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Avni Soma

@avnisoma.bsky.social
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Mother of the Soma Sisters. Community organizer. Creator of les repas chauds. President NDP Yellowhead EDA.

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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Ça c'est ridicule UCP..😧
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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Regina Crowchild of Tsuut’ina First Nation says she voted against the resolution because there’s no guarantee Canada will follow through on its commitment to consult affected communities when it decides which projects to approve.
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Chiefs vote down pitch to include First Nations infrastructure in major projects push
WINNIPEG — First Nations chiefs today voted down a resolution that would have called on Ottawa to include First Nations infrastructure ventures in its national push to fast-track major projects. The r...
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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 01/09/2025
Far right folks are fuming over the UCP's book ban. Not over the party's abandonment of libertarian principles. But over the Edmonton Public School Board's choice to follow the new law. If you have friends in those circles, just ask: Which of the 200 EPSB books should stay on shelves?
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 29/08/2025
"If they need us to hold their hand through the process to identify what kind of materials are appropriate … so we can be super clear about what it is we're trying to do," Smith said. Ok, but only if it stops at hand holding, and the pair are opposite sex. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 29/08/2025
2012 Danielle Smith must be so conflicted. On one hand, she's days away from realizing her dream of locking out all public school teachers in the province. On the other, she's having to fight to keep Atlas Shrugged on high school library shelves after people took her book ban literally.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Today, we honoured the life and legacy of Jack Layton. 🧡 Jack believed that hope could triumph over fear, that everyone deserves a seat at the table. Standing at his statue, I felt his spirit and call to action more clearly than ever. We won’t let them tell us it can’t be done.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Incredible conversations today at The Walrus about the power of storytelling and the future of Canadian media. As the NDP Heritage critic and a Canadian, I’m grateful for the work they do to make sure our stories reflect all of us. 🇨🇦
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Congratulations to Air Canada flight attendants. You stood your ground, defended your rights, and won. Air Canada saw workers weren’t backing down, so they had to come back to the table. This tentative deal happened where it was always going to happen - at the bargaining table.
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Canola details from NFU🙌🏽 "Canada’s canola sector has a high degree of vertical integration making it unclear whether compensation for farmers affected by tariffs will remain in farmers hands or simply flow through to the vertically integrated seed/chemical companies..." mailchi.mp/nfu.ca/china...
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China’s new anti-dumping tariff – what does it mean?
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The UCP's next game is particularly cruel... The plan is to transition all AISH recipients to their new "But you can work a little" program and only after everyone is transitioned can those unable to work re-apply for AISH. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The consequence of the failed talks is devastating, as it leaves no clear path for nations to collectively address the mountains of plastic that are filling landfills, clogging oceans and showing up in chunks on beaches and other public places.
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World fails to come up with treaty to deal with plastics pollution
Negotiations to reach a treaty to deal with the growing issue of plastics pollution around the world fell apart on Friday.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/08/2025
The premier could do this tomorrow. She doesn't need a panel. She doesn't need her own tax collection agency. She would (likely) need to call a referendum or campaign on it in the next provincial election. So why doesn't she? 🤔
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/08/2025
Wasn't me, but I share the sentiment.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/08/2025
I mean we're rehashing the Fair Deal panel and O'Brien Commission, so why not redo Harper's Senate abolition gambit while we're at it? If the premier and her staff want to muse about this stuff without doing any homework, they should go back to running a podcast and stop wasting our time and $.
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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Greg J Stoker ❤ @gregjstoker
To be clear, Israel put Anas on a death list with other journalists last year but he was protected by the size of his platform.
They tracked his cell phone, his every move, they could have killed him at any time. They only
chose to now because they determined the information blowback from assassinating him would be less than if he were alive to record the invasion of Gaza City.
Full stop.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Kyle Kasawski @ndpkyle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The new UCP Minister of Municipal Affairs is establishing himself as a bit of a tyrant. edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/08/01/a...
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‘A bit of a tyrant’: Alberta municipal affairs minister slammed for warning to local councillors | CityNews Edmonton
Alberta’s municipal affairs minister has a message for local politicians: “Do your damn job.”
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"Distributed decision-making"... How do we live it? Clearly The UCP government does not know how or want to know how.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 30/07/2025
If the Minister of Justice is counseling the Chief Electoral Officer to disregard the law, it makes you wonder what kind of advice he's offering the premier and the rest of government. Predictably, the move is sowing further distrust in the democratic system, including elections and courts.
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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Inside the Bill C-5 First Nations summit | The Narwhal
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Inside the Bill C-5 First Nations summit | The Narwhal
I was at the First Nations summit on Bill C-5. It’s clear Mark Carney isn’t listening to Indigenous leaders.
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Sorry I missed the in-person gathering in Calgary. I will be doing my part from Ottawa/Chelsea for the next year🍊🧡
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Sarah Elmeligi @elmeligisarah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Alberta Court’s ruling that the UCP cannot restrict the freedoms of parents, children and medical professionals under Bill 26 is the kind of late Friday afternoon news that I prefer! 🙌❤️🌈
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It's a problem when the Conservatives supported the Bill with such enthusiasm... Liberals keep inching over to the right at every turn🤦🏽‍♀️🙎🏽‍♀️.
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Sarah Elmeligi @elmeligisarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
There is no rhyme or reason on days like these. Days when the unpredictability of the mountains strike the very depths of our souls. My heart breaks for the families and friends and hikers hurt by this tragedy. I am sending them all so much love and light and wishes for healing.
