valcat
@valcat.bsky.social
Progressive lifelong Albertan. 🍁🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. No DMs.
The grave of my great uncle Addison L. Riley in Smiths Falls ON. He contracted tuberculosis on a troop ship headed to England. He never saw battle but died for his country just as surely. So many young, brave men.
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The grave of my great uncle Addison L. Riley in Smiths Falls ON. He contracted tuberculosis on a troop ship headed to England. He never saw battle but died for his country just as surely. So many young, brave men.
Every time I drive past the Flat Earth Society sign on the QEII on my way back home from Edmonton to Calgary a little voice inside of me says “fair enough”.
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Every time I drive past the Flat Earth Society sign on the QEII on my way back home from Edmonton to Calgary a little voice inside of me says “fair enough”.
Text exchange from Alberta to Nova Scotia with my trans kid. 🏳️⚧️💙🤍🩷
September 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Text exchange from Alberta to Nova Scotia with my trans kid. 🏳️⚧️💙🤍🩷
Gander International Airport. The International Lounge is open to everyone and it is a retro jewel. I visited this summer and imagined the weary & terrified travellers in this space 24 years ago today.
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Gander International Airport. The International Lounge is open to everyone and it is a retro jewel. I visited this summer and imagined the weary & terrified travellers in this space 24 years ago today.
So proud to march alongside my sister and nephew with Skipping Stone today at #CalgaryPride! Love is Love. Protect Trans Kids. 🏳️⚧️
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August 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So proud to march alongside my sister and nephew with Skipping Stone today at #CalgaryPride! Love is Love. Protect Trans Kids. 🏳️⚧️
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Happy Pride Calgary! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
August 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Happy Pride Calgary! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Happy International Dog Day to those who celebrate enthusiastically.
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Happy International Dog Day to those who celebrate enthusiastically.
It is a gorgeous shot. It is not mine! I should have credited Kurt Stegmuller whose pic I found on the website peakery.com. Apologies to Kurt. My best pics of Assiniboine are moldering on an old inaccessible computer. Here is one from much further away and one of Robson which is another favourite.
June 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It is a gorgeous shot. It is not mine! I should have credited Kurt Stegmuller whose pic I found on the website peakery.com. Apologies to Kurt. My best pics of Assiniboine are moldering on an old inaccessible computer. Here is one from much further away and one of Robson which is another favourite.
Cloudy in Montreal but wonderful to be in this beautiful city. A welcome respite from the constant drama that is Alberta.
May 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Cloudy in Montreal but wonderful to be in this beautiful city. A welcome respite from the constant drama that is Alberta.
Oh Please be true! I am Calgary Centre!!
April 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oh Please be true! I am Calgary Centre!!
Goes well with my Liberal sign in Calgary Centre!
April 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Goes well with my Liberal sign in Calgary Centre!
Smith is highly sympathetic to these far right sensibilities & is seeking to normalize them. Look at that star-struck grin in pictures, from Peterson to Trump, to Carlson to Breitbart and now this. She displays such a lack of judgment.
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Smith is highly sympathetic to these far right sensibilities & is seeking to normalize them. Look at that star-struck grin in pictures, from Peterson to Trump, to Carlson to Breitbart and now this. She displays such a lack of judgment.
Last night’s Manhattans made with Manitoba rye, and BC cherries preserved in brandy last summer. So good! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁
March 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Last night’s Manhattans made with Manitoba rye, and BC cherries preserved in brandy last summer. So good! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁
All I am asking for is one damned weekend where the premier of my province does not make me nauseous with her bigoted ideas and lack of judgment.
March 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
All I am asking for is one damned weekend where the premier of my province does not make me nauseous with her bigoted ideas and lack of judgment.
My sisters and I stumbled across the online yearbook for our mom’s class at West Hill school in Montreal. Guess who else we found?
March 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My sisters and I stumbled across the online yearbook for our mom’s class at West Hill school in Montreal. Guess who else we found?
Dogs and the spring melt. Tale as old as time. SIGH
March 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dogs and the spring melt. Tale as old as time. SIGH
The unveiling of the picture of Violet King that hangs in the Bennet Jones Lecture Theatre at the UCalgary Faculty of Law. Violet King’s daughter, Joanne Henry, is second from the right in the back row along with members of the Calgary Chapter of the Black Law Students Association. March 2023.
February 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The unveiling of the picture of Violet King that hangs in the Bennet Jones Lecture Theatre at the UCalgary Faculty of Law. Violet King’s daughter, Joanne Henry, is second from the right in the back row along with members of the Calgary Chapter of the Black Law Students Association. March 2023.
How hard could it really be to mess with Starlink??? Also,where can we find a few fiesty nuns?
February 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
How hard could it really be to mess with Starlink??? Also,where can we find a few fiesty nuns?
Greenland pics from 2013. This glorious land is no place for the likes of Trump.
February 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Greenland pics from 2013. This glorious land is no place for the likes of Trump.
This is how you access healthcare in a functioning democracy. 🇨🇦
February 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is how you access healthcare in a functioning democracy. 🇨🇦