@jaymieh
Reader, writer, editor. YA author of Badass(ish). jaymieheilman.com I write books about teens and adults with big hearts. I often write about climate and environmental subjects, and was a historian of Peru in my first career.
Know what *doesn't* cause cancer? Solar and wind energy.
The Chief of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation acknowledged that “the rates of all cancers combined in the Fort Chipewyan area were statistically significantly higher than those in the rest of Alberta." #abpoli
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Fellow Albertans: WATCH THIS! We can have thousands of good jobs here in the province if we make polluters pay to clean up their messes. Regular Albertans pay their taxes, pay their rents, and don't pollute: why shouldn't oil and gas companies do the same? #ableg #abpol
Workers can’t transition to a promise or an idea — the jobs need to be waiting. Fortunately, across Alberta, tens of thousands of jobs *are* waiting if only we force oil and gas companies to clean up the mess they’ve made.
It's time for a reclamation boom.
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Can't wait to have your book in my hands! ❤️
Super helpful! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing the question and your lovely response. 🧡
A massive data centre — the largeset in Canada — proposed for Olds, Alberta, has been rejected. At least for now. #ableg #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...
Olds data centre application rejected by Alberta Utilities Commission
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"How do we hold both the vastness of a breaking world and the quiet hope of our own private existence?
One step at a time I think. And with love."
3/3
"It’s difficult to straddle both. It’s hard not to feel the weight of looming destruction, while trying to remember the small beautiful things that make life worthwhile."
2/3
Helpful words from Oliver Jeffers: "There seems to be a lot to balance these days- maybe it’s always been like this and we just see it now for what it is in real time, but the tension between enormity and intimacy feels particularly taut right now."
1/3
“Canadians understand that energy security and national security are closely linked,” says Sierra Club's Conor Curtis. Many "also consider renewable energy as key to building Canada’s stability and resilience and want our governments to prioritize renewable energy growth.” SURVEY.
"The price of oil and LNG fluctuate wildly and are subject to the whims and geopolitical aspirations of countries....Renewable energy...just gets relentlessly cheaper and more efficient, sometimes by leaps and sometimes by bounds." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/03/o...
#abpoli #ableg
Albertans: your premier is lying to you.
"In the 12 months to April 2025 Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34, faster than anywhere else in the world. The island has gone from having almost no solar power a few years ago to levels which help it cope with Mr Trump’s embargo." From the Economist.
Why is the UCP doing this? "Consider the revolving door between her government and the oil and gas industry, where senior officials, including the premier herself, skip between government posts and corporate petroleum lobbyist positions."
"The consequences are already visible. The oil and gas sector lost 10,000 jobs in 2025, meaning the oilpatch now employs less than five per cent of Albertans. Most of these losses are due to automation in the oilsands and layoffs to maximize profit-taking."
A great piece by @stephenlegault.bsky.social. I hope all Albertans read it...especially those running our government.
"While the world races toward clean energy, Alberta pursues pipelines to markets that are rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels. Our province is shunning the largest investment trend on the planet to appease oil and gas companies." #abpoli #ableg
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For #peace and #forourkids let’s stop burning fossil fuels 🙏🏼 🥵
"We will not sit back and watch as this government lays out the welcome mat for making Alberta the 51st State in breach of our Treaties."
Mikisew Cree First Nation has filed a lawsuit for Danielle Smith’s flagrant disregard for Treaties.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Rakhi for Premier! 🧡 #abpoli #ableg
I love this advice so much! ❤️
Thank you for speaking out, Paula.
What smarter investment could Albertans make that to educate the children who live here? Why would we want to grow a permanent underclass of illiterate, innumerate youth? Our economy needs educated workers - not children cut off from hope.
I'm grateful to Rakhi Pancholi for not mincing words. #abpoli
Canadian authors, remember to register your books for the PLR program by May 1! For the first time, you are no longer required to mail things in—you can do it online.
A horse w a pigeon wearing a cowboy hat on its back. Painted in acrylic over a green background. Text says; happy year of the horse to my buckaroos
Happy Lunar New Year Bluesky Buckaroos!
Apparently the year of the horse can make rapid change. Here's hope it we see that this year.
Can't wait to read Talk Treaty to Me, by two incredible humans I'm lucky to call friends. . .
Thank YOU to @indiebookstores.ca! We're so excited to share this book with the world! Go grab a copy of Talk Treaty to Me from your local indie on Feb 24!!! ☀️🌊🌾
Happy PLR day to my fellow Canadian writers! I'm so grateful to everyone who has checked Badass(ish) out of the library! ❤️🇨🇦📚