Taylor Lambert

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

G7 fortress summit keeps protesters—and reality—at a safe distance My dispatch from the designated demonstration zones at the Kananaskis G7.

G7 fortress summit keeps protesters—and reality—at a safe distance
www.readtheorchard.org/p/g7-fortres...

'I'm A Bad Boy': The Stephen Carter Story Podcast Episode · Sprawlcast · 2022-07-20 · 57m

I highly recommend the audio version, with Carter's words in his own voice.

Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1kCV...

‘I’m a bad boy’: The Stephen Carter story | The Sprawl For better or worse, he's altered Alberta politics.

From 2022: my profile of Stephen Carter
for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social

www.sprawlcalgary.com/the-strategi...

This chart shows the total number of extra duty hours and shifts each year.

I got 2020-2024 through FOIP; EPS then shared two prior years of shifts to demonstrate that the increase is simply a return to pre-pandemic levels.

Private contracts for Edmonton police rose sharply over last five years: data | CBC News Edmonton police are performing more extra duty work for private contractors, according to new data. The police say the program is working well, but one criminologist worries about the line between pub...

New from me - Edmonton police officers got paid nearly $4m last year for private contract work.

Those gigs are arranged through the EPS extra duty program, where clients can hire uniformed cops outside of their regular shifts.

STORY: www.cbc.ca/1.7526704

Liberal Star Candidate Helped Shut Down Pro-Palestine Encampment “Hogan’s nomination signals that the Liberal Party intends to continue supporting the genocide.”

NEW: The Liberal's newly acclaimed candidate for Calgary Confederation was involved in the University of Calgary's decision to immediately call the cops on its pro-🇵🇸 encampment.

www.readthemaple.com/liberal-star...

Amarjeet Sohi devrait être candidat aux élections fédérales Radio-Canada a appris que le maire d’Edmonton Amarjeet Sohi devrait se présenter sous la bannière libérale aux prochaines élections fédérales

NOUVEAU | Radio-Canada a appris que le maire d’Edmonton, Amarjeet Sohi, devrait se présenter sous la bannière du Parti libéral du Canada aux prochaines élections fédérales.

Un retour en #polcan pour l'ancien ministre

Avec les infos de Laurence Martin.

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DynaLife insolvent less than 90 days into contract for lab services, government documents show | CBC News Documents obtained by CBC News show that a private medical testing company contracted by the Alberta government became insolvent and requested an additional $70 million in funding, which was denied. D...

I got Alberta Health documents that show Dynalife was involvent and asked for an extra $70m less than 90 days into a contract to provide lab services across the province.

Dynalife's owners asked the government to buy the company, which it did, for nearly $100m.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

*insolvent, gah

DynaLife insolvent less than 90 days into contract for lab services, government documents show | CBC News Documents obtained by CBC News show that a private medical testing company contracted by the Alberta government became insolvent and requested an additional $70 million in funding, which was denied. D...

I got Alberta Health documents that show Dynalife was involvent and asked for an extra $70m less than 90 days into a contract to provide lab services across the province.

Dynalife's owners asked the government to buy the company, which it did, for nearly $100m.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

12: old enough to carry a gun, but too young to choose a pronoun.

An emphatic "Ramadan Mubarak" to all my Muslim homies, especially the ones in Palestine

Screenshot from a document. The heading says "United States Department of Justice." The date is April 30, 1964. The registrant is listed as the Government of Alberta, with an address of 550 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Here's the Alberta govt's first appearance in the database, from 1964, where they registered themselves as their own lobbyist... with a Los Angeles office address.

A screenshot from a document. The highlighted text reads: "environmentalists opposed to the project have aggressively taken control of the debate," and "Objective: Define and execute a public relations strategy to give the current debate more context thereby giving President Obama the air cover he needs to support the Pipeline."

Here's a proposed comms strategy from 2013 around the Keystone XL project, where the goal is to "neutralize environmentalist arguments."

A screenshot from a contract. The highlighted text reads: "Jonathan Kott is a key confident of several US policy makers including Senator Coons and Senator Manchin... Through our work, Senator Manchin became a key ally for Alberta, which was particularly important given his leadership position and ability to work along bipartisan lines. To that end, we were pleased to coordinate Senator Manchin’s visit to Alberta."

Along with the Foreign Agents Registration Act data, documents from each contract were also publicly available.

