"Managers gone wild." ATCO worker shatters ankle at work, then his bosses make it much, much worse

While on the job as a powerline technician on October 6, 2022 a power pole slammed into Sean Mowat’s ankle, breaking it in at least two places. Then his day got really bad. 

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What is wrong with Alberta’s crown prosecution office?

The latest decision by the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) to not prosecute the Lethbridge cops who spied on a sitting cabinet minister, despite the recommendation from ASIRT that the cops had committed a crime, lays bare a disturbing reality: there is one set of laws for cops and one set of laws for everybody else.

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Criminalizing disruption

On May 9, the People's University for Palestine (PUP) established an encampment on a small portion of the University of Alberta's main quad. The PUP was student-led, but supported by faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community. Its demands: that the University disclose and divest from institutional and financial investments that profit from the colonization and genocide of Palestinians.  On May 11, at the behest of the leadership of the University, the Edmonton Police Services (EPS) cleared the encampment, including through the use of non-lethal weapons.

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ANDP membership growth provides a real opportunity to do mass politics

In order to defeat the UCP, the Alberta NDP are going to have to do something they’ve never really done in their life as a political party—engage in mass politics. While early signs from the leadership race are encouraging, they must be nurtured to grow a party that can defeat the UCP behemoth. 

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Fire the chief or resign, police commissioners

Edmonton police chief Dale McFee finally emerged, Punxsutawney Phil-like, to speak about the reasons why his officers used pepper spray and batons at dawn to clear a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Alberta quad over the weekend. And because we are stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop McFee employed a cynical trope political leaders have used for nearly two centuries to violently smash effective protest movements—outside agitators

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Police accountability in action: Chief McFee no-shows city council and police commission meeting is now online-only due to "safety considerations"

Two rallies were organized on May 14 in response to police’s violent dismantling of a pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Alberta over the weekend, with both coalescing at Edmonton city hall, requiring overflow seating in the building concourse to accommodate all attendees. 

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An open letter from two U of A PhD students resigning from the U of A after violent sweep of anti-genocide protest camp

To Bill Flanagan, the University of Alberta Board of Governors*, and the Administration of the University of Alberta.

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Students, teachers, unions and NDP united in denouncement of police raids at U of A and U of C

Students and faculty are calling for boycotts and the NDP are issuing fierce denouncements after police violently raided pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary this weekend.

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Pro-Palestinian protest encampments pop up at U of A and U of C

Pro-Palestinian protest camps popped up at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta this morning. The protesters have clear demands of their university administration, which include disclosing their investments and divesting from Israeli institutions and companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. 

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POD: housing crisis + UCP power-grab intersect in weeks-long Calgary zoning hearings

The pod returns for a discussion on why exactly Calgary is having a two week long public hearing on zoning. Joel Laforest has been melting his brain watching days and days of zoning bylaw hearings so you don't have to and here's to talk to Duncan about that and the broader housing crisis issue we all face. 

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