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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 23h

Uncomfortable does not mean unsafe!

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm betting that a lot of people who respond to polls saying they feel more unsafe in Toronto now are conflating the feeling of "I am physically unsafe and under threat in my environment" with "there was a homeless man on the sidewalk on my way to the Eaton Centre and I don't want to see that."

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 14/10/2026

Local woman wakes up, awards herself a billion dollar contract to establish multiple recovery facilities in Alberta that turn conservatives into socialists, makes oatmeal.

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Imagine Hodgson & Carney pushing oil & gas + gas guzzling AI data centres as the future That is not economic leadership, it's ecocide Indonesia: Millions affected by smoke from wildfires as schools close, respiratory illnesses soar, diplomatic tensions rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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‘Clean air is not a favour’: Indonesia’s neighbours fed up with acrid haze as Singapore threatens to prosecute

Millions affected by smoke from wildfires as schools close, respiratory illnesses soar and diplomatic tensions rise

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“This Carney climate carnage, while not quite as bad as Trump’s, is rapidly heading in the same direction, despite the country being hit by record wildfires and other devastating climate impacts,”'

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Canada Backsliding on Climate in 'Same Direction' as U.S., Tracker Finds

New analysis finds Ottawa has rolled back so much climate policy that its record is inching uncomfortably close to Washington’s.

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Alberta sued: O'Leary's gargantuan AI data centre approved without environmental assessment Experts estimate its gas-powered generators will emit enough carbon to put Canada back 20 years in emissions reductions Carney & Smith are working together. RahRah! www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/16/n...

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Alberta sued for exempting Kevin O'Leary's Wonder Valley from environmental assessment

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is facing a lawsuit for allowing Kevin O'Leary's proposed gargantuan Wonder Valley AI data centre project to proceed without an environmental assessment.

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CPAWS Southern Alberta @cpawssab.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️ The Government of #Alberta has removed provincial habitat protections for the endangered #GreaterSageGrouse without ANY public consultation or official announcement. This puts one of our iconic, #grasslands species at IMMINENT risk of extirpation 💔 #AbLeg #AbPoli #SpeciesAtRisk

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 15/10/2026

Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests. @desmondcole.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of the showdown in Toronto. breachmedia.ca/doug-ford-bi...

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Toronto’s battle over bike lanes is one front in a global right-wing backlash ⋆ The Breach

Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing playbook to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

So much of Canada’s oil and gas conversation makes NO sense. But WHY is that? Well thanks to a WILD new report from Greenpeace Canada, the network of murky figures muddying these conversations about energy are coming into view:

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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Canada's Health Ministers are meeting in Winnipeg this week. Federal health funding renewals are good news! ... But we're still waiting for Minister Michel address the AB government's moves towards two-tier, U.S.-style health care & to enforce the CHA. www.friendsofmedicare.org/funding_rene...

Blue-filtered photo of a stethoscope laid across a Canada flag. Text reads, "Federal funding renewal good news; Canada Health Act must be enforced. Read FOM's response: friendsofmedicare.org/news"

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"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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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Alberta government is cherry-picking evidence and comparing apples to oranges. There are many, very real differences between Alberta's health care system and those in nordic countries. There remains NO evidence that dual practice will improve care—and much evidence to the contrary.

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Speeding and not stopping at crosswalks is another issue since police seem to have given up traffic enforcement. This on 76 ave NW in #yeg, crossing from one bike lane to the other. (Weds am rush hour).

Fall street scene with stopped cars and people attending to a cyclist who was hit by a car sitting on the ground.
NB: He was taken to hospital moments later with thankfully minor injuries.

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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

little attention is given by any level of government to how law enforcement generates social disorder through systemic, daily seizures of people's belongings in cities & towns across the province bsky.app/profile/defa...

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 15/10/2026

David Eby just said he’s planning to expand drug jails to all regions of BC, “so people can get the help they need, even if they can’t ask for it.” Lowen is the only one talking any sense on public safety: housing, basic needs, safe supply, harm reduction. Eby is lost.

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The Bog Witch 🇨🇦 @wickedwitchofpnw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"InVoLuNtArY tReAtmEnT iSn'T iNcAaRcErAtIoN" - Eby. Well, here in ye olde Okanagan, that is exactly where they are planning to locate the involuntary treatment: in a correctional facility! Please, enlighten us how this is not tantamount to incarceration in the penal system? #bcpoli

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 15/10/2026

www.defactomedia.ca/unhoused-peo... #bcpoli #YYJ #Victoria "De Facto tracked the journey of their new possessions to the garbage dump — within days, in multiple cases — despite the City of Victoria’s insistence no such thing happens to new or otherwise functional items."

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'All I have left’: As election cycle spotlights homeless crisis, bylaw seizures ‘devastating’ for Victoria’s unhoused

Many cities are seeing bylaw enforcement ramp up. BC’s capital is a case study — and it’s hurting those already most vulnerable

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

EMERGENCY EPISODE! With Danielle Smith and the UCP giving the go ahead for the stripmining of Alberta’s healthcare and healthcare workers… We sit down with 3 Alberta Doctors to find out more about what Albertans can do to get the feds to intervene! Starts at 7 tonight!

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Mark Cherrington @markcherrington.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A complex crisis. And a simple outcome: death. Let's start with Income Support—in my experience, cutting homeless people off. Then move on to ten-week waits for treatment. Add in all those ignorant rural politicians closing shelters and supports. And... #YEG

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UFC champion Sean Strickland finds 'dead' body on Edmonton street, calls city a 'trash can'

Middleweight champion Sean Strickland calls Alberta capital 'trash can,' finds 'dead' body on street as well as many drug users. Read more.

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sports reporters should stick to sports and this „UFC fighter“, who is not even fighting, can go home. What is wurde is the Edmonton Journal repeating this disgusting description of our city and quoting X, which we should all boycott. #YEG

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If he genuinely thought someone was dead, why was his first response to film the person, post it online and laugh? Why wasn't it to check whether they needed help? It's so gross that the @edmontonjournal.com turned this into an article. edmontonjournal.com/sports/mma/u...

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UFC champion Sean Strickland finds 'dead' body on Edmonton street, calls city a 'trash can'

Middleweight champion Sean Strickland calls Alberta capital 'trash can,' finds 'dead' body on street as well as many drug users. Read more.

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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Albertans deserve health policy based on evidence, not corporate for-profit interests!💸 We stopped the full-scale profitization of our health care before, and we can do it again—but we need YOUR help! 🫵 📢Send a message to demand urgent federal action: friendsofmedicare.org/EnforceTheCHA

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Take Action: Tell the Feds to enforce the Canada Health Act!

Send a message: We urgently need action from the Federal Government to safeguard our public health care and protect patients by speaking out against the Alberta government’s Bill 11 and enforcing the ...

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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Alberta's public healthcare is being destroyed💔 And we deserve to know what's in store for us as result of "dual practice," aka Bill 11:❌longer waits,❌greater costs,❌less equal access to the care we need. That's why FOM's Calgary Chapter is spreading the word! globalnews.ca/video/120987...

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Friends of Medicare tries to get Ottawa involved in the provincial health care debate. | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Friends of Medicare tries to get Ottawa involved in the provincial health care debate. Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/10/2026

This appears to be a move to funnel everyone through privatized Navigation Centres, where the ministry has spent nearly 3 years centralizing personal information of the people who will be the first targets of involuntary abstinence detainments set to begin in 2027.

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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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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I suppose it’s become too complicated with the new rules and why fix it if you can just tell people you don’t give a s…

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This policy change will case significant harm since healthcare is now tied to a valid ID. Not the promised “tecovery oriented system of care”.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

From the DM’s… Recovery Alberta previously had a program to help people navigating recovery get ID. According to this, that program has now been ended. Because why make it easier for folks trying to get sober? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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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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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In which I call out @naomiaklein.bsky.social, the CBC At Issue Panel and every other smart and decent Canadian who still chooses to use the social media site owned by the guy who wants to break our country up. Whatever you're doing on there isn't as important as what he's trying to do to you.

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Experts have been telling them that the most effective way to keep people safe is strict regulation.

