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Alexis Mac 🍁🇨🇦
@alexismac.bsky.social
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Older, hopefully wiser Albertan. Mom, Grandmother, cat lady. Kinda grumpy.
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deadder.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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carrietait.bsky.social
On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Sam Mraiche
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w/ @tomcardoso.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Oh good. The wag the dog begins in earnest
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
Indonesian rescuers search for survivors as the death toll from floods and landslides tops 300
Indonesian rescuers search for survivors: death toll 300
Improved weather on Saturday helped rescuers on Indonesia’s Sumatra island recover more bodies as they struggled to reach several areas that were hit by landslides and flash floods that left more than 300 dead and scores missing.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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snarkysteff.bsky.social
This has been such a horrific disaster throughout Southeast Asia. If you’ve never experienced a rainstorm there, they’re so hard — but often fast.

Vancouver BC is a RAINFOREST & gets 1,000mm of rain a YEAR…

…this region got over 350mm in a DAY, rivers rose over 10 feet.

It’s far from over.
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Housetops, View from My Studio, University Street
Henrietta Mabel May
1925
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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ljdubcan.bsky.social
Today’s Canadian painting is “Barn in Winter” painted by Ralph Wallace Burton.
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Snow Day
Holly Dyrland
2024
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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hedybach.bsky.social
radiate your peaceful warmth.

#photography #blueskyartshow #warmth #bluecrew #eastcoastkin
families and friends gathering for a sunset in Sayulita Mexico a day or so ago Single image by hedy bach 2025
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people.

Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it.

Take it out of Trumps hands
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Big Snow
Rob Gonsalves
1999
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Bathroom Selfie
Nelson White ~ Mi'kmaq
c. 2020
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Departing Day
Jock MacDonald
1936
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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jeremyhopkin.bsky.social
Building the Bloor Street East Viaduct (Don Valley), Oct., 1915

Artist: Owen Staples (1866-1949)
Medium: Watercolour
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#1910s #bloorviaduct #princeedwardviaduct #donvalley #watercolour #painting #torontoart #art #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Update: Five injured, including child, as Russia attacks Ukraine's capital.

5 people have now been injured in the ongoing Russian attack on Kyiv. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, 2 of the injured — including a child — have been hospitalized.
Five injured, including child, as Russia attacks Ukraine's capital
"There are already five victims in the capital. Two of them, including a child, were hospitalized," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
kyivindependent.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
alexismac.bsky.social
Absolutely barbaric. You listening AB?
rachelbitecofer.bsky.social Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 20h
Found out an old friend and co-worker of mine, an addict, had an aneurism that paralyzed him from the neck down and will kill him in the coming days.

They released him from the hospital bc he had no insurance and he’s dying on someone’s couch.

God bless the USA
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
"Autoportrait à la voilette (Self-Portrait with a Veil)" by Juliette Roche (French) - Oil on cardboard / c. 1953 - Musée Estrine (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France) #WomenInArt #JulietteRoche #Roche #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #artText #BlueskyArt #SelfPortrait #MuseeEstrine #MuséeEstrine
Painted around 1953, this is French artist Juliette Roche’s final self-portrait, made as she mourned the death of her husband, the Cubist painter Albert Gleizes. A widow’s veil signals grief, yet an unexpected yellow background and a steady, frontal gaze refuse a purely somber image. They echo the “piquant irony” that critics had noticed in her early Paris years. She presents herself as an older light-skinned woman facing us head-on, shown from the bust up against a flat, luminous yellow backdrop. Her shoulders are squared and still, the figure simply blocked in so that all attention rests on her face and a delicate mourning veil that frames it. The transparent netting softens her forehead and eyes, casting faint shadows across fine wrinkles and a gently slackened jaw. Her grey-brown hair is tucked away, her precisely-painted red lips closed in an almost-smile that hovers between fatigue, composure, and wry amusement. The brushwork is economical yet precise, with small modulations of pinks, greys, and cool shadows modeling the aging skin, while the bold yellow field behind her turns this intimate self-portrait into a quietly radiant, contemporary icon of an older woman looking straight back at us. Trained at the Académie Ranson and shaped by the Nabis, Cubist circles, and Dada experiments in New York with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, Roche had long used self-portraiture to assert herself not as “the artist at work” but as a thinking, modern woman. Here, in late life at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, after founding the Moly-Sabata artists’ community and helping sustain avant-garde networks, she paints herself one last time ... veiled yet vividly present ... claiming space for an older female artist whose creativity, independence, and quiet humor persist even in mourning.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
Prime Minister Mark Carney disagrees with the concept of a premier of one province unilaterally taking over a different province but his hands are tied by his unwillingness to do anything about it.
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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amandaweavernovels.com
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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hollyhoye.bsky.social
THIS.

Exactly what has been bothering me the most, and I’m in Alberta.
stewartprest.ca Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 1d
As a political scientist, I think the effects on unity are some of the biggest problems with the agreement. It legitimates "Alberta" as an aggrieved party, distinct from other provinces, while treating BC and its peoples to be as issues to be managed, rather than partners in the federation.
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"My poll numbers have never been better."
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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abdanielsmith.bsky.social
A quick recap of the last 7 years of UCP leadership in Alberta.

#abpoli #UCPCorruption #ableg #abhealth
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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weratedogs.com
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
alexismac.bsky.social
Excellent synopsis from Max Fawcett.
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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abdanielsmith.bsky.social
After 7 years of UCP leadership we have managed to waste $80 BILLION of YOUR money under the guise of fiscal responsibility!

Thank you for consistently voting conservative and for always blaming Ottawa!

See what we’ve done:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption
HOW THE UCP IS COSTING ALBERTANS BILLIONS OF $$$.docx
THE UCP IS COSTING ALBERTANS BILLIONS OF $$$ As of August 2025 - I am sure we are missing lots! General Budget Highlights|Alberta Railroad Contract to get oil to Texas - $2.1 Billion Keystone XL Pip...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM