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Teresa McLaren @teresamclaren.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My first zipper! I replaced a broken zipper on this kids fleece jacket. After years in a pile in the basement. Now it can go to a new home. I learned how to buy a zipper and how to use the zipper foot on my old sewing machine. I feel like I can do anything now! lol! #mendmarch #sewing #zipper

Zipped up red fleece hoodie with Junior Forest Wardens badge. Old sewing machine manual opened to zipper foot page.

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Water Not Coal @waternotcoalab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Corb is coming to town! Join Corb at the signing event closest to you to sign! St. Albert - April 3 Edmonton - April 3 Ponoka - April 4 Red Deer - April 4 Calgary - April 4 Longview - April 4 Medicine Hat - April 5 Lethbridge - April 5 Locations and times to be announced.

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City of Calgary @calgary.ca · 09/03/2026

Water restrictions begin today, Calgary! With the Bearspaw South Feeder Main shut down for reinforcement work, we need your help to conserve water - every drop you can save, helps. Visit calgary.ca/savewater to learn more and stay up to date.

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Teresa McLaren @teresamclaren.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My first mend of March. A hole in the elbow of my husbands wool sweater. I pulled some knitted threads out from scraps of a thrifted sweater to make this little mend. There is a scrap placed underneath and secured for added reinforcement. #mendmarch

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

1/9 🇨🇦 CANADA’S MEDIA IS UNDER SIEGE—AND DEMOCRACY IS THE CASUALTY 🇨🇦 US hedge funds own our biggest papers, the CBC faces massive cuts, and disinformation is rampant. The crisis in Canadian media is here. #CdnPoli #MediaCrisis #CdnMedia #Journalism #Democracy

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Since our government looks bent on starting the apocalypse early, I’m putting out the next big version of my illustrated survival guide. It’s almost 200 pages now. I’m also putting it under a creative commons license. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...

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An Illustrated Guide for Unhinged Times

And a creative commons license

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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🎧 ☕️ For your Sunday morning listening. The CBC radio show ‘what on earth’ did a great interview with Corb and Laura. Check it out! Airing live this morning and the podcast link is here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w... #WaterNotCoal

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A fight over coal has Corb Lund ‘f-ing totally exasperated’

Podcast Episode · What On Earth · February 28 · 28m

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

What Nutrition Experts Say About the New Dietary Guidelines for Americans jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... “Beef tallow is not a healthy source of fat,” Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD added. “It’s not, period, full stop.”

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Nutrition Experts On the New Dietary Guidelines

This Medical News article discusses the recently released 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

With 26 days left, the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” petition is only a quarter of the way to their goal…. Here’s where you can sign. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

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Alberta Funds Public Schools

A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.

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Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New Sprawlcast out this morning! Mmmm... I do love me some transit butter. You can listen to the episode or read the article version (or do both!) as you see fit. #yyccc

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Spread thin: How urban sprawl is stretching Calgary Transit to the max | The Sprawl

A new city council tackles an old problem.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Corb Lunds petition for the government to outright ban coal mining in the eastern slopes has been approved! Now the CFO is selected and then signature collection can begin! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Felipe Gaona @felipegaonar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Your right to speak, to worship, to live free — all protected by the Charter. But the Notwithstanding Clause is now being used in Alberta to make illegal laws “legal.” This is a test of how far the government can go before Albertans push back. Say no to overriding the Charter: savethecharter.ca

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URGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of Rights

Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.

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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The Sprawl started this candidate list last November. Now it's complete. Bios of all 122 candidates running in the October 20 election (including trustee candidates), with links to their websites. Pass it along to anyone who needs it! #yyccc

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Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl

Learn about your candidates!

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Avian Heart, an ancient pen-&-ink drawing I did decades ago, with a crow-quill pen and 1940s-era Esterbrook points. #Inktober 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart

Pen drawing of the internal anatomy of the avian heart.

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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

TONIGHT! Mayoral candidate forum at the Central Library with 8 candidates, moderated by MRU political scientist Lori Williams and Sprawl editor Jeremy Klaszus. If you didn't snag a seat you can watch the livestream starting at 6:30pm. #yyccc

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LIVE TONIGHT: Calgary mayoral forum at Central Library | The Sprawl

Watch The Sprawl's livestream.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Alex Williams @alexwilliamsyyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

When sidewalks are missing or broken, kids, seniors, and transit riders pay the price. Safer routes mean better access to schools, transit, and local shops. Where there's a Williams, there's a way – small fixes make a big difference. Where do sidewalks end in Ward 11?

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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

IT'S OFFICIAL - Nominations for Calgary's 2025 election have now closed. No new candidates can register. Candidates have until 12pm Tuesday Sept 23 to withdraw. Here is the final list of candidates (unless some drop out). #yyccc

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Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl

Follow along with our candidate tracker.

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 23/09/2025

"The #GreenLine has been a recipe for insanity & political wedge partisanship for entirely far too long. The #CTrain is one of the best strategic & competitive advantages that Calgary has so it is ludicrous that you're not doubling down on that, just absolutely financially insane." #yyc #yyccc

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There’s a group of folks that are super Take Back Alberta adjacent and are “definitely not coordinated despite all of the evidence to the contrary”… Anyways… Here’s a great article from The Sprawl you should send to everyone you know. #yyc #abpoli www.sprawlcalgary.com/cbe-election...

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The push to ‘conservatize’ Calgary’s public school board | The Sprawl

Not a slate, candidates say.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Creative production is one of the few arenas that generative AI systems can actually approach meaningful levels of full automation, if only because the quality of such content is subjective, human. Spend some time with these stories, I urge you. Understand what's happening, so we can fight back.

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

coral reefs are one of the most fascinating ecosystems on our planet!! been watching a bunch of documentaries about them, so i had to draw a little snippet of one. (also a non-square illustration so i hope it posts okay!)

digital illustration of a coral reef. occupants of the reef include titan trigger fish, cleaner wrasse, butterfly fish, box jellyfish, foxface rabbitfish, moray eel, dusky gregory, clownfish, parrotfish, garden eels, crabs, ray, octopus, and crown of thorns starfish.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Your house price going up is NOT good for your kids

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 20/08/2025

This month's guest is one of the world's TOP urbanists, Canadian @brenttoderian.bsky.social! We talk suburbs, #sprawl, #BikeLanes, why smart #CityBuilding is the common sense climate solution & the awesome responsibility of the city councils we elect. #yyc #yyccc www.podcastics.com/episode/3796...

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Brent Toderian & the Common Sense of Climate Smart Cities

Why urban design is a force multiplier in the fight against climate change

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Dystopian novels axed: Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World... heaps of Margaret Laurence, a class staple in my youth... And a libertarian like Danielle Smith would be intrigued to see Ayn Rand's Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged on the banned books list.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

With alt text.

Photo of a press pass that has been sliced through diagonally.

For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.
When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel's entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative - one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters' willingness to perpetuate Israel's propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel's genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what's known as a "double tap" strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.

Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, "every major outlet - from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters - has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting."
By repeating Israel's genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility - willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism - Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWIl, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.
The fact that Anas Al-Sharif's work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a "hit list" of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.

It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine.
It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.
I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can't conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don't know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza - the bravest and best to ever live - but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18/08/2025

J.B. MacKinnon is leading four separate class actions, all filed in B.C. Supreme Court in the last four months, alleging that tech giants Meta, Anthropic, Databricks and Nvidia repeatedly, wilfully and knowingly infringed on his and others’ intellectual property to train and develop their LLMs.

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J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants | The Tyee

The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. A Tyee Q&A.

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Donate A Mask Canada @donatemask.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

If #masks and clean air tools are on your back-to-school shopping list, consider stocking up at our charity fundraising store. 🛍️ 🛒 donatemask.ca/shop Our kid-sized masks are on sale at super low prices! 😷 #CleanAirForAll #MaskUp

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 18/08/2025

William Lavelle is launching Haven, a Gen AI-free video social media platform! Stop Gen AI blog: stopgenai.com?p=446 The Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav... Help him get to $100k USD. Donate or share! Share, share, share!

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Proton @proton.me · 11/08/2025

Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location. Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops. Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵 1/5

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 08/08/2025

This is by one of our artists, Teresa M. Will be on our merch very soon. You should check out our org! We financially support artists! stopgenai.com stopgenai.com/fundraising

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's my first-ever reported column for the Tyee!!! Wheeee!! That's right folks, I learned Carney's government awarded millions to the company staffing Alligator Alcatraz. Video coming shortly:

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ooh, we did this last year and everything went! Definitely worthwhile.

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