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Heather Campbell
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Same as before. Inspired, engaged, politicised, compassionate, engineer, and citizen of the world. Reader of banned books. Irascible spinster. Posts are usually awesome & always my own. Call me: she & her
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Prayer chain initiated.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Tried to call in. You were great Duane! Of course, we didn't see any of this uproar from the Alberta government under the UCP when Landon Johnston (now the ward 14 councillor in Calgary) was leading the petition to try to recall (now former mayor) Jyoti Gondek. Recall for thee, but not for me...
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Even more amusing, Rajan Sawhney, Minister of Indigenous Relations is on the left side of that photograph.

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As UCP MLA recall movement expands, more petitioners ready their pens
Canvassers in Airdrie hope to begin collecting signatures this weekend, once they receive approved badges from Elections Alberta.
calgaryherald.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Quote: ""There is rarely one single risk factor that explains why one in eight women develop breast cancer," [Dr. Stephanie Wong, surgical oncologist in Montreal said] in an email."

Merci Dr. Wong! While we're at it we should probably stop blaming women for their breast cancer in headlines & life.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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That is only $0.542 billion, and the estimates for damage from Hurricane Melissa for just Jamaica alone are said to be ⅓ of Jamaica's GDP, so approximately $6-7 billion. This is the climate crisis fully manifesting, in real-time, in Jamaica. COP30 talks on climate financing are now imperative. 2/2
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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With a response from the Reconciliation Action Group.

It will be interesting to know how many folks were housed, hospitalized, or helped on Wednesday rather than just arrested or ticketed.

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ragyyc.bsky.social Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 4d
For Immediate Release

Calgary Police Enforcement Blitz November 5, 2025

See our full statement

#yyccc #CPS #94callstoaction #231callsforjustice #Indigenous #Treaty7
City of Calgary Mayor and Councillors, It is with great disappointment that our first communication to the newly formed council of the City of Calgary is to speak to an act of reprehensible violent raids perpetrated by the Calgary Police Service upon the most vulnerable residents. There can be no confusion that this was an act of deliberate harm and the continued genocide of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, who as you know disproportionately represent the population of homelessness in Calgary, as a direct result colonial violence. Targeting, arresting and dismantling desperate survival conditions of the most vulnerable people in the city will do nothing but perpetuate harm and cause further trauma. The loss of belongings, punitive fines and jail terms serve only to put the means of survival further from reach. Shelters and group facilities are not alternatives to housing and culturally appropriate wrap around services; they are places where people are forced to give up loved pets and belongings and are subjected to physical and emotional violence. Police sweeps are colonial tactics used to further displace vulnerable people and incarcerate Indigenous peoples to continue the displacement and assimilation tactics of land theft. They are not, as police Chief McLellan states “a collaborative and compassionate approach to addressing concerns about disorder and violent crime.” The measured and misleading language from the police Chief including statements such as “Arresting is connecting,” and “Arrests will be made when necessary, but always with dignity and care.” are intended to deliberately manipulate the public and camouflage the violence of raids and imprisonment each of the victims of Wednesday’s attacks will suffer from. Crime rhetoric weaponized during the recent municipal election is now being used to gain public sympathies for the acts of violence by the police. Many of the victims of these raids are Residential School survivors - the depravity of thi… This city is situated on Treaty 7 Territory, a councillor or mayor has a duty to represent residents as good Treaty partners, honouring the true intent and spirit of Treaty 7, and the responsibility to protect from colonial institutions, the rights of Indigenous peoples to live in freedom, peace and security. We have a duty to ensure the care of survivors by acting on the fulfillment of all 94 Calls to Action and ending the continuing violence with the full implementation of the 231 Calls for Justice. Non-Indigenous people carry the responsibility for the governing structures of Canada, its provinces and municipalities and an obligation to end the colonial violence that continues today. Each one of us is responsible for dismantling the systems that harm children first.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Fmr Councillor Richard Pootmans regularly took transit. Hon. @jceci.bsky.social, when he was a city councillor used transit too. He's my neighbour, so we'd both be on the route 1 (Bowness/ Forest Lawn). Yes, former Premier @rachelnotley.bsky.social ran on the Bow River Pathway in Inglewood, often.
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM