Kevin Packer

ANALYSIS | SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact us here on Earth | CBC News Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to spa...

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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. 🧵

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

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Parker: Putting down the pen after more than 25 years of telling stories of Calgary business David Parker feels greatly privileged to have stood with Calgary dreamers and see their ideas fulfilled. This marks his final column.

Calgary Herald columnist David Parker retiring after a remarkable career documenting Calgary developments and the achievements of local businesses and entrepreneurs.
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How a teenager who failed swimming lessons pulled off miracle ocean rescue Austin Appelbee, 13, has made international headlines after swimming for four hours in rough seas to save his mum, sister and brother stranded in the ocean. How did he do it?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’ ‘What have I done?’ thought Joanne Appelbee as she waited for rescue with her two other children in rough seas off Western Australia

Amazing story: Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’ | Western Australia | The Guardian share.google/T5dkU3omFyN0...

The silent majority of Albertans who value being Canadians need to speak up.

Alberta’s Democratic Decline
Fear of repercussions is driving moderates away from participating in public debate in Alberta

Excellent opinion piece by Bill Whitelaw:

www.theanchor.ca/2026/silence...

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

Water well owners often last to know about forever chemical contamination | AP News share.google/gZ1KtmvQEYLs...

Parks Canada planned to delete a heritage website — but one proud Canadian hit 'Save' | CBC News Parks Canada plans to decommission the Canadian Register of Historic Places website , a national searchable database of 13,500 listings, this spring.

Parks Canada planned to delete a heritage website — but one proud Canadian hit 'Save'

Stephen Taylor read a CBC story about the closure and used A.I. to create a new site #Canada

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Braid: If Ottawa deal crashes, will Smith go separatist? The Free Alberta Strategy says she might Premier Danielle Smith has adhered to the written Free Alberta Strategy since becoming premier. The last stage is separation

Don Braid: If Ottawa deal crashes, will Smith go separatist? The Free Alberta Strategy says she might.

Smith’s adherence to the principles and plans of the Free Alberta document is consistent:

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

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Jeffrey Rath on X: "@Ab51_Project We need to be an Independent Country before we can join the US. One step at a time. #AlbertaSovereignty" / X @Ab51_Project We need to be an Independent Country before we can join the US. One step at a time. #AlbertaSovereignty

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

A long, absolutely must-read article from Cory Doctorow: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

What Alberta separatist leaders are telling supporters at secession petition events At a Red Deer event, Alberta Prosperity Project touts alliance with the Parti Quebecois, and claims it has support from the U.S. State Department

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When does a separatist movement become a threat to Canada’s national security? Foreign Interference and the Alberta Prosperity Project

When does a separatist movement become a threat to Canada’s national security?
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I received a message from an Alberta ED colleague that stopped me cold. He treated a very elderly pt - a retired Charge Nurse who began her career as WWII ended. She waited 8 hours in the WR for care. Her assessment of our current reality is devastating....
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Carney’s pipeline deal is set to create a carbon-credit windfall in the oilsands - The Logic Suncor, CNRL and Cenovus have stockpiled huge inventories of carbon credits. Now, Alberta’s pipeline deal with Ottawa could ratchet up their value.

Will Alberta taxpayers get fleeced by oilsands companies and the Alberta government to close the gap between government-set carbon prices and real prices in TIER? This sounds like a wealth transfer scheme.

Looming carbon-credit windfall in the oilsands - The Logic share.google/y3nAWSG4xZTJ...

Why the world is running out of frankincense The precious, fragrant resin is the scent of the festive season and rising in popularity in the wellness industry – but its natural source is being decimated.

As with many other things, frankincense demand exceeds supply, and the world seems hellbent on extraction, exploitation, and consumption rather than conservation.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The Last Christians of the Holy Land In the land of Christ's birth, life, ministries, and crucifixion, his followers — the Christians — are fading away.

Forgotten in the Israel-Palestine struggle are the Christian minority, dispossessed of their land, disappearing as a people, and forgotten by their fellow Christians in the West.

www.westernstandard.news/internationa...

World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn Government-commissioned modelling of water use by the planned $16.5 billion Pathways CCS project, a linchpin of the energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta last month, concluded its use of the region...

170 sq kilometres of tailings lakes, flat-topped sulphur pyramids, some taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and an insatiable thirst for water for processing, carbon capture and storage. Tolkien's Plateau of Gorgoroth will no longer be a fictional place.

2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. ...

Satellites in low earth orbit are a recipe for Kessler Syndrome + climate disruption

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.

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Billyween concert 2025 YouTube video by Kalkiis

Billy Strings did a great cover of this in his Halloween show: youtube.com/watch?v=JfHx...

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I am a big fan of Back Up and Push on WTJU, but dj Ryan Grant's episodes are exceptional. He seamlessly blends old timey bluegrass folk and blues gems from the past with more modern artists pushing traditional music in new directions. Check out his November 17, 2025 episode for an example:

'Running on empty': Why some Alberta teachers are thinking about leaving the province Some educators are feeling grief and regret as they contemplate how to respond to the Alberta government's latest moves on education.

And for the impending exodus of teachers: calgaryherald.com/news/why-som...

Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy Any government that undermines ... the project of improving public school education in the face of difficulty is undermining ... democracy.

David King delineates the choice Albertans face.

An education system that fosters community & solidarity

Or an education system that favours individual freedom/liberty

But you must make this choice assuming the veil of poverty - not wealth

What say you now?

#abpoli #ableg

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?

An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.

I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.