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RT @JeremyAppel1025: NEW from me in @jacobin:. With a deal now in sight, Air Canada flight attendants' defiance of the government's back-to….
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In the Progress Report newsletter this week: a trade conflict with China pits the interests of auto manufacturing workers out east with agriculture workers across the prairies. Also, our usual roundup of political news from across the province
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Progress Report newsletter #360: In EV-canola trade war, Smith’s western resentment finally finds a grain of truth
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"A medieval knight in full armor riding a motorcycle through a misty jungle trail.". Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
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On the latest Progress Report podcast, Euan Thomson returns to tell us about the Calgary police dabbling in facial recognition technology. Also, some more detail from Jeremy about the Government of Alberta's $20k+ in-kind-donation to PragerU #ableg
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A new report from Public Interest Alberta finds that nearly one in five children in the province is living below the poverty line #ableg #cdnpoli
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Public Interest Alberta's 2025 study finds that nearly one in five children in Alberta live in poverty.
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Investigating MacEwan University's crackdown on Palestinian advocacy, David Slater finds that the institution has drastically increased its surveillance of students—and that crackdown was directly managed by the university's top executives
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In this week's Progress Report newsletter: two petition campaigns duel over separation, but is there any substance to either of them? And, our usual round-up of Alberta political news from a left perspective
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In the Progress Report newsletter for August 8: two dueling petition campaigns are proxy-battling over Alberta separation. But neither have much legal force
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RT @TomEngel18: Thanks to our Queen of Measles, 'Berta made the NY Times!. "Alberta has taken a different approach, allowing students to at….
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The virus is spreading in insular Mennonite communities. But the broader population is vulnerable as vaccine rates have fallen across the Canadian province since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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RT @duncankinney: at some point we need to add up all the money these schmucks are spending on trips abroad. these folks are addicted to tr….
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“Spending taxpayer dollars to go down there and do this—oh, Jesus, that's the crazy part,” said MRU poli sci prof Keith Brownsey. “I don't understand why Anderson or Smith or the others would think this is reasonable or permissible.”.
SCOOP: The public spent almost $20K for Premier Danielle Smith to fundraise for PragerU alongside Ben Shapiro in March, almost double the cost of the premier's trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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RT @JeremyAppel1025: NEW: I take a closer look at the far-right (and Canadian) associations of Christian nationalist activist Sean Feucht,….
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Smalls was here in Alberta to support the labour movement just recently. He was the keynote speaker at this year's AFL convention and spoke at the Common Front rally at the Legislature.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He was severely beaten by seven ppl in Israeli custody. Labour must stand for Chris Smalls and stand for Palestine.
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While there aren't any huge surprises in Calgary's 2024 municipal fundraising disclosures, a few names stand out and give us some sense of who's lining up behind whom #abpoli #yyc
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While many of the notable candidates for Calgary’s next municipal election say they didn’t fundraise in 2024 at all, campaign disclosure data from last year shows that a select few have put together...
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The Williamette Weekly reported on the un-permitted event and the subsequent brawls up and down downtown Portland that night
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Sean Feucht is in the news after a report that the Alberta government helped him make arrangements to play at the Legislature grounds. Here's a thread with some footage of what happened in 2021 when Feucht came to Portland with the Proud Boys in tow as 'security'.
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In this week's Progress Report newsletter: the bills for a 2020 stunt by the Kenney UCP on coal are due, and they're making the Turkish Tylenol look like peanuts. Also, our usual round-up of political stories from around the province
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Progress Report newsletter #358: The bills for Kenney and Savage's coal stunt come due, and they're huge. Also: everybody's got measles and the cops are on steroids
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RT @JeremyAppel1025: NEW: Remember the Edmonton police steroid scandal that one of the current interim chiefs was caught up in? . It turns….
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On the Progress Report podcast this week we chat with former health minister Sarah Hoffman about Alberta's ridiculous, dangerous, and ongoing measles outbreak #ableg
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