Fact File: No evidence Carney threatened emergency powers against Alberta separatists Claims that Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would invoke the Emergencies Act to quash Alberta independence appeared online last week. It was said Carney made the comments while addressing

Fact File: No evidence Carney threatened emergency powers against Alberta separatists

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Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine. What can organizers do? Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers describe how this fits into a broader pattern and what can be done to protect community…

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...

Big thanks to Fernie's Polar Peaks Books for hosting me on Saturday night. I love talking about Canada's migrant workers with smart people.

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.

Introducing Alberta’s dumbest lawyer. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is a weird thing to tout, since Lebanon isn't a combatant. There is no Lebanese fire for the Lebanese government to cease.

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

If the UCP goes forward with this plan to gerrymander Alberta's electoral boundaries, Albertans of all partisan persuasions will be called upon to push back. And hard.

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Alberta can’t rely on immigrant workers while denying them health care - Healthy Debate Alberta cannot build a functioning health system by recruiting newcomers to sustain it while denying some the care they need to live, work and stay.

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Article from The Wrap. Headline that reads: Inside Doug Liman's $70 Million Al-Made Movie Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi" will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality Al feature film Emily Zemler April 15, 2026 @ 6:00 AM

One of those headlines that just gets hilariously worse as you read it

Spanish government approves amnesty programme for undocumented immigrants The plan, which could see 500,000 people apply, makes Spain an outlier as anti-immigration sentiments fester in Europe.

The plan, which could see 500,000 people apply, makes Spain an outlier as anti-immigration sentiments fester in Europe.

The UCP trying a 12-year-old’s insults against *Carrie Freaking Tait* is not what I would call a well thought out strategy, but let’s see how it works out for the lil guys

Author Event with Marcello Di Cintio | Polar Peak Books Fernie's Local Independent Bookstore Since 1993, a community hub for literacy

Dear People of Fernie,

I'll be town Saturday for an author event at Polar Peak Books and Treasures. Wrestling-adjacent writer Angie Abdou and I will be talking about migrant labour and my book Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers. Come. polarpeakbooks.ca/events/47424...

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

This is what a far right crash out looks like, and it’s got it ALL via the Western Standards “fact checker”…

- Makes himself the victim
- completely misrepresents the ruling (signatures are still allowed to be collected)
- open contempt for rule of law
- ends with racism

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy Institute Countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev...

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity

Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro,

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I love this show so much.

NEW: CanLit Responds says it is ending its yearslong boycott of the Giller Prize after getting confirmation from organizer Elana Rabinovitch that the sponsors being protested – Scotiabank, Indigo and the Azrieli Foundation – have all left the prize. www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...

“It’s impossible to overstate how important this is as a model for what can happen when we stand together and when we say we don’t just have to take what we’re offered.” - Thea Lim

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Okay, Denise.

Since the CBC Calgary newsroom seems so concerned about “social disorder” maybe they could find out whatever happened to over 2,200 non-market homes gone missing from CMHC’s Social and Affordable Housing survey?

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The Road to Repeat begins tonight, my friends.
 
After a truly inspiring championship victory last year, Team Di Bocceri re-assembles at the Calgary Italian Cultural Centre tonight for our first game of the new bocce season. Most of us, anyway. I have a writing thing, alas. I doubt I'll be missed.

oh now you can recognize war crimes all of a sudden

He should ask her about her support for the convoy jerks that harassed innocent Ottawa residents.

He should ask her about her anti-vax bs.

He should ask her about her lack of interest in criminalizing conversion therapy.

He should ask her about her views on abortion.

Drawing Blood is my all-time favourite memoir. Equally inspiring and, as you say, envy-inducing.

Liberals will almost certainly get their majority after these by-elections, anyway. They don't need Gladu. The optics and guaranteed blowblack of poaching such a problematic candidate can't be worth it.

I fantasize a scenario that she approached the Liberals in secret, and they publicly refused her, saying she doesn't represent Liberal values. I also fantasize about riding a flying unicorn to Paris and eating croissants on the top of the Eiffel Tower.

I guess Carney has zero standards.
A list of Gladu's greatest hits:
1) opposing cannabis legalization, she read a poem in the House urging MPs to "keep our great country safe from all the weed."
2) in 2020, she suggested using the military to end pipeline protests...

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Marilyn Gladu? I guess the federal Liberals will accept any crackpot if it means another seat. Good grief.

Damn girl, are you the moon? Because you're beautiful and mysterious and hostile to all forms of life

I’m glad they were pissed. They should be. Imagine believing in a “movement” and having Sylvestre and Rath as leaders.