Today’s Canadian painting is “Retour de L’Ecole” painted by Claude Picher in 1989.

Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

Motherfuckers.

"If passed Bill 9, would shield the laws from sections 2 and 7 through 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for 5 years. It would also suspend the application of the Alberta Bill of Rights and the Alberta Human Rights Act to the laws in perpetuity."

#AbPoli

Ottawa opens transitional housing centre in vacant downtown office space Empty office space in downtown Ottawa has been transformed into a transitional housing centre, providing temporary housing and social and skills development services for 140 adults experiencing homele...

Oh, so this IS possible, if a city wants to do it? Your turn, Edmonton. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

"There is no liberation without Native liberation. There is no queer freedom without Indigenous resurgence. There is no Pride worth marching for if it forgets the people who were here first—and are still being buried first too."

We in Canada may be tempted to look away, to be glad California is far away, but this is happening on our doorstep and in a country to whom we are tied in trade, security & culture. We should be paying attention.

It's almost time to hit the road for the Writers' Guild of Alberta conference! I'm excited to tap into all sorts insights and info on writing, and to grow as a writer. Let's go, let's go! 🤩

My husband likes to imagine that instead of eating all the duck eggs the ravens are hatching them out and raising a little duck army. Sadly, my domestic ducks aren't built for flight, so it would be a waddling army. But a very cute one!

Hey, Alberta? Can we stop voting for the kind of ghouls who think this is appropriate? This isn’t protecting kids. It’s doing the very opposite.

Raven sitting on top of a pine tree

I’m in an ongoing situation with a pair of local ravens who alternate between stealing eggs from our pet ducks and observing us from the top of this nearby tree. I want to tap into this potential partnership somehow, but I think the ravens actually literally and figuratively look down on me.

All eligible Canadians can now apply for the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP).

As of today, Canadians of any group can now apply for the Canadian Dental Care Plan.

www.canada.ca/en/services/...

You'll need to meet all 4x of the eligibility criteria.
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Search for a dentist that accepts it: www.sunlife.ca/sl/cdcp/en/m...

Evacuation orders continue, Alberta oil threatened as wildfires ravage province

Classic Alberta headline

Pierre Poilievre seeks to regain a seat in Canadian Parliament by running in riding in the province wishing to separate from Canada and that's why this will be called Schrödinger's Byelection.

Mark Carney speaking in front of a sign: Un Canada Fort Canada Strong

Non-French speakers: Canada's getting a fort!

#cdnpoli

3 years ago, a serial killer claimed four lives of First Nations women in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Today, one of the victims was finally named. To honor her memory, the Premier of Manitoba sang a traditional First Nations song.

Fucking gut-wrenching.

For those of you just learning about Canada: Carney was sworn in as PM on March 14. Traditionally, PM's first visit is the US. Every time.

Except this time, Carney said fuck that and went to France. 🤣

He hasn't even had a phone call with Trump.

Union says Pride flags banned from Edmonton Public Library The union representing Edmonton Public Library (EPL) staff says members have recently been ordered to remove Pride flags displayed within public areas in their workspace.

EPL, what the shit? #ableg www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

To any of you out there making jokes about this or saying oh they'd never do that or that the military will refuse

Fuck right off

They are absolutely going to try. It is crystal clear

And we will not take it sitting down

And people will die on both sides of the border

And this is all your fault

In a world of Scott Moes and Danielle Smiths, be a Wab Kinew.

My kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.

NDP Leader Naheed @naheednenshi.bsky.social calling for Smith's resignation today if the allegations published in the Globe are true about her former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith.

Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

Two adjacent stories sitting adjacent to each other in the news column…

Nighttime view of snow-covered trees with stars and moon in the sky

I’m always so very ready to finish the slow creep towards winter solstice so we can gain more minutes of daylight, but nights that look like this make it a bit easier to be patient for the sun.

Egale Canada, Skipping Stone, and several Alberta families have launched a legal challenge against the AB government’s Bill 26, which limits youth access to gender-affirming health care, they say in a statement this morning: egale.ca/egale-in-act... #AbLeg #AbPoli #AbHealth

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Ok, Bluesky, let’s see if life is better over here than on that bird app.