Dena McMartin 🇨🇦

It is hidden. The art hunt to honour @drdagly.bsky.social
The one and only clue will be posted tomorrow. I promise not to “Give it away”.😆 #arthuntyeg #yegarthunt

It’s hard to square the narrative that Albertans tell themselves and that politicians reinforce about who we are now vs how the province began and was for decades. When 1 person’s vote moves toward counting 1.5x another 1 person’s vote, we have to look to refine our system.

No.

Use that notwithstanding clause once and they get slap happy to do it again and again. The justices provided a very good situation that highlights why they found the ON legislation to be non-Constitutional. But when you give some folks a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat…

Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"they are seeking to remove the judicial branch from the democratic law-making process."

"undermining the core democratic principles of transparency and accountability."

"undermining the constitutional and human rights architecture that protects all Albertans."
#AbLeg

11,706. The number of people who signed Petition e-6489, calling on the leaders of all parties to undergo security vetting, which was proudly presented by Liberal Member of Parliament, Robert Morrissey, today in the House of Commons. #cdnpoli

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization?

Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life.

@crof.bsky.social explains. 🏥 #BCCovid

“OH NO! NO WAY! OH MY GOD! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!”

Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view

Canada's economy is still struggling due to Trump's tariffs and inflation in Canada must not be a huge concern because they decreased the interest rate today.

A lower interest rate results in future economic growth.

Canada's future is full of opportunity

#cdnpoli

*please just don’t remember we’re the ones who shut this down a few years back… oopsie!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.

Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by.

The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.

The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services

The billionaire loophole: While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services.

New from @readtheorchard.org:

ricochet.media/labour/class...

#cdnpoli #taxtherich #budget2025

Alberta’s now the first jurisdiction to use the notwithstanding clause to take away the right to collective bargaining.

The kids will go back to school tomorrow -but what’s the future for workers’ rights across Canada? I wrote about that here: mbpintelligence.com/blog/phillips-…

Opinion: Invoking notwithstanding clause a slippery slope for Alberta Pre-emptively and actively overriding rights is a slippery slope. Whose rights are next?

“Smith claimed on Monday that Bill 2 “is exactly the kind of circumstance that I believe Peter Lougheed had in mind when he argued so hard on behalf of provinces to include the notwithstanding clause.”

This is incorrect.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way

Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work Alberta teacher are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights

"Here is a short list of the government laws and codes that are now overridden by Bill 2:

The Labour Relations Code;
The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act;
The Alberta Bill of Rights;
The Alberta Human Rights Act;
The Education Act."

calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a...

Labour leaders vow ‘unprecedented response’ as Alberta uses notwithstanding clause | CBC News The Alberta Federation of Labour says the provincial government’s decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to force striking teachers back to work marks a dangerous turning point for democ...

8/8 The stage is set for a massive confrontation.

Union leaders are expected to reveal their full plan of action at a press conference on Wednesday.

👉 Albertans, it's imperative not to sleep through this moment. Danielle Smith is destroying democracy! 👈

Joel Dryden, CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta government’s use of notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 means that courts won’t be able to strike down the law even if it violates the Charter.

"Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause continues an alarming trend of provincial governments putting political expediency ahead of people’s human rights." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

And since this use of the notwithstanding clause involves Alberta, it is perhaps relevant to note the three caveats/conditions that Peter Lougheed, a proponent of the notwithstanding clause, proposed in 1991.

www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons Democratic or not? Governments ordering strikers back to work

Today, the Senate transport and communications committee heard from two leading experts in labour law and strikes, Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and labour lawyer Paul Champ. Given the news from Alberta, I had questions. #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli

She sure is. Thank you.

I kept reminding my mom (>1400 signatures collected) that the yelling angry people who accosted her and attempted to upset her table were in the vast minority. Somehow it didn’t always make her feel better about the experience… And yet, today she’s in Edmonton celebrating the collective achievement.

Welp… the thing has happened w/ Regina's chief of police that we've all been expecting to happen… ie, he's been terminated w/ cause. The press release doesn't give precise details but it looks pretty bad.

Release says Deputy Chief Davies will remain as Acting Chief for present time. /1 #yqrcc

Screenshot of figure showing correlation between vaccine doses and reports of ASD.l, to which I added another line showing maternal intake of pumpkin spice products. The legend says Figure 2. Autism Prevalence and Cumulative Vaccine Doses Through the Second Birthday, 1970-2018. The number of vaccine doses recommended for U.S. children by age two (green triangles) is plotted alongside autism prevalence estimates per 10,000 children (blue squares), derived from both early epidemiologic studies (pre-2000) and CDC ADDM Network reports (2000 onward). Polynomial trend lines demonstrate strong parallel increases in cumulative vaccine exposure during early childhood and the reported prevalence of autism across successive birth cohorts. Permission to use this figure was obtained from Children's Health Defense.?9

This is a figure from disgraced physician Peter McCullough’s report claiming that vaccines cause autism.

The red line, added by me, depicts maternal consumption of pumpkin spice products.

His group still does not understand correlation vs causation.

Oh I hope you’re wrong, but the sense of dread remains strong.

456,365 signatures!

This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!

More than needed by HALF!!!

This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Now we wait to see how the Government members show respect to this strong statement from Alberta citizens.

Jared Wesley and Ken Boessenkool: Danielle Smith is not a conservative Her politics amount to libertarian-laced populism, directly opposed to the sort of principled, incrementalist politics Albertans have had before.

Jared Wesley and Ken Boessenkool: Danielle Smith is not a conservative open.substack.com/pub/theline/... "Danielle Smith has demonstrated little concern for these principles."

NDP leader Naheed Nenshi pulled few punches today…

Not only did he condemn Smith’s claim Peter Lougheed would support her attack on human rights…

He called her and the entire UCP caucus cowards.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli