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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 3d

Philp! #LetsGoOilers

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, there it is.

COUNCILLOR MIAN: “there were many of us around the table who struggled with the arena decision, right? We were like: This is a huge decision. It's a lot of money. And it was largely led by the Communities First folks.”

Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social · 3d

Calgary mayoral candidates are bickering about which arena deal was best—and who got fleeced. And an outgoing city councillor now says progressive councillors voted yes to the deal in 2023 "at great political cost." Here's how the deal got done. (Listen and/or read!) #yyccc

The truth about Calgary’s billion-dollar arena deal | The Sprawl

Campaign accusations abound. Here’s the real story.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 3d

I restarted my donation to @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social because if I’m going prioritize my donations I’m going to do it in support of democracy and I’m going to do it here in my community.

Everyone makes their own choice. This is mine.

I support slow journalism and hope you will too.

#yyc

The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 3d

Four wards in Calgary haven't had election debates (Wards 2, 3, 12 and 13). The Sprawl has waited for others to organize debates in these wards. It hasn't happened. We're done waiting and are making a last-ditch effort to organize and livestream debates in these wards before Election Day. #yyccc

A last-ditch effort for local democracy in Calgary | The Sprawl

Help us do 4 more debates where they're needed!

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #BigDay to all my Birders and Birder-friendlies!

#Birding

Birdwatching life list screenshot showing 99 species, including White Ibis and Ruffed Grouse, with dates, locations, and bird photos from Florida and Alberta.

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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 3d

Four wards in Calgary haven't had election debates (Wards 2, 3, 12 and 13). The Sprawl has waited for others to organize debates in these wards. It hasn't happened. We're done waiting and are making a last-ditch effort to organize and livestream debates in these wards before Election Day. #yyccc

A last-ditch effort for local democracy in Calgary | The Sprawl

Help us do 4 more debates where they're needed!

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 11d

Not going to lie, I did not expect them to get to 230,000 signatures. If you haven’t signed yet, find a location near you. I’ll be making sure my mom gets to one soon.

www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 11d

Danielle Smith’s threats play well with the half of her party that wants to leave Canada behind but the only Albertan they’ll help is her.

My place in #Canada isn’t for Danielle Smith to use as leverage.

#Alberta

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 13d

Today, I asked the Government Representative in the Senate of Canada about how the Federal Government will protect the Charter rights of 2SLGBTQI+ Albertans in the face of the Government of Alberta threatening to use the Notwithstanding clause to violate their human rights. #cdnpoli

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 13d

Surprising every time!

Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 13d

Check out this Pileated Woodpecker

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 17d

The usual suspects mostly. Black Capped Chickadees and Yellow-rumped Warblers all over the place and a good variety of sparrow species.

Still a few young Ruddy Ducks and Red Winged Blackbirds hanging out down this way as well.

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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 18d

It’s National Forest Week. A time to celebrate forests, and to face the growing wildfire threat.

This summer was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record. Canada was there, deploying aid, supporting evacuations, and protecting Canadians.

The challenge is growing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBIa...

Wildfires - why there's more and what can be done

YouTube video by Corey Hogan

www.youtube.com

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 17d

Orange-crowned Warblers are lovely birds. They always come back to take another look at you looking at them.

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 17d

The #birding patch this late-September weekend

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 17d

This year is one of the big ones yeah?

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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 17d

Check it out! We made a series of Calgary election zines. One for each of the city's 14 wards, containing all the councillor candidates for each. Plus a mayoral one—so 15 in all. They'll be going into libraries but let us know if you also want copies to share! www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-2025...

A new zine series for Calgary’s 2025 election | The Sprawl

One for each of the city's 14 wards.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 17d

🤘

Sun shining in a blue sky over a suburban wetland

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · 24d

Just what everyone needs: a Bachelor’s Degree in Stuff I’m Bad At

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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · Sep 6

Almost 20 years ago, I toured Alberta with Ken Dryden when he was an MP.

Each town he made us stop at the rink. Each time, he had a story of someone who grew up there, try to find their name on a plaque. He loved this country, cared a lot about its people and stories.

RIP, Ken.

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ken Dryden has died.
A Hockey Hall of Famer with the Montreal Canadiens, he won six Stanley Cups, the Conn Smythe, Calder and five Vezinas.
A best-selling author, he also served in Parliament from 2004 to 2011.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · Sep 6

CTV news: expert warns book bans may impact more than school libraries.

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Sep 5

This new law is discriminatory, sexist, and completely unnecessary. It makes sport less safe and unfair, exactly the opposite of what the government claims.

“Alberta’s ‘Fairness and Safety in Sport Act’ criticized as misogynistic, homophobic”

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Alberta’s ‘Fairness and Safety in Sport Act’ criticized as misogynistic, homophobic | Globalnews.ca

Opponents of the Alberta government's new Fairness and Safety in Sport Act, which came into effect at the start of the new school year, call it 'misogynistic and transphobic.'

globalnews.ca

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · Sep 6

Braid: Trudeau's long gone but look who's virtue signalling now - Calgary Herald

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Braid: Trudeau's long gone but look who's virtue signalling now — Calgary Herald

Former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was often blasted for his smarmy, progressive virtue-signalling. That’s gone now, but in Alberta the void is nicely filled by smarmy conservative virtue-si...

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United Nurses of Alberta @albertanurses.bsky.social · Sep 5

There is a feeling among nurses that the restructuring has been a "waste of time."

"None of them have reported that there's any possible benefit to patients, residents or clients. It's just a lot more red tape."

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

'A lot of uncertainty': Questions abound on the front lines over benefits, impact of AHS restructuring | CBC News

Thousands more Alberta health-care workers have transferred over to three new organizations in the latest chapter of the provincial government's complete overhaul of the medical system.

www.cbc.ca

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Chris Chambers 🇨🇦 @chrischambers.bsky.social · Sep 5

The book that radicalized me. 🦜

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A Siege of Bitterns — Calgary Public Library

A Siege of Bitterns — Burrows, Steve — Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers to flush out suspects in the brutal murder of a renowned ecological act...

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