Scallion
@scallionator.bsky.social
Member of The Honourable Profession. NDP because I work for a living. Proud father.
Privileged to live on Treaty 6 Territory.
Privileged to live on Treaty 6 Territory.
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Indigenous actress 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
‘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 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress 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
Definitely have to share one of the most iconic Thanksgiving Day reenactments today. Grab those cardigans and highballs and enjoy! 🦃 🍁 🪶🔥🍽️
Addams Family Values: Thanksgiving play (HD CLIP)
YouTube video by Binge Society
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November 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.
Ottawa-Alberta agreement clears federal hurdles for west coast pipeline, suspends clean energy regulations
Federal government won’t implement its oil and gas emissions cap, and both sides will consult with B.C. on project, MOU says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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You never know if your town or region is the best in sustainability before winning prizes and putting work in.
It's always the same in these sustainability affairs, the local effort that makes the real difference never shows up in the international media. Sometimes it does, but not often.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
How Oulu became the winter cycling capital of the world
Through a series of simple changes, the city of Oulu encourages its residents to cycle through the snowy winter. What can other cities learn from the pioneer of winter cycling?
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
You never know if your town or region is the best in sustainability before winning prizes and putting work in.
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Energy systems are at the heart of climate change, technology, and the future of how we live, but they’re far more complex than most people realise.
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
How Energy Systems REALLY work - here's 3 ways of understanding Energy Systems | Energy 101, Ep 4
YouTube video by chrisjardine.energy
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November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Energy systems are at the heart of climate change, technology, and the future of how we live, but they’re far more complex than most people realise.
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
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On this day in 1994, the BC Lions defeated the Baltimore Football Club to win the Grey Cup.
This was the first Grey Cup to feature a United States-vs-Canada matchup.
The Lions won the game 26-23 thanks to a field goal by Lui Passaglia.
📸 Mark van Manen
This was the first Grey Cup to feature a United States-vs-Canada matchup.
The Lions won the game 26-23 thanks to a field goal by Lui Passaglia.
📸 Mark van Manen
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is your daily reminder that SUVs are killing children.
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is your daily reminder that SUVs are killing children.
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🇨🇦 A HOUSE DIVIDED: CARNEY'S PIPELINE GAMBLE RATTLES LIBERAL CAUCUS 🇨🇦
Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to announce a "grand bargain" with Alberta—a new path for a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
But inside Ottawa, the friction is palpable.
#CdnPoli #BcPoli #AbLeg #CdnEnergy
🇨🇦 A HOUSE DIVIDED: CARNEY'S PIPELINE GAMBLE RATTLES LIBERAL CAUCUS 🇨🇦
Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to announce a "grand bargain" with Alberta—a new path for a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
But inside Ottawa, the friction is palpable.
#CdnPoli #BcPoli #AbLeg #CdnEnergy
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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🇨🇦 A HOUSE DIVIDED: CARNEY'S PIPELINE GAMBLE RATTLES LIBERAL CAUCUS 🇨🇦
Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to announce a "grand bargain" with Alberta—a new path for a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
But inside Ottawa, the friction is palpable.
#CdnPoli #BcPoli #AbLeg #CdnEnergy
🇨🇦 A HOUSE DIVIDED: CARNEY'S PIPELINE GAMBLE RATTLES LIBERAL CAUCUS 🇨🇦
Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to announce a "grand bargain" with Alberta—a new path for a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
But inside Ottawa, the friction is palpable.
#CdnPoli #BcPoli #AbLeg #CdnEnergy
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‘Ice in his veins’: Montreal Carabins’ Pepe Gonzalez becomes fourth first-year QB to win Vanier Cup
3downnation.com/2025/11/22/i...
#USports #VanierCup #Carabins #CFL
3downnation.com/2025/11/22/i...
#USports #VanierCup #Carabins #CFL
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
‘Ice in his veins’: Montreal Carabins’ Pepe Gonzalez becomes fourth first-year QB to win Vanier Cup
3downnation.com/2025/11/22/i...
#USports #VanierCup #Carabins #CFL
3downnation.com/2025/11/22/i...
