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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New comic! Ca-na-da! Ca-na-da! CA-NA-DA

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Eric says: “Canada has caught nationalism fever!”
Joe Canadian: “I AM. CANADIAN!”
Eric: “What better way to celebrate Canada than to take an awesomeness challenge!”
Joe: “WOOO!”

Panel 2
Huge chart titled “Totally Rad Canadians of Canada Challenges of Awesomeness”
Eric: “We’ve got ‘lit’ challenges about children & education!”
Joe, pouring maple syrup on himself: “CA-NA-DA! CA-NA-DA!”

Panel 3
Eric: “We have challenges about business! Sports! Museums!”
Joe, stuffing face with Timbits: “CA-MA-BA! CA-MA-BA!”

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Eric: “We put all 94 challenges into one handy doc—Oopsie”
Totally Rad sign falls off, exposing chart is actually “Truth & Reconciliation Comission of Canada Calls to Action” chart.
Joe, halfway through a maple leaf back tattoo: “Hey!”
Eric: “Just go to trccca.ca to learn more!”

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In this week’s opinion column, Senator Paula Simons writes about anti-separation Albertans who genuinely believe the best form of protest is to boycott the referendum. While she understands their motives, she warns that staying home will backfire. #ableg #canpoli forwardweekly.ca/simons-cant-...

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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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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 19/09/2026

I'm going to make you all happy (if you use an iPhone and have upgraded to iOS 27). Go to Settings > Apps > Messages > Show in Text Field and set it to Off. This disables the record audio snippet button I know you (and I) accidentally tap all the time. I never send audio messages.

Settings area for iOS Messages reading:

Show in Text Field then the options:

Record Audio
Start Dictation
None

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1. A fascinating article that has me thinking about visual literacy. @samgoertz.bsky.social touches on the clunkiness of the AI meme, though that isn’t the focus of the article.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I will be thinking about this thread all day. 🧵

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For the next six weeks, Forward Weekly is going deep on Alberta’s referendum. We’ll track the latest developments on the referendum, scrutinize the separatists' plans, and keep an eye on what the government might try to advance while everyone is focused on Oct. 19. archive.forwardweekly.ca?issue=23

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Forward Weekly — Alberta's Sunday Political Digest — Web Edition

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So sad and unfair. We weren’t done learning stuff from you.

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SPECIAL LABOUR DAY FEATURE: What if Alberta separatists actually got their way? Award-winning science fiction writer @premeemohamed.com imagines life on the other side in Leave or Remain. forwardweekly.ca/leave-or-rem... #ableg #abpoli #canpoli

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Leave or Remain | By Premee Mohamed | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for September 6, 2026.

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Omar Mouallem @omarmouallem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very proud to have published this. Enjoy the bleak humour!

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A real kick in the gut. Do read, all.

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Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 06/09/2026

Hey, remember how I resolved to stop reading about Alberta separatism yesterday, because it was giving me panic attacks? This is different. DO read this.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm guessing he found out his normal shade of hair dye, "Hospice Clown #3" is Canadian.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Must-read speculative fiction from @premeemohamed.com in this week’s @forwardcanada.bsky.social Alberta newsletter. Illustrations by me. Devastatingly good. Go read it now. forwardweekly.ca/leave-or-rem...

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Leave or Remain | By Premee Mohamed | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for September 6, 2026.

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In "Peanuts," Snoopy's doghouse was shown for the first time 75 years ago, on September 4, 1951:

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey American TV networks, if you’d like to talk to a Canadian at length about Hegseth siccing Musk’s misogynist trolls on Canadian teenagers, you’ll never guess who is visiting Tennessee RIGHT NOW. daveberta.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

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Danielle Smith heading to Music City USA

Premier going to Tennessee as Alberta separation referendum only 49 days away

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Jenn Schmidt-Rempel @jschmidtrempel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to see that Mr. Eric Dyck is at it again at Henderson Lake! #yql #lethbridge #brightertogetheryql #yqljenn

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Jeffrey Coffman @jeffreycoffman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I enjoy the work(s) that @ericdyck.bsky.social has created at Henderson, and I appreciate the City’s funding to make it possible!

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 19/08/2026

Most people seem to think that Russian interference efforts are aimed at Alberta separatists, implying that they are somehow more susceptible to manipulation. In reality, these campaigns are more effective in driving up polarization and demobilizing moderates & federalists. Be on the lookout.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 13/08/2026

You can stop reading the Harry Potter books, watching the movies, playing the games, I promise you’ll be okay. There’s a whole big world out there with other books and stuff.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Seems kind of soon to do a reboot of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, no?

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 03/07/2026

Welcome to Alberta, where you get to choose between a party that loves fossil fuels and a party that loves fossil fuels and thinks renewable energy is ok too, I guess

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Pia Guerra @piaguerra.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Lots of car horns in the neighborhood all of a sudden, almost got my hopes up when I realized it's probably just more FIFA nonsense.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

From Dark Horse whisky to “shields up”; from obsessions with open liquor rule changes to Stampede parties, this has been a surprisingly consistent theme across Kenney & Smith’s tenures.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A good reminder to everyone claiming Canada can negotiate a good faith trade deal with this administration.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

He’s going to need another Bitstrips.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Whoa! Moncton folks, go buy everything @piaguerra.bsky.social is selling! And bring her some fiddleheads!

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It won’t solve all Alberta’s problems, but clicking that subscribe button over at forwardweekly.ca WILL briefly release some dopamine, and these days that’s a win.

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Jeffrey Coffman @jeffreycoffman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“Smith has said she considers the threshold for a majority to be 50 per cent plus one.” Not that I don’t trust the Premier but … “50% + 1” of what? Total population? Total eligible voters? Total of voters who cast a ballot? Total of voters in Three Hills? Clearly “clarity” is not her strong point.

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Alberta premier, cabinet formalize wording of Oct. 19 separation question | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet have issued an order in council confirming the exact phrasing of the question.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 22/05/2026

We're having server issues ever since this story broke. 👀

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New comic. If only the NDP had come to her, so much of this fuss could have been avoided.

Panel 1
Lil Eric runs away screaming “Momma Premier! Momma Premier!” While a smirking Lil David, holding a Jerry can, watches the orphanage burn.

Panel 2
Lil Eric gestures wildly to Premier Smith, arms folded and leaning against a doorway, “Your shitty kid just set the orphanage on fire!”

Ppanel 3
Lil Eric waits for a reaction but Smith just smiles creepily.

Panel 4
Lil Eric says “Sorry, this is the part of the analogy where you demonstrate the actions you would have taken if the NDP, as you suggested, had told you about the Data Leak instead of the RCMP.

Smith: “oh, I am.”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This could have been us, Alberta.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Looking good so far on the book campaign, but we are going to need more support to get this sucker made. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

peasant and mr. gotcha urge viewers to back the campaign.

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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of these days we should all leave our devices at home and step outside, disconnected. Like a general strike against big tech.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed thirst-trap Markusoff on CBC. Danielle Smith’s actions say “separate” but Markusoff’s hair says “A mari usque ad mare”.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you’ve ever used the phrase “that one Matt Bors comic” you have to contribute to the Kickstarter, sorry, I don’t make the rules.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We should probably be having a larger conversation about how weird and wonderful @glennf.com is and how lucky we are that he isn’t putting his seemingly infinite energies into super-villainy or something.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I would 100% watch a @dropout.tv series of @clareblackwood.bsky.social PowerPoint presentations with each new episode’s real-world stakes increasing absurdly.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

it's not too late to change this, Ross, my rates are super cheap (one hour with Kevin Gausman in order to convince him to sign a two-year extension via elaborate PowerPoint presentation)

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I don’t remember Chester Gould drawing arms so rubbery.

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Sam Hester @calgaryhester.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It's Mother's Day, so here are some notes from a 2019 Edmonton Public Library conference about how librarians help incarcerated mothers. It's on my mind today, because the federal government plans to cut library workers at federal penitentiaries. Seems like a bad idea💔 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A drawing made with markers. Handwritten text reads, "There's nothing private. We're in the room with them while they're reading." Picture shows a smiling woman looking at another woman reading from a book. Reading woman is saying, "Love you forever." Text reads, "We record women reading and we send the recordings out to their children and grandchildren." Picture shows a child listening to a device with words coming out of it, "Love you forever," and a picture of a heart.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Spelling @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s word enshittification with only one “t” is NOT an example of enshittification, but it is an example of something.

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The latest Alberta political cartoon from @ericdyck.bsky.social. From Issue 07 of the Forward Weekly email newsletter — to be delivered on Sunday, May 10. Don't miss the rest of this week's issue. Subscribe for free now at ForwardWeekly.ca.

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