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Ariadne MacDuff 🇨🇦 @sunbirch.bsky.social · 1h

Teachers are on strike in Alberta and they staged a huge protest on the Legislature grounds. It was quite impressive.

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Ariadne MacDuff 🇨🇦 @sunbirch.bsky.social · 8h

Cankles Caligula 🏆.

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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 16h

Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.

Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction - Alberta Politics

Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the landlockin...

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone blaming Canada for not getting an agreement with this lunatic should shut it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

Trump: The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 22h

Just posting this for no reason, and it has nothing to do with the UCP refusing to bargain with teachers in good faith. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Dreadful Dani needs to stare down the business end of a paralyzed province.

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Winnipeg general strike - Wikipedia

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S ON!

On the same day that teachers are rallying in record numbers on the steps of the legislature...

Demetrios Nicolaides is officially the target of an approved recall petition!

16,006 signatures needed starting now!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 22h

Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest

Alberta’s United Conservative government has made provincial sovereignty its top legislative priority, tabling Bill 1, the International Agreements Act.

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Ariadne MacDuff 🇨🇦 @sunbirch.bsky.social · 22h

The Alberta Legislature grounds today 👊 ♥️

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 3d

For more on why we need a full public inquiry, here's my post from earlier this year.

Not unlike AdScam, we have now entered a critical phase of the scandal: asking the unanswered questions.

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

UCPayToPlay Scandal Deserves a Public Inquiry

Adscam taught us that multiple investigations are good, but not enough

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting for precedented times.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 1d

EDSON, #ForeverCanadian volunteers, thank you for the great conversation and for your effort.

Mayor Kevin Zahara and Council, first of all, congratulations on your election win and thank you for coming out to greet me. I appreciate you.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2d

In which the Premier's right-hand man blames both immigrants and the federal government for the strains and stresses in the education system his government is supposed to run.

Hey, remember the "Alberta is Calling" campaign? The one that brought many thousands of people to Alberta? I sure do.

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Ariadne MacDuff 🇨🇦 @sunbirch.bsky.social · 2d

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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 2d

As I reflect on this GoA press release celebrating a policy of making it easier to take water out of natural watercourses in AB & the effective elimination of conservation holdbacks in closed basins the more uneasy I become.
Water is life.
@cpawssab.bsky.social @cpawssab.bsky.social

Cutting wait times for water

Alberta’s government has cut wait times for Water Act licences nearly in half over the last year, saving Albertans time and money.

www.alberta.ca

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7d

So, surprise, surprise….

My post supporting the Canadian Forever petition got me locked out of X for a week.

Anybody free to go on my timeline and give a bunch of separatist yahoos and bots the appropriate responses?

Much appreciated.

LFG 🇨🇦 Allons-y

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Taking Alberta Forward, We Stand With Canada🍁 @asytsema.bsky.social · 5d

Alberta Recall Movement Challenges UCP Education Agenda youtu.be/c9JlGu7z098?... via @YouTube

"Calgary parent and scientist Jenny Yeremiy has filed a recall petition to remove Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides as MLA for Calgary-Bow. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta Recall Movement Challenges UCP Education Agenda

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 5d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 5d

Meet Thomas Lukaszuk and mayor Jyoti Gondek at the #ForeverCanadian Unity Bus Stop in Calgary! — Sunday, October 19, at 12:00 PM, at 1705 Macleod Trail Southwest.

Come to sign the petition. Only 7 days left to reach our goal!

#Yyc #ableg #Cdnpoli

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 5d

This Canadian doctor wiped the smirk off his face !

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Bubbe Wokestein 💙✡️🍁 @veggieto.bsky.social · 5d

When the FAFO hits a MAGA Karen for pulling a gun on peaceful protesters. #NoKingsDayOct18th

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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mem64.bsky.social @mem64.bsky.social · 5d

So typical: so much hatred spewing out of his mouth…and wearing a cross.

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hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 5d

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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