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Lori Hahnel

@lorihahnel.bsky.social
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Writer. Latest novel Flicker, U of C Press Brave & Brilliant Series, 2023. Vermin, winner of 2022 Alberta Short Story Collection Award. At work on a novel based on the life of Clara Schumann. I block fools. www.lorihahnel.ca

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wherein Mitch Sylvestre says on tape that Dani knew about the separatists negotiating with the US before they even left the province… And her press secretary doesn’t even deny it. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I got IUDs & uterine biopsies for yrs with 0 pain management. My friend just got a vasectomy here in Ottawa where he was frozen via spray (no needle!), allowed to choose a playlist & then given a VR headset so he could stay calm. He was then given chocolates! The misogyny in health care is unreal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Julia Hayter @ndpjulia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Attention all proud Canadians living in Alberta! Today is the first day of advanced polls to vote in Danielle Smith and the UCP’s costly referendum. You can find your nearest polling station at map.elections.ab.ca Together, we can Save Canada by voting no to the nine and yes to remain in Canada!
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
open.substack.com/pu... More people need to understand this, and push govt to finally work on the solutions that are outside of the ED. Emergency overcrowding will only be fixed with DOWNSTREAM capacity and workforce... and only if there is collective govt will
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Matt Gurney: Why and how our emergency rooms are doomed
We cannot fix hospital ERs without fixing the entire system around them. This is apparently valuable insight. Send me my cheque, please.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yandex is uploading everything to the cloud. Very advanced Russian technology. No cables, no servers.
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Prairiesunshine @scottishox2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's Funny bc it's True 🤣🤣🤣
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🇨🇦 YYC Albertans Deserve Better - Fire the UCP @vote4trudeau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it really "his" money though?
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seriously. I am seriously so tired of and angry with the legitimizing of this
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
US Republican organizers are in Alberta to help separatists mobilize their vote. They’re not even hiding it. They are openly working for the national interest of the United States. Cast your vote for Canada. Reject these treasonous imposters. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vote No to the Nine and Option 1. #NoToTheNine #abpoli
Graphic on a black background showing a hand with long red-and-black pointed nails holding a red apple. White and red text reads, “I VOTED FOR OPTION 1 TO REMAIN IN CANADA” and “NO TO THE NINE OTHER QUESTIONS.” On the right, text reads, “DON’T FALL FOR HER POISON APPLE QUESTIONS,” with “POISON APPLE” in red.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026
“Every guy knows what it’s like to walk around with a load in his slacks, but you don’t have to anymore with these stylish pants you can just tear off and drop in the toilet.” — Sean Riley, CEO
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Dude Wipes Introduces New Flushable Khakis
CHICAGO—Touting them as the clean and fashionable solution to a common messy situation, personal-cleansing brand Dude Wipes announced Thursday its new line of flushable khakis. “Every guy knows what i...
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 02/10/2026
Pint glasses are back! effinbirds.threadless.com/accessories/...
A pint glass featuring a picture of a bird beside the text “put that suggestion back in your butt”
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donate to their work here: www.abdoes.ca/donate
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DONATE | Defenders of the Eastern Slopes
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I support the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes @eastslopedefenders.bsky.social Activists' efforts delays major deforestation project in Crowsnest Pass – at least for a day medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The data I’ve been waiting to see: lots of undecided voters for the other 9 questions, NDP voters better informed. Talk to your networks about “No to the Nine” and hand Danielle her ass in October. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bar chart of polling results for Alberta’s referendum questions.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🌲🌳🔥🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It never ends. The vitriol of hate against my people . Where is the #RCMP on this? 🪶😡💔🧡 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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‘Disgraceful, disgusting behaviour’: Political leaders condemn white nationalist demonstration on Indigenous land near Kamloops
Provincial political leaders have spoken out, condemning an apparent white nationalist demonstration at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc native reserve near Kamloops, B.C.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s Amazing what an Effective Politician can do when he truly Represents the People….
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Patrick Lennox nails it. 🎯 This article is a KEEPER. THE BIG LIE 👇 #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #TheBigLie #DanielleSmith #UCPCorruption #NoToTheNine #CorruptCare
A political graphic illustrating key themes from Patrick Lennox's article, "Alberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie," published in The Walrus. The image uses a dark red background with a prominent metaphor on the left: an amber glass apothecary poison bottle sealed with a black glass stopper. The bottle features a diamond-shaped orange hazard label displaying a skull and crossbones icon.

