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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I think I misheard CBC News this morning. It sounded like the federal government is projecting a deficit of 74 kajillion dollars.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Everyone keeps saying this is the first time since 1980 that a sitting Calgary mayor has been defeated. But in 1989, Al Duerr beat Mayor Don Hartman. Alderman Hartman had been appointed mayor when Ralph Klein resigned, but he WAS mayor, no less so than if he had been elected to the job.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I’m so glad I went to hear Jane Goodall at Calgary’s Jubilee Auditorium 15 years ago, on October 24, 2010. I went because my then eight-year-old son wanted me to take him. Jonas is now a grad student and the co-author of a scholarly science paper.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Quick 30-minute visit to synagogue today, and I hit all the highlights: Torah reading, Haftorah, and shofar blasts. Time well spent! #ShanahTovah to all who observe the holiday.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Acclaimed British comedienne and singer Gracie Fields (1898–1979) performed in Calgary 85 years ago today. She sang for 2,000 soldiers at Currie Barracks and for an audience of 10K at the Stampede Grandstand (pictured here in 1922) in aid of the Navy League of Canada. 📷: @UCalgaryLibrary

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Everyone’s back in City Hall. No explanation given.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Emergency at Calgary City Hall. The entire municipal complex has been evacuated.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

(I had spelled out the word instead of substituting a letter.)

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

When I started composing my post, I referred to him as a pr_ck. I got a language warning, so I changed it.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Some gentleman just stole my scooter. Thanks, a__hole.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I’m tired of the worldwide craze for recently changing your menu options so everyone has to listen carefully.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The genie returns with tomorrow’s headline: Bank thief escapes with cash. The thief carries out the heist. But he is caught the next afternoon. He asks the genie why the headline was wrong. The lazy genie explains that he went only as far as the next morning and came back with the morning edition.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There was an old Shazam comic where a thief frees a genie from a bottle. He commands the genie to bring him tomorrow’s newspaper so he can find out if the bank robbery he is planning will be successful. The genie is lazy and protests; time travel is hard work and tiring. But the thief insists.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Seems to me they were also in Marda Loop where I live. I had one doughnut and got a sugar headache. Much too sweet.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Celebrate Canadian Jewish Heritage Month by attending “Sharing Our Story, Ourselves,” a presentation by Katie Baker on May 20, 2025 at 7:00 pm at the Central Library. Part of a monthly lecture series by the Chinook Country Historical Society. #CanadianJewishHeritageMonth #JewishHeritageMonth

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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A historic building in Inglewood is coming down. The Gresham Block was built in 1912 and was closed earlier this year. #yyc www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

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Gresham Block coming down in Calgary’s Inglewood

A 114-year-old building in Calgary’s Inglewood neighbourhood has seen its last days as work crews arrived at the site Monday to tear it down.

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Calgary Heritage Initiative @calgaryheritage.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#inglewoodyyc 's Gresham Block being demolished. Listed heritage building on the city's Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources www.calgary.ca/arts-culture... #yycheritage

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kmolson.bsky.social @kmolson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My parents, 96 and 89. Never missed an election. #CanadaVotes

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The original Blue Line, a streetcar line commonly known as the Belt Line, began service in 1909. In the late 1940s, Calgary replaced its streetcars with buses and rubber-wheeled trolley coaches. The original LRT (Route 201) started in 1981. Route 202 (later renamed the Blue Line) was added in 1985.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Calgary Transit's Blue Line, a light rail transit line, began service #40YearsAgoToday (April 27, 1985) as Route 202. The Blue Line name was originally used for a streetcar route that became commonly known as the Belt Line. Today's Beltline district maintains the name. @calgarytransit.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ended is the #Passover Seder. My favourite holiday. Spent with family the first night, friends old and new the second night.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#90YearsAgoToday in #YYC (Apr. 12, 1935): The Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough, lays cornerstone for Calgary's Permanent Force Barracks. In 1937, the base is named Currie Barracks for the late General Sir Arthur Currie. Decomissioned 1996 & redeveloped. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social Library

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The historic Hudson's Bay Company store on #YYC's Stephen Av is in its final days. #OTD in 1970, Lt.-Gov. Grant MacEwan opened the store's new 6th-floor exhibit celebrating the #HBC's 300th anniversary. There was no repeat celebration for the 350th in 2020—COVID-19 had begun. @calgaryherald.com

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#55YearsAgoToday in #YYC (Apr. 9, 1970): Lt.-Gov. Grant MacEwan cuts a buckskin ribbon to open the Hudson's Bay Company's 300th anniversary exhibit on the 6th floor of the historic Calgary store. L–R: Mayor Rod Sykes; J.R. Murray, HBC managing director; H.E. Dunn, store manager; MacEwan. #hbc

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We got the same thing in our mailbox. Security camera took a picture of the person putting it there. #CalgaryCentre @lindsayluhnauyyc.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is the only one I've seen, Clint. Taken Apr. 14, 1957, two years after the fire. Rosettis Studio, photographer. @ucalgary.bsky.social Libraries, CU1131645

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It’s not your fault! Just another case of post hoc ergo prompter hoc.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#70YearsAgoToday in #YYC: Marshall-Wells hardware warehouse (118–11 Av SE) burns. Smoke column casts a shadow on the Palliser Hotel. Built in 1912 for Wood, Vallance & Adams. Replaced on site by Regency Building; now Impark Lot #243. Rosettis Studio, photographer. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ghost sign for Budget Rent-a-Car at the old Fire Hall No. 1. Converting the old fire station into a car rental agency years ago was a clever adaptive re-use.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

At the opening event for fireWORKS, an art installation between old Fire Hall No. 1 and the North-West Travellers Building. Ruth Scalp Lock of Siksika gave the blessing. cSpace will convert the buildings into Calgary’s newest arts and culture campus.

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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Watch: Red Barn Books Inc. is releasing the third children's book in a series about early Alberta settlers, and this one features Calgary's first Sikh immigrant. Kevin Fleming has more... #yyc #calgary www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/vide...

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Calgary's first Sikh immigrant featured in children's book

Red Barn Books Inc. is releasing the third children's book in a series about early Alberta settlers, and this one features Calgary's first Sikh immigrant.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hudson Bay to disappear "in several thousand years"—Professor Canadian Press story from July 9, 1963.

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Ethel Egbert (1884–1976) retired #75YearsAgoToday (Mar. 31, 1950) after 18 years as the Law Society of Alberta's chief librarian. Daughter of former Alberta Lt.-Gov. William Egbert; served on the Calgary SPCA & Calgary Golf & Country Club executives. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social Libraries

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"Just One Obstacle"—Roy Justus' cartoon in the Minneapolis Star, reprinted in the Albertan #75YearsAgoToday. #tariffs #tariffsimpact #politicalcartoons

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Harry Sanders 🇨🇦 צבי סנדרס @harrymsanders.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#75YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Sketch of new #CalgaryStampede entrance gate published in the Albertan newspaper. The new gate at 17 Av SE & Macleod Tr evokes the palisade at Fort Calgary; built in recognition of the fort's 75th anniversary. The gate replaces the original sandstone arch built in 1907.

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