Edmonton Journal/Sun reporter on the justice beat. International curling correspondent emeritus. American who moved to Canada, stray cat re-homer and (hopefully not totally insufferable) distance runner.
Jonny Wakefield
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For the weekend crowd
Weird old newspaper office find: a pre-internet Edmonton Journal library doc denoting the distance between Edmonton & various Alberta localities. Most small town crime and breaking news stories used to end with “#### is XX km southwest of Edmonton,” & presumably someone had to measure it on a map.
The man has been blogging about Canadian soccer since the aughts
Huge moment for Canada and @teambates.bsky.social, the man I’ve heard say “CONCACAF” more than any other person
It's heartening that one of the Canada defenders broken his leg in October and is back playing, at least a little bit. I kind of assumed breaking your leg in soccer is game over. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...
Edmonton police are correcting the record after a podcaster made posters saying you could pick up pro-Alberta independence yard signs from local police stations. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
My attempt at summarizing today's appeal of the decision quashing the Alberta separatist petition. Featuring a not entirely hypothetical scenario: Alberta ultimately having two (2) independence referendums edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
NEW:
Alberta announces dual practice will start this fall.
Patients will now have option to pay for all elective surgeries allowed by CPSA in a non-hospital surgical facility, including hips, knees and cataract.
I know there is no magic bullet for issues related to social media, but I really do feel like a law that said "if your service aggregates posts algorithmically, you are a publisher" would solve a lot of the problems tbh
