Sarah Rankin
@sarahrankin.bsky.social
I'm really big into all the snacks. YEG born. UofT Law grad. Calgary criminal lawyer. She/her. Views are my own.
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Sarah Rankin
@sarahrankin.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Who am I missing! go.bsky.app/4Jz3Toi
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Some of us have been saying for a while that thinking you can control the politics of resentment is a mugs game. You reap what you sow, you don’t get to control it.
Danielle Smith: "I hope people today feel a lot more confident that Canada works than they did a couple of days ago."
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
Danielle Smith tried to sell her federal-Alberta energy deal to the UCP convention crowd: tepid applause.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Some of us have been saying for a while that thinking you can control the politics of resentment is a mugs game. You reap what you sow, you don’t get to control it.
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Legal safer supply programs inaccessible to most, B.C court hears
Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were convicted of trafficking earlier this month for having operated an illicit-drug compassion club
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I actually don’t know how you use it and everything is ok for me. Is it.. a website? An app? No idea
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I actually don’t know how you use it and everything is ok for me. Is it.. a website? An app? No idea
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Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
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“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas.” — that anonymous Coast Guard official
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas.” — that anonymous Coast Guard official
It’s hard to overstate how alarmed people should be about this.
NEWS: Edmonton’s chief Crown prosecutor & a deputy are out of their jobs w/ little explanation. Source tells me Crowns are on edge, as it comes months after Edmonton police publicly slammed the Crown’s handling of a case — a move Danielle Smith said she supported edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
Questions swirl as Edmonton chief prosecutor and deputy out of jobs
Edmonton's top Crown prosecutor and a deputy are out of their jobs, with little explanation being offered either publicly or to their former colleagues.
edmontonjournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It’s hard to overstate how alarmed people should be about this.
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That time is here again! The Calgary Climate Hub #Fundraiser is LIVE and once again we're asking for YOUR support. *Somebody* has to fight #ClimateChange in this city and it turns out that's us. Donate if you can. Every bit helps!
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
That time is here again! The Calgary Climate Hub #Fundraiser is LIVE and once again we're asking for YOUR support. *Somebody* has to fight #ClimateChange in this city and it turns out that's us. Donate if you can. Every bit helps!
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
Yeah that was probably the problem, I think he’s got it
Up and began our discontent again and sorely angered my wife, who indeed do live very lonely, but I do perceive that it is want of work that do make her and all other people think of ways of spending their time worse.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yeah that was probably the problem, I think he’s got it
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
This time last year we learned that the homeless population was living in such dire circumstances they experienced rare lice infections were so bad they were transmitted to organ donation recipients. What did we do after that to respond to human beings in those conditions?
Yikes: A tuberculosis outbreak has been declared in inner-city Edmonton. 12 people have gotten sick this year. Two recently confirmed in October, suggesting it's spread.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This time last year we learned that the homeless population was living in such dire circumstances they experienced rare lice infections were so bad they were transmitted to organ donation recipients. What did we do after that to respond to human beings in those conditions?
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
I would love to see a code of conduct for elected officials that has something similar to the lawyers' obligation to speak and criticize the justice system without undermining respect for it. This piece treats the unbelievable language from elected leaders as normal, and that's a problem. Wab Kinew
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I would love to see a code of conduct for elected officials that has something similar to the lawyers' obligation to speak and criticize the justice system without undermining respect for it. This piece treats the unbelievable language from elected leaders as normal, and that's a problem. Wab Kinew
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On our op-ed page: researchers make the argument that Edmonton might be the frostbite capital of the world, largely due to street homelessness. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Edmonton doesn't have to be the frostbite capital of the world
Severe frostbite injuries are entirely preventable - together, let’s work towards a city where no one gets left out in the cold.
edmontonjournal.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On our op-ed page: researchers make the argument that Edmonton might be the frostbite capital of the world, largely due to street homelessness. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital
Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...
www.democracynow.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
Here’s what the SCC said about arrests less than two weeks ago
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s what the SCC said about arrests less than two weeks ago
What fresh hell is this livewirecalgary.com/2025/11/05/o...
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What fresh hell is this livewirecalgary.com/2025/11/05/o...
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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does anyone know what the Bluths have been up to lately
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
does anyone know what the Bluths have been up to lately
Just the normal lease terms amirite
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just the normal lease terms amirite
The kids are alright.
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The kids are alright.
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8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for baseball
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for baseball
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Never forget what they took from you.
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Never forget what they took from you.