David Blain
@beachmagoo.bsky.social
Retired Financial Officer in Calgary AB.
Proportional representation is better democracy.
Political Progressive.
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I am in a committed relationship
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Proportional representation is better democracy.
Political Progressive.
Travels to Australia 🇦🇺
I am in a committed relationship
🇨🇦🗳️🇨🇦
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It's like have a regulator without the regulating part.
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's like have a regulator without the regulating part.
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I just want to say a big thank you to the lovely folks who have subscribed to my new Patreon! I look forward to showing you behind-the-scenes videos of me losing my mind trying to make time-sensitive comedy in my tiny living room! 😎
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The Very Unfunny Leftist | Patreon
I want to make you laugh because our politicians make us cry!
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December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I just want to say a big thank you to the lovely folks who have subscribed to my new Patreon! I look forward to showing you behind-the-scenes videos of me losing my mind trying to make time-sensitive comedy in my tiny living room! 😎
www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlac...
www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlac...
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CONGRATULATIONS #ForeverCanadian volunteers!
Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!
Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!
Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Citizen Initiative Petition Verification Completed, Results Announced - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Elections Alberta has completed verification for the “Alberta Forever Canada” citizen initiative petition. Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, has determined under section 10...
www.elections.ab.ca
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
CONGRATULATIONS #ForeverCanadian volunteers!
Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!
Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!
Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.
www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Danielle Smith hearing that the "Alberta Forever Canada" petition has been successfully verified by Elections Alberta
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Danielle Smith hearing that the "Alberta Forever Canada" petition has been successfully verified by Elections Alberta
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So the Trump Administration has gone from it didn't happen, but it was perfectly legal. This is not helping their case.
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
So the Trump Administration has gone from it didn't happen, but it was perfectly legal. This is not helping their case.
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🗺️ The RecallNicolaides.ca team has mapped out the month of December for you. 🎁 Here's where we will be if you'd like to find us! 🚪-to-🚪canvassing will be happening throughout the month, too. Hope to meet on📍 or at your 🚪.
#abpoli #RecallThemAll #restore #rights #freedoms #responsibilities #ableg
#abpoli #RecallThemAll #restore #rights #freedoms #responsibilities #ableg
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🗺️ The RecallNicolaides.ca team has mapped out the month of December for you. 🎁 Here's where we will be if you'd like to find us! 🚪-to-🚪canvassing will be happening throughout the month, too. Hope to meet on📍 or at your 🚪.
#abpoli #RecallThemAll #restore #rights #freedoms #responsibilities #ableg
#abpoli #RecallThemAll #restore #rights #freedoms #responsibilities #ableg
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When first-past-the-post ties mainstream conservatives to separatists inside one party, every disagreement becomes a crisis.
Proportional representation would reduce that turmoil and give voters a clearer sense of where each group stands.
Proportional representation would reduce that turmoil and give voters a clearer sense of where each group stands.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
When first-past-the-post ties mainstream conservatives to separatists inside one party, every disagreement becomes a crisis.
Proportional representation would reduce that turmoil and give voters a clearer sense of where each group stands.
Proportional representation would reduce that turmoil and give voters a clearer sense of where each group stands.
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This is what bad faith looks like. 👇
This is your MLA (Calgary-Bow) and Education Minister (Alberta) Nicolaides giving reverence to an anti-science activist.
#badfsith #operator #abpoli
Join: RecallNicolaides.ca
www.theprogressreport.ca/anti_vaxxers...
This is your MLA (Calgary-Bow) and Education Minister (Alberta) Nicolaides giving reverence to an anti-science activist.
#badfsith #operator #abpoli
Join: RecallNicolaides.ca
www.theprogressreport.ca/anti_vaxxers...
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is what bad faith looks like. 👇
This is your MLA (Calgary-Bow) and Education Minister (Alberta) Nicolaides giving reverence to an anti-science activist.
#badfsith #operator #abpoli
Join: RecallNicolaides.ca
www.theprogressreport.ca/anti_vaxxers...
This is your MLA (Calgary-Bow) and Education Minister (Alberta) Nicolaides giving reverence to an anti-science activist.
#badfsith #operator #abpoli
Join: RecallNicolaides.ca
www.theprogressreport.ca/anti_vaxxers...
