Bob Cunningham 🇨🇦
@bobcunningham.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Grandfather. Canadian. Retired IT guy. Born and live on Treaty 6 territory.
Wondering if I should learn Mandarin.
Wondering if I should learn Mandarin.
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I hope @lukaszukab.bsky.social might want to create a party to carry the progessive conservative banner in AB.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
Will Thomas Lukaszuk use the enormous pile of names, phone numbers collected for his referendum drive for a new political party? There is a way, he says, and he might. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #apoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yycc
Braid: Thomas Lukaszuk has a political treasure chest — and he might start a new party
Thomas Lukaszuk built a huge stash of data campaigning for Canada. He might just use it to start a new party, writes columnist Don Braid.
calgaryherald.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I hope @lukaszukab.bsky.social might want to create a party to carry the progessive conservative banner in AB.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
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Images from a moving Remembrance Day service at Edmonton City Hall and the city cenotaph, hosted by the City of Edmonton and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. We shall remember. #RemembranceDay #Edmonton #yeg
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Images from a moving Remembrance Day service at Edmonton City Hall and the city cenotaph, hosted by the City of Edmonton and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. We shall remember. #RemembranceDay #Edmonton #yeg
WOW!
Two FANTASTIC down-to-the-wire #CFL semi-finals!
Montreal ... final play field goal. Saskatchewan ... last minute touchdown.
#SSK and #MTL met twice before in #GreyCup ... Montreal won both ... 97th cup 28-27; 98th cup 21-18.
Next weekend's 112th Grey Cup should be GREAT!
Two FANTASTIC down-to-the-wire #CFL semi-finals!
Montreal ... final play field goal. Saskatchewan ... last minute touchdown.
#SSK and #MTL met twice before in #GreyCup ... Montreal won both ... 97th cup 28-27; 98th cup 21-18.
Next weekend's 112th Grey Cup should be GREAT!
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.
The ostriches have been culled and that particular H5N1 outbreak has finally been contained.
Here is @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's reliably excellent account of the entire ordeal.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Here is @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's reliably excellent account of the entire ordeal.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Brilliant reporting and writing here. An absolute pleasure to read.
I hope @lukaszukab.bsky.social might want to create a party to carry the progessive conservative banner in AB.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
Will Thomas Lukaszuk use the enormous pile of names, phone numbers collected for his referendum drive for a new political party? There is a way, he says, and he might. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #apoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yycc
Braid: Thomas Lukaszuk has a political treasure chest — and he might start a new party
Thomas Lukaszuk built a huge stash of data campaigning for Canada. He might just use it to start a new party, writes columnist Don Braid.
calgaryherald.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I hope @lukaszukab.bsky.social might want to create a party to carry the progessive conservative banner in AB.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
It's been gone for a dozen years.
Some stayed with the stench of the UCP ... some leaned orange ... but if such a group arose, you'd be surprised at just how many want to come home.
Well for me ... curtailing debate of the ELECTED representatives and BLOCKING any subsequent legal recourse with the NWC is a much greater travesty than considering a PAUSE allowing all sides to reconsider such a HEAVY HANDED approach to problem solving.
I’d really love it if folks would think through what this suggestion would mean:
You’re asking the APPOINTED representative of a HEREDITARY monarch to intervene directly to overturn the will of the ELECTED legislature.
Few things are worse than the UCP invoking the NWC. This is one of them.
You’re asking the APPOINTED representative of a HEREDITARY monarch to intervene directly to overturn the will of the ELECTED legislature.
Few things are worse than the UCP invoking the NWC. This is one of them.
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Well for me ... curtailing debate of the ELECTED representatives and BLOCKING any subsequent legal recourse with the NWC is a much greater travesty than considering a PAUSE allowing all sides to reconsider such a HEAVY HANDED approach to problem solving.
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It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
"They have created the perfect storm of factors that led to this poorly performing, toxic health-care system and all of that would be bad enough any time of the year, but it is especially bad going into respiratory virus season.”
Buckle up. Gonna be hard on many of us.
#abhealth #ahs #ableg #abgov
Buckle up. Gonna be hard on many of us.
#abhealth #ahs #ableg #abgov
As the chaos and uninformed system changes march on, we need to embrace for a very tough winter in our HC System. The overcrowding is already at dangerous levels, and our respiratory volumes have not spiked yet…
buff.ly/2mGjg18
buff.ly/2mGjg18
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
But his policies exhibit his incompetence ... he reduced a world class distance learning centre down to nothing ... he is destroying public education with his reconciliation approach ... the only question for me about his recall is "What took them so long?"
#ableg #abpoli #abgov
#ableg #abpoli #abgov
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides pens a letter to voters in Calgary Bow.
Says he is a firm believer in recall, but says the petition against him is attempting to subvert democracy.
He argues it's not about his conduct but rather the policies he's put forward.
Says he is a firm believer in recall, but says the petition against him is attempting to subvert democracy.
He argues it's not about his conduct but rather the policies he's put forward.
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
AB health care sliding into an abyss ... solution anyone? Don't like UCP dragging us toward the USA style of health care for the rich ... but that seems to be what we voted into power.
#ableg #abgov #abhealth
#ableg #abgov #abhealth
Albertans are witnessing the deathblow to fair and equitable HC access right here, and all without even a discussion to see if there is a mandate for govt to do this.
This is not hyperbole or fearmongering.
Let's pick 10 quick highlights🧵:
1/15
buff.ly/dzaXRPF
This is not hyperbole or fearmongering.
Let's pick 10 quick highlights🧵:
1/15
buff.ly/dzaXRPF
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Condolences to Samuel Bird's family and community. Not sure there is such a thing as full closure but finding him and learning the final truth is a start.
And I am impressed and grateful to the EPS for the effort and tenacity they exhibited to bring this case to conclusion. Thank you.
And I am impressed and grateful to the EPS for the effort and tenacity they exhibited to bring this case to conclusion. Thank you.
New from me: in a remarkable news conference, the detective who found the body of missing Edmonton teen Samuel Bird said the stories circulating on social media about what happened to him — including videos claiming to show Bird being tortured — are complete BS. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/d...
Detective who found Samuel Bird to social media sleuths/vigilantes: 'Give (your) head a shake'
Samuel Bird's body was found in a farmer's field west of Edmonton in the wee hours Thursday morning, a waning crescent moon casting a dim light over the row of trees that had been his resting place fo...
edmontonjournal.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Condolences to Samuel Bird's family and community. Not sure there is such a thing as full closure but finding him and learning the final truth is a start.
And I am impressed and grateful to the EPS for the effort and tenacity they exhibited to bring this case to conclusion. Thank you.
And I am impressed and grateful to the EPS for the effort and tenacity they exhibited to bring this case to conclusion. Thank you.
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I went to check out the new License Plates… and it made me shake my head at what govt is admitting is there TOP PRIORITY for ABs, while public HC and Education are in chaos and being destroyed…
Here I fixed it for them:
Here I fixed it for them:
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I went to check out the new License Plates… and it made me shake my head at what govt is admitting is there TOP PRIORITY for ABs, while public HC and Education are in chaos and being destroyed…
Here I fixed it for them:
Here I fixed it for them:
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A wonderful day for the hostages & prisoners on both sides being released. Now all parties must do their best to keep the peace. A fair, collaborative two-state solution will be critical to that. A Land For All’s pragmatic framework is the best way to get there: www.virgin.com/branson-fami...
A Land for All is possible | Virgin
Richard Branson discusses 'A Land for All' - a bold and audacious vision that would enable both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs to flourish and prosper on a common understanding of the ground benea...
www.virgin.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A wonderful day for the hostages & prisoners on both sides being released. Now all parties must do their best to keep the peace. A fair, collaborative two-state solution will be critical to that. A Land For All’s pragmatic framework is the best way to get there: www.virgin.com/branson-fami...
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As an outsider with no personal stake beyond my compassion for the people suffering immeasurably due to the heavy-handed actions of political leaders on both sides, I believe this group offers a potential path forward. But as always, the devil is in the details.
www.alandforall.org/english/
www.alandforall.org/english/
ארץ לכולם - A Land For All - دولتان، وطن واحد
Two nations live here in this land, and both want to live peacefully and safely. Solutions entailing separation have failed in the past, and will fail in the future. Cooperation, however, succeeds.
www.alandforall.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
As an outsider with no personal stake beyond my compassion for the people suffering immeasurably due to the heavy-handed actions of political leaders on both sides, I believe this group offers a potential path forward. But as always, the devil is in the details.
www.alandforall.org/english/
www.alandforall.org/english/
People need to recognize their risk to self, to family, to friends and a major portion of responsibility for this situation is in the lap of the UCP government ... the people voted themselves into this.
Vote yourselves out of this in 2027.
#abhealth #abgov #ableg
Vote yourselves out of this in 2027.
#abhealth #abgov #ableg
RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
1/7
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
1/7
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
As Americans watch their freedom and democracy crumble around them, we, as Canadians, must actively fortify our democracy and freedoms to avoid being dragged into their authoritarian darkness as well.
"Over the past few months, people in Canada have watched in astonishment as the various pillars of American democracy have gradually crumbled ... including freedom of speech and academic freedom, are now under constant attack."
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: U of A's response to Charlie Kirk comments erodes academic freedom
This case cannot be separated from the broader landscape of academic freedom currently under strain in Canada and beyond.
edmontonjournal.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As Americans watch their freedom and democracy crumble around them, we, as Canadians, must actively fortify our democracy and freedoms to avoid being dragged into their authoritarian darkness as well.
Seems appropriate!
Well done!
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Well done!
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
October 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Seems appropriate!
Well done!
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Well done!
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Anyone recognize this driver?
An official intervention would seem warranted for him.
An official intervention would seem warranted for him.
Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
October 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Anyone recognize this driver?
An official intervention would seem warranted for him.
An official intervention would seem warranted for him.
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Why are my tax dollars subsidizing private schools?
“Stories about dubious contracts are already surfacing in both sectors.”
Sole source contracts w rampant conflicts of interest???
“Stories about dubious contracts are already surfacing in both sectors.”
Sole source contracts w rampant conflicts of interest???
Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government. They wanted to spank Evan Li because he dared mention it. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abed #ableg #yyc #yeg #apoli #cdnpoli
Braid: Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government
Spanking spat last week was caused by student Evan Li hitting a sore spot on eve of teacher strike — lush funding for private schools.
calgaryherald.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Why are my tax dollars subsidizing private schools?
“Stories about dubious contracts are already surfacing in both sectors.”
Sole source contracts w rampant conflicts of interest???
“Stories about dubious contracts are already surfacing in both sectors.”
Sole source contracts w rampant conflicts of interest???
Ms. Smith's cabal seem to feel proper education involves over the knee paddy whacks but our kids deserve better. AB teachers are better as they've shown through increasingly difficult conditions.
Time to do it right for the kids and create a better environment for all.
#ableg #abgov #abteachers
Time to do it right for the kids and create a better environment for all.
#ableg #abgov #abteachers
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ms. Smith's cabal seem to feel proper education involves over the knee paddy whacks but our kids deserve better. AB teachers are better as they've shown through increasingly difficult conditions.
Time to do it right for the kids and create a better environment for all.
#ableg #abgov #abteachers
Time to do it right for the kids and create a better environment for all.
#ableg #abgov #abteachers
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How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-... via @thewalrus.ca
Politics, lies, fearmongering, community pressure...
"The thing about viruses is they punish complacency; the costs always surface."
#VaccinesWork! #ScienceMatters!
Politics, lies, fearmongering, community pressure...
"The thing about viruses is they punish complacency; the costs always surface."
#VaccinesWork! #ScienceMatters!
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
thewalrus.ca
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-... via @thewalrus.ca
Politics, lies, fearmongering, community pressure...
"The thing about viruses is they punish complacency; the costs always surface."
#VaccinesWork! #ScienceMatters!
Politics, lies, fearmongering, community pressure...
"The thing about viruses is they punish complacency; the costs always surface."
#VaccinesWork! #ScienceMatters!
'We've said, 'call off the strike, let's get back to the table, we don't think were that far apart. Let's avoid a lose, lose, lose situation'
Then have your team meet under strike, make a REAL offer so they'll be happy go to vote.
Strike over. Get it?
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Then have your team meet under strike, make a REAL offer so they'll be happy go to vote.
Strike over. Get it?
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
'Lose situation': Premier Smith nudges union as Alberta teachers' strike nears
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Saturday said there is no indication the teachers' strike set to launch Monday will be averted.
edmontonjournal.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
'We've said, 'call off the strike, let's get back to the table, we don't think were that far apart. Let's avoid a lose, lose, lose situation'
Then have your team meet under strike, make a REAL offer so they'll be happy go to vote.
Strike over. Get it?
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Then have your team meet under strike, make a REAL offer so they'll be happy go to vote.
Strike over. Get it?
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
NO money to care for our sick or chronically ill
NO money to care for the elderly
NO money to make sure our kids get an education
But LOTS of money to build a pipeline for mega-billionaire companies that are laying off our people anyway.
Vote her out in 2027 ... PLEASE!
#abpoli #ableg #abgov
NO money to care for the elderly
NO money to make sure our kids get an education
But LOTS of money to build a pipeline for mega-billionaire companies that are laying off our people anyway.
Vote her out in 2027 ... PLEASE!
#abpoli #ableg #abgov
so no private entity, as has been been promised by DS for months.
This is insane. public money shouldn't be building infrastructure for oil and gas companies. They're rich enough (and smart enough) to do their own investing in worthwhile projects.
This is insane. public money shouldn't be building infrastructure for oil and gas companies. They're rich enough (and smart enough) to do their own investing in worthwhile projects.
BREAKING
Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.
Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.
October 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
October 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM