Cat
@kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social
Canadian gal living in the maple maga hell of Alberta; Bear’s mom; lab lubber; avid reader & lifelong learner; Métis proud; Anti-Fascist every day
“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced” James Baldwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced” James Baldwin
Pinned
“…neither in this war nor the last, nor in any other, has there been anything more bitter and intense.” Matthew Halton, CBC War Correspondent reporting from Ortona.
This photo is my Grandad. He was a young Métis man from Alberta who served with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment in Italy. My hero, my ❤️
This photo is my Grandad. He was a young Métis man from Alberta who served with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment in Italy. My hero, my ❤️
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Substitute out “gender affirming care” with cancer care.
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Substitute out “gender affirming care” with cancer care.
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
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I recommend reading this to actually understand what this pipeline talk means. I see a lot of misunderstandings and straight up disinformation circulating here.
I recommend reading this to actually understand what this pipeline talk means. I see a lot of misunderstandings and straight up disinformation circulating here.
Mark Carney says hurdles remain as tensions rise over pipeline deal for Alberta
The prime minister said a memorandum of understanding with Alberta will set out "necessary conditions" for any federal greenlight to a new oil pipeline.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I recommend reading this to actually understand what this pipeline talk means. I see a lot of misunderstandings and straight up disinformation circulating here.
I recommend reading this to actually understand what this pipeline talk means. I see a lot of misunderstandings and straight up disinformation circulating here.
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Alberta municipalities missing out on millions from green energy projects.
#ableg #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
#ableg #abpoli
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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Alberta municipalities missing out on millions from green energy projects.
#ableg #abpoli
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#ableg #abpoli
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They are so brazen because Albertans take it and beg for more
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They are so brazen because Albertans take it and beg for more
The UCP Government’s Bill 9 not only affects Albertans, it’s hurting transgender patients in the NWT. They are feeling unsafe traveling to Alberta for healthcare. Shameful.
Advocates call on N.W.T to stop partnering with Alberta on gender-affirming care after province tables Bill 9 | CBC News
Advocates are calling on the Northwest Territories to stop referring transgender patients to Alberta for gender-affirming care after the province tabled a bill to shield laws impacting trans youth fro...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The UCP Government’s Bill 9 not only affects Albertans, it’s hurting transgender patients in the NWT. They are feeling unsafe traveling to Alberta for healthcare. Shameful.
Can you imagine a vaccine that prevents and protects our sons and daughters from cancer?!!?Can you imagine denying our children this protection?!?Vaccination works & science is marvellous 😊
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can you imagine a vaccine that prevents and protects our sons and daughters from cancer?!!?Can you imagine denying our children this protection?!?Vaccination works & science is marvellous 😊
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Tom Mulcair comments on PM Carney's 'who cares': "I found it wonderfully refreshing and I found it the exemplar of 'elbows up.' It’s like, ‘I’m not going to worry about that blubbering 4th grader.’ I absolutely loved that authentic moment from our Prime Minister."
🎥 Credit: CTV News
🎥 Credit: CTV News
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tom Mulcair comments on PM Carney's 'who cares': "I found it wonderfully refreshing and I found it the exemplar of 'elbows up.' It’s like, ‘I’m not going to worry about that blubbering 4th grader.’ I absolutely loved that authentic moment from our Prime Minister."
🎥 Credit: CTV News
🎥 Credit: CTV News
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You stomp on our rights
We threaten your job
That's how this sh*t works
We threaten your job
That's how this sh*t works
calgary.citynews.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Five more Alberta MLAs facing recall, bringing total to 14
#Alberta #abpoli #ableg #UCP
#FireSnith #UCPCorruption
#RecallAllUCP #MLA #Canada
Five more Alberta MLAs facing recall, bringing total to 14
#Alberta #abpoli #ableg #UCP
#FireSnith #UCPCorruption
#RecallAllUCP #MLA #Canada
Five more Alberta MLAs facing recall, bringing total to 14
Elections Alberta says it has approved recall petitions against five more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative caucus, bringing the total to 14
calgary.citynews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
You stomp on our rights
We threaten your job
That's how this sh*t works
We threaten your job
That's how this sh*t works
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Now I want to get a new licence plate just to deface it.
Stoned and free
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Now I want to get a new licence plate just to deface it.
This is a sobering read. Danielle Smith & the UCP are considering setting up data centres in Alberta. But this tracks right, more industry to poison our water.
“After that extra-contaminated water leaves Amazon’s data center, it then gets dumped and sprayed across local farmland in Oregon.”
Eewwww
Eewwww
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is a sobering read. Danielle Smith & the UCP are considering setting up data centres in Alberta. But this tracks right, more industry to poison our water.
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.
U.S. appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision.
amsterdamnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.
2025 has not been kind at all. Canada has lost a true gem. My heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. Curl hard Colleen.
Curling legend Colleen Jones passes away at the age of 65
Colleen Jones, a world champion curler whose effervescent personality made her a popular presence on the CBC over nearly four decades with the national broadcaster, has died. She was 65.
www.tsn.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
2025 has not been kind at all. Canada has lost a true gem. My heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. Curl hard Colleen.
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Really, who cares if our 🇨🇦Canadian Prime Minister spends any time “negotiating” with a convicted felon who’s spent his whole career lying, breaking promises, cheating everyone he deals with, knowing he’ll never stand by a deal anyway?
Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre does, that’s who.
🤷🤭🤷
Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre does, that’s who.
