Alex
@lakoustic.bsky.social
Politics, homemade stuff, dadhood, and generally commenting on a little bit of everything.
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When Canadians complain about our healthcare system, they are often skipping over the massive amount of mismanagement by the provinces. Don’t say “it doesn’t work” while provinces do this ⬇️ regularly
Things you could buy with $30 million…
- Planning for ~ 16 urgent care centers
- Funding for orthopedic surgeries at the RAH for 125 years
- 85 new ambulances (fully stocked)
- 5,000 bottles of off brand children’s medication on pharmacy shelves.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
- Planning for ~ 16 urgent care centers
- Funding for orthopedic surgeries at the RAH for 125 years
- 85 new ambulances (fully stocked)
- 5,000 bottles of off brand children’s medication on pharmacy shelves.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Danielle Smith's $30-Million AHS Firing Spree via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
February 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
When Canadians complain about our healthcare system, they are often skipping over the massive amount of mismanagement by the provinces. Don’t say “it doesn’t work” while provinces do this ⬇️ regularly
Hitting my goal isn’t looking likely, so go donate to Erin and keep her gold button streak alive!
There are 4 weeks until the walk which means I have 4 weeks to hot my goal!
Please consider helping me raise $65 more dollars. You guys have helped me get where I'm at so far and I know you can help me finish.
Xoxo, Erin
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Please consider helping me raise $65 more dollars. You guys have helped me get where I'm at so far and I know you can help me finish.
Xoxo, Erin
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CNOY 2026 Fundhub Canada
The Coldest Night of the Year is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local charities. Let’s change the tune for people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness... because i...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Hitting my goal isn’t looking likely, so go donate to Erin and keep her gold button streak alive!
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I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest that every political leader in Alberta needs to officially come out hard against this separatist nonsense to send a message. Every mayor, every county reeve, every MLA with the stones to speak the truth needs to do it.
January 23, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest that every political leader in Alberta needs to officially come out hard against this separatist nonsense to send a message. Every mayor, every county reeve, every MLA with the stones to speak the truth needs to do it.
Considering the events of the day, it feels like a good time to post this @raffi_music cover. As always, I’m doing to to raise funds to support houseless Edmontonians, so please consider a donation at cnoy.w-ith.me/AlexL, like, share, and enjoy!
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RAFFI - ABC Democracy (cover)
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January 21, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Considering the events of the day, it feels like a good time to post this @raffi_music cover. As always, I’m doing to to raise funds to support houseless Edmontonians, so please consider a donation at cnoy.w-ith.me/AlexL, like, share, and enjoy!
youtu.be/aM6K-aA7Aa4?...
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Fundraising for #CNOY26 Coldest Night Of The Year for the Bissell Centre in downtown Edmonton. One-take covers from a guy who needs to practice more. Please donate anything you can or help by sharing.
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Boy Golden - Suffer (cover)
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January 20, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Fundraising for #CNOY26 Coldest Night Of The Year for the Bissell Centre in downtown Edmonton. One-take covers from a guy who needs to practice more. Please donate anything you can or help by sharing.
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youtu.be/VmnvOmVCsMU?si
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Today is Hockey Day in 🇨🇦 so I’m reposting the one-take Stompin’ Tom cover I did last year. Please help me raise funds for the Bissell Centre helping out houseless neighbours in downtown Edmonton by donating at this link secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
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Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song cover
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January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Today is Hockey Day in 🇨🇦 so I’m reposting the one-take Stompin’ Tom cover I did last year. Please help me raise funds for the Bissell Centre helping out houseless neighbours in downtown Edmonton by donating at this link secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
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With 26 days left, the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” petition is only a quarter of the way to their goal….
Here’s where you can sign.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
Here’s where you can sign.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
abfundspublicschools.ca
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
With 26 days left, the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” petition is only a quarter of the way to their goal….
Here’s where you can sign.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
Here’s where you can sign.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
I’m still fundraising for the Bissell Centre as part of the Coldest Night Of The Year campaign if anybody has some room in their budget for donations. Any amount helps those in need via a proven org with feet on the ground.
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CNOY 2026 Fundhub Canada
The Coldest Night of the Year is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local charities. Let’s change the tune for people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness... because i...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I’m still fundraising for the Bissell Centre as part of the Coldest Night Of The Year campaign if anybody has some room in their budget for donations. Any amount helps those in need via a proven org with feet on the ground.
secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
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Among other things, the city needs to explain why this specific plane is privately owned when previous planes were owned by the city. Why did Edmonton tax payers buy a plane for private shareholders?
Edmonton police quietly replaced their surveillance plane in 2023 with an unusually expensive model marketed as a luxury aircraft, an access to information request reveals.
Edmonton police have replaced their secret surveillance plane with a multimillion dollar “luxury flying SUV”
EPS has replaced their former surveillance aircraft with a multimillion dollar new plane that the manufacturer describes as a "luxury flying SUV."
www.theprogressreport.ca
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Among other things, the city needs to explain why this specific plane is privately owned when previous planes were owned by the city. Why did Edmonton tax payers buy a plane for private shareholders?
Honestly, I don’t really want to sing songs for nickels to start 2026. Please donate at the quoted link so I don’t have to.
Here’s one from last year that got a bunch of views inexplicably though. youtu.be/mYmvrq-e1kM?...
Here’s one from last year that got a bunch of views inexplicably though. youtu.be/mYmvrq-e1kM?...
