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This image shows gauges with the Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Alberta: SEVERE - 16.2 British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 11.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.5 Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 10.1 North: VERY HIGH - 11.5 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 12.7 Ontario: HIGH - 9.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 7.7 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 13.1 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

More day shelter space is a start but we also need to activate the winter emergency response sooner, stop discharging people from facilities without proper clothes, and stop confiscating tents and other survival supplies.

Opinion: Edmonton doesn't have to be the frostbite capital of the world Severe frostbite injuries are entirely preventable - together, let’s work towards a city where no one gets left out in the cold.

Edmonton has had a disturbingly high number of frostbite amputations the last two winters. With freezing temps on the way, both the City and the Government of Alberta must do more to prevent people from freezing in the cold. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #yegcc

DULF is a humanist organization that has saved lives. They did what the government has failed to do & regulated the drugs people were already using. That same government is charging them with crimes for not sitting idly by & watching more people die preventable deaths from an unregulated drug supply

DULF Founders Guilty of Drug Trafficking | The Tyee Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum didn’t have permission to sell tested drugs despite good intentions, court finds.

Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths.
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Alberta's respiratory virus update👇

COVID:
In hosp now: 67/1 icu
Total hosp: 394/21 icu
Total deaths: 36
Positivity: 6.5%

FLU:
In hosp now: 25/3 icu
Total hosp: 112/8 icu
Total deaths: 1
Pos: 3.4%

RSV...starting to tick up

Data here: www.alberta.ca/stats/dashbo...

Tanker leaking bitumen into North Saskatchewan River after crash Police say a tanker is leaking bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River after crashing Thursday morning.

Police say a tanker is leaking bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River after crashing Thursday morning.

"He also said that the rise of nitazenes reflects a larger problem with unregulated drugs. “As long as it’s unregulated, there’s going to continue to be volatility in it,” he said...he stressed the importance of regulation and expanding safer supply as interventions to make substances ... safer."

Potent synthetic opioid in counterfeit pills across Greater Victoria Nitazene, estimated to be between 5 and 8 times stronger than fentanyl, has begun appearing in counterfeit prescription pills across the city

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"Government intervention in medical decision-making has limited access to pharmaceutical-grade opioid tablets, [so] 'It’s not surprising that people are going to seek those tablets elsewhere.'"

Donald Trump doesn’t understand the drug war he’s fighting The president's war on fentanyl is just another way to expand state power and inflame fear

if you’re baffled by how trump plans to lower overdose deaths, you’re not alone. it’s pretty clear he doesn’t know what he’s fighting against. as usual, it’s not about the drugs at all. my latest for @salon.com

www.salon.com/2025/11/05/d...

As we ready for the UCP's 2nd pre-emptice use of the notwithstanding clause in as many weeks, let's clarify what this means.

1️⃣ The move is constitutional. They *can* invoke it.
2️⃣ The UCP is not *required* to do this. There are other means to pass the law.
3️⃣ They should not use it, in my view.🧵

this is why regulation over these industries is required

the DEA's decision to not ban kratom was a good one (would've exacerbated the OD crisis)

but an unregulated market will always produce dangerous products for consumers

drug prohibition is a policy choice

Oh, hi! I’m at the Legislature. Students & people with disabilities are here and both are protesting the UCP. Folks are not happy. Just thought I would let you know. Have a great day! #yeg #ableg #education #teachers #students #disability #protest #ucp #photojournalism #yegactivist #yegphotographer

A lone pumpkin in a stucco apartment.

Halloween in the inner city...
These days, and probably always, in certain areas of town, celebrations and decorations are an extra, a luxury, an effort.

I will always stop and shoot that.

#UrbanGaze #photography #31DaysOfHalloween #autumn #spookyseason #downtown #yeg

Book explores queer places and faces of Edmonton's downtown A new book from the Edmonton Queer History Project details struggles, triumph, culture, and safe spaces in the city's downtown.

Book explores queer places and faces of Edmonton's downtown edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/10... #yeg

Populism, freedom, and democracy in Alberta (and beyond) Lessons from my grade fiver's homework assignment

Tonight's moves by the UCP are part of a trend: shifting Alberta away from liberal democracy toward illiberalism.

"Populists like Smith often invoke freedom, but their concept of it is tied to loyalty to the dominant group rather than universal liberties.+

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Another egregious use of the notwithstanding clause. The right wing populist governments in this country are a scourge.

Let's be clear about what happened today.

Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,

denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,

and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

‘Pure Chaos’: Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis | The Tyee Experts say AHS data obtained by The Tyee further indicate the system faces being overwhelmed.

Medicine Hat emergency room physician Dr. Paul Parks is warning the public about what he asserts is a looming crisis in Alberta’s health-care system that will overwhelm the province’s already over-capacity and understaffed hospitals and lead to unnecessary deaths. #abpoli

A dusky moon rising over a field.

Autumn's Dusk Palette...
That time when the not yet darkened world seems unusually still and infinitely greater.
#photography #landscape #dusk #autumn #yeg #prairie #moon

They are superior to Cheetos in every way.

“Teachers have spoken. Thousands of Albertans have spoken. Yet the same government that boasts of a "strong and free" province is now using its power to try to silence them.”

- Alberta Teachers Association

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Supreme Court Affirms Life-Saving Intent of Good Samaritan Law - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition Canada | October 24, 2025 – With reasoning that will have implications nationwide amid an ongoing public health crisis, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a landmark...

Today, the Supreme Court affirms that the Good Samaritan Overdose Act must be applied to protect people who call 9-1-1 in overdose emergencies from arrest for simple possession. A major step toward evidence-based, life-saving policy.

#HarmReduction #cdnpoli

www.drugpolicy.ca/supreme-cour...

Meanwhile, at the Alberta Legislature thousands of teachers and supporters from across the province have shown up on the first day of the fall session….hope that Speech from the Throne goes well! #yeg #ableg #education #alberta #abeducation #teachers #photojournalism #edmobton #teachersstrike

Thousands of teachers, and supporters, rally at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton, AB on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

📸: David Bloom/Postmedia

#abed #ableg #abpoli #yeg

In Alberta, the October Alberta Views @albertaviews.bsky.social magazine has an excellent article about hostile architecture in Edmonton #YEG.

It’s so cruel.

Read it here

albertaviews.ca/exclusion-by...

!! Drug Alert !! VCH has issued a drug alert. Brown granules sold as down in Vancouver tested positive for para-fluorofentanyl, heroin, the benzodiazepine, nifoxipam, and medetomidine, a non-opioid tranquilizer more potent than xylazine. Check your drugs: https://www.vch.ca/en/service/drug-checking For more information, go to www.towardtheheart.com/alerts

Medetomidine has also been *presumptively* detected via test strip in recent #yeg fentanyl/down samples and in a confirmatory-tested down sample from late August. Medetomidine is much stronger than Xylazine and may not show up on FTIR test if <5%. People need #SafeSupply.

Two cormorant birds standing at the edge of a stormwater pond. There are rushes and a young coniferous tree in the foreground.

Peaceful but watching. #yeg