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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Danielle Smith's 'understanding' of democracy makes me laugh, but unfortunately many will believe her. globalnews.ca/news/1184837...
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Danielle Smith rejects Alberta judge’s ruling against separation petition as ‘anti-democratic’ | Globalnews.ca
Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting the ruling of an Alberta judge who quashed a separatist petition and says the province will appeal the court ruling.
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True Oak @trueoak.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Can’t wait for the party of freedoms to restrict more freedoms.
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Alon Eisenstein (He/Him) @aloneisenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is the level of clarity and commitment Canada needs more than ever! #cdnpoli
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It's such a satisfying feeling to login to your library account, see that a book suggestion has been approved, and then put a hold on that book. 📚📖 💕 #Booksky #Library #Libraries #Reading
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Unbelievable 😡https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-emergencies-act-appeal-9.7046769
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What can we do?
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... #Canada #CdnPoli
bbc.com
Trump's Maduro raid could set precedent for authoritarian powers across globe
Trump seems to believe he makes the rules and others cannot have the same privileges.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This article helped me understand the game the US is trying to play by kidnapping and charging Maduro. They are targeting Maduro as an individual in an attempt to circumvent international law. All BS of course... theconversation.com/how-us-inter...
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How US intervention in Venezuela mirrors its actions in Panama in 1989
The US intervention in Venezuela does not represent a break from past practice.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I saw a headline yesterday that #Ford is passing legislation that let's him bypass existing legislation to speed up development, but I can't find the article today. Is this just his deal with carney to get the Ring of Fire built or is this something new? #Ford #Carney #ontPoli #CdnPoli #RingOfFire
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Carney might claim our dairy sector is safe but has appointed his friend Wiseman, who is also notable as previous head of AimCo. #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Carney taps business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S. | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney has picked business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Carney as lesder makes me physically nauseous. He's simply finishing what Harper started, but at an insanely expedited pace
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
WTF
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I don't understand why people don't see there are huge problems with Carney. "Section 12 of the Bill C-15 would allow the minister to exempt any individual, business or other organization from any existing law or regulation other than the Criminal Code, for up to six years, with few limits."
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
#Cdnpoli #USpoli #Ukraine
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Those who expect a boon to DT businesses fail to recognize: * $$ spent DT comes from reduced parking/commuting costs * discretionary $ from our budgets s/b spent in our communities not DT * few people have discretionary $ #Carney #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Updated rules for public servants' return to office to come into 'sharper view' in coming weeks Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will be speaking with public sector unions in the coming weeks to hash out the details of the updated return-to-office rules for federal public servants.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Oh God, I haven't tuned into the West Block in a long tome. Ben Mulroney is host? He's an entertainer, isn't he? Not a journalist? #WestBlock
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Boo 🇨🇦 @just-call-me-boo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#Cdnpoli #Canada #Polytechnique #AlwaysRemember #December6 #CanadaStrong #ViveLeCanada
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The proposed changes are actually shocking in terms of arrogance, bit not surprising coming from the UCP. #AbPoli globalnews.ca/news/1156018...
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Alberta bill aims to clear further obstacles to citizen-driven referendum questions | Globalnews.ca
Alberta's UCP government is changing the rules to make it easier for citizens to force a referendum on issues such as the prospect of the province leaving Confederation.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
More fallout from Carney's MOU #CdnPoli #AbPoli #BCPoli www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News
Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...
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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pretty much, right? #canadasky #cdnpoli
Carney on a Liberal-branded steamroller with British Columbia being run over with the caption NATION-BUILDING.
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Thomas Linner @tmlinner.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“When the agreement came out someone texted me saying, ‘The only thing missing from the agreement is Pierre Poilievre's signature,’ and I went yeah, I think that sums it up,” [Guilbeault] said. #cdnpoli 👀
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Miller may be fed up with 'the language debate' but I am fed up with @liberalca.bsky.social For Pollievre to vow to protect the French language more than the culture minister 🙄 Shameful #AbPoli #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Legault calls Miller a 'disgrace to all Quebecers' for his comments on French language | CBC News
A day after being named federal culture minister, Marc Miller is drawing ire from several Quebec officials, including the premier of his home province.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If Carney isn't in favour of this, he'd speak out against it. #AbPoli #CdnPoli ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-heal...
