Albera as the 51st State: Jeff Rath’s MAGA Fever Dream Words matter. Rath's conspiracy rhetoric is downright frightening

Alberta as the 51st State: Jeff Rath’s MAGA Fever Dream

The quotes in this essay are Rath's own words, transcribed from CTV News interviews.

Words matter and Rath's conspiracy rhetoric is downright frightening.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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A juvenile great horned owl roosts in the saddle of cottonwood tree in Longmont, Colorado. In this vertical color photograph one sees the main trunk of the cottonwood tree with its huge dark brown and gray bark with grooves and tons of texture. In the lower left part of the frame an owls head is sticking up looking at the camera. The owls large yellow eyes jump out against its own camouflage and the color of the tree bark. Its right side of its head and upper body are in the shade. Photo by Kort Duce

A young great horned owl roosts in the saddle of cottonwood tree in Longmont, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #BrownIsBeautiful #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #owl #owls #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature

Burst pipes cause widespread flooding in research labs at Douglas Institute "The situation here is appalling, both for the patients but also for the research centre," said researcher Sylvain Williams. "It's really unfortunate because the Douglas is a leader in Canada and the ...

1) The Douglas Mental Health University Institute, which was founded in 1881, hasn't undergone much renovation since Queen Victoria was alive. On Monday, the ceilings literally caved in. See my story below about Quebec's crumbling medical infrastructure.👇
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Anti-science BS a feature of fascism.

Let’s keep fighting for the light. 💪

As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge

#cdnpoli #canada #boycottusa
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Why teens with ADHD are so vulnerable to the perils of social media For many young people with the condition, screen interactions are especially hard to resist — and intensify the mental-health challenges they face.

Why teens with ADHD are so vulnerable to the perils of social media www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"...focusing on the types of digital-media use patterns and content that may be most harmful — and intervening there — is likely where the future lies."

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

My old boss at Reuters. Hard story to read.
This is a precarious business in very precarious times.

This piece by Matt Bruenig is essential reading for AI skeptics on the left. You may or may not agree with the arguments, but very much worth taking seriously.

mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/s...

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

After all the heartbreak and horror of the world this week - a reminder of why Canada, and the idea of Canada, really matters. We aren’t trying to be great again - just trying to make a better country, every day. Sending this out with love and hope. #Canada #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #Alberta #refugees

#SLCN (speech, Language and Communication Needs) are the most common SEND, but many continue to think of them as not that serious.
However in 2023-24 just 27.6% of those with SLCN achieved grades 4 and above in maths and English.
This needs to change!

Les enfants qui ont été exposés à la covid lors de la gestation peuvent avoir des retards sur le développement du cerveau, la cognition et la santé émotionnelle.

52 % des enfants ont maintenant des retards à deux ans comparativement à 14 % avant la pandémie.

'A lifeline to the land and to the people': How radio plays a critical role in the culture of northern Sask. | CBC News They may be small, but the collection of radio stations that service Saskatchewan’s remote northern communities are hubs that connect people with news and programming that builds knowledge and culture...

'A lifeline to the land and to the people': Radio's role in the culture of northern #Saskatchewan

Radio stations provide critical link in remote communities

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Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine A new study finds that men who are anxious about their masculinity are less likely to care about climate change. They may view environmental concern as a feminine trait that threatens their image.

Well it came in right before the deadline but this is the dumbest fucking thing I've read all year, and I don't doubt it for a second.

Les PDG les mieux payés du Québec gagneront 236 fois plus que le salaire moyen en 2026 Au deuxième jour de la nouvelle année, ils ont déjà empoché l’équivalent de ce qu’un travailleur québécois moyen touche en 12 mois.

Les patrons des plus grandes entreprises du Québec devraient gagner 236 fois plus que le salaire annuel moyen en 2026. Au deuxième jour de la nouvelle année, ils avaient déjà empoché l’équivalent de ce qu’un travailleur québécois moyen touche en 12 mois.

YouTube video by DW News Deepfakes flooding your feed: Why AI videos are dangerous — and how to spot them | DW News

https://youtu.be/WSStTnoSb_c?si=FpnxVDhOwT7qJYaR

‘You can mix your methods, but you can’t mix your paradigms’: a guide to ontology and epistemology for the confused researcher Research is an attempt to find out something useful about the world. Whether we like it or not, how we choose our methods, conduct data analysis, and draw conclusions flow from our underpinning assump...

