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🇨🇦🍁👩🏻‍🏫💉🏔️☕️📚🎞️🎶☀️ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally - she/her Bluenoser at heart #yql grateful to live on Treaty 7 land #ViveLeCanada #GoHabsGo

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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They preach "Alberta First" while promising the Americans our water, oil, and land. I joined Edmonton's Mayor Andrew Knack on CBC's Power & Politics to call out the hypocrisy of the Alberta separatist movement. You don’t defend Alberta by putting our province up for sale to the United States.
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let me be clear: we know from evidence in countries around the world that physician dual practice drains resources away from the public system and, in many cases, increases wait times for public patients. This goes directly against the spirit of the Canada Health Act. 1/3
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Spindle leaf palette in October, complete with Barbie pinks:
Spindle, Euonymous europeaus leaves in autumn, arranged on a wooden table and with a hand written label
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s time to send Danielle Smith and the UCP a resounding message they’ll never forget: Yes to Canada! No to the Nine! Guest post by Bradley Lafortune. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/its-...
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It’s time to send Danielle Smith and the UCP a resounding message they’ll never forget: Yes to Canada! No to the Nine! - Alberta Politics
Quite naturally, most of the focus by the groups hurriedly formed to support a remain-in-Canada vote in the separation referendum that has been aided, abetted and forced on Albertans by the United Con...
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Atchoum the cat @atchoumthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Boo!👻🙀
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Hockey Sweater is one of the most famous books in Canadian history. The story of a boy who received the wrong hockey sweater from Eaton's has been featured on our currency, gone to space, and been turned into an iconic NFB short. This is the story. 🧵 1/12
Crowded vintage locker-room illustration of children in red-and-blue hockey sweaters tying skates, checking a team roster and chatting amid scattered sticks and helmets, with the book title "The Hockey Sweater" and credit "Story by Roch Carrier, illustrations by Sheldon Cohen."
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I am Jane Doe 🟥🍁🟥🐝🌲 Living with COPD @connieskp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To celebrate National Truth and Reconciliation Day, I wear my vest. It represents my grandma, my mom, and myself. Our history grounds us and makes us who we are. Honor the past. Look forward to the future with hope.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir Webstad's new memoir We Are Still Here details how a single voice inspired a national movement www.cbc.ca/books/orange...
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Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir | CBC Books
The Orange Shirt Day creator reflects on her life in new memoir, We Are Still Here.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Karen Cook Fine Art Photography 🇨🇦🍁 @karencookphotos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't think I have ever taken a photo that was so #painterly as this one. Straight from the camera except for cropping #birds #BeautyInNature #birdwatching #killdeer #naturephotography fineartamerica.com/featured/wai...
Waiting on the Shores by Karen Cook - A Killdeer stands on a rocky patch near a calm water body. The scene includes sparse vegetation and a soft, neutral background
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fungus photo a day: common bonnets, taken last October. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 28/09/2026
From @helenbennett.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Can't help but share a recent favourite of this puffin captured on the Isle of Staffa. #birds
A puffin stands on a mound of grass with small flowers. The background is a nice blurred bokeh featuring white circles where the light reflects off of the water.
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Andries (Andy) Sytsema - I Stand With Canada🍁 @asytsema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alberta does not need a referendum that turns neighbours into opponents. Vote No on all nine. Remain in Canada. Get out and vote. #NoToAll9 #RemainInCanada #GetOutTheVote
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.
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hedy bach @hedybach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground; so too the race of mortals. – Iliad vi.146 #imageandverse
first frost🍂🍂🍂🍂

In the garden 

collage by hedy bach 2026
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear Alberta, VOTE! 🗳️ NO to the 9. 👎 YES to Canada. 🇨🇦
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J.Day @thejeffday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Autumn Lights... A tall tree and meandering fence post in a meadow with a cold front approaching, all bathed in a variety of shaded light. #BlueSkyArtShow #lights #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #Alberta #CA #Photocraphy #Autumnlight
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Useful context for Alberta’s anti-inmigrant referendum questions. We are not being “flooded” with newcomers. And scapegoating immigrants for longstanding structural problems with our public health care system, in particular, is gutter politics. #cdnpoli #abpoli #notothenine.
