They Are Killing Our People This past week, the Mikisew Cree First Nation of Alberta released a report on the massive cancer rates in their community.

Danielle Smith wants to double production. Genocide

"There are now over 1.4 trillion litres of toxic water in the tailings ponds.
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The oil industry is seeking federal permission to begin dumping toxic water into the badly stressed Athabasca River system.

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UCP GOVERNMENT REVEALS PLAN TO CHEAT, RIG ELECTION MAPS Engaging Albertans to build an economy for the future.

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election:

A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public.

This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

Suburban expansion costs increase to $465 per person per year in Ottawa | CBC News Infill development is known to be much cheaper for cities than adding new subdivisions, and City of Ottawa staff have shared estimates for how much the municipality saves — and spends — depending on w...

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees.

On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year.

Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

LNG Canada: the worst flaring in the world? | The Narwhal LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025. That’s more than any other LNG export facility on record in 2024

Our newsroom published three investigations this week, including one that revealed Canada’s first major LNG export terminal was among the worst-emitting LNG plants in the world in 2025.

Catch up in this week’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-l...

Skaters get rolled as Cowboys Music Festival footprint grows with little community input Cowboys Music Festival is expanding its footprint in 2026, closing a downtown Calgary skatepark amenity, drawing criticism over a lack of community input.

Farkas: "We need to restore the trust that Calgarians have in the planning process." (April 8)

Farkas: F*ck it. Here's another Cowboys tent approved without any public consultation. (April 17)

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‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone.

Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

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?

Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:

making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.

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The number of orphan wells in Alberta will almost double this year. The money the province makes industry set aside to clean them up will rise by only 7 per cent.

That’s a problem. #abpoli

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oh...here me out...why not make transit free until gas prices stabilize instead? #alberta

Giving “library inspectors” the right to look at your library card, your history, and what you’ve signed out is fascist behaviour.

That's what the UCP's Bill 28 is all about.

There is a long philosophical tradition of civil disobedience from many different sources including Thoreau, Ghandi & Peter Singer. Alberta UCP Bill 25 will make it unlawful to teach about social change through the disobedience of laws.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

Among the Separatists | The Tyee I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.

Alberta separatism isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck.

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classic calgary: relitigates re-zoning (which has been working to get more houses built) for more than a week then without blinking starts discussing annexing more land to build more far flung suburbs

Why the Strait of Hormuz has been a global commerce chokepoint for centuries Blocking the Persian Gulf is the oldest trick in the book. Its power hasn’t waned at all. Iran knows this – why didn’t Trump?

My essay on the simple strategy Iranians first used to hold the world economy hostage 1800 years ago — and why larger world powers keep falling for it, over and over

With awesome interactive cartography!

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Oil and gas boosterism only benefits a handful of ultra wealthy who aren’t going to vote for you anyway. Just ask Notley.

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne.’ Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price, by @jvipondmd.bsky.social @dickzoutman.bsky.social @smbilodeau.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca

Location Population Ridings Average population per riding Variance from provincial average population Calgary 1578616 28 56379 2.6% Edmonton 1218856 21 58041 5.7% Rest of Alberta 2091251 40 52281 -4.8% Total 4888723 89 54929 0.0%

Alberta's new electoral boundary recommendations would see the two biggest cities have less representation in the legislature, per person, compared to the provincial average:

Edmonton: 5.7% more people per MLA

Calgary: 2.6% more people per MLA

Rest of Alberta: 4.8% fewer people per MLA

Alberta's significant decline in toxic drug deaths already showing cracks In the span of one month, reported overdose deaths in May of this year have climbed from 73 to 87, a 19.2% increase over the originally released data

🧵 Remember two summers ago when the Alberta government congratulated itself for allowing 'just' 73 drug toxicity deaths in May 2024?

And a very small number of people suggested that their number was bullshit?

We were right. It was. 1/
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In light of this announcement the comment period on the DRAFT Canada/AB IA co-operation agmt shd be extended for a further 21 day period post introduction of the Bill to assess its implications.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
@cpaws-snap.bsky.social @cpawssab.bsky.social

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Alberta construction company alleges Sam Mraiche played hidden role in building of addiction sites Mraiche, who is central to the province’s health care procurement controversy, denies involvement

SCOOP: Two companies involved in building some of Alberta's addiction recovery centres are mired in litigation, including accusations of forgery on one side and allegations of intimidation involving Sam Mraiche, of MHCare
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers ...

SCOOP
A national campaign is underway to shore up the Alberta government's 'finding' that – surprise – its closure of supervised consumption sites didn't kill anyone.

Unfortunately, the study's corruption is showing.

W/ comments from Dr. L. Hardcastle:
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🧵 Breaking: Alberta government embarrasses itself again

Today, the Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE) published a study. Unfortunately, last month I published two stories showing how their data are junk.

Let's take a look. 1/

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney

CJSW Radio – Calgary's only Campus & Community Radio Station

🧵 Correction! Will be on @cjsw.bsky.social at 8:15am MST to discuss my recent stories on how the Alberta govt & health authority are manufacturing justifications to close supervised consumption services in Alberta and Ontario. 1/
(said another station earlier by accident)
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Reminder: The Alberta govt's "Mature Asset Strategy" proposes using AI data centres as a way to burn more natural gas, which would cause natural gas prices to rise, as a way to keep companies profitable (at our expense). The rest of us would be stuck paying higher natural gas prices. #ABLeg #ABPoli

Tracking substance use data helps the government better understand the addiction challenges in Alberta and make informed, strategic decisions about how best to create a recovery-oriented system of care that supports individuals experiencing addiction. Alberta Substance Use Surveillance System

Alberta Substance Use Surveillance System is currently down
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Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse In a televised address last night Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for next Fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would red...

NEW POST: Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse
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Here's a 2024 letter from Danielle Smith to Justin Trudeau complaining about federal immigration limits affecting Alberta.

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#Alberta #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces fall referendum on immigration, constitutional questions | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith wants to hold a referendum in October on measures to limit immigration to Alberta and changes she believes would give the province more rights under the Constitution.

🤡 Danielle Smith throws up a smoke screen, blaming immigrants as a distraction from her government’s own incompetence in running a massive deficit budget despite record resource revenues.
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