We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
When your provincial government delays discussions about a petition signed by almost half a million people who want to remain in Canada, you can't help but question its allegiance to our country.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
calgary.citynews.ca/2026/04/21/a...
Bike lanes do take space away from drivers.
Why not get rid of sidewalks too, hell school zones really slow drivers down..get rid of schools! While we're at it i'm kind of tired of those pesky residential areas with their people and stop signs - no more homes! Nothing but roads and parking lots.
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
Renewable energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025
Output from solar rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It
Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-...
I will write historical Canadian non-fiction. “Murder in Rupert’s Land” by Heritage Thompson.
The label of a clamshell of green grapes from Superstore. Heritage Thompson, the name of the varietal is the most prominent text.
I think I just found my new alias and/or nom de plume.
Macro photo in portrait arrangement — a jaunty little click beetle faces the camera while perched, dare I say in an optimistic posture on some stucco. His antennae look like a series of triangles. He looks curious. Happy. Hopeful. One supposes this is because he does not have a cell phone and does not read the news. All he knows is being a cool bug and also clicking his entire body like a weird awesome dude any time someone tries to Kafka his ass upside-down. I wish I could do that. Getting out of bed in the morning would fucking rule. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
Good morning instead of enjoying clickbait let’s enjoy this click beetle
A fully dressed man and woman with a man wearning nothing but pelt underwear (but is not Tarzan). There's also a smiling tiger. The two men seem to gaze at each other. Dressed guy has a cup in hand. Narration: "Later when the three friends have returned, Jerry drinks the life juice. Another adventure of Trojak the Tiger Man in the next issue of DARING COMICS."
A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
EU ‘right to repair’ law
The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.
The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.
www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/n...
Same Girl.
“It is not an exaggeration to say that the minority report was gerrymandered to benefit the UCP by significantly diluting urban voters.”
Duane Bratt: Gerrymandering electoral map will erode Alberta democracy
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Dr Pepper wouldn't "kill the average Victorian child" for the simple reason that most Victorian children are already dead
Farkas: "We need to restore the trust that Calgarians have in the planning process." (April 8)
Farkas: F*ck it. Here's another Cowboys tent approved without any public consultation. (April 17)
livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/17/c...
REVEREND: And now, the couple has elected to write their own vows. We’ll start with the groom
GROOM: [clears throat] WHAZAAHHHHHH,
“Samson said she didn't see the break coming, but that she had no doubts that "something or someone" had pressured the UCP-appointed members to come up with a minority report.”
Another original commissioner member has stepped forward.
#abpoli #ableg
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
A video from Hamilton in which Carney is seemingly heard referring to the use of emergency powers in fact uses spliced audio from a campaign event in 2025, where his comments were unrelated to Alberta separatism.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #misinformation
Fiscal conservatives
"The 2021 Alberta referendum on daylight saving time (held alongside the municipal election) cost at least $10.6 million. This included approximately $1.1 million for Elections Alberta to administer the vote and around $9.5 million to assist municipalities with implementation."
Alberta premier rejects Opposition claims UCP interfering on electoral boundaries
Commissioner Susan Samson says “something or someone” sure did, but she doesn’t expect to ever learn the truth.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
We voted down this referendum because we didn't want daylight time, we wanted standard time but the question explicitly was for Daylight time.
I thought this was a binding referendum?
Isn't implementing this illegal?
#ableg
The Canadian Press attended and took photos and recorded video of the event.
In the full video, Carney does not make the comments attributed to him in the clip, nor does he discuss Alberta separatism at any point.
"It is not an exaggeration to say that the minority report was gerrymandered to benefit the UCP by significantly diluting urban voters."
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/duane...
"There's no non-cynical take on what the government is doing."
#yyc & #yeg mayors @jeromyyyc.bsky.social & @andrewknack.bsky.social say the #UCP is on the wrong track with plans to rewrite Alberta's electoral map...
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/041726RTRT
🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/041926
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Smith says that she wants to redraw the maps to ensure that rural gets the representation it deserves because rural constituencies are complex & too big.
This compares the majority report & the minority report.
It's the cities that get carved up, rural barely moves.
