Seán Sabraw
@seansabraw.bsky.social
Calgary musician, guitar/drum teacher.
Think Globally, Act Locally
Banner pic is inside Apple Studios from the movie Get Back, from l to r: Billy Preston, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison.
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Think Globally, Act Locally
Banner pic is inside Apple Studios from the movie Get Back, from l to r: Billy Preston, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison.
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I don't have to climb the walls, when there are people willing to drive me there.
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I don't have to climb the walls, when there are people willing to drive me there.
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Phillips said she will proceed with a $400,000 lawsuit filed against several Lethbridge Police Service members for invasion of her privacy, and some details from the ASIRT investigation may inform her case.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lethbridge officer searched ex-Alberta MLA on database after overhearing 'tail end' of conversation: report | CBC News
After "completely unsatisfying" investigation outcome and no criminal charges, Shannon Phillips plans to continue with lawsuit against her city's police.
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Phillips said she will proceed with a $400,000 lawsuit filed against several Lethbridge Police Service members for invasion of her privacy, and some details from the ASIRT investigation may inform her case.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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5/ CAHN is the only organization in Canada that focuses on the far-right, and especially white nationalists and neo-Nazis. We need your help more than ever.
Help Us Expose Hate In Canada
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is protecting our multicultural democracy by exposing far-right groups in Canada that harbour racism & other forms of hate. I'm proud to support their work. Please consi...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
5/ CAHN is the only organization in Canada that focuses on the far-right, and especially white nationalists and neo-Nazis. We need your help more than ever.
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3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
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PHAC really doesn't like the word "epidemic" for some reason.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
PHAC really doesn't like the word "epidemic" for some reason.
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Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Anything Can Happen
YouTube video by Bruce Cockburn - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
The House of Orange
YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
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“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
‘Pushed to their breaking point’: Paramedics working thousands of hours of overtime every month across Alberta
Alberta paramedics are working tens of thousands of hours of overtime every month.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Reminds me of the line from the movie The Dark Knight:
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reminds me of the line from the movie The Dark Knight:
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
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Deeply appreciate Canada’s media union speaking out against this multimillion dollar lawsuit
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
This is an important case in defending freedom of the press.
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Deeply appreciate Canada’s media union speaking out against this multimillion dollar lawsuit
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
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Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit Of The West "Home For A Rest" - Official Music Video
YouTube video by Spirit Of The West
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
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For many Calgarians, the Old Y is little more than an aging building whose history harkens back to the early 20th century.
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For many Calgarians, the Old Y is little more than an aging building whose history harkens back to the early 20th century.
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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The promise of 3,000 more new Alberta teachers has confounded me. We don't know how many teachers the government planned to hire over 3 years, but the 2025 budget documents (from Feb. 2025) tell us the gov't intended to pay for 1,045 more FTE teaching positions this year compared to last
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The promise of 3,000 more new Alberta teachers has confounded me. We don't know how many teachers the government planned to hire over 3 years, but the 2025 budget documents (from Feb. 2025) tell us the gov't intended to pay for 1,045 more FTE teaching positions this year compared to last
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There were many numbers shared during the Alberta teacher strike about the cost of contract proposals. But harder to find how much the govt planned to spend hiring new teachers and EAs.
The education minister says some of the $ to hire 3000 new Ts is money already in the 2025 budget #AbLeg #AbEd
The education minister says some of the $ to hire 3000 new Ts is money already in the 2025 budget #AbLeg #AbEd
Alberta government committee has $400M over 3 years to resolve class size and complexity problems | CBC News
The Alberta government plans to use $400 million over the next three years — plus spending already earmarked in its existing budget documents — to pay for more teachers, educational assistants and bet...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Two years ago, @unfinishedlines.club and I sketched a timeline of moral panic manufacturing by MLA Sturko leading up to the DULF arrests, and I see it becoming an increasingly valuable document.
drugdatadecoded.ca/dulf-arrests...
drugdatadecoded.ca/dulf-arrests...
DULF arrests consolidate worldwide response
The arrests of the compassion club organizers are creating international blowback. How did manoeuvring by politicians and police convince them the arrests were good strategy?
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Two years ago, @unfinishedlines.club and I sketched a timeline of moral panic manufacturing by MLA Sturko leading up to the DULF arrests, and I see it becoming an increasingly valuable document.
drugdatadecoded.ca/dulf-arrests...
drugdatadecoded.ca/dulf-arrests...
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At some point, when all this is settled, I would like the BC public to hold this person to account for her disinformation and the community harm it has wreaked.
Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record.
Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record.
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
At some point, when all this is settled, I would like the BC public to hold this person to account for her disinformation and the community harm it has wreaked.
Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record.
Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record.
I'm feeling that unless Nenshi and McGowan get angry, with actual economy stopping action (NOT texting for a survey), that workers and organized labour in Alberta are fucked.
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I'm feeling that unless Nenshi and McGowan get angry, with actual economy stopping action (NOT texting for a survey), that workers and organized labour in Alberta are fucked.
Love having old Twitter URL muted here, all X posts are never engaged with.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Love having old Twitter URL muted here, all X posts are never engaged with.
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Here's Rob Anderson, Premier Smith's Chief of Staff, in 2013 (before the 2015 Supreme Court decision):
"That to me impinges upon their freedom of assembly, I would think, and their right to organize & so forth, which is a protected right under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
#ableg #abpoli
"That to me impinges upon their freedom of assembly, I would think, and their right to organize & so forth, which is a protected right under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
#ableg #abpoli
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Have your say on highway speed limits
Alberta’s government is engaging with Albertans on increasing speed limits on rural highways.
www.alberta.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
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Scary shit. We are never safe.
Always be vigilant, and keep an eye out for your fellow women.
Also, I hate that this says "allegedly" because, clearly, she was fucking drugged.
Believe women.
Always be vigilant, and keep an eye out for your fellow women.
Also, I hate that this says "allegedly" because, clearly, she was fucking drugged.
Believe women.
Edmonton woman alleges she was drugged at concert: ‘Overnight my life changed’ | Globalnews.ca
Lilliana Villata's life as a nursing student has been turned upside down after she was allegedly drugged during a concert at Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton.
globalnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Scary shit. We are never safe.
Always be vigilant, and keep an eye out for your fellow women.
Also, I hate that this says "allegedly" because, clearly, she was fucking drugged.
Believe women.
Always be vigilant, and keep an eye out for your fellow women.
Also, I hate that this says "allegedly" because, clearly, she was fucking drugged.
Believe women.