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Hey, neighbour! Albertans are called to vote in a provincial referendum that may shape the future of this province and of our nation. You can cast your ballot early at your assigned advance voting location until Saturday, October 17, from 9am to 8pm, ahead of Election Day on Monday, October 19.

Graphic from Ward 4 Councillor DJ Kelly. Advance Voting Locations for Ward 4 Neighbours. Advance voting for the provincial referendum is open until Saturday, October 17, 9am to 8pm. Beddington Heights and Huntington Hills: Harvest Hills Alliance Church, 10099 Harvest Hills Blvd NW. Brentwood and Charleswood: Bow Valley Christian Church, 5300 53 Ave NW, and Parkdale Nifty 50's, 3512 5 Ave NW. Cambrian Heights, Collingwood, Greenview, Greenview Industrial Park, Highland Park, Highwood, North Haven, North Haven Upper, Queens Park Village, Rosemont, Thorncliffe and Winston Heights-Mountview: Winston Heights Mountview Community Centre, 520 27 Ave NE, and the Calgary-Klein Returning Office, 2315 30 Ave NE, Unit 1, at the back of the building. Dalhousie and Edgemont: Foothills Alliance Church, Rundle Hall, 333 Edgepark Blvd NW, and Ranchlands Community Association, 7713 Ranchview Drive NW, open Wednesday to Friday only. Find your voting places with Elections Alberta at map.elections.ab.ca.

Map from Ward 4 Councillor DJ Kelly. Advance Voting Locations for Ward 4 Neighbours. Your community's colour shows where you can cast your advance ballot. Ward 4 is shaded by provincial electoral division, and each division continues past the ward in a lighter shade, with its voting locations marked in the same colour. Blue, Calgary-Beddington, covers the north of the ward, with Harvest Hills Alliance Church just north of it. Pink, Calgary-Edgemont, covers the northwest, with Foothills Alliance Church and Ranchlands Community Association, open Wednesday to Friday only. Green, Calgary-Klein, covers the southeast, with Winston Heights Community Centre and the Calgary-Klein Returning Office, east of Deerfoot Trail. Yellow, Calgary-Varsity, covers the southwest, with Bow Valley Christian Church just west of the ward and Parkdale Nifty 50's to the south. Find your voting places with Elections Alberta at map.elections.ab.ca.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 21h

It was either that or a single ballot in a general election where Smith ran on these policies. But that would require the UCP to run a campaign that was related to the ideas and policies they would use to govern. You can probably see the conundrum they had to mismanage.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't believe turnout should have been in doubt. Canada is important to Canadians. An easy, obvious win or not, our country is clearly being threatened by separatists & the UCP engineered a foolish crisis to serve Smith's radical base. Push has come to shove and people know we need to show up.

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Where do 850million plastic pellets go when they are released into an estuary? We’ve been modelling the Port of Tyne nurdle spill to inform the multi agency response - press release below. @catchmentsci.bsky.social @louisecallard.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @aockelford.bsky.social

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's perfect. I hate it. But it is great. Thank-you

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Alberta Referendum Advent Calendar is fun for the whole family. @ericdyck.bsky.social #abpoli #ableg #canpoli

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hi @athabascau.bsky.social, I have two basic questions, "What is wrong with you?" & "Why do any of your HR people still have jobs?" Maybe stop wasting money sending me ads & get your shit together. You don't need to suck this much, take the extremely easy obvious win. youtu.be/u3AOw83YUVE?...

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Episode 8.45 - The Most Bizarre Interview We've Ever Done!

YouTube video by The Breakdown AB

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When Wilfred Grenfell came to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1892, he had one goal. Improve the lives of the people living there. To this day, he is celebrated there for his selfless dedication. This is his story. 📸 Walter Stoneman 🧵 1/10

Wilfrid Grenfell wearing a formal suit with a tie, a white shirt, and a flower pinned to his lapel. He has a pocket watch chain visible across his vest and is seated with a slight smile, against a plain dark background.

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David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s 11 days until the referendum - do you know where your special ballot is? 😉 If it’s not in the mail yet, Canada Post suggests getting it in by 5 PM tomorrow. And if you haven’t received it yet, you can vote in the advanced polls next week. Watch to learn more. Don’t miss your chance! #abpoli

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's a great story out today in @thenarwhal.ca on this secretive, pro-oil network that gathers at the Calgary Petroleum Club to report back to their funders. The Energy in Action Network has lots of money, but terrible infosec: thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...

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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists

New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alberta would have been better off if he had been limited to being a character in the Duke's of Hazard.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Eggnog, you have a place in the world, that place is not October.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I filled in my mail in #Alberta referendumb ballots today. I was surprised just how angry it made me to see that question about separating from the rest of my country on an actual real ballot. Fuck you Danielle Smith. Fuck off forever the whole rest of the #UCP and all the seppos and their lies.

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Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 06/10/2026

2026 REFERENDUM - Register to vote Tomorrow is the last day you can register to vote online: ow.ly/LOG750ZUAIP If you miss this deadline, you will still be able to register at your voting place on advance voting or Election Day. Find out where at ow.ly/svBW50ZUAIO.

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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today’s Canadian painting is “October Sky” by A J Casson in 1928.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First past the post is not a good democratic system.

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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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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UCP's primary objective of governing is not to solve actual problems but to create issues, real or imagined, that keep Albertans worried & in the dark. They do this to reinforce excuses to blame others b/c: -it's easier -better clickbait than solving real problems &, -avoids #UCP accountability

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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congratulations to #quartz. I have learned much from the secrets locked within your lattice. And I will probably suffer from lifelong nightmares that involve dissolving you with HF.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'll accept the proposal as long as we also pause all construction on road lanes and parking for cars. You know, just until we figure out a safe solution to this "controversy". Get some skin in the game for the likes of McLean to face a cost of recycling nonsense & division.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 02/10/2026

The University of Calgary launched its new Electricity Centre this morning. It will be a place where researchers, policymakers & the public can intersect on the increasingly important issues surrounding our power grid, generation, distribution & emissions. Expect to hear more soon!

University of Calgary Electricity Centre directors Blake Shaffer and Sara Hastings-Simon speak at the centre's launch event.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Except me of course, I'm too logical to fall for that nonsense. Oh shoot, that's what they say too 😐

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Even if this connection didn't exist (Wilson happily agrees it does), this story shows there is a dark industry that exists to push propaganda & profit from division. There are many such grifters manipulating parts of our society for their own profit but this one is big & our very own #Alberta.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's a good q. I suspect these kinds of communities build trust by using the same coded language to feel part of something bigger than themselves and the comfort of confirmation bias and validation makes it easy to trust others in the club even if they are wearing a hood to hide their identity

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Nathaniel Schmidt Ward 8 City Councillor @natefor8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's now a tradition for me to post my trip home after late night budget hearings. Tonight, the bus, which makes my family's life easier and more affordable. We're not alone. Our budget only succeeds by understanding every family, every person, and every challenge is different. More to come.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really more of a scheme than a plot but otherwise this is what Danielle Smith and the UCP want, a perpetual excuse to "fight" & gripe about Ottawa instead of governing the province to fix real problems. Basically, an excuse to distract from the facts of all the UCP money wasting scandals & failure.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

A soil matrix triangle showing percentages of sand, clay and silt, but with regions identified using punny song names like Clay Jude and Only the Loamy

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Man about cowtown @manaboutcowtown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It makes me angry that an Alberta government that ran a years long “Alberta is calling” campaign straight up lies in commercials and blames the Federal government for “unsustainable” immigration. We’re f’ing paying for this bullshit.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like following @reliableab.bsky.social because it reminds me that Alberta success is, and has always been, more than just hydrocarbons. If left to the types of revisionist narratives and stereotypes of Danielle Smith and the UCP, Alberta would be in a worse place today and tomorrow.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It must really be good!

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Eos @eos.org · 26/09/2026

See here! We're voting for #quartz in today's #MinCup26 quartz-erfinals. Gaze at this quartz (and bronze, marble, frit and obsidian) @metmuseum.org find from ancient Greece ... www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Eyes ready to be inset into an over-life-size sculpture in ancient Greece

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Splendid Drink for warm weather at the lowest market rates

CRONK! CRONK!

Splendid Drink for warm weather

EB HOPKINSON

WILL SUPPLY DEALERS AND OTHERS with the very
BEST CRONK BEER

AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES

Old friends and others who want good Summer drink should give him a call

--Daily Miner-Transcript, 17 Jun 1870

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is it called a "trust" I wonder? But even more so, I wonder why anyone would trust Rath about anything?

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't know. Maybe there just hasn't been any news happening in the USA since 2025. Why everyone gotta blame AI when there's maybe just nothing newsworthy in the present utopia?

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was inexpertly repairing a button on a shirt and suddenly started thinking about how some judgy archaeologist from the future would be analyzing my work... "in this fascinating artifact of mass-produced clothing, notice how inexpertly this one button was sewn, compared to the other ones..."

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OMG. This is too funny, but 100% accurate. youtube.com/shorts/Pvo10...

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Danielle Smith Pretends To Cry #alberta #canada #currentaffairs

YouTube video by Henry Sir

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The University of Alberta’s free online critical thinking and science literacy course to help people differentiate science from pseudoscience: www.ualberta.ca/en/admission...

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We're going to hear from the delusional seppies forever now no matter what happens. The UCP gave them the oxygen to think they are a serious movement instead of stomping the nonsense out.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I honestly can't tell if these ideas are from the brains of the AI boosters themselves or if they needed to ask their favourite pet AI agent "why don't people support turning society's entire purpose into building & underwriting AI infrastructure & insatiable power demand?" Stupid & out of touch

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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Team Canada approach worked for CETA. For any serious effort to go further, institutional reform of federalism needs to be put on the table - intergovernmental relations, in particular.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Huh. I can see now that I have not been using my geography degree to its full potential.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A key stop on the way to the American pilgrimage of driving the Alaska highway.

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