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Sean

@seandunn.bsky.social
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Once described as "not nearly as serious as they first seem." Accurate. Not the sandwich-throwing one.

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Laughs in Albertan.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Home of the brave"
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am not sure how you can square the message of "oil demand is going up and the world needs Alberta oil" with the claim that we are forever beholden to one customer who can walk away from us at anytime. Pick a lane.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
IIRC the last time a Alberta premier played hardball trade tactics it was Notley Banning wine From BC To get a pipeline.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Unite the... uhhh.. centre? Hopefully this political unification initiative goes better than his last.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Alberta relevant
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Albertan Speratists — ostensibly interested in tidewater pipelines for Alberta oil — somehow think independence will increase their access to overseas markets *through the US*. What, precisely, do they think that "trade agreement" will look like, you self-proclaimed sovereignty-interested folk?
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Honestly, can anyone name a single policy rollout — even if you were ambivalent to the policy goals — that didn't turn into a backpeddling shitshow in practice? Book bans? Dynalife privitization? Tylenol? AI centres? ID cards? Class size denialism? Coal mining? Anything?
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Cinematological🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @cinematological.com · 21/08/2026
"the lineups mean people are excited about the new health cards" is fucking insane spin edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Alberta's new all-in-one-licence: Nally 'empathetic' to those having issues, aware of long lineups
Introduction of Alberta's new all-in-one driver's licence, which doubles as the Alberta Health card and also features a citizenship marker.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Turns out trying to legalize homophobia while tip-toeing around outright calling it that is really hard. Especially when you're already not great at thinking about consequences.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A union is supposed to be a safety-net for its members. It does that by wielding a big stick, and making sure foes and its own members know that. Members should feel safe knowing its union has its back. If they don't, the union is failing. Yes, this is a subtweet.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Go home, Google, you're drunk
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Baseball rules are essentially spaghetti code. You'd never look at these rules and design the sport again the same way from scratch. Its the product of incrementalism, lack of foresight and heavy emotional attachment. *spaghetti code has also made people a lot of money
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well there's a way to end a close game.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hot take: they take Vladdy's Gatorade dumping privileges away next time he fails an ABS challenge.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
When I first learned about privative clauses, my instinct was to think "wait, what?! They can do that?" The government legislating limits on the judicial oversight of the government just smelled unconstitutional, even to a lay person like me. Big day for admin law nerds.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Did I hold onto a single 16 ft length of rebar for 13 years just in case I needed it? Yes. Did I finally need it and use it all today? Yes. Please clap.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The panda knows his nukes.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
See also: education 1. Stubbornly deny there is a problem 2. Wage war on the professionals raising the red flag about the problem 3. Belatedly realize via unanticipated public backlash that there might actually be a problem 4. Commit to fix problem 5. Realize you don't know how 6. Hope ppl moved on
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
One of the first things that Kenney did was intentionally foment a "university-educated-versus-trades" culture war that never before meaningfully existed in Alberta.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am glad an exemption was sought and granted to use the Emergency Alert System for Parker, but then to waste so much of the start of the alert message explaining and justifying that decision reeks of the beurocratic CYA. It was the right decision, own it, and don't waste the lede with apologetics.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yeah, good luck trying to get kids enrolled in swimming lessons. What once was a childhood staple now is like trying to enroll your kids in polo lessons. This is going to get much, much worse.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hear me out: "Barbequing" but instead 5 electric appliances on the patio
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
At the registries and watching a long stream of seniors with their walkers who just spent 5 minutes fighting their way up the ramp to renew their drivers licenses only to be turned away and told to come back with their passports.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Quote also applies to Alberta and its publicly funded expansion of private schools.
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So somehow, the money that the Alberta Government each gave to three different first nations to build recovery centres, somehow all three first nations somehow hired the same construction company with ties to Mraiche... And one of them also leased a building from him.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
SCOOP: Tsuut'ina Nation alleges its former lawyer worked with Sam Mraiche and a former chief to sole-source a $35m contract to build a provincially funded recovery centre www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend
theglobeandmail.com
First Nation in Alberta sues its former lawyer, alleges wrongdoing in construction of addiction recovery centre
Tsuut’ina Nation also alleges undisclosed involvement in the project by Sam Mraiche, a businessman at the centre of the province’s health care procurement controversy
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Call me a curmudgeon, but I find the All Star Week to be an unwelcome interruption to the more entertaining baseball of the regular season.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh no, this gonna end in lawyers doing math 🫪
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two thoughts: 1. Admin Law nerds 🤓🤓🤓 2. If EA contends they have a defensible, rigorous process they apply evenly... then that cuts both ways. And they know this. 《Sideeyes separation referendum》
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Really glad I just installed solar. /s
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Soldier Says I'm Doing My Part
ALT: Soldier Says I'm Doing My Part
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Huh? A modern well-equipped military without buying anything?
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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The true democratization of AI isn't access to models or compute tokens or TPUs— It's access to the raw, inimitable human data that trains today's models. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, even Palantir have deep moats around data that was essentially taken for free. That's the economic shortcut 📈
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
When I was in high school, a kid on my team waved a bat in the air and his hair stood up *and the bat hummed like a lightsabre!*
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Who just got a new solar install and is feeling a bit chuffed about it?
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
When Guthrie challenged the UCP in question period over government funds allegedly going to Mraiche-connected individuals through recovery centre grants to the Metis Nation, the UCP gave a much different answer: that we shouldn't be asking Qs about FN financials www.facebook.com/share/v/1PB9...
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
1. This remotely isn't true. The government does not force "everyone they do business with" to make their Financials public. Think every business supplier. 2. This reeks of trying to get ahead of a story.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Corb Lund: “I requested to have editorial control over the framing of my question and she looked me in the eye and said well, we have a particular outcome we want for these questions so we frame them a certain way.” WOW there it is
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This would be a great campaign promise for the Alberta NDP to make. Literally just asking you folks to support public education as much as you support public health care and stop simping for charter and private schools
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Current and former senior AHS officials told me that LaGrange simply refuses to consider evidence, even when told cancer surgeries and children's organ transplant surgeries were being delayed. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
thetyee.ca
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
SCOOP: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
theglobeandmail.com
Veteran Ontario prosecutor brought in on Alberta health procurement probe
Tom Andreopoulos has prosecuted the Hells Angels, mafiosos, and was involved in criminal investigation of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
SCOOP: Alberta Health Services received a court order to hand over documents to law enforcement, according to an exec at the agency: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
theglobeandmail.com
Alberta Health Services ordered to hand over documents to authorities, senior executive confirms
The health agency received a production order, indicating law enforcement is directly probing an arm of Premier Danielle Smith’s government
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Anyone have a running list of appointments, reports and commissions these people have been appointed to since 2019? And did any of those age well?
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Paging @paulisci.bsky.social
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Albertans are paying dearly in blood and treasure so that arrogant pseudo-conservative ideologues can learn over-and-over the hard way that things were the way they were for a reason.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report. Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...
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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I like how Farkas has discovered that the best negotiating tactic with the UCP is "y'know your plan will screw up the premier's husband's hobby project, right?" And it works.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Over the coming months, lots of people will post about Alberta separatism to make money. Some of this can easily be coopted by states to advance their interests, and in some cases, we might well see state-backed campaigns. Buckle up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism | CBC Music
A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.
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