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Two dead in Banff National Park rock slide, RCMP confirm
Two people have died at the scene of a rock slide in Banff National Park, RCMP confirmed.
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Bev Toews @bevtoews.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
What an amazing day in Carstairs! Thank you for standing up for healthcare, for education, and for Canada. Together, we’re building something stronger, and we’re just getting started! 🇨🇦🧡 #VoteforBetter from June 17-21, or on Election Day, June 23! Visit www.albertandp.ca/vote to learn more!
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Lori Idlout @loriidlout.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓴᐃᒻᒪᑎᒧᑦ ᓇᑉᐸᖅᑕᐅᑎᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᔪᒃᓴᐅᖏᑦᑐᑦ No more human flagpoles! ᒪᓐᓇ ᑕᑯᓐᓇᒐᒃᓴᖅ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎᖅᔪᐊᖅ ᐃᓪᓚᐅᖅ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓕᕆᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᔫᓂ 11. 2025ᒥᒃ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᕕᔾᔪᐊᕐᒥᒃ This video is from MP Idlout's press conference held this morning, June 11, 2025 on Parliament Hill. youtu.be/NyXzbvdrtag
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Global March to Gaza This morning, I joined other Parliamentarians and Canadians advocating for an end to the genocide in Gaza to promote the Global March to Gaza. #GlobalMarchToGaza youtu.be/9vBMcIoq2qs
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Global March to Gaza - Parliamentary Press Conference - June 10, 2025
YouTube video by Heather McPherson
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Kyle Kasawski @ndpkyle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
WATCH LIVE ▶ Alberta New Democrat House Leader Christina Gray and I expose UCP Cabinet Ministers and constituency associations conspiring with separatist organizers: youtube.com/live/i9xsETk...
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UCP Government's Push for Separatism Exposed
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Canada Post workers are looking for a fair deal. Why is the government allowing management to tear apart our postal system and delay negotiations with CUPW members? @cupwsttp.bsky.social @cupw730.bsky.social
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We need non-Market and social housing solutions not only reducing the cost of building... The liberal did not answer the question
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Today’s Throne Speech was historic — but that isn’t enough. Words won’t solve the housing crisis, protect seniors, or tackle the climate emergency. We need action. Canadians deserve a government that works for everyone — not just the wealthy few. #cdnpoli #ThroneSpeech2025
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"..we must push back on the lies its elites put out about economic realities in this country, about how the federal equalization program actually works.." We did pushback while campaigning in rural Alberta. Not easy but necessary AND needs to be a long-term game. It's always easier with some ad $$😉
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I have definitely felt this in my lifetime. I was born in 1972
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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National Farmers Union | L'Union nationale des fermiers @nfucanada.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We want a foodbelt! 👏 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 MPPs want to create foodbelt to protect farmland, tariff-proof Ontario's agricultural industry | CBC News
Guelph MPP and Green Leader Mike Schreiner and independent MPP Bobbi Ann Brady from Haldimand-Norfolk have co-written a bill to create an Ontario Foodbelt which would protect farmlands.
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
When I was offered this service after vandalism of a few signs, I have to say that I was grateful to live in Canada. Particularly because when I told my parents I was going to run for office, my Father's first words were "Well at least you won't get killed here." #Yellowheadndp
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 17/05/2025
Carney's new cabinet is missing some important western voices, including from several prairie cities. I find it awkward that the same folks who rail against EDI are crying foul on this point. But there's more to it than that. 🧵
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 17/05/2025
Carney's choice to cut prairie dwellers out of cabinet places a lot of the national unity load on intergovernmental relations. Cabinet used to do some of that heavy lifting, with regional ministers standing up for provinces. Carney has shifted the representational load squarely onto premiers.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 17/05/2025
Managing this premier-laden system will require a major shift in intergovernmental relations. It's not undoable, but it's also never been tried to this magnitude with this much pressure on the system. I hope his folks know what they're doing. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/carneys-fe...
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Carney's Federalism Dilemma
The prime minister must choose avoidance or engagement
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Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse @jodiabndp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Yesterday at the Legislature, First Nations from across the province stood united with one message: Respect our treaties. Kill Bill 54.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/05/2025
In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history. No public consultation. No meaningful debate. How bad is Bill 54? Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook
And it's no accident they were released today.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Canada's Conservatives are openly flirting with the sort of election denialism that helped define the MAGA movement. It's time for their leaders to actually lead -- or fall prey to the same toxic populism that destroyed the Republican Party. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/14/o...
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Canada’s Conservatives are flirting with danger
The MAGA movement has long defined itself through its willingness to deny the legitimacy of election results. After their recent defeat, Canada's Conservatives are now flirting with their own election...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The election is over, there's no political reason for the Liberals and Carney not to take a public, outraged stand on the world stage against this ongoing crime against humanity being perpetrated by a country Canada considers an ally. The only conclusion one can draw is that they truly don't care.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 10/05/2025
The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making). The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US. Wildfires & measles are raging. And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
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Avni Soma @avnisoma.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thank you for that work @ndpkyle.bsky.social. Any opportunity I had during the 11 candidate forums in Yellowhead, I reminded rural Albertans that Canadian tax payers funded the TMX for the benefit of Albertans and by extension all Canadians 🇨🇦.
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