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🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her)

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🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her) @peislandergirl.bsky.social · Nov 13

How it started and how it’s going! #GoByBike #CargoBikeYYC

Bicycle carrying groceries in front of a gas station price sign.

A loaded ECargo bike with groceries, flowers and a pineapple.

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Seumas B @seumasb.bsky.social · 1h

Day 2 of my new #yycbike commute. 2 separate deer sightings as I rolled along the river. I now officially have access to the bike room and have discovered I am not the only one! 😁

Sunrise along river with bridge in foreground

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Seumas B @seumasb.bsky.social · 1h

Pre-dawn observations along the #yycbike Bow River pathway. Road bike pathletes need to chill the f*ck down! Had 3 narrow misses from 3 separate 💩bags threading the needle between me and on coming runners in the dark.

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BikeBike In Calgary @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 2h

Want to be afraid of something?

You should be very afraid of people driving cars and you should be afraid every time you go out your front door.

Danger lurks behind every windshield - even your own.

BikeBike In Calgary @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 3h

Certain mayoral and councilor candidates like to bleat on and on about crime and what they are going to do about about.

But this...these crimes against people are not what they care about...so the deaths on our roads continue, unabated. #yyccc #roadsafety www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Pedestrian dies after being struck in southeast Calgary intersection

A pedestrian is dead after being struck in a southeast Calgary intersection on Wednesday night.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Seumas B @seumasb.bsky.social · 1d

New job means new #yycbike commute! Twice the distance of my previous commute (33km) but far more scenic! Pick up the Bow River pathway system just west of downtown, then follow the river until I peel off at 130Ave. Great morning for it!

Sunrise on the mountains in the distance

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CalgaryK @calgaryk.bsky.social · 22h

Ugh, construction stupidity out by the Bow MUP and the Cushing (17 Ave) bridge.

No signage, no detour, pretty much squeeze by… private vehicle parked illegally next to the site the cherry on top.

Grr #yycbike

maps.app.goo.gl/E3oiFM5ivFo2...

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Alanna dB @whoalansi.bsky.social · 23h

This morning's ride was truly gorgeous. Happy two years of cargo biking to us! We've ridden 6192 kilometers on our bike! @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social #yycbike

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 21h

#yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #yycbike #ClimatePolicy #Urbanism #15MinuteCities #cdnpoli #abpoli #BikeLanes #ClimateSolutions #ClimateSky

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Alanna dB @whoalansi.bsky.social · 15h

Set the route for Sunday's #KidicalMass. Meet at 10:30, Ride starts at 11 am! If you are willing & able to help marshal, please reach out! #yycbike ridewithgps.com/routes/53032...

Kidical Mass YYC Oct 19, 2025

Kidical Mass Route for October 19, 2025 - 1.9 km, +7 m. Bike ride in Calgary, Alberta

ridewithgps.com

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · Aug 20

We're so excited to be hosting @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear for a conversation about their new book, Life After Cars!

6:30pm, Sat Nov 8th, Downtown Vancouver

visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/life-after-cars/

Life After Cars

Vision Zero Vancouver proudly presents Life After Cars live in Vancouver with The War on Cars hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, and Vancouver City Councilor Lucy Maloney. Date: Saturday, Novemb…

visionzerovancouver.ca

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 4h

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 3h

International Ave (17 Ave NE) is a real problem area for death and serious injuries due to people driving.

If this were a workplace, Alberta OHS would have shut it down years ago.

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BikeBike In Calgary @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 3h

"Bikes allow us terrestrial folk to be more like fish"

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 3h

If you ride on Calgary’s downtown cycle track, it doesn’t matter what speed you go, the timing of the traffic lights are not in your favour.
#yycBike

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🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her) @peislandergirl.bsky.social · 2h

Wouldn’t be getting a dime from me 👎

🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her) @peislandergirl.bsky.social · 2h

We’ll never know why the kids won’t bike to the high school 🤷‍♀️ #swcalgary #69thst #carsewer #activetransportation #yycbike

A bicycle riding the rocky desire line towards Ernest Manning high school. The wheeling lane ends in sidewalk across the street so no connection on 69th St SW, Calgary.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 16h

They'll use the notwithstanding clause the same way Doug Ford did back in 2022.

This warrants a general strike.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Back to work legislation possible if Alberta teacher strike continues when assembly returns: minister | CBC News

Alberta's finance minister says the province will consider back-to-work legislation if teachers are still off the job when the legislature returns later this month.

www.cbc.ca

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 1d

Three-in-five say Smith government has done poor job on education

angusreid.org/alberta-teac...

#Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli

Teachers’ Strike: Most Albertans side with teachers as they criticize UCP’s handling of education - Angus Reid Institute

Three-in-five say Smith government has done poor job on education October 14, 2025 – The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) is set to resume negotiations with the government in an effort to resolve a...

angusreid.org

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 22h

A little respect can go a long way.

Poster celebrating international pronouns day.

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Natural Resources @natural-resources.canada.ca · 2d

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on:

🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data

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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 1d

What the report will look like when it’s released to the public.

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

That was the sound of my stomach turning.

Propaganda much?

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.

Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.

Smith Not Impressed With New Plates "Political Agenda"

Written by Brent Manke Monday, Jul 14 2014, 12:00 AM

The three choices for Alberta's new license plate, plus what we have now. The Opposition Wildrose party is up in arms over the removal of the "Wild Rose Country" slogan from the bottom of the plates, calling it politically motivated.

Highwood MLA Danielle Smith is no fan of Alberta's proposed new license plates.

She supports the new reflective paint job, but not changing the slogan at the bottom from "Wild Rose Country."

She says it's more PC political nonsense.

"All of a sudden this comes out in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a leadership race, taking off the Wild Rose slogan. It's clearly political. People have seen through it. They are outraged and responding in massive numbers. We have a poll going with six thousand respondents so far, most of which, about 70-percent who say keep the Wild Rose slogan."

She says the province would have been better off asking us if we wanted to change the plates in the first place, as well as if we wanted to change the slogan, before moving ahead on their own.

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Tony Charron @manaboutcowtown.bsky.social · 23h

Dear Danielle Smith, I would much prefer that my kids return to school than hear you announce spending millions for a new license plate design? Right now? Why are your priorities so fucked up? Please do you job as the leader of my Province. Thanks Tony.

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Brandy with a why? 🍁 @brandywithawhy.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning.

Danielle Smith is the absolute worst thing to happen to Alberta.

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your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 1d

That's a good question. I think we're all discovering that countries have been operating like businesses and not the co-ops they actually are. We have let "business leaders" and people with generational wealth tell us we should elect them to office because they're natural leaders. They're grifters.

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