To the right of the bottle, a rounded white text card with a red border displays bold, high-contrast headline text and four bulleted points. At the top of the graphic, large uppercase text reads "THE BIG LIE" in dark red and white type. Below this heading, the card's main header states in bold black and red lettering: "PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH IS POISONING CANADIAN DEMOCRACY BY:"

The four red-bulleted points detail the specific mechanism of this "poisoning," drawing directly from Lennox's critique of the UCP's sovereignty movement:

    Weaponizing radical political disinformation through far-right tactics to reshape Confederation

    Mixing genuine Western grievance with an unconstitutional agenda to push a secession referendum

    Distracting the electorate from $600M in provincial health care procurement corruption

    Undermining national unity to invite foreign psychological warfare and interference

In the bottom left corner, small muted text credits the stock image base ("adobe free image"). The visual composition directly links Premier Smith's political tactics to a toxic substance, arguing that the provincial government leverages legitimate regional alienation to obscure illegal sovereignty efforts, hide procurement corruption scandals, and enable foreign interference that threatens Canadian constitutional democracy.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors
orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :( orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket
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𝒩𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓎 𝒞𝒶𝓃𝒶𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓃 🇨🇦 @lancetay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#LethbridgeLiberace #PeePee 20 Year Grift on #Canadians
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And here's the thing. This poll is from Janet Brown. She is the most consistently accurate pollster in Alberta.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is chilling. From Univ of Calgary prof Barry Cooper
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His anti-science agenda is clear. His lies are killing people. His legacy is darkness. 👇 RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Malcolm the head of Alberta’s justice department is a “founder” with privileges at a publicly funded charter classical school Handpicked by Dani’s crew. You know who else liked “classical” education? Look it up.
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I am a history teacher. When the younger generations write the history of this time I think Mark Carney would be seen as the Leader of the Free World. That is what he is now and you should be proud of that.” 🇨🇦 Lars Roesen from Denmark 🇩🇰 on 🇨🇦The OShow youtu.be/23CRcJlB84s?si…
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Lori Hahnel @lorihahnel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would appreciate political leaders in both the US and Alberta who do not think “The X Files” was a documentary.
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Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🌲🌳🔥🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep! 🪶😡🇺🇸🖕🏽
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's been a while, so... Posting this for no other reason than to get more Looney Tunes circulating on Bluesky.
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LorriefromCanada @lorriefmp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17/09/2026
A leaked document has made a big splash in Alberta, but the full details have not been made public — until now. The document lays out plans to overhaul Alberta’s natural gas pipelines in an effort boost oil and gas and support new AI data centres, via @drewanderson.bsky.social.
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Read the leaked plan to boost data centres, oil and gas in Alberta | The Narwhal
The document proposes dramatic changes to Alberta’s natural gas pipelines as part of a plan to boost oil and gas production and support new AI data centres
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ICYMI!!! New court documents allege that the Alberta government has failed to produce critical documents in the former AHS CEO lawsuit! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thebreakdownab.substack.com/p/is-the-gov...
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Is The Government Withholding Critical Evidence?
New Court Documents Allege That The Government Has Failed To Produce Critical Documents In The Former AHS CEO Lawsuit
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wherein Jeffrey Rath claims that Matthew Altheim (Danielle Smith’s former campaign manager and beneficiary of a major sole sourced contract)… Offered a bribe of $4 million of government legal work to stop criticizing Danielle Smith. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Scoop! After years of the UCP making it out that there was o specific budget for "Your Province, Your Premier", it turns out that Albertans are paying A LOT! Like almost $10,000 a month a LOT! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
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The cost of "Your Province, Your Premier"
Albertans are paying almost $10,000 a month for Danielle Smith's radio show...
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Wren Walker @wrenwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
gawds..how far we have fallen. "Above all, dear Mark, Europe and Canada believe in democracy," von der Leyen said to Carney, who sat in the front row to her left. "We believe that power does not belong to the strongest, the richest or the loudest, but to all of us."
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Calgary-Shaw goes orange; UCP partisans go red womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/calgary-sh...
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Calgary-Shaw goes orange; UCP partisans go red
Typical and predictable, but more than that, there’s a spring in my step.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 15/09/2026
Thou shalt not let AI companies regulate themselves. That’s insane. You wouldn’t let criminals make laws, would you? You know what, never mind.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can't wait to fly on Amazon Canada Airlines where the pilots pee in jars on back to back flights because it's more cost effective and maximizes shareholder values to fully unlock Canada's airport valuation potential! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada's 4 largest airports to be opened up to private investment, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ownership of "underlying land and assets."
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bigchoice67.bsky.social @bigchoice67.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It shows you are not for free speech. It shows what you really stand for when someone has a different opinion. That is, next step,you stand for prisons, concentration camps etc. Fascist crap! You want to hurt in any way you can the dissenting voice. This is illegal and needs police investigation.
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Ross @rossmorgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Screen capture the threat and send it to the RCMP. These people are so detached from reality that they think they are exempt from repercussions. Report it 
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Charlie Golf @charliegolf.ca · 15/09/2026
STUNNING upset in Calgary-Shaw tonight. The UCP will still fail to read the room and temper their separatist bullshit.
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Rhiannon Hoyle @rhihoyleyeg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We WON CALGARY-SHAW! 🧡🔥 I can’t stop smiling tonight. One of Alberta’s most reliably conservative urban ridings has chosen a new direction! Congratulations to Kyle Campbell,the incredible volunteers who believed every step of the way. History made. A powerful message sent. Alberta is changing. 🧡
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