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If you fight you will win. Workers and the families of disabled children fought this privatization like hell. And they beat back the UCP and won.

This is incredibly unsafe and irresponsible. Especially as the hyper virulent new variants are just getting established here in Alberta. At this point a 3rd wave in the spring and all of the death and destruction that will bring seems inevitable.

Rosin’s improper expense claims are the latest in a pattern of unprofessional behavior.

POD: We speak with Dean Dettloff about his recent piece on how Jason Kenney is at odds with the Pope on carbon pricing, austerity and how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. We also touch on the history and the reality of the Christian left in a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation.

Today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, #WeRemember the millions of victims. One of the ways we did that was by providing support for this important story. Did you know that there are two monuments to Nazi collaborators in Edmonton?

They just can't help themselves can they

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Another catastrophic day in the Kenney government's botching of COVID. A new record of 1105 COVID cases reported in Alberta. 8 new deaths, including a man from Edmonton in his 30s.... 87% of Alberta ICU COVID bed capacity is being used. We truly hope you and your loved ones don't need to use a hospital in the next two months.

POD: Sandra Azocar of Friends of Medicare joins us to breakdown and analyze Kenney's mockdown as well as a recently passed bill that allows private, for-profit plasma farming operations to be set up in Alberta.

The Next 30 is a joke, but don't count them out. Projects like these have a proven track record of strangling effective and popular left wing policy.

Considering that Don Iveson just announced he won't be running for mayor you might want to acquaint yourself with the person who (at this time) is the most organized and likely candidate to replace him.

Edmonton's next municipal election is going to be an interesting one.

Get paid $3 million a year and lose $2.1 billion on a single trade. Nice work if you can get it.

Important lessons on labour organizing here.

Are the folks at Postmedia lying dupes for the Conservatives or just incompetent? Does it matter?

Will Edmonton city council’s irritable I-told-you-so-guy be Edmonton’s next mayor?

In this week's Progress Report newsletter--the UCP announce a staggering 11,000 layoffs at Alberta Health Services.

We have contact tracers reaching out to us, demoralized, telling us they're working on confirmed cases from two weeks ago.

If you want a deep dive into how bad the UCP healthcare privatization/cuts are this CBC feature is a good piece of journalism.

This is the destruction of our public healthcare system.

This type of deadly attack has been used more than a hundred times against people protesting racial injustice in the US. It is now being used in Canada.

Edmonton and Calgary both got scammed on their hockey arenas.

So when are we going into the second lockdown?

A new story by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network exposes the fact Hitler quoting neo-Nazis are embedded deep within the Wexit movement. We speak with the author in our latest Progress Report podcast.

The UCP are making the opioid poisoning crisis worse. And people are going to needlessly die because of their contempt for the poor and marginalized.

Alberta’s United Conservatives: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

Click to get details and names of literal Wexit Nazis that might live in your neighborhood.

Great work from the AFL! Please use and share.

The "Alberta Model" is a death cult. Kenney and his cronies' contempt for people who use drugs means we're going to see so much tragic, preventable death.

Jason Kenney gave Suncor a massive corporate tax cut and they respond by laying off 1500-2000 workers. Kenney named it the Job Creation Tax Cut.

When someone accuses a reporter of taking their words out of context, what they usually mean is, I wish I hadn’t said that. Or, at least, I wish I hadn’t got caught saying it.

Several Black students were disciplined and suspended by a Calgary Catholic School District school for recording and then leaking audio of their principal using the n-word.