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Bluenoser at heart
#yql
grateful to live on Treaty 7 land
#ViveLeCanada
#GoHabsGo
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I hope you’re ok
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Just saw a lump on the road, stopped my car & went to help what was clearly a hedgehog in distress.
Reader, it was a mangel worzel. A loamy tuber.
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This👇 is the current state of emergency services in AB

Endless Red Alerts = no ambulance available to respond

This is on the govt to protect its first responders and ALL Albertans

When’s the last time the Premier discussed how her govt will improve this? (Other than 90day fix promise)
So Danielle Smith wants to take over policing in Alberta because she needs the police to get to Albertans on time...

But she can't even manage making sure that POLICE get an AMBULANCE on time with the EMS service she already runs?!?

This is horrifying.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar evening...a quote from Sense8 that I think is so profound.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Sometimes there’s too much going on in the world and you need to look at a large ridiculous bird for a minute.

shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
April 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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All Canadian Christmas Carols 🇨🇦🎄
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Winter Is Finally Good For Something...
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Danielle Smith has just increased the buy in on a citizen initiated referendum from $500 to $25,000 and massively clamped down on fundraising to do so.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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We are told the system is "coping." Govt PR teams assure us that "fluctuations" are normal. Look at these graphs and tell me where the "normal" is.

This is real time data from our 14 largest hospitals sites in AB.

The red bars represent dangerous overcrowding.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 16 - acrylic on canvas
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Tag 16
Aquarell
Earth I
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, one of the best satirists of all time.
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🪸🎨🐙 Handcrafted Coral + Octopus sculpted from poly clay

#ArtYear #Art #Coral #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
For Day 16, I present a watercolour study of our native calypso orchid plant, found growing at the base of conifer trees in shady, mountain forests.
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar
Fluttering cosmos, their petals look like fingers that beckon and wave. These ones grew on my balcony and amused me all summer long as they danced in the wind.
#paintingflowers
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The flowers of December-seriously cheering, especially if you find this time of year tricky…🌿
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Happy Friday!
Here is a new painting I just finished this week, still working on a title. 30x48 inch acrylic on canvas. Hope you like it!
Have a wonderful evening!
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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"Provincial data shows 16.2 per cent of Albertans have had a flu shot, and 6.1 per cent have had a COVID-19 shot so far this season."

Get vaccinated!!

#abpoli #cdnpoli #health

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'We're getting crushed': Alberta emergency rooms hit with wave of influenza patients | CBC News
Alberta hospitals are being slammed with flu patients at a time when they’re already under strain, and doctors are bracing for more as the worst of the respiratory virus season has yet to hit.
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Quite the caper down in Lethbridge: the Nate Neudorf recall campaign isn't circulating its petition, and petition leader is ghosting would-be canvassers.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me
Lethbridgians worried MLA recall drive is a 'sham' that's ignoring volunteers | CBC News
Locals can't sign up to canvass for petitions against United Conservative MLA Nathan Neudorf or find out where to sign forms.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Some people in Lethbridge who want to recall their MLA are now worried the petition against him is actually designed to *protect* the MLA from being recalled.

Alberta's recall rules say that once a petition is launched and fails, no subsequent petitions can be launched.

Via @markusoff.bsky.social:
Lethbridgians worried MLA recall drive is a 'sham' that's ignoring volunteers | CBC News
Locals can't sign up to canvass for petitions against United Conservative MLA Nathan Neudorf or find out where to sign forms.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Novel privatization, without any plan regarding guardrails or a roadmap, along with further fragmenting the system certainly is not helping.

ALL ABs should be very concerned.

HC Access is absolutely going in the wrong direction in AB. ABs DESERVE BETTER.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Currently in AB: 50% of ALL Emergency Care Spaces in the Edmonton and Calgary major EDs are blocked by very sick pts who cannot be admitted up to the proper floor as the hospital is too full. (= Emerg In -Pts = EIPs). STRANDED in our EDs.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Bears vs. Trail cameras
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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BREAKING!!!

The day after the UCP attempted to stop the courts from issuing a ruling...

The courts have ruled.

And they not only rule the question is unconstitutional, but that separation requires the consent of First Nations period!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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TODAY, Court of King’s Bench, after hearing submissions from First Nations, ruled that the separatists’ (Alberta Prosperity Project) proposed referendum question is unconstitutional. It violates all Albertans Charter and First Nations’ treaty rights.

Premier, what now?

#ableg
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM