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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 16h

In two years, the US spent at least *$38 billion* sending weapons to Israel, protecting it against counterattacks, and fighting a regional war on its behalf.

$52 million per day, $2 million per hour. www.stephensemler.com/p/us-has-spe...

The US has spent at least $38 billion on Israel since October 2023. The single column chart shows $38.2 billion in US military spending on Israel from October 2023 through September 2025, including: $18 billion arming Israel, $6.1 billion defending Israel, $14.1 billion waging war on Israel’s behalf. Data: Pentagon financial records, enacted legislation, media reports, author analysis. Figures are conservative estimates in constant 2025 US dollars.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 17h

Join @forourkidscanada.bsky.social on October 23rd for an eye-opening webinar on methane pollution with leading scientists and policy experts. Learn how you can help us get these regulations over the finish line—your voice matters!
www.forourkids.ca/methane-webi... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Clean Air, Healthy Kids & Communities: The Case for Strong Methane Regulations

www.forourkids.ca

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Energy vs Climate Podcast @energyvsclimate.bsky.social · 20h

LIVE Oct 16 - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis
@molszyns.bsky.social, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, joins EvC to unpack Alberta's mounting energy liability crisis.

Register and join on October 16 at 4pm ET/2pm MT:
www.energyvsclimate.com/invite-drill...

You're Invited - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski | Oct 16 at 4pm ET

Who'll be left paying the tab? Martin Olszynski, Associate Professor and Chair in Energy, Resources, & Sustainability at the University of Calgary, joins Energy vs Climate to unpack Alberta's mountin...

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Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social · 22h

"In a free society, many things are allowed to be said, done and provided that the community would not endorse or fund. Private education is an example. Public funding for private schools should end."

albertaviews.ca/private-scho...
#ABpoli #ABleg #CDNpoli #teachers

Private Schools - Alberta Views

Out of concern for the well-being of the community that I recognize how public subsidies for private schools erode our sense of connection.

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Environmental Defence Canada @environmentaldefence.ca · 2d

#Media: "Recommendations that would enable [Alberta] to release partially-treated tailings into the Athabasca River using unproven technology are unacceptable and would put downstream communities and the local environment at great risk." Our full release 👇

environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/08/i...

Indigenous, environment, health groups reject tailings treat-and-release guidance - Environmental Defence

ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION, MIKISEW CREE FIRST NATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION, KEEPERS OF THE WATER, CANADIAN PARKS AND

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 TIL: David Yager, the man who drafted Alberta's Mature Asset Strategy for aging oil & gas infrastructure, publicly stated in 2021 that: "Albertans must permit the government to move past the “polluter pay” mantra and deal with the issues as they exist today." energynow.ca/2021/07/the-... #ABLeg

The Pursuit of Well Decommissioning’s Holy Grail – A Reclamation Certificate: David Yager - Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow

by David Yager The two most important words about inactive oil and gas wells and the industry’s legal obligation to clean up after itself are Reclamation Certificate (RC). The Merriam-Webster on-line ...

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

What Canadians need to learn quickly about Mark Carney (if they haven't already). #CDNPoli

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism

If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism

If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

In Alberta, we talk a LOT about how the Alberta Energy Regulator has been captured by industry. But I think it's about time we start looking at DFO the same way. Just another institution that puts corporate profits over ecosystem health and the public interest. SHAME! #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli

CPAWS Southern Alberta @cpawssab.bsky.social · 2d

After removing the bridge that damaged Critical Habitat for bull trout in the Upper Highwood, DFO has approved the construction of another bridge... in the same location.

If only this was satire.

The full story: cpaws-southernalberta.org/dfo-issuing-...

DFO Issuing Permit for Highwood Bridge   - CPAWS Southern Alberta

DFO has issued a permit under the Species at Risk Act allowing the destruction of critical habitat to facilitate 14 river and stream crossings, including the reconstruction of the previously illegally...

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CPAWS Southern Alberta @cpawssab.bsky.social · 2d

After removing the bridge that damaged Critical Habitat for bull trout in the Upper Highwood, DFO has approved the construction of another bridge... in the same location.

If only this was satire.

The full story: cpaws-southernalberta.org/dfo-issuing-...

DFO Issuing Permit for Highwood Bridge   - CPAWS Southern Alberta

DFO has issued a permit under the Species at Risk Act allowing the destruction of critical habitat to facilitate 14 river and stream crossings, including the reconstruction of the previously illegally...

cpaws-southernalberta.org

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

These liberal politicians are you enemies they are not your allies. If you demanded workers rights they’d send cops on you too. If you demanded the right to housing and control over your own labor they’d shoot you too. Get this through your head as quickly as possible.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

Now THIS is a petition that actually matters!!! - "I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #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.

www.cbc.ca

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip rent, and leave orphaned wells behind. www.theenergymix.com/alberta-orph... @theenergymix.com #ABLeg

Alberta Orphan Well Strategy Faces Pushback from Residents, Municipalities, Experts

Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip ...

www.theenergymix.com

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 2d

“Our leaders don’t make decisions in our interests unless we have the people power that’s needed to actually hold them accountable,” said Meintzer. “We have to be the reason that they feel the heat.” therockies.life/town-hall-ra... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG #CleanUpYourMess

Town Hall Rallies Albertans Against Province’s Plan to Stick Families With Oil Well Cleanup Bill

Over 160 people participated in the event, which called on the UCP to rethink its Mature Assets Strategy.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 2d

That's definitely part of the definition! IMO "mature" is being used as a catch-all for anything industry feels is unprofitable, even wells that are still producing marginally.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 ALBERTANS! Send a letter to your MLA rejecting the Mature Asset Strategy at the link below. Tell your MLA: You oppose this industry-drafted plan that puts taxpayers on the hook for BILLIONS in oil & gas cleanup costs. www.cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla #ABLeg #ABPoli #CleanUpYourMess

Write to Your MLA

Send a digital letter to your MLA about the Mature Asset Strategy in under 2 minutes.

www.cleanupyourmess.ca

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d

from elbows up to warm embrace. it’s a betrayal of he told canadians to expect from him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 4d

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

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David Barrett @davidfor7.ca · 5d

Here we go! Advance voting is on from October 6 - 11. Elections Calgary is working hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their ballot. Scroll through to see the locations and days for advance voting in (and around) Ward 7. #yyccc

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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 4d

And the membership is united. The province can't push this aside as a greedy union. Recall how important teachers and education were to these governments during the pandemic. It is time to treat teachers and their work environments with the value they deserve.

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

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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 7d

Orphan Well Costs Shifted to Alberta Taxpayers

RStar was hugely unpopular with Albertans, so @ABDanielleSmith brought it back with a different name, the Mature Asset Strategy.

Just another name for having taxpayers fund oil and gas well cleanup.
#ABleg
youtu.be/HLluYsC2X2E

Orphan Well Costs Shifted to Alberta Taxpayers

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Premier Smith's mandate letter to Energy Minister Brian Jean directs him to push thru the Mature Asset Strategy (MAS) despite growing opposition. MAS risks weakening cleanup standards, and shifting BILLIONS of industry's cleanup costs onto taxpayers. open.alberta.ca/dataset/b076... #ABLeg #ABPoli

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