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Canadian 🍁 Retired educator Downtown dweller Jaywalker Dad, husband, brother, citizen He/him

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Eric Bowling @ericbowling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My latest for @edmontonjournal.com "Taxpayers can't afford for us to keep sprawling — every new suburb needs new roads, pipes, firehalls and bus routes — that lands on your tax bill forever," Knack said Thursday #Edmonton #YegCC #AlbertaPolitics edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...
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Edmonton mayor slams 'uninformed directive' after province intervenes on city infill rules
Edmonton city staff scramble to meet a last-minute directive from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith overhauling the city's growth plans.
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💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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trevorrobb.bsky.social @trevorrobb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Taxpayers can't afford for us to keep sprawling — every new suburb needs new roads, pipes, firehalls and bus routes — that lands on your tax bill forever," Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack said Thursday. #yegcc #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...
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Edmonton mayor slams 'uninformed directive' after province intervenes on city infill rules
Edmonton city staff scramble to meet a last-minute directive from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith overhauling the city's growth plans.
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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 08/10/2026
Sources tell me Danielle Smith will force Edmonton to repeal its zoning bylaw. Smith's UCP loyalist friends in Edmonton Neighbourhoods United, whose agenda lost in the last election, asked for her help, just like she helped the separatists. Local democracy is dead.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As bad as she is, she's no DT. Although she does seem to have a lot in common with the world's most despicable human.
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Buy Canadian 🍁🍁🍁 Buy Local 🇨🇦
Buy Canadian
Buy Local
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is way beyond being bossy. She is interfering in areas that are not within her jurisdiction. If the federal govt did this sort of thing to Alberta she would be horrified.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She is a disgrace and an embarrassment. She governs by ideology and spite and answers only to her wealthy lobbyist supporters. She does not respect democracy and does not care about the electorate.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That should read VOTES (plural), not vote, since there are 9 NO votes and 1 OPTION 1 vote.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you requested a special ballot, you would have received an email from Elections Alberta. ✅️ In that email there is a link to check the status of your ballot. ✅️ Click the link, type your last name and you will be able to see if your vote has been cast. ✅️
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dear Alberta UCP, It is becoming increasingly clear that the MAGA movement will be remembered as an incredibly dark, dysfunctional, destructive, corrupt and unjust period in history. Why are you tethering your legacy – and our province – to this rotten and sinking ship?
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Michael Little @tomcatjock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have normalized Trump's behavior to the point that every day we ignore something that would have instantly ended any other politician's career.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like a real swell guy.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kinda get a kick out of the late night comedians labelling Trump's latest fascist move to ban press pool members as "un-American" when actually this shit has become quite typically American. No "un" needed.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The province’s economic pie is growing, but it’s being redistributed away from workers and toward corporations faster than in any other province."
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This speaks volumes about the pathetic state of the CPC under its current leadership.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not voting in this absurd referendum is neither smart nor informed.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As crazy as she is, she's still not crazy enough for the craziest of the crazies.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is he being "purposeful" in describing himself in the middle of this rant (corrupt... out of control... a threat to national security) just to brag about what he continues to get away with?
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is very well done. #abpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ymi...
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5X for Canada: Stop Separation. Crush the 9 Questions. Defeat Danielle Smith.
YouTube video by 5X for Canada
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“If Danielle Smith’s tax revenue figure of $150 million is true, it is because workers are being paid so little that most of their incomes are not taxable,” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Does Alberta Provide $10 in Services for Every $1 of ‘Guest Worker’ Taxes? | The Tyee
Ahead of a divisive referendum question, we fact checked Danielle Smith’s claims.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Greer is a well-educated, well-travelled person. Not just some Fox News or random podcast host like most Trump appointees. Yet he has succumbed to the brainwashing of that demented cult.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When a Trump appointee calls anyone other than his boss "unhinged" it just tells you how deeply into the cult he is immersed.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honest question: For what kind of produce would you need a plastic bag?
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Add it to the list of despicable things he has said and done, any one of which should have been enough to disqualify him. How much straw can the camel's back take? In America, it seems, the more straw, the more complacent they are to his depravity and insanity.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Brother, that hateful maniac you call president lost his mind a long, long time ago.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a cult
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not the least bit surprising
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
General rule of thumb when making any purchase: 1st: Buy local 2nd: Buy Canadian 3rd: Buy from companies in Canada that may not be majority Canadian owned 4th: Buy from any country other than the one directly south of us. Aren't we all doing this right now?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water. Virginia teenager’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water.” That’s excellent, but we still need to reduce microplastics.
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This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water
Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Separatists constantly suggest Alberta has a unique "cowboy", "toil the land", & "rural" culture. Reality: - AB as urban (80% +) & diverse as rest of Canada - AB ag industry = about 2% of total economy. Ag is 1% of Ont's - The cowboy hat thing = just identity fashion like punk pins, blue hair...
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is rambling, incoherent, disjointed gibberish. Did he use AI to generate this?
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No matter what they claim, the REAL “war” that’s been going on in our cities has been a WAR ON WALKING. And it’s been going on for a century. #UrbanTruth
Mostly black text on white background: “ The Road Lobby claims that there’s a war going on in our cities. There is, but it’s not the war they’ve been lying about. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Right on Senator!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bravo @mapquest.com…. for not bending the knee! #LakeOntario-Now&Forever🇨🇦
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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Alberta’s separatists are not channelling the authentic voice of the province. They are projecting a vision of Alberta that reflects their own anxieties and ideological bile—a province smaller, narrower, and more exclusionary than the one that actually exists.”
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I could only include 10 of his cartoons. To see more of his incomparable work, you should follow him at: @deadder.bsky.social !
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Simply put, it's an American corporation that has had its way for far too long. We in Canada are making a choice to buy local. I'm guessing (and hoping) the rest of the world is starting to figure that out too.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you Mayor Farkas. All walkers, especially kids, deserve to be safe. It seems preposterous that it is even necessary to tell drivers to slow down around groups of people walking and crossing streets. But here we are.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
YES to Canada 🇨🇦, reason, and compassion❗ NO to the 9❗ As the (ridiculous) Alberta referendum nears, let's keep the message simple. VOTE❗ Much of the motivation for referendum based on xenophobic and regressive BS. My take 👉 thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus
The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have NO regrets about leaving Musk’s site. But I wish I could extend my reach here, with Alberta’s referendum hard upon us. Don’t be shy. Please follow. Please recommend me to your friends. I post about Canadian politics, Alberta, Edmonton, and an absurd array of other topics! #cdnpoli
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MeidasCanada @meidascanada.ca · 27/08/2026
🇨🇦 ONE MILLION VIEWS! 🇨🇦 While Trump continues to troll us about changing Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” we just passed 1 MILLION VIEWS on our LAKE AMERICA? F**K THAT! video! Troll all you want, Donald, you’re going down. youtube.com/shorts/_bg7x...
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LAKE AMERICA? F**K THAT!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Can't understand why anyone buys American booze. I know lots of people do, but why? There are so many great local options for beer, wine and spirits.
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joechap @joechap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just cannot wrap my head around why anyone in Canada would buy any American booze. Canadian beer, wine and spirits are superior.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 12/08/2026
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Chart of the Day: Vehicle Weight vs Road Damage Levels
Via Pedal Fort Collins, here’s a simple chart showing the basic relationship between vehicle weight and the amount of “damage” or wear that is caused to the roadway. The relations…
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