Jeremy Appel 🍉

“Bill: Don’t call anymore,” Trump wrote toward the end of an emotional 1,323-word diatribe on Truth Social that started by calling Maher a “complete and total loser” in all caps.

Brad Bradford has no rizz whatsoever

Up yours, Geddy

Someone should make a Primetime-style biopic of Lance Oppenheim making No Jail Time

The postie's been. Looking good, @readtheorchard.org. #BookSky #AlbertaPoli

What a relief www.ft.com/content/7585...

Last but not least is Edmonton, where I’ll be having a conversation with @readtheorchard.org about HYPERSCALE. Get your ticket: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Sunday at 7! We sit down with @readtheorchard.org for a chat about his new book "Dark Phoenix", the post referendum aftermath, the implosion of the Alberta Prosperity Project and the stunning revelations about an Alberta journalist who fabricated an entire story! #abpoli

"Premier Smith now has a clear path, with help from Prime Minister Mark Carney, to build more pipelines, strip away workers’ rights, and ensure the corporate class makes more profit than ever all with the help of immigrants and refugees serving as convenient scapegoats when things go sour."

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

So @jessebrown.bsky.social claimed he was invited to UofA by the university’s Office of Access, Community and Belonging and that the university partially funded his event. The university says this isn’t true. thegatewayonline.ca/2026/10/prot...

Well worth a read. "What they cannot ignore is that Smith and the far-right conservative movement is unlikely to be defeated unless there is a concerted effort to organize around the material interests that unite working people, regardless of their immigration status."

My buddy Farshad wrote a really smart reflection on the referendum madness that you should definitely check out! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Expanding on my analysis in @jacobinmag.bsky.social (and convos with Martin Lukacs of @breachmedia.ca) of Poilievre's ideological inheritances from Milton Friedman, my peer reviewed journal article on the subject is up at Journal of Canadian Studies. utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3...

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But Modry, who was found by a court to have misappropriated more than $1.3M from elderly relatives is allowed to carry on? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I think the separatists may be too beset by infighting to mount a significant challenge to Danielle Smith's leadership

NEW PODCAST: Jeremy Appel from @readtheorchard.org returns to the show to discuss his new book Dark Phoenix, chronicling the political history of Alberta’s Danielle Smith! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-59...

I went on CityNews Toronto on Monday to discuss Danielle Smith's role in bringing us to Referendum Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lod...

Yes, defeating the separatists is a win. But a majority of Albertans just voted to restrict access to healthcare & education for our immigrant neighbours, which will have real consequences for vulnerable communities across the province. Scapegoating, racism & bigotry is the real winner here. #ABLeg

This is very, very bad: “Information from more than 1.5 million other tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years — was exposed in a massive data breach, an exclusive CBC investigation has found”

At a referendum watch party, signs emerged of where the separatism movement is going next. @readtheorchard.org reports from Edmonton

Tune in!

Alberta’s separatists aren’t done — but some are done with Danielle Smith By @readtheorchard.org www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/20/n...

My dispatch from last night's Alberta Prosperity Project referendum watch party, including files from @zoemas0n.bsky.social, who was in Fort Mac.

Alberta referendum voters have soundly rejected pursuing a split from Canada. But anti-immigrant proposals are winning. Leah Hennig reports on an historic referendum from several locations on the ground. #ABPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Hanging out with my buddy Mitch

Few, if any, Canadian commentators are as adept at debunking the Alberta perpetual grievance complex as Max

Story has been updated with more back story and the surveillance stills captured at the scene. Also, for the record, Progress Report and Press Progress are not the same thing.

For five years, Kinney knew there were CCTV cameras on the premises of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex. I know this because he did a story on them three weeks after he did the vandalism.

Completely anecdotally this checks out. The number of people I know who are very firmly in the remain camp but also blame all our problems on immigrants is way higher than I'd like it to be

On a new episode of 🍎 THE ORCHARD 🍎 Counterpunch managing editor Joshua Frank joins host @readtheorchard.org to talk about how his provocative new book 'Bad Energy' outlines the environmental and human pitfalls of the capitalist-led green energy transition. www.readtheorchard.org/p/bad-energy...

Ken Sim is giving his concession speech and congratulations to Vancouver’s next mayor, Pete Fry

Great piece from Tyler Dawson, the man who wrote the book on Alberta separatism. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

NEW: I went on The Hatchet to speak to @arshy.bsky.social about Danielle Smith’s relationship with the Alberta separatist movement. open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...

NEW: What would the “legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada” look like? open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...