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Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
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Danielle Smith Celebrates Her Glorious Pipeline Victory
YouTube video by Clare Blackwood
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November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The decision is a major rebuke of the retribution campaign against Trump's longtime enemy. Trump's Justice Department had rushed to secure Comey's indictment ahead of the statute of limitations that has since passed.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
Judge dismisses case against Trump foe James Comey
The decision is a major rebuke of retribution campaign against Trump's longtime enemy.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The decision is a major rebuke of the retribution campaign against Trump's longtime enemy. Trump's Justice Department had rushed to secure Comey's indictment ahead of the statute of limitations that has since passed.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
Check your fridge: Yoplait recalls YOP drinkable yogurts www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Check your fridge: Yoplait recalls YOP drinkable yogurts
Yogurt brand Yoplait has recalled some of its products in Canada due to possible pieces of plastic, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
www.ctvnews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Check your fridge: Yoplait recalls YOP drinkable yogurts www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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👋 Albertans, have I told you how much I love this? You have exceeded my expectations and that is really hard to do when I am an insufferable optimist.
Keep it up, and you’ll shake our ‘Berta label by the holidays. 🥳🧧🎄💪🏻
#abpoli #RecallThemAll
Keep it up, and you’ll shake our ‘Berta label by the holidays. 🥳🧧🎄💪🏻
#abpoli #RecallThemAll
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
👋 Albertans, have I told you how much I love this? You have exceeded my expectations and that is really hard to do when I am an insufferable optimist.
Keep it up, and you’ll shake our ‘Berta label by the holidays. 🥳🧧🎄💪🏻
#abpoli #RecallThemAll
Keep it up, and you’ll shake our ‘Berta label by the holidays. 🥳🧧🎄💪🏻
#abpoli #RecallThemAll
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
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More intimidation tactics from the UCP via MLA Nicolaides. The minister of Education is planning to anti-recall canvass while we work. Nowhere in the rules does it suggest this is allowed.
#abpoli #ableg #corruption #harrassment #intimidation not leadership.
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#abpoli #ableg #corruption #harrassment #intimidation not leadership.
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www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
More intimidation tactics from the UCP via MLA Nicolaides. The minister of Education is planning to anti-recall canvass while we work. Nowhere in the rules does it suggest this is allowed.
#abpoli #ableg #corruption #harrassment #intimidation not leadership.
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www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
#abpoli #ableg #corruption #harrassment #intimidation not leadership.
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www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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The concept of Andrew Scheer hiding behind the House chamber curtains during the entire budget vote yesterday is wildly funny. He was like the Wizard of Oz if the Wizard had been weirdly into milk products
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The concept of Andrew Scheer hiding behind the House chamber curtains during the entire budget vote yesterday is wildly funny. He was like the Wizard of Oz if the Wizard had been weirdly into milk products
The 2025 fall session of the Alberta legislature will come to be known, infamously, as the Notwithstanding Session.
I hope that it will also give rise to what will be known as the Notwithstanding General Strike.
The Charter shd protect the rights of minorities not the bigotry of the majority
#abpoli
I hope that it will also give rise to what will be known as the Notwithstanding General Strike.
The Charter shd protect the rights of minorities not the bigotry of the majority
#abpoli
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Alberta's Creaky Power Grid Needs More Battery Storage - @abndpcaucus
@nenshi and @NagwanYYC held a press conference to introduce PM Bill 203.
Story includes my two questions, their answers.
Bottom line: AB is soooo far behind.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/OSjO6jYFOd0
@nenshi and @NagwanYYC held a press conference to introduce PM Bill 203.
Story includes my two questions, their answers.
Bottom line: AB is soooo far behind.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/OSjO6jYFOd0
Alberta's Creaky Power Grid Needs More Battery Storage - NDP
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Alberta's Creaky Power Grid Needs More Battery Storage - @abndpcaucus
@nenshi and @NagwanYYC held a press conference to introduce PM Bill 203.
Story includes my two questions, their answers.
Bottom line: AB is soooo far behind.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/OSjO6jYFOd0
@nenshi and @NagwanYYC held a press conference to introduce PM Bill 203.
Story includes my two questions, their answers.
Bottom line: AB is soooo far behind.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/OSjO6jYFOd0
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"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
xtramagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...