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GoForDays @gofordays.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
macdonaldlaurier.ca/a-separate-a... A somber evaluation of the most likely outcome of a separate Alberta by Trevor Tombe
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A separate Alberta would be a poorer Alberta: Trevor Tombe in The Hub | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
The economic consequences of separation would be damaging.
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Baz @barry1878.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Just started drawing up my bucket list. I’m 63 next month, retiring at 65 and I’ll be starting to work through them and also add to them. What’s on yours?
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
💥The UCP government is introducing a motion in the legislature to spike the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replace it with an MLA committee and an advisory panel that will redraw the new riding boundaries for the next provincial election. 👀
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Nagwan Al-Guneid @nagwanyyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The writing was on the wall. The UCP implemented targeted policy against renewables: the moratorium, “pristine viewscapes” and "35km" buffer, and so much more. It is like death by a thousand cuts. Companies are now threatening "legal recourse" #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta power policies trigger $408M devaluation to ATCO's wind and solar division, company says | CBC News
The Calgary-based giant warned of "legal recourse" if province doesn't alter reforms that harm renewable projects.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 04/03/2026
Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn. Referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada could take place in October www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News
Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Edmonton: Lower taxes! Infill (lowers costs), 🚲 lanes (reduce expensive 🚗 dependency). Also Edmonton: No, not like that. Edmonton: Make this city more vibrant! Infill brings people in to shrinking nhbds, including renters, just like vibrant cities like Montreal. Also Edmonton: No, not like that.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
*Swear words.* www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News
Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Major languages spoken in Toronto (other than English) by neighbourhood by Alex McPhee pronghornmaps.com/toronto/
A detailed map illustrating the most spoken mother tongues (other than English) in Toronto. Different languages are represented by distinct colors overlaid on a geographical map of the city and surrounding areas like Mississauga, Etobicoke, York, North York, Scarborough, Vaughan, Markham, and Pickering. Large labels indicate areas where specific languages are prevalent, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu, Spanish, Persian (Farsi), Greek, Bengali, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian. Smaller charts at the bottom provide statistics on the number of speakers for the top languages, including English. The map also shows the boundaries of residential areas and major roads. A legend indicates the language families represented by the colors, such as Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin, Cantonese), Indo-Aryan (Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Persian, Greek), Romance (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), and others like Tagalog.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Remember those bad stories about microplastics in the body? Maybe not so fast. Turns out detecting them is tricky--it involves burning samples and examining the fumes--and researchers have often failed to account for big error sources, esp. that body fats, when burned, produce the same chemicals.
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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A few striking images that capture much of what has happened to US publishing in the last 30 years.
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The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers
With all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 10/01/2026
SCOOP 🧵 The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances. The app isn't used 41% of days. Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
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Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.1...
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Few individuals have had such a colossal & deleterious impact on the cultural psyche as the recently-departed Erich von Däniken. While he was not alone in fusing aliens into our conception of the distant human past, he was perhaps the most successful & the most harmful in doing so.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM
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Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The University Affiliated Child Care budget was about 300k a year, 0.0154 per cent of the operating budget. The president of the University of Alberta has spent $190,403 in travel in ONE fiscal year. Since taking office, the travel expense budget has doubled.
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Jim Keoghan @jimkeoghan.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The Joys of Premier League Officiating
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Sarah @mommypedals.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Many think winter cycling is extreme. Mostly it’s just getting dressed. 15 km in −19°C → winter gear to corporate attire. This is my system. #yegbike
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Don’t like rising property taxes? Consider: - driving less/using transit more (to save our infrastructure) - welcoming development in your mature neighbourhood (to add rate payers without building new infra) - buying less from Amazon (they don’t pay taxes to us but use infra) - going downtown
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Just visited our nearby university library and was fascinated to learn from a librarian that it's true--students are bombarding them with requests for references that do not exist, the product of ChatGPT and its brethren. "It's a goddamned nuisance," she said. "They don't believe it's all made up."
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David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Stopped by on Friday to wish Wendy & Glen well on the opening of the new Patricia Street Deli in Queen Mary Park. The PSD operated in Jasper for 20 years until the wildfire last July. But they turned their loss into new gain. Stop by starting Dec. 1 to try them out ! #yegfood #yegbiz
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J.Day @thejeffday.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Less Scrolling, More Strolling... I'm showing this image at the Sugarbowl in Dec. Old buildings are special places that should be treasured; especially communal ones like #theatres & churches. If you haven't noticed, the togetherness of the last century is dissipating. #yeg #yegarts #photography
I think saw the first Star Wars movie at this theatre with my father. It was a big deal then. We had pizza before. People were dressed as Wookies in the movie line up. I think I was 11 but who knows...  

