Dustin Meyer 🇨🇦

They've definitely done a heck of a good job discouraging many from getting it and making it inconvenient for those who do.

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.

But not impossible.

Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

Well I guess it becomes a 2 step process to deal with that stupid law.

"We're removing lanes to enable more pedestrian access and vegetation"

1 year later: "we're adding bike lanes"

The GoA seeks mediation w teachers but takes imp issues off the table & insists on an overall $cap based on its financial position. 3 responses.
1 GoA sets the budget & made unreasonable oil $$ assumptions
3 No PST
2 GoA seems to have no difficulty settling law suits w Australian coal cos
#abpoli

Alberta to pay families of younger children should teachers strike Oct. 6, government says | CBC News The Alberta government will redirect money saved during a potential teachers' strike to payments for parents with younger children in public, Catholic and francophone schools.

How about you just put your money towards reducing class sizes and paying teachers fairly instead of making plans to undermine them??

Source: CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Naw, I'm just going to get a lot of free stuff in that case!

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to OTTAWA - After members of the Canadian Parliament earlier today gave a standing ovation to recently deceased far-right agitator who touted white supremacist theories, Charlie Kirk, we here at The Beaverton are stuck trying to figure out if there’s literally anyone our elected officials won’t celebrate.

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

30ºC at 1PM makes that 5 in-a-row, when the old record for this time of year was only 3.
5 in-a-row is also the 3rd longest streak for any point of the year. July 2022 & 2021 both went 7 days, and June 1961 went 6.
#yegwx #yeg

Lol. Exactly why no politician or closely affiliated individual should be allowed anywhere near elections and ridings boundary decisions.

Is there a chance they attack the definition of "residing" instead of the definition of person? I could see them making an argument that "illegals" are not resident in the state but rather are occupiers or invaders - I don't know if there's any grounds for it though.

I'm a little bit hurt that this wasn't about Edmonton.

I wouldn't tell anyone else how to think or feel, but I will just say that, for me, the only way to stay sane after the 2024 election has been to pretty much abandon hope. The US is cooked. Everything I value about it is doomed. We're heading into a long period of dissolution & chaos.

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

That top row seems suspiciously stacked

Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...

Interesting study from Germany on e-bikes and the modes they replace:

"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions"

4. Bikes should have priority. No unneeded stop signs for cyclists since cars are the threat on the roads.
5. Bike detectors that keep cyclists flowing would improve the experience.
6. Proactive enforcement to ensure that cars parked in the bike lane are removed quickly would help.

We have some thoughts:
1. Bike lanes aren't protected if cars have to pass through them to park.
2. Bike lanes are useless in the winter if they are not cleared quickly, and kept clear.
3. Transition points should be cargo bike friendly: no huge bumps, no tight turns.

Jaysus. 2025 currently ranks as the FOURTH worst year for Wildfire Burn Area in Canada, but it's mid-July.

It will most likely end up as the SECOND worst season in the CIFFC's record.

Thank you

Canada named among countries with the most freedom A report by Freedom House has named Canada among the top countries in the world with the most freedom.

Canada has been named among the top 5 countries with the most freedom.

The United States ranked 57th.

#CanadaDay

Or to have more fun, we stop taxing them and just tariff them. ;)

The Government of Alberta will begin charging Albertans who don't fall into certain vulnerable categories for the Covid-19 vaccine, citing an American CDC reported cost of $110 per dose (why the GOA didn't use the Alberta purchase price is unknown).

A thread:🧵

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they've always wanted to do anyways SASKATOON – As they gather with PM Mark Carney for the meeting of First Ministers, the Premiers of Canada’s provinces are steadfast in their belief that the best way to oppose Donald Trump’s tariffs a...

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they’ve always wanted to do anyways

Not sure why, but Dallas fans are chanting "Spin her"

There must be a casino attached to the rink 😉

#letsgooilers

Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita.

But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S.

@mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon

There's a good chance #4 is actually true