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Valerie Cook

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Banning social media for kids - great idea from Olds. Costs little. Not really enforceable, if the Australian case study is any guide. The kids are generally using this tech as messaging. To talk to their peers. Olds are often suspicious of teenagers talking to each other. Don’t get me wrong…🧵
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
He also really hates the Islanders and Toronto in general, he's still mad that he wasn't elected mayor after Rob. He's a rather emotional man-child.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hate me today Hate me tomorrow Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/i...
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It’s Not Me, It’s Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School
You know that friend who keeps dating the same kind of terrible person? The one who swears each new partner is different, and then six months in you’re hearing the same complaints about the s…
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fun fact! The ferry service makes loads of money every year, which goes into general revenue so a subsidy is not factual. Gotta wonder if they are going to go after the island school kids next for their obviously "subsidized" ferry trips.
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Distinct legal traditions??....like a number of AGs being sanctioned by the law society....those traditions???
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As an Albertan , I've often wondered if rural folks realize they are part of an equalization program.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Just a reminder… While Smith and Lagrange are talking about the biggest factors influencing health outcomes and why they’re profitizing Alberta’s healthcare… The #1 factor that determines health outcomes is made worse by the policy. It’s poverty. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
~AHS&LaGrange refuse to increase funding by a relatively small amount to a public facility meant to serve complex patients while paying inflated fees to chartered surgical facilities. LaGrange is holding the line over $975,000 after the UCP wasted $70M on Turkish Tylenol thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
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The Pain-Racked Patients Alberta’s Orthopedic Surgery Centre Won’t Take | The Tyee
Surgeons offered a $975,000 way to fix the public clinic’s backlog of 1,400 ‘complex’ cases. AHS said no.
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'm choosing to believe that after the last leaked Janet Brown poll, she's testing them with a fake poll to see if they'll abide by their contract. A theory that's less nauseous than the UCP leading...
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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#cdnpoli #Canada
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/11/2024
Raise the bar, stand with CUPW. canadians.org/update/state...
CUPW members have been at the forefront of struggles for economic, social, and environmental justice for decades. In 1981, Canadian postal workers won 17 weeks of paid maternity leave after a 42-day strike. That victory soon spread to workplaces across the country, popularizing the view that all workers should benefit from paid parental leave. A fair contract for unionized postal workers raises the bar for all working people.
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Valerie Cook @anxiouscucumber.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An utterly beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking read.
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