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Tony Lastname @rivernewstc.bsky.social · 1d

😎🪴🌵 just wave your receipt at the door and keep walking

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 22h

When asked to denounce separatism and affirm Alberta's place in Canada, the UCP did everything in their power to avoid going on the record.

Are they proud to be Canadian or not?
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Albertans are proud Canadians. Does the UCP feel the same way?

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 2d

Important thread
Please read

#ableg #abpoli #alberta

Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 2d

Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.

But not impossible.

Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇

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Derek Connick @dc65ba87.bsky.social · 1d

Stand with workers across Alberta. Sign the petition to tell Danielle Smith’s government to stop attacking workers’ rights and freedoms now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/CpM4wOLJ

Add your voice

share.canadianlabour.ca

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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · 2d

Join @priestleycentre.bsky.social’s webinar this Thursday at 12pm-1pm, to learn about Leeds’ involvement in COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference🌎

You'll gain an overview of COP30 and why it matters, as well as hear directly from members of our Leeds delegation⬇️
https://bit.ly/4hHQ3nq

University of Leeds at COP30: Meet the delegation

The Priestley Centre are hosting an online event on Thursday 6 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

ahc.leeds.ac.uk

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 Elections Alberta says 2nd legislature member, Angela Pitt, facing recall petition 4/5

Elections Alberta says 2nd legislature member, Angela Pitt, facing recall petition | Globalnews.ca

The MLA for the riding of Airdrie-East, Angela Pitt, is the second member of the Alberta legislature to be the subject of a citizen recall petition.

globalnews.ca

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 UCP rejects auditor general as he races to finish health scandal report 3/5

Braid: UCP rejects auditor general as he races to finish health scandal report

A UCP committee votes to replace auditor general Doug Wylie, the key person investigating the health contract scandal, writes Don Braid.

calgaryherald.com

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 In 1 week, the #UCP & Premier Danielle Smith (and #Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf), have invoked the NWC to end the teachers' strike & Charter Rights, fired the Auditor General investigating UCP corruption & cut $$ to Elections Alberta as recall petitions start circulating. 👇 1/5

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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 2d

“We've got people on lists waiting for shots. We've got names on shots. We've got names on pieces of paper. It's just crazy”

The UCP doesn’t care about our health.

High demand for private COVID-19 shots sparks supply problems, waitlists for Alberta pharmacies | CBC News

Some Alberta pharmacists say they've started waitlists for private COVID-19 vaccines because they can't get their hands on stock as frustrated Albertans turn to them for the shots.

www.cbc.ca

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Derek Connick @dc65ba87.bsky.social · 3d

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Tim Hortons’ migrant workers are being scapegoated to distract from corporate greed

YouTube video by The Breach

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 4d

"This is the greatest cover-up by a President and for a President in history." - Don Winslow

#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 4d

Stop normalizing coercion! Alberta forces high-risk patients to sign a $100 covid vaccine payment form before eligibility. This is a clear step toward US-style medical debt collection. Public Health Nurses are now the Vaccine Police. #ableg #AxeTheVaxTax #VaccinePolice #AxeTheVaxTax #ABpoli

Moral Failure: Public Health Turned Into Potential Debt.

The fundamental promise of universal healthcare is access to care without financial coercion. In Alberta, the COVID-19 vaccine policy shatters that promise by requiring even high-risk, eligible patients to sign a $100 payment consent form before confirming their free coverage.

This isn't administration; it's systemic intimidation. It is a calculated step toward privatization, normalizing the idea that essential care comes with US-style financial risk and medical debt. This forces patients to approach preventative care as a potential debt, creating a profound moral failure toward all Albertans, especially the most vulnerable. Where is the decisive outrage from the public health leadership that is meant to protect us? Welcome to the exciting practice of US medical debt collection.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 5d

Another Chump Hypocrite wasting
Tax Payer Money, Using An FBI
Jet For A Date.......

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 6d

1/ 🧵 Contrary to the UCP, Alberta didn’t have to use the notwithstanding clause to legislate the teachers back to work.

The “no choice” take doesn’t hold up. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 6d

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 6d

Paid, pardoned & bought

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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 6d

Ok. But maybe Sam Mraiche has shares in the Australian firms.

RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 6d

11/11 Critics question if a negligent administration awarded public dollars to foreign nationals due to its own incompetence and refusal to use Alberta laws.

Now, taxpayers must wait to see what settlements are awarded to the remaining firms.

Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee

Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.

thetyee.ca

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 8d

My oldest works with special needs kids in the public school system

When you have over 30 kids in a kindergarten class, 10 with special needs, kids are going to fall through the cracks

Those kids grow up to be adults who can't read

The teachers were trying to save their future

#ableg #abpoli

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Neal LaMontagne @nlamontagne.bsky.social · 9d

Growing up in Alberta, the world was full of possibilities because we had the best public education system. Our kids won’t have that benefit. And to take away constitutional rights in place of good faith negotiations sets us back even more. It’s a sad day.

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 9d

That’s, um, quite the use for the notwithstanding clause

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

Striking Alberta teachers to be forced back to work through notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced a bill on Monday to force striking teachers back to work as early as Wednesday.

www.cbc.ca

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 9d

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?

An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.

I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

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Ika'kimaa Books and More @ikakimaa.bsky.social · 9d

Please, Alberta, let's not follow the example of the Democrats to the South. Let's coordinate and enact a general strike and bring this government down. We truly have no other recourse because once they do this unchallenged they will be emboldened.

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9d

“If Alberta invokes section 33, the Courts cannot stop them. At most, the Court can judicially review the invocation”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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O'Kelly Law

Turning Compassion into Justice

okellylaw.ca

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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 9d

Who is influencing our media? @calgaryherald.com

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 9d

If the govt can just dictate the terms of a contract—skipping past binding arbitration and legislating away recourse rights—and the public accepts that, well, then what reason would govt have to bargain in good faith with any public sector employees going forward?

Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9d

The legislation is supposed to embargoed until tabled, but if this is accurate…

Smith is invoking the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.

Which is an admission that she is violating charter rights.

It is a dark day in Alberta.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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

The notwithstanding clause is literally about stripping charter rights that can’t be reasonable suppressed under section 1.

But anyways, Danielle Smith’s left hand guy has some thoughts that he’s comfortable tweeting…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 11d

This is just a giant declaration of war against Ottawa, green energy, provincial & Canadian institutions, history, the future, you name it!

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 11d

Apparently vaccines have proven to be more effective than:
1) Worm killer for livestock, (although it seems RFK Jr should have had it injected into his brain).
2) Drinking bleach.
3) Shoving a flashlight up your ass.
Maybe 47 should stick to putting companies into bankruptcy and stiffing suppliers.

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