Melanee Thomas

Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.

Welcome to #ableg.

Alberta records first measles death since outbreak Premature baby who contracted disease in utero has died, first death associated with provincial outbreak of nearly 2,000 cases

Alberta records first measles death -- an infant -- since outbreak www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @alannasmith.bsky.social

Same same same. I'm here for more good days defined by this

I was today days old when I learned that a major use of restrictive covenants in Calgary (and elsewhere) was maintaining “community character” by prohibiting specific races from buying in a neighborhood and I feel naive but also why is this not part of the news stories?

Alberta judge grants temporary injunction blocking a transgender health-care bill | CBC News Judgement puts on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

"The evidence shows that singling out health care for gender diverse youth and making it subject to government control will cause irreparable harm to gender diverse youth by reinforcing the discrimination and prejudice that they are already subjected to.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 👏

This is an amazing moment. We will see how much the government wants to make trans kids suffer if they continue to fight this decision in any form or fashion. We will also have a metric for their cruelty. #ableg #abpoli #transrightsarehumanrights

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

The authoritarian assault on higher education claims its second victim after Columbia - a coercive attack on academic freedom that deepens the threat to democracy and the rule of law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

Less Ottawa, More Alberta What Alberta needs next

"An enterprising opposition party (ahem!) might ... launch a parallel ... exercise, focused on what we here in Alberta might do to improve our economy, our standard of living, our health, our public services, our environment, and our sense of community." #abpoli

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Okay Alberta. This is your moment. Each time something egregiously racist happens in this province y'all say, "oh, this isn't who we are...". Now is the time to prove it. Show up at every town hall. Answer every horrible survey question. Get up, stand up. Protest. Do not normalize this ugliness. ✊🏾

Latest issue | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core Politics & Gender

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

The June 2025 issue of P&G is out now! The issue features new research on pandemic leadership, the "anti-woke academy" and feminist institutionalism among others, as well as a Critical Perspectives collection on the 2024 🇺🇸 election.

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🧵 This is a big story and I’m not seeing it get around so take a sec with me here.

Clearview AI is a big deal if cops can use it. Basically lets them figure out who anyone anywhere is based on social media and internet facial recognition scraping. Protests, you name it. 1/

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Alberta isn’t culturally distinct, but we sure are cruelly distinct.

Alberta government violated freedom of information laws, information watchdog finds Investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner concludes province is ‘non-compliant’ with access to information law

Alberta is violating its own freedom of information laws by using illegitimate reasons to withhold records, watchdog finds
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and @robyndoolittle.bsky.social

I keep coming to the same conclusion, and I'm sorry for it.

I don't get why someone would strive to get ahold of leadership, only to then destroy the thing they ostensibly lead. But I suspect the Premier and I have very different values.

I might be listening to that audiobook right now.... (great minds, etc)

A Darker Shade of Magic A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White...

London, but a real stretch (but a great read): books.google.ca/books/about/...

🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨

Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.

Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.

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Calgary Centre 22163 Calgary Confederation 27918 Calgary Crowfoot 33743 Calgary East 17771 Calgary Heritage 26408 Calgary McKnight 16435 Calgary Midnapore 26291 Calgary Nose Hill 25827 Calgary Shepard 22845 Calgary Signal Hill 27963 Calgary Skyview 23203

Edmonton Centre 17351 Edmonton Gateway 20592 Edmonton Griesbach 15787 Edmonton Manning 18391 Edmonton Northwest 20343 Edmonton Riverbend 23579 Edmonton Southeast 15459 Edmonton Strathcona 17809 Edmonton West 22846

Airdrie—Cochrane 25833 Battle River—Crowfoot 14434 Bow River 21974 Foothills 26309 Fort McMurray—Cold Lake 16486 Grande Prairie 19434 Lakeland 3343 Leduc—Wetaskiwin 24796 Lethbridge 17291 Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner 17144 Parkland 26172 Peace River—Westlock 17655 Ponoka—Didsbury 27715 Red Deer 21733 Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan 30205 St. Albert—Sturgeon River 30250 Yellowhead 27666

Advance vote in Calgary, Edmonton and the rest of Alberta.

Colour scheme is consistent across all three maps:

• Purple = more votes than Alberta average

• Rust = fewer votes than Alberta average

42% of voters approve of Trump's job as president, versus 54% who disapprove

New NYT/Siena Poll:
—Trump's approval rating is 42% vs. 54% disapprove
—59% of voters think Trump's 2nd term in office is "scary"
—54% say Trump is "exceeding the powers available to him"
—Trump has negative approval in all policy areas

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

I am now very specifically pissed I can’t travel to the US because it means I will never see what very well may be the best version of my favourite play, ever ever ever.

Dude, bogus

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of
@cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
Voice Through Text, Tradition and Community - cup.org/3XFKoFG
"Employing autoethnography to examine two sets of texts, I present an understanding of voice politics"
@genevievefuji.bsky.social
#FirstView

Strength in Numbers 2024 - Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters

New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children.

That's a new provincial record.

#yeg #yyc #ableg

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The prominent Albertans behind delinquent oil and gas companies | The Narwhal A former prime minister, a major philanthropist and a host of developers emerge from a tangled web of corporate ownership in the oilpatch

I spent months (and thousands of The Narwhal's dollars) digging into who actually owns the many small companies which the Alberta Energy Regulator says aren't paying their orphan well levies or minimum cleanup quotas. Some of the names might surprise you. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...

Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, former AHS CEO.

Women have always been prominent scholars within far-right studies. From pioneers like Kathy Blee & Nonna Mayer to groundbreakers like Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Sarah de Lange, Daphne Halikiopoulou & Caterina Froio, to new stars like Léonie de Jonge, Gefjon Off & Lisa Zanotti. #nomanels

YouTube video by Friends of Canadian Media Vote to Save the CBC

OK this ad is actually very good lmaoooo
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What does Justin Trudeau’s government leave behind? I have started, stopped, and re-written this piece several times. Part of the obstacle has been the difficulty of pretending it’s possible…

Sometime very soon after Sunday, PM Trudeau will step down and return to private life.

Here's a thing on trying to measure the PM's legacy.
!!!Warning - charts and data!!!

#cdnpoli #cdnecon

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