Eyab Alaini 🇨🇦

Full survey results here

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Release: Half of Calgary businesses say Alberta separation discourse is impacting the economy - The Calgary Chamber A new survey finds that 51 per cent of Calgary respondents say the current discourse around Alberta’s separation from Canada is affecting the provincial economy, with 93 per cent describing the impact...

Alberta separation is bad for businesses

“51% stated current discourse around Alberta’s separation is impacting the provincial economy.

Of those:

93% indicated impact is negative
27 % of respondents reported no impact
22 % said they don’t know” [yet]

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But I agree, the chainsaw man is gross , and is philosophically shallow.

For teenagers 16+, read/ watch ghost in the shell. it is far more interesting and relevant.

It is NOT the government’s job to tell kids what books they can’t read.

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Meanwhile in Alberta, people can’t find a family doctor while the government is banning books such as the 1984 (graphic novel) and The book of genesis.

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100% agree
the traders get wealthier the more blood and destruction and competition for power continues.

What is “good for business” for a few, is often bad for most.

How you feel about this depends on how close to the top one benefit directly or indirectly, myself included.

focused*

We won’t need corporate Winners Take All philanthropy if we are focus on issues that reduce systemic inequalities.

@anandwrites.bsky.social detailed this in his book. here is a summary for those busy to read his book

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcHl...

I am all for featuring successful women in business, but this efforts like this miss the larger systemic issues like minimum wages, improved working conditions for jobs dominated by women and laws that protect women from domestic violence

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A women and wealth Gala tickets of 4 classes depending on how rich you are

These well intentioned, corporate focused events miss the point. It is not about women joining the top 1%

How about a woman and wealth and income inequality event for the least wealthy? 1/

27% of Albertans have a positive or neutral view of Trump.

@davidcoletto.bsky.social Can you share more about why that many people have these views?

I hypothesize that part of the answer is a version of “Trump is good for [my] business” ? but I think there is more to the story

Also thanks to @drewanderson.bsky.social for the excellent reporting on this.

I am thankful for any organization that has the power to protect communities from a investment that benefits the few at the expense of everyone at the local community.

Investments are welcome when the benefit is worth the costs.

Thank you- Alberta Utilities Commission.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I stand with @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

Journalists should never fear telling the truth
Journalists should be protected
Journalists are worth defending when they are intimated or threatened

A healthy society depends on journalists to have the freedom to tell the truth

If Alberta held a referendum today, 26% would support separation, 64% would oppose. But 53% believe Premier Danielle Smith would vote Yes. The political risk lies in that perception gap. #ableg

Details: abacusdata.ca/alberta-ind...

So the premier of Alberta doesn’t want to Alberta to separate but will do everything in her power to enable those who want to do everything they wish to enable separation including asking a foreign country for help?

a sign that says people 's lives and wall street profits on it ALT: a sign that says people 's lives and wall street profits on it

I dream of a future (in the coming century) where energy flows, air, water and soil health, bio-diversity and quality of real life interactions (not just online), and many other life wellness indicators are also measured in real time but will our species chose wisdom or narrow self interest?

For a civilization (our current one) that has figured out how to measure the stock price of thousands of companies in near real time, temperature, and tracks every commercial flight in the sky, we can measure emissions in real time and electricity is the easiest place to start. 2/

Many people even in the clean tech sector will push against this because the accounting doesn’t favour how they used to take money.

Well, tough luck, if your business case does not align with physics, creative accounting will not save you.

Let’s stop using averages because it is “easier” 1/

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Who “elects” Iran’s new supreme leader (must be a man)? A religious assembly of “elected” 88 (men) who were pre-vetted by the Guardian Council (12 men) select the new leader. Who appoints the Guardian Council members? the Supreme leader!

People of Iran deserve better, and war is not the answer.

Trump 2011 vs. 2026

Yes. it is pathetic

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I am watching if oil price goes up enough to impact the stock market below a painful level Trump will understand. Human suffering does not register in his brain, only the stock market does.

Of course oilmen (including in Alberta) will celebrate a higher oil price despite the lives lost.

The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan [HD] YouTube video by EchoMillennium1

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAn...

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The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan [HD] YouTube video by EchoMillennium1

Sometimes I dream of an alternate timeline instead of the UN general assembly being a show of force, heads of states (5 largest, 5 middle powers, and 5 smaller economies) spend 2 weeks at the ISS to watch over planet earth, perhaps they return kinder, and wiser

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAn...

🤣 so much used to seeing UCP bad news on Friday afternoons when people pay least attention that I thought the same.

Canada’s largest AI data centre proposed in rural Alberta | The Narwhal Proponents of the $10-billion project plan to build an AI data centre that would consume as much power as the city of Edmonton

A $10-billion AI data centre races ahead in a rural Alberta town, population 9,679: thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...

Excellent reporting by @drewanderson.bsky.social

a cartoon of a man sitting at a desk with the words get used to it ALT: a cartoon of a man sitting at a desk with the words get used to it

Albertans since the 80s:we have to get off resource revenue roller coaster

Fraser institute: get used to it. It has always been that way

Me: are you telling me that budget deficits are like the weather? not the result of deliberate choices overtime ?🤦‍♂️

www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/eval...

YESSS! No more using the highway as the only way to safely get to Airdrie from Calgary.

Thank you @yuleloveyyc.bsky.social

I hope we get answers tomorrow when we see the numbers

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