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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 17h

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.

By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 15h

Casting a wide net- any US researchers looking at moving to Canada?
Or did you investigate opportunities and found the pathway challenging?
DM me.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23h

If you haven't read this yet, read it. Understand that this year's municipal elections are an existential fight - figure out who the UCP's allies are and vote against them. Democracy matters.

#abpoli #ableg #alberta #yyccc #yyc #abed

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Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 14h

cabot day is in june

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social.

Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔

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The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.

'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 18h

Correct me if I’m wrong, but sponsoring the fight against counterterrorism would make musk… a sponsor of terrorism.

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Dr. Doug @raptorbreath.bsky.social · 16h

when i get home from work, i get cleaned up and then sit around in my underwear for about 15 minutes. which is pretty much exactly like when superman flies real high to regain his strength in the sunlight

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

also no red eyes

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

parents on vacation in eastern canada, so no big turkey dinner this year, but son got a huge pumpkin pie from costco that I'm looking forward to

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

anthony hopkins in remains of the day

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

there's an interview:

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

The Unipiper showed up. 💙

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1d

Encouraging.

But all is not lost. The cement is still wet, and even as it hardens we can find hope in the common sense of the global public. In a survey by Focaldata, of 36,000 people in 34 countries we find a clear majority are more resistant to an exclusionary nationalism and more willing to embrace international cooperation than many of the leaders who rule over them.

Across the world there is, perhaps surprisingly, only a small group of hardened anti-internationalists representing 16.5% of the global population (even if 25% in today’s US) who either feel coexistence between ethnic and religious groups is impossible or have a zero-sum mindset that if they or their country do well, it has to be at the expense of others doing badly.

But there are another 21% at the opposite extreme, whom we might call committed internationalists, who either still see cooperation across borders through open trade as a positive sum win-win, or are what the US philosopher and writer Kwame Anthony Appiah calls “rooted cosmopolitans”.

From Gordon Brown at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/reform-nigel-farage-hard-right-politics-gordon-brown-labour

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

scammers gonna scam

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 1d

this letter sounded bananas but reading it is really something else: totally disconnected from legal or historical reality, brimming with AI-generated nonsense, attributed to a made-up nation, and signed — this is the best part!!! — by "Manitou Wabski Kinew" !!
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Syilx Okanagan Nation chiefs deny issuing cease and desist letter in ostrich cull controversy | CBC News

The Syilx Okanagan Nation in B.C. says it did not issue a cease and desist letter that claims to protect a controversial ostrich farm from a Canada Food Inspection Agency cull, and questions its authe...

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

well that's terrible, but it does explain it, thank you

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

every time I see him talk he's grumpy about something. some people think grumpy equals gravitas, but it's just insufferable to me

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

oh that is extremely weird then (nice earrings btw)

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why they have so many whales. I'd expect a couple, maybe five, but thirty whales?!

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grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 1d

need to know how much you look like santa before I decide how weird this is

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1d

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 1d

This is horrible. I admire the courage of Senator Gerba to speak out on this. Too many Canadians want to believe racism isn’t a problem here, when it absolutely is.

Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...

Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile

OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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