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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Preventing the transition to clean energy: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem". -- Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
thenarwhal.ca
‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change
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Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🌲🌳🔥🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Always profits over people. I loathe capitalism. It is killing Mother Earth. 🪶😡🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖕🏽🇺🇸 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
CEO says he's prepared to fight Canada in court over Hamilton steel plant layoffs | CBC News
The CEO of the American company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco says he's prepared to fight the Canadian government in court over Stelco's plan to lay off hundreds of workers. He also said ...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The NDP have released a statement condemning violence after a Muslim school in Calgary received emails threatening to kill children & telling Muslims to leave Canada. It appears there is no similar statement from the premier. Or her Justice Minister. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Leena Walters @leenawalters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Our own government has embarked on a scurrilous smear campaign designed to scapegoat recent immigrants for Alberta’s chronic planning failures and to incite a backlash against new Canadians." This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for Paula Simons. #ableg #abpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca
‘Defeat These Questions’: A Senator’s Fiery Rebuke to the UCP Referendum | The Tyee
Paula Simons stood to urge fellow Albertans to reject ‘a scurrilous smear campaign’ against newcomers.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h
Not sure I've ever seen a worse case of "doesn't normally wear this hat" than this incredible pic www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/21/n...
a screenshot of an article with the headline Alberta moves to stop data centres from Using a Renewable energy and a Politician, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is standing at a podium wearing a sort of brand new cowboy hat that has never seen any sort of environment of any kind beyond the inside of a shop.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trickledown economics is Alberta's main economic policy & it doesn't work 👇🏼 #ableg #abpoli
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
one more time for your benefit. www.canada.ca/en/revenue-a...
canada.ca
Scams and fraud - Government of Canada
Protect yourself from scams and identify disinformation intended to trick you.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I figured you were sad you helped him get a majority, but you seem to be too embarrassed to admit it. I take comfort in knowing I didn't. I was trying to help minimize your embarrassment by pointing out that you didn't vote directly for him.. You just helped him to get anything he wants.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm not the one who got scammed by Liberals, so clearly doing better than you.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Calgary's mayor understands political messaging.
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you're looking for something to do this week in Alberta advanced polls are open from 13th - 17th October You can find place & times on your registration card Go vote If we don't vote the separatists win #ableg #abpoli
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The resolution referred to water as "a sacred gift from the Creator" and called for greater Dene-led oversight of water quality, industrial activity and contamination across the North | Story by Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs.
aptnnews.ca
Dene Nation sets up water council, leaders warn of tar sands tailings risks
The Dene Nation passed a resolution to establish a water council at its 56th national assembly, in Kátł'odeeche First Nation, N.W.T.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 09/10/2026
In what universe is it debatable that the United States engages in information warfare and meddling in other countries' democratic processes?
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Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another foreign owned oil project.
cbc.ca
Shell to buy 30% stake in proposed Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland | CBC News
Equinor says it will retain a 70 per cent operating interest in the project, which would be the first deepwater oil development in Canada if it goes ahead.
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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is your Liberal MP on a greenwashing blitz too? 🙃 #cdnpoli #climatechange
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Journalist should ask Carney WHY when we don’t have any national solar, battery or EV industries in Canada?
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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pierre Poilievre and the entire Conservative party voted for Mark Carney's right-wing legislation, Bill C-39. How people still do not get that Mark Carney is a gd Conservative, I'll never understand. #CDNpoli #CanadaSky
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“You can't say we don't have enough money to put every patient in a hospital bed, and we don't have enough money to make sure that every single person can fill their prescription, and yet you have millions of dollars to burn on promotional advertising.” www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
thetrillium.ca
Ontario Health Ministry spent $13.3M on advertising last year
Newly released records bring advertising spending identified by The Trillium to more than $90M across five ministries
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Melissa (she/her) @melibee44.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My fellow Albertans, many of us are gathering around Thanksgiving tables this weekend. Be sure to encourage your loved ones to vote to remain in Canada and no to the nine, and make sure they have a plan to vote! Encourage people to go to the advance polls from the 13th to 17th. #ableg #abpoli #AB
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Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This policy is far more unpopular than the Liberals know. Even my exceedingly conservative father in law thinks this is a bad idea and that Carney is "acting like Trump" by forcing through something he never campaigned on and that no one asked for. #cdnpoli
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At least I can read a party platform and a ballot. 🤷
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Got scammed by Liberals but didn't vote for one? Weird. Here's a link to the Government of Canada web page on avoiding scams. For the future. www.canada.ca/en/revenue-a...
canada.ca
Scams and fraud - Government of Canada
Protect yourself from scams and identify disinformation intended to trick you.
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, you have to be able to afford to pay for it up front and then you'll be reimbursed. How does that help low income people? #cdnpoli
Through the online portal, the government says applicants will be able to upload receipts following the install of their new heat pumps and should expect confirmation within five days.

