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David Blain

@beachmagoo.bsky.social

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Retired Financial Officer in Calgary AB. Proportional representation is better democracy. Political Progressive. Travels to Australia 🇦🇺 I am in a committed relationship 🇨🇦🗳️🇨🇦

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · Jul 23

#ProportionalRepresentation is an Antidote for National Disunity.

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Calgary Herald ePaper

Calgary Herald ePaper offers current issues of Calgary Herald ePaper.

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 21h

Balanced trade not industry bribes.

David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 1d

Use the billion for Canada instead of giving it to Stellantis.
Build Canada first.

David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 1d

Stop the tariffs on EVs from China 🇨🇳 and get Canola & agricultural product sales to China 🇨🇳.

Balanced Trade.

David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 1d

Canada gave billions to Stellantis & it left for USA 🇺🇸.

Yet we block EVs from China 🇨🇳.

Why ?

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

The website for the education funding petition is live!

It’s abfundspublicschools.ca!

And we’ve got a special interview with the petition proponent dropping Friday!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta Funds Public Schools

A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.

abfundspublicschools.ca

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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 2d

👋 #yyc Take Action in Calgary-Bow! Join us, send a message to the Minister of Ed!

📣Show Up, Bring Signs, Wear Red
Let’s Reclaim Public Ed
RecallNicolaides.ca #AbEd @abresistance.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social
@pialberta.bsky.social @sosalberta.bsky.social @yycraggrannies.bsky.social

Let’s Reclaim Public Education
Thurs, Oct 16, 2:30- 5:00 pm
Bowness Ratepayers
Scout & Guide Hall, Calgary

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 2d

Huge batteries extend solar and wind and improve reliability.

Global battery capacity skyrockets 67% in 2025 and 10x by 2035.

California battery capacity triples since 2020 to 13 GW and will add 8.6 GW by 2027. #energysky

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

ig.ft.com

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 7d

Attended two excellent conference presentations today about health misinformation, while also noticing about 5 other masks and lots of past tensing the pandemic while coughing, because 2025.

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 7d

In the eighth inning.

Go Blue Jays

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KQ5 @kq5.bsky.social · 7d

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 7d

not to be mushy on main or whatever but I get strangers coming up to me on the street now saying that my silly little online jokes and videos make their day better and tbh I don't think there's much that's cooler than that

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 9d

'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee

Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.

thetyee.ca

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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 9d

There will be more demand on our health care system because the AB Government has put up roadblocks to getting a Covid Vaccine. More demand on the system from more sick people that ripples and affects all areas of acute care. #AxeTheVaxTax #ABleg #ABpoli The admin fee is a burden on families.

Public Health Principles vs Alberta's Covid Vaccine Policy

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 9d

Yesterday, thousands of Albertans gathered at the Alberta Legislature to support our teachers.

Today, the UCP government locked them out.

Teachers aren’t just standing up for themselves. They’re standing up for our kids. Their working conditions are our children’s learning conditions.

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Debbie Benson YEG @dbenson77.bsky.social · 9d

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Forever-Canadian.ca because the only independence Alberta should have…

YouTube video by Lisab0923

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10d

Wow #yyc!

(Pics by Kelly Hofer FB)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 11d

88% of Americans agree on one thing (and maybe one thing only) - Congressmen and women have no business trading individual stocks.

Ohio Rep @greglandsman.bsky.social joined me discuss why he put his money where his mouth is on this bipartisan issue

youtu.be/Hq_rnkW5eLA?...

88% of Americans Want Congress to Stop Trading Stocks, Will They Listen?

YouTube video by The Compound

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 12d

#PolluterPay or taxpayers are on the hook for over $100 billion.

Will the Govt support Albertans or let the oil & gas companies get away without paying for cleanup.

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 12d

Albertans needs timelines on well & facility cleanup. AER is not doing enough and the government is doing precious little.

We need better governance on oil & gas.

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 12d

My sister just sent this, from another platform.

My answer to the question — I don’t see Danielle Smith part of our future. But like Coal, she’ll be part of our dirty past.

#UnlockRenewables #FireSmith #AbPoli #WaterIsLife #TransformEnergy #TheFutureIsElectric ⚡️

Screenshot of the Drake meme with Danielle Smith’s face superimposed.

STAND UP FOR CANADA
Stand Up for Canada
Only in Danielle Smith's world does a coal mine count as a better view than a wind turbine. What do you see when you look at Alberta's future?

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 14d

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/c...

The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade

The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.

www.cnbc.com

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 15d

Rant warning
In 2019 the UCP slashed the corporate tax rate from 12% to 8% claiming it would create job by encouraging industry to come to Alberta
It has worked as poorly as expected
Industry did NOT rush to AB
Imperial Oil is cutting 20% of their workforce
#ableg
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Why Husky is getting a tax cut in Alberta and spending big bucks elsewhere | CBC News

A slash of Alberta's corporate tax rate from 12 to eight per cent over the next few years is Jason Kenney's main strategy to lure investment to the province, stimulate job growth, and resurrect the oi...

www.cbc.ca

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight, I’ll fall asleep thinking the same thought I think on too many nights, now …

“How do the Americans not see what is happening? How do they not see what they’ve become?”

And then I’ll worry about this horrific political violence growing in Canada, and worry about how we stop it.

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David Blain @beachmagoo.bsky.social · 16d

Costco glasses cost less.