Seán Sabraw
@seansabraw.bsky.social
Calgary musician, guitar/drum teacher.
Think Globally, Act Locally
Banner pic is inside Apple Studios from the movie Get Back, from l to r: Billy Preston, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison.
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Think Globally, Act Locally
Banner pic is inside Apple Studios from the movie Get Back, from l to r: Billy Preston, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison.
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FOIP showing timeline of Last Door receiving the contract from the Alberta government in March-April 2023, between when assault allegations surfaced and when charges were laid.
The government redacted the contract recipient, but the evidence was clear. 4/
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The government redacted the contract recipient, but the evidence was clear. 4/
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Province refuses to disclose Calgary Recovery Community contract awarded in 2023
Documents reveal new details about the recovery community grant competition hurried through the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction in 2023. The Ministry continues to withhold details about the re...
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
FOIP showing timeline of Last Door receiving the contract from the Alberta government in March-April 2023, between when assault allegations surfaced and when charges were laid.
The government redacted the contract recipient, but the evidence was clear. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-ref...
The government redacted the contract recipient, but the evidence was clear. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-ref...
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Here’s all that evidence I made public last December, seven months before the government quietly confirmed it through a friendly Herald article.
That article of course made no mention of the then-charges or other allegations. 5/
drugdatadecoded.ca/was-last-doo...
That article of course made no mention of the then-charges or other allegations. 5/
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Was Last Door granted Calgary Recovery Community?
Unannounced by the Alberta government, all signs point to the controversial UCP-aligned recovery organization bagging a lucrative contract for Calgary's new centre.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Here’s all that evidence I made public last December, seven months before the government quietly confirmed it through a friendly Herald article.
That article of course made no mention of the then-charges or other allegations. 5/
drugdatadecoded.ca/was-last-doo...
That article of course made no mention of the then-charges or other allegations. 5/
drugdatadecoded.ca/was-last-doo...
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1. Charles is 100% correct.
2. Quote: "Reached by phone Tuesday, police association president Andrew Tummonds declined to comment.
“We’re still dealing with our lawyers to see where we’re gonna go,” Tummonds said."
Explanation -- This kind of situation leaves the police union in a 'pickle'. 1/
2. Quote: "Reached by phone Tuesday, police association president Andrew Tummonds declined to comment.
“We’re still dealing with our lawyers to see where we’re gonna go,” Tummonds said."
Explanation -- This kind of situation leaves the police union in a 'pickle'. 1/
This is a story you could write from a fill-in-the blanks template in nearly every police service and the RCMP in Canada, right down to the police commission saying they have taken steps to address it. They never do anything. It's been like this for decades.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Durham regional police's 'poisoned' workplace highlighted in Ontario Civilian Police Commission report | CBC News
An Ontario Civilian Police Commission report into the workplace culture, policies and procedures of the Durham Regional Police Service and its board has found it was a toxic workplace where officials ...
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
1. Charles is 100% correct.
2. Quote: "Reached by phone Tuesday, police association president Andrew Tummonds declined to comment.
“We’re still dealing with our lawyers to see where we’re gonna go,” Tummonds said."
Explanation -- This kind of situation leaves the police union in a 'pickle'. 1/
2. Quote: "Reached by phone Tuesday, police association president Andrew Tummonds declined to comment.
“We’re still dealing with our lawyers to see where we’re gonna go,” Tummonds said."
Explanation -- This kind of situation leaves the police union in a 'pickle'. 1/
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Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Jenn Grant, "I've Got Your Fire"
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Jenn Grant, "I've Got Your Fire"
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I've Got Your Fire - Jenn Grant
YouTube video by Six Shooter Records
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Jenn Grant, "I've Got Your Fire"
youtu.be/84G_d7Oi1ac?...
Jenn Grant, "I've Got Your Fire"
youtu.be/84G_d7Oi1ac?...
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Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat"
I have no issues making all of my prompt responses CanCon, but I don't have the breadth of lyrics memorized such that I won't repeat artists. The first of many repeats, I expect…
youtu.be/ohk3DP5fMCg?...
Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat"
I have no issues making all of my prompt responses CanCon, but I don't have the breadth of lyrics memorized such that I won't repeat artists. The first of many repeats, I expect…
youtu.be/ohk3DP5fMCg?...
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Official Audio)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
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November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat"
I have no issues making all of my prompt responses CanCon, but I don't have the breadth of lyrics memorized such that I won't repeat artists. The first of many repeats, I expect…
youtu.be/ohk3DP5fMCg?...
Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat"
I have no issues making all of my prompt responses CanCon, but I don't have the breadth of lyrics memorized such that I won't repeat artists. The first of many repeats, I expect…
youtu.be/ohk3DP5fMCg?...
I don't have to climb the walls, when there are people willing to drive me there.
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I don't have to climb the walls, when there are people willing to drive me there.
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Phillips said she will proceed with a $400,000 lawsuit filed against several Lethbridge Police Service members for invasion of her privacy, and some details from the ASIRT investigation may inform her case.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lethbridge officer searched ex-Alberta MLA on database after overhearing 'tail end' of conversation: report | CBC News
After "completely unsatisfying" investigation outcome and no criminal charges, Shannon Phillips plans to continue with lawsuit against her city's police.
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Phillips said she will proceed with a $400,000 lawsuit filed against several Lethbridge Police Service members for invasion of her privacy, and some details from the ASIRT investigation may inform her case.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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5/ CAHN is the only organization in Canada that focuses on the far-right, and especially white nationalists and neo-Nazis. We need your help more than ever.
Help Us Expose Hate In Canada
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is protecting our multicultural democracy by exposing far-right groups in Canada that harbour racism & other forms of hate. I'm proud to support their work. Please consi...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
5/ CAHN is the only organization in Canada that focuses on the far-right, and especially white nationalists and neo-Nazis. We need your help more than ever.
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3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
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PHAC really doesn't like the word "epidemic" for some reason.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
PHAC really doesn't like the word "epidemic" for some reason.
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Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
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Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Anything Can Happen
YouTube video by Bruce Cockburn - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
Bruce Cockburn, "Anything Can Happen"
youtu.be/bxfdKk5fpWE?...
Gonna have to keep this in my back pocket for when the prompt word is "botulism."
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
The House of Orange
YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic
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November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
Stan Rogers, "The House of Orange"
youtu.be/o_IuLWmLRuA?...
(One of the prompts every year is a colour. This has been the toughest one yet, for me.)
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“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
‘Pushed to their breaking point’: Paramedics working thousands of hours of overtime every month across Alberta
Alberta paramedics are working tens of thousands of hours of overtime every month.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Reminds me of the line from the movie The Dark Knight:
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reminds me of the line from the movie The Dark Knight:
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
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Deeply appreciate Canada’s media union speaking out against this multimillion dollar lawsuit
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
This is an important case in defending freedom of the press.
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Deeply appreciate Canada’s media union speaking out against this multimillion dollar lawsuit
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
An attack on one is an attack on all
If they can do this to me, they can do this to you
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Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit Of The West "Home For A Rest" - Official Music Video
YouTube video by Spirit Of The West
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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
Spirit of the West, "Home for a Rest"
youtu.be/crIk87-mPzY?...
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For many Calgarians, the Old Y is little more than an aging building whose history harkens back to the early 20th century.
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For many Calgarians, the Old Y is little more than an aging building whose history harkens back to the early 20th century.
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
For our city’s activist community, however, the Old Y is a beacon of hope. A space where history is written.
Today, the building awaits its future.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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The promise of 3,000 more new Alberta teachers has confounded me. We don't know how many teachers the government planned to hire over 3 years, but the 2025 budget documents (from Feb. 2025) tell us the gov't intended to pay for 1,045 more FTE teaching positions this year compared to last
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The promise of 3,000 more new Alberta teachers has confounded me. We don't know how many teachers the government planned to hire over 3 years, but the 2025 budget documents (from Feb. 2025) tell us the gov't intended to pay for 1,045 more FTE teaching positions this year compared to last
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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...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM