'Topple the government': Unions mobilize to battle the UCP but no general strike yet Common Front says it will organize a provincewide labour stoppage "if necessary."

In the wake of the provincial’s government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to bring an end to the Alberta teachers’ strike, the response from the labour movement is “not yet.”

#abpoli #ableg
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

We’re Turning Our Emergency Room into a Spirit Halloween Good evening, and thank you all for attending this important town hall meeting. Due to budget cuts, we’re excited to announce our groundbreaking me...

"Some may be concerned about the optics of a giant inflatable ghost hovering outside a hospital. Does it send the wrong message? Maybe. But when weighed against the message of 'We’re shutting down, and the closest emergency room is 178 miles away,' Casper here doesn’t seem so bad."

Canada’s 2023 Wildfire Season Linked to 82,000 Deaths Worldwide | The Tyee We need to reduce our smoke exposure, says one researcher. But that’s not possible for outdoor workers.

#Wildfire smoke is about as deadly as prostate cancer, says Michael Brauer, co-author of a new Nature study. 🔥

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We can roll our eyes at Rand’s worldview, entrepreneurs exalted, workers dismissed as “moochers” and “looters”. But it’s harder to take in the reality that Alberta’s Premier openly embraces this contempt for labour, right as teachers and other workers are fighting for fair treatment.

The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.

The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity
by Konstantinos Kontis

I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.
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🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness?

@mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly

Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy Model Promises Liberation, Not Adaptation Psychologists propose a comprehensive new model for psychotherapy that integrates insights from critical, liberation, and decolonial psychologies.

Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy Model Promises Liberation, Not Adaptation

Psychologists propose a comprehensive new model for psychotherapy that integrates insights from critical, liberation, and decolonial psychologies.

By Micah Ingle

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Wildfire evacuations take an immense toll on the mental health of Indigenous people. Here's what could help | CBC News Indigenous people living on reserves and in remote communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by wildfires, researchers have found. Those who study wildfire evacuations and others who provi...

“Indigenous communities impacted by wildfires disproportionately experience adverse mental health outcomes partly because they often live in affected areas.

That's on top of cultural trauma from being displaced [bc] land is integral to [their] identity & well-being[.]. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Mental health and poverty remain a struggle for Maui wildfire survivors, new study says Two years after the devastating fires, many lack access to food, stable housing, work and healthcare

“Half of the study’s 1,800 adult participants are suffering depressive symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, and poor concentration, while one in four adult survivors are racked with anxiety.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As Trump cuts climate adaptation funding, climate research & disaster relief, climate change & the devastation it causes doesn’t stop. It just piles on. The people working to build a sustainable alternative support. Please join Susanne Moser, Ph.D. for this powerful workshop. CEs available.

The US is woefully underprepared for wildfire season, say insiders: ‘The stakes are life and death’ ‘Efficiency’ cuts across offices have left teams understaffed, firefighters underpaid and uninsured, and without adequate equipment

Five federal firefighters, who spoke anonymously because they are barred from speaking publicly, were asked if their agencies were ready for fire season. The answer was a resounding “no”.

“If this turns out to be a major fire year, it’s going to be a shit show.”
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For any who are interested, I’ve updated my spreadsheet for climate-related information in Alberta and BC. It includes tabs for websites, social media accounts, apps and more.
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looks like canada’s in for another summer of intense fires as our government talks about increasing oil production and building more pipelines

Wildfire situation in the Prairies continues to rage on | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The wildfire situation in the Prairies continues to rage on.

Saskatchewan has called a province-wide state of emergency and Alberta Wildfire has issued a red flag warning, meaning wildfires could spread rapidly under the current weather conditions.

As wildfire season grows, it is critical to have access to emergency information:

Download the Alberta Emergency App
Look up alberta.ca/emergency
Visit the Alberta Emergency Alert page on Facebook and X

We all need to work together to keep Alberta safe!

#albertafire #safety

The Invisible Scars of Wildfires BY ESSEY AFEWERKI 57,000 acres of land in Los Angeles were razed in the span of 3 weeks from January 7th to 27th at the start of this year. The scorched earth across the Palisades and Eaton regions…

My son's debut article ❤️✍️: "The immune system is a far too often undiscussed casualty of (wildfires), & long after the last embers of the LA infernos fizzle out, their invisible scars will remain ... the human body is left in a weakened & vulnerable state to infectious diseases" tinyurl.com/2s3vbans

‎AB Wildfire Status ‎See where wildfires are burning in Alberta and how they impact you. Get up-to-date information on wildfire conditions and hazard as well as a listing of advisories and bans across the province. Repo...

Download the Alberta Wildfire app here:

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Ukrainian History Global Initiative Ukrainian history is central to global history, to an extent that can be hard to bear and hard to acknowledge

I’m very pleased to be serving on the international advisory council of this important, ambitious, and highly original experiment in the re-making of global history:
uhgi.org

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Interesting piece. Started thinking about recent Finnish work suggesting a community resilience framework, which separates acute resilience (immediate response capacities) from basic resilience (e.g. more long-term adaptive capacity, social cohesion, and democratic stability). Curious of thoughts?

Global Climate Opinion Factsheets - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Factsheets on climate opinions, risk perceptions, and policy for 110 countries, territories, and geographic groups around the world.

NEW: Our new global factsheets tool provides 8 key measures of climate attitudes, behaviors, and policy support and climate change audience segmentation for many countries across the world.

“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social.

We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.

We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.

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Disaster mental health

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

Dear Canadians: Ask yourselves what, and who, you value. This is apprehension, with medical experimentation, of and on your neighbours. It is no different from El Salvador, no different from a residential school. Justifying any erosion of human rights, for any group, is a slippery slope. Fight back.

Alberta to eliminate due process for people who use drugs The Alberta government is going full MAGA with its Compassionate Intervention Act, which will strip people who use drugs of due process and force them into months-long medical incarceration.

"Albertans looking to get their 'elbows up' against MAGA may identify the MAGA threat now in plain sight in their own province: armed seizure of people deemed undesirable by the state and their rendition into incarceration without due process."
#Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Policing #Incarceration

Kids have been forced into treatment in AB since 2006 with 0 evaluation of the PChAD program, other that the harms summarized by the child advocate.
“we don’t know if it works, but we are expanding it anyway”
The #AB model!