BicycleRob
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BicycleRob
@bicyclerob.bsky.social
Rouleauville, Alberta. 4-season cyclist. Computer consultant.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Tour de force of investigative journalism here. Globe obtained evidence and made connections that Judge Wyant did not. Also, Globe confirmed former Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee was guest of Sam Mraiche at Oilers game. EPS failed to be forthright with me when I raised this in a previous story. 1
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I always love me a good Columbo meme
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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"The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals." .. (quote William Blum) .. (Cartoon Jim Morin).. #politics #economy
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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David Horsey
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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“Home and abroad.”

A notable sentiment given that the administration has labeled not just the people it is killing on these boats as “terrorists” but also domestic political opponents.
Markwayne Mullin: "The president and the secretary of war have been very clear. They're gonna use lethality against our enemies -- home and abroad."
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Maddening more hasn't been done to stop this exploitive clinic that markets unproven BS.

American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Supplements to cure ALS? Feels criminal.
American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility | CBC News
A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say tha...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I do wonder if this starts to shift the conversation away from the north coast and towards a further expansion -- as in, an additional pipe -- through TMX's existing right of way.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
B.C. Premier open to new pipeline if tanker ban remains in place
B.C. Premier David Eby – who has vehemently opposed Alberta’s pursuit for a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast – says he is open to a pipeline project in his province if the tanker ban remains in ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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For example, the room of Canada’s top journalists heartily laughing as Poilievre mocks the concept of “Queers for Palestine” as “crazy.”

Yikes.
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed. 
CIBC analysts cast doubt on private sector taking on new B.C. pipeline any time soon
Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed. 
cheknews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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“The Globe identified more than 60 civil proceedings in which Mr. Mraiche or his companies were participants.”

SIXTY civil cases, a gambling addiction, and cozy ties with government.

Gumshoe Carrie Tait reports on a very sticky web, in which the UCP seems irrevocably ensnared.
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Here's video of that moment, accompanied by a few WOWs from @davidwcochrane.bsky.social and me bsky.app/profile/saro...
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The Globe and Mail
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The Beaverton speaks with CBC News about how Time Magazine mistook a fake quote for real facts!
A made-up quote from the Beaverton made it into Time magazine | Hanomansing Tonight
YouTube video by CBC News
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November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Les invités #TLMEP:
• Steven Guilbeault
• Magali Picard et Caroline Senneville;
• Julie Snyder;
• Jean-François Roberge, pour son projet de loi sur le renforcement de la laïcité au Québec;
• Nancy Audet et Alicia Monette;
• Pierre Brassard, Catherine Souffront Darbouze et Marc St-Martin
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM