I can't get the beautiful face of this child out of my mind. I wish I could make Danielle Smith and Pierre Poilievre read this story. I wish I thought that it would make a difference if they did. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nex-benedict-dead-oklahoma-b2499332.html #Nex #NexBenedict #TransRightsareHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #Oklahoma #Alberta #Canada #abpoli #cdnpoli
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OMFG!! I have seen diplomatic cables criticizing allies on policies and messaging, I have seen (even helped write) speeches that laid out the 'slight differences' with close neighbours
I have NEVER seen this, during an election campaign - this would have been approved right up to cabinet and the PM's office - it's actual cannon fire
No other country impacts Canada the way America does, especially when they vote in a new president. We asked #UniversityOfCalgary #PoliticalScience prof & "#WhatNow?!? An Alberta Politics Newsletter" creator Dr @JLisaYoung what #Election2024 means for us
PODCAST: https://www.podcastics.com/episode/320433/link/
#Election2024 #Trump #Harris #Climate #abpoli #cdnpoli #Climate #Hurricanes
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For anyone new to Mastodon this week - welcome! I am Senator Paula Simons. I am a Canadian Senator, who represents the western province of Alberta. Like most of my Senate colleagues I am independent and non-partisan, and I belong to no political party. Follow me for an insider’s perspective on the Senate and Canadian politics in general. #SenateofCanada #cdnpoli #Canada #introduction #Senate #Alberta #abpoli #Edmonton #yeg
"All too often #Alberta shows itself to be Canada's capital of #climate #denialism, #disinformation & outright non-science foolishness. Somehow in fall of 2024 it got worse than ever with government threats of further crippling actions against our formerly best-in-country #RenewableEnergy industry."
#abpoli #Climate #disinformation #greenwashing #ScrapTheCap #CutTheCrap
A foreign billionaire & the provincial government vs #ThePeopleOfAlberta, who must make a stand AGAIN to prevent the defacing of our mountaintops & the outright poisoning of our drinking water. Rancher #LauraLaing on the struggle to #StopCoal, #SaveOurMountains & #ProtectOurWater.
PODCAST https://www.podcastics.com/episode/343694/link/
#StopCoal #SaveOurMountains #ProtectOurWater #yyc #abpoli #Climate #Conservation #Environment
In our books #ClimateActivists are superheroes & every superhero has an origin story. We talked to some of Calgary's finest about the moment they knew there was no turning back on this hopeful & inspiring episode of the #ClimateLens.
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/333024/link/
#yyc #abpoli #Climate #Activism #Advocacy #Volunteering #Hope #Inspiration
For nearly 50 years #BigOil slow-walked the world to disaster by lying about the danger of Climate Change & creating denial/doubt about the science & solutions. Our latest show digs in to a new report about how they're STILL doing it to our children in our schools
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/352139/link/
#BigOil #Petroganda #PetroPedagogy #abpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Disinformation #Indoctrination #Propaganda
On this month's #ClimateLens: Canadian #climate champion #TzeporahBerman on Alberta's zombie coal problem, #TradeWar, #LAWildfires, ACTIVATING the global climate majority & so much more!
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/347812/link/ #abpoli #StopCoal #GrassyMountain #Activism #yyc
March 2, 2025 in London, England
Reporter: "You clearly admire President Zelenskyy. So I'm wondering what you thought when you saw the treatment he received in the Oval Office on Friday?"
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada:
"I think, first of all, it's important every chance we get to lay out the facts as clearly as possible. In 2014, Russia chose to invade Ukraine, to occupy Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine. For that, they were kicked out of the G7 and in 2022 they chose to violate the existing ceasefire and invaded Ukraine with the intention of taking Kyiv in three days and the entire country in three weeks. That has failed. Russia continues to try to fight to claim more land in Ukraine, and we could see an end to this war tomorrow if Russia decided to stop its illegal invasion of Ukraine. On Friday in the Oval Office, President Zelenskyy pointed out in so many words that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a criminal and cannot be trusted to keep his word in any way, shape or form, because he has demonstrated time and time again that he will break any agreements. I stand with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and I stand with the people of Ukraine."
Note that these simple historic facts which are public knowledge and can be looked up by anyone, are what were stated by Volodymyr Zelenskyy when Donald Trump responded with, "It is very disrespectful of you to litigate this in front of American media" (found about halfway through the meeting, if you're looking in the videos).
Trump was attempting to spread Putin's "alternate timeline" to the American people, and told Zelenskyy that it is "disrespectful" of him to tell historic truth about what happened in his own country, in front of live video cameras in the US. Think about that...
Donald Trump went absolutely livid when President Zelenskyy gave the American people a free history lesson on live tv, something which he knows his base would never read for themselves.
Too many corporate media outlets are putting out headlines that read, "'Very disrespectful', says Trump" without telling the truth of what he found disrespectful, which was (in his own words) to counter Russian propaganda in front of American media.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stand-volodymyr-zelenskiy-says-canadas-224552995.html
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Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is a brilliant, poignant queer coming-of-age story, a literary classic that was later turned into a Tony-Award-winning musical. It's a graphic - only in the sense that it's a graphic novel, or rather, a memoir. But it's not porn. It's not titillating. Moral panics like this make us look absurd. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/extremely-graphic-sexual-content-found-in-books-at-k-9-schools-province-says #abed #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #yeg #yyc
Dear Mark Carney - in the light of Trump's new tariff letter threatening 35% on basically everything, tell him to fuck off and bring back the digital service tax
Be like Brazil, stand up to the orange asshole - appeasement doesn't work, cut off the potash and watch US farmers freak out
#CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics #ONpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-35-per-cent-tariffs-1.7582563
Canada's already into our 2nd worst wildfire season in recorded history & Albertans will AGAIN breathe historically WILD smoke hours in the 100s, so can we REALLY be talking about more #Pipelines in 2025? Hub co-founder #JoeVipond on the latest! #yyc https://www.podcastics.com/episode/370425/link/ #MarkCarney #Wildfires #Smoke #SmokeYYC #Climate #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #Pipelines #ElbowsUp #CostOfClimate