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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦

@prairieroots.bsky.social
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Saskatchewan-born. Go Riders. Married. Grandpa. I read stuff and know things. Social Democrat 🇨🇦 I live in Moh'kins'tsis Treaty 7 Territory I don't answer DMs. So, don't even bother.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Danielle “Trait0r” Smith: “The Separatist” - Part 52 “My first concern today is for the Albertans and Canadians” Is she aware that Albertans are Canadians? Because last I checked, they still are and the vast majority intend to keep that way.
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Kathie @kathie22.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Don’t buy it!! It’s been on our shelves in AB, because we have a gutless premier, but that does NOT mean we are buying their crap!! There are so many good options it just isn’t necessary. #BuyCanadian
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This Canadian 🇨🇦💯 @adeighton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
youtube.com/shorts/8pltr... I’d wish all Canadians to listen to the words and follow in action. This man could be a future PM and I would vote for him. He Wants to build a better brighter Future and I’m in. 🇨🇦☮️💯🍁
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Manitoba cabinet minister apologizes for repost criticizing Charlie Kirk
YouTube video by CBC News Manitoba
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EH! @eh-now.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Endangered Oregon spotted frogs - one of the rarest amphibians in Canada - were just released back into the wild in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. 🇨🇦 Raised by hand. Returned home. Given a fighting chance. 🐸 This is the kind of Canadian story worth sharing. - EH! Canada’s Social Network ❤️
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Robyn Maharaj @rpmwriter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m a proud Manitoban and Canadian… 🇨🇦
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 03/05/2026
Albertans should not be asked to vote in any referendum or election while basic questions remain unanswered about our democratic institutions. Premier Smith should call a public inquiry. Now. 🔗https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/albertas-voters-list-scandal-deserves
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Big News: The Senate has blocked the SAVE Act, a sweeping voter suppression bill that would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Despite relentless pressure from the Trump administration, voting rights advocates have achieved a critical victory ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
With separatists tied up in court, Smith now favors Lukaszuk's pro-Canada question for the Oct. 19 referendum on independence. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg
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Braid: Pro-Canada question could get the nod in upcoming referendum on Alberta's future
Premier Danielle Smith says the Foreever Canadian pro-Canada question may be the one accepted for the Oct. 19 referendum on Alberta's future
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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our plan to repeal and replace blanket rezoning is working. Today, Calgary secured $64.7M from the federal Housing Accelerator Fund, with all previous payments honoured, and a path to more. Thank-you to PM Carney and Minister Robertson for your support & recognition of Calgary's leadership.
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So inspiring
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Say no to her discriminatory referendum. Join me and sign up here. ouralbertaadvantage.ca
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Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants
Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“He is not the owner” A Bush judge. Wow. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.nokings.org
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My ancestors originated from Derbyshire in England. If I wanted to learn the dialect of that region how would you recommend I go about it?
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
After growing up on the history of Watergate, watching the dismantling of the Washington Post is brutal. From uncovering Nixon to this—it feels like deliberate Republican Party revenge. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/F... #wasghingtonpost #WaPo #layoffs
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Mat Germain @matgermain.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is how tyranny begins. Attack the law. Attack journalism. Danielle Smith should be removed from power.
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Good on ya Jimmy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I had just started to scroll on FB when I came across this news. I am shocked. Such an amazing actress. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Legendary Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara dead at 71 | CBC
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
First Nations Chiefs are calling on Alberta’s premier to resign, accusing Danielle Smith of conspiring with separatists and violating Treaty rights “I hope you have your bags packed. When this referendum is defeated, I will gladly walk you to the border.” #fyp
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yet, in the minds of UCP big shots fossil fuel generation and green energy could not coexist. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Varcoe: How the end of the Clean Electricity Regulations could power Alberta's $100B data centre ambitions
Sidelined federal electricity regulations are an important change the province and industry players believe will propel projects forward.
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Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Premier Smith now faces official recall notice. 20 UCP members under siege. This is no longer just a flashy political stunt. Some UCP members could lose special elections. Rewritten column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #abgov #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
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Braid: Recall is heating up; Premier Smith now faces official campaign in her riding
Alberta's recall movement keeps growing. Premier Smith now faces recall. It's no longer just an oddity, but a threat to UCP
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Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A whopper of a UCP bill makes a separatist referendum likely but leaves the recall movement to rage on. UCP assumes far more power over election rules. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abgov #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg
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Braid: Giant UCP bill enables separatist vote but allows recall to rage on
Braid: Premier Danielle Smith brings in big bill that will make a vote on independence more likely but declines to choke off recall movement
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It's right that the Vatican is returning these Indigenous cultural items—which were stolen decades ago by their representatives. 1/2
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Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
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leslieludanyi.bsky.social @leslieludanyi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
LOL 😂🤣😂
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Calgary is cheering the Blue Jays. This morning the Calgary Tower was awash in blue light. #baseball #WS #WorldSeries
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Chris Nelson in his Calgary Herald column makes an excellent case for fully utilising school teachers and the schools they teach in. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Nelson: If teachers start working full time, everyone wins
Teachers say they're not paid enough but if they worked the same hours as most full-time employees there'd be oodles of cash to reward them.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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FOGGthat 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @foggthat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare. The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
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Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Teacher strike or lockout talk heats up. Smith fumes at Edmonton school board book bans, as if the province didn't start it. Column. calgaryherald.com/news/braid-t... #abed #ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #yeg
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Braid: Teachers, government trade barbs as Smith fumes over school board book bans
Premier Danielle Smith is furious at Edmonton board for banning so may books, as Alberta edges toward a teacher strike or lockout
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Marjan Geotraveler @marjangeotraveler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Does saying Netanyahu is a criminal make me an anti-Semite? I don’t care. Anyone who allows the death of a group of people by starving them to death and shooting them at aid stations is a criminal IMHO.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It does not make you great when you try to destroy other countries economies It does make you great when you take away rights to your citizens It does not make you great putting criminals and pedophiles in charge of agencies It does not make you great when you put people in concentration camps
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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
No one has successfully removed selenium from a waterway. The Elk River is toxic because the Elkford coal mines have left slag piles to leach into the river for decades, and only removing the piles will stop that process. No amount of royalties are worth killing a river. #AbLeg
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations - The Japan Times share.google/1UEBbrkfVkuS...
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Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
'In their last breaths, no one shouted for the long life of the emperor,” said one veteran about his comrades. 'They called out for their mothers, whom they would never see again.”
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@donbraid.bsky.social ​Spot on article! Commuting downtown daily, the visible struggles with homelessness & addiction are concerning. While personal action is limited, our city leaders must urgently refocus on these issues to make our core safe & vibrant. #YYC ​https://tinyurl.com/28yywxbz
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Braid: Police say crime is down, but social disorder and street crime run wild
Calgary police say crime is down 15 per cent. Meanwhile, the streets are a chaos of drugs, panhandling and petty extortion.
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Carbon capture is a flop according to Bob Sandford who is with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment & Health. The two projects that were demonstrate the ability to capture carbon out of the air have 0.00005 per cent of annual global emissions. tinyurl.com/2cmlzgz4
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A good analysis of what happened at the G7 Conference. calgaryherald.com/news/g7-summ...
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Braid: Testy G7 summit in Kananaskis stopped short of blow-up — and made Alberta look gorgeous
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney handled G7 adroitly avoiding blowup. World crises intervened. but as a sidelight, Alberta looked great.
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Old guy problems: when the highlight of your morning is the anticipation of the sandwich you're gonna have for lunch at work only to open the fridge and find it's spaghetti and meat sauce that you packed last night. Thanks a lot, memory! #SeniorMoments #LunchtimeLament
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🤯 Mind blown! I'm not a mathematician but I find this 😎. The number 142,857 is fascinating. Multiply it by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, and you always get the SAME digits, just cycled around! Try it! It's a numerical magic trick related to 1/7. #MathFun #Numbers #CoolFacts
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If that asshat in the White House wants to expand his travel ban, he can go ahead and add Canada. I'm furious he joked about annexing us—and now he's pushing another racist ban against Muslim countries. I'm not Muslim, but I'll stand with those targeted. tinyurl.com/24hh23fl
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Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the US
Nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan ‘fully’ restricted as those of seven other countries partially restricted
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Herald writer, Rick Bell, (aka Premier Smith's publicist), states the ball is in PM Carney's court to quell Alberta's separatist aspirations. That's a smokescreen for the Premier's own failures. Had she not meddled with referendum laws, this entire issue would be a non-starter. tinyurl.com/2yhcbjpq
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Bell: Danielle Smith hopes Carney can cool down Alberta separatist feelings
Premier Smith of Alberta says it is up to Prime Minister Carney to act quickly on Alberta's demands as vote on Alberta independence looms
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Watched the Canadian Screen Awards tonight. The In Memoriam hit hard — so many names I didn’t recognize. Canada’s film + TV artists deserve more visibility. We know more about Hollywood than our own storytellers. That needs to change. #CdnFilm #SupportCanadianArtists
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Darryl Darwent 🇨🇦 @prairieroots.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
North Korea is providing weapons to Russia in clear violation of UN sanctions. Doesn't that make North Korean ships and aircraft prime targets for preemptive strikes? Or would that be going over the line and make European and Western aid susceptible to retaliation? tinyurl.com/2awonoyt
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Ukrainian cities ‘terrorised’ by North Korean weapons in Russian hands – report
Multinational team monitoring sanctions finds 20,000 container loads of missiles, artillery, rocket launchers and other munitions have been illegally transferred
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