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Once described as "not nearly as serious as they first seem." Accurate. Not the sandwich-throwing one.

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Internal emails highlight Alberta Energy Regulator leadership concerns on coal files Emails about through a freedom of information request show concerns within the agency about coal files

“Messrs. Morgan and Au agreeing to meet with NB before the decision was issued was an egregious error in judgement and entirely inappropriate,”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

14.03.2026 02:42 👍 30 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

IiRC, the courts have called FOIP rights — in their own words — "quasi-constitutional" so I wonder how well this will hold up.

13.03.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excursion Around the Bay

Presented without comment.
open.spotify.com/track/1mVbSA...

13.03.2026 02:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Supporting choice in education | Soutenir le choix en matière d’éducation Budget 2026, if passed, invests $90 million to help ease enrolment pressures by creating 6,000 new student spaces at independent schools.

The province is giving $10 million dollars to private schools to fund new school builds. Meanwhile the public system that supports all kids continues to have urgent needs for school renovations, expansions and new builds. 🧵
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

13.03.2026 00:13 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Legit question: can you be sued for defamation for your statements in a petition application, or does it receive similar immunity as judicial applications?

12.03.2026 23:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"So whats this I hear about someone tryin' to put my Johnny on ice?"
"Word is Dwayne is looking to poach to defect to the Athabaskan Anglers"
"The Anglers? I'll help them make good friends with the fishes."

12.03.2026 03:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gonna pitch a Canadian CBC comedy about a beer league curling team that's also an amateur organized crime syndicate

12.03.2026 03:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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11.03.2026 23:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With the previous ethics commissioner, I know I had just received an email with their reasoning. Nothing ever posted because no investigation ever started.

(Yager had been appointed for a term less than a year so COIA didn't apply)

11.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Who is ready for some charts.

*Debt to rise $17.9B (up to $128.7B)
*Per capita inflation adju spending $15.9K in 24/25, $16.2K in 25/26
*WTI forecast US$60.50 (down US$10 from budget)
*Expenses to rise 12% ($88.4B) in next 3 years
*Revenue to rise 8% ($81.5B) over same time

#ableg #abpoli

26.02.2026 22:19 👍 46 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 7

Oh, really, Amanda Chapman has a 42 point plan on how to fix education ready to share? 🙄 let's see it then, because that's not what she's been telling people.

09.03.2026 20:47 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, look the opening page of Red Storm Rising.

08.03.2026 01:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

New Admin Law final question just dropped.

08.03.2026 01:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now say it in the voice of Blackadder.

07.03.2026 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know, right?

07.03.2026 01:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dr. Fiona's Fungal Selections has a ring to it.

HMU for all your branding needs.

07.03.2026 01:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those look like they came from Dr. @fionamattatall.bsky.social 's garden?

07.03.2026 00:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When are you two starting the podcast?

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh this hit home

06.03.2026 04:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Maybe be we should put the Canadian flag at half mast based on how the Olympics went, that would be fun, eh?" — announcer om @sportsnetpr.bsky.social Blue Jays vs Braves at 02:39. 😡
You catch that @clareblackwood.bsky.social ?

05.03.2026 21:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh, that explains it.

04.03.2026 11:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is hilariously on-brand for campus conservative club cocktail hour "well akchually.."

In a possibly more historical interpretation, what is redeeming about the story to a conservative? Robin Hood should have been denied bail as a repeat offender?

The "modern marxist" interp dates to 1795

04.03.2026 11:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Countries are going to expedite their "energy independence" but that just means getting off oil faster.

03.03.2026 05:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

From whar I understand about the decentralized architecture of Bluesky that differentiates it from X, an edit button would be very hard to do without breaking some core principles. Maybe they've thought about ways it could be done, but it probably would be messy

03.03.2026 03:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And maybe *you* are the unwitting favourite human on an alien society's social media

02.03.2026 16:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of those times Rath isn't wrong.

02.03.2026 05:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Yahoos’: Preston Manning Claps Back at Alberta Secession Leader | The Tyee Jeff Rath claimed Manning and influential allies have tried to silence and subvert the separatist movement.

'Yahoos': Preston Manning Claps Back at Alberta Secession Leader via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

02.03.2026 05:09 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 5

The fact that I can buy a *motherboard* for less than a low-end PAR light will never not blow my mind.

02.03.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The algorithm has somehow decided that I must be interested in evangelical church audio visual content and now I am horrifying aware of:
A. How much A/V equipment costs; and
B. How much money churches spend on A/V equipment.

02.03.2026 03:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Friendly reminder the Okotoks Dawgs tickets are on sale, (including Canada Day) and going fast!

02.03.2026 03:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0