Applicants will then be reimbursed through direct deposit.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Cold Lake First Nations seeking judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation | CBC News
Cold Lake First Nations filed an application Thursday for judicial review in Federal Court, challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national interest.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good luck with grade 9.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well, you said you got scammed, so excuse me for assuming you were dumb enough to vote Liberal? 🤷
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🇨🇦 Never 51st 🇨🇦 @terry-bolger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A complete lack of regulatory enforcement and/or accountability coupled with ridiculous government incompetence leaves all of us paying the debt for these corrupt O & G companies. Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
thetyee.ca
Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent | The Tyee
Taxpayers covered lease payments for hundreds of oil and gas companies in 2025.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is calling out Smith’s claims she had no idea separatists were meeting with the US State Department… While pointing out they raised the alarm on this months ago. With receipts. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That and I literally couldn't afford to have a child if I wanted to.
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mr Environment is lying to Canadians. Again. No wonder he cancelled anti-greenwashing policies. He would be unable to gaslight us, himself. “Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
nationalobserver.com
Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hate to be this guy, but you didn't technically vote for Mark Carney unless you live in the Nepean riding. You just helped him get enough MPs to have a majority government.
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Essential and compelling reading, Canadians. I’m grateful for the work of our intrepid and highly skilled Canadian journalists. Also great illustration at the top of the article, eh? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 04/10/2026
Because when it comes to using public money to bankroll economically suspect & environmentally ruinous pipeline projects, no one is more willing than #Canada’s Liberal Party Particularly when the profit from said projects will go to the American shareholders of “Canada’s” oil patch #cdnpoli
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The masked men behind Kamloops’ “Got bones?” banner belong to a white-nationalist group that trains with US fascist networks tied to MAGA and promotes “remigration,” a far-right agenda pushed by Trump. Its founder told followers to “arm up now.” #cdnpoli
yacnews.com
Second Sons: foreign-trained in Texas with a militant US right-wing group, promoted by promoted by Trump allies
The masked men behind Kamloops' "Got bones?" banner belong to a federally registered white nationalist group that trains with US fascist fight clubs and pushes the "remigration" agenda Donald Trump ha...
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Canada has therefore breached its obligations as a state party to the Rome Statute by allowing Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace en route to the United States." - Ardi Imseis in this excellent piece by Evan Dyer CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #ICC #cdnpoli
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC News
A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
$2.250,000,000,000. Norway’s oil based sovereign wealth fund Alberta could’ve had something like that, but the conservative premieres just pissed it away and gave tax cuts to their oil and gas donor owners #ableg youtube.com/shorts/aIwCK...
youtube.com
How Norway manages its $2.25 trillion fund
YouTube video by Council on Foreign Relations
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Solstice 🇨🇦 @notabot1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We have been looted. Wake the fuck up alberta. #ableg ##abpoli #canada
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Hold resource sector accountable for violence against Indigenous women, MPs urge feds | CBC News
The Canadian government should start holding resource development firms accountable for violence against Indigenous women that occurs in their industries, a House of Commons committee says.
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The short answer is that none of this is coincidental and we must become enlivened to the stark reality that a treasonous movement has come to hijack the national agenda at a moment of great consequence when our attention should be elsewhere and our unity unshakable.” #CoordinatedAttack #AbPoli
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Misty Magikarp ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🇨🇦💍 @mistymagikarp.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Please add residential school denialism to the list of hate speech in Canada
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026
Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are
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Nigel Swedenborg 🍁🌻 @nigelswedenborg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canadian media had no problem hounding Justin Trudeau out of politics, but it consistently treats conservative politicians like Poilievre, Smith, Moe and Ford with kid gloves.🤔 #cdnpoli #abpoli
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Team Fossil Fuels (Ford, Smith, Carney) hard at work using taxpayer money to enrich oil companies while ruining the planet. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/n...
nationalobserver.com
Doug Ford says he'll spend public money on east-west oil pipeline
Ontario’s premier sees no reason why it should take more than four years to build a 3,300 kilometre pipeline between Alberta and his province. “We just believe that it can get done,” he said.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people of PEI are good hearted people and as such they sent an MP to Parliament who disagrees with his party about arming a genocide and voted the way his constituents wanted. Then the @liberalca.bsky.social demoted him for not supporting Israel & people are angry. #peipoli #cdnpoli
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which isn't impossible and doesn't require nationalization of any industry to do. We literally made $25 billion in 2020 at 1% preproduction rates and 25% post. Literally the bottom of our royalty rate range, something the Alberta government has the power to increase against a captive consumer.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's worse is he pretends to be an elbows up Canadian while his elbows remain all the way down, resting on the barrel he's bent over while getting fucked by American investors who he's fine with pillaging Canadian resource profits he also admits he doesn't want to raise in the slightest.
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badmancrooks.bsky.social @badmancrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Real thinking was happening, Brian here likes engaging in strawman arguments as well, but hypocritically only acknowledges when others do the same. The jump from increasing royalty rates to having to nationalize every industry is the same insane hyperbole he accuses other of.
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