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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 8h

Local woman wakes up, asks the black hole on the loose in the Milky Way galaxy to come a bit closer to the earth, makes oatmeal.

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Petzie (AMW) 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 @amwpetzie.bsky.social · 5h

Why not…

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🇨🇦 Ken Robinson: Proud/ NASTY CANADIAN in AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @kprobinson0155.bsky.social · 1d

It's a UCP tradition...

Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 2d

#DanielleSmith gave a Healthcare guarantee that you would never have to pay out of pocket. Remember that when you get the $100 bill for the Covid Vaccine. Mark "return to sender" with a copy of the HC Guarantee #ABpoli #ABleg #AxeTheVaxTax #Integrity #HCGuarantee #FinePrint

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 7h

“In the current political climate of division, he has managed to bring together representatives of all political parties with a common belief and shared values. His goal is to bring back positivity to our provincial progression.”

#ForeverCanadian #ableg

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Forever Canadian campaign van makes a Rimbey stop - Rimbey Review

The campaign wraps up on Oct. 28

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A Simard 🇨🇦 @adadcoaching.bsky.social · 6h

Canadians 🇨🇦
Be in the know

End the lies, End the hate
We Build a stronger
Canada 🇨🇦

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 9h

Pierre PoiLIEvre is a D!€k: Part 118

34,200 signatures! I’m sure we can find 100,000 Canadians who expect honesty from elected politicians!

Let’s hold these guys to account. Specially paper boy PoiLIEvre.

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 6h

A quick list of HC leaders the Premier has terminated (recall she personally said she'd ensure the firings occurred):
This isn't complete...
But keep in mind that many of these positions have not been filled! Many have un/poorly qualified acting leads (if filled at all)...
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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 6h

The Ontario & Canadian governments loaned Stellantis money in the past. Some of that debt was written off.

That debt should be reinstated & a lien placed on Stellantis’ assets in Canada. Seizure of assets for non-payment of debt!

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Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario, shifts to U.S. — CBC News

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. — a move that will take production of one model out of Ontario and ...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 7h

City of Ottawa to charge $0.55 for pre-authorized debit payments for property tax, water bills--new service fee for pre-authorized debit plans in January to recover the cost of administering the service to taxpayers.

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City of Ottawa to charge $0.55 for pre-authorized debit payments for property tax, water bills

Ottawa residents will soon have to pay a $0.55 service fee to pay property taxes and water bills through pre-authorized debit payments.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 7h

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

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Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 8h

The Alberta government's Mature Action Strategy will make Alberta taxpayers pay to clean up the toxic messes left by oil and gas companies. "MAS is a strategy for industry, not for landowners and Albertans." #ableg #abpol @nagwanyyc.bsky.social

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 LIVE now: "MAS is a strategy for industry, not for landowners and Albertans." - Bill Heidecker, president of the AB surface rights federation, speaking to the Warburg-Pembina surface rights group about the government of Alberta's "Mature Asset Strategy" (MAS). [1/n] #ABLeg #ABPoli

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 6h

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🇨🇦 ALBERTA TEACHERS ARE WINNING THE PUBLIC OPINION BATTLE, POLL FINDS 🇨🇦

As the province-wide teachers' strike enters its second week, a new Angus Reid poll shows a strong majority of Albertans' sympathies lie with the teachers, not the government.

Leah Hennig, The Tyee.
#AbLeg #AbEd #ATAstrike

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 6h

They were in Canada using false names so they could conduct driveway and paving scams.
"A number of those tight-knit clans have been flagged by authorities for operating driveway repair scams that span the globe."
Sounds they would be people every country wants in jail.
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CBC puts faces to names of trio charged in Ont. restaurateur's killing | CBC News

Newly discovered images of three men accused in the death of a southwestern Ontario restaurateur in 2023 help peel away mystery surrounding the case, adding to prior CBC News revelations about when th...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21h

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 6h

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/turtle-lake-fish-wildlife-collision-9.6938358

'Scared the heck out of me': Falling fish smashes Sask. woman's windshield | CBC News

Of all the things that could smash a car’s windshield in Saskatchewan, a fish that fell from the sky is pretty low on the list of likely suspects. But that’s what happened to Marie Ahlstrom when she w...

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Petzie (AMW) 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 @amwpetzie.bsky.social · 6h

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THE CANADIAN PENSION PLAN, WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PENSIONER?

By: Don Thurston (check out his blog @https://www.donthurston.com/

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 20h

About to go on live with our #ForeverCanadian volunteers. Two weeks to go. We’re getting organized for the final stretch of the campaign.

#ableg #cdnpoli

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 17h

This is what #Conservatives want for Canada.

Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22h

Amy in Georgia takes medicine to stop a brain tumor from blinding her.

If ACA tax credits expire, she can’t afford it.

Her vision—her life—is on the line.

This is what GOP “shutdown politics” looks like.

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Maz 🇨🇦 @atheistactor.bsky.social · 17h

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And yet, when it comes to advertising, Ontario’s own government still spends vast sums through foreign-owned media. Most notably, online.

#DougFord #Ontario

Opinion | There is one key industry that is being overlooked in the 'Buy Canada' movement — Toronto Star

Canada’s ad-supported economy generates $22.6 billion in GDP and 138,000 jobs, outpacing telecom, mining and even auto manufacturing.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 18h

It seems like there may be a higher than average amount of library incidents in October and so I’m cordially asking the public to limit their shenanigans this year because we are Very Tired.

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · Nov 23

They've had a Twitter account for 5 years.🤨

Pushing #disinformation all that time about #EVs and #Renewables, to help #BigOil deny the reality of the #ClimateCrisis by sowing doubt about #ElectricVehicles on behalf of the #FossilFuel industry to confuse #Canada's #women buyers.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18h

Keep track of this kind of thing, Canada. You can choose to never buy these products, and others that turn their back on our country by bending the knee to Trump, again.

The REAL #ElbowsUp is us.

Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario, shifts to U.S. | CBC News

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. — a move that will take production of one model out of Ontario, rai...

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17h

FYI @adriandix.bsky.social

cc @juliedabrusin.bsky.social

#bcpoli #abpoli

Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · Feb 16

~Women are the new target of Canada's fossil fuel greenwashing machine

A look at the players behind the organization reveals a group that is entwined with Canada's fossil fuel&petrochemical industries.
All of its 6 founding board members are O&G executives who speak routinely at industry events.

Written in a seemingly neutral and measured tone, the post highlights the environmental demands associated with producing electric car batteries and the cost of installing home chargers or finding them on the road. It concludes with a laundry list of potential problems arising from EVs, offering little reassurance they are a viable purchase for people with busy lives.
Click through to Canada Powered by Women’s website, and you’ll find dozens of other blog posts targeted at women that throw shade on new technology and climate policy designed to draw down planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. Many of the titles reveal a bias; for instance, a blog post asks if “net-zero homes are worth the cost," while another asks if there is "a credible alternative to the carbon tax."

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Alec Walker 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @smartalecw.bsky.social · 19h

"A government that claims it can’t ‘afford’ decent class sizes and yet pours $567,000,000 every year into private schools is just lying."

#ABEd #ABleg

David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Here’s the government’s track record on funding education, currently Alberta public funding is $3,950 per student less than the Canadian average, and Alberta private school funding is $5,000 per student more than the average. In fact, the only reason the Canadian […]

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A graph of per student funding in Alberta since 2005 in adjusted 2024 dollars.

It shows funding flat around $12,000 per student until a rise in 2016 under the NDP but then dropping precipitously from 2022, currently just over $11,000.

Meanwhile funding for private school students has steadily risen and is now only $1,500/student less than public.

Also marked are Canadian averages in both categories:
Alberta public funding is $3,950 less than the average
Alberta private funding is $5,000 more than the average

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

Please read this to understand how dire the situation is in Nunavut: www.aptnnews.ca/featured/foo...

I made print copies of my book a fundraiser to raise awareness of food sovereignty/security issues in the North, but the PDF is free if you want to download + donate directly to QCFC + other orgs.

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 20h

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B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades

Applications are being accepted for those wanting to become doctors through Simon Fraser University, in what the British Columbia government says is the first new medical school in Western Canada in d...

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