Alberta landowners take stand over years of missed payments by delinquent oil company
Energy Minister Brian Jean dismissed them as activists, but also says no government system is perfect.
From me today:
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Hey Edmonton. By the time you wake up, Hawrelak park is open. Go check it out!
Hawrelak park opens tomorrow! Friday March 13th
www.michaeljanz.ca/hawrelek_par...
Column from my colleague Kevin on the fallout from the Edmonton Police Service's threatening letter to the Crown in a child homicide case — including the bombshell claim from the sentencing judge that EPS may have obstructed justice. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
This is a great news story. Seattle’s $0 climate win! via @sightline.org youtube.com/shorts/mgJ-u...
More housing is helping to make renting more affordable in Edmonton… don’t take my word for it. Listen to the landlords talking about incentives for tenants! youtube.com/shorts/udD7J...
This is just a single department and this is going to be happening across almost all fed departments, more details to come. There is much more in our full analysis at www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Today we're revealing the cuts plans for our immigration system from Budget 2025. TLDR: These aren't efficiency savings they are major services cuts and cost downloads to cities poised to wreck our immigration system. @policyalternatives.ca 1/x
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If you are wondering how upzoning in Edmonton is going; when I moved into my place last year it was $1300 for a 1 bed. Now my landlord is offering a slightly larger unit for $1200. Its crazy! If I wasn't moving cities I'd be down there renegotiating my lease as we speak @growtogetheryeg.bsky.social
If Alberta Separatists want to be taken seriously, they need to form their own party and run candidates for MLA.
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Save the date for May 1st for a special weekend in Edmonton with @colville-andersen.com
www.michaeljanz.ca/cityhalltalk3
corridor zoning is bad policy!
when @michaeljanz.bsky.social convinced me to come check out Edmonton & give talk that became my book 'building for people' - i was floored they allowed 5-6 story buildings off polluted arterials, and 6-8 plexes everywhere. edmonton was leading the US and canada.
we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up
I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Alberta's economy-first government strikes again.
First to cold plunge at 0530 this morning to celebrate the reopening of Peter Hemmingway Pool! This is such a special place for me and the new Reno is fantastic!
We are hoping to bring you up to Edmonton for a book tour. Dm us with your email and number!
Last night, a room of passionate transit advocates got together with @denisagar.bsky.social from @movementyvr.bsky.social to learn about transit advocacy. Thank you everyone who came out, and thank you @michaeljanz.bsky.social for organizing this great event
perspective.
The Alberta Healthcare Disaster, with Dr. Paul Parks
Parks' unfiltered description of AB's health system catastrophe is unsettling.
Who's responsible? @abdaniellesmith.
Share this interview. Every Albertan should watch it.
#ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
youtu.be/nZIUpRIY-c4
Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
Former Crier Media contributor / Dean Blundell associate James Di Fiore told a bailiff and two OPP officers that he objected to a court-ordered search of his electronic devices because “those devices were provided to him by CSIS” (???)
NEW: A podcaster accused of harassing a former AHS director said he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, court docs show. That lawyer has ties to Sam Mraiche, who owns companies at the centre of Alberta's procurement controversy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Bryan Ward acted for Mraiche in a property flipped to the Alberta government for a $300,000 profit.
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A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
NEW POST
While cities across North America struggle with housing shortages, Edmonton is proving that zoning reform works.
In 2025, for the first time in history, the number of homes permitted in 5-8 unit rowhomes surpassed detached homes. 🧵
#yeg #yegcc #yimby
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This is exactly what I mean. Every single day Canada picks and chooses when international law applies and when we can safely ignore it. Pretending otherwise is willful ignorance.
