.”

Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social · Aug 10

“The new policy, published Aug. 1, removes a requirement that the premier, ministers, deputy ministers and senior staff must publicly disclose receipts for expenses over $100.”
#ableg #abpoli

Alberta government changes expense disclosure policy, removes eight years of records | CBC News

Key changes to Alberta’s expense disclosure policy mean that the receipts of senior government officials, including the premier, will no longer be public.

www.cbc.ca

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