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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17h

I highly recommend this CBC interview with @thomasgreenyvr.bsky.social of the @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social. Tom joins @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social to discuss recent provincial and federal energy announcements. This is a master class in effective climate communications: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 9h

Do you have the requisite raspberry cordial?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 10h

🤞Fingers crossed that living through six months of Danielle’s literal Dark Ages will end her career.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 13h

Secret is a pantyhose brand. Maybe they have a high-end line of products called Top Secret?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 17h

Update. London drugs has Not been shut out by the UCP. Each store has to enter their availability separately and the pharmacist just did that at noon. I now have a booking for both flu and covid Oct 19 at LD. 🙏

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 20h

I called one of the Calgary pharmacies that is listed on the AHS site as offering both flu and covid shots, but was able only to book a flu shot because even that pharmacy has NOT yet been advised as to when they will receive the covid vax from the govt.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 21h

Exactly. I might call that Medicine Shoppe too. It seems to be the closest. I don't think I've ever noticed it there, but I can find it.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 21h

So stupid that they have those two vaccines separated that way as you CAN get them both at once. This way people will have to run around their towns and cities trying to scrounge them up separately. We're living in Someone's perverse mental universe, and I hate it in here.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 21h

There ARE places in Calgary where you can get both vaccines, though there are also lots there that DON'T have covid shots too, but there are none in Cochrane, and none in Calgary at any London Drugs. Either they are totally disorganized and can't meet their own deadline, or this is perversity.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 21h

I'm trying to book for myself, and there's nowhere listed in Cochrane where you can get covid+flu vaccines. 40,000 people, and our MLA WAS UCP (Guthrie). And I don't know what the UCP has against London Drugs. No covid shots for them. Do they think they're foreign?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 22h

So booking a covid and flu vaccine, or either one, through the Alberta Health Services online is a nightmare. I've been on the site for 20 minutes, and there are ZERO places in my town of 40,000 to get a covid vaccine. London Drugs, my regular choice, has not been allowed covid vaxx.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've seen several posts by people saying things "oh I didn't have plague on my bingo card" Seriously, get it together, put all the worst things on your bingo card - locusts, hurricanes, miseries that nobody has even imagined Haven't you learned

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just met another fantastic resident of the community, and she and her partner too are planning to move to another province or country. Overheard a few words of neighbours’ conversation yesterday and they were talking about moving..

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people who want to throw away the province and country overlap significantly with those who want to deny immigrants the necessities of healthcare and education associated with being resident in AB. This is illogical. Let’s devise a system whereby seppies give their health cards to immigrants.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have the people who want potentially to throw their province and country away to “send a message to Ottawa” never heard of letters, envelopes (no stamp required) or email?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dear Seppies, They’re just not that into you. They might want the bitumen, most of which they already have, and the water that we don’t actually have, but you? Meh. 🫤

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m getting my house ready as we speak. Not going to SK though. Premier Moe just imitates everything Smith does on a five-day delay.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s true. The margaritas, alligators, the beach, and the oversized buffet platter aren’t going to come up here just because of those big feelings. Maybe we need some billboards advertising Florida house prices. Probably some good deals right now.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The principal players may be seeking huge honking commissions for delivering AB to the US. What they seem to like is money. Lotsa money. I think independence is just a colourful alibi.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you’ve been gifted one gold cat, your next thought might be to collect a twin set.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also wonder what waters the separatists are offering the US. Southern AB is semi-arid at the very best of times. Sylvan Lake? The bitumen companies are intent on releasing the water of the tar sands holding ponds into the Athabasca River. Do Americans want to drink that brew? What water?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder when the RCMP are going to charge and escort him back.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So did I, also precisely because of Carrie Tait’s reporting!

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, I don’t think they/we are (or perceive ourselves as) extreme but as the article shows and as we see in the US manipulators target less educated people and fundamentalist Christians. Here too the religion of “our” oil flows freely through and beyond those first two categories.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Essential and compelling reading, Canadians. I’m grateful for the work of our intrepid and highly skilled Canadian journalists. Also great illustration at the top of the article, eh? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m having a difficult time figuring out what the point of “independence” would be after giving your water and energy awayto another country.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first word that comes to mind is ‘predatory.’

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just “followed” your account but I’m sure I was already a follower, and I wouldn’t have unfollowed. Hmm. 🤔

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Audric Moses 🇨🇦 @audricmoses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How about "strengthining" general literacy 🤦? #ableg

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's why part of the name, "did," is in the past tense.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I might not be right, but has Stephen Harper not been on salary or some sort of retainer for the past couple of years to set up and manage an Alberta Pension Plan? What did he think Alberta needed an APP for if not for the purpose of separatism?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In addition to getting “things built” here in Alberta, we also create the conditions for things like Summerland, Lytton, Sooke, and part of Vancouver, not to mention Fort McMurray and Jasper, to burn.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If conservatives win in BC, I won't be fleeing AB to go live under another asinine administration. It'll be an eastward journey for me.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In what grade do AB students start studying the history of Canada? I don't mean grade twos drawing a picture of the flag but would it be grade five or six? Ten? Eleven?

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As I read the article I had the feeling Keith Wilson is playing "peek-a-boo" with himself.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m guess I’m just not into continual wildfires, houses and towns burning down, aridity, drought, crop failures, extreme temperatures and wild weather, melting glaciers, dying coral reefs, apocalypse, things like that.

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