Simon Listens
@simonorrell.bsky.social
Connection. It’s all that matters. Find it.
yes yes 👏
Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
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Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers quietly deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise
ricochet.media
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
yes yes 👏
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Sadly there are some people who are less equal than others here. Until that changes, avoid Alberta.
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Sadly there are some people who are less equal than others here. Until that changes, avoid Alberta.
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“A bakery owner whose shop is becoming a hub of resistance to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in her recall campaign has a message for those in her office calling for a customer boycott -- "bite me."
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/18/b...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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'Bite me': Alberta baker challenges premier's office over boycott…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“A bakery owner whose shop is becoming a hub of resistance to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in her recall campaign has a message for those in her office calling for a customer boycott -- "bite me."
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/18/b...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/18/b...
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It's not about representing all ABs as a centrist party. They can't represent all ABs. It's not about making a big tent any more. Now it's about taking down the UCP and providing a voice for PCs that are unhappy with the shotgun wedding that married the PCs and WR - and the subsequent WR takeover.
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It's not about representing all ABs as a centrist party. They can't represent all ABs. It's not about making a big tent any more. Now it's about taking down the UCP and providing a voice for PCs that are unhappy with the shotgun wedding that married the PCs and WR - and the subsequent WR takeover.
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UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
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Growth itself is not a mission, but a metric divorced from genuine purpose.
Peace as a mission connects domestic renewal with global responsibility – and serves as the potential engine for economic transformation.
Read more in our latest for Project Syndicate ➡️ buff.ly/Jv2ZeSc
Peace as a mission connects domestic renewal with global responsibility – and serves as the potential engine for economic transformation.
Read more in our latest for Project Syndicate ➡️ buff.ly/Jv2ZeSc
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Growth itself is not a mission, but a metric divorced from genuine purpose.
Peace as a mission connects domestic renewal with global responsibility – and serves as the potential engine for economic transformation.
Read more in our latest for Project Syndicate ➡️ buff.ly/Jv2ZeSc
Peace as a mission connects domestic renewal with global responsibility – and serves as the potential engine for economic transformation.
Read more in our latest for Project Syndicate ➡️ buff.ly/Jv2ZeSc
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New 1.45 MW rooftop array in Calgary now powering the Alberta grid . #ABsolar
PowerBank Corporation’s first solar project under development reaches commercial operation
The Project will reportedly sell power to the grid under Alberta's Small Scale Generation program and participate in Alberta's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system to generate c...
www.canadianmanufacturing.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New 1.45 MW rooftop array in Calgary now powering the Alberta grid . #ABsolar
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Another 23.6MW of #absolar energy coming to Alberta, this time in Tilley.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Another 23.6MW of #absolar energy coming to Alberta, this time in Tilley.
environmentjournal.ca/the-sun-rise...
environmentjournal.ca/the-sun-rise...
cosocial.ca on mastodon down?
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cosocial.ca
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
cosocial.ca on mastodon down?
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actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
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The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
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A movie about Melania Trump has already been made. It was called “Klute.”
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A movie about Melania Trump has already been made. It was called “Klute.”
it’s almost as if these assholes think they’re shareholders in a corporation instead of citizens of a province and country … oh right … privatize everything.
It sure would be nice if the Premier of Alberta would call out this treasonous behaviour by one of her own party members for what it is.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
it’s almost as if these assholes think they’re shareholders in a corporation instead of citizens of a province and country … oh right … privatize everything.
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It sure would be nice if the Premier of Alberta would call out this treasonous behaviour by one of her own party members for what it is.
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It sure would be nice if the Premier of Alberta would call out this treasonous behaviour by one of her own party members for what it is.
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Susie Wiles: "Vanity Fair tricked me into saying embarrassing things about the Trump administration. And then I went back to talk with them ten more times."
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Susie Wiles: "Vanity Fair tricked me into saying embarrassing things about the Trump administration. And then I went back to talk with them ten more times."
looking at you @hockeycanada.bsky.social
I wonder how many other national sport organizations will follow Skate Canada's lead. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Skate Canada won’t host Alberta events due to sports gender law
Skate Canada says it won’t host national and international-level events in Alberta, citing provincial law that restricts transgender athletes from participating in female-only sport divisions.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
looking at you @hockeycanada.bsky.social
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After Danielle Smith passed Bill 11, many Canadians are asking what two-tier healthcare actually means for patients?
We created an explainer video that breaks down how two-tier care gives the rich a fast lane, while most people's costs and wait times increase.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNc...
We created an explainer video that breaks down how two-tier care gives the rich a fast lane, while most people's costs and wait times increase.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNc...
Whatever This Is - S2 E4: Death Rattle of Universal Public Healthcare
YouTube video by Forward Canada
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December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
After Danielle Smith passed Bill 11, many Canadians are asking what two-tier healthcare actually means for patients?
We created an explainer video that breaks down how two-tier care gives the rich a fast lane, while most people's costs and wait times increase.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNc...
We created an explainer video that breaks down how two-tier care gives the rich a fast lane, while most people's costs and wait times increase.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNc...
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This is, by far, the best, most accurate and extremely well argued analysis of the power of Danielle Smith's communications style that I have read. This deserves to be widely distributed and as Markham notes, the Alberta NDP should take note.
