JK 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@jkfriesland.bsky.social
I’m just a Canadian tourist (who is no longer travelling to the USA), living in Alberta, hoping for an end to the mediocre UCP/Smith wannabe dictatorship.
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This fall session, the UCP has nothing to show for helping with what matters to Albertans.
Crowded classrooms, privatized health care, wasted money, and out-of-touch priorities show a government that isn’t working for you.
You deserve better.
Crowded classrooms, privatized health care, wasted money, and out-of-touch priorities show a government that isn’t working for you.
You deserve better.
Out of Touch and Out of Control: UCP Fall 2025 Recap
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This fall session, the UCP has nothing to show for helping with what matters to Albertans.
Crowded classrooms, privatized health care, wasted money, and out-of-touch priorities show a government that isn’t working for you.
You deserve better.
Crowded classrooms, privatized health care, wasted money, and out-of-touch priorities show a government that isn’t working for you.
You deserve better.
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2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy.
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy.
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party
Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party
OTTAWA - In a stunning move, progressive conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor Thursday to the progressive conservative Liberal Party, just a few weeks after similar minded progressive conserva...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party
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BREAKING: Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals. #cdnpoli #canpoli #cpc
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News
Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative Caucus and joining the Liberals.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
BREAKING: Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals. #cdnpoli #canpoli #cpc
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The Indiana Senate has voted down a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump's months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will. https://cnn.it/4qovYFZ
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Indiana Senate has voted down a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump's months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will. https://cnn.it/4qovYFZ
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Almost 60% of pupils accidentally stumble on unverified Holocaust content on social media www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de... via @ucl.ac.uk
"Pupils are arriving in the classroom with misconceptions about the Holocaust, shaped largely by misinformation they encounter on social media."
"Pupils are arriving in the classroom with misconceptions about the Holocaust, shaped largely by misinformation they encounter on social media."
Almost 60% of pupils accidentally stumble on unverified Holocaust content on social media
Experts at UCL have raised concerns about online misinformation after new research found that over half of pupils have unintentionally encountered Holocaust-related content on social media.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Almost 60% of pupils accidentally stumble on unverified Holocaust content on social media www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de... via @ucl.ac.uk
"Pupils are arriving in the classroom with misconceptions about the Holocaust, shaped largely by misinformation they encounter on social media."
"Pupils are arriving in the classroom with misconceptions about the Holocaust, shaped largely by misinformation they encounter on social media."
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🚨Yet MORE evidence of benefit...
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
"The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76%..."
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
"The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76%..."
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨Yet MORE evidence of benefit...
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
"The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76%..."
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
"The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76%..."
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Supreme Court of Canada to donate robes to mall Santas in need
Supreme Court of Canada to donate robes to mall Santas in need
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has announced it will donate its recently decommissioned crimson fur robes to mall Santas in need.
www.thebeaverton.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Supreme Court of Canada to donate robes to mall Santas in need
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Ugh.
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates wapo.st/4aIfp2Q
Yep, driven by the vaccine misinformation on social media & spread by public officials, including Trump & RFK Jr.
#VaccinesWork
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates wapo.st/4aIfp2Q
Yep, driven by the vaccine misinformation on social media & spread by public officials, including Trump & RFK Jr.
#VaccinesWork
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates
A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ugh.
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates wapo.st/4aIfp2Q
Yep, driven by the vaccine misinformation on social media & spread by public officials, including Trump & RFK Jr.
#VaccinesWork
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates wapo.st/4aIfp2Q
Yep, driven by the vaccine misinformation on social media & spread by public officials, including Trump & RFK Jr.
#VaccinesWork
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Lorne Gunter: Poilievre Conservatives favour stunts over substance, and it's hurting them
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Lorne Gunter: Poilievre Conservatives favour stunts over substance, and it's hurting them
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is too satisfied with his own tricks, and too pleased with sloganeering and soundbites over substance.
edmontonjournal.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lorne Gunter: Poilievre Conservatives favour stunts over substance, and it's hurting them
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Story by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social that I somehow missed during my research for this story. It helps explain why Danielle Smith, a former oil industry lobbyist, is keen to grant accreditation to the Peterson Academy
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Story by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social that I somehow missed during my research for this story. It helps explain why Danielle Smith, a former oil industry lobbyist, is keen to grant accreditation to the Peterson Academy
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
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Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson's School via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson's School via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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ICYMI - Premier Danielle Smith is keen to grant post-secondary accreditation in Alberta to the Peterson Academy, an online school with no presence in Canada.
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
ICYMI - Premier Danielle Smith is keen to grant post-secondary accreditation in Alberta to the Peterson Academy, an online school with no presence in Canada.
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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On Human Rights Day, the UCP used the notwithstanding clause to take away Albertans’ rights.
Now they have gone even further by trying to stop the courts from doing their job.
Now they have gone even further by trying to stop the courts from doing their job.
The consequences of a government that acts without ethics or competence.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
On Human Rights Day, the UCP used the notwithstanding clause to take away Albertans’ rights.
Now they have gone even further by trying to stop the courts from doing their job.
Now they have gone even further by trying to stop the courts from doing their job.
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Judge Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer who Trump then appointed to the federal bench, has been hit with an ethics complaint for attending Trump's rally last night.
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
Judge Bove Faces Complaint Over Trump Rally Attendance - Law360 Pulse
U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove, who previously served as President Donald Trump's personal defense attorney and a top official at the U.S. Department of Justice, has been hit with a judicial misconduct ...
www.law360.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Judge Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer who Trump then appointed to the federal bench, has been hit with an ethics complaint for attending Trump's rally last night.
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
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10 December 1896 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Marianna van Rooijen, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in December 1942. She did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
She was deported to #Auschwitz in December 1942. She did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
10 December 1896 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Marianna van Rooijen, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in December 1942. She did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
She was deported to #Auschwitz in December 1942. She did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
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This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
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Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift?
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift?
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Damn straight.
youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
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“When it comes to being a traitor, you could say this guy is ‘The Great One.’”
A few prominent Canadians have been eager to kiss the ring when it comes to Donald Trump. But for author and comedian Mark Critch, one name rises above the rest: Wayne Gretzky. thewalrus.ca/kevin-oleary-way...
A few prominent Canadians have been eager to kiss the ring when it comes to Donald Trump. But for author and comedian Mark Critch, one name rises above the rest: Wayne Gretzky. thewalrus.ca/kevin-oleary-way...
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“When it comes to being a traitor, you could say this guy is ‘The Great One.’”
A few prominent Canadians have been eager to kiss the ring when it comes to Donald Trump. But for author and comedian Mark Critch, one name rises above the rest: Wayne Gretzky. thewalrus.ca/kevin-oleary-way...
A few prominent Canadians have been eager to kiss the ring when it comes to Donald Trump. But for author and comedian Mark Critch, one name rises above the rest: Wayne Gretzky. thewalrus.ca/kevin-oleary-way...
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship oath ceremony at Faneuil Hall, group says - The Boston Globe
More than 20 clients of one immigrant services group have had their oath ceremonies canceled, officials said.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious
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Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
@UAlberta polisci prof @DrJaredWesley urges Alberta to call, write, or email their MLA demanding change.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/wjr0duRTd9c
@UAlberta polisci prof @DrJaredWesley urges Alberta to call, write, or email their MLA demanding change.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/wjr0duRTd9c
Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
@UAlberta polisci prof @DrJaredWesley urges Alberta to call, write, or email their MLA demanding change.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/wjr0duRTd9c
@UAlberta polisci prof @DrJaredWesley urges Alberta to call, write, or email their MLA demanding change.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/wjr0duRTd9c