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Canada's population growth slows to lowest level in 80 years
The population is also aging with the median age now at 40.9 years
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New ads just dropped - There’s a poll out tomorrow via CBC that apparently shows the UCP down. That’s because Danielle Smith’s catering to separatists is unpopular, and the closer we get to Oct 19, the more people are (rightfully) blaming her for this debacle. No to the Nine.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is false and misleading. There is nothing in the constitution that would require Ottawa to negotiate with Alberta if a majority of Albertans choose Option 2 on Question 10. Alberta Proud is a registered third-party advertiser. Daniel Kary, of Calgary, is the main contact/CFO.
There's a lot of confusion about what Question 10 on the October 19 ballot actually means, so let's be clear.
Question 10 gives voters two options: remain a province of Canada, or start the legal process toward a binding referendum. A binding referendum means a future province-wide vote whose result the government is legally required to act on, not just listen to and ignore. Choosing the second option doesn't take Alberta out of Canada.
Under Canada's constitution, if enough Albertans choose the second option, Ottawa would be required to come to the table for a real conversation about Alberta's place in Canada, how our resources are managed, and whether we're getting a fair return.
Are you voting on October 19?
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A #painting from the west of Ireland again. "Broadhaven Bay" came from a time I was cycling up the very top of north Mayo and as I cycled alongside the bay I was arrested by its patterns and colours so I just looked. Also, the wind was fantastic which always helps me to stop. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in mostly flat acrylics. A field of yellow orange in the foreground runs across the bottom in a very narrow triangular wedge. It has a blue-poled wire fence running along its edge and just behind it on the left is a small pile of wine-coloured turf. Beyond it running across the picture in a wide band is a teal inlet, with rocky small cliff edges which are dark purple and wine on the right half, and further back on the left half they are lilac and white with a pink strand in a small cove. The cliffs are topped with a patchwork of varying green fields leading up a slope to a small settlement of little white houses at the top from which the blue hedgerows radiate down. Behind the houses peeps the top of a high cliff of very pale pink with blue shadows, and above it is a narrow strip of blood-orange sky. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly
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Bob @bobsegel.com · 23/09/2026
Bob's Picture of the Day: Orange Zinnia A honey bee on an orange zinnia flower. #Photography #BloomScrolling #BskyTogs #Zinnia 🌸
A honey bee on an orange zinnia flower.  

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 1962, Canada removed race as a factor in immigration In 1967, we removed nationality as a factor and created the world's first merit-based immigration system In 1971, multiculturalism became official government policy and in 1988, the Canadian Multiculturalism Act was enacted
Mural showing multicultural children celebrating traditional arts—smiling kids play a drum, hold a lion-dance head and a hand puppet, and wear diverse cultural clothing to convey community, music, and joy.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A fungus photo a day: rosy oysterling/Scytinotus longinquus with a tiny red snout mite, taken November 2024. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A little #painting that took a long time. "Flower, Mountain" came from when I lived in north Donegal and with my little dog would walk for hours under very dark clouds. This little plant with its golden flowers coped a lot better than either of us did with the very strong wind. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in acrylics on paper textured for acrylic painting. On the left a stalky green plant with 6 small bright yellow flowers stands up out of long grass while behind it is a ridge of undulating green hills and directly behind the flowers in bold contrast is a broody turquoise sky. To the right on the horizon is a whale-shaped light violet mountain. The long grass of the bottom third is violet and dark greens all leaning to the right, with highlights of light turquoise bending in arcs to the right. Signed bottom right in orange, Liam Daly
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"I understand the frustrations Alberta had after being abused for ten years by an out of touch federal government." That pot isn't going to stir itself, folks. #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NO evidence to support UCP & separatists (hateful) lies about immigrants. "The evidence on this point is consistent. Migrants in high-income countries are, on average, healthier than host populations and contribute more economically than they consume in services." healthydebate.ca/2026/04/topi...
