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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seen in Calgary. No attribution. But no explicit link to the referendum. Anyone know who’s behind this?

Roadside sign reading
“Does Canada really have unity? What does real unity look like? Respectful dialogue is good”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My thoughts are with you. This is Bear. He’ll be waiting for yours.

Bear, a black rescue and all-round lovable buddy, enjoying his favourite sunny spot.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Canada’s out. But I think I found a new team to cheer on.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thanks. I remember my father saying he favoured this design, for the symbolism of the oceans…and less Liberal red. He wasn’t a strong partisan - he’d voted for Pearson - he just thought the red bars were too overt. Of course his 1st choice was the red ensign, the flag under which he’d gone to war.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Do you have any substantiation for these statements sir? (Other than from Rick Bell, I mean)

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Assuming “90-day Danielle” actually knows, or has been told, that the flood had NOTHING to do with the feedermain break… This betrays just how stupid she thinks her supporters must be. It’s not a good look. #abpoli #yyc #yyccc

Quote from article: You have to ask the question, 'well huh, who was the mayor after the floods of 2013 until he just decided to retire?' And that was Naheed Nenshi,” Smith said.

Quote from article: “Smith said Nenshi bears political responsibility for not taking more action to inspect the feeder main in the years after the massive 2013 floods.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Calgary media fail, in 3 headlines. In a crisis, the Postmedia columnists covering city issues are focused on who to blame. Not a word reminding people of our collective responsibility, or encouraging people to change their behaviour. #yyc #yyccc

Herald News article, headline: Calgary’s water storage levels in ‘red zone’ as repairs on ruptured feeder main slated to last two weeks

Herald op-ed: Braid: Farkas threatened New Year’s Eve council meeting if city boss didn’t cough up 2024 pipe explosion report

Herald op-ed: Bell: Game on! Farkas vows big change at Calgary city hall after water pipe explosion

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The official did NOT say “nothing was wrong.” He said no problems were detected. Not the same thing. You drew an inference based on nothing. A columnist of your experience should know better than to torque statements like this.

Excerpt from column: “ The pipe was being closely monitored and nothing was wrong, a city official said at the news conference.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Maybe it’s my age, maybe my Canadian perspective, but I put the fatal turn much, much earlier.

US Marine Col Oliver North being sworn in by a Congressional committee investigating the illegal sale of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Clearly the subtleties of language are hard for you, but for the latecomers here are his actual words. Again, if you’re gonna quote the guy, use all the words.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Pop quiz: Who’s this guy, and why is he infamous in the history of floor crossings in Canada? (No peeking at the alt text!)

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Nowhere in the GoA’s fact sheet, nor in the Act, are the reasons for recall limited to conduct. I think this is called being “Hoisted on your own petard.” www.alberta.ca/system/files... www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/s...

Excerpt from Government of Alberta Recall Act Fact Sheet

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hey @calgaryherald.com…your headline is false, so I fixed it for you.

Corrected headline on Herald News story: Former Manitoba judge doesn’t clear premier and government officials of wrongdoing in AHS procurement investigation

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

When is the Herald going to fix the headline on the news story? (Hint: the judge expressly did NOT clear the government.)

Screenshot of news article with headline: “Former Manitoba judge clears premier and government officials of wrongdoing in AHS procurement investigation.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This again? Is it too much to ask a Minister of the Crown in Alberta to know who the Sovereign is, in whose name he serves, and to whom he has sworn allegiance? For those in the back: He’s the King of Canada. #ableg #abpoli

Screenshot of a news article in which the Minister of Service Alberta calls Charles III the “King of England,” and not the King of Canada.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Ezra reassured him it was fine. It’s all fine.

Headline: “Ezra Levant confident ruled-up far-right mob won’t turn against Jews this time” - from TheBeaverton.com, 2017

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

But, rather than say this TO me, and engage in discussion, you blocked me. It’s your account, and you have every right to block folks. But I would have thought you’d reserve that for people being abusive, not just those who have a different perspective. Again, disappointing.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Growing up in Calgary of the 70s, it was highly unusual for anyone to have air conditioning at home. For 10 really hot days you just waited for the cool evening air to bring relief. Last year we got air conditioning. Because the cool evening air is increasingly unbreathable.

Air quality warning for the next two days, advising to keep windows and doors closed as much as possible.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Note the passive voice on the survey. “We don’t know how this happened!” If they acknowledged how the books got there, it would risk acknowledging that there are already elected bodies all over the province with full authority to deal with them.

Web page from Government of Alberta:
May 26, 2025
“Ensuring age-appropriate books in school libraries.

“Multiple books with explicit sexual cont by have been found in some libraries across the province.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Huh. Changed my mind about blocking you. I’d rather everyone gets to see your colossal self-own. “Pompous asswipe”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."–Aristotle

Screenshot of headline from the National Post, reading: “Conrad Black: Mark Carney has poor values.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Most of those countries have issued travel advisories related to visa requirements, not warnings. Canada’s: travel.gc.ca/destinations...

Canadian government travel advisory re US travel.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Rhetoric? I’ll give you rhetoric, you hypocritical fuckwit.

In a scene from Pulp Fiction, Samuel L Jackson points a gun at a man cowering, and says “Say 51st State one more time, motherfucker”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm seeing several just labelled "Park," but finally found one labelled "Provincial Park." Since there doesn't seem to be a way to suggest edits other than uploading a photo, I made this. Feel free to use.

It's in Canada, so it's a "Provincial Park." It's not a "State Park."

Screenshot of Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park on Google Maps.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Had a feeling. This account isn’t interested in differing opinions. No loss. Bad takes are bad takes, no matter the perspective.

Screenshot of a post from “YYC for Trudeau Carney4Canada”
“The CBC wants PP elected. CBC is right-wing propaganda.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you're outside the US, it still appears with the correct name.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Nobody tell ‘em how it’s listed in the free world - er - outside the USA.

Screenshot of the Gulf of Mexico, with Gulf of America in parentheses

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Turns out there is a fentanyl problem on the Canada-US border. And a migrant problem. And a gun problem.

Numbers showing the northward flow of fentanyl, illegal migrants and guns is greater than the southward flow along the Canada-US border.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It started as a script for a phone call…but I was too angry. Copied to Nenshi, my MLA, Trudeau, Joly, etc. Tomorrow’s email will be copied to all the other Premiers.

I am writing to express, in the strongest possible terms, my utter dismay at your statement issued today.

Our country is threatened with what may amount to the gravest threat to our economic well-being in almost a century, not to mention the stated threats to our physical sovereignty and security, from the incoming US administration. These threats will not affect us as Albertans, Ontarians, or Newfoundlanders, but as Canadians.

This threat is being met, as it must be, by our federal government. And while you may find their response inadequate or politically distasteful, that gives you no authority to speak on behalf of anyone in an international forum. In this matter you, too, are Canadian first.

Yet you have seen fit to undertake rogue diplomacy, meeting with the incoming president without coordination with the federal government, on the flimsy pretense that you were "on vacation." You have taken positions at odds with the federal government, exposing divisions which only play into the hands of a hostile US administration. And now you are publicly undercutting the coordinated response to this crisis, supported by all other Premiers. At the time when we need to be acting as a nation, putting ALL options on the table, you are publicly withholding support for one of the most powerful strategies possible. You are promoting the interests of one province ahead of the interests of Canada.

This is a treacherous betrayal of your obligation as a political leader in Canada.

Surely you know that you do not have the constitutional authority to uphold your position. This is an area of exclusive federal jurisdiction, yet you refuse to “stay in your lane.”

It is time for you to stand down, to wrap yourself in the flag of Canada, and support the efforts of the rest of this country, unified in response to this threat. It is time for you to rally all your supporters to this cause, in defense of our great nation.

Will you rise to this challenge, today?

Sincerely,

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Polls leading up to the 1993 federal election had the Tories and Liberals essentially tied but, as we know, it didn’t end that way.

Opinion polling of Canadian federal parties between 1988 and 1993

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It will no doubt come as a shock to Douthat that in fact most people on this planet do NOT want to be American, for the simple reason that we have seen what and who they are.

Op-Ed by Ross Douthat from the New York Times

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Aaaaand…she’s lying. The other account is still up. Anyone surprised? Time stamp is GMT-7.

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

All the local cons can now stop whining about being “promised” 46 km of track for $4.5B. Dani just moved the goalposts for you.

Screen shot of a news article:
I think we just have to come to terms with the fact that this project is a $20-billion project overall. It is a lot more expensive than anyone anticipated.” [Smith] said during her weekly call-in radio show on Saturday.”

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Jim Thompson Goodchild 🇨🇦 @shiftfocus99.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

For starters, how will this line will deal with the three pedestrian bridges currently crossing 2nd Street (see pics), and the parking structure south of 9 Ave. It will have to be 4 stories up to clear all this.

Calgary 2 St SW, looking south from 6 Ave

Calgary 2 St SW, looking south from 7 Ave.

Calgary, 2 St SW, looking south across 8 (Stephen) Ave

Calgary 2 St SW, looking south towards 9 Ave

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