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Shaylasays

@shaylasays.bsky.social
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🍁plant-based health and fitness for the vintage crowd. Cancer Exercise Specialist. I ❤️ science, animals and tofu. Eat like your life depends on it. 😷🥦☕️🏋️‍♀️🇨🇦

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16h
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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Coffee Makes Everything Better @aegg527.bsky.social · 8h
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 16h
"Health insurance changes that threaten higher costs for medications; • A private surgery system that will bleed doctors from the public system; • Explosive and controversial expansion of private surgery clinics;" Why do we pay taxes? Where is that money going if we now have to pay again?
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US has interfered in the German election. They are interfering with elections in Latin America. Trump says Canada is going to be taught a "little lesson." When is the Canadian state going to take treason seriously?
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All of this is unfortunately true.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In many ways Mark Carney is proving to be an excellent Prime Minister for Canada at a critical time in our nation’s history. But he also might be the smartest man in the world to act really stupidly about #ClimateChange at a critical time in world history.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has joined a growing chorus of First Nations voices in denouncing the 'Pacific Link' pipeline-Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is promising a legal fight and possible 'boots on the ground.'
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Alberta Referendum Countdown @count2abreferendum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‼️Only 1️⃣9️⃣ days left in the Alberta Referendum‼️ Inform friends, family, neighbours, co-workers, everyone about the referendum, what the questions really mean & to VOTE‼️ ✊WE have power to send a message! 🗳️VOTE to remain in 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 & 🙅NO🙅to the other nine. #ABpoli #ABleg #NoToTheNine
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lissa @unraveledlissa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National interest = corporate interests Carney’s policy in a nutshell.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Albertans Separation Would Mean: - 44,000-69,000 job loses in Calgary specifically - Would shrink Alberta's economy by up to $62 billion - $10-15 billion in foregone investment - $9 billion shortfall in deficit spending www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
ctvnews.ca
Alberta separation could mean tens of thousands fewer Calgary jobs: chamber report
Calgary could lose between 44,000 and 69,000 jobs if Alberta separates and trade costs rise, according to a new report commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Calgary anesthesiologist hits the nail on the head re: Bill 11!🎯 "All physicians take an oath to 'do no harm.' Yet under dual practice, those with money will be treated before those who are very sick and need it most." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Who pays for Alberta’s dual-practice health care?
Who pays for the system required to make dual practice possible, and who bears the risks when it fails?
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The threat against Mr. Lewis goes far beyond the bounds of any justifiable rhetoric. It is hate speech, and it is dangerously threatening. As citizens in a democratic and secular society, we are all duty-bound to call out extremism and threats." charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Eerookah @eerookah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly awful policy, period. You can't offset ecological damage like it was a credit card.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An AI agent tried to hack Canadian government website, researchers say globalnews.ca/news/1208382...
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An AI agent tried to hack Canadian government website, researchers say - National | Globalnews.ca
Transluce said it informed the Canadian government on Monday, Sept. 28, following which the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity issued a statement on Tuesday.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026
”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...
insidehalton.com
Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study
Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge and reflect on the deep intergenerational harm residential schools have caused to Indigenous families and communities. Art by Elaine Landry #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
A handprint on an orange background. The handprint is broken into segments, inside of which are different symbols representing elements of Indigenous culture, including animal paw prints, landscapes with trees, and other images drawn from nature. There is a large black eagle feather on the left side of the handprint, and bird silhouettes appear in the upper left hand corner of the image. The words EVERY CHILD MATTERS appear at the bottom of the piece.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World's Most-Endangered Monkey www.goodnewsnetwork.org/vietnam-swif...?
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Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World's Most-Endangered Monkey
Around 7,500 acres of karst limestone escarpments and pristine forests are set to make up the Kim Bang Delacour's Langur Conservation Area.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To the naysayers who are telling me how hard this will be - of course it will be hard to undo the wanton destruction of Albertan society But we're Canadians in Alberta, we'll roll up our sleeves and get 'er done
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everything is fine, nothing to worry about 😳
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am incensed by this taxpayer-funded UCP propaganda from beginning to end - from its dishonest title (how does imposing fees on immigrants make AB stronger?) to its slanted commentary (eg federal firearms laws are now "federal meddling" at 10 that needs to be trumped). 1/ #abpoli #ableg
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US sending pesticide-laden berries to Canada?? "the excess chemical levels were due to over-spraying and the removal of food safety compliance parameters for berries sent to Canada" Half of the company's exports to Canada had pesticide levels exceeding CFIA standards. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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What to know about chemical levels on Driscoll's berries | CBC News
You may be having second thoughts about eating the berries in your fridge after CBC News spoke with a whistleblower who made a startling claim about the amount of chemicals on fruit that a U.S. compan...
