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Debbie Benson YEG
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Progressive Canadian; Retired Teacher; Opinions are my own, willing to listen to other perspectives, open to learning! She/Her 🇨🇦 🌈 🌎
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Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Looks like there's an effort underway to issue a recall petition for Danielle Smith as well.

Website: recalldaniellesmith.ca

FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/41699...

#Alberta #ableg #abpoli
Home - RECALL PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH
Next Event Coming Soon… ✵ Recall Premier Danielle Smith The list of reasons Danielle Smith should be recalled are as follows: The above text was released October 29, 2025 by the Alberta Branch of the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Via @drewanderson.bsky.social

‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal
The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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What a racket - the Alberta government, instead of the oil companies, is paying lease payments to landowners.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The landowners don't like the fact that their tax dollars and the dollars of other taxpayers are subsidizing deadbeat oil and gas companies
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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As I've written elsewhere, the UCP can invoke s33, but they are not required to.

The government's defenders will equate ability with necessity and righteousness. But those are not the same thing. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/can-they-m...
Can they? Must they? Should they?
Three questions to answer about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause
drjaredwesley.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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After mostly eliminating red light and speeding cameras in cities, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen is now considering raising speed limits on rural highways to 120 km/hr. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Have your say on highway speed limits
Alberta’s government is engaging with Albertans on increasing speed limits on rural highways.
www.alberta.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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“Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says”

Congratulations Alberta! We did it! Thanks Dani!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The US Supreme Court has acted like it's one of Kim Davis's many husbands and kicked the "Marriage is Sacred, Y'all!!!" hypocrite to the curb. Glory!
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Jeffries: "I'm not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr Oz who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke."
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Reporter: Dr Oz said that—

Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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“Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?”

Given Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause, I want a referendum on this

Go to the link below to find a location & time to sign
#ableg #abpoli
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Have you signed the Alberta Funds Public Schools Petition yet?

More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

#ableg #abpoli
Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
abfundspublicschools.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Meanwhile in Oakland Ca
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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This guys brain is mush.
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM