Brandee

Get out of here! 😮

The yard looks terrific! Nice work. 💪

A healthy-looking dog with white markings on his face, chest, and back. He's standing in the grass.

Here's the best boy in the world to brighten your feed. 🐾

NDP MLA David Shepherd held very little back as the UCP effectively fired the Auditor General in committee today…

Including highlighting that for a government under suspicion of covering up massive scandals, this only makes things look worse.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I knew this guy would be terrible for Indigenous nations. I want to see this budget

That's right. Billions. From the so-called "job creators".

Guess what? The UCP and O&G are going to stick you, the taxpayer with the bill. Because the UCP is NOT working hard for YOU.

"The risk to our country is not that Canadians will be too cautious in embracing AI, but that our government will act too rashly, tying our democracy, prosperity, security, sovereignty and collective well-being to a questionable product and its reckless promoters."

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"The scale and clarity – crimes visible from space – of what is occurring in El Fasher and the wider Darfur region leaves no room for pretences of ignorance."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unlocked | Questions loom over Liberals’ environment plans with Canada ‘off path’ to meet emissions targets

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

"The world is undeniably a worse place for Mr. Trump being part of it, let alone running the joint. And the last thing anyone needs is some jumped-up Trump tribute band, playing the same songs slightly off-key and waiting for a nod of approval from the big guy." 👏 @sproudfoot.bsky.social

4 frame comic. 1st is the silhouette of two podcaster. Text reads In a world where trans people's dignity, humanity, and existence are subject to debate, every trans suicide is a murder. 2 is a silhouette of a swimmer. Text reads In a world where trans people aren't allowed to participate in their community, every trans suicide is a murder. 3 shows Gavin Newsom. Text reads In a world where trans people are thrown under the bus because their rights aren't considered a "winning issue", every trans suicide is a murder. 4 shows Lia Smith. Text reads In a world where trans people have to fight every instant of their life simply to have the right to live in peace, every trans suicide is a murder.

Say it with me.

"This is a coup against reality itself. The battle has shifted from a fight over which facts are important to a fight over the definition of a fact." Excellent analysis. 👇

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

The UCP government knows that they are violating the Charter over labour rights. The know it cant be saved by Section 1. They don't even wait for the courts to say it; the are invoking it preemptively. It is constitutional, but it still wrong. Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.

BREAKING:

Alberta will invoke Notwithstanding Clause on Bill 2, its legislation to force teachers back to work.

Free vaccines cheaper than consequences of low vaccination rate: Alberta Medical Association If saving money is the Alberta government’s priority, the most cost-effective route is distributing the COVID-19 vaccine widely and freely – not charging $100 for it, says the Alberta Medical Associat...

Kind of common sense, which UCP lacks.

“If five per cent of Albertans are deterred (by the $100 vaccine fee), that ends up costing all of us taxpayers a significant amount of money. By our estimates, it would exceed $65 million just on hospital costs,”

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

If Canada weren’t a petrostate Farrell’s comments would be publicly reprimanded by those in charge. Instead it’s crickets from Carney and Climate Minister Dabrusin — two people who know better but are choosing to sit this out.

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

there's been a rather ingenius, insidious, deliberate effort via propaganda and social messaging to get people to shift their anger and trauma about covid away from the officials who failed them, to the people asking them to mask.

Canadian Embassy Hosted Ukraine’s Azov Brigade This Summer An Azov member described the meeting as a “friendly and open dialogue.”

NEW: After years of Canada claiming it won't support Azov Brigade due to its far-right ideology and neo-Nazi links, the Canadian Defence Attache in Ukraine met with Azov at the Embassy this summer.

An Azov contact said it was a “friendly and open dialogue.”
www.readthemaple.com/canadian-emb...

What Carney could do (but won't):

Protect good-paying public sector jobs. Expand services of Canada Post and other public services as part of nation building. Invest in infrastructure like high speed rail and charging stations for EVs.

Denmark's postal service is dumping letter delivery. Could Canada? | CBC News Canada's postal service has encountered major mail volume decreases — a situation that has prompted the government to propose significant changes, including ending home delivery. But could Canada go e...

CBC carrying water for Carney cuts.

Btw,

Population of Denmark: 6 million
Population of Canada: 41 million

Size of Denmark: 43,000 km2
Size of Canada: 9,000,000 km2

www.cbc.ca/news/world/d...

A potted cactus with bright red flowers. Next to it, there are a couple of sparkly pineapple decorations and stack of magazines.

This is the first year that this cactus has bloomed. I think it's 4-5 years old. It's incredibly pretty.

Rakhi Pancholi came out swinging on the Wyant Report and highlighted all of its flaws and shortcomings…

It’s worth remembering she’s a lawyer as she takes Danielle Smith’s spin apart.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Duck with shiny green head, yellow bill and orange feet is coming in for a landing on a river.

Looks like somebody has completed their feather molt. Looking sharp! The mallard’s annual life cycle is pretty fascinating and there’s a nice explainer here: www.ducks.org/conservation... #birds

A pet peeve of mine- a few bad apples can actually spoil a bunch pretty quickly by spreading mold and triggering ethylene production in nearby apples. You're supposed to remove them quickly. The point of the saying is NOT that you should ignore or overlook them.

"Since the TRC, it is clear that in the eyes of the government, Indigenous people do not have the right to define their own priorities if they run counter to the government’s desire to extract land and labour." 👇

Nations ratify agreement to cease harmful fisheries subsidies - Oceanographic Following 20 years of negotiations, 111 World Trade Organisation member states make history in move to end harmful fisheries subsidies.

This is fantastic news - we're taking a huge step forward towards reeling in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. 🐟