🤷🤭🤷
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Really, who cares if our 🇨🇦Canadian Prime Minister spends any time “negotiating” with a convicted felon who’s spent his whole career lying, breaking promises, cheating everyone he deals with, knowing he’ll never stand by a deal anyway?
Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre does, that’s who.
🤷🤭🤷
Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre does, that’s who.
🤷🤭🤷
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Shanna Katz Kattari (they/them) is a white, Jewish, nonbinary, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, associate professor at the School of Social Work (Women’s & Gender Studies Department, University of Michigan), board-certified sexologist, sexuality educator, & social justice activist.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Shanna Katz Kattari (they/them) is a white, Jewish, nonbinary, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, associate professor at the School of Social Work (Women’s & Gender Studies Department, University of Michigan), board-certified sexologist, sexuality educator, & social justice activist.
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And then there were... 14.
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And then there were... 14.
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Yep 🤦🏻♀️
UCP working tirelessly to kill you
Speeding, traffic fatalities up as Edmonton navigates provincial photo radar restrictions: city report
Province vowed to cut photo radar sites by 70% last year
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Speeding, traffic fatalities up as Edmonton navigates provincial photo radar restrictions: city report
Province vowed to cut photo radar sites by 70% last year
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Speeding, traffic fatalities up as Edmonton navigates provincial photo radar restrictions: city report | CBC News
Speeding violations and traffic fatalities are ramping up rapidly in Edmonton at the same time that there are more provincial restrictions around automated traffic enforcement, according to a report f...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Yep 🤦🏻♀️
I want to remind folks that late term abortion occurs rarely and only when a situation so catastrophic happens to the baby, mother or both. Compassion and understanding is needed. The UCP is lacking in both. Educate yourself and know that reproductive care is healthcare.
The UCP gov't is playing into Trump-style politics, and making it even harder for people to access essential services.
Healthcare is personal -- not political!
People needing an abortion later in pregnancy deserve care and compassion. Not punishment and medical debt.
#ABPoli
Healthcare is personal -- not political!
People needing an abortion later in pregnancy deserve care and compassion. Not punishment and medical debt.
#ABPoli
Alberta UCP resolution would stop public funding for third-trimester abortions – Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
www.arcc-cdac.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I want to remind folks that late term abortion occurs rarely and only when a situation so catastrophic happens to the baby, mother or both. Compassion and understanding is needed. The UCP is lacking in both. Educate yourself and know that reproductive care is healthcare.
An excellent read on an amazing & industrious creature.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
An excellent read on an amazing & industrious creature.
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🤠Total Recall: Nine UCP MLAs are now facing recall petitions in their ridings and MLA Dale Nally lashed out at constituent organizing recall effort in Morinville-St. Albert. 😬 Read all about it.
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daveberta.substack.com/p/total-reca...
Total Recall: Nine UCP MLAs now facing recall petitions in their ridings
MLA Dale Nally lashed out at constituent organizing recall effort in Morinville-St. Albert
daveberta.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🤠Total Recall: Nine UCP MLAs are now facing recall petitions in their ridings and MLA Dale Nally lashed out at constituent organizing recall effort in Morinville-St. Albert. 😬 Read all about it.
daveberta.substack.com/p/total-reca...
daveberta.substack.com/p/total-reca...
Hey Alberta, you may want to give this a read and start calling your MLA about NOT BRINGING IN AMERICAN STYLE HEALTHCARE.
"Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips — Harvard Gazette
Study explores links between financial stress and mortality risk.
news.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Hey Alberta, you may want to give this a read and start calling your MLA about NOT BRINGING IN AMERICAN STYLE HEALTHCARE.
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Withholding any medical treatment is a crime.
Medical decisions should involve the patient, their family & their healthcare team. Not a church & certainly not politicians!
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #Christofascists #ABHealth #TransRights #UCP #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead
Medical decisions should involve the patient, their family & their healthcare team. Not a church & certainly not politicians!
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #Christofascists #ABHealth #TransRights #UCP #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead
A #UCP MLA suggested that women in Alberta need less access to abortion & reproductive healthcare.
Another compared gender-affirming care for trans youth to the castration of cattle.
Dehumanizing & ignorant.
The UCP uses Sec. 33 as a standard governing tactic
to silence #Albertans, like fascists.
Another compared gender-affirming care for trans youth to the castration of cattle.
Dehumanizing & ignorant.
The UCP uses Sec. 33 as a standard governing tactic
to silence #Albertans, like fascists.
The UCP Is Governing Like a Party in Decline
Alberta Politics This Week
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Withholding any medical treatment is a crime.
Medical decisions should involve the patient, their family & their healthcare team. Not a church & certainly not politicians!
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #Christofascists #ABHealth #TransRights #UCP #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead
Medical decisions should involve the patient, their family & their healthcare team. Not a church & certainly not politicians!
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #Christofascists #ABHealth #TransRights #UCP #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead
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May her story live on as a spotlight of American history, remembered for generations to come.
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
May her story live on as a spotlight of American history, remembered for generations to come.
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To help comprehend a billion dollars.
1 million seconds is less than 12 days.
1 billion seconds is more than 31 years.
1 million seconds is less than 12 days.
1 billion seconds is more than 31 years.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
To help comprehend a billion dollars.
1 million seconds is less than 12 days.
1 billion seconds is more than 31 years.
1 million seconds is less than 12 days.
1 billion seconds is more than 31 years.