I got needles in my jaw and the CRA is auditing me but at least my sixth diet pop from the Circle K was free today.

Past me leaving these projects undone was very unkind to current me

Over the years i have acquired a number of household and otherwise projects and tasks that I've half-finished over the years and I'm attempting to work my way through them and anyway why would I do this to myself.

Fascinating story by @charlesrusnell.bsky.social on intersection of AI and foreign interference in Alberta’s separation campaign. It raises many troubling questions. Who is paying for AI slop disinformation? And who is consuming it? And how on earth can those on the No side compete? #ableg #abpoli

Smith’s Meddling In Electoral Boundaries Is Part of a Grim Pattern | The Tyee The goal is power for the UCP, not democracy.

Years ago, I was at a political science conference where the after-dinner speaker gave a history of electoral boundary processes in Canada..... It was so boring, it was an out-of-body experience. From @jlisayoung.bsky.social

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Having to live outside the guidance of the rhythm of the sun itself because the government says so is actually a pretty great metaphor for living in Alberta.

I'm starting to get the sense that referendums in Alberta are performative exercises instead of ways to resolve policy disputes.

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Leaders of more than 50 organizations in Alberta and across Canada, [..] have signed a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel urging them to enforce the Canada Health Act to protect Canada’s public health care.

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The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Canada’s emissions reductions slowed in 2024, federal data shows | Globalnews.ca A new report from the federal government says an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry in 2024 offset decreases in several other industries.

Canada is a climate pariah. We're failing to meet our international obligations and while most of the country has done a good job of reducing emissions, all that good work is undone by 2 provinces jacking up theirs.
Thank you Smith, Moe & now Carney for making it worse.
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Sanofi Making Nuvaxovid (Novavax) Available in Canada this Fall - Canadian Covid Society The Nuvaxovid vaccine — more commonly known as Novavax — will be made available in Canada for the 2026-2027 season, Sanofi announced this week in a press release. Nuvaxovid is the non-mRNA protein-ba...

Sanofi will be making Novavax available in Canada this fall — but it’s up to the provinces or territories to order this vaccine. Send an email to your health minister and your local representative to tell them why Novavax access is essential for many people: covidsociety.ca/news/nuvaxov...

'Absolutely ridiculous': Alberta Next surveys sparked anger from respondents Newly released responses to the Alberta Next survey show widespread anger and skepticism toward the province’s consultation process

It took 10 months and 5 inquiries, but ... newly released open-answer responses to the province's Alberta Next survey show widespread frustration with the process, with many calling it biased, one-sided, and lacking options to say “no”

Read the story (and the responses) ⬇
#ableg #abpoli

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

More Surveillance Demands to Come?: Government Admits Bill C-22’s Lawful Access Provisions Could Be Expanded - Michael Geist Debate on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, continued this week with Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Secretary of State for Combatting Crime Ruby Sahota leading the government’s case…

The government's case for lawful access just got more alarming: it now admits Bill C-22 is a first step and it is open to going further. Metadata retention and embedded intercept infrastructure aren't the ceiling. They're the surveillance starting point.

RBC, Scotiabank pull back on climate goals RBC and Scotiabank say they're dropping their 2030 targets for reducing financed emissions.

Surprise! (not surprised)
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BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

We should have been out marching and shutting things down over teachers and trans rights. Now we can’t let the gerrymandering thing pass. The integrity of elections is at stake. We must stop this, in the streets if necessary.

This is a major line being crossed by Alberta's UCP government. Throwing out the work of an independent boundaries committee is authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic.

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

with your help, we can once again remind fascists why their natural environment is "in hiding" and not "in public"

My physiotherapist gave me inter-oral release because I’m having a jaw issue and let me just say it was less enjoyable than it sounds.

For someone who supposedly got climate change, you and your government been a massive disappointment.

I voted Liberal to avoid mindless right-wing cuts to heritage, research, the National Archive. I got mindless cuts.

I voted Liberal to avoid stupid populism. I got stupid populism.

So far this government has:

- removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market)
- removed carbon tax
- removed low carbon electricity policy
- removed gasoline tax
- removed oil and gas cap

when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

a doctor says hey what do i know while holding a tablet ALT: a doctor says hey what do i know while holding a tablet

#cdnpoli alt take:

Or… we could let the oil situation accelerate electrification and use the $billions saved by not cutting gas taxes to support families hurt by fuel inflation thru a boost in the CCB and GST credits.

Every time we cut a tax in response to price pressure I think we reinforce the argument that taxes are the reason things are expensive.

long before the same dissatisfaction pops up because Carney's agenda of service cuts, military spending and resource extraction and clamping down on privacy won't solve issues like affordability, housing or health care.

Based on what the first year of Carney has looked like, I'm really gonna hate the next few. And I'm not convinced Canadians are going to like it all that much either. No brand of business-friendly centrism can fix our fundamental issues of capitalism, climate and settler colonialism. It won't be...

Canada should listen to the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary

"Incredibly some argue that the correct response to the current crisis is to double-down on the cause of the turmoil – fossil fuels. This defies economic logic and basic common sense."

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