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Settler learning more everyday about how to be a good ally. I wrangle my two kids and three cats. My views are my own. Fully vaccinated. He/Him.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 13h
Senator Paula Simons on the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum: "‘We can’t let the anti-immigrant, anti-migrant rhetoric of the toxic Trump regime colonize our imaginations and trick us into thinking that Alberta has an immigration problem when it doesn’t." #ABPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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‘Defeat These Questions’: A Senator’s Fiery Rebuke to the UCP Referendum | The Tyee
Paula Simons stood to urge fellow Albertans to reject ‘a scurrilous smear campaign’ against newcomers.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our Alberta Advantage @ouralbertadvantage.bsky.social has been doing great work, educating people about all 10 referendum questions. Now, they are looking for volunteers to help drive people to the advance polls next week? Can you help?
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Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants
Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.
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Parkland Institute
Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Book! New Book! ENJOY. ENDURE is a travel journal from my time in Vietnam 2023. AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27th (Cause it's World Tourism Day) You can go look at my storenvy for more. A few other items got updated as well. meredithmcclaren.storenvy.com I am doing it. I am doing the commerce thing.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social sat down with Jennie Rose Halperin to talk about how generative AI is destroying library collections, and how digital marketplaces like Amazon are being inundated with AI slop which makes it harder for independent publishers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0x...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Chelsea Vowel is someone whose work you know, even if you don't know it's from her. She's someone who has influenced Canadian politics as a whole for a decade and is in need of support, if you are able.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 29/08/2026
The referendums aren't creating racism. They are surfacing and normalizing it. globalnews.ca/news/1203819...
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Immigrant groups say racism rising in Alberta as referendum looms | Globalnews.ca
University of Alberta political science professor Jared Wesley says the upcoming referendum in Alberta is at least partially to blame.
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
TRUSTNO1, an unofficial X Files zine, currently accepting artist contributor applications until August 24th 👽 For-profit, print-only, all art! Email your portfolio/art samples to trustno1.zine@proton.me
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(with Nico D. and K. Lam)

TRUSTNO1
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St. Albert Gazette @stalbertgazette.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
BEYOND LOCAL: BREAKING: Alberta regulator rejects massive natural gas power plant proposed for AI data centre near Olds
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BREAKING: Alberta regulator rejects massive natural gas power plant proposed for AI data centre near Olds
"Synapse failed to demonstrate any compelling justification for selecting that location. The site is simply not suitable for the proposed development." AUC's Aug. 17 decision says
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Andrew @whendrewsattack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you are in Alberta, double check that you are registered to vote! Somehow I wasn’t but now I am! You can check here: www.voterlink.ab.ca
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
X FILES FANS WE ARE BACK! 👽🛸 TRUSTNO1: THE (unofficial) X FILES ZINE VOL. 2. With @nicodelort.bsky.social @blackdragonpress.co.uk Now accepting art submissions until August 24. Email trustno1.zine@proton.me with images/your portfolio 🚬
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WITH K. LAM AND NICO D.

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ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS THROUGH AUGUST 24
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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 10/08/2026
My dashery store is on sale! Get a silly thing, go on! ◉‿◉
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Alberta government’s recent book ban suggests that a moral panic is well underway in Canada, as bigoted groups prey on the natural concerns of parents to erase minority voices from the cultural discourse. Read more about this in my latest piece for @thetyee.ca
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A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee
The club sends members titles that have been pulled from public library shelves. It joins a widespread fight against censorship across North America.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 20/07/2026
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Like her hero Donald Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has always understood that populist movements like her United Conservative Party are based more on tribal identity than serious policy. #abpoli
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$&#% Your Fascist Pancakes! A Viral Alberta Moment | The Tyee
How one angry woman’s public rebuke of Danielle Smith launched a thousand memes.
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I have launched a running list of the groups, politicians, and individuals who are campaigning or taken positions in the Alberta separation referendum debate. I will be updating this page as I receive new names, so please click on the link and bookmark it to keep up to date.
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Tracking who's who in the Alberta separation referendum debate
A list of pro-Canada and Alberta independence supporters in the October 19, 2026 referendum
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 10/07/2026
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
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‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
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Ben Passmore PCX table 29 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I interviewed someone that was detained at Delaney Hall and then suddenly deported. This comic follows some of their story. thank you to my patrons for the suggesting this topic, and E for willing to be interviewed.
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 25/06/2026
We have studied the Montreal shooter's manifesto, discussed it in a community of experts, and read the coverage and reactions. This article is a good start. Other commentary has focused on the wrong parts and covered up violence towards women. So let's talk. 🧵 montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...
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Manifesto laden with incel ideology linked to Côte-des-Neiges shootings
A 104-page document advocates for use of terror in creating "new order."
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 24/06/2026
SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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SCOOP: Edmonton police chief visited illegal West Bank settlements during Israel trip
Warren Driechel also met with members from an undercover unit that less than three months earlier executed two unarmed men in Jenin after they had surrendered.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fired back at First Nations chiefs for accusing her of treason saying it was "disgraceful." The chiefs voted unanimously at a Calgary meeting to call for an RCMP investigation into Smith and the UCP on a fall separatism vote.
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War of words between Alberta premier, chiefs escalates
Premier Danielle Smith says group of chiefs in Alberta who accused her of treason need to “check themselves.”
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
‘They hate us more now’: Treaty Chiefs rally against #Alberta separatism At Treaty Unity rally in Calgary, First Nation Chiefs warn Alberta’s separatism has imported #Trump’s politics. New from @brandimorin.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/t...
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‘They hate us more now’: Treaty Chiefs rally against Alberta separatism
At Treaty Rally in Calgary, Chiefs warn Alberta’s separatism has imported Donald Trump’s politics
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11/06/2026
A recent survey published by Ipsos suggests support for separation from Canada is both limited and decreasing in Alberta — a trend that @djclimenhaga.bsky.social is betting will grow more evident as Albertans start paying attention to what Premier Smith and her government have perpetrated. #abpoli
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Albertans Want to Stay. But Smith’s Referendum Is Still Dangerous | The Tyee
Here are five things to worry about, along with an update on Corb Lund’s petition.
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Andrew @whendrewsattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Treaty is forever.
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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ok so the committee meeting for the Forever Canada petition has taken a surprise turn. After hearing from proponent Thomas Lukaszuk, Minister Nate Glubish made a motion to recommend the legislature send the petition and committee report to the lt-gov for the purpose of calling a referendum Oct 19
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 20/05/2026
Eight of us weigh in on the court's separatist petition ruling. thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Can Alberta Still Separate? Experts Clash over the Landmark Court Decision | The Walrus
A cross-country panel debates one of the most consequential rulings in years
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 19/05/2026
Albertans are starting to organize, demanding governments establish adequate regulations and provide sufficient information on the risks artificial intelligence and its outsized homes pose. @ximenaka.bsky.social reports. #abpoli #AI
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When an AI Data Centre Comes to Your Town | The Tyee
The largest in Canada is proposed for Olds, Alberta. Residents scrambled to know its impact.
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Over the last couple of years, proposals for ai data centres have been popping up in rural municipalities across Alberta. Amidst an information vacuum, Albertans are organizing to raise awareness on the impacts of these facilities and the ai products they enable. Read more in my latest 👇
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When an AI Data Centre Comes to Your Town | The Tyee
The largest in Canada is proposed for Olds, Alberta. Residents scrambled to know its impact.
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Andrew @whendrewsattack.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Burying a book is nearly as effective as burning it.”
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 14/05/2026
My latest for Alberta Native News: www.albertanativenews.com/22705-2/
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Court of King's Bench quashes separatist petition referendum; premier pledges to appeal - Alberta Native News
By Jeremy Appel (ANNews) – A Court of King’s Bench justice has ruled in favour of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and the Blackfoot Confederacy’s...
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I break down the saga of separatists, voter list abuse and an ever-spiralling mess that's emerged on today's Front Burner pod. The FB team NAILED the episode's title. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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How separatists doxxed Alberta | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
On the week where Alberta separatists should have been celebrating a major milestone on their quest to split the country apart, they are instead facing a police investigation and the anger of people a...
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Jack Farrell @jack-farrell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Elections Alberta says over 550 people accessed the database with the leaked personal info of nearly 3 million people under investigation. And Alberta’s privacy watchdog now says she’ll be doing her own probe too. From me and @reportrix.bsky.social: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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More than 550 people accessed renegade voter database: Elections Alberta
EDMONTON - Alberta's elections agency said Thursday it believes 568 people accessed a voter list at the heart of a massive privacy breach involving a separatist group.
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
At least one UCP staffer attended April 16 demo of database that used restricted personal information. albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/at-l...
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At least one UCP staffer attended April 16 demo of database that used restricted personal information - Alberta Politics
It takes a certain ingenuity for a crooked government to keep its scandals hidden. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – that’s a talent Danielle Smith and the United Conserv...
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 04/05/2026
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Alberta’s Voters-List Scandal Deserves a Public Inquiry. Now.
This is an egregious breach of privacy and democratic trust. Albertans deserve answers before they cast another single ballot.
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Jack Farrell @jack-farrell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Final updated file on Alberta voter list breach today: feat. privacy commish law reform call, Smith saying no, Elections Alberta pointing finger at Gov, Gov pointing it back, Nenshi calling for emerg committee meeting, and the 4:50 release from McClure. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Alberta premier says law changes to be assessed after probes into voter list breach
EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith says her government will look at new legislation depending on what comes out of investigations into claims a separatist group breached the personal information of
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Wiiiiild *Elections Alberta gets court injunction for separatist group to pull down its searchable voter list *Court told the list was provided by Republican Party of Alberta, an upstart separatist party *Unauthorized use of voter list: Really, really illegal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Elections Alberta granted injunction for separatist group to pull down electoral list | CBC
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 27/04/2026
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Premier Danielle Smith’s government is launching a propaganda blitz that will use Albertans’ tax money to persuade people to vote “Yes” next fall on a series of ballot questions on constitutional and immigration questions. #abpoli
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Danielle Smith Taps Taxpayer Dollars for Referendum Propaganda | The Tyee
The premier admits a plan to manufacture content on immigration and separation.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
More on Alberta’s boundary mess… CBC News election unit analysed the maps: the main report would have produced a 7-seat margin of victory for UCP. The minority report by UCP appointees? A 23-seat win, with many seats narrowly flipped in Calgary. W/analysis by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next | CBC Accessibility
An MLA-led group now gets to revise electoral ridings, as the U.S-style gerrymandering accusations keep flying.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Absolute legend, Dorothy Thunder, my language mentor and former colleague. What a beautiful piece about all the incredible work she does! indiginews.com/features/thr...
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Through teaching and translation, Dorothy Thunder breathes life into nêhiyawêwin
The U of A instructor has worked for decades to pass on and preserve the Cree language — bringing healing and belonging to her many students
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
💥The UCP government is introducing a motion in the legislature to spike the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replace it with an MLA committee and an advisory panel that will redraw the new riding boundaries for the next provincial election. 👀
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Andrew @whendrewsattack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s a good ol’ fashioned (digital) letter writing campaign! Support your public library before they censor it away. www.caplibraries.ca/stand-up-for...
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Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Bouncing Souls Plot North American Tour
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The Bouncing Souls Plot North American Tour
New Jersey punk staples the Bouncing Souls are hitting the road in an extensive North American tour that will stretch from summer 2026 into
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
imagine “pope leo is weak on crime” being the thought that fought its way out of that pudding brain. what others must still be trapped inside.
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Lisa Johnson @reportrix.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The #ableg bill echoes Idaho's, but then goes further. The state's 2024 law defines obscene materials. Alberta's proposed law does not - it creates very broad powers to regulate public libraries. Alberta's gov says they're focused on one thing, to be written in regulations. ICYMI: shorturl.at/Zcsi2
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Alberta's access restrictions threaten privacy, democratic role of libraries: critics
EDMONTON - Critics of Alberta’s proposed rule changes to public libraries say the true danger lies in giving the province power to dictate access and potentially snoop on which books
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 11/04/2026
NEW: On the final day of arguments for First Nations efforts to quash the approval of a separatist referendum petition at the Court of King's Bench, chiefs raised questions about collaboration between government and separatist lawyers. www.readtheorchard.org/p/chiefs-rai...
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Chiefs raise concerns about collaboration between separatist and government lawyers
The Court of King's Bench heard arguments Thursday from lawyers for ACFN, the Blackfoot Confederacy, Alberta's government, the chief electoral officer and Stay Free Alberta.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Back today for arguments from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. The gist of their case is a bit different from yesterday (and unlike Sturgeon Lake names separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre as a defendant) edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Via @jaredwesley.ca Why Danielle Smith's Populist Referendums Are Dangerous to Democracy via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Why Danielle Smith’s Populist Referendums Are Dangerous to Democracy | The Tyee
Our political system relies on pluralism, compromise and debate. All are endangered in Alberta.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Over a dozen First Nations chiefs, band councilors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, to call on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for Alberta to quit Canada.
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Chiefs deliver fiery message to Alberta Premier over separation
More than a dozen First Nations chiefs and even more band councillors and elders were...
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Andrew @whendrewsattack.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I guess it’s time for another banned book list 😡 Find all your favourite books that have now been banned from schools by the government at your local Edmonton library: epl.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
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Books Banned from Alberta School Libraries — a community-created list from drewsattack
These are the books that have now been pulled from the shelves of school libraries in Alberta in order to comply with new rules set out by the current provincial government (The UCP). Intellectual Fre...
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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
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Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill
Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill
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