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“For a nod to the nabir is better than a wink to the wabsanti.”

James Joyce, ‘Finnegans Wake’.
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Putin refuses to budge on demand…

Doesn’t sound like peace

“Putin told reporters in Kyrgyzstan that Russia will continue to attack Ukraine “until the last Ukrainian dies” in order to gain control of Ukraine’s industrial east”
(Source:The Independent)
#ukraine

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Putin refuses to budge on demand for Ukrainian territory ahead of talks with US
Russian president says peace plan proposed by US could form the ‘basis’ of an agreement to end conflict but will not give up maximalist demands
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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“Renewing health cards won't cost money,but failing to do so will cost coverage”

Minister says will reduce fraud but the result will be reducing the number of legitimate people coverage.

Is this a violation of national coverage?

#ableg #cdnpoli #yyc#yeg

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Renewing health cards won't cost money, but failing to do so will cost coverage - Medicine Hat News
[email protected] The UCP government is proposing a set of changes to the Alberta health card under Bill 11, sweeping health-care legislation tabled Monday. Amendments to the Health Insurance...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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If B.C. can veto Alberta's resources, Alberta can do the same: minister Nixon

Typical aggressive treats from a minister that thinks talking tough will bring people together.

We need more reasonable politicians & not bullies.

#abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg

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If B.C. can veto Alberta's resources, Alberta can do the same: minister
YouTube video by CTV News
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November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Send Profits

Pathways Alliance,Can. Natural Resources Ltd.,Cenovus Energy,ExxonMobil subsidiary Imperial Oil, & Suncor Energy,Karel Mayrand writes…represent 80% of Can. oil sands production, & 73% foreign-owned, 60% US owned

#ableg #cdnpoli
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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Obama celebrates Thanksgiving by being with grass roots people.

Where was Trump? Florida golf course?

Actions matter.

#poverty #leadership #integrity

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Morgan J. Freeman on X: "While Donald Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago at his resort, President Obama was serving a Thanksgiving meal to a veterans care home. This is what real leadership looks like 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/itpW8gYbw8" / X
While Donald Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago at his resort, President Obama was serving a Thanksgiving meal to a veterans care home. This is what real leadership looks like 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/itpW8gYbw8
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November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Trump’s “Oval Office’- The Washington Post

While children in Gaza, Ukraine, suffer - Trump fixates on White House decorating.

“It’s a house. It’s not a hotel. It’s not a club.”Rick Paulus

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Or

Deranged Trump Crisis

#Gaza #Ukraine

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What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign?
We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Finally-Honesty from a person who does care

“He didn’t look like a hostage reading a proof-of-life script. He just sighed & dropped the most beautiful two words in Canadian political history:

“Who cares?”(re:Trump)

(Source:Planet Democracy)
#cdnpoli
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The “Who Cares?” Doctrine: Canada Finally Dumped Its Toxic Ex
Prime Minister Carney’s dismissal of Donald Trump wasn’t a gaffe—it was a strategy. And while Pierre Poilievre screams in Parliament, Canada is quietly building the leverage to walk away.
theplanetdemocracy.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Carney considering a trip to Washington next week attending a FIFA World Cup event,which Canada, U.S. &Mexico are jointly hosting.

Yet, Trump restated his movingWorld Cup matches out of cities deemed unsafe like Seattle with left-leaning mayor.

#FIFA2026 #markcarney #cdnpoli #bcpoli
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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My 1-Point-#PeacePlan for #Ukraine

©️ Sanna Marin
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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World Leaders respond to Trump/Putin plan for #Ukraine saying needs more work.

#CBCNews reports diplomatic pushback.

For Trump another Real estate deal.

#markcarney #cdnpoli #peace

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Canada joins world leaders saying Trump’s plan to end war in Ukraine needs 'additional work' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is sitting down with the leaders of the U.K., Germany and the president of the European Council on the sidelines of the G20 to talk about Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zele...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The following article.if true, brings a chilling arrangement between the US & Russia that would change the world.

War atrocities would be overlooked & NATO rearranged.

Trump & Putin grab!

#cdnpoli #NATO #Ukraine

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November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Voltaire (b.Nov. 21,1694)331 yrs ago today.

“I say that we should regard all men as our brothers…Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father & creatures of the same God?"A Treatise on Toleration 1763

Yet Voltaire had investments in the slave trade.

#history #Slavery #toleration
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Vance comments on Canada & political leaders.

This seems rich after US Administration’s criticism of Canadian Ads about #tariffs

US tariffs are causing world wide disruption from an administration of misinformation & misguided policies

#cdnpoli #ontpoli #vance

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JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Endless UCP mismanagement - they are not money managers.

$100M tax payer cost over private lab services debacle.
How many school could have been built?

#ableg#abpoli #yyc #abed #cdnpoli

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Alberta's bid to privatize lab services wasted more than $100M: auditor general | CBC News
Alberta's auditor general has released a report detailing numerous failures in process and lack of due diligence by the province in its attempt to privatize community lab services.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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November 19, 1863

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” Lincoln at Gettysburg

Truths that are “self-evident”

#history #equality #dignity
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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What does #History teach us?

Common Mantra:

“Those that work hard will get ahead”?What does that mean?

Working 24/7?

Constantine in 321CE introduced Sunday rest after pagan idea of ‘venerable day of the sun’

In 1930 48hr work Wk introducing idea of weekends.Working 1/2 day Saturday
#work #life
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Quality of Life in Alberta & what is most important is being addressed by UCP?

-ID cards & lic plates
-paying for vaccinations
- increasing speed limits
- not withstanding clause

What a joke! Start being a Govt of integrity!

#yyc #yeg #ableg #cdnpoli #ABDanielleSmith
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Why use the notwithstanding clause?Jared Wesley

UCP resolution priorities maybe?
Against Graduate School Associations,2SLGQ+ communities,Linguistic minorities,unhoused people…

Is this Alberta?Canada?
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg

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Why use the notwithstanding clause?
On laziness, impatience, and vengeance.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Just renewed my #ICBC car insurance for a year, cost me all of $1477. That's $80 cheaper than last year, which was cheaper than the year before. Public auto insurance is a wonderful thing! Here's the 10-yr change in auto insurance costs by province from StatsCan. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Why is Alberta the highest rates of auto insurance?

See chart below.

#yyc #yeg #ableg #abpoli #UCP #ABNDP

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Jim Stanford on X: "Just renewed my #ICBC car insurance for a year, cost me all of $1477. That's $80 cheaper than last year, which was cheaper than the year before. Public auto insurance is a wonderful thing! Here's the 10-yr change in auto insurance costs by province from StatsCan. #bcpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/O2pnd5BjR4" / X
Just renewed my #ICBC car insurance for a year, cost me all of $1477. That's $80 cheaper than last year, which was cheaper than the year before. Public auto insurance is a wonderful thing! Here's the 10-yr change in auto insurance costs by province from StatsCan. #bcpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/O2pnd5BjR4
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November 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s... I was on West of Centre this week with @alexboyd.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social And we spent a lot of time using the word tranche! Lots of analysis and a few laughs too.
‘Smith has created a poison pill for herself’
Podcast Episode · West of Centre · 2025-11-14 · 45m
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Alberta Data Centres-Electricity?Water?

“…37 remaining data centre proposals…to now either bring their own power generation plans off-grid or wait for AB’s grid to catch up to demand…one expert says,will likely take several years”

#ableg #abpoli #yeg #yyc #abenviro

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Alberta’s out of electricity for power-hungry AI data centres — for now. What happens next? | CBC News
The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) says it has allocated all its power capacity — under its temporary cap of 1,200 megawatts for large-load projects — to two data centre projects to be develo...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#History & Constantine

Almost 1700 yrs age St. Augustine of Hippo appeared(that anyone cares)? Became Doctor of the Church(Plato) challenged later by Aquinas(Aristotle).Even Hannah #Arendt did her thesis commenting on his ideas

“Humanity cannot bear very much reality” T.S.Eliot
#theology #history
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Documenting History of paybacks.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino,opened a FIFA office in Trump Tower.

FIFA can’t afford an airplane gift.

Now FIFA gets a World Cup event at Kennedy Centre for free. Washington Post

#FIFA #Conflictofinterest #Boundaries #WorldCup
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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US Billionaire reported funding B.C.ostrich farm legal defence.

#CBCNews reported last week from a local resident that he didn’t recognize most of the protesters as being local.

How often do pro mercenary paid protesters appear?

#bcpoli #cdnpoli #law #publichealth

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‘Something is rotten,’ says U.S. billionaire who funded B.C. ostrich farm legal defence
Supporters of the B.C. ostrich farm say they are looking at next steps after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) culled more than 300 ostriches last week.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM