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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 20h

reaping, sowing, etc

#edmonton #abpoli

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 16h

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 16h

Big win and series bound. Congratulations Blue Jays. Just another Toronto team winning a big 7th game (right?).

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Peter Hoven @phoven.bsky.social · 18h

If you can't access the fast company link. youtu.be/hN_CVvzExpM?...

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 19h

Today's GoA press release entitled "delivering results" describes Smith's fall leg agenda

But what we also got today, as eloquently described by @jlisayoung.bsky.social is the actual delivery of results from messing around with AB's electoral laws to please a looney fringe.
Smith need to wear this

I'd like to speak to the manager!

Go ahead.

open.substack.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 11d

There's a literal flat-earther running for the Edmonton Public School board.

That's where Alberta is at right now

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Canadian Birdie 🖇️ @cdn-birdie.bsky.social · 15d

For mayor: Cindy Jeffries. Left leaning
For councillors: Brandon Bouchard, Tristin Brisbois, Cassandra Curtis, Hans Huizing, Ashley MacDonald, Jaelene Tweedle, Dianne Wyntjes. There are 8 councillors.
On my don't know a lot about them but might be okay is:
Calvin Yzerman, Anthony Klywak
#abpoli
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 16d

🥚Fantastic research by one of our finest adoptee rights authors.

Open adoption is the bait used to convince vulnerable mothers to relinquish babies for adoption, but it’s not a legal contract and it serves at the pleasure of the adopters, who can subsequently close an adoption at will —and they do.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 16d

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 21d

Expected excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Canada is HIGH (8%, Forecast score 8).

Graph showing the reported % excess mortality compared to excess mortality predicted from waste water, our model, and the Canadian COVID Forecast score

Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
Page 10 (Actual and model-predicted excess mortality)

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Peter Hoven @phoven.bsky.social · 27d

Need to sign the Forever Canadian petition. At Safety City in Red Deer every Tuesday from 6-8.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 28d

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 29d

Fr David Gierlach

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 28d

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks John Oliver

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · Sep 20

It’s so funny when they go after Antifa. I mean, that makes you the Fascist, dummy. FFS 🖕🏻

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Peter Hoven @phoven.bsky.social · Sep 16

Forever Canadian petition signing location at Safety City in Red Deer today.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 12

When bad things happen, presidents traditionally use the highest office in the land to calm the public. The best of our presidents appeal to the better angels of our nature. Trump consistently appeals to the worst of our demons. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-cyn...

Trump’s cynical use of the Kirk assassination

Rather than appeal to the better angels of our nature, he appeals to the worst of our demons

robertreich.substack.com

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · Sep 6

VIA Rail’s regular dayliner passenger train service between Calgary and Edmonton ended 40 years ago today.

(Source: Edmonton Journal, September 6, 1985)

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