Ian
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Ian
@l-i-v-i-n.bsky.social
Craft beer, #Bluegrass, #Banjo, #Introvert, vinyl records, plus I give courtesy wave if you let me in traffic. I like butter tarts and naps
#calgary , #yyc , #airdrie
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December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ontario-based Sprague Foods is a family-owned cannery with a great line of organic soups. Buy Canadian! #ElbowsUp www.spraguefoods.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Exciting!

While Albertans struggle with affordability me & my UCP MLAs are raking in the cash!

Neudorf - $302,538!
Nixon - $301,000!
Loewen - $300,000!

See how much your UCP MLA took home in salary, benefits, and reimbursements:
open.alberta.ca/dataset/7594...
#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption
open.alberta.ca
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Dear Albertans.
Today we face the prospect that Ms Smith will legislate teachers back to work 'cos it says we can't afford to settle.
Meanwhile the GoA is paying $$ (so far $237M - likely as much as $650M) to Aussie coal companies to settle claims created by the UCP's own incompetence
#abpoli #ableg
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Coal royalties in 2024/25 were $15.5 million. The government has now paid out more than $200 million in claims to Australian mining companies for bungling this file.
Another Australian coal company has announced that it has reached a settlement ($95 million)with the GoA over its compensation claims due to Alberta's coal policy flip flops.
Once again this info comes to AB taxpayers from the company website.
No disclosure from the GoA.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
evolvepower.ca
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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bookvaccine.alberta.ca
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Rakhi Pancholi came out swinging on the Wyant Report and highlighted all of its flaws and shortcomings…

It’s worth remembering she’s a lawyer as she takes Danielle Smith’s spin apart.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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From the DM’s…

Looks like multiple complaints have been launched regarding Dani’s “Manufacturing Consent on the Taxpayers Dime Tour”

Sorry…

That’s the “Alberta Next” panel.

Potato, poh-tah-toe

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Of course, of COURSE, Danielle Smith blamed Ottawa for Imperial Oil's plan to lay off 20 per cent of its employees by 2027.
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I have to say in all my years as a journalist, I've never heard a government employee say that a youth should be assaulted for speaking their mind.
At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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“The Alberta government says the $8.4-million renovation at the Airdrie Community Health Centre did not add operating funds, leaving existing staff to manage the expanded urgent care space.”

Almost 40% more space & no new staff.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.discoverairdrie.com/articles/no-...
No new operating funds in $8.4M Airdrie urgent care renovation: province
The Alberta government says the $8.4-million renovation at the Airdrie Community Health Centre did not add operating funds, leaving existing staff to manage the expanded urgent care space. Kyle Warner...
www.discoverairdrie.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The fact that the UCP are going to stop tracking deaths of Albertans waiting for treatment, tells me that it's going to get worse
I mean, why else would they stop counting 🤷🏼‍♂️

#ableg
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Alberta health-care wait lists climb past half a million, as Alberta stops tracking deaths of those waiting for treatment
Alberta’s health-care wait lists have swelled beyond half a million patients, and the province has stopped counting how many people die while waiting for treatment creating a lack of disclosure that l...
www.ctvnews.ca
September 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Thank you to whichever reporter confronted her about the lying. Need more of this.

Via CTV Edmonton on TikTok

vt.tiktok.com/ZSD4Qt9eG/

#Alberta #abpoli
September 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Danielle Smith is following RFK Jr recommendations. Weird that Dr Oz was working for the same company that sold the unusable Turkish meds to Alberta (80 millions) during COVID 19.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Breakenridge: Premier in lockstep with U.S. 'failure of policy and science'
Breakenridge: There should be a science-based approach to COVID-19 vaccine guidance, as well as provincial coverage and availability.
calgaryherald.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Another conflict of interest! The Investigative Journalism Foundation has found that Vitor Marciano, chief of staff to Alberta's energy minister, is the head of a lobbying company whose CFO is actively lobbying the energy ministry on more than 2 dozen files. theijf.org/alberta-ener... #ABLeg #ABPoli
Alberta energy minister’s chief of staff runs political third party with oil and gas lobbyist
The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation
theijf.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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It was one of the most psychedelic, bizarre and beloved Canadian children's shows ever made.
Structured like a sketch comedy show around the comedic genius of Billy Van, it is well remembered even to this day.
This is the story of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein!

🧵 1/19
September 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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100K Subscribers on Day 1 and this is just the beginning of us taking back the public space from fascist disinformation.

Thank you, everyone, for helping to make this launch day such a success! We're gonna keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The Alberta Advantage. #ableg
August 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians.

There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.
August 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Well isn’t this lovely.

Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?)

What a terrific voice.
#opera

I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
August 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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SLAVE LAKE, AIRDRIE, CALGARY and SHERWOOD PARK, here are new #ForeverCanadian petition locations for you.

#Yyc
August 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The latest inflation data for car & home insurance, by province.

Alberta absolutely in a league of its own here.
August 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM