Object oriented ontology must be stopped.

CorruptCare is the biggest and costliest scandal in the history of our province. There must be a public inquiry immediately into the UCP government’s health-care procurement practices.

The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...

'To understand Smith’s ideology is to situate it within a long lineage of anti-central-planning and anti-welfare-state politics that have defined Alberta conservatism for more than 60 years.'
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

A few companies have made a great deal of money under the Alberta Recovery Model and there's little to show that they have actually delivered on the outcomes Albertans expect. Are people's health outcomes better off with a two-tier, American-style healthcare? The answer is almost always NO.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. - ursula k. le guin The Dispossessed

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't

It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...

Reminder that Edmonton AND Calgary police used public resources to hold town halls + other events to steer business communities & other stakeholders in favour of UCP drug policy.

The specified timeline for this campaign was “before the May 2023 election.”
drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-poli...

BC Involuntary Treatment Taking Place in a Solitary Confinement Unit It raises pressing questions about the wellbeing of people being subjected to a form of treatment to which experts already object.

BC Involuntary Treatment Taking Place in a Solitary Confinement Unit via @godfrey.bsky.social | @filtermag.bsky.social

filtermag.org/bc-involunta...

Carney carved out exemptions in federal environmental regulations in exchange for (checks notes) a Very Serious promise from Alberta that they will start complying with some other environmental regulations they've been ignoring for years?

Truly, 4D chess...

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.

But at least we'll have a strong economy.

Carney’s attacks will unleash major struggles As Mark Carney’s government prepares a sweeping austerity agenda—gutting public services, fuelling militarism, and expanding fossil fuel projects—John Clarke argues that a new wave of resistance is em...

We should never underestimate the potential of Indigenous resistance in Canada. The Carney government will find that its drive to unleash oil and gas projects—steamrolling over Indigenous rights in the process—is a risky proposition.

Honestly, this is pretty consistent with the environmental positions he laid out in his book. Carney genuinely believes in a private sector driven green transition that requires minimal government intervention. (Derogatory)

Albertans deserve answers and transparency on how a brand new company with deep, close ties to the UCP government got $70 million in government contracts.

Public Accounts Meeting in Rocky Mountain Room, video

@janeteremenko.bsky.social did incredible work at yesterday's public accounts committee meeting, her efforts to hold the UCP accountable for their mishandling of the mental health and addiction file are precisely what Alberta needs.

assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca/Harmony/en/P...

Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...

"Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act — which will allow for the involuntary admission of people who use substances, even when they have[..]capacity to make decisions about their care — lacks sufficient evidence of effectiveness + poses substantial ethical concerns"

www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

I had no idea Art Young illustrated the Compassionate Intervention Act back in 1914.

How We Win Canada's Housing War Operation Build Communities, Not Corporate Empires

Canada’s housing crisis isn’t random. It’s the result of decades of decisions that put profits ahead of people.

My plan treats it like what it is: a class war over who housing is for.

Read the full plan at robashton.ca/housing #NDP #Rob4Leader

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

A mindwrenching tale of malevolent horror by Constance Rauch The Landlady

Truly terrifying.

#anticapitalist

We should all be suspicious of politicians who maintain high levels of popularity among billionaires.

The people who want to make my life worse love this guy.

Would you be interested in reading a short I've been drafting? It's about the horrors of the service industry, the grotesqueries of silicon valley philosophy, and the infliction of happiness.

I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...

Mark Carney: "if we just teach the biwwionaiwes bettew vawues, they wiww stop destwoying the pwanet and wooking aftew theiw cwass intewests and use neowibewaw capitawism as a fowce fow good." The book.

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...

Mark Carney’s commitment to shoring up the neoliberal status quo will only undermine Canada in the long term—and when he’s through we will be even more vulnerable to far-right demagogues like Pierre Poilievre.

We deserve better.

@ricardotranjan.bsky.social - did you know you were mentioned in Whitzman's latest book?

Safer supply is under attack when we need it most Safer supply is a public health initiative meant to keep people alive and connected to care. It is a lifeline. A tether to the supports necessary to move towards wellness. If our goal is to end the op...

“If right-wing leaders succeed in their efforts to abolish safer supply the only result will be more people using unregulated, toxic substances. There will be more death and more chaos, and we will be no closer to freeing our society from the horrors of addiction.”