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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · Aug 20

SCOOP
Alberta's Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is quietly shelving a personal data-harvesting app developed through sole-sourced contracts starting in 2021.
The move coincides with reported scrutiny of ministry spending by the Auditor General. 1/🧵
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Province to abandon My Recovery Plan amid Auditor General snooping

Alberta's Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is quietly terminating its contract with a personal data-harvesting app and replacing it with a publicly-owned 'bed availability dashboard.' The move ...

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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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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Aug 20

I reported on those changes last week — which proved to be controversial and included no longer requiring public disclosure of receipts and removing thousands of historical records that were previously public.

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

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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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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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · Aug 7

SCOOP: Alberta taxpayers paid almost $20K for Premier Danielle Smith to speak alongside Ben Shapiro at a PragerU fundraiser in March, according to travel expense disclosures.

www.theprogressreport.ca/premier-prag...

Premier’s Office spent nearly $20K on PragerU fundraiser gala

Disclosures show that the Premier's Office spent nearly $20,000 to support a fundraiser by far-right American organization PragerU

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Aug 11

I happened to notice that the Alberta govt quietly changed its expense report disclosure policy on Aug. 1, hours before a long weekend.

The changes were significant — receipts no longer had to be publicly disclosed, and 8 years of expenses had been 'undisclosed.'

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

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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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Aug 11

I happened to notice that the Alberta govt quietly changed its expense report disclosure policy on Aug. 1, hours before a long weekend.

The changes were significant — receipts no longer had to be publicly disclosed, and 8 years of expenses had been 'undisclosed.'

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

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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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Jul 15

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · Jun 18

G7 fortress summit keeps protesters—and reality—at a safe distance
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G7 fortress summit keeps protesters—and reality—at a safe distance

My dispatch from the designated demonstration zones at the Kananaskis G7.

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Jun 9

I highly recommend the audio version, with Carter's words in his own voice.

Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1kCV...

'I'm A Bad Boy': The Stephen Carter Story

Podcast Episode · Sprawlcast · 2022-07-20 · 57m

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Jun 9

From 2022: my profile of Stephen Carter
for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social

www.sprawlcalgary.com/the-strategi...

‘I’m a bad boy’: The Stephen Carter story | The Sprawl

For better or worse, he's altered Alberta politics.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · May 6

This chart shows the total number of extra duty hours and shifts each year.

I got 2020-2024 through FOIP; EPS then shared two prior years of shifts to demonstrate that the increase is simply a return to pre-pandemic levels.

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · May 6

New from me - Edmonton police officers got paid nearly $4m last year for private contract work.

Those gigs are arranged through the EPS extra duty program, where clients can hire uniformed cops outside of their regular shifts.

STORY: www.cbc.ca/1.7526704

Private contracts for Edmonton police rose sharply over last five years: data | CBC News

Edmonton police are performing more extra duty work for private contractors, according to new data. The police say the program is working well, but one criminologist worries about the line between pub...

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · Apr 3

NEW: The Liberal's newly acclaimed candidate for Calgary Confederation was involved in the University of Calgary's decision to immediately call the cops on its pro-🇵🇸 encampment.

www.readthemaple.com/liberal-star...

Liberal Star Candidate Helped Shut Down Pro-Palestine Encampment

“Hogan’s nomination signals that the Liberal Party intends to continue supporting the genocide.”

www.readthemaple.com

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Emmanuel Prince-Thauvette @iciemmanuel.bsky.social · Mar 20

NOUVEAU | Radio-Canada a appris que le maire d’Edmonton, Amarjeet Sohi, devrait se présenter sous la bannière du Parti libéral du Canada aux prochaines élections fédérales.

Un retour en #polcan pour l'ancien ministre

Avec les infos de Laurence Martin.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

Amarjeet Sohi devrait être candidat aux élections fédérales

Radio-Canada a appris que le maire d’Edmonton Amarjeet Sohi devrait se présenter sous la bannière libérale aux prochaines élections fédérales

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Mar 17

I got Alberta Health documents that show Dynalife was involvent and asked for an extra $70m less than 90 days into a contract to provide lab services across the province.

Dynalife's owners asked the government to buy the company, which it did, for nearly $100m.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

DynaLife insolvent less than 90 days into contract for lab services, government documents show | CBC News

Documents obtained by CBC News show that a private medical testing company contracted by the Alberta government became insolvent and requested an additional $70 million in funding, which was denied. D...

www.cbc.ca

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Mar 17

*insolvent, gah

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Mar 17

I got Alberta Health documents that show Dynalife was involvent and asked for an extra $70m less than 90 days into a contract to provide lab services across the province.

Dynalife's owners asked the government to buy the company, which it did, for nearly $100m.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

DynaLife insolvent less than 90 days into contract for lab services, government documents show | CBC News

Documents obtained by CBC News show that a private medical testing company contracted by the Alberta government became insolvent and requested an additional $70 million in funding, which was denied. D...

www.cbc.ca

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Mar 13

12: old enough to carry a gun, but too young to choose a pronoun.

Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Mar 13

‘Berta edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/03/12/a...

Alberta bill to permit 12-year-olds to use guns without adults around, among other Wildlife Act amendments

New legislation proposed by Alberta’s government would make hunting in a wheelchair legal and permit kids as young as 12 to use guns without adults around. Hunters would also not have to wear high-vis...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Mar 1

An emphatic "Ramadan Mubarak" to all my Muslim homies, especially the ones in Palestine

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Feb 27

Here's the Alberta govt's first appearance in the database, from 1964, where they registered themselves as their own lobbyist... with a Los Angeles office address.

Screenshot from a document. The heading says "United States Department of Justice." The date is April 30, 1964. The registrant is listed as the Government of Alberta, with an address of 550 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Feb 27

Here's a proposed comms strategy from 2013 around the Keystone XL project, where the goal is to "neutralize environmentalist arguments."

A screenshot from a document. The highlighted text reads: "environmentalists opposed to the project have aggressively taken control of the debate," and "Objective: Define and execute a public relations strategy to give the current debate more context thereby giving President Obama the air cover he needs to support the Pipeline."

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Feb 27

Along with the Foreign Agents Registration Act data, documents from each contract were also publicly available.

Here's one from a current Government of Alberta contract, where the lobbying firms are selling themselves by highlighting their personal connections to U.S. senators.

A screenshot from a contract. The highlighted text reads: "Jonathan Kott is a key confident of several US policy makers including Senator Coons and Senator Manchin... Through our work, Senator Manchin became a key ally for Alberta, which was particularly important given his leadership position and ability to work along bipartisan lines. To that end, we were pleased to coordinate Senator Manchin’s visit to Alberta."

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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca · Feb 27

I crunched 80+ years of U.S. foreign lobbying data. Turns out Alberta has hired more lobbyists than any other province or the federal govt since 2000.

STORY: www.cbc.ca/1.7469140

Two column charts, side by side. The title is "Registration of US Lobbyists." The subtitle is "Number of appearances in the US Foreign Agent Registration Act database." The chart on the left shows data since the year 2000 - Alberta is first with 15, Ontario is second with 14, and the rest of the provinces and federal government have 5 or fewer. The chart on the right shows all-time data, with the federal government first with 56, Ontario second with 28, Alberta third with 25, and Quebec with 21, followed by a sharp drop off for the rest.

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