Matt Dance 🍁

A neighbourhood level map of West Edmonton that includes population data. From 1966.

Hey @jkparker.bsky.social, it’s been a while! Wondering if you can help with a data question? I’m looking for some historic neighbourhood level population data. I found this from 1966, but was wondering if I’m missing something?

Sadly, this is a feature an not a bug for many Americans.

Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed | CBC News An attempt to preserve files documenting some of the worst harms caused by Indian Residential Schools could soon head to Parliament.

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Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Danielle Smith discussed COVID charges 'almost weekly' with justice officials, according to leaked call | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith spoke to a pastor just weeks before his criminal trial on pandemic-related charges, promising she would again discuss his case with justice officials, beyond the pleas s...

Modry also facilitated a now infamous phone call between Premier Danielle Smith and a pastor facing COVID charges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What would Stockwell Day say?

An Alberta man wanted MAID. Instead, he died in a Catholic hospital, waiting to be transferred | CBC William Hume knew he was dying and wanted medical assistance in dying (MAID). But when he ended up in a hospital run by a Catholic health-care provider, his last wishes weren't able to happen. He woul...

An Alberta man wanted MAID. Instead, he died in a Catholic hospital, waiting to be transferred. 349 Canadians who wanted MAiD had to transfer due to a facility’s policy in 2024: Health Canada data, by @stephaniedubois.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec... via @cbcnews.ca @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social

Danielle Smith Is No Separatist. She’s Much Worse | The Tyee The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

The Tyee has republished my post on Danielle Smith's fear-sowing, xenophobic, unconstitutional 'referendum' plans. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

A formative moment.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow & ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy .. the vision.”

Rabbi AJ Heschel

Chaotic good?

@kathleenpetty.bsky.social

Genuine question: would it be useful to hear from a First Nation or Métis legal or treaty expert about the treaty implications if Alberta were to separate from Canada?

It feels like an essential part of the conversation that’s missing.

A’ä˛y Chù’: By Itself Mountain Elders’ journeys, land knowledge, and displacement around Kaskawulsh reveal cultural loss, environmental change, and urgent need for Indigenous involvement.

Today we have our second excerpt from Mountain Voices, our latest edited collection in our open-access book series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social.

Take some time to read Gùdia (Mary Jane) Johnson's "A’ä˛y Chù’: By Itself Mountain"

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#envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

Keith Gerein: UCP ideological myopia costs Edmonton another safe consumption site, at the worst possible time Alberta's UCP government has an ongoing campaign against supervised drug consumption sites and the latest victim is at Edmonton's Royal Alex.

"When a hospital staffer comes across someone about to use, they now face a difficult choice of turning a blind eye, having the person kicked off hospital grounds or directing them to a clinic they may not want to visit." #ableg
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This whole Alberta pipeline discussion is the opposite of nation building.

I feel that our nation building projects should be more along the lines of a national integrated carbon neutral electricity grid. A national high-speed rail system. Discussion of crownlands being returned to First Nations.

Rylan is Punk AF. Give this a listen.

The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts

My story on this and a whole lot more 💫

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New qual paper from our team detailing emergency department staff perspectives on how the pandemic impacted care of patients with opioid use disorder. 🧪

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Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents.

I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.

Under the Compassionate Intervention Act, people with substance use disorder can be forced to take any prescription medication without consent. It doesn't matter if they have decisional capacity. While doctors are involved, ultimately a lawyer gets to decide what the treatment order will be. #ableg

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.…

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.

Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.

“When a government grants itself license to override physician judgment and patient consent, who - at any stage of life — will be next?”

The AMA raising very serious concerns about the UCP’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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That is unreal. Thanks for the review!

Nice ride. I’m looking to replace my Rad Wagon with that very bike. 2 batteries seems so very awesome