Richard Bezemer
@rbezemer.bsky.social
Parent, Fencer, Brewer, Software Developer. My feed might be full of all of these things.
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No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
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The Raccoons remains a beloved Canadian television show 40 years after it debuted.
But the story of The Evergreen Forest and its inhabitants all began with a Christmas Special that aired in 1980.
This is the story of The Christmas Raccoons.
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But the story of The Evergreen Forest and its inhabitants all began with a Christmas Special that aired in 1980.
This is the story of The Christmas Raccoons.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Raccoons remains a beloved Canadian television show 40 years after it debuted.
But the story of The Evergreen Forest and its inhabitants all began with a Christmas Special that aired in 1980.
This is the story of The Christmas Raccoons.
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But the story of The Evergreen Forest and its inhabitants all began with a Christmas Special that aired in 1980.
This is the story of The Christmas Raccoons.
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Can we talk about THIS page for a minute?!?
AHS, while under the direct command & control of Smith and the UCP ACTIVELY destroyed evidence provided to them?
And records were withheld despite Smith’s promises?
The AG comes just shy of calling a coverup!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
AHS, while under the direct command & control of Smith and the UCP ACTIVELY destroyed evidence provided to them?
And records were withheld despite Smith’s promises?
The AG comes just shy of calling a coverup!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I'll take all the tickets.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I'll take all the tickets.
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There were many numbers shared during the Alberta teacher strike about the cost of contract proposals. But harder to find how much the govt planned to spend hiring new teachers and EAs.
The education minister says some of the $ to hire 3000 new Ts is money already in the 2025 budget #AbLeg #AbEd
The education minister says some of the $ to hire 3000 new Ts is money already in the 2025 budget #AbLeg #AbEd
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...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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This is really the fundamental question right now. Is it officially the Premier of Alberta's job to be an oil lobbyist? Even at the expense of some of the most critical events in our Province? I suspect many think it is.
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is really the fundamental question right now. Is it officially the Premier of Alberta's job to be an oil lobbyist? Even at the expense of some of the most critical events in our Province? I suspect many think it is.
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Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
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Go to link to preorder your Covid and flu vaccines.
You can sign up on behalf of your whole family - no AHC info required.
Please read and share.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
You can sign up on behalf of your whole family - no AHC info required.
Please read and share.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
bookvaccine.alberta.ca
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Go to link to preorder your Covid and flu vaccines.
You can sign up on behalf of your whole family - no AHC info required.
Please read and share.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
You can sign up on behalf of your whole family - no AHC info required.
Please read and share.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
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It isn’t customary to give Canada Day gifts, but today I received one.
Elections Alberta approved my Citizen Initiative application!
Stay tuned for further announcements from our Forever Canadian team.
Happy United Canada, everyone!!!
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Elections Alberta approved my Citizen Initiative application!
Stay tuned for further announcements from our Forever Canadian team.
Happy United Canada, everyone!!!
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Citizen Initiative Application Approved, Notice of Initiative Petition Issued - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Today, Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, issued a Notice of Initiative Petition. This confirms a Citizen Initiative application has been received and the Chief Electoral Of...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It isn’t customary to give Canada Day gifts, but today I received one.
Elections Alberta approved my Citizen Initiative application!
Stay tuned for further announcements from our Forever Canadian team.
Happy United Canada, everyone!!!
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Elections Alberta approved my Citizen Initiative application!
Stay tuned for further announcements from our Forever Canadian team.
Happy United Canada, everyone!!!
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
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The Log Driver's Waltz is nostalgia that you can hook directly into my veins.
This is the story of the NFB short that aired on CBC to foster national unity.
This is the story of the NFB short that aired on CBC to foster national unity.
June 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Log Driver's Waltz is nostalgia that you can hook directly into my veins.
This is the story of the NFB short that aired on CBC to foster national unity.
This is the story of the NFB short that aired on CBC to foster national unity.
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The reason so many Canadians increasing feel like “fuck Alberta” when they hear this shit is that Alberta separatism is driven my greed and climate denial above anything else.
They can’t claim some unique cultural or linguistic reasons like Quebec (whose separation I also don’t support).
They can’t claim some unique cultural or linguistic reasons like Quebec (whose separation I also don’t support).
Well, if the US ever wanted an invasion/annexation excuse, they now have a "to restore stability to North American oil production" regardless of the referendum outcome. Smith is a dangerous fool.
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Alberta premier promises separation referendum in 2026 if petition signatures warrant
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she would hold a referendum on provincial separation next year if citizens gather the required signatures on a petition.
www.ctvnews.ca
May 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The reason so many Canadians increasing feel like “fuck Alberta” when they hear this shit is that Alberta separatism is driven my greed and climate denial above anything else.
