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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friendly reminder that privatization does not create jobs. It mostly recruits workers from other jobs. Doctors who were in the public system move to private. Teachers who were in the public system move to private. It does nothing to reduce wait times, teacher to student, or nurse to patient ratios.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Guy requests delivery to home without a visible address. Delivery driver saves a home owner from being on the wrong side of a city bylaw. How is this story about graffiti?
CTV News August 24,2026. Delivery driver writes address on Waterloo home that did not display numbers.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/05/2023
Dr. Helen Taussig, who initiated the field of pediatric cardiology, was born OTD in 1898. She discovered the cause of "blue baby syndrome," helped develop its surgical correction, and was the first woman to serve as president of the American Heart Association. Image: National Library of Medicine
Black and white phot of Dr. Hellen Taussig. She is wearing a white blouse with a v-shaped neckline, a string of pearls, and glasses. Her hair is short, and swept back. Dr. Taussig is looking to the left of the photographer and, though not smiling, seems to have a pleased or happy look.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Nunavik, with a population of 14,000, has seen as many cases of tuberculosis in the first three months of 2026 — around 40 — as were diagnosed in the first six months of 2025. According to a statement from the NRBHSS, eight out of the 14 communities in the region have active outbreaks currently”
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Tuberculosis Outbreaks Worsening in Nunavik While Quebec Government Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency
New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Ratify doesn't mean what it should.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's not just you. AI is upsetting a lot of people for a lot of reasons.
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Mazie @sillyartcollector.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s endometriosis awareness month, so sharing this is the least you could do for us
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Appreciated the interview with Dr. Jason Hosain. Nobody else is speaking to why sick/disabled folks miss appointments. All the street interviews were of healthy people who were out and about and had few barriers to making it to appointments on time. So why ask them?
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Sask. medical clinics impose fines, bans for no-show patients | CBC News
Dr. Jason Hosain, who has studied no-shows in Saskatchewan and the response to them, said he understands the increased value placed on appointments with family doctors, even though he does not believe...
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nothing clever, just throwing my love into the void/world. Listening for the pitched thunk echoing back when it hits the bottom. 🎵 We're sending our love down the well / ALL THE WAY DOWN!
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Not saying existing tools used by political parties are moral, but this is egregious. Which is nothing to say it couldn't be used by any interest group. Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters' www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...
nationalobserver.com
Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters'
A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Worth a read even if you are already convinced vaccines are a good idea. Thank you @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...
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If Your Vaccine Works, Why Do You Care If I Get One?
My vaccinated kids are protected. But “protected” and “invincible” aren’t the same thing.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/12/2025
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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MemeStar @memestar1.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Anyone else have a problem with buying ebooks and other digital downloads and then forgetting all about them? It's like the pile of books you've been meaning to read, but they're invisible.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
lift up your head, take a deep breath, scream if you want, get the rest you need, and keep fighting for truth & beauty
Sunset over Satoo with pink and orange hues
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Looking for reasons to be proud of Alberta? A recent leger poll found 34% of Albertans feel you're never too old to trick or treat. The highest rate in the county. Also below average belief in vampires and werewolves. So there's that.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
As a biracial second-generation immigrant, I never thought that my opinions or that my presence in this country can matter, because I was such a small minority[...]. But now, under Danielle Smith’s government, I realize that I am not alone. That’s because, under her rule, nobody matters.” -A Sahab
edmontonjournal.com
'We're packed like sardines': Students walk out of their classes in support of Alberta teachers
More than 70 schools across Alberta had students walk out of classes to protest the Alberta government's use of the notwithstanding clause
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
amnesty.ca/press-releas.... Did the UCP think they'd get good press by violating human rights and attacking democracy to avoid negotiating with teachers?
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Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta government’s use of notwithstanding clause in Bill 2
Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 means that courts won’t be able to strike down the law even if it violates the Charter.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2
bookvaccine.alberta.ca
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
UCP - We want teachers back to the bargaining table! Also UCP - The earliest we can do is the 14th! But at least it looks like bargaining in the teachers strike will restart next week! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 06/10/2025
CJPME is calling on the Canadian government to ensure the safety and protection of Canadians aboard the Sumud Flotilla, who were kidnapped in international waters and illegally detained by Israeli forces while attempting to reach Gaza. www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_10_0...
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Canada must protect Canadians detained by Israel aboard the Sumud Flotilla
Montreal, October 6, 2025 — Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is calling on the Canadian government to ensure the safety and protection of Canadian citizens aboard the Sumud F...
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our government would rather spend 15 million dollars a day in the hopes that parents will turn against teachers than work towards smaller class sizes and competitive teacher salaries in Alberta. Not including all the anti-union ads they have been paying for with public money. Beyond shameful.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
🚨We must standup to the bunk! We can't let lies win. - Vaccines ≠ autism - Ivermectin ≠ cure for cancer, autism, or COVID - COVID vaccines ≠ "turbo cancer" or "sudden death"! Our statement, signed by over 20 leading health orgs, healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi...
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#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate
We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
New from me: Group representing thousands of prosecutors condemns Edmonton police criticism of Crown in child homicide case edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/c...
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Group representing thousands of prosecutors condemns Edmonton police criticism of Crown in child homicide case
A group representing thousands of Crown prosecutors across Canada has come out against the Edmonton Police Service's decision to publicly criticize a plea agreement in a child homicide case.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Excellent article the highlights how understanding the nuance in scientific language is important and how often it is misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented by bad actors.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 13-26, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 81 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~12X higher -Long COVID ~8X higher -Hospitalizations ~15X higher -Deaths ~14X higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between September 13-26, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is  VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 13.4
About 1 of every 81 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 537,000-948,750
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: VERY HIGH; 11.5X higher
Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.6X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU:  VERY HIGH; 14.6X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH: 14.2X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
AVOID indoor social gatherings
AVOID crowded non-essential places

Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It is frustrating and shows exactly what customer service means to the big telecoms that they will only offer better deals to existing clients after closing their accounts. Until then yearly increases are "necessary."
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If you have to actually cancel your service before you're offered a better deal, that's not customer service, it's exploitation.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@meksmith.bsky.social will we know when Peter Martin's review of ASIRT is done? I haven't been able to find any updates
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Alberta's book ban is almost a carbon copy of Florida's. If it can't pass judgment in Florida, what does it say about the UCP trying to implement it here? @albertandp.ca
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/08/2025
There’s no better time than the present to rein in social media platforms and the harmful consequences they have for society. People should have forums to communicate, but the design of corporate social media promotes the kind of world we don’t want. www.disconnect.blog/p/wading-thr...
Natural disasters are only going to become more common as the climate crisis deepens. It’s long past time our government took the problems posed by social media platforms seriously, and considered not just how to rein them in, but whether it makes sense to keep legitimizing them by using them as channels for government communication.

Twitter/X is an openly right-wing platform, while Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear he’ll govern the Facebook suite in whatever way helps him gain favor with Donald Trump. These platforms are openly hostile to the collective good, yet Mark Carney’s government has effectively shelved the legislation that sought to regulate them. It’s precisely the wrong time to give the social media companies a pass.

Until the government gets its act together, it may be worth taking advice from Haggie: “don’t resort to social media.”
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My latest for @thetyee. Former police commission chair enaged in online bullying, harassment campaign against city councillors. 'Unleashing': Politicians Say Ex-Police Watchdog's Insults Go Too Far via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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‘Unleashing’: Politicians Say Ex-Police Watchdog’s Insults Go Too Far | The Tyee
‘I was getting scared,’ says one Edmonton councillor assailed online by John McDougall.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/08/2025
A: I don’t care where we go. At all. B: Same. Any restaurant you have in mind? A: No, I’ll go to literally any restaurant in this town. Any neighborhood that’s more convenient for you? B: No, every location in existence is convenient for me. Any kind of food you’re craving?
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With God as My Witness, I Will Not Pick the Restaurant
A: Where should we eat? B: I’m happy to go anywhere! A: Me too. I’m easy. I don’t care where we go. At all. B: Same. Any restaurant you have in min...
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
There are many reasons why I love where I work. But the fact that people regularly use the anatomically correct heart emoji will never stop making me smile. 🫀
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"Thank you once again for taking the time to email our office." It's rarely satisfying to write to your MP. I suppose this is at least proof that a person in the MP's office is reading at least some of what I write, and it's not just input into a machine. Or I'm on some kind of list.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
After 4 record years of record-breaking o&g revenue, how is it this government has no interest in protecting working age folks? It is still too easy to exploit temp foreign workers and throw them away when they get sick. When we don't stand up for the most vulnerable we put everyone at risk.
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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 10/06/2025
Spring time is party time! Just be careful out there! Wondermark #1568; In which there's a Hot Time Tonight
A couple, BLAISCHE and YON, are chatting on the couch at a house party. Each holds a mug and saucer.

BLAISCHE: You ready to bail on this party? If you can call it that?

YON: Hold on, I'm gonna refill my coffee one more time.

BLAISCHE: The coffee is gross.

YON: Yeah, but it's free.

BLAISCHE: It's free, but it's GROSS.

YON: It's gross, but it's FREE.

BLAISCHE: Our standards are apparently different.

YON: Says the person whose idea it was to come to this housewarming in the first place.

BLAISCHE: A "housewarming" is a NORMAL thing for a party to be! I didn't think they meant it literally!

FROM OFF-PANEL: Break time's over, my toasty-woasties! The SNUGGLE PILE is re-forming!
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Calgary's gold is someone's curse. See the good life get better as the living gets worse. Came to you oil rich and angry, but the power weighed more than it's worth @waxmannequin.bsky.social
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Seriously. Friends and neighbors, what is going on? How did protecting your family from deadly illnesses fall out of fashion? Is this what love looks like?
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Let's help bats and demand smarter wind energy regulations. 🌬️⚡🦇❤️
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/contro... #smbc
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/05/2025
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died at age 89.
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José Mujica, Uruguay's humble president who changed his country and charmed the world, dies at 89
During his 2010-2015 presidency, Mujica, widely known as “Pepe,” oversaw the transformation of his small South American nation into one of the world’s healthiest and most socially liberal democracies.
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poil... via @thebeaverton.com
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Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable
CARLETON, ON - Despite losing his own riding by several thousand votes, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to stay on as party leader due to having absolutely no employment track record ou...
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Super annoyed with the pencil conspiracy re: Elections Canada. If you suspect ballot tampering ask about how Elections Canada prevents tampering. If you want to vote with a pen or crayon, that's up to you, but don't whine about not being supplied with your favorite marker.
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 21/02/2025
The Edmonton Police Service named two interim chiefs today who will take the place of Dale McFee until a new police chief is hired. In 2012, one of them, Warren Driechel, was implicated in a steroid trafficking ring within the police force. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/f...
edmontonjournal.com
Former Edmonton police officer pleads guilty to trafficking in steroids
A retired veteran Edmonton police officer tearfully apologized in court Thursday after admitting he had repeatedly sold anabolic steroids to fellow officers.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It's a bold choice to use "top tier" and "minimum standards" in the same sentence. Also not so sure about my personal standards of detergency.
Sticker on gas pump reads: TOP TIER Detergent Gasoline - All grades of Shell gasoline exceed Top Tier™ gasoline minimum standards for detergency.
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Darren @oneyco.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Nerds clusters answer the question: what if gummy bears had bones?
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