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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦

@leslieaj.bsky.social
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Newish Edmontonian after 40+ years in Peace River. Retired evaluator, MSc in health promotion. Treaty 6 territory. 🍁

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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 1h
Love this guy. Great research. I learn something about my own country and province each time I read him.
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BJ🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bonj.bsky.social · 5h
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 8h
“In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office.” — @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, and not nearly enough space in cities.
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In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office
Amid the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes — as in Montreal municipal election campaign — aren’t fit for office.
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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 6h
Different rooms. Different priorities. Very different visions for Alberta.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7h
"Question # 6 offers an illusion. One that serves of the government of the day, not the citizens of Alberta. It is one further step down the road that ultimately leads to tyranny, governmental oppression & a lack of transparency." From an open letter signed by almost 90 lawyers and 2 retired judges
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 7h
Meanwhile in Toronto, bikes lanes are being torn up by provincial order. Mass demonstrations trying to prevent. Unbelievable.
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SeanonymousD 🇨🇦 @seanonymousd.bsky.social · 21h
Check out Tom Babin from Shifter’s Bike-Rideable Days tool. Set your temp and precipitation limits for where you live and see how many days in a year are Bike-Rideable. Edmonton is very bike-rideable. #yegbike #yegcc #bikesky shifter.info/bike-rideabl...
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Shifter
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
To get out of Alaska or go to Alaska 🇺🇸 should need to fly or get a ferry. Choices have consequences 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 is tired of the daily bashing❕
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 10h
🇨🇦 New column: Mark Carney is No to the Nine. Danielle Smith deflects with yes to the rest and Mitch Sylvestre tells separatists to decline the nine. Read all about it: daveberta.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
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Mark Carney is No to the Nine
Danielle Smith deflects with yes to the rest and Mitch Sylvestre tells separatists to decline the nine
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 10h
Oct 16, as the poster says.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 10h
Edmonton, here’s your last chance to register for the #ForeverCanadian rally with prime minister Mark Carney. Yesterday, Calgary showed up and stood up for Canada. Today is Edmonton’s turn. Register here: www.forever-canadian.ca/en/rally?cit... #Yeg #AbLeg
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Rhiannon Hoyle @rhihoyleyeg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Albertans are loyal Canadians, who work hard, love their country, and love their province 🇨🇦 Advanced voting is still in full swing and it's your chance to make your voice heard! Find your polling station 👉🏾 vote.albertandp.ca #ableg #abpoli
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 18h
Watched an excellent interview of Patrick by @markhamhislop.bsky.social and then bought the book today. He says we need a counter movement to the slide from liberal democracy. I hope Albertans will lead the way now that we’re activated & angry.
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 18h
Looks like my lawn!
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Based on the absolutely massive line — wrapping all the way around and inside the BMO Centre — of proud Canadians at the PM’s speech in Calgary tonight, I think it’s safe to say the premier has awoken a sleeping giant. #cdnpoli
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WWE Undertaker Emerges from Coffin
ALT: WWE Undertaker Emerges from Coffin
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 18h
I’ll eagerly await the results of your election before agreeing that BC doesn’t need waking up.
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Keaton H @keaton-hawk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Please go fill out the parking survey. Parking is one off the biggest obstacles to implementing good urban policies. #yegbike
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Residential Parking Program
You are invited to provide your feedback to help redesign the Residential Parking Program and how the City manages parking and curbside space.
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
‼️HEY, PP‼️
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Throughout the separatist debate, I’ve seen very little discussion about what would happen to Alberta’s 4 big military bases, were Alberta to quit Confederation. How would a sovereign Alberta defend itself. And how having to close/move CFB Edmonton or the Cold Lake airbase put Canada at risk?
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Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Happy to put this article online a little early so that everyone can read it! albertaviews.ca/a-call-to-un...
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A Call to Unity - Alberta Views
Patriotism comes with a human cost. Those who push the separatist cause rarely acknowledge Alberta’s role in Canada’s national defence.
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Adam @mrfaceplant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A lot has changed since Nov. 13 2012 when I protested Rob Ford removing bike lanes on Jarvis. The only other protester there was @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social (who got arrested minutes before I arrived). I slowed down the machine the rest of the way at least.
Picture from 2012 of a road scrapper removing bike lanes on Jarvis as viewed from the back of a bike.Picture from 2012 of a road scrapper removing bike lanes on Jarvis as viewed from the back of a bike.
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The gripes of Rath.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So apparently elections Alberta is going to report referendum votes for each question by area so I am low-key excited to see where the darkest, most anti-immigration areas and the brightest, pro-immigration areas of the province are. Please can someone make maps?
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True Oak @trueoak.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As a Canadian that has lived his entire life in Alberta, I whole heartedly agree with Dale!
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Oh wow he said it. NO TO THE NINE!!🥂🍻
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Apparently living in a different province than I am. Definitely in a different little bubble.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The U.S. is actually accusing Canada of "election meddling" because our retaliatory tariffs target swing states. Industry Minister Joly shut that down fast: you don't get to threaten our economy and then cry foul when Canada hits back with PRECISION. That’s called deterrence. 🇨🇦
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Of course she is. Priorities, people!
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What the pro-Canada Conservatives don't seem to understand is that this sort of care and feeding of false grievances is what sustains the separatist movement. They created it. They can choose to kill it. But they have to do the work. And throughout this campaign, not a single one has chosen to.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We have to do this because the UCP banned electronic vote tabulators at the behest of it’s conspiracy-addled base. It’s almost like it was designed to reduce trust in the system.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
From our live show in Red Deer! When you take a look at the questions individually, it makes it very clear that the government is more interested in finding a scapegoat for Alberta’s challenges, instead of actually acknowledging Alberta’s current reality. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A-fucking-hem
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hopefully it doesn't come to this here, but kudos to the Toronto cycling community for turning back the construction crews looking to remove bike lanes.
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Already sold out! Please do record for the rest of us!
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Vélo Canada Bikes @velocanadabikes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Edmonton’s @pathsforpeople.bsky.social received the National Cycling Advocate of the Year Award at #BikeDayOnTheHill! Board member Terry Skidnuk accepted on Parliament Hill celebrating their work securing $100M+ for safe streets & active transit. 🚲 Congrats! #YEGBike #BikeYEG
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
An important message from the Honourable Doug Roche, Canada’s former MP, Senator and Ambassador: youtu.be/eVJPiey-ueE?...
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Doug Roche — Alberta Referendum
YouTube video by Khalid Yaqub
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Calgary Canuck @calgarycanuck.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
One guy, Sam Mraiche, connected to over 1 billion in sole source contracts in a province of roughly 5.1 million people.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elon Musk keeps threatening Canada's sovereignty, and Canada's leaders....keep posting on his social media platform? Non-MAGA politicians, journalists, business leaders: give your head a shake and stand up for your country. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/14/o...
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Quitting X is the easy bit, but Canada's leaders can't even do that
For many of the country's most high-profile individuals, Elon Musk's social platform is a test. They're currently failing it.
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CBluesDC ♫ @cbluesdc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social was on it back in Nov. 2016... A must read / re-read: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
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Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Last week, CMA President Dr. Bolu Ogunyemi joined Andre Picard, Paula Allen and Michelle Theroux at @theglobeandmail.com headquarters for a discussion about how population health directly impacts competitiveness and economic performance, and what governments can do. Watch it here: bit.ly/4hNh2zx
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Alex Boutilier @alexboutilier.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elections Alberta says 174,532 people voted in the referendum advance polls yesterday, and they've approved roughly 418,000 mail-in ballots so far. For context, the average daily number of Albertans voting in advanced polls in the last provincial election was 151,727.
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My hope is that now that so many people are riled up enough to vote (some likely for the first time), we’ll see improved voter turnout at municipal, provincial & federal elections.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
C'mon, Keith. *How* did Norway turn its oil reserves into "extraordinary national wealth"? *Public ownership of oil companies *78 per cent profit tax on oil companies *25 per cent sales tax economy-wide so the oil revenues could be saved These are not serious people. #abpoli
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s wonderful you can take a break and enjoy great food and family. Thanks for all you and the party are doing to keep our province in Canada, as well as hold our government (especially the Premier) to account.
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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Mature neighbourhoods as a whole have 67,000 fewer people living there than in 1971." "72 per cent of new row homes are within walking distance of the LRT or a frequent bus line." "new three-bedroom row homes in desirable neighbourhoods going for as little as $1,700"
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Very grateful to @thetyee.ca for reprinting my recent Senate speech on Alberta’s racist referendum questions. #senca #cdnpoli #Alberta #abpoli
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine
Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination
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glenda_aus🍁🦘 @glendaaus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#Alberta we are their prime target. I’ve been in and out of the hospital this weekend, as my MIL had a wicked fall and is now out of emergency. If you know me, I’ll talk to you like we know one another, so I must have discussed voting with 15 people 🇨🇦 some had NO clue. Talk to everyone.
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No affordability crisis in the Poilievre family.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This new mRNA vaccine could better protect against the flu www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/t... via @be-giant.bsky.social Me: Alberta has put up ​​​“barriers in place to access" COVID vaccines. Hesitancy is complex, but there is NO DOUBT #misinformation has had a HUGE impact. #VaccinesWork
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This new mRNA vaccine could better protect against the flu
The U.S.-approved vaccine — faster to produce and more precise than traditional flu shots — is awaiting the green light in Canada
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