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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 2h

Can I tell you how indispensable @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social has been in its coverage of the Calgary election. Whether you are following it closely or not. Videos of numerous ward and mayoral forums. And there most valuable service, a campaign primer. www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-elec...

Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl

Follow along with our candidate tracker.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 1d

In Montreal with my family for the weekend. Will I take more photos of my kids or infrastructure 😂?

An intersection with a traffic garden and reclaimed nature play space

Another view of the traffic garden for kids

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 1d

New bike day!!! #newbike

A new Marin bike, it is maroon coloured. Sitting on a wood deck leaning against a wood table.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

WFP Letter to the Ediitor
Saturday Oct. 11/2025

Too many lost to drugs

I live in Point Douglas and like many of my neighbours, I accept the evidence that harm reduction is evidence-based health care and want people in my neighbourhood to be able to access this lifesaving health care.

I think supervised consumption sites are needed, and that Winnipeg needs a number of them, and I would very much support one or a few being established in Point Douglas where I live. Similarly, detox options are needed, and I welcome their presence as well; again this is health-care treatment that is sorely needed in the midst of an ongoing drug toxicity crisis. Like any neighbourhood, views from here are diverse.

Yet, in recent years the views that have been highlighted from my neighbourhood in the media concerning possible local developments are not only anti-scientific, they frame people that I love as dangerous, delinquent, and harmful to others, seemingly as a strategy to prevent the establishment of lifesaving health care.

These views are in no way representative of people who live in Point Douglas — many in fact disagree. We have lost too many people to drug toxicity and the lack of services that is in part linked to this stigma. We can do so much better.

KATE SJOBERG

Winnipeg

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

“Women are half the population, and we need broader diversity in politics—women, but also diversity across the line, whether it’s Indigenous Peoples or members of LGBTQ+ community or racialized Canadians,” @cathmckenna.bsky.social told @whigstandard.bsky.social

www.thewhig.com/opinion/run-...

‘Run like a girl’ to defeat misogyny

Catherine McKenna is busy these days fighting the good fight on behalf of women and the environment.

www.thewhig.com

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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 1d

L’urgence de relancer le transport collectif

Plombé par des enjeux de financement, les retards de livraison des projets et le sentiment d’insécurité grandissant, le transport collectif nage en eaux troubles. En pleine campagne municipale, des usagers espèrent voir les candidats à la mairie s’engager à renverser la vapeur.

www.lapresse.ca

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 1d

Just like all expired food isn’t expired…

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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 1d

I had the greatest time in Montreal last week biking around on a Bixi. I would never have bothered to rent a bike, but since Bixi bikes - and bike lanes - were everywhere, I couldn’t resist!

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #Winnipeg

montrealgazette.com/news/bixi-bi...

Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares

The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

montrealgazette.com

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

truly La Belle Province!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 2d

Canada's House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has been studying whether equity, diversity and inclusion should be considered in awarding grants. It's telling that the three people quoted as being against this are all men, incl Pinker. 🧪

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs

Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

universityaffairs.ca

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.😎🤣💙☺️

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

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Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video)

YouTube video by Talking Heads

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

I’m really proud to support @emmaewood.bsky.social for City Council. She will be an awesome councillor, not just for Elmwood-EK but for the whole city! #winnipeg #wpgpoli Council candidates for Elmwood-EK make their case
www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit...

Council candidates for Elmwood-EK make their case

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!!

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, according to an annual assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, according to an annual assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

I bumped into the Yum Yum Festival when I was there in June.

Sign for the Yum Yum Festival of Food and Architecture

Someone holding a sign advertising architect inspired cocktails

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

Musquodoboit Harbour

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

A thing I'd add to @maxfawcett.bsky.social's article is BC, while antagonistic to a north coast crude pipeline, is quietly going along with actual, real efforts to maximize the existing TMX pipeline, via preparations for dredging to allow full loading of existing tankers. AB could mess that up.

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3d

Danielle Smith keeps saying she wants a new pipeline. But her actions suggest what she's really after is a renewed fight with Canada -- even if it ends up costing her the pipeline she claims to care so much about.

#cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/o...