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Hey Alberta remember when the NDP faced budget challenges due to oil prices but still cut child poverty in half and kept building Calgary’s cancer centre at the Foothills? Not made a mess of lab services, suspended the Charter rights of teachers and had to dispose of milllions in off brand Tylenol.

Email your MP: No legal exemptions for the rich and powerful

Carney tried to bury an undemocratic power grab in a 600-page omnibus budget bill. It’s not too late to stop this egregious legislation – if we act now. share.nwmd.social/s/AhjaNlc9

Lust, lies and empire: The fishy tale behind eating fish on Friday An old myth holds that Catholics eat fish on Fridays because of a secret pact a medieval pope made to sell more fish. That's just a fish tale. The real story behind fish Fridays is way better.

Reminder that the Catholic church considers alligator, beaver, and capybara "fish" for the purposes of Lent. www.npr.org/sections/the...

YES!

I am so sick of people saying "what does protest over here accomplish?"

IN YOUR FACES!

Yeah I like technology. We perfected textiles like 4,000 years ago. Then we invented books, and vaccines. Everything else has been based on environmental destruction and labour exploitation. I don't like the robots. Fight me binch

I also don't think we should feel guilty about not being excited about technological "progress," which is mostly completely unnecessary and built on the destruction of our environment and the exploitation of the global south.

We have enough inventions! The problem is their distribution!

We do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we love technological progress. The onus is on them to explain to us why we should be excited about new technology while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up

if some guy who sucks has a name that ends in -in you can put an apostrophe after his name in your mind for laffs. Curtis Yarvin’ for example. This works in a different but also good way with guys who kick ass and are cool

several thousand pounds of cure and not an ounce of prevention

Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management sells last shares in Israeli military supplier Elbit Bank faced criticism for investment, including high-profile protests at the Giller Prize

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!

Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

saying “boys will be boys” when men rape and harass people: 👎
saying “boys will be boys” when men compete to find a big stick in the woods, make things that are not instruments into musical instruments, or do something silly just for the bit: 👍

Opinion: Separatism the tail wagging the dog that is Alberta A hard right separatist fringe has an out-sized influence over Premier Smith’s UCP.

"Here is the reality: The federal Conservatives think they own Alberta, but it’s the other way around. Despite representing only one-tenth of Canada’s population, Alberta is the tail wagging the federal Conservative dog."

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if one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently, then who knows what one might not innocently do

don’t forget the alt text, please!

“plus an extra something that tones up the digestive system”??

he did it, the sonofabitch actually did it!

your dad took the wrong lesson from the story!
I take it as being if you don’t fix your heart you’ll die.

I almost forgot that Monday is Cocaine Appreciation Day!

Just had to explain this to my partner. Every Albertan I know around my age has always called Family Day this, thanks Don Getty!

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"What if the AI hype is correct?"

It's still unethical, morally flawed, destructive to persons, society, and environment in ways we'll never recover from...and that's at best. Doesn't matter what it pretends to do right now, or what it could do in the future.

GTFO with AI.

some good news!

wow kinda messed up that actually leaving your house and doing stuff with people builds community way faster than yelling at people online. did you guys know this

In Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun control After the Dunblane massacre in Scotland left 16 students dead, parents organized to make sure it could never happen again. What can the U.S learn from them as we struggle to combat gun violence?

The horrific tragedy in Tumbler Ridge evokes the 1996 tragedy in Dunblane that mobilized the UK to take a strong stance on gun control.

www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1...

Being trans is not a problem. It’s not a mental illness, nor is it something to be ashamed of.

Transphobia is real, it gets people killed. The hateful rhetoric coming from Canadians is absolutely abhorrent, Canadians have a problem with homophobia, transphobia and racism that yall do

35 minutes ago Lauren Vanderdeen McDonald said police had responded to Van Rootselaar's home for mental health-related calls over the last several years. He said some of the calls dealt with weapons. He said firearms were seized from the home and the lawful owner of the firearms petitioned to have them returned, and they were.

There's going to be a lot of anti-trans fuckery over the next few days and weeks but this really is the crucial point. You can't do a mass shooting without access to guns.

...middle age is when the actors and musicians younger than you are start dying. RIP to one of the teen heart throbs of my generation

Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government

"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social

breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

the fuck