Here's one from a current Government of Alberta contract, where the lobbying firms are selling themselves by highlighting their personal connections to U.S. senators.

Two column charts, side by side. The title is "Registration of US Lobbyists." The subtitle is "Number of appearances in the US Foreign Agent Registration Act database." The chart on the left shows data since the year 2000 - Alberta is first with 15, Ontario is second with 14, and the rest of the provinces and federal government have 5 or fewer. The chart on the right shows all-time data, with the federal government first with 56, Ontario second with 28, Alberta third with 25, and Quebec with 21, followed by a sharp drop off for the rest.

I crunched 80+ years of U.S. foreign lobbying data. Turns out Alberta has hired more lobbyists than any other province or the federal govt since 2000.

STORY: www.cbc.ca/1.7469140

A good day for a reminder that independent media needs your support

UCalgary Palestine encampment's fate was sealed before a single tent was pitched, documents reveal The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part I of II.

SCOOP: Documents show the extent to which UCalgary administration was influenced by pro-Israel framing of the Palestine solidarity movement leading up to its short-lived encampment.

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No Sleep 'Til Fairbanks [SIGNED COPY PRE-ORDER!] [Note: This is a signed pre-order! All pre-orders must be received by February 23, 2025. After that, we will be ordering directly from Eva and having books shipped to the store from Whitehorse. You wi...

Edmonton pals! The great new Porch Light Books will be stocking signed copies of my nonfiction story collection, No Sleep 'Til Fairbanks. Pre-order by Feb. 23 if you're interested, so we know how many to ship down, and please help spread the word! 💡📚

Media, politicians are rebranding coercion against drug users as ‘care’ ⋆ The Breach Governments are using forced abstinence to hide their failures—and our biggest papers are helping them

Provincial governments across Canada are blaming drug users and homeless people for problems they created.

Euan Thomson and Zoë Dodd examine how columnists at our biggest papers are helping them. breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

Alberta cabinet member urges Danielle Smith to remove health minister | CBC News Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie is urging that the premier remove Health Minister Adriana LaGrange from her post during investigations into AHS and allegations of her interference.

NEW: There’s now a call for Danielle Smith to remove Adriana LaGrange as health min from within her own cabinet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stories like this show why investigative journalism and a strong press corps is so vital. @carrietait.bsky.social and @alannasmith.bsky.social are killing it right now.

Toronto is more or less the same latitude as Rome.

If you haven't read Kenneyism yet, I highly recommend picking it up. It's a very good read.

Cenovus Funded ‘Grassroots’ Groups That Oppose Climate Laws, Document Reveals Internal record shows Canada’s second largest oil and gas producer donated to organizations that deny climate change is an emergency and question emissions goals.

SCOOP: I found a document showing Canada's second-largest oil and gas company Cenovus quietly donated to nearly a dozen anti-climate groups.

The donations came as Cenovus public portrayed itself as a 'net-zero' leader.

www.desmog.com/2025/01/30/c... @desmog.bsky.social

Journalist asks court to prevent Winnipeg police access to unedited interview in mass shooting | CBC News CityNews repoter Morgan Modjeski conducted an interview with the father of the man charged with murder following a mass shooting in Winnipeg more than a year ago. Winnipeg police won a court battle to...

Morgan Modjeski is a prairie journalist with incredible integrity who is being relentlessly, personally targeted by the Winnipeg Police for his ethical work with community sources.

This is a crucial challenge to be aware of regarding journalistic freedom in Canada.

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Surgeons continue to advocate consolidating Edmonton's two trauma centres | CBC News Edmonton’s trauma surgeons continue to advocate combining the city’s two trauma centres into one — which they say would improve patient outcomes and save money

Edmonton has two trauma centres. Surgeons say patient outcomes would improve by combining them into one.

They've written letters. A 2019 AHS report recommended the same thing. But there's no sign that it's being considered.

New from me: www.cbc.ca/1.7442793

Surgeons continue to advocate consolidating Edmonton's two trauma centres | CBC News Edmonton’s trauma surgeons continue to advocate combining the city’s two trauma centres into one — which they say would improve patient outcomes and save money

Surgeons continue to advocate consolidating Edmonton's two trauma centres, saying it would improve patient outcomes, save money, by @taylorlambert.ca www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca