Chris Wiebe

💔 I beg you… please, save my daughter.

Donations have stopped. No one looks my way anymore.
I’m a mother alone, fighting for my my little girl whose wound hasn’t healed since surgery

Medicine in Gaza is rare and costly — Don't let us become a painful memory

gofund.me/2f942387

#StandWithGaza

Opinion: Cuts have left Edmonton's homeless with nowhere to go Too few Edmontonians are aware a tidal wave of recent funding cuts and closures has wiped the city’s daytime drop-in spaces off the map.

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Everyday in our overflowing EDs we see the ramifications of homeless political policy: more policing simply = more catch and release to NO SUPPORTS and nothing to help break the cycle.

Opinion: Cuts have left Edmonton's homeless with nowhere to go Too few Edmontonians are aware a tidal wave of recent funding cuts and closures has wiped the city’s daytime drop-in spaces off the map.

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #yeg #yegcc #ableg

How the Development Industry Helped One Edmonton Mayoral Candidate Get a Head Start Before nominations even opened, Tim Cartmell raised nearly half a million dollars, with roughly half coming from sources with apparent connections to real estate, construction and development

Before nominations even opened in Edmonton's mayoral race, Tim Cartmell raised nearly half a million dollars — with half of that coming from sources tied to real estate, construction and development.

How the development industry helped Cartmell get a head start:

pressprogress.ca/how-developm...

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

When a shooter opened fire in City Hall, Michael Elliott cracked jokes about it on Twitter.

Now, he's running to be a councillor in Tim Cartmell's party.

This defender of the Thin Blue Line wants to bring that ideology to city hall this October #yegvote

Tanguay and #ableg keep stressing policing and future recovery beds, but people are dying now from a toxic supply. Denying inhalation services while saying “carry naloxone” shifts blame to individuals. Harm reduction saves lives today .. enforcement alone will never fix the crisis and end deaths.

You may remember Driechel's name from an Edmonton Police Service scandal reported in 2016—Driechel, along with other members of the Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement Unit (EDGE), was buying illegal steroids from a drug trafficker within EPS.

Also the guy who thinks it’s part of the police’s job to “make it less desirable to be ‘on the street’.”

As city columnist for the Edmonton Journal, I wrote often about the crisis of homelessness. I was naive. For years, I thought people wanted to help those living on the street. It took me ages to realize that many people just wanted the homeless gone, someplace away, out of sight and out of mind.

A Love Letter to Community: Reflections on Harm Reduction & Being Bad Indigenous people are viewed through the lens of many stereotypes, but they generally fall along the lines of “good” and “bad” Indians. When it comes to addictions and substance use, this is a narrati...

If you’re looking for a little beauty in the world right now, Veronica Fuentes just stepped up with it:
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A new research paper shows that an inability to access health and social services, as well non-fatal overdose, was a positively tied to street sweeps.

Read the report : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💔 A mother’s cry for help 🚨😭

We must evacuate, but my husband Majd cannot walk.
His leg worsens with no care, and I can’t carry him anymore. 😢
Only a wheelchair can save him: about $550 for a manual, $1200 for electric.
Rare, costly, but our only hope
Please Dont Forget him🙏🖤

gofund.me/2f942387

Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear.

NEW: Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained

A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...

This report was done in part by researchers from the University of Alberta, check out this post for the highlights and if you have the time delve into the report

Abdul had been reaching out to me for months and has raised very little- so if you’re looking to help a family that hasn’t received much help and is also really struggling this is a good opportunity

Its getting worse! The UCP started ” engagement” on replacing AISH with ADAP (paying $200 less). 70,000 people will be kicked off AISH, and forced onto the new program that pays $200 a month less. If you are unable to work you can apply back with a full medical form.
your.alberta.ca/adap/surveys...

Alberta government changes expense disclosure policy, removes eight years of records | CBC News Key changes to Alberta’s expense disclosure policy mean that the receipts of senior government officials, including the premier, will no longer be public.

I happened to notice that the Alberta govt quietly changed its expense report disclosure policy on Aug. 1, hours before a long weekend.

The changes were significant — receipts no longer had to be publicly disclosed, and 8 years of expenses had been 'undisclosed.'

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

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.

I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Given urban centres generally lean NDP and rural areas generally lean UCP, gerrymandering ridings in Lethbridge could create an electoral map where it's next to impossible to oust the UCP

Low-income tenants fight sale of affordable Edmonton townhouses | CBC News Tenants who live in affordable housing townhouses in a neighbourhood near downtown Edmonton are fighting the sale of their homes by their non-profit provider HomeEd.

Affordable housing operator HomeEd has listed the Riverdale Place townhouses for sale. Tenants are fighting back www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Historic decision on the notwithstanding clause from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

"The Charter is not written in disappearing ink that comes and goes every five years according to whether Parliament or a legislature has invoked s. 33."

-CJ Leurer, Saskatchewan v UR Pride, 2025 SKCA 74

Explainer: The controversy over Canada’s rules on military exports to Israel - National | Globalnews.ca Here's a look at what we know — and don't know — about Ottawa's efforts to keep Canadian weapons out of Gaza while allowing Israel to import military goods for other purposes.

This article contains the first direct admission from a Canadian official I've seen that Canadian companies are in fact supplying Israel's Iron Dome system. globalnews.ca/news/1132889...

A sample of the posts by former Edmonton Police Chair John McDougall in an ongoing online campaign against Edmonton city councillors he didn't consider pro-police.

'Unleashing': Politicians Say Ex-Police Watchdog's Insults Go Too Far via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Alberta government reveals drug jail locations in procurement document The Alberta government has issued a request for interested parties to participate in the procurement process for two forced abstinence detention facilities, to be located in northwest Calgary and nort...

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Alberta's "Compassionate Intervention" drug jails will be located near the existing Spyhill jail in Calgary and near the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.
Eighty-two companies have expressed interest in participating in the $180 million procurement process. 1/
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Holocaust centre urges Edmonton to rename road named after former Nazi A group is asking the City of Edmonton to rename a road that honours a former Nazi.

“The continued existence of these street names causes pain to Holocaust survivors, the Jewish community & all Canadians who cherish human rights and historical truth,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts with the FSWC.

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

Calgary police are not alone in pursuing this dragnet surveillance.

Other users named in the documents include municipal police in Edmonton, Waterloo, Hamilton, Saskatoon & York, the provincial police forces in ON and QC, the ON and Toronto police unions and every ministry of the ON govt. 2/

Calgary police "image recognition" software identifies individuals in photos & videos posted online Documents show that two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for AI software that scours photos and videos for individuals. Have pol...

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Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/
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Grassroots report paints clearer picture of Canada's arms trade with Israel Researchers used Israeli customs data and commercial shipping records to identify 391 direct Canadian military shipments to Israel since October 2023, many of which were sent on passenger flights.

UPDATED with belated comment from GAC, whose rationale for exporting mortar cartridges sounds eerily similar to what General Dynamics told the CBC.

www.readtheorchard.org/p/grassroots...