#USports #VanierCup #Carabins #CFL
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1/7
🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S HEALTH CARE "EXPERIMENT": EXPERTS WARN THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS 🇨🇦
#Bill11 paves the way for a "dual practice" model, allowing doctors to work in both public & private systems.
The #UCP promises shorter wait times. Experts fear a system collapse.
#AbLeg #CdnHealth #Alberta
🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S HEALTH CARE "EXPERIMENT": EXPERTS WARN THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS 🇨🇦
#Bill11 paves the way for a "dual practice" model, allowing doctors to work in both public & private systems.
The #UCP promises shorter wait times. Experts fear a system collapse.
#AbLeg #CdnHealth #Alberta
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S HEALTH CARE "EXPERIMENT": EXPERTS WARN THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS 🇨🇦
#Bill11 paves the way for a "dual practice" model, allowing doctors to work in both public & private systems.
The #UCP promises shorter wait times. Experts fear a system collapse.
#AbLeg #CdnHealth #Alberta
🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S HEALTH CARE "EXPERIMENT": EXPERTS WARN THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS 🇨🇦
#Bill11 paves the way for a "dual practice" model, allowing doctors to work in both public & private systems.
The #UCP promises shorter wait times. Experts fear a system collapse.
#AbLeg #CdnHealth #Alberta
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1/5
🇨🇦 BOOM TURNS TO BUST: DRILLING RIGS GO QUIET ACROSS THE WEST 🇨🇦
North American oil has slumped below $60 US a barrel. The rigs are powering down.
A new industry report confirms the slowdown is here, and it is digging in for the long haul.
#CdnEnergy #AbLeg #BcPoli #Economy
🇨🇦 BOOM TURNS TO BUST: DRILLING RIGS GO QUIET ACROSS THE WEST 🇨🇦
North American oil has slumped below $60 US a barrel. The rigs are powering down.
A new industry report confirms the slowdown is here, and it is digging in for the long haul.
#CdnEnergy #AbLeg #BcPoli #Economy
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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🇨🇦 BOOM TURNS TO BUST: DRILLING RIGS GO QUIET ACROSS THE WEST 🇨🇦
North American oil has slumped below $60 US a barrel. The rigs are powering down.
A new industry report confirms the slowdown is here, and it is digging in for the long haul.
#CdnEnergy #AbLeg #BcPoli #Economy
🇨🇦 BOOM TURNS TO BUST: DRILLING RIGS GO QUIET ACROSS THE WEST 🇨🇦
North American oil has slumped below $60 US a barrel. The rigs are powering down.
A new industry report confirms the slowdown is here, and it is digging in for the long haul.
#CdnEnergy #AbLeg #BcPoli #Economy
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"Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1m (£830,000) to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity – such as bacteria and fungi – that lives in nature."
I was in a nature preschool.
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I was in a nature preschool.
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1m (£830,000) to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity – such as bacteria and fungi – that lives in nature."
I was in a nature preschool.
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I was in a nature preschool.
#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to north coast 'will never happen' and I agree with them
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli #Bcpoli #Indigenous
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli #Bcpoli #Indigenous
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to north coast 'will never happen'
OTTAWA - The president of the Coastal First Nations in British Columbia said Wednesday an oil pipeline to the province's north coast "will never happen" and slammed Ottawa for negotiating
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to north coast 'will never happen' and I agree with them
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli #Bcpoli #Indigenous
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
#Cdnpoli #Abpoli #Bcpoli #Indigenous
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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#palestine #gaza #hospital #funding #UK #cumbria
Carlisle and District Palestine Solidarity Group will be in the city centre this weekend to help raise funds for a Gaza field hospital.
The group is backing the British Red Cross, which is setting up the hospital to treat the wounded.
Carlisle and District Palestine Solidarity Group will be in the city centre this weekend to help raise funds for a Gaza field hospital.
The group is backing the British Red Cross, which is setting up the hospital to treat the wounded.
Palestine Solidarity Group to raise funds for Gaza field hospital – cumbriacrack.com
cumbriacrack.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Such good news for Canadian Military members.
This has been a looonnnggg time coming!
Government Announces Details for Upcoming CAF Pay Increase - Canadian Military Family Magazine share.google/OpKy1diGv8Vo...
