It solves her ideological desire to destroy the public healthcare system.

Shane Getson openly lied in the Legislature this week.

He said on multiple occasions that the Supreme Court of Canada had said that possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials is "OK".

The Supreme Court said no such thing.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.

Got it.

IDEA: A Hallmark Christmas movie about an Alberta premier who refuses to be photographed with Santa unless he's seated, titled 'Notwithstanding Claus'.

Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.

“the expansion of private surgery had siphoned funding & a scarce pool of critical staff, including anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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An index card with handwriting in blue ink that says, "'I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller.'" Below is the source, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" by Will J. Darling (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1932).

Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.

He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.

"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."

📚❤️

I miss my dog. I miss looking down. I miss checking to see if she's asleep. I miss her breathing. I miss her indifference to whether I'm busy. I miss the sound of her drinking from her water bowl. I miss her delight in having a completely predictable day. Death sucks.

On this date in 1865, for her work as a surgeon during the American Civil War, physician Mary Edwards Walker became the first woman to be granted the U.S. Medal of Honor; the award was rescinded in 1917 but reinstated in 1977.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The Beatles in Mono & Marc Bolan at the BBC. Both multi-disc boxsets.

I'm always banging on about the LPs I've bought, but two of my best purchases this year have been these CD boxsets. Without doubt my two favourite bands when I was a young kid. Music as a comfort blanket is such an important resource to tap into in times of stress.

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
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They call it a “time change”. I call it a bureaucratic ambush on the dinner bowl. My stomach doesn’t care about your daylight savings, your artificial hours, or your smug wristwatches.

#WaylonForPresident #DaylightSavings #DinnerTime

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush...

Honestly, one of the things I like most about this story is not that he's a fifteen year-old with a sense of style, but that he decided to let the mystery linger, turned his Insta private, and waited, rather than immediately trying to cash in and get sponsorships and a reality series by week's end.

Toronto children’s charity wins big following Jays-Dodgers rivalry Los Angeles Dodgers fans donated $30,000 to Toronto’s SickKids Hospital following their team’s World Series win — picking up a trend Toronto Blue Jays fans started during their post-season run.

#Toronto children’s charity wins big following #Jays-Dodgers rivalry

Dodgers fans donated $30,000 to Toronto’s SickKids Hospital following their team’s World Series win — picking up a trend Toronto Blue Jays fans started during their post-season run w/Mariners. 🥰

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The Conservative Party whip that assaulted an MP's personal assistant was kicked out of the House

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Sunday night at 8!

THIS is a conversation you don’t want to miss!

We sit down with Keep Alberta RCMP to set the record straight on policing in Alberta and what Alberta stands to lose if Smith plows ahead with her Provincial Police Force!

See you at 8!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Trifluoronitrosomethane gas, blue-green in color, in a spherical glass container

Wikipedia HERO

A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:

If you only learn ONE thing from me this month…
let it be this short list of internal switches that reset your body on command.👇

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Pre-1900, half the population was still working in fields, & even at peak “good middle class manufacturing jobs” in the 1950s, that was only 25% of employment. On this & so many other issues, our contemporary politics are detached from the reality of actual 🇺🇸 history.

Farewell to the International Space Station - NASA confirms that it will fall into the sea and that they still don't know who will be its replacement It has been orbiting the Earth for three decades, but the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to say goodbye to outer space.

This sucks. Now space stations will be privatized and profit driven. What could go wrong?

Black Oystercatcher

A good look at a Black Oystercatcher, a lifer for me!

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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Good

Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.

But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.

No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout. Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
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The most corrupt administration in American history.

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this??

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💯 this. 👇👇👇👇
This is why I will not go to the states, why I will not buy Anerican products.
This is about taking a stand against policies & actions that are racist, bigoted, illegal, & frankly, evil. And making sure this political poison does not spread, & is NEVER elected in Canada. #BoycottUSA

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

Pierre Poilievre won’t say if his Conservatives will oppose upcoming federal budget | CBC News With just days to go until the Liberal government introduces its much-anticipated federal budget, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t say whether his party will strike down the legislation — in...

The Conservatives are never, ever going to support a budget so long as they're the official opposition. Can we please stop this constant hand-wringing about it?