“Alberta Health Services has been ordered to hand over documents to law enforcement, as the RCMP investigate allegations that it mishandled procurement decisions to the benefit of private businesses” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

How much will Alberta's fall referendum cost? Alberta's former Chief Electoral Officer Lorne Gibson pegs the cost at between $120M and $130M. FULL STORY: youtube.com/watch?v=DSha1XJc…

PCAP has resources available for landowners and land managers. We have fact sheets on many species at risk! pcap-sk.org/for-land-manager… #pcapprairie #saskparks #grasslands #exploresask #yqr #yxe #naturesask #keepsaskwild #agmorethanever #grasslandsnationalpark #IYRP #nature4all

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors. There is a process, obviously. Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir. Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy. And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent. So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass. Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite. Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

Burrowing Owls were once common across the prairies. Every spring, they borrow a vacant burrow from a gopher or badger to build a nest. They lay their eggs deep in the burrow, underground. If a predator comes near the nest, they can mimic a rattlesnake to deter it! #pcapprairie

Picked this up at Freshco today. It'll be a pasta salad side with my Canada Day BBQ. It will definately have Canadian grown red peppers & cherry tomatoes in it, probably feta or paneer cheese for some red & white. 🍁🇨🇦 Shout out to Catelli of Montreal for doing this!! #Canada

Japan and the Netherlands ended in a 2-2 draw, and after the match Japanese fans stayed behind with trash bags to clean up the stadium. There’s even a Japanese phrase for it: 立つ鳥跡を濁さず “Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu.” A bird taking flight does not muddy the water it leaves behind. x.com/FOX4/status/2066283213…

What’s in Bloom? Wild Blue Flax! Look for this tall (up to 60cm) plant with a small (1 inch) light blue or purple flower. Each delicate flower only lasts for one day, but a plant can produce new flowers for several days. #pcapprairie Image: FlickrCreativeCommons/ Jeremy Wheaton

This week is Native Prairie Appreciation Week! Jointly proclaimed by @SKGov & @skagriculture. Follow us to learn more about the endangered prairie ecosystem: plant id, wildlife facts & how you can help! #pcapprairie #saskparks #yxe #yqr #naturesask #grasslands #IYRP #rangeninja

No system as complex as HC can function, let alone flourish, with over 2 yrs of constant change (with absolutely NO CHANGE MGT PLAN) and the constant disruption of the leadership this chaos = you will wait in ED WRs for > 11hrs w chest pain, and spend days sitting in chairs

"The safe mobility report found that, since the removal of the automated enforcement at intersections, the number of fatal and serious collisions at them increased by 83 per cent last year." The fault of @DevinDVote. #abpoli ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/…

A man with diabetes is making his own insulin after cell transplant. A 42-year-old man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient in the world to naturally produce insulin again after receiving gene-edited pancreatic cells. Using CRISPR-Cas12b technology, scientists reprogrammed donor islet cells to evade immune system attacks that normally destroy transplanted tissue in diabetics. This breakthrough eliminates the need for lifelong immunosuppressive drugs, which often carry severe side effects. The patient received nearly 80 million of these “hypoimmune” cells, which survived and thrived in his body. Four months later, doctors confirmed the cells were producing insulin by detecting C-peptide spikes after meals. While still in early trials, this marks a potential revolution in diabetes care, showing that the disease could one day be managed without daily insulin injections. If scaled, it could transform the lives of millions living with type 1 diabetes worldwide. [Carlsson, Per-Ola, et al. “Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression.” The New England Journal of Medicine, Aug. 4, 2025.]

gonna be wild in town next few hours

How much will the referendum on having a referendum, and on 9 questions that can’t be provincially implemented cost? $90 million tax dollars. 60,000 workers to be hired by Elections Alberta. You could build 3 schools for that. That’s your money #ableg elections.ab.ca/resources/me…

31 MONTH wait for a PUBLIC MRI in Red Deer. And yet somehow the govt's plan to drive all of our techs and human resources out into private-pay clinics (so none are left in our hospitals) is going to fix this? Might be time for ABs to remind Danielle Smith of her own words: 1/2

We are drowning and begging for help… Nothing from the Premier on our EDs and safe and timely emergency care. x.com/pfparks/status/2063247…

Two of the rail-related meetings Moretta was invited to included information that, if released, could present a financial risk to the province or reveal confidential advice and deliberations by government, according to redactions on the documents released to CBC.  "What's he doing there?" said University of Alberta law professor Cameron Hutchison of the invitations. Hutchison, who has taught classes on conflict of interest, and has authored columns on the limits of Alberta's conflict of interest law and whistleblower protections, said it is unusual for a politician's spouse to be invited to a meeting about government business as a passive observer. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…

If you’re on that platform, this is 100% worth a follow! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

My front flower garden is pink and blue flowers, but every year I make a ‘Canada’ planter for my front step. I’m heading out to get some white flowers for it now—so far I just have red. This is last year’s version:

What’s your rain water worth? At$2.70/1000 gal of use. An acre of healthy Rnglnd can infiltrate 3000 gal/ac. Tonight the forecast is big thndrstrms. If rain gauge reads 1” tomorrow morning…my grslnd will add value of $2.70/1000*3000 gal/ac equals $8.10/ac * 160 ac = $1296/ac.