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Recall efforts targeting UCP MLAs gain momentum after use of notwithstanding clause Efforts to recall UCP MLAs gaining traction following government invoking the notwithstanding clause to force striking teachers back to work

Recall efforts targeting UCP MLAs gain momentum after use of notwithstanding clause #yyc #ableg #abpoli
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Why we should trust scientists Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists -- but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belie...

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Volvo Prize, @naomioreskes.bsky.social! Naomi's work addresses vital issues such as why we need to trust science; a topic that becomes even more important with every new day.

Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

Scott Adams • @ScottAdamsSays • 7h g .. On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a Show more • 5.6K L7 12K 67K ill 7.5M只企 Robert F. Kennedy Jr # @Robert..•47m g Scott. How do I reach you? The President wants to help. 322 17 773 5.4K ihi 73K Chamath Palihapitiya © @cha...•43m g ... Just connected you guys via text. 64 1734 930 ill 16K

Healthcare but only for my friends

This is truly on the money… not sure if we’re supposed to laugh or cry?
Maybe laugh to keep ourselves from crying?!

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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID

and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids

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(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)

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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Spread the word to all you know!
Come on out and let’s start a discussion about HC in AB.

This isn’t about ideology… it’s about: is HC currently on the right track in AB

"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period"

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1000% this.

The 2025 Jays played with guts and skill the entire season, came into the postseason the consensus favourites to get eliminated immediately, and fought the juggernaut that had been the betting favourite to win it all to a bloody battered draw. Keep your misery in its lane, Leaf fans

My lukewarm take on this is I question why we continue to platform (mostly? Exclusively?) men who made a lot of money in one area for their views/advice in other totally unrelated areas.

The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...

Do not miss this stunning investigation that reveals how a Koch-funded machine and Silicon Valley's new found interest is behind the dangerous advanced nuclear hype in the US.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Canada is likely to lose its measles elimination status. The U.S. could be next. Neither country has been able to stop continuous spread of the highly contagious virus within the past year.

North American kids deserve better

Canada is likely to lose its measles elimination status. The U.S. could be next.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

October 2025 Review Weather history for Edmonton Alberta, from a year-round active-commuter. Trends and records for the northernmost city of 1M people in North America.

September 2025 was Edmonton's warmest and basically driest on record.
But did that continue into October 2025? Let's take a look...
edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com/2025/11/octo...
#yegwx #yeg

12 Hours in the Smoke Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying.

More on the scandal that is inadequate occupational health and safety protections for wildfire firefighters.

Our workers need to be protected. in Health care and the worsening climate crisis.

Respirator masks for all.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

The "Gates Billionaire missive" is making its fair share of ripples.

Before buying his snake oil, please read these two important rebuttles.

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Climate Gates Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

The "Gates Billionaire missive" is making its fair share of ripples.

Before buying his snake oil, please read these two important rebuttles.

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did you read the article?

Bill Gates bends the knee on climate change The Microsoft mega-billionaire's new letter on climate change claims to tell "tough truths". What it really does is display the same easy cowardice that has come to define America's corporate leadersh...

American billionaires have been shameless in trying to buy off Donald Trump with trinkets, baubles, and outright bribes.

By sacrificing his long-held beliefs on climate change (and giving the bad-faith skeptics a win), Bill Gates topped them all. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/01/o...

Saturday November 1 12-2 pm Bowness and 46 street

Saturday Nov 1 between Belvedere Elementary school and Lion’s Club 2-4 pm

Two signing locations tomorrow so far! 👏 Bowness and Montgomery

Check out the website for more days/times/locations: recallnicolaides.ca/sign-the-pet...

Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pand...

STUDY: Covid during pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues in kids.

So… by attacking Covid vaccines (all vaccines) thus contributing to the spread of Covid, are dangerous anti-vaxers like RFK Jr actually fuelling autism rates?

More plausible than other things RFK Jr. has been blaming.

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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HH everybody. And Go Blue Jays!

Canada’s 34,000-Job Opportunity: Finalizing Canada's Methane Regulations - Market Forces This post by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago; Senior Campaign Manager, Canada, Ari Pottens; Senior Manager of Economics and Policy Analysis, Maureen Lackner; and former ED...

The methane problem can be a methane opportunity — if the 🇨🇦 government seizes it. Strong methane regulations mean 34,000 new jobs across Canada. 🌍💨

#cdnpoli #jobs #economy
@mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social
@coreyhogan.ca
@climateunit.bsky.social
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HH everybody. And Go Blue Jays!