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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 10h

A national treasure. 🍁

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

Canada's Carney says he apologised to Trump over Reagan ad reut.rs/4nwdbX2

Canada's Carney says he apologised to Trump over Reagan ad

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that he had apologised to President Donald Trump over a political advertisement targeting Americans that had drawn the ire of the U.S. leader.

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 12h

I can feel the veil between the two worlds getting thinner and thinner.👻

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 19h

This story deserves more attention. The UCP govt handed over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and is now refusing to explain why.
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 14h

Finalized vote count for #yyc mayor:
Farkas: 91,112 (26%)
Sharp: 90,496 (25.9%)

Overall votes for mayor: 348,865
Turn-out for mayor: 39%

Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 14h

Trump thinks Jay Gatsby is a role model.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16h

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 15h

Wow. Calls to a crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth have decreased by 36% ever since Ryan Walters resigned from leading the Oklahoma schools.

"... We are grateful for the positive impact his departure has had on the mental well-being of our community."

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Calls to suicide hotline decline sharply after Christian conservative resigns as education head - LGBTQ Nation

Teachers have literally been celebrating his departure.

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 15h

The #jays let them back in the series and now anything can happen in G7. Hopefully wrong.

Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 15h

She looked pretty happy at Mar-a-Lago doing selfies with a predator.

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Alberta’s Smith calls on Ottawa to use notwithstanding clause over child porn ruling

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on the federal government to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court ruling on child pornography.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19h

Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 15h

It's very nice out tonight in #yyc. Heard some kids complaining to mom they were getting too hot.

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 16h

Oops that's a real url

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 16h

Me.org

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 16h

This year i dressed up as Albertan's Charter Rights. #alberta #ucp #nwc

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

No Australian coal billionaire left behind.

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 2d

A short but important read
The Canadian Bar Association doesn't like the UCP's use of the Notwithstanding Clause anymore than I do
#ableg

bettegray.bsky.social @bettegray.bsky.social · 2d

Attention Mickey Amery: #ableg #abpoli

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CBA Alberta Statement on the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause | CBA Alberta

The Alberta government has invoked the notwithstanding clause to order teachers back to work. The " Back to School Act " imposes a collective agreement on teachers and prohibits them from striking unt...

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

A wealthy Petro-state in permanent austerity mode can't find a hospital bed for an 11 year old's scheduled chemo treatment.

Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible. Bouchard -3.

Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

It's understandable that #oilers fans are worried about a slow start, but the #flamrs are 2-8-2 (.250). There is serious talk about blowing up this team and starting over.

Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

I thought they would have some momentum from the last game.

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

#oilers more trick than treat.

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

Out for months. The league has to take a close look at these knee on knee hits. Probably unintentional.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Bruins C Elias Lindholm exits vs. Sabres with lower-body injury reut.rs/47zsats

Bruins C Elias Lindholm exits vs. Sabres with lower-body injury

Bruins center Elias Lindholm exited Boston's Thursday home game with a lower-body injury after colliding at center ice with Buffalo Sabres winger Jordan Greenway in the second period.

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Lowa Beebe @lowabeebe.bsky.social · 1d

This apology was deeply meaningful to hear today. Remembering my Great Uncles, Pete and Henry Warrior of the Piikani Nation, who served in WWII.

Thank you to all Indigenous Veterans who have served and continue to serve our country. #IndigenousVeterans #Apology #Thankful 🧡🙏🏽 via @CBCIndigenous

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Robert 👻Samhain👻 McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

If a minority govt tried to use the #nwc would it become a confidence matter?