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Heather 🍁

@hganshorn.bsky.social
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Public education advocate, librarian, referendum endurer

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 5h
Jason Stephan and Danielle Smith didn’t have the courage to campaign as separatists in the last election. But as long as she keeps him in the party, the whole UCP will have to next time. Good luck!
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 5h
Just saw a giant digital billboard truck driving around ahead of the Flames game with a pro-Flames slogan and it's an ad for BetMGM. So sick of these relentless gambling ads in every conceivable medium, with no regulation.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h
Good to be reminded of the young people who helped bring communism in central Europe to a peaceful end. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Americans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any Stage
Trump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 12h
If you're going to interview Parents for Choice in Education, maybe note for context that they are a lobby group with close UCP ties that was behind both the opt-in sex education policy, and the school library book bans. #ABEd #ABLeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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In the face of a new neutrality law, Alberta educators grapple with referendum lessons | CBC News
In Brett Dibble’s Grade 12-level social studies classes, lessons about Alberta’s 10 fall referendum questions are among the first issues students dived into this school year.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seen on my walk today
Lawn sign reading "vote: silence supports separation"
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay but is he a contender for the FIFA peace prize? Kidding aside, while Carney in no way deserves the Nobel it's fun to imagine the Trump tantrum if it happened www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz
Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the ...
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Deciding … if this referendum and their actions constitutes treason requires us to understand its conspiratorial foundations, its connections to the global far right, and its malign intentions for the future of Canada.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Albertans deserve a different vision of the province and country's energy future than the one-sided one their government is trying to feed them. Instead, we get this:
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Everything about this referendum on separation and the other nine questions on the ballot – among other things they attempt to scapegoat immigrants for many of the province’s problems – is contemptible. It’s a phony, illegitimate exercise Ms. Smith has lent credibility to in order to save her job."
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Opinion: The ugly reckoning coming for Danielle Smith
The referendum, including the nine non-secession questions, is contemptible
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jeffrey Epstein. An old, wealthy ghoul who preyed on young girls while pursuing transhumanist fantasies of tech immortality. And there are hundreds more like him in Silicon Valley. No wonder vampires are having a cultural moment.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
orlaghokelly.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
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Reclaiming Truth before Reconciliation
Truth means zero tolerance for Residential School Denialism
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't know any of the other moms' last names, so I just have them in my phone Handmaid's Tale style: Jane Ofsam, Jill Ofevan.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You mean privatization made things worse? I'm shocked.
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Albertans are voting on October 19. Here's a "what you need to know guide", that's translated into several languages for Calgary. 🗳 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... With appreciation to @calgaryhester.bsky.social. 🎨
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Want a simple, visual guide to the 2026 Alberta referendum? Download it here | CBC News
CBC News created this simple guide in collaboration with several community media organizations. Feel free to share with anyone who needs it.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I found Jeremy's bio of Jason Kenney quite readable and informative and am looking forward to this one a lot. Might have to balance it with some light-hearted fiction though; that's how I'm getting through serious books these days.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*silent scream*
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Um, no, any rational person actually thought childhood vaping was really, really bad. Governments should have restricted e-cigarettes to prescription or at least behind the counter, for smoking cessation only, instead of letting them be sold in retail shops. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Vaping in childhood has bigger health risks than we’d thought
Use of e-cigarettes makes it more likely that young people will experience mental-health disorders and take up smoking. Governments must act.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the mother of two children in the most vulnerable demographic for this shit (boys and young men), I would just like to say eff this guy.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
“This tragedy occurred in a political environment that prioritized economic growth over the health and safety of a vulnerable group of workers. The result was a large-scale, tragic outbreak, the scope of which was preventable,” reads a new Parkland Institute report. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 28/09/2026
Tired of separatists vandalizing your signs? Try new Seppie-Away™! ✨ Unfortunately, Seppie-Away isn’t real. Replacement signs are. Help us replace vandalized signs across Alberta: albertasvoice.ca/donate #ableg #abpoli #alberta #abreferendum
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How many freaking times do we need to do an impact study on this? It always, always increases wait times or causes other bottlenecks in the system, and sometimes these private clinics go under and government has to come to the rescue. At this point the burden of proof should be on the privatizers.
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Nigel Swedenborg 🍁🌻 @nigelswedenborg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's not a day that ends in "y" if the CBC isn't posting another "both sides" article about the Alberta separation campaign.🙄 #ableg #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My latest Danielle Smith collab with @forwardcanada.bsky.social is up! She explains the upcoming referendum's constitution questions to you, because apparently you fools think they're "confusing," "convoluted," and "why are you asking us questions about the constitution?" youtu.be/gI8dPomNkPI?...
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PSA: Premier Smith Explains the Constitution #satire
YouTube video by Forward Canada
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me, dropping my Alberta referendum ballots in the mailbox:
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I explained perimenopause to my 13-year-old today and he said, "Ohhhh, so you're going through old-person puberty!" Actually not a bad analogy.
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yet another reason to avoid buying from the U.S. “Whistleblower lawsuit in California alleges the finest berries were not sent to Canada: instead, millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border, and the company tried to cover it up.”
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Danielle Smith is trying to repeal it in Alberta, but she has to lie about what she's doing
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will not be happy until Roman Danylo does a Pierrody version of this
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why do people send an e-mail with "save the date?" Send it as a calendar entry so I can actually save it! If you have to cancel or reschedule, put it in Calendar! Don't make me make a calendar entry for your tentative event!
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Mark and Dani show! Pipelines'R'Us
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This train restaurant in High River is under new management and on the right track. Now is time to do the same for Alberta. #ableg
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just dislocated an eyeball, I rolled them so hard
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/09/2026
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One-fifth of MPs’ speeches in the House of Commons are written with AI help, analysis finds
Use of AI is not prohibited under Parliamentary rules in Ottawa, Speaker declined to comment on its prolific use
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am inundated with ads for Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. There is no effing way I'm going to let Meta know my banking info, health care info, etc., never mind messing up my life because it misinterprets my instructions. Who on earth thinks this is a good idea?
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Narrow definitions of credible evidence, which prioritised clinical and epidemiological evidence over findings from aerosol science, delayed incorporation of knowledge on airborne transmission despite emerging interdisciplinary evidence" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The NUS–Lancet PRIME Commission: transforming pandemic readiness for equity
The National University of Singapore (NUS)–Lancet Pandemic Readiness through Institutions, Mobilising Communities, and Equity (PRIME) Commission redefines pandemic readiness and offers a practical blu...
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 24/09/2026
You'll never hear me say that all proponents of direct democracy are fascists. But I have yet to meet a fascist who didn't love direct democracy. Ask Carl Schmitt.
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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The grand bargain of immigration policy in Canada was about recruiting future Canadians. Not creating a permanent underclass of low wage workers with no path to PR so Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons can increase their margins. And I think the public saw that.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In the 90 days to September 18, 2026, the federal lobbying registry records 2,175 meetings between lobbyists and Canada's MPs. Health was the top lobbying subject for 39 MPs, more than any other issue. And Women's Network PEI was the most frequent visitor for 32 MPs, more than any other.." mymp.ca
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MyMP.ca — What is your MP actually doing?
Free tool for Canadians to see who is lobbying their Member of Parliament, their speeches, bills, and voting record.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Straight up admitting that her referendum questions are about things she's going to do regardless
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Conspiracy Believers Often Hold Two Beliefs That Can’t Both Be True studyfinds.com/conspiracy-b... From study: "...the strongest conspiracy believers showing a 91% probability of being incoherent" (by @lewan.uk et al.)
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Conspiracy Believers Are 91% Likely To Hold Incoherent Beliefs, Study Finds
A new study finds people at the extreme end of conspiracy thinking have a 91% predicted chance of holding incompatible beliefs.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're surprised by this you haven't been paying attention
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay so it's not weird that I do that too?
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This you, @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social?
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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's why many of the pro-Canada Albertans I speak with are all hoping Carney decides to turn his attention back home for a moment and play hardball. Cut transfer payments over private health care. Call in the RCMP to investigate foreign money flooding the separatists.
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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ottawa says they don't want a fight with Alberta but you're in one so fight it. The argument is that just gives Smith what she wants but her popularity is tanking here and laying out her crimes and corruption for federal investigation would go a lot further than talking about "real grievances".
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