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Tim Querengesser

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Independent journalist. Listen and subscribe to Separation Anxiety, a five-part narrative podcast series launching Sept. 22. separationanxietypodcast.substack.c…

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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 5h
Have you listened or subscribed? A lot of people have. separationanxietypodcast.substack.com
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 11h
I’d also love Canadian spelling 🤷‍♂️
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*Checks sky for pink animals with wings* Jason Kenney, defending Indigenous voices here. “Keith, you do not speak for the First Nations,” Kenney interjected. “Their elected councils and chiefs do, and they unanimously disagree with you.” edmontonjournal.com/news/jason-k...
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Jason Kenney clashes with separatist leader over First Nations, economy at referendum panel
The event, hosted by the University of Alberta Students' Union, billed as a discussion panel, was geared towards the young university crowd.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Working with a photographer for an assignment for CanGeo. This is her camera. It’s badass.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Protest against data centres at legislature.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good digging — and it’s important to offer such words.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A whiff of treason in the air
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll bring home the turkey/ If you bring home the bacon
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm reappraising Metallica's first album, Kill 'Em All, to motivate me to write. In this essay, I argue this album is like Metallica playing Motorhead, and I'm here for it. It's better than what came next even though most don't even know the album.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The nuance we need. Many dismiss, dislike, or loathe the separatist movement. That won’t get us out of where we are, though. A significant number of people feel unrecognized in our system and are finding radical ways to get attention. We have to figure that out. They’re voters. They’re citizens.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 02/10/2026
As someone who disagrees with the sentiment, this was a difficult piece to write. But as a social scientist, the evidence is clear. Rather than debate which grievances are legitimate, we need to meet Albertans where they are emotionally. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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How to Engage Alberta, the Jilted Lover of Confederation | The Tyee
A couples therapy approach could help heal the divide.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What life always feels like these days:
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Amazing Juggling on a Unicycle
ALT: Amazing Juggling on a Unicycle
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the "Pacific Link" pipeline, the ball is now squarely in the oil and gas industry's court. If the project fails, they won't be able to blame Ottawa for their own refusal to fill it. I suspect that was the prime minister's plan all along. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Canada’s pipeline politicking is about to collide with economic reality
The ball for the west coast oil pipeline — sorry, the "Pacific Link" — is now fully in the oil and gas industry's court. One big question remains: are they actually willing to fill it?
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is all I hear when the very serious people propose to “fix” downtown by making parking free.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯 www.instagram.com/reels/Dd9tPg...
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22 Minutes on Instagram: "Just say stay, Danielle!"
2,956 likes, 88 comments - thishourhas22minutes on October 1, 2026: "Just say stay, Danielle!".
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The butter is melting.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*screams into void* www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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In the face of a new neutrality law, Alberta educators grapple with referendum lessons | CBC News
In Brett Dibble’s Grade 12-level social studies classes, lessons about Alberta’s 10 fall referendum questions are among the first issues students dived into this school year.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Canada can work." The person saying this is one of the main challenges to that statement, but sure!
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The ONLY demographic group with majority support for referendum's separation option is UCP voters. In breakdowns by age, income, urban/rural, religosity, education – lower than 1/3rd support for a binding independence vote in every other demo www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @joeldryden.bsky.social
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Poll suggests slight majority of UCP voters favour separation as party stares down ‘tough days’ ahead | CBC News
A new poll suggests the group with the highest level of support for Alberta separation is supporters of the United Conservative Party, trumping other groups, including those defined by age, religiosit...
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Make Canadians Vacationing at Disney World or Las Vegas or Palm Springs Socially Unacceptable Again
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just had my semi monthly heart to heart with my wife where I explain how happy I am not to be doing what I had to do in my previous job but how hard I have to work to make enough. I live on projects that I pitch. I literally write my future. It’s just a lot of work.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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UCP MLA says he’s voted in favour of Alberta holding binding referendum on independence | CBC News
Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan says he has voted in favour of Alberta’s government proceeding with a legally binding referendum on separation, but adds he hopes to see Canada united if Alberta is “t...
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Saskatchewan mayor stepping down now that 'Queen of Canada' cult is gone | CBC News
When Brad Miller signed up to be mayor of Richmound, Sask., he never imagined his tiny southwestern village would be overrun by a cult. After three years and many sleepless nights, the cult is finally...