Danielle Smith’s Superpower: Making Radical Policies Sound Sane and Safe
A field guide to persuading smart people to believe utterly unhinged ideas.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
A field guide to persuading smart people to believe utterly unhinged ideas.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Danielle Smith’s Superpower: Making Radical Policies Sound Sane and Safe
A field guide to persuading smart people to believe utterly unhinged ideas
markhamhislop.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is, by far, the best, most accurate and extremely well argued analysis of the power of Danielle Smith's communications style that I have read. This deserves to be widely distributed and as Markham notes, the Alberta NDP should take note.
this is the whole game. every Albertan’s future. you either believe government is for public good … or you believe it’s a business. In #ucp world, governing simply means you control which private company you hand out publicly funded contracts to. #ableg #abpoli
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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I'm so tired of all this BS
The UCP are exhausting
I'm tired of the anti-science sh*t
I'm tired of the anti-vax sh*t
Every day there's a new thing for Albertans to be embarrassed about
& don't get me started on all the grifting they do for their donors
I'm just so f*cking tired of it
#ableg
The UCP are exhausting
I'm tired of the anti-science sh*t
I'm tired of the anti-vax sh*t
Every day there's a new thing for Albertans to be embarrassed about
& don't get me started on all the grifting they do for their donors
I'm just so f*cking tired of it
#ableg
“The documents show the ministry produced an evaluation of how to grant accreditation, and, as recently as June 2025, there was even an assessment of changing the law to allow the accreditation” of Jordan Peterson’s school. #WTAF #abpoli #ableg #misleading #discrediting
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Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson’s School | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier defended her quiet efforts to accredit the psychologist’s for-profit online ‘academy.’
thetyee.ca
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm so tired of all this BS
The UCP are exhausting
I'm tired of the anti-science sh*t
I'm tired of the anti-vax sh*t
Every day there's a new thing for Albertans to be embarrassed about
& don't get me started on all the grifting they do for their donors
I'm just so f*cking tired of it
#ableg
The UCP are exhausting
I'm tired of the anti-science sh*t
I'm tired of the anti-vax sh*t
Every day there's a new thing for Albertans to be embarrassed about
& don't get me started on all the grifting they do for their donors
I'm just so f*cking tired of it
#ableg
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Danielle Smith is rushing her two-tier healthcare legislation through today and tomorrow—allowing just one hour of debate on the biggest change to healthcare in a generation.
It paves the way for a fast lane for the wealthy and erodes the public system we all rely on.
notwotier.ca/sendmessage
It paves the way for a fast lane for the wealthy and erodes the public system we all rely on.
notwotier.ca/sendmessage
URGENT: Stop Two-Tier Healthcare. Send a Direct Message Now.
We have to defend and promote Universal Public Healthcare before it's too late.
notwotier.ca
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Danielle Smith is rushing her two-tier healthcare legislation through today and tomorrow—allowing just one hour of debate on the biggest change to healthcare in a generation.
It paves the way for a fast lane for the wealthy and erodes the public system we all rely on.
notwotier.ca/sendmessage
It paves the way for a fast lane for the wealthy and erodes the public system we all rely on.
notwotier.ca/sendmessage
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Alberta has had justice ministers since 1905 yet the “political activism” Mickey Amery is seeking to shield himself from seems to have only been an issue since the UCP formed government six years ago. 🤔
Justice Minister defends his bill to shield Alberta justice ministers from Law Society complaints. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @joeldryden.bsky.social
Immunity for Alberta attorney general necessary to ward off ‘political activism,’ attorney general says | CBC News
Alberta’s justice minister, who is also the attorney general, says new rules that would grant anyone who’s in his job general immunity from law society sanctions are necessary to ward off “political a...
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Alberta has had justice ministers since 1905 yet the “political activism” Mickey Amery is seeking to shield himself from seems to have only been an issue since the UCP formed government six years ago. 🤔
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Premier of a province who doesn't understand how government and constitution operates. Courts are supposed to interpret constitutional questions. They aren't gatekeepers.
"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions | Globalnews.ca
Premier Danielle Smith says courts shouldn’t be “gatekeepers” to an independence referendum, defending legislation stopping a court case after a judge called it undemocratic.
globalnews.ca
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Premier of a province who doesn't understand how government and constitution operates. Courts are supposed to interpret constitutional questions. They aren't gatekeepers.
"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
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Now that conservatives have manipulated the naïve minds of our supporters into distrusting doctors, scientists, and media, it’s time we start sowing the seeds of division for judges and the courts.
That’s the path to true authoritarianism!
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption
That’s the path to true authoritarianism!
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption
Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions, adds giving Justice Minister Mickey Amery the power over referendum questions upholds democracy
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
globalnews.ca/news/1156634...
Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions | Globalnews.ca
Premier Danielle Smith says courts shouldn’t be “gatekeepers” to an independence referendum, defending legislation stopping a court case after a judge called it undemocratic.
globalnews.ca
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Now that conservatives have manipulated the naïve minds of our supporters into distrusting doctors, scientists, and media, it’s time we start sowing the seeds of division for judges and the courts.
That’s the path to true authoritarianism!
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption
That’s the path to true authoritarianism!
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption