Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

This is good. Get a Kleenex before watching.

It’ll take a while but over the coming decades I think the English language is going to be boiled down (pun unintended) to just a single word, ‘pipeline.’ We are well into the process now.

“I agree!” shouted James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance, Rafael Cruz, Kashyap Pramod Patel, Nimrata Randhawa, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, Anna Paulina Mayerhofer-Gamberzky-Luna, and Richard Lynn Myers (Rick Scott) to Donald J. Drumpf.

Very keen to hear Mickey Amery explain how the hiring of his cousin Sam Mraiche's nephews would square with this DEI policy, and for Danielle Smith to explain what experience Michaela Frey, who stepped aside to give her a seat in Brooks, had to be hired in the premier's office as a policy advisor.

“Our government will cut red tape” The red tape:

Interesting that our premier has welcomed (lured?) Meta to AB. I wonder if our future elections could be affected.

I found a very good Canadian-made soup and hearty bowl brand. I’ve only tried the chicken chili, but it was good. They were also the least expensive brand in that category at Costco, Allen Family. www.allenfamilyfoods.ca/products

Turnout is shockingly low with 85% of ballot boxes in. We might not crack 50%, and are miles away from the 58% turnout in 2024.

British Columbians don’t seem to have been following the news and the abject political situation in Alberta, I guess.

So BC, one of MANY problems with voting for an interim leader who you’re thinking seems “more reasonable” than the rest of their obviously extremist party, is that the extremist party WILL pick a REAL leader AFTER you’ve given them power and can pick their worst extremist option anytime they want.

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I just started reading a novel published in 1981 and when the text refers to the character going into a “phone booth” I thought “What’s a phone booth,” even though I have used a phone in a phone booth.

They're coming for school flags and standardized report cards. What's next, standard uniforms and UCP salutes? They better make sure every school is staffed and equipped to the same standard then. And the abject lie that anti-discrimination hiring practices are discrimination against white people.

Experimenting with teaching young birds their ancestral songs: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The term “suicidal gullibility” is a useful one, as is analysis of the recent spate of anti-empathy material, and Monbiot’s (and my) awakening to the fact that “human nature” may not decide to turn around ecological destruction at some point. www.monbiot.com/2026/10/23/e...

Resign, Danielle Smith. Resign via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Danielle Smith should go out and sell the gold cat from the Saudi Prince and gather up the other “gifts” she’s taken during her term, put them into ER and burn unit care and then resign and move to her place in Panama.

This is excellent. Game theory, imaginary threats, referenda, finding out.

Why is this government allowing Israeli companies blacklisted for genocide to acquire Canadian companies - contrary to our own laws and policies? The government's response is what exactly?

🚨 The federal government is trying to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening nature protections through Bill C-39, The Bulldoze Nature Bill. #ProtectNature @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Email your MP to tell them to oppose the Bulldoze Nature Bill: act.gp/47x9jje

And a garter snake.

Pretty sure I just saw a kingfisher fishing from a tree branch above the river, Oct 21.

Danielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

An excellent episode. Taylor: (I’m paraphrasing) Let’s stay and love the earth and our neighbours and communities. Mars is a shit hole!

Five-star answer from Mr. Nenshi:

The numbers coming in from Alberta are wild. Traditionally conservative blue Calgary voted in numbers as high as 89% to support Canada. The separatist gang were crushed. Sucks to be you Danielle Smith and Pete Hoekstra.

I hope that when I wake up tomorrow morning my bed 🛌 is still in Canada. 🇨🇦

“There were also reports of polling stations running out of ballots in Maskwacis, comprised of four First Nations south of Edmonton. In an email to CBC News, Elections Alberta said it was seeing strong turnout at that location and has couriers delivering ballots.”

Looks like our Premier is committed to continuing to share the stage with separatists and their fellow travellers post referendum day. Event organized by John Carpay and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

I just voted in the referendum today, and I've been thinking about what we can do to help after the tragedy at CFB Wainwright. If you're able, please step up and donate blood or plasma. www.blood.ca

I’m on p. 183 (of 202) and I endorse this review. More discursive than Timothy Snyder’s advice and list of to-dos in On Tyranny, Lennox’s perspective as a former security and intelligence officer illuminates that this referendum is much more than an expensive 10-question quiz and racist wishlist.

Don’t bypass this short thread: #Wainwright

Due to the tragic incident at CFBWainwright there is an urgent need for blood and blood products for the treatment of the wounded. Please consider donating blood today and tomorrow. #CanadianBloodServices #CFBWainwright

I think cbc and other journalists should refrain from calling the AB separatists “independence supporters.” Courting US annexation is NOT independence but DEpendence and tyranny.

“This is Alberta. You call for a referendum and yet you cannot deliver to host a referendum in our community,” said [Chief Allan] Adam.

No. It’s not poker. It’s a game of Fish. Go fish. Move to the US if you cherish the kind of inequality and chaos that the people are suffering now.

Snagovsky’s observation re “what happens next” is potentially really scary. These are generally small men who finally have important people paying attention to them; they won’t give that up easily, and someone with ill intent will find them, gather them together, and wind them up again.

“…many in the separatist movement were activated politically by COVID-19 and vaccination policies….Most supported the Freedom Convoy, later they were animated by the issue of trans students and now by Alberta independence.” Can we now divert that energy to protesting AI data centres?

Bunch of seppies with large flags soliciting and getting a LOTTA affirmative honks along hwy 22 in Cochrane.

I can tell I’m becoming enamoured of Lay’s roasted chicken potato chips because I’m out walking and glance at the fringe of dry leaves bunched against some tall grasses, and I think “chips.”

Time to dress up and flip pancakes on behalf of US wine merchants..

Muskrat.