Tony Charron
@manaboutcowtown.bsky.social
Calgarian, flaneur and gadabout. If you followed manaboutcowtown on other channels in the past, yep same dude. He/Him 🇨🇦
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The story of my avatar. My family and I oft play Mario Kart. My fav. character is Donkey Kong. And I jokingly call myself Big Daddy Kong because my wife hates it. Has become a bit. Then this summer we went on the pipe coaster in Revelstoke and the photos made us all laugh. Am I wrong? Ha.
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The vast majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free — except Conservatives:
🔴 LPC: 90%
🟠 NDP: 91%
⚜️ BQ: 79%
🔵 CPC: 44%
🔴 LPC: 90%
🟠 NDP: 91%
⚜️ BQ: 79%
🔵 CPC: 44%
Large majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free
A large majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free. Alberta and Quebec have begun charging for the vaccine.
cultmtl.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The vast majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free — except Conservatives:
🔴 LPC: 90%
🟠 NDP: 91%
⚜️ BQ: 79%
🔵 CPC: 44%
🔴 LPC: 90%
🟠 NDP: 91%
⚜️ BQ: 79%
🔵 CPC: 44%
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" #Methane leaks from inactive #OilAndGas infrastructure was 7x more prevalent than what was claimed. It's such a potent #GreenhouseGas. 82x more potent over 20 years than CO2. Cleaning up these wells is really vital for our health, safety, fighting #ClimateChange & just protecting the public!"
A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...
Make Polluters Pay
The Alberta government's dirty deal with Big Oil
www.podcastics.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
" #Methane leaks from inactive #OilAndGas infrastructure was 7x more prevalent than what was claimed. It's such a potent #GreenhouseGas. 82x more potent over 20 years than CO2. Cleaning up these wells is really vital for our health, safety, fighting #ClimateChange & just protecting the public!"
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1/11
🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE HURTING WORKERS 🇨🇦 🚨
The #UCP government says it's treading carefully on #Alberta's minimum wage due to "extremely high levels" of youth unemployment.
At $15/hr, Alberta has the lowest minimum wage in Canada.
#AbLeg #AbPoli #MinimumWage #UCPfail
🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE HURTING WORKERS 🇨🇦 🚨
The #UCP government says it's treading carefully on #Alberta's minimum wage due to "extremely high levels" of youth unemployment.
At $15/hr, Alberta has the lowest minimum wage in Canada.
#AbLeg #AbPoli #MinimumWage #UCPfail
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE HURTING WORKERS 🇨🇦 🚨
The #UCP government says it's treading carefully on #Alberta's minimum wage due to "extremely high levels" of youth unemployment.
At $15/hr, Alberta has the lowest minimum wage in Canada.
#AbLeg #AbPoli #MinimumWage #UCPfail
🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE HURTING WORKERS 🇨🇦 🚨
The #UCP government says it's treading carefully on #Alberta's minimum wage due to "extremely high levels" of youth unemployment.
At $15/hr, Alberta has the lowest minimum wage in Canada.
#AbLeg #AbPoli #MinimumWage #UCPfail
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“Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?”
Given Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause, I want a referendum on this
Go to the link below to find a location & time to sign
#ableg #abpoli
Given Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause, I want a referendum on this
Go to the link below to find a location & time to sign
#ableg #abpoli
Have you signed the Alberta Funds Public Schools Petition yet?
More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
#ableg #abpoli
More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
#ableg #abpoli
Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
abfundspublicschools.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A reminder to my fellow Albertans that some of the conditions that allow you to wave the fee for a Covid vaccine are depression, ADHD and asthma. Feels like basically if you have an ongoing prescription for any number of common conditions it is worth mentioning to the nurse.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A reminder to my fellow Albertans that some of the conditions that allow you to wave the fee for a Covid vaccine are depression, ADHD and asthma. Feels like basically if you have an ongoing prescription for any number of common conditions it is worth mentioning to the nurse.
I think if the Calgary Police Service can spare a bunch of officers from across the city to do a sweep of downtown to move along the unhoused and arrest folks with severe substance abuse issues maybe it just means we need more funding for housing and treatment to actually get those folks help.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I think if the Calgary Police Service can spare a bunch of officers from across the city to do a sweep of downtown to move along the unhoused and arrest folks with severe substance abuse issues maybe it just means we need more funding for housing and treatment to actually get those folks help.
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Glad to see this @livewirecalgary.bsky.social op-ed naming last week’s pre-budget intimidation campaign by Calgary police for what it was.
By former city councillor @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social
By former city councillor @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social
We need to “demand that city council invest every dollar they have in the housing needed to really clean up our streets”
#Calgary
livewirecalgary.com/2025/11/09/p...
#Calgary
livewirecalgary.com/2025/11/09/p...
