Amy Shantz

Benefits for Albertans with disabilities are being cut 10%, along with a 67% cut to fully-exempt employment income, under the new Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP).

Do you know someone currently on AISH? Thoughts?

👀 FULL: rtrj.info/012826ADAP

🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/012826 #ableg #RealTalkRJ

Super cool idea! Unfortunately I work late on Mondays, but I wish you well in the venture.

2/2 thanks for not holding that against me.

1/2 Thanks Karla! Because group settings are stressful for me & harder on my listening processing and kinesthetic/feeling memory disorders the way that eyes compensate can be awkward and I feel bad that people who don't know me well can misunderstand that or when I sometimes stare while processing.

Earlier I was reflecting on a short chat with @karlamarx1917.bsky.social at an event last week, & how kind that she is. (The reason why I wanted to chat in the first place.) If you haven't, you should take the opportunity to talk with Karla! Thanks for helping inspire me to strive to be extra kind.

That's good and too bad. Wow, to the 20 sec! Did you immediately start a timer?

Ford’s war on bike lanes heads back to court This week, the province will return to court to challenge a decision that ruled that taking out bike lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue in an effort to reduce traffic congestion...

Ontario is heading back to court to try again to remove bike lanes from Bloor, Yonge and University — after a judge ruled the plan would violate Charter rights. Cycling advocates say the stakes go far beyond Toronto. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/28/n...

The Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association has released a statement on the closure of beds in #yeg to move them to Leduc.

Read this and share it everywhere!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Good.

It's 4 years ago today that my mom died in the Rosedale Hospice modeling her profession. There's lots that has happened to me that she would have liked to hear about. She would have hated to see much of NA politics and the UCP's treatment of Alberta healthcare. I miss you mom, while life's gone on.

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

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“Canadian lawyer leads movement to have Alberta join the U.S.”

Here, in Alberta, they want you to believe that it’s about independence, not about becoming the 51’st state.

In the USA, on Fox News, they tell the truth.

Register at Forever-Canadian.ca to stop this treason.

Post-COP 30 Modeling Shows World Is Far Off Track for Climate Goals - Inside Climate News After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a leading global climate model is offering a stark forecast for the decades ahead....

“We are more than likely going to overshoot. The question then becomes for how long and how strong. It’s not a reason to give up hope or stop the necessary action. Limiting every degree possible matters, even every tenth of a degree.”

2/2 what do you do to help keep individual value above people's effect on goals and image? And when you are an object of someone else's goals how do you help yourself feel valued when you're shown by others that your value is merely tied to your effect & role rather than your unique humanity?

1/2 I have a bittersweet relationship with politics & professionalism. I'm relationally driven & feel deeply about the value of all people. Politics & professionalism are things that easily degrade people into objects of goals and image. I often feel cheap &cry or feel like crying in those meetings.

At this meeting, Dennis Modry claimed that Premier Danielle Smith said she prefers the title 'Prime Minister' over 'President,' in a discussion about her possible leadership in an independent Alberta. 1/5

#abpoli #AlbertaIndependence

This is what Alberta separatists stand for.

If you want to put an end to this treason, please sign up as #ForeverCanadian supporter at:

Forever-Canadian.ca

This will allow us to organize and communicate with you.

#ableg #cdnpoli

Photograph taken in Saskatoon on January 24th, 2026: A group of white supremacists on a walkway over Circle Drive displaying a banner reading "REMIGRATION NOW".

For those who don't know, remigration is a European far-right concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white minority populations.

I took this photo today in SASKATOON within hours of the ICE remigration Gestapo executing another person in the US.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

1/2 way through the first set a verbal & then immediate yellow card to a coach, some yelling beginning of the 2nd. A messy triple line net play call by me -I say "I don't know what I'm calling", to which the coach standing beside me laughs &has relaxed banter comments as the R1 makes the right call.

Myself and the other minor official and the score keepers prepping.

A volleyball court and bench (row of chairs) and some of the gals on the ground stretching & moving on the court.

The two major officials standing by and talking with a sitting head coach.

3 volleyballs, a bag of 2 flags inside, and a binder on a table.

Olds College and Red Deer Polytechnic schools' women's volleyball teams are warming up. I drove up to sub on the lines as part of the officials team. #Volleyball #VolleyballAlberta

'Make 'em famous!' MAGA border czar wants 'database' of ICE protesters to ruin their lives President Donald Trump's border security adviser Tom Homan told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on Thursday evening that he wants the administration to build a "database" of any protesters who get arrested ...

It appears Homan was right. They are creating a database of anyone who stands up to ICE.

www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-26...

Canada’s plan to import 49,000 Chinese EVs a year—rising to 70,000—has sparked political hysteria. Is it justified? A closer look suggests the reaction says more about fear of competition than the actual scale of the move.  #cdnpoli #EVs #AutoIndustry #Trade #Manufacturing

Trump cabinet member weighs in on Alberta separatism | CBC News U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta — making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province's politic...

Alberta separatism isn’t about independence. It’s about becoming the 51’st state. Trump’s eyeing Alberta. Separatists are helping him.

Masked ICE militia can’t replace the Mounties.

PLEASE, register at Forever-Canadian.ca and join the resistance!

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

This is great and makes me very happy to see. #Indigenous

Photos show Coastal GasLink sediment spills into wetlands, rivers | The Narwhal Slope failures, flooded worksites and sediment from Coastal GasLink pipeline construction could be seen entering Wet’suwet’en wetlands

Half a year after that, I hopped in a helicopter and flew above the Coastal GasLink route to take a look at environmental infractions affecting the waterways and wildlife habitat at the centre of the tensions. thenarwhal.ca/bc-coastal-g...

Number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

a woman in a yellow shirt is serving a volleyball in front of a sign that says b Alt: a woman in a yellow shirt is serving a volleyball in front of a sign that says b

Announcement! For the first time in many years, possibly since my year playing college volleyball when I hit my shoulder I served 2 overhand serves in. Woot woot. 😃 🦘
Thanks for your attention to this important achievement in the middle age of Amy's life. You may now return to politics environment

Former Alberta justice ministers criticize government for ‘unacceptable’ conduct Two former Progressive Conservative justice ministers and nearly 30 other lawyers are denouncing Alberta’s government for what they say are self-serving legal manoeuvres and “unacceptable” attacks on ...

“We do not want an authoritarian government”

“I think all you have to do is look a little ways south to see what happens when you get an authoritarian government that does not think it is bound by the normal rules that a democracy operates by.”

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ The principal deputy director of the CDC said he would not view the loss of the United States' measles elimination status as a significant event.

Sickening.

New CDC formula: spread lies, fear, & confusion about vaccines & then support "health freedom" (read: antivaxx informed decisions).

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c... via @statnews.com

Russia is invading Europe and the president of the United States is ranting about the danger that "windmills" pose to the Western World.