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Elsie Wellgood
@wellgoodelsie.bsky.social
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Canadian 🇨🇦 sociologist with a background in health, food, technology & the intersectionality in inequality.
Vote because it is important. I vote with my ballot, my feet, my dollar, my time, my attention. Vote, don’t complain. #ElbowsUp
Salty & sweet.
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Tell me which Bills that the UCP have pushed through have actually benefited Albertans?
#Alberta #ABpoli

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Alberta tries to legislate ban on lawsuits about AIMCo losses | CBC News
The Alberta government is proposing new legislation to prevent public sector pensions from suing the Alberta Investment Management Corp., or AIMCo, for decisions made before November 2024.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Throw the book at Stellantis! I smell bs. This looks and sounds more like a stalling tactic. Pathetic and unacceptable.
#stellantis #Canada #politics #Windsor

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MPs ‘speechless’ after Stellantis fails to show up to hearing, citing technical issues | CBC News
Members of Parliament from multiple parties slammed Stellantis on Tuesday for failing to show up to a committee hearing about the federal government’s multimillion-dollar funding deals with the global...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I see AI legislation as a dereliction of duty. I’ve read AI works and it sucks. This is legislators pawning off the job to something even more incompetent than they are. Resign. The Smith regime does not want to work.
#Alberta #ABpoli #AI #legislation #badactors

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Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Release these transcripts too.
#Trump #transcipts #Khashoggi

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Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
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November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Really Vance? My question to the DL diva queen: If Canada’s standard of living is stagnant, why is our life expectancy consistently higher than yours? Sounds like your standard of living is declining if life expectancy is down.
#FuckOffFascists
#Canada
#USA #immigration

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JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Incredible! Wolves using crab traps to snatch a meal from humans.
#wolves #BCwildlife

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B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species | CBC News
Within a day of the cameras being set up in the Heiltsuk First Nation last year, researchers  captured footage of a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth. The footage the...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Perhaps this is a window into similar circumstances in other provinces. Affordable housing and shelters for victims of domestic violence must be available for Canadians. More should be built.
#Canada #BCpoli #domesticviolence

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Report reveals how domestic abusers weaponize B.C.'s housing crisis, calls for more legal aid | CBC News
A legal group's interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence show that many stay in abusive relationships because they can't find affordable housing. Following the interviews, a report from ...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Does anyone else think these “men’s clubs” are gay? It’s safe to come out of the closet here in Canada.
#CanadianAntiHateNetwork #misogyny #racism

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I don’t think I have ever seen a Newfoundlander pup half shaved. I’m so used to seeing them as adorable shaggy dogs that I don’t know if I would have clocked them as a dog from afar.

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The ‘lion’ filmed roaming the Irish countryside is a Newfoundland dog named Mouse | CBC Radio
It turns out, the creature filmed slinking through the forest was not a lion, but rather a Newfoundland dog with a lion haircut.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This is a war crime and must be condemned as such.

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Called narco-terrorists by Trump administration, men 'executed' in Venezuela are mourned by loved ones | CBC News
More than 60 people killed since early September when the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs. The Associated Press learned the identities of...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It is egregious that Canada weapons are finding their way to the frontlines of not one, but two genocides.
#Canada #Gaza #Sudan
@mark-carney.bsky.social

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Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, accused of civilian massacres, have posted numerous images posing with rifles bearing the logo of a small B.C. manufacturer called Sterling Cross Defense Systems. Ex...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Good! It is an abuse of power.
#Alberta #ABpoli #ATA #teacherstrike #courtchallenge

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Teachers' union taking Alberta government to court over notwithstanding clause | CBC News
The Alberta Teachers’ Association has filed a constitutional challenge of a provincial government law that forced educators across the province back to work and imposed a new contract.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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They were not in their 40s. These women were in their 50s and 60s playing women in their 50s, with the exception of Blanche (sorta iykyk) and Sophia. They were playing women their age (the exception being Sophia). The youth really seem to struggle with #aging sheesh 🙄

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November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I remember attending a charity event in university in support of the people in the Darfur region. That was 20 years ago. Today, I have a difficult time getting any information about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. That’s not right.
#Sudan #humanitariancrisis

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Mass killings continue in Sudan's El Fasher, aid groups say | CBC News
Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian cri...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Not gonna lie, the lineup was ridiculous. If was a senior or had an injury, I don’t think I would’ve waited that hour. Thanks Dani for making voting more inaccessible than it needs to be.
#ABpoli #Alberta #municipalelections

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Fewer Calgarians cast a ballot in this municipal election than the last one | CBC News
Turnout was down in the 2025 Calgary municipal election, with 39 per cent of eligible electors casting a ballot, a decline from the 46 per cent who voted in 2021.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I see this as a failure and us Canadians deserve answers. And Ukraine definitely deserves better from us. What the heck happened? #Canada #Ukraine

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Canada cancels plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine: defence minister | CBC News
A contract to supply Ukraine with refurbished light armoured vehicles is officially dead, the defence minister told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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This was the predictable result of a province that doesn’t prioritize healthcare. The incompetence appears intentional.
#AHS #Alberta #ABpoli #healthcare

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Some Albertans frustrated and unable to book COVID-19 shots as fall campaign kicks off | CBC News
Some Albertans struggled to book COVID-19 shots as the province’s fall immunization campaign opened to the general public on Monday.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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So … no, she will not take responsibility. SMH
thebreakdownab.bsky.social The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Oct 17
When asked if she would take any responsibility for the Tylenot™️ scandal she created...

She blamed a former leader, a leadership race & a byelection.

Smith was elected leader in Oct 2022

She won her byelection in Nov 2022

The purchase was in Dec 2022

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Why is the teacher to student ratio and a cap on class sizes off the table? The #UCP and Smith are bullies.
#Alberta #ABpoli #education

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Striking Alberta teachers refuse to engage in talks that exclude pupil-teacher ratio | CBC News
The association representing 51,000 Alberta teachers who have been off the job since Oct. 6 says employers asked them to return to classrooms voluntarily and attend talks where class-size caps and pup...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This is a great watch from @declassifieduk.org with Daniel Levy. The Palestinians shouldn’t fall for this bs. As @mark-carney.bsky.social calls it a Zionist Palestine state. Little islands amongst their colonists. Go watch this video. It’s a great interview. #freePalestine

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Ex-Israeli negotiator EXPOSES Trump's Gaza plan
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October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#Alberta #teachers have a right to strike. LaGrange butchered education years ago by firing the support staff en masse, they stopped counting class sizes, and they are the lowest paid in the country after #ABpoli insists that our education system is the lowest funded.

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Back to work legislation possible if Alberta teacher strike continues when assembly returns: minister | CBC News
Alberta's finance minister says the province will consider back-to-work legislation if teachers are still off the job when the legislature returns later this month.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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History is always relevant.
broadbent.bsky.social Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · Oct 14
New on the Perspectives Journal podcast: labour historian and Broadbent fellow @jonweier.bsky.social explains the through lines between early 20th century fascism, the far-right's rise across the West, and what this means for Canadian democracy.

Listen now: perspectivesjournal.ca/fascism-jon-...
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This is tragic. #environment #tippingpoints #coralreefs

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World's coral reefs in almost irreversible die-off, scientists say | CBC
Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected, with the world's coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first "tipp...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Canadians deserve better discourse around #energy. We need more discussions like this interview with @maxfawcett.bsky.social from @energimedia.bsky.social
Great discussion about energy transition. Thank you!

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Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition
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October 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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This sale of Dominion Voting Systems to the Republican machine raises my eyebrows. Does anyone else think this is … odd?

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Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News
Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM