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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 14h

This is #CrisisCapitalism. This crisis has been manufactured by the #UCP. Someone profited from this person’s death. That is horrific, repugnant & completely unacceptable.

@daniellesmithucp.bsky.social promised to fix #AbHealth in 90 days. Have we waited long enough yet?!? Let’s #FireTheUCP!!!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 18h

And they’re holding the rest of us hostage by refusing to acknowledge what the rest of us have been screaming about for years. 🤬

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 19h

Read this 🧵 last night after dropping hubs off @ #YYC ER; struggling to breathe, in pain, like someone was sitting on his chest.

Diagnosis: pericarditis.

Total time @ hospital: 11 hours.

Tell me again @daniellesmithab.bsky.social how you’ll fix #AbHealth in 90 days.

#AbLeg #AbPoli

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 1d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 22h

Signed that one some time ago. ✊

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 1d

In today’s episode of “It Didn’t Have To Be This Way, #Alberta Edition”…

#AbHealth #AbLeg #AbPoli #CrisisCapitalism #FireTheUCP

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 1d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 1d

I’m underwater with a new teaching position that’s sucking the life out of me, so I haven’t had time to talk to anyone else about it aside from my household & the principal & the soccer coach. So far, it seems I’m an island. Not surprised.

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed 100%. I refused to sign the letter for my daughter when it came home. I told the principal that it smacked of “just following orders.” It was as insufficient a defence at Nuremberg as it is in Alberta schools. 🤬

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YourAnonRiots 🐈️🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 1d

Between Oct 7, 2023 and Oct 7, 2025
Israel killed
67,173 Palestinians
20,179 children (30%)
10,427 women (16%)
4,813 elderly people (7%)
31,754 men (47%)
169,780 injured
565 aid workers-376 UN staff
254+ journalists
Thousands remain under the rubble
Call it what it is: GENOCIDE

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

From the DM’s…

Hey #yyc!

Students are organizing their own rallies and protests!

Let’s make sure that they know they aren’t alone!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

Huh.

In Ontario, elected officials in super sweet seats with people who have business before the government is a scandalous conflict of interest…

(Stares in Albertan)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Ontario labour minister attended Leafs game, wedding with those seeking millions from Skills Development Fund: reports

The office of Ontario’s labour minister is downplaying reports he was at a wedding in Paris and photographed at a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game with those who stood to benefit from millions in gover...

www.ctvnews.ca

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Worth rereading.

#ableg #abpoli #abed

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

A 3rd YYC area opportunity in the next couple of days to show off your #RedForEd gear & those awesome signs!

#AbStudentsDeserveBetter #FightForPublicEducation #StandUpForPublicEducation #ProtectPublicEducation #AbEd #AbPoli #AbLeg #Alberta #Okotoks #PublicEducationMatters #Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7d

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 4d

Good job Canada! Now lets talk Mexico into buying our lumber and canola oil
supercarblondie.com/canada-now-i...

Canada now imports more cars from Mexico than from the United States

These days, Canada is buying more cars from Mexico than from the United States, marking the end of a partnership that lasted for decades

supercarblondie.com

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Please share widely & #DefendPublicEducation! 💪🍎✊

#SupportAbTeachers #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #PublicEducationMatters #RedForEd #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli #EducationIsAnInvestment #InvestInPublicEducation #Calgary #YYC

The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Two opportunities for Calgary & area public education lovers! Let’s put our awesome signs & #RedForEd garments to good use! (1/3)

#Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers #PublicEducationMatters #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli #AbTeachers

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Tagging as I go...share widely!

@thebreakdownab.bsky.social @albertateachers.bsky.social @lisab0923.bsky.social @janisirwin.bsky.social @lukaszukab.bsky.social @jlisayoung.bsky.social @carlapeck.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @jasononthedrums.bsky.social @skipischris.bsky.social

#AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli

The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Two opportunities for Calgary & area public education lovers! Let’s put our awesome signs & #RedForEd garments to good use! (1/3)

#Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers #PublicEducationMatters #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli #AbTeachers

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Fri., Oct. 10: meet in the north parking lot of the YYC Curling Club (720 - 3 St. NW) for a 5 Km “fun run.” (3/3)

#Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers #PublicEducationMatters #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPol

The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Thur., Oct. 9th: meet @ 309 Memorial Dr. NW for a walk @ 10 am. (poster says to meet @ bottom of the #YYC Stairs & Crescent Heights Lookout Pt.); the plan is to walk to the Peace Bridge, through DT & then back through Prince’s Island Park. (2/3)

#PublicEducationMatters #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 4d

Two opportunities for Calgary & area public education lovers! Let’s put our awesome signs & #RedForEd garments to good use! (1/3)

#Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers #PublicEducationMatters #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli #AbTeachers

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Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 19d

Truth!

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 4d

Here are the contacts in the Canadian government and a example script to contact them about Canadians in Israeli prison from the @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social .

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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 5d

The Premier of AB thinks that the feds have no power to act in the national interest when it comes to EIAs, GHG emissions & plastics, but that the feds have not just the power but the duty to afford AB access to BC's tidewater?
I have news for Ms Smith.
There is no such duty.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 5d

Danielle Smith meets with PM Mark Carney, calls B.C. premier ‘un-Canadian’ www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Danielle Smith meets with PM Mark Carney, calls B.C. premier ‘un-Canadian’

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed to reaching an agreement regarding Alberta’s pitch for a proposed bitumen pipeline to the West Coast by next month, according to Premier Danielle Smith.

www.ctvnews.ca

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