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Did it ever occur to anyone that these ICE agents are instigating most of the trouble?

They're part of an unnecessary solution to a manufactured crisis.

So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged".
"Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄

Danielle Smith says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection | Globalnews.ca Premier Danielle Smith said her government will withhold funds for new judicial appointments in Alberta if the federal government doesn't give the province a say on who is picked.

What exactly does Danielle Smith mean when she invokes “Alberta’s distinct legal traditions”?

Politically-motivated SLAPP lawsuits and wasting everyone's time litigating Craig Chandler's Facebook beefs?

Cost, efficiency and less directs: AIMCo's CIO spells out new strategy - Top1000funds.com AIMCo's new CIO Justin Lord explains why he is upbeat about investment opportunities and the fund manager's new governance after a tumultuous few years. Prioritising costs, efficiency and cutting back...

This just in: AIMCo now reverting to ATRF's strategy (before they were subsumed). The final repudiation!

Cost, efficiency and less directs: AIMCo's CIO spells out new strategy www.top1000funds.com/2026/02/cost...

It's only extortion if you're threatening the other party.

She's not threatening Carney.

She's threatening her own people.

It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Never tell a public school teacher that they have no experience. We don’t learn about poverty, hunger, homelessness, crime, and social justice from a book.

We face these issues head on every day in our classrooms.

Trump yelling about “the highest poll numbers” is the sound of a failing ego trying to drown out reality.

Alberta premier says province will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith says her government will withhold funding to support new judicial appointments in Alberta if the federal government doesn't give the province more input on who is picked.

Trump threatens other countries with tariffs that hurt American consumers.

Smith threatens ottawa with defunding judges that ensure Albertans' access to justice.

Far Right Populism 101: it's all about the leader, not about the people.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta seeks more input on picking judges Premier Danielle Smith says her government will withhold funding for new judicial appointments in Alberta until Ottawa allows the province to provide input on who is picked. In a letter to Prime Minis...

This is a monumentally irresponsible move. Whoever advised the premier should resign or be fired.

Smith shouldn't just withdraw the threat. She should apologize for threatening to cut off Albertans' access to their own justice system.

Tomorrow.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/02/03/a...

For those keeping score at home:

Nate Horner publishes perennial Alberta poverty plea, warns of ‘tough choices’ - Alberta Politics The poor little rich kid of Confederation is pleading poverty again. But take note, it’s not Alberta’s fault! (It’s never Alberta’s fault.)  In an announcement yesterday that the next Alberta Budget w...

Nate Horner publishes perennial Alberta poverty plea, warns of ‘tough choices’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/nate...

Trumpism's war on the truth is coming to Canada. We need to be ready The Trump administration has made it clear that it will use almost everything at its disposal in its broader war on the truth. If we're not careful here in Canada, we'll become one of its casualties.

Donald Trump probably (!) won't order a military attack on Canada. But his administration is happy to interfere in our politics, and we have to respond accordingly: by thickening our informational borders and holding tech companies to account. #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/04/o...

The reporter at the end who helps Trump change the subject by interrupting with an unrelated question about healthcare should be ashamed of themself

Danielle Smith calls on Mark Carney to give Alberta more say in selection of judges The Premier says she will withhold some judicial funding if Ottawa doesn’t agree to her demands

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives stood up for legal rights, victims, and a law-and-order agenda.

Defunding the judiciary undercuts all of those.

It makes it more likely that perpetrators will go free and restricts Albertans' access to justice.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

🚨🔥 #GVerse: This is Minneapolis today

Thousands in the streets in subzero weather, shutting the city down, demanding #FuckICE out.

Corporate media can ignore it, but history won’t.

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court

With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of "what comes after" and how to think about the big structural changes needed to prevent another authoritarian from taking over and abusing all the levers of power for corruption and…

Craig: "In my district, 2 days ago a special ed teacher pulled into her school parking lot, her windows were smashed, she was taken & detained for 12 hours. I've never seen such an out of control agency. That's why as soon as I leave, I'm joining a group to file articles of impeachment against Noem"

CEO of new medical bureaucracy promises ‘province-wide response’ to Alberta’s messed up ERs - Alberta Politics In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies sa...

CEO of new medical bureaucracy promises ‘province-wide response’ to Alberta’s messed up ERs. So can someone remind us of why we got rid of Alberta Health Services? albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/ceo-... #ableg #abpoli #abhealth

On measles and vaccines, Canada can’t keep ignoring the elephant in the room Study after study has shown that political affiliation is one of the single strongest predictors of vaccination status.

This is our tragic reality. 👇

"...in both the United States and Canada, political affiliation is now one of the single strongest — if not the strongest — predictors of vaccination status."

My take: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

You're left with the impression the White House is run by a deranged and confused elderly man who desperately wants everyone to fear him while surrounded by an inner-circle of sleazebags and arsonists who are pushing his buttons to pursue their own random agendas

YouTube video by Real Talk Ryan Jespersen EXCLUSIVE: Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos

Huge props to this enormously brave woman, and to @ryanjespersen.bsky.social for creating a space where she felt safe to open up and share her important story.

Come for the truth, stay for the charming Star Trek reference. #abpoli

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUH...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

There are actually just 10 real people on the entire Internet in Canada, four of whom are you, me, @ericwickham.ca and Wyatt Claypool

The rest are just sock puppet accounts and Facebook pages run by Jeff Ballingall

I didn't have the space to get into the UCP in my Venezuela column, but Max does an excellent job of unpacking the real, reckless, potentially even traitorous danger here.

“We could make it easier for teachers”
🤔
But them they went in another direction…

Q&A: Why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government imposed a teachers' contract | CBC News In a year-end interview, Premier Danielle Smith talks about government decisions during the teachers' contract dispute and where she sees public education heading in Alberta.

In a year-end interview, Premier Danielle Smith says her government used the notwithstanding clause to impose a new contract onto teachers because gov't worried an arbitrator would impose pupil-teacher ratios, as teachers said they wanted

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbEd #AbLeg

YouTube video by Global News Albertans likely to face separation referendum in 2026

Danielle Smith, if you insist on having this divisive and economically damaging referendum on Alberta’s unquestionable place in Canada, bring it on, but make sure to ask the first approved question, condoned by nearly half million #ForeverCanadian Albertans.

youtu.be/M51Rsv8U6Zc

String of updates saying Donald Trump just posted on Truth Social.

Barack Obama posts "Merry Christmas! Michele and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy." There's a photo of Barack and Michele Obama standing next to each other.

Christmas morning