Emma Arkell

December 9th, 2025 - Evening Session - Legislative Assembly of Alberta YouTube video by Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Awkwardly, the Alberta legislature TV channel has broken in the middle of debate (committee of the whole) for Bill 9, in which the government seeks to use the notwithstanding clause to shield three gender bills from legal challenges.

The YouTube stream IS working www.youtube.com/live/ryA5Lq4...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Comment le gouvernement Legault s’est attaqué aux syndicats en 2025 – Pivot Cette année, le gouvernement de François Legault a adopté plusieurs lois controversées visant spécifiquement les travailleur·euses.

INFO | Cette année, le gouvernement de François Legault a adopté plusieurs lois controversées visant spécifiquement les travailleur·euses.

Un article de @emmaarkell.bsky.social

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The 'compassion club' fighting Canada's drug laws Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-12-09 · 28m

This morning, @thetyee.ca ‘s health reporter @michellegamage.bsky.social is on Front Burner talking about the DULF constitutional trial - which could change Canada’s drug laws. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

The Orchard | Jeremy Appel | Substack News and analysis from an unabashedly progressive perspective, focusing on the intersection of politics, media and corporate power. Click to read The Orchard, by Jeremy Appel, a Substack publication w...

Folks, I'm hoping to go to the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg in March to cover it for The Orchard. In order to do so, I need 16 new paid subscribers by the end of the year.

Who's gonna help me?

www.readtheorchard.org

Fatal crash in Vancouver FTES; police seek witnesses After a fatal collision in the city’s DTES on Sunday evening, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is asking witnesses to come forward.

Horrified to learn of another pedestrian killed on Hastings in the DTES. This is the most dangerous stretch of road in the whole province for pedestrians yet the city refuses to do anything other than put up 30km/h signs with no enforcement. Hastings needs a road diet and real traffic calming.

A screenshot from Office Space (1999). Michael and Samir are sitting at their desks. Michael: "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

When people say I should stop using emdashes because it is apparently a "giveaway" that something was written with AI

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained The government of Premier François Legault has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year

Check out the English version here pressprogress.ca/quebecs-atta...

Comment le gouvernement Legault s’est attaqué aux syndicats en 2025 – Pivot Cette année, le gouvernement de François Legault a adopté plusieurs lois controversées visant spécifiquement les travailleur·euses.

My @pressprogress.ca article breaking down the Quebec government's recent legislative onslaught targeting unions has been translated into French for @pivot.quebec! Merci Pivot!

pivot.quebec/2025/12/08/c...

Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.

Goofy stuff.

My latest for @breachmedia.ca: When Saskatchewan's government brought in anti-trans laws, unions pushed back.

Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to attack their culture-war punching bags. Solidarity between unions and trans advocates in SK shows how to put up a fight.

Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31
Maryse Laganière, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 28
Michèle Richard, 21
Annie St-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 20

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports

A moment of winter Zen with this black-backed woodpecker working away on a balsam fir. #birds 🌿

this is who you denied taking questions from this morning @davidebybc.bsky.social 😤

I have lived with Brits and can confirm they don't properly wash dishes. I had to re-wash their dishes alllll the time

Quebec's government has presented or passed legislation targeting the right to strike and unions' ability to launch legal cases and support social movements.

I dig into why 50,000 Quebecers rallied in front of François Legault's Montreal office this past weekend for @pressprogress.ca

Quebec's government has presented or passed legislation targeting the right to strike and unions' ability to launch legal cases and support social movements.

I dig into why 50,000 Quebecers rallied in front of François Legault's Montreal office this past weekend for @pressprogress.ca

Quebec's Attack on Labour, Explained Premier François Legault's government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province's workers this year.

"On Saturday, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Montreal [..] to protest the Quebec government's recent legislation targeting unions and the right to strike."

Law 14 "allows the government to suspend the right to strike."
#Quebec #Canada #Protest #Labour #Healthcare #Education

Nanaimo city council votes down proposed drug policy letter – The Discourse. At the Dec. 1 Nanaimo City Council meeting, a motion to send a letter to the province asking it to reexamine its approach to "the ongoing addiction crisis" was voted down.

"It does save lives, but saving those lives for what purpose?" asked Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog during a city council debate about overdose prevention sites and the province's approach to harm reduction in the toxic drug crisis on Monday night.

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained Premier François Legault’s government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year.

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained

Premier François Legault’s government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year.

pressprogress.ca/quebecs-atta...

Paramount throws in more cash in bid for Warner; Comcast wants to combine assets with NBCUniversal Jockeying for HBO-owner Warner Bros. Discovery has intensified as the auction appears to enter its home stretch.

these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation

these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.

got a dentist appointment today that might last two hours "depending on the amount of bleeding," so I've got that to look forward to

Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC

This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.

albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

seeing danny brown so happy and healthy warms the heart

seeing one in the wild has almost the same effect on my brain as meeting a neighbourhood cat

every kei truck I see around vancouver karmically balances all of the cybertrucks I've been forced to look upon for the last year

how do you make mac n cheese look so dry

introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

red and white giant flying squirrel
malayan leaf frog
beaver
monitor lizard
pine marten