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Kickstarting a DIY back-yard Tar Sands Kit
Jeff sez, "Turn pristine ecosystems into high-octane fuel in your own home -- all ages!" Public Lab'skit helps you understand the devastation and health risks from tar sands extraction by letting you...
View ArticlePro-tar-sands activists say dirty Canadian oil is better because "lesbians...
The "In Canada lesbians are considered hot!" campaign is the brainchild of Robbie Picard, a tar-sands booster from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Leaving aside all the wrong in this campaign...
View ArticleConservative Alberta politician changes sides over Trumpism, gets gendered...
Sandra Jansen was elected to the Alberta Legislative Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, but now she sits with the left-leaning New Democratic Party, who took the provincial...
View ArticlePipelines considered pointless: Big oil seems to be (finally) abandoning...
Canada's tar sands -- rebranded in this century as "oil sands" -- are the source of some of the world's filthiest and most expensive oil, which can only be extracted by burning tons of already-refined...
View ArticleKayakers take an intentional 100 foot drop off a water fall
Ram Falls is about 20 minutes from where we're staying for the summer. It's a lovely patch of outdoor beauty. We have a lot of that here. As with the provincial parks that surround the cities of...
View ArticleCalgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise...
Calgary's Chinook Centre and Market Mall -- operated by Cadillac Fairview -- have been caught running background software that analysed the footage from the CCTVs in the malls' electronic directories...
View ArticleCanadian government investigating mall's use of biometric surveillance
Last week, it was revealed by a sharp-eyed Redditor that the information kiosks at a mall in Calgary, Canada, were full of software designed to track the age and sex of anyone that stopped to use it....
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Let me tell you about living my life on the road
In passing, I've talked about the fact that my wife and I are full-time nomads. Lemme expand on that. A few years back, we bought a 21-year-old RV with the intention of living in it while my wife...
View ArticleWorld class trumpeter plays for stranded Canadians who, like him, are trapped...
If I weren't in Ontario on assignment right now, I'd be home swearing under my breath at the foot-deep blanket of snow that ambushed Alberta. Jens Lindemann wasn't lucky enough to dodge the storm....
View ArticleCanadian government growers can't keep up with Alberta's demand for weed
While cannabis may now be legal to smoke, sell and possess across Canada, the demand for bammy is harshing the buzz of many an Albertan. According to the CBC, certified cannabis suppliers are having a...
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My Life on the Road: Headed for Texas, crazy cold in Claresholm
With my wife's gig in north central Alberta spinning down for another year and the cold charging hard at us like a bull moose in rut, it's once again time for us to head south. This year, thanks to the...
View ArticleOn the eve of a contentious election, Twitter suspends the accounts of...
Today, Alberta is having one of its bitterest, hardest-fought elections, with far-right/xenophobic elements on the upswing through the United Conservative Party, led by Jason Kenney, who has been...
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My Life on the Road — Staying Still
I've been back in Canada since May and I am certain I am losing my mind. It's a certainty that takes hold of me, every year. We come home because we have to. As Canadians, we can only stay in the...
View ArticleWillem Dafoe wanted to be left alone while filming Togo
Rumors from the locals in Nordegg, Alberta would have it that while filming Togo last year, Willem Dafoe stayed at the Goldeye Centre: a wilderness lodge around 30 minutes of hard driving west of the...
View ArticleAlberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US...
The Canadian Energy Center (AKA "The War Room") is a taxpayer funded propaganda outlet that the Alberta government -- dependent on the tar sands, the world's filthiest oil -- funds to deny climate...
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Canadian officials caution against letting moose do this to your car
You are probably not into licking cars while in Canada, but moose seem to love it. Cars are generally caked with road salt in the Canadian winter months and moose love licking that salt. Oh hi, moose....
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School board member blames "Holy Spirit" for making her share a Nazi meme
Monique LaGrange, a member of the board of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools in Alberta, Canada, is digging in her heels after posting a despicable Nazi meme to social media, reports LGBTQ Nation....
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Carlson's bizarre Canada rant: "I watched when Montreal was cleansed of its...
Tucker Carlson visited Alberta, Canada, yesterday to promote his agenda of white nationalism, warning them that Canadians should be prepared for an existential battle. He kicked off his unhinged speech...
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