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ShadowPages 🇨🇦

@shadowpages.bsky.social
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I write a little about a lot. - Politics (Canadian mostly), 2SLGBTQ+, and Weird Geekiness ... because.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Oh look - gun lobbyists saying that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" ... only it didn't happen that way. They need to explain exactly how they think more guns is ever the solution - because it's not, and we only have to look at one country to prove it. #cdnpoli
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights @ccfr-ccdaf.bsky.social • 1h •• WILD: A West Kelowna man says he disarmed a couple after they flashed a handgun at him at a pool on Saturday. "My survival instincts kicked in. There were 2 threats. I neutralized the threats until the cops
showed up." In Liberal Canada, everyone has a gun
...except law-abiding citizens. #cdnpoli
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We have a plushie in the house that looks exactly like that - couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be!
Plush critter that looks a lot like a Leaf Sheep
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The SCC is not an investigative body. They would be asked to examine the constitutional validity of the legislation.
We, the undersigned, People of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to invoke its authority under Section 53 of the Supreme Court Act to refer the constitutionality of Alberta’s Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 to the Supreme Court of Canada, and to direct the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner to immediately investigate the meetings between the Alberta Prosperity Project and the Trump administration.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
FB account demanding "school choice" posts a blatantly 2SLGBTQ-phobic/anti-science meme, and tries to imply that these are bad things. This is Danielle Smith's Alberta. Fight Back. #abpoli
AI generated classroom filled with 2SLGBTQ and environmental slogans, and a bunch of people covering their eyes, with one person saying "this is a pattern and not an accident".   

Graphic is from a Facebook "choice in education" group
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
From the following reference: criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Re... The problem for someone making a complaint is that it's very difficult for them to present the evidence in a way that rises above the "conjecture, hypothesis" standard.
The standard of reasonable grounds to believe is greater than reasonable suspicion but less than on a balance of probabilities when the totality of the circumstances are considered.[3] It is also greater than "[m]ere suspicion, conjecture, hypothesis or ‘fishing expeditions’."[4]
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The problem is that Jen Gerson's complaint would primarily appear to be "hearsay", and the "Probable Grounds" standard doesn't extend to hearsay evidence ... this was deliberate.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
So, Dani is taking a victory lap based on the IOC adopting a policy that returns to the days of invasive and unreliable “dna sex testing“ that were abandoned in the 90s … doesn’t that say it all? #abpoli
Danielle’s smith bragging about the IOC banning trans athletes just like her government did.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Conservatives: DEI is racist and we’re not racist!! Also Conservatives:
Post from r/CanadianConservative with headline reading “The decline in white population in major cities is a major concern.

Accompanied by a spreadsheet screenshot that alleges major declines in white population in various Canadian cities
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Not that I am surprised - for all that #Alberta #Separatists love to talk a big game about forming an independent country, they're the first to demand other bend knee to Trump. If Rath thinks Trump is so great, I invite him to move south. #abpoli #cdnpoli #Never51
Note to Mark Carney, 

Keep poking POTUS in the eye. 

All it would take is a phone call from Scott Bessent to Moody's Fitch and Standard & Poor and Canada gets downgraded to a C+ credit rating overnight.  

Mark Carney, you are literally a mouse biting an elephants toe nail. 

Grow up or see what will be left of Canada completely destroyed

As it is, thanks to you, Alberta is leaving.  As Alberta independence climbs in the polls, Canada's credit rating will slide.  Good luck with that.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Musk be like:
Wile E Coyote's paw holding a business card that reads "Wile E Coyote - Genius", "Have Brain, Will Travel"
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Highlighted from the article. What kind of blame-shifting nonsense is this? The costs of both solar and wind have dropped precipitously in the last decade, and are now well below hydrocarbon derived energy. (except maybe in Alberta where the govt has slammed ridiculous restrictions on renewables)
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So ... Derek Reimer decided that he just simply _CANNOT_ fulfil one of the conditions of his conditional sentence (namely writing an apology to the library manager he threatened) - so he's been arrested (again) /1
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is now true in #alberta. Forcing trans youth through the wrong puberty is abuse - full stop. #abpoli
Trans elders:  I wish I'd been able to transition as a teen

