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@taprootedmonton.ca Where can I find a list of all the mayoral candidates?
September 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@taprootedmonton.ca Where can I find a list of all the mayoral candidates?
So...."fit check for my napalm era"... people are actually fine with and leaning into this lyric? It doesn't evoke, like, *this* for example, for anyone else? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th...
Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
So...."fit check for my napalm era"... people are actually fine with and leaning into this lyric? It doesn't evoke, like, *this* for example, for anyone else? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th...
Just found out the Alberta College of Pharmacy no longer allows pharmacies to accept scans of prescriptions (like from a patient through an app) so that they can be prepared in advance. Cuz God forbid we try to bring Canadian healthcare into the 21st century #abhealth
June 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Just found out the Alberta College of Pharmacy no longer allows pharmacies to accept scans of prescriptions (like from a patient through an app) so that they can be prepared in advance. Cuz God forbid we try to bring Canadian healthcare into the 21st century #abhealth
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The first reactions to the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as an assassin, have arrived...but there's a catch.
The First Ballerina Reactions Are All Saying The Same Thing (And There's A Reason For That) - SlashFilm
www.slashfilm.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The first reactions to the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as an assassin, have arrived...but there's a catch.
"the University of Alberta (U of A) will be ending funding support for all affiliated child-care centres in January 2026. Right now, funding for child care costs the university $298,600 per year or 0.02 per cent of the total expenses in 2024"
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: U of A puts up barriers to access by cutting child care
We call on the U of A to make the choice to continue to support families and the larger community.
edmontonjournal.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"the University of Alberta (U of A) will be ending funding support for all affiliated child-care centres in January 2026. Right now, funding for child care costs the university $298,600 per year or 0.02 per cent of the total expenses in 2024"
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Hey #yeg folks, @taprootedmonton.ca wants to know what issues matter to you in the upcoming municipal election. They'll use the responses to help craft a survey for the election candidates so we can understand where they land on them. Fill out the form! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
What do you care about in this election?
Taproot is gathering information from the community to better understand what issues are most important as voters make their decisions for the municipal election on Oct. 20, 2025.
edmonton.taproot.vote
May 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Hey #yeg folks, @taprootedmonton.ca wants to know what issues matter to you in the upcoming municipal election. They'll use the responses to help craft a survey for the election candidates so we can understand where they land on them. Fill out the form! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
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A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
Canada Strong | Liberal Party of Canada
Download our plan
liberal.ca
April 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
Found this article from June on how the AB gov is trying to tackle the opioid crisis via @inklesspw.bsky.social's recent Substack subscribers report. Boy was I surprised by the extent of investment in tackling this issue open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
Alberta's system builder
Alberta and opioids II: Marshall Smith's ambitious campaign
open.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Found this article from June on how the AB gov is trying to tackle the opioid crisis via @inklesspw.bsky.social's recent Substack subscribers report. Boy was I surprised by the extent of investment in tackling this issue open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
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This is not about bike lanes, this is about distracting Albertans from the Corruptcare scandal. Stay focused. Call a public inquiry. Reach out to me and let’s talk about what we can do together.
#ableg
#ableg
April 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
pressprogress.ca
April 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.
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On April 1st, tens of thousands of Alberta families lose the childcare subsidy.
Why? Because the UCP have cut it.
I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable.
Why? Because the UCP have cut it.
I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable.
March 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On April 1st, tens of thousands of Alberta families lose the childcare subsidy.
Why? Because the UCP have cut it.
I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable.
Why? Because the UCP have cut it.
I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable.
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💪 We stand with Rumeysa Ozturk
🚫 ICE abductions
📣 Due Process for All
🪧 Protesting is a right
🚫 ICE abductions
📣 Due Process for All
🪧 Protesting is a right
March 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
💪 We stand with Rumeysa Ozturk
🚫 ICE abductions
📣 Due Process for All
🪧 Protesting is a right
🚫 ICE abductions
📣 Due Process for All
🪧 Protesting is a right
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It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
March 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
I really miss the vibrant comment sections about tv shows on the AV Club. I've basically got Reddit now and it's a hell hole.
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I really miss the vibrant comment sections about tv shows on the AV Club. I've basically got Reddit now and it's a hell hole.
I know that allowing cats to roam about food products is unhygienic, but I still ❤️ photos of cats in bodegas.
January 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I know that allowing cats to roam about food products is unhygienic, but I still ❤️ photos of cats in bodegas.
Just finished S1 of Severance. Wow it is overrated. It's not bad, but it is certainly not amazing. A slow pace can be good, but the slowness of this show does it a disservice.
January 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Just finished S1 of Severance. Wow it is overrated. It's not bad, but it is certainly not amazing. A slow pace can be good, but the slowness of this show does it a disservice.
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I wrote about the NYPL’s incredibly uplifting report on public libraries and their impact on well-being, exploring how marketing campaigns could be built around the words and phrases the research highlights as embodying libraries. 📚
www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...
www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...
The Public Library Brand: refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion — Ned Potter
In my Strategic Marketing training , we conduct an exercise around the library brand. It begins with a key question: what do you want your library's brand to be ? What would the ideal sum-total of...
www.ned-potter.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wrote about the NYPL’s incredibly uplifting report on public libraries and their impact on well-being, exploring how marketing campaigns could be built around the words and phrases the research highlights as embodying libraries. 📚
www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...
www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...
I've come up with my New Year's resolution. Don't buy from Amazon what I can get locally. I knew about many of the company's issues already, but it was very helpful for my car-free lifestyle. Between this anti-trans BS and political baffoonery, though, I guess that's the nail in the coffin for me.
And The Information reported earlier that Amazon has removed transitioning support for trans people from the employee benefits listed on its website.
They weren’t forced to do any of this. They’ve done it by choice.
They weren’t forced to do any of this. They’ve done it by choice.
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
January 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've come up with my New Year's resolution. Don't buy from Amazon what I can get locally. I knew about many of the company's issues already, but it was very helpful for my car-free lifestyle. Between this anti-trans BS and political baffoonery, though, I guess that's the nail in the coffin for me.
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A fitting cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A fitting cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social
Love to see it
January 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Love to see it
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“According to Edmonton Win House, they were able to answer 2,531 crisis calls, however, due to capacity issues, they had to turn away 1,982 or 78.3 per cent of callers.”
WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...
WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...
‘Domestic violence epidemic’ advocates concerned over recent homicides in Edmonton and Calgary | CityNews Edmonton
Two women were killed in just two days in Alberta and police allege both were killed by their intimate partner.
edmonton.citynews.ca
January 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“According to Edmonton Win House, they were able to answer 2,531 crisis calls, however, due to capacity issues, they had to turn away 1,982 or 78.3 per cent of callers.”
WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...
WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...
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I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
m.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