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The ruling United Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada has decided that its mandate includes the impositon of a 7 month moratorium on wind and solar projects. The reasoning is that the necessary legislation should have been put in place (by them, the...
by GoinFawr
on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 02:08 PM PDT
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June saw four national byelections in Canada and some provincial ones which I covered last month with several more happening at the end of July and beginning of August including one Federal seat in Calgary along with two Provincial byelections in...
by DiamondDaibhid
on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 10:40 PM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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Firefighters battling wildfires in western Canada received help from reinforcements and milder weather Saturday, after the nation’s worst fire season on record destroyed structures, fouled the air with thick smoke, and prompted evacuation orders for...
by Associated Press
on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 03:48 PM PDT
with 99 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
on Sun May 28, 2023 at 09:08 PM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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Voters in Alberta head to the polls on May 29 to decide an election that, despite this western Canadian province’s historically rightward tilt, is shaping up to be a barn-burner where the incumbent United Conservative Party is engaged in a desperate...
by James Lambert
on Wed May 24, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 145 Recommends
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The upcoming Alberta Provincial Election is tomorrow, May 29th, and it’s somehow still anybody’s guess as to how the individual ridings and overall party seats will pan out. There has been record setting early voting, so every vote counts! Rachel...
by GoinFawr
on Sun May 28, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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Canada’s province of Alberta has a freshly minted premier Danielle Smith who would like to create a constitutional crisis in that nation, and it looks like she has recently been handed the opportunity by roughly 1% of Alberta’s eligible electorate:...
by GoinFawr
on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 10:46 AM PST
with 175 Recommends
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You must be joking Alberta, and no doubt the incarcerated Coutts13 are happy as little neotheofascist clams about it; though from the safety of their jail shells for now, thankfully. Rachel Notely, leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party and the...
by GoinFawr
on Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 02:14 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh...
by annetteboardman
on Fri May 20, 2022 at 09:22 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, jck, and Besame. Alumni editors include (but...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Jan 21, 2022 at 08:57 PM PST
with 27 Recommends
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Nobody likes false advertising, dagummit. So if you take your fool butt to a party that says, “Get Covid” now, you expect to get yourself some C-O-V-I-D. Well guess what? In Alberta, Canada, where some parts are like if there was a conservative...
by Rule of Claw
on Fri Sep 24, 2021 at 08:37 AM PDT
with 314 Recommends
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Even though I live in the open-air asylum known as America (I hate being cold, I’ll admit it) I still pay attention to what’s happening back home in Canada regarding the pandemic, mostly so I can tell when it’s safe to travel back to visit family. As...
by CyberMindGrrl
on Sat Sep 18, 2021 at 02:57 PM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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BABB, Montana (AP) — On a cloudy spring day [last month], hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the [Piegan-Carway ] border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in...
by mettle fatigue
on Fri May 07, 2021 at 11:41 AM PDT
with 34 Recommends
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to recede in most of the US, but not so much in Canada which is still handicapped by its late start in vaccinations. Indeed, for the very first time a Canadian province has risen to the top of the weekly per capita...
by Irontortoise
on Wed May 05, 2021 at 03:36 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday just-sworn in President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders to reverse some of the worst environmental decisions of the Trump Administration, highlighted by his revoking of the Keystone X permit issued under...
by Dan Bacher
on Thu Jan 21, 2021 at 01:09 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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This is insanity. The Ermineskin and Whitefish Lake First Nations, along with ranchers, have filed two lawsuits against Alberta's government after the province rescinded protections for the eastern slopes of the rocky mountains....
by Pakalolo
on Sat Dec 26, 2020 at 12:20 PM PST
with 36 Recommends
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Hey, been a little sick lately and just got tested for Covid. I don’t think it’ll be positive because I was dumb and waited a while and there’s no more fever. But, I thought I would share the experience I went through here in Alberta. (I’m a US...
by JA Benson
on Tue May 12, 2020 at 09:08 PM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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This is saddening to see. Alberta is the Texas of Canada. Greta Thunberg mural vandalized in Canada: ‘This is oil country’ By Danielle Wallace, A newly painted mural of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was vandalized in Canada with a...
by Lefty Coaster
on Wed Oct 23, 2019 at 01:47 PM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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When I woke up today the region around the Salish Sea was enveloped by smoke again as it was yesterday. Roughly 800 miles to our north-northeast in northern Alberta, two dozen wildfires are raging in late May.
In May!
In northern Alberta!
The...
by Lefty Coaster
on Fri May 31, 2019 at 11:21 AM PDT
with 199 Recommends
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Leading Off
● Spain – parliament (April 28)
Spain's April elections saw the center-left Socialist ...
by Daily Kos Elections International
on Sun May 05, 2019 at 06:00 AM PDT
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