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Alberta can’t rely on immigrant workers while denying them health care - Healthy Debate
Alberta cannot build a functioning health system by recruiting newcomers to sustain it while denying some the care they need to live, work and stay.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My latest column for Forward Weekly. Why you should absolutely vote in Alberta’s referendum, even if the process seems absurdist and performative. Indeed, BECAUSE it is absurdist and performative. #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Canada
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We Can’t Boycott Our Way Out of a Meaningless Referendum | By Paula Simons | Forward Weekly
Forward Weekly feature for September 20, 2026.
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Welcome to 🇫🇷 #FRANCE‼️ #St.Pierre and #Miquelon are two islands off the coast of #Newfoundland, #Canada in the #AtlanticOcean. The land belongs to France, citizens carry French passports, EU adapters are used, #Euro is their currency. A beautiful coastal region accessible by #ferry or #air.
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Alberta separatists cannot be happy with the economic analysis of separation that the School of Public Policy has written. What is their rebuttal? And calling it fake news put out by a bunch of pointy headed academics is not a serious rebuttal.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heated Policy 🔥🍁🇨🇦🇪🇺
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇨🇦 Innisfail Town Council and Strathcona County Council are the latest municipalities to endorse Alberta remaining in Canada head of the October 19 referendums. daveberta.substack.com/p/tracking-w...
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Tracking who's who in the Alberta separation referendum debate
A list of pro-Canada and Alberta independence supporters in the October 19, 2026 referendum
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Erskine prefers to do his calisthenics in close proximity to the sun.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a sunflower growing out of a crack in the concrete with a hamster hopping and stretching out his arms on the top. The center of the sunflower is a gas utility cover.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 16/09/2026
Put plainly: immigrants in Alberta pay provincial and federal taxes to support health and education services in this province. Vote "no" to the idea of making them pay even more for less.
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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GordonI @gordoni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A clear warm September day by a #lake with the #Canadian #Rocky #Mountains in the background. No wind, producing a mirror-like #reflection and a wisp of clouds in a blue sky. Someone somewhere bestowed on me the Right Place, Right Time moment of the day. 😊 #photography #nature #Alberta #Rockies 🇨🇦
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Local province wants cake, wants to eat cake, but wants everyone else to pay for cake.
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Albertans to vote on opting out of federal programs — while keeping cash | CBC News
When referendum day arrives in Alberta on Oct. 19, the focus won’t just be on separation and immigration. One of four constitutional questions will ask voters if they support a push to amend the Const...
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A #painting from County Cork. "Cobh II" was painted one day when cycling between friends in Carrigtwohill and Carrigaline, both of whom I'd originally met online, and I took in Great Island specifically to paint the Cork harbour town. The painting was finished when back home. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View of town on a hillside as seen from a pier. Under a yellow painterly sky a gothic blue cathedral with a steeple on the left end sits on top of the town. Below it and to the left is a row of tall dark blue supporting stone arches under the green stone boundary wall and walkway which drops down to a jumble of blue slate roofs. Along the bottom across the full width of the painting is the front street scene of 7 buildings, each with 3 stories though of varied heights, and joined together save for one gap. They have shop fronts at street level, upper stories are coloured, left to right, pink, white, yellow, orange, red, teal, and yellow, with contrasting window frames and details including dormer windows. Buildings are 3 or 4 window bays wide, all narrow windows coloured in a blue or a black. A couple of small trees with a ball of bright green foliage are on the left, and up beside the cathedral there is one at the left end and 2 at the right. Parts of the fronts of other buildings are visible in gaps up the hill to the top on the right. Signed top right in blue on yellow sky, Liam Daly
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Small finds from the wood, September 🍒🪶🌿:
A collection of small nature finds from my local woodland, including green acorn, rosehips, Viburnum opulus berries, pigeon feather, spindle berries & leaves , alder cones & grove snail shells
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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Canadians aren’t in the stands, 40 million of us are on the ice.” Even this old lady is over the boards, gloves off & elbows up. We stand with PM Carney to resist the US bullying us with economic intimidation. Maitres chez nous. We bow to no one. Vive le #Canada. 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian #BoycottUS
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another west of Ireland #painting "Westport, High Street" came from a time I was cycling in County Mayo and after climbing up this hill I stopped because I was feeling a bit blue. And yellow and purple. Westport is beautiful from so many angles; I'll be painting it again #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
Landscape format in painterly acrylics. Under a canary smoky yellow sky with touches of orange breaking through, we are looking downhill at the far side of a street of 2-story houses stepping down, most of which are in pale yellows, with pale purple and blue slate roofs that have touches of navy, and red indicating the slates, and are punctuated by white and yellow chimneys. Only the path of the left side of the street is visible by the left edge of the painting, until the bottom of the hill when the street bends right bringing the houses on the left side into view. Road surface is blue with central dashed white line, and paths are bright yellow with a tall dark streetlamp in the left foreground. Cars parked on both sides mostly in whites and blues. Small narrow trees with sparse green foliage are dotted along both sides of the street, but at the top on the right side is a large tree having dark foliage of violet and blue and some red highlights that reaches the top of the painting. Purple and blue roofs of other streets are at bottom of hill punctuated by glimpses of yellow gables and a couple of taller green square buildings with roofs. On far side of town is a mass of trees of violet and dark blue across the full width of the painting. Beyond is a flat-topped hill with a parallel row of grey-green fields. In this distance on the horizon are pale blue rounded hills on the right and a soft pyramidal one in the centre. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the pale blue road surface, Liam Daly
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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 11/09/2026
“Yes, Canada is a generous, open country and Canadians are tolerant and kind. But never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness.” — Jean Chrétien, speaking at 9/11 commemoration in Gander, N.L.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s World Suicide Prevention day.I’ve spent many days in the last 3-4 yrs not wanting to be here due to feeling entirely worthless.I stayed for my daughters.Check in with a friend if they’ve been going thro’ a tough time & if you’re feeling v low please know the world is far better with you in it x
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A #painting from Ireland's southwest. "Skibbereen, Main Street" came from a moment when I arrived by bicycle in the west Cork town facing these four fabulous buildings so I stayed there stopped, sitting on my saddle, just staring until I had painted them in my head. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Front view of terrace of four 3-story buildings with shop fronts at street level. Upper stories of leftmost building is light brown with "C Connolly" on fascia of maroon and peach shopfront, next is taller and blue-green with no signage visible on its grey-green shopfront, next is yellow and same height as blue-green one, with "Pierce Hickey" on white fascia below a clock and line of flowers and above the shopfront of orange trim, and rightmost is a lower height and a very pale blue, almost white. Each building is two window bays wide save for the rightmost which is cropped at the third window.  The rightmost building has gold lettering of Field's Coffee on its dark green fascia and below it the windows and doors are all topped with white arches. All windows of upper stories have white trim, with the first story of the two central buildings having a white triangle over each. All roofs are slate of a smokey blue violet, and chimneys a muted grey-green and purple. Sky is painterly orange, more yellow lower down beyond the left edge of the leftmost building. Foreground is street surface of purple brushed brokenly over red with a triangular turquoise traffic island housing two planters of blooming flowers, a street sign and directional signs. Signed bottom left in blue, Liam Daly
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is playing around in Photoshop with free Adobe images the most productive use of my day? Probably not, but here we are! I'm making daily memes as a little way to count down to the October referendum in Alberta. They're completely open source—so if you like them, feel free to steal 'em.
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J.Day @thejeffday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Always Canada... On #RedWed I'm proud saying this image was selected by @albertaviews.bsky.social for inclusion in their October issue. I'm a #Canadian first and then an Albertan. In that order. Forever. See Alt for Info. My thanks to the #magazine. #CA #Alberta #Thankyou #Photography #Edmonton #YEG
A large Canadian flag hangs from the Federal Building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The image was taken on July 5, 2025, a few days after the Canada Day celebrations that year. In a time of increasing extremes, the world needs more, not less, Canada.
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