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@rhyscourtman.bsky.social
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There be no shelter, here - the front line is everywhere. #Airdrie muckraker. Groucho-Marxist. Runs @airdronian.bsky.social

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Airdrie City View @airdriecityview.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEWS: BREAKING: Spearman elected mayor of Airdrie
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BREAKING: Spearman elected mayor of Airdrie
According to the unofficial results released by the City just after midnight, Heather Spearman won 5,291 votes
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Always remember, the riding that elected Pierre Poilievre last night is the same one that sent Jack Ramsay to Parliament for years. 😬 They sure know how to pick ‘em, out there. #ableg #cdnpoli
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Jack Ramsay (politician) - Wikipedia
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Scoop! As the UCP uses the RCMP's "hard" vacancy rate (7%) as justification for an Alberta Provincial Police Force... We took a look at the Alberta Sherrifs. And not only are their hard vacancy rates higher, the highway patrol is at 22.5%! #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
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About Danielle Smith's Provincial Police Force...
One of the biggest justifications that Danielle Smith, Mike Ellis and the UCP have consistently used to justify the need for a provincial police force is the number of vacancies that exist within the ...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 31/07/2025
"Alberta has never paid for Quebec daycare. This is a lie deliberately spread by politicians who’d rather demonize Quebecers than ask tough questions of an American-owned fossil fuel sector that’s ruthlessly exploited Canadians and sucked nearly all the value out of the oil fields.”
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The Quebec referendum, Alberta separation and the politics of Big Oil in Canada
45 years after the first Quebec referendum, Canada's still searching for a path to economic sovereignty and Alberta wants to separate.
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Louis-Eddy 🇨🇦 @jledrc53.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
By staying at Stornoway on the taxpayers' dime, Pierre Poilievre disqualified himself from ever speaking about fiscal responsibility. The smartest voters in #BattleRiver-Crowfoot will recognize him for the leach he is, and will elect another candidate. #NeverPoilievre #StornowaySquatter
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“Brown had significant qualms with… a paragraph that named a city employee as being involved in sharing a draft ministerial briefing note. During his livestream, he said that City staff “bleed blue” for the City of Airdrie.” Telling. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.thealbertan.com/beyond-local...
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Beyond Local: Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown defends actions, criticizes investigative report
Read the full story and comment on TheAlbertan.com
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“63 per cent of respondents were opposed to an Alberta pension plan (APP), 10 per cent were in favour of an APP, and 12 per cent were undecided or unsure.” Huge props to Matthew Black for not letting go of this! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Alberta releases its pension survey results, 63% opposed to leaving CPP
After a more than 21-month wait, the Alberta government has released to Postmedia the results of its 2023 provincial pension plan survey.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“The initial One Health proposal included asking the province to reallocate funds previously set aside for upgrades to the community health centre, documents reveal.” For profit healthcare over public in Alberta yet again… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli theijf.org/controversia...
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Controversial Alberta private health centre helped behind the scenes by Airdrie mayor, documents reveal
Internal emails show how the mayor and city staff helped draft and pitch a proposal for a publicly funded, privately delivered urgent care centre in Airdrie, Alta.
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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 11/06/2025
The mayor of Airdrie, Alberta and a group of city staff secretly provided help with developing a proposal for a controversial private health care centre despite the city’s public claim that it did not, the IJF has discovered. Read our exclusive story to find out more. #abpoli
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Controversial Alberta private health centre helped behind the scenes by Airdrie mayor, documents reveal
Internal emails show how the mayor and city staff helped draft and pitch a proposal for a publicly funded, privately delivered urgent care centre in Airdrie, Alta.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s going to blow Brandon’s mind when he finds out how political parties often do things. #cdnpoli
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
There's something surreal about watching this Conservative MP speak in the House about how "words matter" knowing the son he raised (Keean Bexte) called me a filthy whore last week lmao
Image shows David Bexte, Conservative MP for Bow River, Alberta, speaking in the House of Commons today.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Kinda telling that #Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt still doesn't have a cabinet post, despite being one of the longest-serving MLAs in the UCP caucus. She was recently passed over for the post of Speaker, too, despite serving as Deputy Speaker for years. Ouch. #ableg
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
How to know that “Alberta separatism” is really just a bunch of bullshit and Conservative sour grapes? Because these supposed “Alberta first patriots” are totally unbothered by a parachute Conservative leader dropping into an Albertan riding after losing his own in Ontario. 🤷‍♂️ #ableg
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 02/05/2025
“Tory lickspittles at the National Post are coming up with every explanation imaginable to excuse the Conservatives’ election loss, all while the man himself, Pierre Poilievre, refuses to do the honourable thing and step down.” The Sore Loser Party of Canada An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.
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The Sore Loser Party of Canada
Post-election accusations and actions (or lack thereof) on the part of the Conservatives makes them look like the Sore Loser Party of Canada.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 27/04/2025
“For Conservatives, politics isn’t about helping people — it’s about seeing what they can get away with. Crooked candidates like Pierre Poilievre should never even have a chance of being elected. It’s up to decent people to call out their disinformation, and remain united against them.”
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Voting Conservative in Canada's next election puts you on the wrong side of history
Voting Conservative in Canada's next election puts you on the wrong side of history.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/04/2025
“An analysis of 350,000 Twitter posts reveals a coordinated campaign to support Pierre Poilievre and attack Mark Carney’s reputation. This election isn’t about choosing a prime minister, or resisting Trump — it’s about fighting for democracy itself.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.
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Beware: Canada is having its first disinformation election
Beware: Canada is having its first disinformation election.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
By contrast, #Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown seems set on carrying water for Danielle Smith and the UCP when he was quoted by the Airdrie City View... 🤔😬 #ableg
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In the states, having to vote whenever money needed to be raised for infrastructure - like new schools for example - is why things never get built. That's the point of these nonsense ideas. Nothing gets done and the rich get richer.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I'm sure #Airdrie's notoriously Conservative-friendly local media will be on this story any day now..... .... any day now.... #ableg
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Former UCP MLA’s Pete Guthrie & Scott Sinclair both voted for a public inquiry. The rest of the UCP? Cowards hiding behind party lines. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Guthrie breaks with UCP caucus, calls for public inquiry into AHS corruption allegations
A United Conservative MLA is breaking with caucus ranks and calling on the government to launch a judge-led public inquiry into allegations of corruption around procurement at Alberta Health Services ...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“Smith rejected any suggestion the move was a coverup, insisting it was being done to streamline the investigation” This is a new low for smith and it strain credulity to the point of snapping. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli calgaryherald.com/news/smith-d...
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Smith defends directing auditor general's procurement investigation to lawyers
Having government lawyers screening auditor general's questions on medical procurement isn't stonewalling, says Premier Danielle Smith
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 08/04/2025
"Accepting any one of Mr. Trump’s previously stated reasons for the tariffs as fact easily demonstrates that 'diplomacy' is going to fail. Accepting all of them would mean that what Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith are promising is nothing but disappointment." #abpoli #cdnpoli #tariffs
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Ignoring Trump's threats makes conservatives seem unserious
But it's really on brand.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When it comes to housing, as with most things, Pierre Poilievre just wants to cut. Mark Carney, on the other hand, clearly wants to build -- and use the government's heft to do it. #cdnpoli
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Mark Carney's housing plan is a big step forward
After years of watching federal and provincial elected officials either do nothing about the housing crisis or just tinker at the margins, young voters might welcome the more activist and intervention...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
we don't talk enough about the fact that some people in positions of power are dumbfucks
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2025
Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Albertan village like Delia, Caroline and Granum - and Beiseker, where I grew up - seem to all be in the same boat. The UCP is indifferent (at best) toward villages and appears to prefer that they dissolve and join larger rural municipalities. Fewer puppies at the bowl, I guess? 🤔🤷‍♂️ #ableg
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Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity | CBC News
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its futu...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 06/04/2025
“Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Pierre Poilievre — none of these men became household names on merit, they simply cried the loudest. The entire conservative movement is composed of insufferable cry babies aided and abetted by spineless corporate media.”
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Does CTV work for the Poilievre campaign? Or are they just spineless hypocrites?
Rachel Gilmore's fact-checking segment on CTV was cancelled this week because of Conservative hate sparked by the Poilievre team on Twitter.
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Chris McClure 🇨🇦 @chrisjmcclure.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Personally, I'd be happy if the Conservatives split between their Progressive and Populist sides. As an Albertan, I can't stand the constant whiny grievance form of populism that seems to permeate this province. Grow up Albertan conservatives! #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Fissure among Conservatives undermining Poilievre's pitch he's a national unifier: experts | CBC News
Long-simmering tensions within the Conservative movement are bursting out into the federal election, experts say — undercutting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s efforts to present himself as a u...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Omg did someone actually yell “LEAD US BIG DADDY” at Carney at a rally lmfaoooooo (I saw this on r/onguardforthee and haven’t independently verified!!!)
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/04/2025
We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/04/2025
I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 01/04/2025
A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded. Viewers and Rachel deserve better.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Fuck all the way off with this garbage, please and thanks.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 30/03/2025
*Conservatives, dropping a 25-point in two months and losing their lock on a majority government as Donald Trump threatens to decimate the Canadian economy* “What if we talked about eating bugs?
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
US federal prisoner 18330-424 says what? #cdnpoli
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A federal worker voting for Trump has big “Chickens for Colonel Sanders” kinda vibes
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Basic NDP problem right now. For all the talk about how Canadians have options, we don't. Bloc, obviously, can't form govt. NDP took a supply agreement that was getting things done and flushed it down a toilet for "reasons". And that leaves us with the Libs, who are fighting, and CPC, who are not.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and conservative influencer Ben Shapiro discussed how to help Canada elect “solid allies” to the Trump administration during a private gala in south Florida” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/03/27/d...
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Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event
On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, repeated claim that tariffs helped Liberals.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 27/03/2025
"True to form, though, Danielle Smith isn’t willing to take responsibility for her actions." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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No thanks, Danielle; you're on your own
Danielle Smith's actions are under attack so, naturally, she wants to take us all down with her.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is horrifying
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Rhys @rhyscourtman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
That looks like all the answer we need. The "Canada First" slogan rings pretty hollow.
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