Trans adults:  I wish I'd been able to transition as a teen

Trans teens: I wish I could transition right now

Trans kids:  I hope I can transition when I'm a teen

Cis people:  We know what's best for you, sorry, so no.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The UCP are once again attacking rights - rights guaranteed under the Charter. Remember, this is Smith telling us who _SHE_ deems worthy of rights and protection under the law. She's willing to throw anybody who challenges her power under the bus. When does she come for you? #abpoli #ableg
Janis Irwin

On Monday, we expect the UCP government to introduce another bill that will invoke the use of the notwithstanding clause. 

Last time it was teachers who were the target.  This time?  The trans community.

Some will say the UCP are doing it to distract so that we don't talk about chaos in healthcare or their corruption scandal. 

Whatever their motives, they are once again willing to violate charter rights. 

This cannot be normalized. 

We must be loud, Alberta.

For trans rights. For human rights.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Oh - look at that ... so just over a week before the legislature resumes sitting -> so the government can claim "oh we negotiated, and the teachers were soooo unreasonable" ... as they ram through back-to-work legislation.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
That couch makes me think art deco -> so maybe some framed Vogue covers from the 20s/30s? Totally random idea ... just came to mind looking at the wall and space ...
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
For anyone interested - Craig Chandler is setting up his slate of candidates for #yyccc this year. Just found it in my mailbox ... oddly didn't knock on my door ... I wonder if the pride flag had something to do with that ... @abcyyc.bsky.social
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The overviews on the subject that I have read have always left me looking and going "there's something missing here". I don't reject the principle of it, but I've never been persuaded that it is complete or necessarily correct.
Excerpt from:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

The definition of Mitochondrial Eve is fixed, but the woman in prehistory who fits this definition can change. That is, not only can our knowledge of when and where Mitochondrial Eve lived change due to new discoveries, but the actual Mitochondrial Eve can change. The Mitochondrial Eve can change, when a mother-daughter line comes to an end. It follows from the definition of Mitochondrial Eve that she had at least two daughters who both have unbroken female lineages that have survived to the present day. In every generation mitochondrial lineages end – when a woman with unique mtDNA dies with no daughters. When the mitochondrial lineages of daughters of Mitochondrial Eve die out, then the title of "Mitochondrial Eve" shifts forward from the remaining daughter through her matrilineal descendants, until the first descendant is reached who had two or more daughters who together have all living humans as their matrilineal descendants. Once a lineage has died out it is irretrievably lost and this mechanism can thus only shift the title of "Mitochondrial Eve" forward in time.[49]

Because mtDNA mapping of humans is very incomplete, the discovery of living mtDNA lines which predate our current concept of "Mitochondrial Eve" could result in the title moving to an earlier woman. This happened to her male counterpart, "Y-chromosomal Adam", when an older Y line, haplogroup A-00, was discovered.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Americana themes, but it applies just as much in #Alberta where queer rights and representation are currently under direct attack by the #UCP government. #abpoli
Human Rights Campaign Pride Month:  Eagle over the slogan “These Colors Don’t Run”, Eagle wings are Pride Rainbow; shoulder feathers and tail are Trans Pride; Eagle has long lashes, pink claws, and a harness.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So ... now we know what happened on Monday in court - NOTHING. Because - apparently Reimer's lawyer is trying to make this a Charter Rights matter. Oh - and a little reminder: Reimer is serving a sentence for BREAKING THE LAW by engaging in intimidation. #abpoli
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Then there's these peculiar dates in here. They want feedback by June 6, 2025 and the feedback _MAY_ influence standards to be released "late spring 2025". Anybody else picking up that this questionnaire is pro-forma and will ignore any feedback that doesn't agree with already made decisions?
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Here's the thing that pisses me off with the "I hate Biden" types. They are perfectly willing to celebrate news of an illness that is in no way an individual's fault _BECAUSE_ they don't like some aspect of policy. Then they expect the rest of us to understand their position. It's not coherent.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
One has to wonder what McIver is up to ... #abpoli
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Then he tips his hand. It's really about rights issues that Mr. Morton doesn't like. Diversity, Aboriginal rights, etc. - after all, those are just noisy little minorities to be squashed under the jackboot, right? /3
In policies dealing with DEI, Aboriginal or climate change issues, provincial governments that do not accede to the new woke priorities can now expect to be hauled into court by federally-funded interest groups ...
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If you want an idea of exactly why the CPC campaign is floundering so badly, read the questions from this “survey” on their campaign website. Reductive, trivial, and false dichotomies throughout. #cdnpoli #elxn25
Questions from the party election survey, with utterly ridiculous dichotomies like “No - I want dangerous criminals terrorizing my streets”

Questions from the party election survey, with utterly ridiculous dichotomies like “Yes - Warrior culture, not woke culture” and “No - Woke culture is more important”
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It’s nice to Canada’s print media (except Postmedia, of course) starting to call Trump for what he is. #cdnpoli archive.ph/IrCke
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I saw both a Rivian and a Tesla Cybertruck today. One looks like a fairly respectable truck, the other looks like a low polygon count image pulled from a bad movie. I'm not going to sink north of $100K for a truck of any sort - but seriously, at least the Rivian has some degree of style.
Image of a Rivian EV pickup truckPhoto of Tesla Cybertruck
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
No.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Concrete isn’t a requirement for something to be brutalist per se. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutali...
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Something like that.
Social security runs on COBOL which does not use a date or time type, so the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard.  The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875)
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Every time someone tries to reduce sex and/or gender to chromosomes, slap them with this.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is why I stopped reading The Economist - nonsense like this: "Only work can make you feel fulfilled" JFC No - this is toxic AF
The Economist

Headline:  "Why you should never retire"
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is the modern day version of Nazis burning books. They're destroying data for ideological reasons. Sit with that for a moment - the _DATA_ offends them, so they will erase it.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I don’t know what rock Wu has been hiding under, but what’s going on now is not “new in the last decade” in the least. The antis have spreading this nonsense for years - it’s the alt-right taking over the GOP that’s made it real. Appeasement never works with fascists. (Chamberlain, maybe/s)
Brianna Wu:  We had a paradise. There was literally no civilization in history where it was better to be trans. Access to healthcare was better than we
ever could have imagined. And in 10 years, the progressive fringe took it so far now the republicans are dismantling it all and
normal people are cheering them.

The Riffler:  Full well knowing that I am a cishet man I still need to say that if you blame anybody other than republicans for what's going on,
you are fucking stupid and you are fucking evil
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The problem with Trumpers is they can't hold two thoughts in their head at the same time everything is an all-or-nothing dichotomy to them. It is actually possible to be pissed off about the behaviour of the Dems on various files AND recognize the overt hate/fear mongering that Trump brings.
there's nothing more repulsive than liberals trashing Trump & his supporters for racism while supporter Starmer & Biden administrations actively financing a 14-month genocide -- the worst expression of racismThemperorKennedy:  The fact that Jesse Singal can terrorize entire groups of people and get away with white while Bill Kezos gets banned instantly for hurting Jesse's little feelings speaks poorly of the state of not just this website, but many of our societal frameworks

Sandracarioca Replies:  "terrorize" imagine the little bubble of precious self-absorbed hysteria you must live in to define Singal's posts & writings as "terrorizing" anyone.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Relatable - also self-defeating - Management would look at that model and conclude that the risk of a rewrite vastly exceeds any value that might be gained from it.
Developer asks to take the kitchen microwave for a "3d model" of the company code base to justify re-writing it. 

Last frame:  code base bumps into a satellite.
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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
It’s kind of a big deal when the animal has bitten someone because treatment for rabies has to start ASAP if they have been exposed. The serum blood test is not definitive. inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-he...
How rabies is diagnosed

Rabies in animals can only be definitively diagnosed by examining specific areas of the brain following death. …
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