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Leeta 🇨🇦
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🇨🇦 #Canadian placemaker, artist, geek, active citizen, tech writer, ally. 🌈 Photography, painting, music, books, science, lateral thinking, creativity, kindness. She/her. Treaty 7. 🍁🦫
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micropainter.bsky.social
Lest we forget.

Night of Lights, Field of Crosses.

#yyc #Calgary #Alberta #Canada #RemembranceDay #ForeverCanadian #WeAreCanadian 🇨🇦
Row of crosses, each one with a candle burning beneath from sunset to sunrise for Remembrance Day, November 11th.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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canadianpolling.bsky.social
Alberta - Support for a general strike in response to the government's actions during the teachers strike:

Support: 51%
Oppose: 31%

Neutral: 13%

Leger / Nov 2, 2025 / n=1002 / Online
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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abdanielsmith.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING! 🚨

Thanks to science denying, easily manipulated Albertans who spend so much time online spreading lies and disinformation about vaccines, we have succeeded in ending Canada's THREE DECADE measles-free status!

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
#abpoli #ableg #abhealth
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the Pan American Health Organization said on Monday, a loss that also result...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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tech15.bsky.social
Reposting with righteous fury. Sign the petition! #ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
micropainter.bsky.social
A majority of Albertans support a general strike in response to Danielle Smith and the UCP invoking the Notwithstanding clause to suspend teachers’ Charter rights.

#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #abed #abpse #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
micropainter.bsky.social
Cookin’ November-style.

#Canada #yyc #Alberta #WhatsForDinner
Filling for lasagna plus noodles boiling: carrots, green onion, onion, garlic, fire-roasted tomatoes, spinach, peas, minced beef, mushrooms, spices, wine, oregano, basil, lemon pepper.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
micropainter.bsky.social
We just signed this petition at Confederation park in the 10th Street NW parking lot by Rosemont Community Association. They’re there till 1:00pm today (Monday)!

We stand with teachers!

#yyc #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Calgary #Canada #CanadaSky #SupportABTeachers

abfundspublicschools.ca
Protect Public Education sticker
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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jaredwesley.ca
The UCP’s excuses for using the notwithstanding clause — “because we can,” “because we have to,” and “because we say so” — do not meet Lougheed's standards.

My latest.

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Defying the Lougheed Doctrine
The UCP's repeated use of the notwithstanding is fundamentally unconservative (and un-Albertan).
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
micropainter.bsky.social
Chinook + sunset = gorgeous!

#Evening #BlueskyArtFeed #Photography #Art #NaturePhotography #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #CanadaSky
Magenta fushcia sunset on chinook clouds in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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marc55.bsky.social
She can't have it both ways stupids.
Over riding peoples rights to strike, which is anti-democratic, and then claim it's anti-democratic to appeal???

You can be that stupid media, but I refuse.
#cdnpoli #ableg
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
On a week that...

- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...

Smith claims EMS is fixed.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
In a stunning display of "talk with confidence & people will believe you"...

Smith goes from blaming school boards, to saying she might eliminate admin roles, to saying classroom caps don't work to saying she wants to get to caps...

Really.

#abpoli #abed #cdnpoli #abed
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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recallmickey.ca
There are six places where signatures are being collected today, November 9, in Calgary-Bow to recall MLA and Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.

Visit Operation Total Recall to learn more. #ableg #abpoli #YYC #OperationTotalRecall

operationtotalrecall.ca
Operation Total Recall — Organize Local Recall Campaigns
Grassroots hub to organize riding-by-riding recall efforts for the 44 Alberta MLAs who supported using the Notwithstanding Clause against not just teachers, but all Alberta workers. Find your MLA, joi...
operationtotalrecall.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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msthpetra.bsky.social
Wow! #UCP as expected:
No party membership for PRs
No more pride flags
No healthcare for temp residents
Full ministerial control over sex ed materials
Opposed to emissions reduction (several)
Pipelines!
AB pension plan
Right to self protection
AB independence (several)
…. #ABpoli
heartforward.bsky.social Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 1d
Resolutions rhat will be discussed at the upcoming UCP AGM unitedconservative.ca/wp-content/u...
unitedconservative.ca
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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crankyoldlady.bsky.social
Danielle Smith is an O&G lobbyist, a private healthcare lobbyist and now a coal lobbyist with a side hustle as premier.
#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #DanielleSmithIsLyingToYou #AdrianaLaGrangeIsIncompetent #EndUCPCorruption #CorruptCare #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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forwardcanada.bsky.social
This week on ‘Whatever This Is’ we unpack why Danielle Smith is running Alberta like a cosplay authoritarian because she’s too weak to govern like a Premier.

We break down her fake “strongman” act, her panic over recall laws, and what Albertans can do to push back.

Follow for more #abpoli #ableg
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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petersmith.bsky.social
A failed UCP candidate is suing @pressprogress.ca for reporting and quoting things she said.

With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle.

If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.
lukelebrun.ca Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 3d
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever

We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help

If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:

pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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donnadon.ca
The RCMP *must* investigate these threats to Former MP Jeneroux.

This is very serious.

#cdnpoli #ableg #edmonton #yeg
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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thunderbayed.bsky.social
Conservative sources:
'The Conservative whip threatened Jeneroux'

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November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
micropainter.bsky.social
Well, restricting convention attendees to UCP Maple Maga loyalists worked for Danielle’s leadership review, so….

#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg
stevev68.bsky.social Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 1d
Tonda MacCharles reports on CBC that there is a "heavy handed approach" to the delegate selection for the CPC convention. Instead of allowing a free vote on leadership, Poilievre is strong arming ridings to send sympathetic delegates. Nothing says strength like using fear to survive. #cdnpoli
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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stevev68.bsky.social
Tonda MacCharles reports on CBC that there is a "heavy handed approach" to the delegate selection for the CPC convention. Instead of allowing a free vote on leadership, Poilievre is strong arming ridings to send sympathetic delegates. Nothing says strength like using fear to survive. #cdnpoli
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sarobertson.bsky.social
JOHNS: “I don't think it was a far stretch for Chris d'Entremont to cross over and join the Liberal Party of today, ’cause Carney's running on...a Progressive Conservative agenda. And the Conservative Party has certainly pivoted back to more the Reform Party of the past and a MAGA-type party.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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lynnemcd.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Floor crossing is 'a victory' for Wildrose Party, Danielle Smith says | CBC News
Danielle Smith is defending her decision to cross the floor to the Progressive Conservatives, calling it a 'victory; for the Wildrose Party, in an interview on CBC Radio's The House.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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thunderbayed.bsky.social
‼️HYPOCRITES‼️

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November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM