Christine Berstad
@cab2west.bsky.social
Interested, curious and always ready for a good discussion. 🇨🇦
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There's sentence after sentence of wow in the latest @carrietait.bsky.social scoop on Danielle Smith and AHS. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
February 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
There's sentence after sentence of wow in the latest @carrietait.bsky.social scoop on Danielle Smith and AHS. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
globalnews.ca/news/1098930... What a farce. Alberta has no right participating at this point.
Alberta cabinet ministers to attend prayer breakfast event in Washington | Globalnews.ca
The delegation is set to return Feb. 8.
globalnews.ca
February 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
globalnews.ca/news/1098930... What a farce. Alberta has no right participating at this point.
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Disabled Albertans are no strangers to harm caused by shortsighted, incompetent UCP policy.
However, the cruelty in this case is jarring.
Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
However, the cruelty in this case is jarring.
Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government axes funding for 3 disability advocacy groups | CBC News
The Alberta government has cut funding to three self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disabilities more than a year before the expiry of their contracts.
www.cbc.ca
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Disabled Albertans are no strangers to harm caused by shortsighted, incompetent UCP policy.
However, the cruelty in this case is jarring.
Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
However, the cruelty in this case is jarring.
Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This book is a must read to help understand many things about current day weirdness.
can i just say
i wrote a book about this
and pete hegseth's beliefs
and mike johnson's
and they're laughable until they swallow you whole
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
i wrote a book about this
and pete hegseth's beliefs
and mike johnson's
and they're laughable until they swallow you whole
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
January 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This book is a must read to help understand many things about current day weirdness.
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HI AMERICA, YEAH, NO. LOVE, CANADA
January 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
HI AMERICA, YEAH, NO. LOVE, CANADA
What does speaking out of both sides of your face mean? An example is guaranteeing no delisting of covered medical services while you are campaigning and then proceeding to delist a covered medical service. Just another day in Alberta.
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What does speaking out of both sides of your face mean? An example is guaranteeing no delisting of covered medical services while you are campaigning and then proceeding to delist a covered medical service. Just another day in Alberta.
This piece of writing is so on point. substack.com/@pragmaticca...
Another Year in Retirement
Post 67 | A Personal Story
substack.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
This piece of writing is so on point. substack.com/@pragmaticca...
This is truly frightening. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: A night in ER shows fallout of Alberta's health, social policies
A night in an Edmonton hospital emergency department
edmontonjournal.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
This is truly frightening. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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DEMOCRACY CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT
November 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
DEMOCRACY CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT
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Wait, wait, WAIT — RFK Jr.’s lawyer has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine?!?!
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
December 13, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Wait, wait, WAIT — RFK Jr.’s lawyer has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine?!?!
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
November 29, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I cant even imagine the grief. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents
A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?
www.newyorker.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I cant even imagine the grief. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
African proverb: ‘When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.’
November 27, 2024 at 4:40 PM
African proverb: ‘When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.’
And in other weird news … www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’
‘Double takes’ as British Columbia mountain community tries to figure out how local animal came to don neon jacket
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
And in other weird news … www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Reading @swordsjew.bsky.social Wild Faith, but it is taking me forever as I go down rabbit trails of things I didn’t know much about (red heifer’s ???). It’s giving me perspective on why things currently seem so bizarre and the monumental effort it will take to reverse course. 👍📚💙 #booksky
November 23, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Reading @swordsjew.bsky.social Wild Faith, but it is taking me forever as I go down rabbit trails of things I didn’t know much about (red heifer’s ???). It’s giving me perspective on why things currently seem so bizarre and the monumental effort it will take to reverse course. 👍📚💙 #booksky
The Quiet Damage (QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family) by Jesselyn Cook, is a riveting, and devastating, book about how people can get caught up in conspiracy theories and the resulting impact on the people who love them. Enlightening read for these times. 👍💙📚 #booksky
November 23, 2024 at 1:36 AM
The Quiet Damage (QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family) by Jesselyn Cook, is a riveting, and devastating, book about how people can get caught up in conspiracy theories and the resulting impact on the people who love them. Enlightening read for these times. 👍💙📚 #booksky
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I don’t benefit from the dental program or $10/day daycare
I don’t need the Canada Child Benefit & I already have coverage for diabetes medicine should I need it
I vote in favour of these things because it’s not just about me
Being Canadian means caring about all Canadians
I don’t need the Canada Child Benefit & I already have coverage for diabetes medicine should I need it
I vote in favour of these things because it’s not just about me
Being Canadian means caring about all Canadians
November 22, 2024 at 11:28 AM
I don’t benefit from the dental program or $10/day daycare
I don’t need the Canada Child Benefit & I already have coverage for diabetes medicine should I need it
I vote in favour of these things because it’s not just about me
Being Canadian means caring about all Canadians
I don’t need the Canada Child Benefit & I already have coverage for diabetes medicine should I need it
I vote in favour of these things because it’s not just about me
Being Canadian means caring about all Canadians
Marathon Village, Nashville, TN. #ADoorableThursday
November 21, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Marathon Village, Nashville, TN. #ADoorableThursday
Reposted by Christine Berstad
Reposted by Christine Berstad
"A measles outbreak in New Brunswick that began with a single infected traveller has now spread to 44 people, most of them unvaccinated children..."
New Brunswick measles outbreak spreads to 44 people, mostly unvaccinated children
The outbreak is the largest the province has seen in more than 30 years, with more than 80 per cent of the cases diagnosed in people under the age of 19
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
"A measles outbreak in New Brunswick that began with a single infected traveller has now spread to 44 people, most of them unvaccinated children..."
Tony Campolo’s writings offered a hopeful space for me when the religion of my youth was becoming unrecognizable.
“Putting religion and politics together is like mixing ice cream with horse manure. It doesn’t hurt the horse manure; it ruins the ice cream. I think this merger of church and state has done great harm to religion.”
--Tony Campolo
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--Tony Campolo
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November 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Tony Campolo’s writings offered a hopeful space for me when the religion of my youth was becoming unrecognizable.
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 AM
“…suggest that the virality of political content on social media (including misinformation) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs rather than systematic processing of core content, which has design implications for promoting deliberate discourse in the online public sphere.”
Sharing without clicking on news in social media www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 75% share without clicking
- conservatives do so more (76.94%) than liberals (14.25%)
- Most false info (76–82%) from conservative domains
Sum: Political content & misinformation "driven by superficial processing..."
- 75% share without clicking
- conservatives do so more (76.94%) than liberals (14.25%)
- Most false info (76–82%) from conservative domains
Sum: Political content & misinformation "driven by superficial processing..."
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
“…suggest that the virality of political content on social media (including misinformation) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs rather than systematic processing of core content, which has design implications for promoting deliberate discourse in the online public sphere.”