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“faster care for one patient isn’t a system-wide reduction in waiting if someone else simply waits longer. Choice is not the same as capacity. And activity is not the same as progress.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com
Opinion: Will Alberta's dual-practice model cut surgery wait times — or only for the rich?
When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it?
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This.
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Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
calgaryherald.com/news/calgary... Alberta separation could shrink economy by up to $62B, raise trade costs: Chamber report #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #UCPCorruption #Canada #RecallAllUCP #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPFacists #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #separation
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Alberta separation could shrink economy by up to $62B, raise trade costs: Chamber report
A separate Alberta would see negative changes in trade exposure, labour and public finances, according to economist Trevor Tombe.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 Got this Alberta UPC propaganda in the mail yesterday. It is mostly anti-immigrant hate-mongering noise. Deeply misleading. Our tax dollars paid for this rage farming? Sum: WTF⁉️ ⚠️ VOTE NO TO THE NINE ⚠️
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Satirist and former South Park writer Toby Morton has launched the website TheCornell7.org to target seven students accused in a civil lawsuit of drugging and gang-raping a female student at Cornell University.
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Home | The Cornell 7
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💯Take it from Canada's drs: Bill 11 is BAD NEWS! "Access to care will depend less on need & increasingly on a person’s ability to pay, moving Alberta closer to an American-style health-care system." 📢Tell the federal government to enforce the Canada Health Act! friendsofmedicare.org/EnforceTheCHA
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 29/09/2026
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce & execs of major Alberta companies put out this open letter today in support of remaining in Canada: "Alberta’s success has not been built in isolation. It depends on our connections to the rest of Canada and the world..."
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Open letter: Alberta’s future is stronger in Canada - The Calgary Chamber
Open letter to Albertans on the October 19, 2026, referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Calgary could lose between 44,000 and 69,000 jobs if Alberta separates and trade costs rise, according to a new report commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
ctvnews.ca
Alberta separation could mean tens of thousands fewer Calgary jobs: chamber report
Calgary could lose between 44,000 and 69,000 jobs if Alberta separates and trade costs rise, according to a new report commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More bad news.
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No bad idea left untouched.
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burning our planet 🌎
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Nathan Ip @nathanip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Danielle Smith and the UCP didn’t bother consulting Albertans before rolling out the red carpet for foreign billionaires to build massive AI data centres. Now, Albertans are raising serious concerns. And the UCP still doesn’t have a plan to address them. 🤯 /1
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Nathan Ip @nathanip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Alberta NDP is calling for a pause on new approvals until strong rules are in place to protect our water, land, power grid and communities. Check out our plan: AlbertaNDPcaucus.ca/aidatacentres #abpoli #abtech /2
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AI Data Centres Blueprint
A plan that includes protections and economic prosperity for all Albertans
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X Solitude ∞ 🍁🇨🇦 EH! @solitudex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎯🤬🤬🤬🤬MF This!!!👇👇👇
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hope some brave journalist asks the Prime Minister a real question about this on Reconciliation day.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Nature paper succinctly explains the risks of getting COVID-19 and it’s not just long covid - it’s the vascular damage that COVID-19 does to us all in various degrees. Please get vaccinated. #VaccinesWork www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't understand it, but I see it too often!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Residential school denialism is "part of a willful strategy to create chaos and confusion about the truth so as to block the path to healing, justice, and reconciliation." Read an excerpt from TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION, out now from @umanitobapress.bsky.social.
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Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation
To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—and following a gathering of white nationalists near Kamloops, where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school ...
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doreengarfield WAR ZONE SURVIVOR @doreengarfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great cheat sheets on voting NO to the NINE (duplicate images to fit alt tags) #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #NoToTheNine
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New peer-reviewed research published in Atmospheric Pollution Research shows that Fort Mckay faces disproportionately high levels of dust pollution, with levels frequently exceeding regulatory guidelines for air quality. ow.ly/ZHwE50ZSjTB
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Severe dust pollution blowing into Alberta community downwind of the oilsands, study warns - The Weather Network
A new study warns that continuing to rely on standard air monitoring measures will leave the true impact of dustfall pollution on Fort McKay — and other communities downwind of intensive resource development — uncertain.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“by putting these questions to Albertans, the UCP is just looking for another scapegoat. The Premier will absolutely shrug off accountability and say “Albertans wanted us to target temporary workers and businesses who hire them.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.womenofabpoli.ca/p/albertas-r...
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Alberta’s referendum is an affront to our values; as Canadians, and Albertans
The ask is insulting, the cost is offensive, and there’s no logic to be found.
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Shaylasays @shaylasays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of this.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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