Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Now Available.

Happy National Library Workers Day!

Celebrate with a good book: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Dismantling Canada Post for parts Canada’s mainstream media’s convergence was on full display today.

Why are Canadian media reporting on Canada Post as if they've all been given a script to follow? Journalists are interfering with the union's contract ratification vote by parroting Canada Post management's talking points and telling Canadians that it isn't viable.

AI minister meets with mining, energy companies on environment impacts — not green groups A sessional paper from March 11 reveals Canada's AI minister has not met with environmental groups to discuss the potential impacts of AI infrastructure.

"AI Minister Evan Solomon has met with energy & mining companies about the environmental impacts of AI infrastructure, but no environmental organizations",

🤔🤨😒😞

Cc: @evansolomon.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

#AINeedsToBeRegulated #cdnpoli

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Alberta Justice Minister curtailed election regulator when Sam Mraiche was under investigation Mickey Amery’s legislation shortened watchdog’s window of time to pursue sanctions for alleged political finance violations

A watchdog curtailed:
Alberta Justice Minister set new limits for election regulator when his friend, Sam Mraiche, was under investigation

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N.W.T. water needs greater protection, as Alberta merges major river basins, says MLA | CBC News An N.W.T. MLA says a recent merger of Alberta's water basin and forthcoming regulations to release treated tailings water put Northern water at risk. He wants stronger action to protect the territory...

"Alberta’s environment department declined an interview..

Edjericon said the basin merger is not as “low-risk” as Alberta officials say and that the Water Amendment Act, which would allow treatment and release of oil sands tailings water is not scientifically sound."

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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says

✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

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Water Not Coal | Corb Lund's Petition To Protect Alberta's Rockies Join Corb Lund and thousands of Albertans to prohibit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Sign the citizen initiative petition.

Announcing that a mobile team has been built to collect signatures from those that are unable to get to a signing event, such as those with physical or medical issues

How to access it is posted in signing events in WaterNotCoal.ca

Please share this.

Alberta Woodland Caribou Continue to Decline: Habitat Disturbance, Predation, & Policy Failure Woodland caribou in Canada, including all populations in Alberta, are listed as Threatened under the Species at Risk Act (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020b; COSEWIC, 2014). Over the past several decades, most caribou herds in Alberta have shown persistent population declines, and many are no longer self-sustaining (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020a). Population assessments indicate that calf recruitment and adult survival rate in many ranges are too low to maintain stable populations (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020a). While climate change and other stressors contribute to these trends, the scientific consensus is clear that the primary driver of these declines is habitat disturbance from industrial development, which increases predation pressure, particularly from gray wolves (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020a). In caribou ecology, it is important to distinguish between the proximate (immediate) cause of mortality and the ultimate (underlying) cause of population decline. The immediate cause of most adult and calf mortality in boreal caribou populations is predation by wolves (Hervieux et al., 2014). However, the ultimate cause of this elevated predation is widespread habitat disturbance, which alters predator-prey dynamics and increases predator efficiency across the landscape (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020a; Dickie et al., 2016). Habitat...

Alberta Woodland Caribou Continue to Decline: Habitat Disturbance, Predation, & Policy Failure
->Sierra Club Canada Foundation | More on "Alberta caribou habitat decline crisis" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ecosystem #Habitat

Stronach's lawyer accuses complainant of lying about memory lapses in sex assault trial | CBC News The lawyer for Frank Stronach accused one of the complainants in his sexual assault case of lying, rejecting her testimony that she couldn’t remember some details of the alleged attack.

I know the Epstein files are important and horrifying. But one of Canada's major business tycoons, Frank Stronach, is on trial for sexual assault and I don't see much discussion anywhere.

And the complainants are being accused of lying.

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Manitoba volunteers turn Cuba vacations into lifesaving missions abroad In the wake of flight cancellations to Cuba, Canadian tourists may be disappointed — but one organization is ramping up to deliver essential medical supplies to the beleaguered nation.

One organization is ramping up to deliver essential medical supplies to the beleaguered nation #Cuba

Volunteers with #Manitoba’s chapter of Not Just Tourists have been packing donated supplies and sending them with travellers willing to deliver them to areas in need.

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

Send Canadian oil to Cuba - CCPA The United States is attempting to deliberately trigger a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Canada must act in concert with regional allies to defy the blockade.

Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.

I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca

In Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. squeezes oil supply and tourists flee | CBC News Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspe...

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I dgaf how the US feels. Canadians have long flocked to Cuba. Me included. We have to help.

Entwistle says there may soon come a time when 🇨🇦 needs to step in and send significant humanitarian aid despite the tariff threats”

#Canada Mark Carney #Liberals #NDP #Ottawa send fuel and food to #Cuba! #FU #Trump #USA #GOP #Republicans #Rubio

From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba US pressure pushes island nation's 11 million people to the brink as Cuba imposes emergency measures amid fuel crisis.