Happy new year! If your eyes glaze over when people start talking philosophy in research, then read this! Proud to have been a co-author on this paper explaining why the assumptions we make about the world matter for our research bjgp.org/content/76/7...

Let's Be Friends: Peer Perceptions of Disordered Speech in Preschool and Early School-Aged Children Purpose: Children attend to speech variation to inform a variety of linguistic and social judgments about a talker. Communication impairments, su...

The social impacts of speech sound disorder (SSD) are underexplored, especially in young children. Two tasks eliciting preschoolers' social judgments of SSD speech revealed a preference for typical speech as early as age 4. https://on.asha.org/4spAO7I

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Opinion: A divisive wave of disinformation In late October, I was in a hotel in Alberta, doom-scrolling social media when a video posted by former Alberta deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk appeared on my Facebook feed. He and I have never met, bu...

“The reality is that there are those outside our borders who appear determined to harm Canada by spreading disinformation about our country and sowing division among our citizens…”

#ableg #cdnpoli

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On the left: Image of a silhouetted human head in profile with the top cut off; colourful letters are coming out of the top. On the right: text that reads “If chatbots can replace writers, it’s because we made writing replaceable. A good deal of what gets published already reads like a photocopy of a photocopy.”

If writing is about pattern-matching, what separates the language produced by humans from that of machines? Author and editor André Forget argues the difference comes down not to brilliance but biology. thewalrus.ca/if-chatbots-can-...

IJLCD - Six questions, eight years later: identifying early predictors of language development - RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists In this podcast we chat with Loretta Gasparini about the research she led on finding a robust predictor tool for persistent language disorders. The aim of this research is to  identify young chil...

I was on the #RCSLT podcast to discuss our #IJLCD paper where we identified 6 questions we can ask parents of 2-3-year-olds that have >70% sensitivity and specificity for predicting language outcome 8 years later when the child is 11-12yo #DLD #DevLangDis 1/3

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‘Surreal’: Cree composer’s song featured in new season of ‘Stranger Things’ The track ‘May 25’ by amiskwacîwâskahikan-based musician Matthew Cardinal is played in episode one of the popular series

When Matthew Cardinal received an email marked “urgent,” asking if one of his songs could be played in the show "Stranger Things," he didn’t believe it was real at first.

“It’s so weird, like, all the things that had to happen just for them to hear my music.”

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Time to switch article submission as well as referee reports to handwritten bluebooks.

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Denialism close-up - an APTN Investigates APTN Investigates Dismantling Denialism by correspondent Christopher Read delves into residential school denialism.

More from @aptninvestigates.bsky.social’s special focus on dismantling residential school denialism: www.aptnnews.ca/investigates...

YouTube video by CBC News Why are abortion rights in Quebec’s constitution when even pro-choice groups don’t want that?

This 5-minute video is a good overview of what’s happening in Quebec around abortion with Bill 1 (and also Bill 2). Pro-choice advocates fear if Quebec writes abortion back into the law, even with the goal of protecting it, it could backfire — pointing to the U.S. as an example of what can go wrong.

“At night, I screamed at the stars” — West End Phoenix In 2018, I was homeless in Toronto, haunted by undiagnosed mental and physical maladies. This is the story of three winter days I spent wandering the city’s streets.

"In 2018, I was homeless in Toronto, haunted by undiagnosed mental and physical maladies. This is the story of three winter days I spent wandering the city’s streets"

AT NIGHT, I SCREAMED AT THE STARS by Andrew W Boyd

Taken from our Dec issue, out today.

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A female grizzly bear sits up while surround by small branches and a rock face behind her.

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar: I was watching this Grizzly Bear and her cub when she stopped for a moment, sat up, and seemed to just take in the view as the sun began to set. #wildlife

Attendre encore, 36 ans plus tard

Au déchirant souvenir des féminicides de Polytechnique se greffe trop souvent depuis plus de 30 ans un pénible rappel annuel des espoirs déçus. L'éditorial de Marie Vastel.

Indigenous cultural belongings return to Canada from Vatican | CBC News A delegation from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and four First Nations youth are accompanying 62 items on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Montreal.

This flight just landed. The Indigenous items are back on Turtle Island where they belong.
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Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique Montréal massacre.

Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago.

Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence — and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.

High prevalence of developmental coordination disorder risk in childhood apraxia of speech Aim To explore motor impairments linked to developmental coordination disorder (DCD) in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Method This prospective cohort study included 105 children ...

A new paper linking #apraxia and #dcd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...