One despairs.

Opinion: Possible changes to Alberta’s electoral map put democracy at risk If the UCP fiddles with the map, it could guarantee a conservative supermajority for a generation

“A government that has no electoral accountability can hardly be called a democracy.”

Rachel Notley has entered the chat.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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We can work together!

Rockford Files; Perils of Penelope Pitstop

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I see you. Godspeed.

Stop scrolling! Get off your phone! Come have a conversation with real people!
@cailynn.bsky.social and I are bringing back the Urban Affairs Book Club after.
Read the book & discuss w other cool Calgarians interested in urban issues on April 28. We'll even hear from the author in the 2nd half. 🎉

Alberta Prosperity Project Faces Court Date over Separation Referendum Role | The Tyee Election commissioner alleges the organization has stonewalled investigations into potential referendum petition spending.

Today's essential read for all Albertans.

And not to disparage @thetyee.ca, but this is a major, national story, that CBC and Postmedia and all MSM should be covering.

kudos to @charlesrusnell.bsky.social for the excellent reporting.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The UCP is letting Kevin O’Leary’s AI Data Center skip its standard environmental impact assessment— despite being built in a municipality facing emergency drought conditions.

Why does the Premier have one set of rules for Albertans and another set of rules for her friends? #abpoli #ableg #abtech

I have made mankind, saith the Lord.

You fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. Look at it. It's got anxiety, saith the angels.

Gods, these people are creepy.

Need a little good news?

Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz (Official Video) YouTube video by Michel Robson Santos

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Five alarm fire for democracy in Canada.

Not just Alberta.

The whole country.

Not hyperbole. When we take away effective representation, we no longer have a real claim to being a liberal democracy. If Alberta gets away with this, other provinces will follow.

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

Hi Brian Jean 👋

PIPELINE. This is another count for your factsheet.

Oh, well done

I remember when we had a Classics department.

Everybody's doing it, Alberta. Just saying.

I'll never run for public office because of what I said to A.M. in Grade 5 in front of three other kids. I don't understand politicians who are part-time serial rapists or stock-market fraudsters or tax cheats and think that they will never be unmasked. Do they have no imagination?

Welcome.

"Pragmatic" is an interesting way of saying "hateful loon." Unless she's done an abrupt about face in the last 24 hours?

Personally, I was thrilled. Been waiting a long time for all the invitations to speak that will surely come pouring in.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You were born to write for the New Yorker.

Brandy, this is absolutely perfect.

The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot.

I got to write about Nancy Lemann! For The New Yorker!

If he hates brown kids so much, he could just stop making them.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.