The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism | The Tyee A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.

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

Dani the Decider has decided and you’re getting permanent daylight savings time whether you like it or not! - Alberta Politics “Albertans have very strong opinions about daylight saving time and the results of the referendum show that, right now, Albertans prefer to continue changing their clocks,” Nate Glubish, then the mini...

Dani the Decider has decided and you’re getting permanent daylight savings time whether you like it or not! You thought there was no right or wrong answer on DST? Turns out there is when Danielle Smith is in charge. albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/dani...

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How good is #LibreOffice in screenwriting? According to one user on Ask LibreOffice, very good – especially since Markdown support was added: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04... #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression

All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.

I've done a deep dive in my latest post.

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Fact check: Ford presides over the largest and most expensive Premier's Office in Ontario or Canadian history.

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has an article today about the increasingly crowded state of orbit. It's all extremely depressing. And then the article ends with "The current near-Earth environment is...growing more crowded every day. What could go wrong?" […]

AST SpaceMobile doesn't suck quite as much as Reflect Orbital, but it's currently second place on my stupidly-bright-and-screamingly-radio-loud satellite shit list.

Launching giant stuff into orbit is hard. Make your satellites smaller, jerks. (Blue Origin also really sucks, for way too many […]

Protesting Doug Ford | Where The People Stand Up

ON SATURDAY STAND UP TO DOUG THE GRIFTER
Doug Ford used $28 million in taxpayers money on a jet and then complained there was a "double standard" when people got upset. Tell that to those with no doctor or kids without school support.
FIND WHERE YOU CAN PROTEST

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Why Consumers are F*cked Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases

Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases. All of this is happening because of the unilateral decision making of one man. The question is, will he pay the price for it during the midterms?

The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.

Had anyone in a position of power during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted this stupidly, we’d all be dead. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...

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

With stakes this high, it’s hard to imagine electoral boundaries in Alberta becoming boring any time soon, writes Lisa Young. #abpoli

Scary Videos Claim That You Are Risking Your Health by Reheating Leftovers. Are You Really? Bacteria are everywhere. Most are harmless but some are “pathogenic,” meaning they can cause disease. They can carry out their mischief in two ways. One possibility is that they can survive passage th...

Contrary to what some videos on YouTube suggest, you will not shorten your life by reheating leftovers.

The key to avoiding illness is taking the proper precautions during food preparation and reheating.

Get the full scoop in Dr. Joe’s article.
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'This is not rewarding Russia' — US official defends extension of sanctions waiver on Russian oil "This is not rewarding Russia. That's ridiculous," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told NBC's "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker on April 19.

Sure, Russia hasn’t done anything good, so the oil bonanza billions from the US can’t be a reward. It’s just an expression of Trump’s general policy to make life easier for Putin. It serves no US interest whatsoever.
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Sky Defense A New Way to Save Lives in Ukraine

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure.
Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment
snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defense

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
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Can climate change help farmers on the Prairies? | The Narwhal A changing climate, and prolonged drought in many regions, has had a surprising impact for some farmers: better yields

In Saskatchewan, the impacts of climate change on agriculture vary from region to region. And it’s not all bad news. Some farmers are reporting higher yields as summers become hotter. thenarwhal.ca/saskatchewan...

The crazy nests built by leaf-cutter ants Turrets and tunnels and carbon dioxide — oh my! These ants farm, but they are also master builders.

“Ants first developed agriculture tens of millions of years ago. Those primeval farmers have since diverged into some 250 species, most of which feed their fungus dead plants, insect droppings and other detritus.”
#Science #Scicomm #Ants #Insects
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Public backlash prompts Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' | CBC News Ontario is looking to sell the $28.9 million private jet that was recently purchased for Premier Doug Ford's use "as quickly as possible," following backlash days after the purchase was confirmed publ...

Proof that voter engagement and awareness of political stupidity can get results. You’re up next Alberta.
#Canada #cdnpoli
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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it.
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On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

The problem with vet bills – a dog-owning economist explains Paying for your pet’s treatment is not like other kinds of spending.

The problem with vet bills – a dog-owning economist explains.

Similar pressures and financial conflicts of interests in some cases in Canada too. The move to large corporations owning too much (vertical integration) should be discouraged.
#Canada #Pets #VetMed
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Making a splash: demand for raw and ‘brewed’ milk growing in UK Farmers and delivery firms launch new options for those seeking alternative to traditionally pasteurised product

The ideologization of the ‘natural’ - from raw milk to home birth to vaccine rejection and fantasies about a rural life that is as artificial as cities - is one of the most depressing trends of the past few decades and literally the opposite of progress www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

mRNA technology is absolutely amazing on so many levels. For me is the individual post-translational modifications (e.g., folding, glycosylation, methylation, etc) of the nascent proteins for anti-viral activity.

But the frontier is limitless.

🧪 #MedSky

#Canada’s ‘Elbows Up’ at the box office: five new films are defying expectations

“2026 has delivered five English-language Canadian films that have crossed the $300,000 mark at the domestic box office:

Nirvanna

supernatural Undertone ($1.1-million)

animated Charlie the Wonderdog ($710,000) […]

New research finds few improvements for British Columbia’s endangered wildlife Data shows that almost all of B.C.’s endangered wildlife are not recovering quickly enough, if at all.

New research finds few improvements for British Columbia’s endangered wildlife

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Arrogance to achievement ratio approaches infinity
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It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health.
This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.