Images posted to Alpha Athletika’s Telegram channel show its members posing for propaganda pictures in the gym, with huge flags unfurled and Nazi imagery on at least one member’s workout clothes.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social reports.
The racist rhetoric and xenophobic scapegoating of refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and newcomers by the Alberta government and the federal opposition has brought harm, hate, and harassment to Canadians.
As a @ucalgary.bsky.social faculty member and a former member of the Board of Governors, I want to see our campus leadership publicly repudiate this racism, and support our Chancellor
Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.
Welcome to #ableg.
Alberta records first measles death -- an infant -- since outbreak www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @alannasmith.bsky.social
Same same same. I'm here for more good days defined by this
I was today days old when I learned that a major use of restrictive covenants in Calgary (and elsewhere) was maintaining “community character” by prohibiting specific races from buying in a neighborhood and I feel naive but also why is this not part of the news stories?
"The evidence shows that singling out health care for gender diverse youth and making it subject to government control will cause irreparable harm to gender diverse youth by reinforcing the discrimination and prejudice that they are already subjected to.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 👏
This is an amazing moment. We will see how much the government wants to make trans kids suffer if they continue to fight this decision in any form or fashion. We will also have a metric for their cruelty. #ableg #abpoli #transrightsarehumanrights
The authoritarian assault on higher education claims its second victim after Columbia - a coercive attack on academic freedom that deepens the threat to democracy and the rule of law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.
"An enterprising opposition party (ahem!) might ... launch a parallel ... exercise, focused on what we here in Alberta might do to improve our economy, our standard of living, our health, our public services, our environment, and our sense of community." #abpoli
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
Okay Alberta. This is your moment. Each time something egregiously racist happens in this province y'all say, "oh, this isn't who we are...". Now is the time to prove it. Show up at every town hall. Answer every horrible survey question. Get up, stand up. Protest. Do not normalize this ugliness. ✊🏾
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
The June 2025 issue of P&G is out now! The issue features new research on pandemic leadership, the "anti-woke academy" and feminist institutionalism among others, as well as a Critical Perspectives collection on the 2024 🇺🇸 election.
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🧵 This is a big story and I’m not seeing it get around so take a sec with me here.
Clearview AI is a big deal if cops can use it. Basically lets them figure out who anyone anywhere is based on social media and internet facial recognition scraping. Protests, you name it. 1/
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Alberta isn’t culturally distinct, but we sure are cruelly distinct.
Alberta is violating its own freedom of information laws by using illegitimate reasons to withhold records, watchdog finds
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and @robyndoolittle.bsky.social
I keep coming to the same conclusion, and I'm sorry for it.
I don't get why someone would strive to get ahold of leadership, only to then destroy the thing they ostensibly lead. But I suspect the Premier and I have very different values.
I might be listening to that audiobook right now.... (great minds, etc)
London, but a real stretch (but a great read): books.google.ca/books/about/...
🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
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Calgary Centre 22163 Calgary Confederation 27918 Calgary Crowfoot 33743 Calgary East 17771 Calgary Heritage 26408 Calgary McKnight 16435 Calgary Midnapore 26291 Calgary Nose Hill 25827 Calgary Shepard 22845 Calgary Signal Hill 27963 Calgary Skyview 23203
Edmonton Centre 17351 Edmonton Gateway 20592 Edmonton Griesbach 15787 Edmonton Manning 18391 Edmonton Northwest 20343 Edmonton Riverbend 23579 Edmonton Southeast 15459 Edmonton Strathcona 17809 Edmonton West 22846
Airdrie—Cochrane 25833 Battle River—Crowfoot 14434 Bow River 21974 Foothills 26309 Fort McMurray—Cold Lake 16486 Grande Prairie 19434 Lakeland 3343 Leduc—Wetaskiwin 24796 Lethbridge 17291 Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner 17144 Parkland 26172 Peace River—Westlock 17655 Ponoka—Didsbury 27715 Red Deer 21733 Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan 30205 St. Albert—Sturgeon River 30250 Yellowhead 27666
Advance vote in Calgary, Edmonton and the rest of Alberta.
Colour scheme is consistent across all three maps:
• Purple = more votes than Alberta average
• Rust = fewer votes than Alberta average
42% of voters approve of Trump's job as president, versus 54% who disapprove
New NYT/Siena Poll:
—Trump's approval rating is 42% vs. 54% disapprove
—59% of voters think Trump's 2nd term in office is "scary"
—54% say Trump is "exceeding the powers available to him"
—Trump has negative approval in all policy areas
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
I am now very specifically pissed I can’t travel to the US because it means I will never see what very well may be the best version of my favourite play, ever ever ever.
Dude, bogus
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of
@cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
Voice Through Text, Tradition and Community - cup.org/3XFKoFG
"Employing autoethnography to examine two sets of texts, I present an understanding of voice politics"
@genevievefuji.bsky.social
#FirstView
New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children.
That's a new provincial record.
#yeg #yyc #ableg
acws.ca/strength-in-...
I spent months (and thousands of The Narwhal's dollars) digging into who actually owns the many small companies which the Alberta Energy Regulator says aren't paying their orphan well levies or minimum cleanup quotas. Some of the names might surprise you. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...
Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, former AHS CEO.