The theatre is abandoned now, and there's no more conventional oil, and my Dad is dead. What a sad movie I got to star in.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
City politics > other politics www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...
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Democrat Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of NYC | CBC News
Democrat Zohran Mamdani made history in New York Tuesday, elected as the city's first Muslim mayor, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New Jersey and Virginia have chosen well by electing @mikiesherrill.bsky.social and @spanbergerforva.bsky.social as their next governors! They are proven leaders who won by focusing on what matters most - how politics and policy can make everyday life better and more affordable.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 28/10/2025
The canary in the coal mine has died. Around the world, authoritarianism is taking hold of once strong democracies. If we ignore the seeds being planted in our own legislature, it will be at our peril. Using Notwithstanding in this way is a BIG step over a "do not cross" line
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Election day: How and where to vote - Taproot Edmonton edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/...
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Election day: How and where to vote
It's Oct. 20, election day, and Edmontonians are heading to the polls to elect their next mayor and council. Here's what you need to know.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hey #YEG! Are you still undecided about the October 20 (Monday) municipal election? Try out @taprootedmonton.ca's survey and find out which candidates you're most aligned with! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/surveys...
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Take the Taproot Survey
Where do you stand on issues raised by voters in the 2025 municipal election?
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/10/2025
Greetings, and happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Mark A Garlick. I've been space illustration for 30 years and animation for around 15. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender
Illustration of an asteroid repurposed as a space colony. The interior is a hollow cylinder. Illustration of the interior of a space colony called a Stanford torus Illustration of a rocket launching from Mars. Illustration of an orbital ring. It encircles the entire earth. Structures can be build on it, of hung from it (e.g. space elevators)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Remember 1988? That's when Edmonton last got a new hospital! Population in 1988: Nearly 600,000 Population today: 1.1 million Fun!
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Maryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Well that was a fun (albeit a bit chilly) ride to honor Dr M. My heart is full.
Large group of cyclists gather in a snowless park on a cold fall day
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
On the eve of one of the largest demonstrations of labour power in Alberta's history, sights like 20,000 supporters rallying in front of the Legislature for teachers and their students is inspiring. Solidarity! #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
Thousands of people with signs and placards in front of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton
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Baz @barry1878.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Anyone who says Beto should have buried that header needs to stop watching footie. He done everything right, power, heading it down. Superb save by Henderson
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%
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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Fight for public education — a rally in support of teachers at the Alberta Legislature on Sunday, October 5, at 11h30
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James Reid @jlcreid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What a great day for a bike ride on treaty 6 lands. #YEG
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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 25/09/2025
When a shooter opened fire in City Hall, Michael Elliott cracked jokes about it on Twitter. Now, he's running to be a councillor in Tim Cartmell's party. This defender of the Thin Blue Line wants to bring that ideology to city hall this October #yegvote
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Maryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Dr Markland was the heartbeat of Friday’s @coffeeoutside.bsky.social in Edmonton. Here’s a few of my favorite photos from over the years. You made us all better humans for knowing you. RIP
5 people in a snowy park, 3 sitting on benches & the others social distancing, smiling & enjoying the company8 people in a park, 2 sitting on benches, 1 sitting on the ground & 5 standing Man making coffee, 2 others standing on a sunny cool morningMan in a green canoe being towed by a man on a bike smiling
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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 23/09/2025
Success! Peace officers have started tearing down some of the many, many illegal Better Edmonton signs. The candidate in papastew was pretty mad about it and slid into my DMs lol
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UofA Map/GIS Librarian @wyman10.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) With the long weekend unfolding we are laying out our staff ebook picks (some are open access) More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #Cartography #Mapping #GIS #Indigenous #Geographies #Gerology #Art #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Staff Picks - ebooks

Dando, Christina E. (2018). Women and cartography in the progressive era. Routledge. 

Finbog, Liisa-Rávná. Naviyuk Kane, Joan. Riquet, Johannes. (eds.) (2025). Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Wesleyan University Press. 

Fujikane, Candace. (2021). Mapping abundance for a planetary future : Kanaka Maoli and critical settler cartographies in Hawai’i. Duke University Press.

Goeman, Mishuana. (2013). Mark my words : native women mapping our nations. University of Minnesota Press.

Harjo, Laura. (2019). Spiral to the Stars : Mvskoke Tools of Futurity. The University of Arizona Press. 

Knowles, Anne Kelly, Cole, T., Giordano, A., & Steiner, E. B. (Eds.). (2014). Geographies of the Holocaust. Indiana University Press.

Kurgan, Laura. (2013). Close Up at a Distance : Mapping, Technology, and Politics. MIT Press.

Luciano, Dana. (2024). How the earth feels : geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States. Duke University Press.

Reddleman, Claire. (2017). Cartographic abstraction in contemporary art : seeing with maps. Routledge.

Tyner, Judith. A. (2016). Stitching the world : embroidered maps and women’s geographical education. Routledge. 

Tyner, Judith. (2020). Women in American cartography : an invisible social history. Lexington Books.

Ute., Dieckmann. (Ed.). (2021). Mapping the unmappable? : cartographic explorations with indigenous peoples in Africa. Transcript-Verlag.

Wigen, Kären, Winterer, Caroline (eds.). (2020). Time in Maps : From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era. University of Chicago Press.

Wigen, Kären. (ed.). (2025). Territorial imaginaries : beyond the sovereign map. The University of Chicago Press.

Yusoff, Kathryn. (2024). Geologic life : inhuman intimacies and the geophysics of race. Duke University Press.
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Maryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Just over 19km in the rain today. Spirits still high, we’re all just a wee bit damp. Last day of walking is tomorrow! Can’t believe it’s almost over!
Hiker in darkness on wet cobblestones on narrow roadway.Wet road in the forest with hikers in the distance.Smiling woman in rain poncho beside mileage markerOur progress today in the rain
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Maryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just short of 16km from O Porriño to Redondela in less than 3 1/2 hrs on stage 2 of Camino Portuguese. Day 8 of walking, getting into a nice rhythm, get up, eat, walk. Met many kind folk from all over the world. 10/10 would recommend
Man gesturing to sign in forest that indicates we’ve got less than 100km to goThree hikers on forest pathMan standing near bench overlooking village below under blue skies Map showing our progress
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Abandoned Alberta @abandonedalberta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A small sample of Bohemian Waxwings that filled the sky. This was approximately 170 of the few thousand that were in the sky. #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #canon #photography
approximately 170 bohemian waxwings fill the sky.   black dots everywhere - there were a few thousand in the sky.
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Abandoned Alberta @abandonedalberta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Came across a couple of very healthy coyotes yesterday hunting in a field. #yeg #coyote #nature #wildlife #canon #photography
A healthy coyote blending into is surroundings as it hunts for breakfast.  Staring at the camera.A healthy coyote blending into is surroundings as it hunts for breakfast.  Staring at the camera.
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