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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

From @keithgerein.bsky.social: "It takes some gall for Smith and her heavily rural cabinet to disregard all that and declare they know the issue better than Edmontonians after a few weeks of listening to the NIMBY crowd that lost the last election." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

edmontonjournal.com

Keith Gerein: Premier Smith's edict is in — Edmonton is not allowed to be Edmonton

Alberta Premier Danielle’s Smith decision to force Edmonton to throw out its zoning bylaw is the latest move by her UCP government to rein in municipal autonomy

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Havoc is hitting hospitals as patients hospitalized for some other acute illness are getting COVID, adding to the complexity of care — and Alberta’s COVID vaccinations aren’t available yet, and the province’s low vaccination rate isn’t helping.” #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/covid-p...

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COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital

“We're seeing hallways full of stretchers and ambulance patients being offloaded into hallways."

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This investigative report by Charles Rusnell highlights a web of potential conflicts of interest, political connections, and real estate transactions involving Edmonton businessman Sam Mraiche, the UCP government in Alberta, and addiction treatment contracts. thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

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Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee

Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.

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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Healthcare workers, experts, advocates & patients have called for action for YEARS. Instead of listening, AB Health Ministers are globetrotting to collect cherrypicked "evidence" to support their aggressive privatization agenda. 📢We deserve better! Tell them so: rebuildourhealthcare.ca/#take-action

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Incredible reporting by brishti@bsky.social and Mike Graeme at De Facto Journalism Co-op. Using AirTags they caught bylaw officers throwing away brand-new donated items confiscated from homeless people, against the city’s own rules! www.defactomedia.ca/bylaw-office...

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Victoria bylaw officers trashed newly donated tents within days — contrary to city claims

The city has disputed years of claims that it discards unhoused people's belongings. De Facto reporters tracked new tents and carts to see where they ended up.

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

More questions about transparency and accountability in Alberta’s recovery centre contracts. Court filings allege the province recommended a company linked to Sam Mraiche. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2daacac...

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Former lawyer for Tsuut’ina Nation says province played role in First Nation’s selection of Melewka Homes Ltd.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The Government of Alberta recommended Melewka Homes Ltd. for the construction of the Project as Melewka Homes was constructing comparable recovery facilities elsewhere in Alberta as part of a broader recovery model” More “CorruptCare”. #abpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Former lawyer for Tsuut’ina Nation says province played role in First Nation’s selection of Melewka Homes Ltd.

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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wow. Just wow. EXCLUSIVE: Victoria denied trashing people's new tents. So we tracked them with AirTags Exceptional journalism from @defactomedia.ca, @brishti.bsky.social and @mikegraeme.bsky.social—everyone needs to read this article. #bcpoli #Victoria www.defactomedia.ca/newsletter/e...

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EXCLUSIVE: Victoria denied trashing people's new tents. So we tracked them with AirTags

We investigated where items actually end up after being seized from unhoused locals

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're coming for abortion. Just in case you thought the stakes in Alberta's referendum aren't high enough... Re-read question 9. Then try and tell yourself this doesn't create a back door for the anti-women's healthcare caucus to come after abortion rights in Alberta. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Physicians should be able to focus on clinical decisions, not on determining a patient's immigration or coverage status.” The Alberta Medical Association has a list of unanswered questions stemming from Danielle Smith’s referendum… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are looking for Alberta residents to participate in an online research study about views on Alberta, Canada, society, and current social and political issues surrounding the Alberta referendum. uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Alt text: Poster advertising a University of Waterloo research study seeking Alberta residents aged 18 or older who are Canadian citizens and eligible to vote in the Alberta referendum. Participants complete a 15-minute online survey before the referendum and a 10-minute follow-up survey afterward. Those completing the second survey can enter a draw for one $300 or one of five $100 Amazon gift cards. Participation is voluntary, and the study has received approval from the University of Waterloo Research Ethics Board. A link and QR code are provided to participate.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

New episode! Recoded live in Red Deer, It’s our marathon deep dive on Alberta’s referendum with the help of The Harmonious Gentlemen! We go through each question, the history leading up to them and a WHOLE lot more! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli youtu.be/ttkbKwudhNo

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Episode 8.55 - Alberta's Referendum Live In Red Deer with "The Harmonious Gentlemen"!

YouTube video by The Breakdown AB

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why should this be ok and a 4plex with secondary suites is not? Smith is a premier of the elites andouilleif touch with average Edmontonians. #yegcc #abpoli realtor.ca/real-estate/...

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