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many Edmonton drivers: “Why do you need bike lanes?!” Also Edmonton drivers:
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*feigns surprise*
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Booo-ca Soppres-satantic. @lucasalami.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Edmonton drivers. Honestly incredible.
An SUV parked on someone's patio. It has driven over a retaining wall and protective stones.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been fascinating to watch the idea of reconciliation change over decades. I remember hearing my first land acknowledgement as a reporter in the Yukon in 2003. Today, my kid has learned about them in grade one, and his school was an ocean of orange shirts yesterday.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The built form fighting gentle-density infill creates.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lennox argues the separatists are committing treason. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the fence on this one. The idealist in me wants everything to be transparent while the realist in me wants the machine to work better. One of the main failings of our last mayor was an inability to get councillors onside *outside* of public meetings. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com
Keith Gerein: Smith's riffs to Alberta municipal leaders go off the rails
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith mused to civic leaders that the Municipal Government Act is "kind of like our constitution with each other.”
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The weather system of negativity swirling around the Oilers after game one is palpable. I don't see how it all ends well.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Episode two of Separation Anxiety features thoughts from @jaredwesley.ca, @jlisayoung.bsky.social, Tyler Dawson with @theglobeandmail.com and more! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
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Maple-Dipped Maga
Podcast Episode · Separation Anxiety: The Alberta Referendum · S1 E2 · 40m
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember, no one bikes to school — especially young kids.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bike bus!
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Episode Two: Maple-Dipped MAGA Separatists talk about a trillion-dollar surplus and an independent Alberta with no income tax. But where are the numbers to prove Albertans would be better off? @daniparadis.bsky.social and I dig in. pod.link/6811266682/e...
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Maple-Dipped Maga
Listen to Maple-Dipped Maga from Separation Anxiety: The Alberta Referendum wherever you get your podcasts!
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My mom’s private retirement home takes all the money but will tell you quite directly it still gives the absolute minimum number of fucks that might pass as acceptable.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elections Alberta has its final tally. EA says it received approximately 658,000 requests for special mail-in ballots for next month's referendum. www.brandonsun.com/national/202...
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More ballot requests received in Alberta referendum than last provincial election
EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says it has received 11 times more requests for mail-in ballots for the upcoming vote on separation than it did in the last provincial election.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Norquest turned what could have been yet another surface pit into a mini park. More of this and more honesty about barriers preventing it, please.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It begins. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Hamilton steel plant to lay off 500 workers as U.S. tariffs prompt ‘survival’ move | CBC News
Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Respectfully, the person photographed looks like they may appreciate more sleep. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canada gets extended hours for stock trading
CIX Trading launches platform that allows buying and selling from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, with plans to extend window later this year
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess before we attempt drop your kid off at school without a car day that we’ll have to start with drop your kid off at school without idling your car the whole time day. Edmonton remains undefeated.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My son while we tussle his hair to prep for picture day: “Uuugh, I look like Donald Trump.”
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 28/09/2026
Finding reliable, non-partisan information about this fall's referendums in Alberta can be difficult. I tried my best at a townhall this afternoon. Here are my notes. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/making-sen...
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Making Sense of Alberta’s Referendums
A Voter’s Guide
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Alberta’s referendum turns immigrants into scapegoats for government inaction
Alberta’s infrastructure deficits, overcrowded classrooms, and delayed emergency rooms are the result of political mismanagement.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the most Edmonton story ever edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Edmonton OR nurse was frustrated with street racers waking him up. So he designed decibel monitors to track the noise
Seth Dear, a registered nurse at the University of Alberta hospital's OR, was frustrated with loud vehicles messing with his sleep.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The balloon artist for my kid’s party created the ultimate Edmonton tribute — back-mounted leaf blower!
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I do hope the separatists come to realize that it was their hero Donald Trump that did this to them.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A wasp bit me. First time in like 30 something years. They are the biggest jerks around.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking for that person who's just over it. They're done with the separatist question. They're extremely frustrated and articulate about what's wrong with Alberta politics at the moment. Who is that person? Would they speak to me for an interview? If so, be in touch.
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