Chris Wiebe

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...

To stop Gaza genocide, Canada must escalate pressure on Israel - CCPA Canadian companies, with the approval of the Canadian government, are supplying military equipment for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Canada is sending hundreds of thousands bullets to Israel as it guns down children waiting in line for food. Not only should Canada cancel arms contracts, it should also cancel trade deals, punish Canadian investors in Israel, and expel Israeli diplomats.

I wrote about it for @policyalternatives.ca

Data shows 90% of trespassing tickets on Edmonton transit go to those with no fixed address | CBC News Transit peace officers in Edmonton gave out 5,721 tickets for trespassing in 2024 — a move that housing and legal advocates say is disproportionately ​​​​​​​harming those who are homeless. Data obtain...

I remember a cop trying to justify this by saying they know unhoused people can't pay tickets, so "nothing ends up happening."
In reality, criminalizing poverty just like this is a key contributor to the excruciating death rate among unhoused people.
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Here’s the full media release from the CTLA Policing Committee. We included some recommendations, including for a more specific, targeted transit ban policy.

Oh, and the numbers of trespass tickets go up during the winter months, clearly showing that more people are sheltering in transit, and being banned and ticketed while doing so, during the coldest months.

The tickets that peace officers are giving to people with no fixed address are also mostly the kind that could result in arrest warrants, so this is leading to deprivations of liberty for unhoused people.

There is no appeal process for transit bans, and if people trespass, the data show people may get both a trespass ticket and another ban.

Transit peace officers give trespass tickets after they first ban someone for a period of time that could be anywhere from one day to two years, and the banned person enters transit property or vehicle. They ban people for a variety of reasons. Some legitimate, some questionable.

Edmonton transit peace officers gave over three million dollars worth of trespass tickets to people with no fixed address in 2024. That’s 90% of all the trespass tickets they gave, and 51% of all tickets of any kind they gave to anyone.

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#yeg #yegcc

Data shows 90% of trespassing tickets on Edmonton transit go to those with no fixed address | CBC News Transit peace officers in Edmonton gave out 5,721 tickets for trespassing in 2024 — a move that housing and legal advocates say is disproportionately ​​​​​​​harming those who are homeless. Data obtain...

Hilborn, deputy chief, Community Standards Peace Officers, said the figure does not reflect the amount collected & doesn't have info on how many with no fixed address have paid.
Then, obviously, the City should get the information.
#houseless

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If you can help Majd who is kind and funny and makes dad jokes and worries about his kids and didn’t deserve it

Majd woke up from the coma—screaming in pain
⚠️His leg is rotting
⚠️The bleeding hasn’t stopped
⚠️We’re 1 week from amputation😭💔

I’m Aya. My husband was shot by an explosive bullet.My daughters are starving

We need the cost of the operation,medicine —please help us reach the rest
🔗 gofund.me/be672f7c

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

10 years later, documents shed new light on EPS steroid scandal

Remember the Edmonton police steroid scandal that one of the current interim chiefs was caught up in?

It turns out to have had a much larger scope and impact than previously known.

www.theprogressreport.ca/10_years_lat...

Coal company wins $142.8-million from Alberta government over policy flip-flop Atrum Coal agreed to drop its lawsuit and surrender coal leases back to the government in exchange for cash

In 2020, the UCP suddenly scrapped land rules that had been in place since 1976, inviting a flurry of new investment into coal expansion. Then mass public pressure and a court challenge drove them to reverse that—which left the province vulnerable to lawsuits from those investors, like this one:

Alberta gov't fell short of its affordable housing goal last year: annual report | CBC News The provincial government completed fewer new or refurbished affordable housing units last year than the previous three years, according to figures in the Seniors, Community and Social Services Minist...

The ministry's target of of 1500 new or newly-subsidized affordable housing units for 2024 was already unambitious—and the government didn't even hit 60% of it.

Always a pleasure to join the Burlie family to celebrate Mary Burlie Day!

Mary Burlie, known as the Black Angel of Boyle Street, moved here in 1969.

Seeing the level of need in our inner city, she walked into Boyle Street Community Services and offered to volunteer.

AISH recipients in community housing will see rent hike under new Alberta regulations | CBC News AISH recipients who live in community housing where rent is set at thirty per cent of income will soon see the amount increase by $220 a month.

An order in council signed by Jason Nixon back in May is set to hike rent for people on AISH by a staggering 60%.

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants - CCPA During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partn...

The Canadian government is deeply reliant on U.S. tech companies for internet infrastructure. In a period of "nation-building projects," Canada should begin building the infrastructure for a public Canadian internet. By @parismarx.com @policyalternatives.ca
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Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summer Ministers have been asked to cut 7.5 per cent from program spending next year, growing to 15 per cent by 2028-29

For the record, I meant it as a cautionary tale not a manual! But it looks like my big projections of federal cuts are coming .... worth 15% of spending.
@policyalternatives.ca
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Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with the same span in which we had vowed to accomplish what may ...

Important read from @chrishatch.bsky.social:
"25 years to rewire our energy systems, reimagine our cities, and restructure our relationship with the planet. The scale of the transformation now required is staggering, but so is the cost of delay."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/o...

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

National power grid needed to fend off Trump and build clean economy: advocates A coast-to-coast power grid is a nation-building project Canada needs, advocates say, but it may also be an important step for Mark Carney’s government to rebuild trust with the environmentalists it b...

National power grid needed to fend off Trump and build clean economy: advocates www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/04/n...

In March, I wrote that YEG was setting records for EMS dispatches to ODs. Opening sentence: this is "a pattern that has tracked closely with fatalities for many years."

Alberta press should use the link b/w dispatches & deaths while the govt keeps hiding bodies.
drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...

This is how the Edmonton approach is going.

Edmonton region hits all-time monthly peak in opioid-related deaths | CBC News The province says it is monitoring the situation closely, and seeing improvements province-wide.

“Edmontonians are using substances in isolated environments due to encampment removals and fewer frontline workers.” @marlisst.bsky.social
The #AB abstinence or death model.
#ABpoli
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Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.

NEW: Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Export Permits To Israel This Year.

Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized new exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...

Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.

BREAKING: Canada authorized $37.2 million worth of new military exports to Israel in February, reveals @alexcosh.bsky.social.

The goods fall under an export category that includes bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles and other explosive devices.

www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...

"When the American Medical Association announced its ... decision to reject excited delirium as a diagnosis, the organization acknowledged [excited delirium] is 'disproportionately cited in cases where Black men die in law enforcement custody.'"