The US is starving Cuba to death

www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

a man with curly hair is laying on the ground in the woods and says mushrooms ! Alt: Billy Boyd as the hobbit Pippin Took in Fellowship of the Ring is lying on the ground among vegetables. He exclaims, "Mushrooms!"

9 days left to become a backer for the Fascination anthology. Amongst its pages can be found various wondrous and disturbing creatures.

Check out the fun(gus): www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

Book promo post. Black, starry background with Art Noveau style gold filigree in the corner. A ghostly image of a luna moth hovers on the left. On the righthand side is a mock-up of a paperback book of the anthology Fascination. It's cover shows an antlered deer skull with mushrooms, vines, and flowers growing from and around it. Additional text says, Fascination, an anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish.

10 days to go for the Fascination Kickstarter! Base goal is funded & now we're unlocking stretch goals! Let's see how great we can make this book.

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Red Deer!
Looks like there's a permanent signing location now for both Jason Stephan and Adriana LeGrange
Downtown Office
4730 50 Street
1/2 Block East of Gaetz United Church
3:00pm to 7:00pm

Thrilled to announce Fascination contains my latest story, "Hex Offender". Hope you'll check it out!

Book promo and Kickstarter post. Black background with gold, Art Deco-style filigree in each corner. In shimmery gold, the title Fascination spans the top. Beneath it in white says, An Anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish. On the left side is a water-colour style red-cap mushroom, and on the right-hand side is a trio of skinny yellow mushrooms.

okay, so in about 2 weeks, this is gonna go live! Hit the "notify me on launch" button so you don't have to worry about missing bsky announcements! 😂

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‘Frequent flyers’ behind surge in violence on public transit | CBC Accessibility Experts say that repeat offenders are one of the main drivers of transit crime in Canada. In Edmonton, for example, 22 per cent of offenders are responsible for almost half of the crime on transit.

This new segment focusing on Edmonton uses language like "surge in violence" and "dramatic spike" - then later accurately reports "violent crime rates have gradually started to come down after hitting a peak in 2023." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From the DM’s…

It takes a special kind of “wait, what?” to actually reduce the number of available beds during a healthcare crisis.

But nonetheless, here we are.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.

Alberta government staffers tour a building; a few months later a private businessman with ties to that government buys it; then he leases it to the Métis Nation for use as an addiction recovery centre.

Another story about Sam Mraiche - by
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Western Canada glaciers suffered 2nd-greatest ice loss on record in 2025 | CBC News "We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," warns Brian Menounos, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Northe...

Western Canada glaciers are fucked. Fuck fuck fuckity fucked.

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Went into town to sign the recall petition for Jackie Armstrong- Homenuik yesterday. She is the UCP MLA for Fort Sask- Vegreville. If she's your MLA and you'd like to petition her out, the next opportunity is Jan 9 from 1 - 4pm in Lamont at 4809 51st. Near the post office. #abpoli #ableg

Step-daughter files lawsuit over man’s death at Whitehorse emergency shelter The step-daughter of a First Nations man who died at the Whitehorse emergency shelter is suing the Yukon government and the shelter’s operator over his death.

The stepdaughter of a First Nations man who died at the Whitehorse emergency shelter is suing the Yukon government and the shelter’s operator over his death.

Alberta school divisions remove handful of titles from shelves as new school library rules take effect | CBC News A newly enacted provincial order on school literary materials prompted some divisions to remove a couple of dozen books from school shelves, but the names of those titles are secret.

Colleague Jo Horwood and I tried to find out, how many books were pulled off Alberta school shelves as a result of the gov't order? And what books were they?

Turns out, the names of the books are a secret #AbLeg #AbEd

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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation sues over independence referendum, claims government 'conspired' with separatists A First Nation in northwest Alberta is suing the provincial government ahead of an anticipated separation referendum.

News: Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is suing the Alberta gov over steps taken to enable a separatist referendum, saying it did so despite knowing it would violate treaty.

Suit also contains a summary of statements from separatists re: seeking Trump admin support edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Enchanted Adventures ebook by Jane Glatt - Rakuten Kobo Read "Enchanted Adventures Four Fantasy Series Starters" by Jane Glatt available from Rakuten Kobo. Explore the fantasy worlds of Jane Glatt in this collection of four series starters. Thief - Book 1 ...

There are a bunch of Jane Glatt's boxsets but I'm going to highlight this new one specifically, which has FOUR series starters! Get a taste of four different fantasy series in one. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Well look at that! My "extremely Fucking Canadian" books on sale until the 29th.

(Thanks for the mention, @skyladawn.ca )