Against Smith-associated healthcare execs who made these decisions that led to preventable harm. Granted it won’t fix all the problems in the province as you point out

I want to see criminal charges

What all this amounts to, for me, is a province that understood the stakes of the measles outbreak and of the impact of preventable illness on a beleaguered health care system, yet failed to share what it knew, in real time, about the harm being done to its most vulnerable citizens. Despite internal emails indicating miscarriages, stillbirths, and at least one infant death, the province released no clear, timely data to clinicians or the public. Heavily redacted records confirmed officials were actually tracking these harms while debating whether—and how—to report them.

FFS!

@AGM@lemmy.ca
Not just the US, but Russia, China - imperial powers that effect regime changes - have improved their game in the last 2-3 decades (per your timeline). They’ve evolved from publicly endorsing a group, which carries the ‘costs’ of have to appear to support them in some response. Now, they’re more underground, they sew disinformation, they hire paid protesters, etc. - what they’re doing is out of the public’s eyes and thus costs them a lot less. Privately meeting with civil society groups is this new version imo

Totally agree with everything you’ve said

I think I’m coming to terms with the thought that all the talk of making polluters pay has just been there to manufacture consent for the extraction by calming the population that it’ll be taken care of

Kinda like ‘carbon capture’ 🤪

If we never make polluters pay their fair share, why would they think they’ll ever have to? ffs

JFC

Here’s a striking trivia factoid: the biggest dam in the world is in northern Alberta. If you rank dams by the amount of construction material piled into them, the winner is the Syncrude Tailings Dam in the oilsands. Much less trivial is the astonishing amount of toxic waste and looming cleanup costs swelling behind it and the many thousands of other fossil fuel operations spread across the land.

Canada’s oil and gas industry is steadily building an environmental time bomb. It’s one that communities, particularly First Nations downstream, have been struggling to highlight for many years. But now that it’s become a fiscal time bomb as well, maybe the money managers will get more traction. Most of these liabilities have been downplayed to investors and kept off the books but, last week, an investor advocacy group warned that Canadian oil and gas companies have a gaping blind spot in their accounting — one that could already exceed half the companies’ value, measured in market capitalization.

Investors for Paris Compliance wrote to the audit committee chairs at 14 big oil and gas companies ahead of their annual general meetings, putting them on notice about “material gaps” in their financial disclosures that amount to billions of dollars in decommissioning costs.

At the heart of the problem is a staggering liabilities gap between what companies disclose and what independent estimates suggest they truly owe to clean up old wells, oilsands operations and other industrial scars on the land. It’s hard to say how big the gap really is but a recent analysis by Investors for Paris Compliance arrived at a “conservative” estimate of about $113 billion.

I love this quote - it provides a little more context - from CBC’s coverage:

“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason,” said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.

Alberta chief justices from all three levels of the court system have issued a rare public message underlining the importance of judicial independence.

Though the Tuesday statement provides no context, it comes on the heels of comments about judicial authority made by Premier Danielle Smith, who said on her Saturday radio show that she wishes she could “direct the judges.”

Judges almost never speak publicly beyond decisions they issue in court.

The letter, published on the Alberta Courts website, is signed by acting Chief Justice of Alberta Dawn Pentelechuk, Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Kent Davison and James Hunter, Chief Justice of the Alberta Court of Justice.

The three judges wrote that the separation between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government is essential to a functioning democracy.

“It is equally important that each branch respect and support the independence of the others,” they said.

YES! More of this leadership please 😛

Wait, I thought all high grocery costs were due to the carbon tax, inflation, and supply chain issues - all beyond the control of the Canadian grocery cartel /s (shocked Pikachu face)

Bad look for the league, saying it didn’t consult people on sweeping changes because that would slow things down too much (not a valid argument) and presenting no evidence. Good look on the GMs and head coaches who are pushing back and bringing evidence

Are we sending Avi a plushtodon as a kudos? :P

Thank you for encouraging them to join the Fediverse! Being in ON, that’s made me want to vote for Avi more. I was going to become a member and vote for him but then balked at providing a street address to register (Marge Simpson grumble). But his joining the Fediverse makes me want to fudge those fields a little and vote for him 🔥

Source? I agree with most other commenters here (who’ve provided sources) that the situation’s more nuanced (and rational) than what you’re suggesting

It was nice to read the speech. I approve of Carney’s message. Here were some lines I found humorous:

Nostalgia is not a strategy
If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu
We are no longer relying on just the strength of our values but also the value of our strength

Great job CBC providing context in the title: “says he still hasn’t spoken to Carney” !

I think all that means is a person (eg, MP(P)) from the provincial or federal Conservative party held an open-to-the-public event

What happened to ‘Elbows up,’ eh?

I thought we were invited. To me, this is a Carney L for Canada until demonstrated otherwise (edit: sorry, I realized I’m talking in sports clichés: an L is a loss, like a W is a win)