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Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards The Calgary Board of Education removed 42 books from its libraries and the Edmonton Public School Board removed 33 in response to an order from Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.

SCOOP: I obtained the lists of books banned at the Edmonton and Calgary public school boards.

Click to find out which ones were removed.

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I wonder what it's like being a CIA guy in a bar in rural Alberta and running into your FSB counterpart who's doing the exact same work

3 panel comic Panel 1: A crowd is watching TV in a bar. The TV is facing away from the reader. The crowd ecstatically screams “YEAHHHH!” Panel 2: A new guy walks into shot from the left and says “You guys watching football?” A guy in crowd answers “Nope” Panel 3: The new guy looks at the TV screen and immediately screams “OH FUCK YEAH”

imagine if it happens on tv

new all time reaction image just dropped

somebody really needs to Do It

Getting to yes on housing in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe Communities need to move from a default “no” on housing to a default “yes.”

“When a planning or zoning board rejects or reduces the size of an apartment project, or imposes unreasonable and costly conditions, that directly undermines the public good. They should be expected to explain why their actions were truly necessary.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...

Bracket showing 32 names narrowed down to a top 8.

🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

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My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods

ANALYSIS | The rise of the electrostate: By dominating clean energy, China is leading on climate action | CBC News China’s massive lead in clean technologies has shifted the climate fight from one of big pledges and international diplomacy toward a technological revolution in cheaper energy, analysts say.

“We're having a kind of a politics whereby petrostates are resisting change and new emerging electrostates like China are pushing it forward,” But sure build a pipeline: www.cbc.ca/news/science... #cdnpoli #EnergyTransition

Who is interested in car-free living in the US? Findings from a nationwide survey The United States (US) is infamously car dependent, causing environmental, safety, and social problems. Car-free living is one way to combat the downs…

Is the US irredeemably a "car culture"? No.

18% of Americans are open to car-free living, which would be transformative.

Focus on making that possible for them: transit, active modes, better land use.

Change the facts and the culture will follow.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It Daniel Knowles of the Economist talks about his book Carmaggedon

Me talking about my book: karenchristensen.substack.com/p/how-cars-m...

Not sure how we’re expected to keep living our lives without any kind of confirmation that #TheChairCompany will have a second season. What a cliffhanger!

Photo of an ambulance stuck in gridlock traffic

Albertans Want Polluters To Pay, But Government Trying to Pass Bill to Public The Alberta Energy Regulator “has black marks all over it for being one sided to development companies like oil and gas and coal,” says Bill Trafford.

"Landowners’ frustration with industry is reaching a boiling point... Unless these issues are addressed, there can be no consideration of increased production, no new pipelines, or carbon capture and storage. It makes no sense."
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

do other cities feel the need to automatically do fiscal discipline and austerity, or is that just a Calgary thing

when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"

People on board with new solution to Toronto traffic that would limit cars on city streets Fixing Toronto's gridlock is now so high on the political agenda that the Province is ripping out brand-new bike lanes in a misguided attempt to get …

iCYMI: "Paris started with periodic, strategic closures of key streets, then day-long closures of the entire city center, always in the context of the conversation about air quality, livability & noise…It's a very smart way of doing it." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in BlogTO. #Paris

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

The Stop Super Speeders bill would mandate speed limiters in the cars of drivers who just refuse to slow down even after racking up multiple red light or speed camera tickets (though of course some legislators have tried to gut the bill's potential effectiveness) nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/11/s...

Hundreds of land-use hearings avoided through citywide rezoning - LiveWire Calgary Calgary city council avoided hundreds of land-use redesignation hearings since citywide rezoning was approved, items that would have potentially added cost and time to both the city and developers.…

It would have meant the addition of roughly 25 items each month to public hearing meeting agendas. #yyc #calgary #yyccc

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Opinion: Backward beliefs about housing shaping the debate on rezoning calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Tuesday's letters: QEII Highway isn't the Autobahn Edmonton Journal readers have their say on O-day'min Park, speed limits and COVID vaccination.

“Trading a coffee break of time for a massive increase in collision severity isn’t efficiency; it’s magical thinking.”

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I am so close to asking a city councillor if he considers settlers to be "foreign entities"

Calgary's Land Use Bylaw is now creating division. Next week, we’ll move to end zoning at City Hall to keep this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for all.

Devin Dreeshen, UCP transportation minister, has a plan to make Alberta’s highways even more dangerous - Alberta Politics There’s no question Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen will make Alberta’s highways deadlier with his plan to raise speed limits in several locations. He’s already made them more dangerous with hi...

Devin Dreeshen, UCP transportation minister, has a plan to make Alberta’s highways even more dangerous. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/devi...

Tech companies have plenty of bad ideas they say will improve transportation — but the car remains a menace.

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the many ways cars harm society and why that must change.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/301_...

NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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