If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:
Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.
It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵
Now is the time to fight for our values.
Please read this. It makes sense. (And just nicely lays out so many arguments I’ve heard/had over the past few decades)👇
Love it!
Mount Rundle in Winter
Margaret Shelton
1978
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
Cutting the Christmas Tree
Ernest Sampson
1931
In "Poverty segmentation: The challenge of the 'working poor'," I challenge the misconception that poverty doesn't happen to people who work. The reality is that the largest group of people living in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. maytree.com/publications...
this abhorrent decision cannot be allowed to stand. it’s long past time the abuse of the notwithstanding clause was addressed.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Moraine Lake Road, BNP. First ski of the season!
Well done. Great letter. I haven’t yet get all the swears out of my system, but you may well have inspired my afternoon’s work….
Hunger Count 2025 is out. It paints a harrowing picture of food bank use and food insecurity. Food bank visits have gone up by 5.2% since 2024 and 99.4% since 2019. Here are some interesting statisitcs for AB: #abpoli #CDNpoli @foodbankscanada.bsky.social
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It’s not being able to book all the family together that’s the last straw!! Even after having followed all the other steps correctly 🤦♀️. I will come back to it again when I have more reserves of patience and figure it out, but I gave up this morning. I am sure I am not the first or last….
Remarkable graph showing how renewable have cut need to important fossil fuels in many countries, improving their budgets and global climate. www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
Lachine Canal, Trans Canada Trail, Montreal
Trans Canada Trail in Banff
Numa Creek, Kootenay National Park
Redoubt Lake, Banff National Park
Leaf of Gold
W.J. Phillips
1941
Gibbon Pass, Banff National Park
The classic larch season hike: Moraine Lake - Larch Valley - Sentinel Pass - Paradise Valley. Pure magic.
Eohippus Lake, Banff National Park
Alberta has officially broken the 400MW mark for micro- and small distributed solar generation installed capacity!
September 2025 Solar Stats: 37,477 micro-generation and small-distributed solar generation sites in Alberta These home and business sites contribute 404.6 MW.
See AESO: buff.ly/RiRySK3
A peak parenting moment 😜Relish it!
Walcott Quarry, Yoho National Park
Western Sky
Shannon Craig Morphew
2022
The Amorous Bears In A Red Canoe
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2025
This is terrible.
