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Rural urbanist. #TreatyOneTerritory #Manitoba #Altona #Bikesky #FreePalestine #CapitalismWillKillUs 🚲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 7h

New season, new fire pit #GoJetsGo #Altona

A group of people sitting around a fire pit watching the Jets game outdoors

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 7h

It's Southern Manitoba, I'm beyond sure those are not the sins they're talking about.

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 10h

Both sides of a sign outside Winkler #Manitoba

Which begs the questions...

Does sin pay better than minimum? And why fear the Lord, how about living a life of love and acceptance instead, just like Jesus taught? 😊❤️

A road side sight saying the wages if sin is death

A road side sign saying fear the Lord and depart from evil

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 12h

Ah Southern #Manitoba ...

A hill with two signs. One saying Trudeau Must Go and the other for the United Patriots of Canada.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 18h

Enjoy Slovenia! We loved our time there in summer of 2024. 🥰 🇸🇮

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 19h

Amen Erna, Amen. #Winnipeg #ClimateEmergency

Time for a shakeup at city hall

ERNA BUFFIE

I DON’T know how many of you remember this, but our current mayor, Scott Gillingham, won his position in the 2022 civic election with just 27 per cent of the vote, the smallest vote share for any mayor in recent history.

Some 53 per cent of Winnipeg voters chose, instead, to cast their ballots for one of the more progressive centre-left candidates.

And if the two progressive mayoral candidates hadn’t split the vote, we might be looking at a very different urban landscape from the one I find myself staring at, somewhat dumbfoundedly, today.

Now, to be fair, Gillingham seemed to be on the right track at first. He was consulting with more progressive city players like Shaun Loney and even seemed to be contemplating revamping or eliminating council’s executive policy committee.

Under his tenure, the city’s 20-year Urban Forest Strategy was approved, and council ensured the budget needed to sustainably maintain and replace our public trees. Winnipeg also signed on to the Housing Accelerator Fund; a federal program aimed at increasing housing density. A hugely positive step given that increased density can play a major role in reducing carbon emissions.

That’s assuming, of course, that increased density is paired with green planning, affordability and investments in the repair of existing sidewalks and roads that would ensure walkable, bikable, livable infill neighbourhoods.

And therein lies the rub. Because based on what I’ve witnessed, our mayor and city council are not prioritizing green planning, let alone repairing, restoring and protecting what we have.

If they were, they wouldn’t be selling off publicly owned riverbank properties to developers or approving subdivisions that potentially threaten groundwater resources. Nor would they be charging

developers a buck to destroy a much-loved, publicly owned greenspace for new supportive housing, rather than buying and renovating one of the area’s boarded up apartment b…

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Amen Kate, Amen.

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

I would use many other words for Josh. 😞

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I'm sure Josh knows Jesus. I mean, his version of Jesus, not that pesky one found in the Bible.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Leafs are undefeated so far this year so...

a man in a suit says i thought this was going to be your year

Alt: a man in a suit says i thought this was going to be your year

media.tenor.com

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe because the Jays have a chance of actually winning it all? 😉

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Calling my local pharmacy at 9am!

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

I've always loved my time spent in Brandon, great city!

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Family (but not for the gays)
Marriage (also not for the gays)
Gender (fuck you gays, trans and yeah, women)
Civilization (just WTF?)
Freedom (shout out to the kkkonvoy buds)

Does everyone have an awesome MLA like I do? #fuck

Josh Guenter for Borderland

Sep 12

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So well said. I have never been so affected by the death of someone I did not know and never met. Charlie spoke for so many of us who have been told time and again that we are hateful and don't belong because we believe in the same old time-honoured values of family, marriage, gender, civilization and freedom.

I believe God has a bigger purpose in all of this. When a big tree falls, it creates room for many others to grow. I hope that in the wake of Charlie's devastating assassination, my generation and the one after will step up and carry on the torch for truth and freedom.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Westman!!

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

#Brandon road trip tomorrow. Looking forward to it! 😊

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

You should see my goth beer!

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

😂

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

It's a simple beer, just like Standard!

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Oly!

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

What's with you Clerkin's knocking my beer! 🤣

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

It's my emo beer. 🙂

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Well the OT I'll be working will indeed prepare for the hockey season! So you weren't far off. 😉

hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 1d

"The most important thing we can do is support each other—formal or informal networks, we just do it."

Watch full interview from my #RunLikeAGirl at NYC Climate Week launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXHq...

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