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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable." As a former communications person, more of this whole message below everywhere please. It's simple, memorable, and cuts right to the heart of the matter when discussing AI regulation.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent | The Tyee
Taxpayers covered lease payments for hundreds of oil and gas companies in 2025.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/88d4d28...
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It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What happens when you put a daycare and a long-term care home under one roof? A little bit of magic for old and young alike, they learned at Perley Health, by Sabrina Bedford ottawacitizen.com/news/childre... via @ottawacitizen.com @alexmunter.bsky.social
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What happens when you put a daycare and a long-term care home under one roof
Retired major Doug Bird, a resident of Perley Health, didn't get many visitors. Now he has 39 little ones waving hello every day.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 04/10/2026
Spot on from @acoyne.bsky.social on CBC. First-past-the-post means a separatist party can win a majority with 30% and plunge us into a unity threatening separation referendum. Proportional representation means such decisions require broad majority consensus, not the whims of one party.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Sacred Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation: From Generation to Generation - UBC Faculty of Medicine www.med.ubc.ca/news/a-sacre...
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A Sacred Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation: From Generation to Generation - UBC Faculty of Medicine
Derek K Thompson – Čaabať Bookwilla | Suhiltun, Hereditary Chief and Director of Indigenous Engagement, reflects on family, history and the responsibility in reconciliation.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is stronger when our workers are strong. cupe.ca/workers-strong
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Canada is stronger when our workers are strong.
The Carney government has introduced legislation that would give Ottawa unchecked powers to end lawful strikes. We’ve drafted an email for you to send. Click here to send your MP an email now.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you hear of the use of this app - or an app like it - by anyone, report it to the National Observer & Rachel. This is by far one of the greatest threats to democracy. If it's being used at the municipal level, bet that someone at Prov. & Fed. levels has *at least* contemplated its use. #CDNpoli
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The UCP's Referendum Is Heading to a Disastrous Outcome via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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The UCP’s Referendum Is Heading to a Disastrous Outcome | The Tyee
Whatever happens on Oct. 19, Alberta will be a worse place.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quote: "It’s a politics that’s driven more by humiliating one’s opponents than any ideological rationalization. As democratic practices are eroded, the state becomes increasingly synonymous with the private interests of its ruler, who uses it to benefit allies and discipline adversaries." 💥
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such respect for Ijeoma Oluo's wisdom and the clear guidance I can use to do better here: Do you want to be better or do you want to feel better than? ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/do-you-wan...
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Do you want to be better or do you want to feel better than?
There is a difference
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Three Indigenous creators are being recognized by the governor generals for their contributions of artistic achievement. One of them is Zacharias Kunuk, a self taught Inuk filmmaker whose work spans back to the 1980s. He says his focus is allowing Inuit to tell their stories in their own words.
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Donna Kildaw (AAANortherngirl) @aaanortherngirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Corb Lund has penned a letter to Premier Smith, calling for an immediate coal moratorium, claiming that former Elections Alberta staff have raised serious questions about the validation process of his petition.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who else is having Mulroney-era flashbacks?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This summit is making it easier for the U.S. 1% to profit at Canadians' expense. 1/2 A) You are trying to distract Canadians from airport privatization. B) 'the chance to “help build Canada Strong” isn’t what has drawn the interest of gargantuan U.S. investment firms like BlackRock & Blackstone.'
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Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The Breach
Bay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What I'd like to know: • What did McAllister mean by coming to Canada the right way? • How many UCP MLAs & staff were not born in Canada & how did they immigrate to Canada? • Do those MLAs & staff support the immigration-related referenda questions out of blind loyalty to Premier Danielle Smith?
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Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's cool that all political parties like to go "I DON'T TRUST THE PUBLIC FACTS" when it's convenient to their narrative. We have reams of data from government and private sources, along with endless anecdotes of people negotiating down their rent over the last two years. but whatever man
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: A leaked document indicates Alberta is considering rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations to take over the natural gas system and build new gas pipelines and taking on costly legal battles — in large part so AI data centres can have access to power, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There aren't enough Canadian investors to save the country and foreign investment and ownership aren't necessarily the same thing - remember - this is not the PM's first FI rodeo - by far #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Foreign investment soars in 2009 | CBC News
Foreign investment managers bought Canadian securities in unprecedented amounts last year, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My special ballot declaration is "special", alright. Like many others have experienced, it has that leftover language in number 1 that @elections.ab.ca asked us to cross out. I have two remaining statements that are both labelled number 2. This referendum is going to be wild! Sorry for EA, truly. 🗳️
Heather's redacted and highlighted for fun Special Ballot Declaration for the October 19 referendum with one statement, number 1,  that has to be crossed out and two other statements both labelled number 2.
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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 08/09/2026
It is.
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‘South Park’ Changes Name to ‘South America’ as Creators Roast Apple and Google for Obeying Trump’s Lake America Name Change
"South Park" is no more. Long live "South America."
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
lethbridgenewsnow.co... Suggestions: - ascertain the percentage of pts who desperately desire a family doc but can't get one in those countries - find out how many physicians/1000 population - maybe stay home and work on our local problems and have them email you that info...
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Alberta health minister to visit Japan, South Korea to strengthen preventative health care
Alberta's Minister of Primary and Preventative Health Services, Justin Wright, is travelling to Japan and Sout...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm no one's parent, but I fully support bombarding Alberta Minister Andrew Boitchenko's inbox.
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee
Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 22/08/2026
#Zuckerberg really IS trying to kill you! apple.news/AOk1UnVrHQMC... #Meta #DataCenters "The Board of Public Utilities traced the presence of a bacterium discovered in its wastewater treatment facility earlier this year to Goat Systems LLC, a Meta contractor."
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Wyoming officials say Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center is responsible for contaminating its water system with a rare bacterium — FORTUNE
July 10, 2026, 10:53 AM ET Wyoming residents attend an Evanston planning and zoning commission meeting regarding the construction of the nearby Prometheus Hyperscale data center. Cheyenne, Wyoming, of...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 22/08/2026
“None of Quebec’s current problems — economic or otherwise — can reasonably be linked to immigration, as Paul St-Pierre Plamondon recently suggested in his ‘open letter to Quebec anglos,’ published in the National Post of all places.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com. #polqc
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Tone-deaf Parti Québécois tries selling Quebec independence by blaming immigrants
The tone-deaf Parti Québécois are trying to sell Quebec independence to anglos by blaming immigrants for the province's problems.
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Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🌲🌳🔥🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is what “white-racist privilege” looks like settlers! What an injustice.🪶😡💔🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #MMIWG2S www.aptnnews.ca/featured/man...
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Brayden Bushby granted full parole in killing of Barbara Kentner
Brayden Bushby was convicted of manslaughter for throwing a trailer hitch that fatally injured Barbara Kentner of Wabigoon First Nation.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
only so many times I can type "the River District is a giant indictment of the city's ability to plan new neighbourhoods" before I lose energy but there are still hundreds of families who moved there with the promise of schools and community centres and everything else governments shit the bed on
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Where is the developer-promised community centre in Vancouver’s River District?
As several Vancouver neighbourhoods look forward to upgraded public spaces, families living in the growing River District are left wondering when construction will finally begin on a long-awaited comm...
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I watched the presser & this story is wild! Of course my ears perked up when I heard Jamaica. Then Ford was trying to minimize, "it was $3000" as though there wasn't a violation of Crombie's privacy from the surveillance by the Tories and the money was the issue. www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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‘It’s politics’: Doug Ford justifies party’s surveillance mission targeting political opponent
The premier was unapologetic when asked about his party’s decision to send someone to Jamaica to surveil Bonnie Crombie while she was on vacation
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louiseyvr.bsky.social @louiseyvr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Shopify Powers a Racist Group's Online Store. It's Not the First Time via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Shopify Powers a Racist Group’s Online Store. It’s Not the First Time | The Tyee
The $250-billion Canadian company has repeatedly found itself in controversy over its support of ‘free speech.’
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Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦 @kyleruggles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Our collective leaderships are failing us.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/08/2026
My heart hurts for all the people being evacuated from towns burning down from wildfires and rages at politicians and shareholders who continue with pipelines and data centres like it’s business as usual.
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Drspayne @naturalwanderer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Every week I carefully ensure that my groceries are Canadian made, grown or imported from anywhere other than the USA. I choose to spend my down time and money in Canada. I am one person, but I know that I am not alone. That is 🇨🇦💪
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My fellow men‼️Please join me in downloading your choice of period tracker app and inundating them with garbage data we input at random. This birthrate-obsessed fascist government is already tracking a lot, including abortion care and using big tech to do it. This is an easy way men can fight back.
Screenshot of an App Store search results for “period tracker”
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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 07/08/2026
Danielle Smith called for a massive $130 million separatism referendum knowing Elections Alberta doesn't have the resources to run it. This is going to be a mess with long voting lines. Request your mail-in ballot now. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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‘Like recruiting for a federal election’: Elections Alberta less than halfway to hiring goal 3 months before referendum
With just under three months before the province heads to the polls for a multi-ballot referendum, Elections Alberta has fielded 25,000 applications for workers to keep voting day running smoothly.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
BC PEOPLE: Just a reminder that the ONLY time you have as much power as the wealthy landowners in your city is ON ELECTION DAY. Want the "right" people elected? YOU have two months to make that happen. Municipal elections happen in October. What are you doing to ensure progress comes?
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 07/08/2026
“It really broke my heart to see Elders — the looks on their faces about the loss, things that are irreplaceable — it just broke my heart to see the looks on their faces,” Okanagan Indian Band’s chief naspəpʕásəs Dan Wilson said. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
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Okanagan Indian Band Is ‘Resilient’ in Face of Devastating Wildfire: Chief | The Tyee
The entire reserve has been evacuated and more than 30 band members have lost their homes.
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