The local Albertan!

Former Flashpoint Archive staff member.

Enjoys local history, open data, Canadian politics, retro video games, and cooking (mmmm, perogies).

I have the following instances blocked. If you are on these instances, it’s often nothing personal:

  • lemmy.world/piefed.world - Way too much American politics and casual transphobia for my liking
  • lemmy.ml - Transphobia from admins as well as denial of human rights abuses
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  • I’m mixed on this. I can understand this specific bill from the UCP, but even if they genuinely have the same concerns as I do, I don’t trust them to do what’s right to address the issues that MAiD has.

    I do think MAiD is way too accessible, and has been used as a means to shelve the issues of the system for disabled people. Like, even a lot of Track 1 applications have been found to be from people who were denied proper access to pain relief.

    Also, maybe people would be less inclined to access MAiD as an option if we made life easier and more accessible for them? The UCP has already expressed interest in making life harder for disabled people by cutting the $200 from AISH for those accessing the Canadian Disability Benefit, which can already be a hassle to apply for.







  • I couldn’t believe it. I knew Tony (God bless that man) would come in last, but I was certain Rob would come third behind either McPherson or Lewis.

    Tanille beating him out either shows that people were more peeved about the AI thing than I would have expected, that I underestimated Tanille’s charm and hard work, or both.

    Glad to have had Tanille ranked second on my ballot, but I wasn’t expecting her to have had that much momentum. Genuinely proud of her.





  • I can understand this, but I can’t help but worry about friend of mine from Ukraine who came here through a work permit and has been trying to get refugee status since then at the risk of being sent back now that their permit has expired. They didn’t apply as a refugee initially since they came here a few months before the invasion.

    They’ve told me the struggles with the waitlists, and it just sounds so frustrating. I understand student visa fraud being an issue, but doing a blanket cutoff like this will put lives at risk.



  • Just a bunch of tankies that think that because America=bad, that means Russia=good.

    Say anything supportive of Ukraine or Ukrainians and you’re basically a Nazi in their eyes seeing that Russia once claimed that occupying and invading Ukraine was to “de-Nazify” it.

    There’s an unfortunately prevalent amount of them on the threadiverse, in part because Lemmy is developed by two Communists. What people seem to fail to understand is that even if you ascribe to communism, you can still be against an illegal invasion under international law and be supportive of literal refugees.