Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦
I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her Vive le Canada.
- Have you registered yet to be a part of our Alberta Unbound live audience? Come join us this Friday! #Edmonton #yeg #ualberta #Alberta #cdnpoli #SenateOfCanada #ALES
- My father, of blessed memory, was a lawyer. He loved a well-written punchy judgement, and read the best bits aloud at the dinner table, with glee and dramatic effect. I miss him often. But today, I so wish I could share this with him. How he would have enjoyed it - in both form and content.
- Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- A bunch of great Alberta performers were nominated for Junos this week, across genres. Among them? Stand-up Faris Hytiaa, nominated for best comedy album. I had the delight of hosting Faris on Alberta Unbound this fall. Our convo is as timely - and funny - as ever. #Juno #Junos #AlbertaUnbound #yyc
- And if you are Alberta Unbound curious, come join us for a live recording this Friday evening, February 6, at the University of Alberta. I have assembled an amazing panel for a night of smart conversation about Alberta’s future in this new world (dis)order. #ualberta #IWeek #Edmonton #yeg #Alberta
- Agatha Christie wasn’t Tolstoy or Austen - but she knew how to write snappy mystery stories with memorable characters. That’s why she remains one of the world’s best selling authors. So why do so many recent Agatha adaptations keep her titles and bastardize and betray her beloved characters?
- I know there are a million more important problems in the world right now, but I just started watching Netflix new adaptation of Christie’s Seven Dials Mystery and my husband is tired of listening to me yell at the TV screen. I mean…if you want people to be gored to death by bulls…you do you.
- But please don’t call it Agatha Christie. (And don’t even get me started on Kenneth Branagh’s bizarro « take » on Hercule Poirot.)
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View full threadCoda to say some of Christie’s books can be appalling racist and antisemitic and I don’t excuse any of that. But you can leave all THAT out - without ruining her stories. (Thanks. I feel much better now. And maybe I’ll reread Seven Dials on the plane this week, as a palate cleanser.)
- Une merveilleuse soirée au Canoë Volant, une célébration hivernale de la culture francophone, métisse et autochtone dans le charmant quartier français d'Edmonton. #Yeg #Edmonton #FlyingCanoe
- I never met Catherine O’Hara. I have no charming Catherine O’Hara anecdote. I can’t even explain why the news of her death hit me so hard. But I know her memory will be a blessing to all who knew and loved her work, and the joy she brought to Canada and the world.
- Better late than never! Our January episode of Alberta Unbound, an exit interview of sorts with outgoing Edmonton Public Library CEO Pilar Martinez, on the role of libraries in an age of AI slop, disinformation and book-banning. #yeg #Edmonton #AlbertaUnbound #libraries #EPL #SenateofCanada #abpoli
- If you prefer an Apple link, with transcript: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
