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Posts on Animals, Social Issues & Misc Matters | Prounouns She/Her | Reposts & ❤ or Likes are not endorsements. Views are my own. Also find me on Threads🧵.
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Will not put up with trolls or accounts from the right or left sowing of discord which is counter productive to solutions & change. Accounts messaging or tagging me in this respect will be blocked.
Not interested in the X musky vibe.
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Hey Fellow #Albertans,
Time to remind AB Gov't over 80% of us already said hands off our mountains when Kenney was Premier.
Seems they forgot we like water, mountains to ski & hike in and just to marvel at. Please Get out and sign the petition.
Mr @lukaszukab.bsky.social please circulate
#ableg
Join us in Lethbridge next Friday! Sign our petition in person, and meet with your fellow community leaders!

You asked, we answered. We've got three campaign launch events across Alberta next weekend!
#waternotcoal #coalpetition #alberta #lethbridge
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Join us in Lethbridge next Friday! Sign our petition in person, and meet with your fellow community leaders!

You asked, we answered. We've got three campaign launch events across Alberta next weekend!
#waternotcoal #coalpetition #alberta #lethbridge
February 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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“The head of Enbridge Inc says the company is unwilling to take on the financial risk of developing a new oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s west coast.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/ind...
Enbridge says it’s not willing to take on development risk of Alberta pipeline project
CEO Greg Ebel says his company has enough other opportunities
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Listening to my #dog or in rare case both of my dogs snoring at same time is very soothing, but when a human does it... I do not find it soothing at all. And Jonas is one loud snoring pup. Wonder why doggy snoring is better?
##dogsarefamily
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media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States are driving up case counts and raising alarm among public health experts, especially as vaccination rates among children lag. CNN is tracking measles cases in the United States: https://cnn.it/4qxDKNi
Tracking measles cases in the United States | CNN
Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States are driving up case counts and raising alarm among public health experts, especially as vaccination rates among children lag.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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“Smith may say that she’s not a separatist, but she has gone out of her way many times to make it easier for a separatist referendum to be held.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Alberta separatists step up efforts to leave Canada after meeting with Trump officials
Separatists in Alberta are ramping up a petition campaign aimed at triggering an independence vote in the western province that has long complained its economy is being held back by the rest of Canada...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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“Bill 11 brings two-tier, Amerian-style health care to Alberta. It will mean that Albertans will experience a system where those who have money will be able to pay to have access to quicker care, and the rest of us will be left waiting longer or go without,” reddeeradvocate.com/2026/02/10/a...
Albertans join lobby to get feds to stop two-tier health care - Red Deer Advocate
‘Step up and protect our treasured public health care before it is too late’: Friends of Medicare
reddeeradvocate.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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A motion supporting separation from Canada was put forward at the party convention of the governing party of Alberta.

In 1924.

(It failed badly.)
February 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me
The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
xtramagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Anyone talking about making people work longer for retirement & not mentioning taxing billionaires isn't worth listening to, indeed is worthy of ridicule.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Retirement age will rise to cover superannuation cost, investment company predicts
Milford Investments CEO Blair Turnbull said unless the retirement age rises to 72 or 73, New Zealand can't afford to pay superannuation.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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High River school lifts hold-and-secure after call about 'armed visitor' calgaryherald.com/news/high-ri...
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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“It’s impossible to get help. There is nobody here. Even in the region, even in Fort St. John, even Prince George doesn’t have the resources, and it’s six hours away. The medical experts and the medical supports don’t exist here." edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
'You can't blame people for mental health': Neighbours don't see Tumbler Ridge shooter as a criminal, but as a victim
Tumbler Ridge residents who live three doors down from where Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother point to mental health failings.
edmontonjournal.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
No surprise #Lethbridge City Admin has won this round
"In a stunning development that surprised no one, Lethbridge City Council voted 7–2 Tuesday to scrap the Standing Policy Committee (SPC) model and replace it with the Community Issues Committee (CIC)"

dryalebelanger.substack.com/p/mama-wants...
MaMa Wants A CIC: Now, Dammit!
Seventeen fewer chances to speak despite infinite assurances to do so
dryalebelanger.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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US House votes against Canada tariffs in rare rebuke to Trump reut.rs/4rwzD5z
US House votes against Canada tariffs in rare rebuke to Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly backed a measure disapproving of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, a rare rebuke of the president and leaders of his party in the Republican-majority House.
reut.rs
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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New polling finds Americans believe Canada has a higher standard of living, while being broadly positive towards their northern neighbors

The feeling isn't mutual, according to polls north of the border

Read it for free here: usapolling.substack.com/p/canada-has...
Canada Has A Higher Standard Of Living, Say Americans
While Americans love their northern neighbors, the feeling isn't quite mutual
usapolling.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Braid: Angus Reid poll shows Alberta separation such an unpopular choice that people will leave the province if it goes ahead.

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Braid: Poll shows exodus from separate Alberta would make Quebec flight look minor
Angus Reid poll shows Alberta separation such an unpopular choice that people will leave the province if it goes ahead.
edmontonjournal.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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"This is no time for timidity. So, let’s say it: Alberta cannot separate from Canada on the basis of a referendum result. Maybe all of that separatist energy could be put to better use." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
Alberta’s separation from Canada would be illegal
Alberta separatism is gaining attention, but Canadian constitutional law and international law make independence virtually impossible.
policyoptions.irpp.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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Alberta separatists finally face the battle-hardened federalist fighters. Plus, I tell a really old story. Column.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #AlbertaIndependence #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg
Braid: Separatists had the stage but now face battle-hardened federalists
Some of the nation's top pro-Canada battlers against separatism are finally joining the fight in Alberta, writes columnist Don Braid.
calgaryherald.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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📢 Join @janisirwin.bsky.social and @marierenaud.bsky.social for an essential conversation on supporting the 2SLGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities communities in Alberta. Feb 17th. #StAlbert #AbPoli #Allyship #JanisIrwin #MarieRenaud
standing-with-our-community.eventbrite.ca
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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When it comes to national unity and national security, partisan divisions are cast aside and we, the federalists, are on Team Canada together.

#ForeverCanadian #ableg #cdnpoli

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Braid: Separatists had the stage but now face battle-hardened federalists
Some of the nation's top pro-Canada battlers against separatism are finally joining the fight in Alberta, writes columnist Don Braid.
calgaryherald.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Interesting
Most Canadians agree that Alberta separatists asking U.S. for help is treasonous: poll calgaryherald.com/news/canada/...
February 11, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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"Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left OUT of those maps"

theconversation.com/women-have-b... AND
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#GISchat ⚒️ 🧪 🌊
Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
theconversation.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM