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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19h

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18h

These traitorous goofs offered up our FRESH WATER????? Full exposé on these idiot Alberta separatists here: archive.is/rhGUj

Excerpt from the Globe article reads: “A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.
The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province's resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.
Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta's pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.”

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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 22h

Just reflecting on the reality that the most consistent and invasive messaging Albertans are getting from our provincial government is about separating from Canada and joining gambling apps.

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 20h

Pete Hoekstra must be expelled immediately.

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Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 22h

2026 REFERENDUM - Election Officer Recruitment🌟 Albertans 16+ are eligible to apply! Apply today ow.ly/HTTw50ZShA8.

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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"..when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence." Treason

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In other words: fascism is appealing to many during times of heightened political tension because it is (in some respects) a kind of anti-politics. It promises an easy end to social conflict; and managing social conflict without ending it is kind of what politics is.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When bloor lanes were put in one woman said she had to look over her shoulder to see if a bike was coming. If you can't look over your shoulder (or equivalent safety check) you, sorry, shouldn't be driving.

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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The ideal German is as blond as Hitler and as fit as Goering" nothing new under the sun

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 01/10/2026

What would Margaret Thatcher think of Danielle Smith? I think we have our answer. 👇

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criticalmass.yyc @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵 For 3 years Critical Mass has held monthly rides with 3 goals in mind: 1. Celebrate cycling + other active transport 2. Protest the lack of physical + social infra that allows for safe travel 3. Create a safe environment to cycle by empowering participants to look out for one another.

A group of cyclists ride down a Calgary street into the sunset

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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't do Transit Oriented Development if the transit is everywhere!

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ditto nodes and corridors planning. People don't access everything around their homes in long straight lines. Apartment buildings on arterial roads are often sold as being transit oriented if near bus/rail, but it also means you're reducing opportunities for people to do things close by on foot.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Housing is our top priority! After vegetable gardens. It's vegetable gardens and then housing. Unless there's a neighbouring backyard pool. Our three priorities are veg, pools, housing. And oversalted sidewalks. Okay. *Amongst* our priorities are... I'll come in again.

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Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Sketch

ALT: Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Sketch

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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 01/10/2026

Is Your Child Cringe? Our most recent Crapshot might shine some light on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqa...

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Is Your Child Cringe? || Crapshots 837

YouTube video by LoadingReadyRun

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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evil guinevere @lizard-homunculus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

if i had a nickel for every gay werewolf book i read that kinda endorsed woke ecofascism as a counter to patriarchy i'd have a concerning amount of nickels

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are Still Here Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2021

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeannie Ehaloak shared some of her experience as a survivor of residential school, including being so young that by the time she returned home for the summer after her first year at the school, she had forgotten who her parents were.

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It has been over 11 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 93 calls to action. Since then, 14 of them have been completed. That is just 15%. In over a decade. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2026/09/01/t...

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TRC Calls To Action Status: September 1, 2026 - Indigenous Watchdog

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Albertans deserve a different vision of the province and country's energy future than the one-sided one their government is trying to feed them. Instead, we get this:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, there have been real, substantial improvements! Acid rain and ozone depletion are distant memories. Renewable energy is now *cheaper* than fossil fuels. Global poverty numbers have collapsed. It really is a much better world.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The two places where adult men experience the highest rates of sexual assault are in the military and while incarcerated. That fact alone proves that sexual assault is about power, domination and humiliation. It's about making someone "your bitch" - proving the inherent misogyny involved.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All those Toronto drivers who shouted about bike lanes' [non-existent] effect on emergency vehicles will no doubt throw their support behind congestion pricing. Right?

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026

This might be the Pitchbot's best pitch ever.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026

I'm mostly impressed by how flat after-tax income inequality is over the decades in Canada (and market income inequality since 2000) despite an insistence on importing US rhetoric about "rising inequality" by some Canadian commentators. (We do have a big wealth concentration problem tho!)

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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surely this time, the tough on crime approach will work

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Alberta govt announces plan to launch an RFP for a private proponent to build a Calgary-Red Deer- Edmonton high speed rail project- with a winner selected by next spring. The rail project will also be referred to the federal Major Projects Office.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The tragedy occurred in a political environment that openly and enthusiastically prioritized economic growth over the health and safety of a largely invisible and vulnerable group of workers” Now imagine how much worse this would have been if workers had been denied health care.

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Alberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report says

More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community

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City of Calgary @calgary.ca · 28/09/2026

We have some pretty big news. Starting October 1, you can recycle chip bags in your blue cart. And that’s not all. Foam packaging, tubes and aerosol containers are joining the list too. Learn more about these changes at calgary.ca/recyclemore Same cart. More stuff.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every person on this website who says they've never heard an Ed Sheeran song or heard of the song Choosin' Texas is gonna have sooooo many opinions about what the mainstream US voter actually wants to hear from the Democrats this fall.

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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A few years back (2018ish) a lynx moved into the backyard of one of my neighbours and missing cat posters went up by the dozens. Squirrels disappeared too but our cats were totally safe. Pictured below, suffering

A grey tabby and a calico cat sleeping on a green pillow

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average lifespan of outdoor cats is 3 to 5 years. indoor cats regularly live to 10, if not 20 years. imagine personally shaving off 3/4 of your cat's life because you're too stubborn and lazy to take proper care of an animal you're responsible for

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because why would engineering students ever need to study the ways their very expertise has been used and abused in the past, the way 'oh, I'm just an engineer solving a problem' has been a necessary and foundational lie in every modern system of oppression or extermination?

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's kind of surprising to me that people think that progressive politicians just sort of by default have good public transit policy.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally, a Premier with the courage to ask: do people really need housing *in* the cities where their jobs are? Why not simply commute for three hours a day so that Christine can continue to imagine she lives in a small village?

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Grow Together Edmonton @growtogetheryeg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Edmonton's small-scale infill has led to thousands of homes built for in the places people want to live, millions of dollars invested in this province, and a stable demand for construction jobs. We don't need the province making it harder to build homes. Freedom to build: that's the Alberta way.

Christine called ☎️ in about the infills going up in her community. She is not the only one.

Edmontonians have been telling me the same thing for weeks.

I am listening. Would appreciate seeing your comments below from folks who live in Edmonton. What do you think about infill and blanket rezoning?

"Stacked area chart showing H1 building permits issued in Edmonton from 2009 to 2026, broken down by four neighborhood types (Downtown, Mature, Between Mature and Henday, and Outside Henday) and seven project types (Single detached, Addition/Conversion, Backyard House, Duplex to Fourplex, Fiveplex to Eightplex, 9+ Row House, and 9+ Apartment). Downtown shows minimal permits throughout the period. Mature neighborhoods peak at over 3,000 permits in 2024, dominated by single-detached homes. Between Mature and Henday and Outside Henday neighborhoods show more volatile trends, with Outside Henday reaching nearly 4,000 permits in 2023. Single-detached homes (dark purple) comprise the largest share across most neighborhoods and years, while apartment and row house projects (orange tones) remain a smaller but consistent portion.

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