Perspectives: Calgary police must use their social capital to demand housing, not more officers - LiveWire Calgary
“Arresting is connecting.” When I read how CPS Chief McLellan was attempting to frame last week’s exercise, I couldn’t believe it. On November 5, the Calgary Police executed Operation ORDER, a milita...
livewirecalgary.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Glad to see this @livewirecalgary.bsky.social op-ed naming last week’s pre-budget intimidation campaign by Calgary police for what it was.
By former city councillor @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social
By former city councillor @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social
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If the $238 million (and possibly more) lawsuit payout of taxpayers money over the idiotic coal mining policy flip flop of this government isn’t enough
Jason Kenney works for the law firm involved…
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED #CDNPoli
Jason Kenney works for the law firm involved…
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED #CDNPoli
Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee
Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If the $238 million (and possibly more) lawsuit payout of taxpayers money over the idiotic coal mining policy flip flop of this government isn’t enough
Jason Kenney works for the law firm involved…
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED #CDNPoli
Jason Kenney works for the law firm involved…
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED #CDNPoli
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Another victory for the Freedom Convoy
Canada has lost its measles elimination status, says Ottawa
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades, the country’s public health agency said in a statement on Monday.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Another victory for the Freedom Convoy
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Alberta, watch what America is doing right now - with their refusal to support funding of the Affordable Care Act.
If Danielle Smith has her way with the medical system, we, too, will be facing $1000s in monthly premiums just to visit doctors.
She wants it that way.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
If Danielle Smith has her way with the medical system, we, too, will be facing $1000s in monthly premiums just to visit doctors.
She wants it that way.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
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Hunger is not a good strategy if you want to maintain the peace and your base…
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy” — Alfred Henry Lewis
Makes you wonder if that’s their goal.
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy” — Alfred Henry Lewis
Makes you wonder if that’s their goal.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Hunger is not a good strategy if you want to maintain the peace and your base…
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy” — Alfred Henry Lewis
Makes you wonder if that’s their goal.
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy” — Alfred Henry Lewis
Makes you wonder if that’s their goal.
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Looks like there's an effort underway to issue a recall petition for Danielle Smith as well.
Website: recalldaniellesmith.ca
FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/41699...
#Alberta #ableg #abpoli
Website: recalldaniellesmith.ca
FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/41699...
#Alberta #ableg #abpoli
Home - RECALL PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH
Next Event Coming Soon… ✵ Recall Premier Danielle Smith The list of reasons Danielle Smith should be recalled are as follows: The above text was released October 29, 2025 by the Alberta Branch of the ...
recalldaniellesmith.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Looks like there's an effort underway to issue a recall petition for Danielle Smith as well.
Website: recalldaniellesmith.ca
FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/41699...
#Alberta #ableg #abpoli
Website: recalldaniellesmith.ca
FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/41699...
#Alberta #ableg #abpoli
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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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Gosh: spend $400 MILLION to help SOLVE the problem by hiring more teachers or spend $400 MILLION to STUDY the problem while doing nothing to fix it. Wonder which one our UCP government will choose. . . Sigh. #abpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government committee has $400M over 3 years to resolve class size and complexity problems | CBC News
The Alberta government plans to use $400 million over the next three years — plus spending already earmarked in its existing budget documents — to pay for more teachers, educational assistants and bet...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gosh: spend $400 MILLION to help SOLVE the problem by hiring more teachers or spend $400 MILLION to STUDY the problem while doing nothing to fix it. Wonder which one our UCP government will choose. . . Sigh. #abpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... He lied?
MLA Wright wrong about damning RCMP story - Medicine Hat News
zmason@medicinehatnews.com An anecdote about RCMP in the region used by Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright in the legislature to discuss a bill this week has been proven to be false. Wright rose i...
medicinehatnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... He lied?
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The UCP’s excuses for using the notwithstanding clause — “because we can,” “because we have to,” and “because we say so” — do not meet Lougheed's standards.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Defying the Lougheed Doctrine
The UCP's repeated use of the notwithstanding is fundamentally unconservative (and un-Albertan).
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The UCP’s excuses for using the notwithstanding clause — “because we can,” “because we have to,” and “because we say so” — do not meet Lougheed's standards.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Premier Smith is lying that she was not aware what theTrudeau government’s plan were on immigration and was surprised by the numbers because here is a letter she wrote to the PM asking to increase Alberta’s allocation of immigrants in 2024. www.alberta.ca/system/files...
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Premier Smith is lying that she was not aware what theTrudeau government’s plan were on immigration and was surprised by the numbers because here is a letter she wrote to the PM asking to increase Alberta’s allocation of immigrants in 2024. www.alberta.ca/system/files...
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On a week that...
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
On a week that...
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
I have now seen multiple posts in my timeline that are effectively “The Predator can get it.” Which makes me laugh but also confident in my choices in who I follow. Folks letting their freak flags fly. I’m here for it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I have now seen multiple posts in my timeline that are effectively “The Predator can get it.” Which makes me laugh but also confident in my choices in who I follow. Folks letting their freak flags fly. I’m here for it.