Brenda 🇨🇦🌻
@brendanewy.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally - she/her
Bluenoser at heart
#yql
grateful to live on Treaty 7 land
#ViveLeCanada
#GoHabsGo
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally - she/her
Bluenoser at heart
#yql
grateful to live on Treaty 7 land
#ViveLeCanada
#GoHabsGo
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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And then there were... 14.
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And then there were... 14.
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Saying it again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Saying it again.
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The Alberta government says it will pay for 3,000 more teachers over three years to ease a classroom crunch.
But the money didn't come as a result of the strike. It was already in last spring's budget before the Alberta teachers' walked off the job. #AbLeg #AbEd
But the money didn't come as a result of the strike. It was already in last spring's budget before the Alberta teachers' walked off the job. #AbLeg #AbEd
The Alberta government promised to pay for 3,000 more teachers. Some educators say the promise is deceptive | CBC News
When the Alberta government legislated a swift end to October’s provincial teachers’ strike, it pledged to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years. But what wasn't mad...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
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There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
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Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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N’oublions jamais.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
N’oublions jamais.
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Beny-sur-mer Canadian War Cemetary by Juno beach.
Seeing lots of posts politicizing Remembrance Day and postulating what they died for...
They died for ALL OF US...
Lest we forget.
Seeing lots of posts politicizing Remembrance Day and postulating what they died for...
They died for ALL OF US...
Lest we forget.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Beny-sur-mer Canadian War Cemetary by Juno beach.
Seeing lots of posts politicizing Remembrance Day and postulating what they died for...
They died for ALL OF US...
Lest we forget.
Seeing lots of posts politicizing Remembrance Day and postulating what they died for...
They died for ALL OF US...
Lest we forget.
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Lest we forget
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Lest we forget
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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A reminder: Canadian Charter Section 24.(1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A reminder: Canadian Charter Section 24.(1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.
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By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.)
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.)
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Henry and Marcus have decided that they should work harder on their costumes next year.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Henry and Marcus have decided that they should work harder on their costumes next year.
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The emergence of Henry and Marcus and their disappointing trick-or-treat haul:
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The emergence of Henry and Marcus and their disappointing trick-or-treat haul:
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November continues to be abnormally mild with many wildflowers round Peterborough still in bloom, but I was surprised to see so much Yellow-wort, Common Centaury and Blue Fleabane flowering again at Swaddywell, having given up entirely in the summer drought. Names in ALT.
#wildflowerhour #winter10
#wildflowerhour #winter10
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
November continues to be abnormally mild with many wildflowers round Peterborough still in bloom, but I was surprised to see so much Yellow-wort, Common Centaury and Blue Fleabane flowering again at Swaddywell, having given up entirely in the summer drought. Names in ALT.
#wildflowerhour #winter10
#wildflowerhour #winter10
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Alberta’s premier is firing back at teachers and their lawsuit by saying it’s ‘not democracy’ to have the courts review Bill 2. As Sean Amato reports, the Alberta Teachers’ Association says it’s one of the only rights they have left.
edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1... #Alberta #abpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1... #Alberta #abpoli
‘That’s not democracy’: Smith responds to teachers lawsuit
Alberta’s premier is firing back at teachers and their lawsuit by saying it’s ‘not democracy’ to have the courts review Bill 2. As Sean Amato reports, the Alberta Teachers’ Association says it’s one o...
edmonton.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Alberta’s premier is firing back at teachers and their lawsuit by saying it’s ‘not democracy’ to have the courts review Bill 2. As Sean Amato reports, the Alberta Teachers’ Association says it’s one of the only rights they have left.
edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1... #Alberta #abpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1... #Alberta #abpoli
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RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #4
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #4
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
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I think folks should be making a bigger fucking deal about how our Premier is saying out loud that the judicial branch shouldn’t be a check and balance against the legislative and executive branches. That notion is one of the pillars of modern democracy itself. calgaryherald.com/news/premier...
Premier Danielle Smith says courts should be more 'constrained' in making decisions
Alberta premier Danielle Smith commented on the justice systems involvement in deciding matters like the use of the not withstanding clause.
calgaryherald.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think folks should be making a bigger fucking deal about how our Premier is saying out loud that the judicial branch shouldn’t be a check and balance against the legislative and executive branches. That notion is one of the pillars of modern democracy itself. calgaryherald.com/news/premier...
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Smith will chair yet another task force.
No topic is beyond her reach and expertise.
No minister is worth her trust.
No topic is beyond her reach and expertise.
No minister is worth her trust.
Teachers left off Alberta's class size and complexity task force
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Teachers left off Alberta's class size and complexity task force
"We want to be able to put a cabinet committee structure in place that is going to be able to make decisions over multiple years."
edmontonsun.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Smith will chair yet another task force.
No topic is beyond her reach and expertise.
No minister is worth her trust.
No topic is beyond her reach and expertise.
No minister is worth her trust.
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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PeaceLoveCanada.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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PeaceLoveCanada.ca
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BRAVO ALBERTANS!!!
“UCP faces mounting challenges from its own Recall Act.”
“The model for this Alberta-pure eruption is Thomas Lukaszuk’s stunning success in collecting 456,000 signatures for his #ForeverCanadian campaign.”
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #abpoli
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“UCP faces mounting challenges from its own Recall Act.”
“The model for this Alberta-pure eruption is Thomas Lukaszuk’s stunning success in collecting 456,000 signatures for his #ForeverCanadian campaign.”
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #abpoli
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Braid: UCP faces mounting challenges from its own Recall Act
Danielle Smith and her Alberta UCP face a wave of recall challenges that could threaten her majority. She could repeal the law.
calgaryherald.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BRAVO ALBERTANS!!!
“UCP faces mounting challenges from its own Recall Act.”
“The model for this Alberta-pure eruption is Thomas Lukaszuk’s stunning success in collecting 456,000 signatures for his #ForeverCanadian campaign.”
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
“UCP faces mounting challenges from its own Recall Act.”
“The model for this Alberta-pure eruption is Thomas Lukaszuk’s stunning success in collecting 456,000 signatures for his #ForeverCanadian campaign.”
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...