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Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Any fans of the 1985 movie #TheReturnOfTheLivingDead?

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

xtramagazine.com

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d

As we watch the growing resistance to Danielle Smith's MAGA agenda in Alberta let's remember the powerful roots of true prairie populism. We have national health care because that generation stood up for a better vision of Canada.
My latest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4D...

HOW PRAIRIE POPULISTS BUILT PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

Right but when does appeasement turn into complicity? When is not okay anymore for our government to ignore what the Trump administration is doing? And if they don't come out and say its wrong, aren't we losing our identity and culture? Are we still sovereign then?

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 5d

My mum gave them 30 years and they're pushing her out with petty suspensions and bullying. Terrible for her and our family.

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 6d

There were lots of great signs at the teacher Day protest but stands out as the most artistic
Note the little crown on Smith's head
#ableg

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 6d

An amazing rally for public education. 20,000+ Albertans with one united message for Danielle Smith:

Pay the teachers.
Fund the schools.
Remind your discriminatory policies.

It is time to put the PUBLIC back in public education.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

2015: Don’t read the comments

2025: The comments are now in charge

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 9d

Alberta records first measles death -- an infant -- since outbreak www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @alannasmith.bsky.social

Alberta records first measles death since outbreak

Premature baby who contracted disease in utero has died, first death associated with provincial outbreak of nearly 2,000 cases

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 10d

Imperial to pull up stakes and leave Albertans with their mess to clean up. Danielle Smith:

a cartoon of homer simpson and his family standing next to a man that says hey look over there

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and his family standing next to a man that says hey look over there

media.tenor.com

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 10d

The evidence is in Alberta!! Wake up!!

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 10d

Right. Extricating our various systems and cultures could ultimately be almost impossible. I suppose hind sight being 2020 and all, even after his first term, hubris consumes our consumer culture.

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 11d

Okay, so our RCMP make an accusation, like they did with India, but the economy wins in the back rooms of this government? Do they test us on the border with drones like Russia is doing? I doubt there's enough force to spare in Europe to make any type of stand here.

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 11d

So what then? I've seen some analysis, back in the earlier days of this rhetoric, that the US will do everything they can to avoid an actual invasion, but in the months since things have steadily ramped up. They appear to be trying to make us appear adversarial now.

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 11d

Not to be the Debbie-downer here but its a bit late for all that, isn't it? Isn't it a 2-3 year time line to get the military into competent shape? If Trump has his eyes on our border, what chance do we have of doing anything about it? Seriously.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11d

'Reconciliation isn't just about the Indigenous people and the government and the churches. It's about every Canadian. We all have to work at this if we want it to work. We have to put an effort into it,' says Two-Spirit Elder Charlotte Nolin.

Watch more: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 13d

And @carrietait.bsky.social has unearthed more evidence of procurement irregularities at AHS

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Long Covid Families @longcovidfam.bsky.social · 18d

Brain scans show #COVID can alter children’s development. Areas tied to language and listening sometimes improve with time. But changes in memory, emotions, and focus persist. Families say reinfections can wipe out recovery. Prevention matters. Kids must be included in research and care.

Brain Microstructural Alterations in Children Post‐COVID‐19 Infection Through VBM, SBM, and Structural Covariance Network Analysis

Background Children represent a particularly vulnerable group to the long-term consequences of COVID-19 due to their ongoing neurodevelopment. This study aimed to identify transient and persistent s...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 18d

Is this Canada's Fox News? Barf.

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 19d

The Premier With the Liberty Tattoo: Danielle Smith readies the notwithstanding clause to protect her transgender laws against Charter rights rulings. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Why rights champion Danielle Smith is eyeing notwithstanding clause for trans laws | CBC News

A proudly libertarian premier is preparing to wield the notwithstanding clause this fall, after expanding her own province's rights protections last year.

www.cbc.ca

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22d

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt

Photo of a standing woman wearing colourful dress facing forwards on a muddy track in a rural landscape with her hand resting on a small loom

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 23d

Alberta lost 30,000 jobs this summer. We have the second highest unemployment rate in the country. We have the worst real wage growth.

But the UCP are prioritizing identity politics.

Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 23d

Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obtai...

www.cbc.ca

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Vanessasaurus 🇨🇦 @vanessasaurus.bsky.social · 24d

Sooo will Kimmel and Colbert start their own tech companies to broadcast the resistance cuz Google is in Trump's pocket...

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