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Honestly, I don’t really want to sing songs for nickels to start 2026. Please donate at the quoted link so I don’t have to.
Here’s one from last year that got a bunch of views inexplicably though. youtu.be/mYmvrq-e1kM?...
Here’s one from last year that got a bunch of views inexplicably though. youtu.be/mYmvrq-e1kM?...
The difference a year of sourdoughing makes.
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The difference a year of sourdoughing makes.
If you’d like to make a donation in your name to The Human Fund (money for people) this #Festivus, look no further than this actual, legitimate charitable endeavour which will help fund outreach programs for houseless individuals in Edmonton.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If you’d like to make a donation in your name to The Human Fund (money for people) this #Festivus, look no further than this actual, legitimate charitable endeavour which will help fund outreach programs for houseless individuals in Edmonton.
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Preach, @andrewknack. Edmontonians deserve a fair voice in our provincial legislature. One Albertan, one vote.
Your vote shouldn’t count less because you live in Terwillegar than Two Hills.
Your vote shouldn’t count less because you live in Terwillegar than Two Hills.
December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Preach, @andrewknack. Edmontonians deserve a fair voice in our provincial legislature. One Albertan, one vote.
Your vote shouldn’t count less because you live in Terwillegar than Two Hills.
Your vote shouldn’t count less because you live in Terwillegar than Two Hills.
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A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.
Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.
Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Donate a bunch and I won’t pester you all with 2+ months of bad acoustic guitar covers. secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
CNOY 2026 Fundhub Canada
The Coldest Night of the Year is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local charities. Let’s change the tune for people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness... because i...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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👀 The Table of Availability™️
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
👀 The Table of Availability™️
…did Carney just get Danielle Smith to smilingly agree to, effectively, the Notley NDP’s carbon strategy (sans c-tax) while putting the onus of getting buy-in from Indigenous leadership and BC on her, and requiring a private partnership on the actual (theoretical) pipeline build? Because if so, 👏
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
…did Carney just get Danielle Smith to smilingly agree to, effectively, the Notley NDP’s carbon strategy (sans c-tax) while putting the onus of getting buy-in from Indigenous leadership and BC on her, and requiring a private partnership on the actual (theoretical) pipeline build? Because if so, 👏
An Alberta Sovereignty banner has gone up in my neighbourhood. The house also has a Trump flag, and a half Alberta/half American flag.
So do they want sovereignty, or do they want to be annexed? I doubt they know. Just dumb enough to be dangerous.
So do they want sovereignty, or do they want to be annexed? I doubt they know. Just dumb enough to be dangerous.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
An Alberta Sovereignty banner has gone up in my neighbourhood. The house also has a Trump flag, and a half Alberta/half American flag.
So do they want sovereignty, or do they want to be annexed? I doubt they know. Just dumb enough to be dangerous.
So do they want sovereignty, or do they want to be annexed? I doubt they know. Just dumb enough to be dangerous.
For all the folks attending protests and collecting signatures in Alberta, it might be a good idea to brush up on these skills.
Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
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November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For all the folks attending protests and collecting signatures in Alberta, it might be a good idea to brush up on these skills.
We need a referendum to force the government to never introduce or pass laws based entirely on religious grounds.
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We need a referendum to force the government to never introduce or pass laws based entirely on religious grounds.
I know it’s a coincidence and has likely been booked for months prior to being released publicly, but Dave Chappelle announcing a show in Edmonton the morning after our government stripped rights away from the Trans community is a little too on-the-nose, don’t ya think?
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I know it’s a coincidence and has likely been booked for months prior to being released publicly, but Dave Chappelle announcing a show in Edmonton the morning after our government stripped rights away from the Trans community is a little too on-the-nose, don’t ya think?
At this rate, I expect Danielle Smith will also invoke the Notwithstanding Clause when a red light at the Legislature parkade stops her hasty exit later tonight, too.
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
At this rate, I expect Danielle Smith will also invoke the Notwithstanding Clause when a red light at the Legislature parkade stops her hasty exit later tonight, too.
Looking at some printable Letter To Santa templates, as one does in mid-November, and getting irrationally annoyed at every one that lists Santa’s address as North Pole, USA.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Looking at some printable Letter To Santa templates, as one does in mid-November, and getting irrationally annoyed at every one that lists Santa’s address as North Pole, USA.
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I am soooooo close to 50%! Can I make it there today? With friends like you, it'll be easy.
Every dollar you help me raise goes to help Bissell and they are an incredible organization.
Thank you
Xoxo Erin
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Every dollar you help me raise goes to help Bissell and they are an incredible organization.
Thank you
Xoxo Erin
secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
CNOY 2026 Fundhub Canada
The Coldest Night of the Year is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local charities. Let’s change the tune for people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness... because i...
secure.e2rm.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I am soooooo close to 50%! Can I make it there today? With friends like you, it'll be easy.
Every dollar you help me raise goes to help Bissell and they are an incredible organization.
Thank you
Xoxo Erin
secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
Every dollar you help me raise goes to help Bissell and they are an incredible organization.
Thank you
Xoxo Erin
secure.e2rm.com/registrant/F...
One day, in a hopefully not too distant future, we’ll all go to bed not having seen his face, read his name, or heard him spoken of or alluded to all day. It will be a beautiful, cleansing event even if we probably won’t realize it in the moment.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
One day, in a hopefully not too distant future, we’ll all go to bed not having seen his face, read his name, or heard him spoken of or alluded to all day. It will be a beautiful, cleansing event even if we probably won’t realize it in the moment.