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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

SCOOP: The Alberta govt recommended a compay linked to Sam Mraiche for a contract to build a $35-million recovery centre on a First Nation near Calgary, according to the community's former lawyer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

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Alberta government recommended Sam Mraiche-linked company to build recovery centre, lawyer alleges

Former lawyer for Tsuut’ina Nation says province played role in First Nation’s selection of Melewka Homes Ltd.

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Although I wonder if the reverse case could be made under Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act: that the seppies are acting in Canada for the interests of a foreign government without being registered.

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No one has been convicted under the Logan Act, the US equivalent to what Corey proposes.

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alberta Day oress release merry-go-round bsky.app/profile/carr...

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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 · 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

- government expense disclosure change - Low income transit funding - AHS rebranding - public health inspector reorg - Sovereignty act cabinet powers - US trade retaliatory measures - Bill 20 municipal oversight powers - TFW health coverage - APP

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ahem. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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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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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 · 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

3.5 strike panel to validate and solve problem. Panel will be comprised of ppl who denied problem in first place and devoid of professionals who sounded the alarm.

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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

I think thst works too, but also something that hasn't historically been required and nobody had with them.

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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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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Allied aircraft stop in other Allied countries all the time, sometimes just to refuel (i.e. on the way to Alaska), sometimes just for the practice for their pilots, often times on their way to a joint exercise, I.e. at Cold Lake. In Calgary, prob happens a few times a month.

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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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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This sounds like an Iranian ceasefire announcement

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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 · 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 · 07/07/2026

How am I supposed to listen to Blue Jays games. in K-Country now? Thinking about all the staff.

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Sean @seandunn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think we went to vehicles IIRC. Electrical engineer in me however wonders how much a backstop will act like a faraday cage though. I won't be the one to test it.

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