They can’t claim some unique cultural or linguistic reasons like Quebec (whose separation I also don’t support).
They can’t claim some unique cultural or linguistic reasons like Quebec (whose separation I also don’t support).
He stood at my doorway back when Kenny took over the party and when I asked him why I should vote for him he said as a party insider, he could be the voice of reason and fix the party from the inside, But since then he's done nothing for this province but sit back and watch it burn and fan the flame
Does Ric McIver is the slimiest worm.
He promised to hold the UCP accountable and RAN on that as his MLA role (to be the red tory in the sea of UCP) and yet... look at this.
He promised to hold the UCP accountable and RAN on that as his MLA role (to be the red tory in the sea of UCP) and yet... look at this.
All I can say, is we knew they were turncoats, unfit & incapable of rising above their own biases to govern for the greater good but to betray our nationhood forevermore to be known as traitorous, quisling petrocons wow. Seems there’s always been those types in history but I’m appalled it’s the GoA.
April 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
He stood at my doorway back when Kenny took over the party and when I asked him why I should vote for him he said as a party insider, he could be the voice of reason and fix the party from the inside, But since then he's done nothing for this province but sit back and watch it burn and fan the flame
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LOL. Apparently, PP was in my neighbourhood and I never heard boo about it. Luckily, a local photographer I know was there and caught the behind the scene tactics being used by the Poilievre campaign.
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Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
canadianjournalist.ca
April 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
LOL. Apparently, PP was in my neighbourhood and I never heard boo about it. Luckily, a local photographer I know was there and caught the behind the scene tactics being used by the Poilievre campaign.
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
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An important read! Take the 6 minutes.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/canadians-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/canadians-...
Canadians Know Danielle Smith Is a Traitor, Right?
How Transnational Ideological Loyalty Is Replacing Democratic Sovereignty
www.notesfromthecircus.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An important read! Take the 6 minutes.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/canadians-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/canadians-...
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Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts.
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
March 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts.
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
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Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
March 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
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Albertans should read this statement of claim by former #Alberta Health Services CEO. The conduct of #ABleg government officials named here is appalling and they should absolutely resign. www.scribd.com/document/827...
Statement of Claim (Mentzelopoulos) | PDF | Cerebrospinal Fluid | Due Diligence
Athana Mentzelopoulos is suing Alberta Health Services and the Minister of Health for wrongful termination after being fired without notice during a Zoom meeting on January 8, 2025. She alleges that h...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Albertans should read this statement of claim by former #Alberta Health Services CEO. The conduct of #ABleg government officials named here is appalling and they should absolutely resign. www.scribd.com/document/827...
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Braid: Health contract allegations could be worst scandal since Alison Redford
Braid: Health contract allegations could be worst scandal since Alison Redford
Premier Danielle Smith's UCP in trouble over allegation of improper contacts, political meddling in private surgeries. Need public inquiry.
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February 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Braid: Health contract allegations could be worst scandal since Alison Redford
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From @reportrix.bsky.social and I (and, really, @carrietait.bsky.social) today:
Alberta puts contracts on hold amid allegations of corruption in private surgeries www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
Alberta puts contracts on hold amid allegations of corruption in private surgeries www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
Alberta puts contracts on hold amid allegations of corruption in private surgeries
EDMONTON - Alberta’s front-line health provider says it will stop awarding contracts to firms at the centre of an auditor's investigation into what the Opposition NDP calls unprecedented allegations o...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
From @reportrix.bsky.social and I (and, really, @carrietait.bsky.social) today:
Alberta puts contracts on hold amid allegations of corruption in private surgeries www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
Alberta puts contracts on hold amid allegations of corruption in private surgeries www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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NDP Leader Naheed @naheednenshi.bsky.social calling for Smith's resignation today if the allegations published in the Globe are true about her former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith.
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NDP Leader Naheed @naheednenshi.bsky.social calling for Smith's resignation today if the allegations published in the Globe are true about her former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith.
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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SCOOP: Danielle Smith's government fired the head of Alberta Health Services two days before she was to meet with the Auditor-General to discuss her internal investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges
Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
SCOOP: Danielle Smith's government fired the head of Alberta Health Services two days before she was to meet with the Auditor-General to discuss her internal investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
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Normally I don't put a lot of credit in consiparcy theories, but wow, there's a lot of dots being connected here, and reinforced since the election
February 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Normally I don't put a lot of credit in consiparcy theories, but wow, there's a lot of dots being connected here, and reinforced since the election