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- @djclimenhaga.bsky.social: According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country only to keep a separatist party from becoming as successful as the Bloc Québécois.
- Spend some time with Brad Tuktu as he shares his financial reality, and you begin to appreciate how vital and complex is the mosaic of aid disabled people receive in Alberta. @ximenaka.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
- Vancouver’s west side is now provincially represented by an MLA who openly mocked residential school survivors and by a federal MP who grew up on the Musqueam reserve. It’s an indication of how pushback against Indigenous rights have become a right-wing political theme — and communities' reactions.
- “Through creation of new life, your brain and hormones change. What you pay attention to is different.” A graphic memoirist on a surreal season.
- Politicians and the public should be cautious about pinning the blame on mental illness as the reason behind the Lapu-Lapu Day attack, experts warn. This could further stigmatize people with mental illnesses and be used to increase policing of already marginalized communities.
- B.C.’s chief coroner says the investigation into the death of Tatyanna Harrison will be reopened and an inquest held, three years after the discovery of her half-naked body on a boat in a Richmond marina.
- Within a few minutes of PM Mark Carney’s trip to the White House, he interjected against Trump’s repeated assertions that Canada should become the “51st state.” The comments were carefully calibrated. Stewart Prest writes. #canpoli #uspoli
- David Yager met Alberta Premier Danielle Smith 16 years ago. “We clicked,” he says. Now his involvement in energy policy and regulation has some concerned about conflict-of-interest possibilities. #abpoli