This has been a looonnnggg time coming!
Government Announces Details for Upcoming CAF Pay Increase - Canadian Military Family Magazine share.google/OpKy1diGv8Vo...
Government Announces Details for Upcoming CAF Pay Increase - Canadian Military Family Magazine
The much-anticipated second announcement has been made by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) regarding pay increases.. CANFORGEN 174/25 delves into details about pay raises, changes to housing and separa...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Such good news for Canadian Military members.
This has been a looonnnggg time coming!
Government Announces Details for Upcoming CAF Pay Increase - Canadian Military Family Magazine share.google/OpKy1diGv8Vo...
This has been a looonnnggg time coming!
Government Announces Details for Upcoming CAF Pay Increase - Canadian Military Family Magazine share.google/OpKy1diGv8Vo...
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🇫🇷‼️ Two men and one woman were detained in France on suspicion of espionage and attempts to influence public opinion in favor of Russia, - DW
The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation into the French-Russian organization SOS Donbass.
The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation into the French-Russian organization SOS Donbass.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🇫🇷‼️ Two men and one woman were detained in France on suspicion of espionage and attempts to influence public opinion in favor of Russia, - DW
The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation into the French-Russian organization SOS Donbass.
The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation into the French-Russian organization SOS Donbass.
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RECALL THEM ALL 🗳️ NOV 26 UPDATE: #RecallGlubish has entered the arena! 14 MLAs are approved for signature gathering now. 5 more paperwork submitted, 4 targeted including DS. The games are heating up before the UCP AGM party. #ABleg #ABpol #RecallThemAll #TotalRecall
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
RECALL THEM ALL 🗳️ NOV 26 UPDATE: #RecallGlubish has entered the arena! 14 MLAs are approved for signature gathering now. 5 more paperwork submitted, 4 targeted including DS. The games are heating up before the UCP AGM party. #ABleg #ABpol #RecallThemAll #TotalRecall
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“The province says the changes are designed to reduce health card misuse”
Health card misuse? Get a grip on reality.
How about we reduce the UCP’s “misuse” of our government?
Health card misuse? Get a grip on reality.
How about we reduce the UCP’s “misuse” of our government?
Dear UCP, can you do one thing, anything, to make life better? NO, the answer is NO. Literally EVERYTHING you do makes things more complicated and expensive. You are obviously as bad at cutting red tape as you are at being libertarians. #ableg #abpoli #abhealth medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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...
medicinehatnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“The province says the changes are designed to reduce health card misuse”
Health card misuse? Get a grip on reality.
How about we reduce the UCP’s “misuse” of our government?
Health card misuse? Get a grip on reality.
How about we reduce the UCP’s “misuse” of our government?
"With $6 of every $10 in profits crossing the border, never to return, Canadian oil sands majors produced $12.3 billion worth of capital flight per year."
#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
/more
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
/more
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Their union, the Farmers Union are lobbying for this. While I have supported a local farmer via CSA for years, I haven’t discussed this latest move by their union to which I know he belongs. And likely it is the big corporate farms, looking for government funds.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Their union, the Farmers Union are lobbying for this. While I have supported a local farmer via CSA for years, I haven’t discussed this latest move by their union to which I know he belongs. And likely it is the big corporate farms, looking for government funds.
By 'farmers' do you mean corporations that have been buying farms because they're too expensive for normal ppl to purchase?
UBI…Canada! Whoops, only for farmers who have notoriously voted Conservative.
Farmers will lobby Ottawa for $50K guaranteed annual income pilot program. #cdnpoli
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/far...
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/far...
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
By 'farmers' do you mean corporations that have been buying farms because they're too expensive for normal ppl to purchase?
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UBI…Canada! Whoops, only for farmers who have notoriously voted Conservative.
Farmers will lobby Ottawa for $50K guaranteed annual income pilot program. #cdnpoli
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/far...
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/far...
Farmers will lobby Ottawa for $50K guaranteed annual income pilot program
HALIFAX - A farmers advocacy group says it plans to lobby the federal government for a guaranteed annual income of $50,000.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
UBI…Canada! Whoops, only for farmers who have notoriously voted Conservative.