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Alberta health minister hopes plan to expand private care will be 'replicated across Canada'
Adriana LaGrange pointed out that Canada consistently lags peer countries in wait times, despite being near the top of the table in health spending
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
C'mon Alberta, let's get rid of these people. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal
The resolution votes do not obligate the province to act on them, though some past party resolutions have become government policy.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I'm writing Xmas cards & it occurred to me that as a gesture sto Canadians and small business owners, CP should stop all rotating strikes until January so 🇨🇦 knew their Xmas cards & gifts would arrive on time. And workers would get full pay through this expensive season www.thesundayletterproject.com
thesundayletterproject.com
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
And who thought the MOU would shut Smith and the UCP up? Fuck. No surprise but still...🙄 #AbPoli #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Alberta gov't to present motion next week against federal firearm seizure program: Smith | CBC News
Premier Danielle Smith said her government will introduce a motion this week, through provincial sovereignty legislation, to defy the federal gun seizure program. Smith made the announcement Saturday ...
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
" They’re angry about that, and they’ve been conditioned to blame Ottawa, ever since the 1980s when they blamed the National Energy Programme for a global collapse in oil prices, and they’ve been blaming Ottawa and anyone named Trudeau ever since."
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Western Hemlox @westernhemlox.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
👀 A minor thing (or not), but at 15:39 in this clip @robshaw.bsky.social suggests that the PM misled Premier Eby on a phone call earlier this week, saying that the #MOU wasn't done when in fact two hours later it leaked out that the MOU was done. #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvA...
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Political Capital 196 - Oil pipeline-palooza
YouTube video by CHEK Media
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli
A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
So where is @mark-carney.bsky.social going to cave next? I suspect the gun lobby. #CdnPoli #AbPoli
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Interesting article
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I hope the @liberalca.bsky.social is ready for what comes next. I know I'm not. #Cdnpoli #Abpoli #BCpoli
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli
A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I found the full recording of Elizabeth May's reaction to today's MOU. Her explanation about the transportation of bitumen & why this is the wrong pipeline, as well as realistic options, are very interesting. #CdnPoli #AbPoli www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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Elizabeth May Reacts to Federal-Alberta Energy MOU
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May speaks with reporters about the federal government’s new memorandum of understanding on energy collaboration with Alberta. (November 27, 2025) (no interpretation)
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm looking forward to the rest of her analysis
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline: - exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada). - delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030. (cont'd)
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Thomas Linner @tmlinner.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Mark Carney making explicit the irrelevance of BC - and its 22 Liberal MPs - to his ideological resource extraction plans. British Columbians should remember this. #cdnpoli
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Here's what to know about the energy agreement between Ottawa and Alberta | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have jointly agreed on a path forward for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast — a hugely significant development that the federal gov...
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Listening to Janyce McGregor on CBC Live covering the MOU, she sums up the situation as 'bespoke Alberta' and she sums up the situation saying that BC now doesn't seem to have any other choice. Carney didn't have a long game to silence Smith, he simply gave her a gift. #CdnPoli #BCpoli #Abpoli
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Bill 9 is unscientific and immoral. It does nothing to protect children. It is only designed to hurt them by denying doctor supported life saving care. Kill Bill 9, not our children.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If you can, please support @momentumcanada.net @skippingstone.ca @egalecanada.bsky.social or the @albertandp.ca to help defeat this bill and #ProtectTransKids
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Exactly this
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Carney's long game wasn't to fool Smith, it was to fool voters #AbPoli #CdnPoli
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Carney can't claim he working for all Canadians after this. He's pitted Canadians against each other.
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Carney is a snake
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Responsible One @responsibleone.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
#FireTheUCP #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YEG #YYC #Calgary #Alberta #Edmonton
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Traitor Dee and Traitor Dum #AbPoli #CdnPoli
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Onthesidelines5 🇨🇦 (she/her) @onthesidelines5.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
💔 For the first time in my 56 years I am not proud of being 🇨🇦. Provincial governments' use of the NWC are targeting human rights and normal democratic processes and protections. #AbPoli #CdnPoli @liberalca.bsky.social @markcarey93.bsky.social
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So is Mark Carney going to go along with the suspension of human rights by MAGA government in Alberta? You cant' do nation-building by allowing an autocratic government to suspend the charter rights of citizens. Just say no Mark. it's pretty straightforward. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to stop court challenges of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults.
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