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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t watch the YYC mayoral debate? Here’s an instructive Reddit thread to summarize audience impressions: www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/s/...

From the Calgary community on Reddit

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 9h

After volunteering for several campaigns, I am impressed with anyone who runs, and I am in awe of women and people of colour who endure the abuse that they do—it is out of proportion to their representation. We would all do well to review our behaviours towards others, online or in the real world.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 9h

a woman with long blonde hair is smiling and wearing a white jacket and a pink shirt .

Alt: a woman with long blonde hair is smiling and wearing a white jacket and a pink shirt .

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 9h

**SIGH**

Will the world ever be civil again?

Council, mayoral candidates say they are dealing with growing incivility on the campaign trail

In the final stretch of the civic election campaign, some council candidates say they are dealing with incivility -- from the public, including incidents of racism, bigotry and sexist remarks.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 9h

TRUTH

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 9h

“Alberta students don’t need the nourishment of healthy food to get through their day, they only require a day full of Alberta government propaganda.”

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 10h

What’s the over/under on Danielle Smith opting out of federal dollars for school lunches because they won’t “meet the unique needs of Alberta children?”

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 10h

Surely there’s something called Glacier too.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 10h

I caught myself and giggled as soon as I realized he wasn’t going to talk back.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 11h

Please do!

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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder that the world’s gone mad and none of this is normal.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 12h

Love this, I don’t see it on the gallery website yet—do you know when it’s going up?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 14h

A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven.

God says, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

“At last! Who shot JFK?”

God says, “Oswald, acting alone.”

Conspiracy theorist says, “Shit. This goes even higher than I thought…”

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 14h

Done and dusted.

Mayor.
Councillor.
School board trustee.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly what would they do? Any step would create a firestorm.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 15h

Daily lit drop, Halloween version. Almost said hello to this guy. 🤣

A Halloween figure sitting on a chair on a leafy front lawn.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

Phone and internet billing plans are absolute bullshit. We recently renegotiated our plan and immediately after doing so unearthed a billing glitch that is a known problem and Telus is still working on it, 20 days later.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Canadian postal workers to resume mail delivery on Saturday, begin rotating strikes reut.rs/4nR9P2a

Canadian postal workers to resume mail delivery on Saturday, begin rotating strikes

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers will resume mail delivery on Saturday and rotate which workers are on strike in a labor dispute that has halted mail services nationwide for about two weeks.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 20h

Hmmm, Carney and Smith both appear to want a pipeline but not the same pipeline.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Keystone XL pipeline could play part in tighter US-Canada ties, Carney says reut.rs/4h5m7kR

Keystone XL pipeline could play part in tighter US-Canada ties, Carney says

Reviving the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. could play a part in tightening U.S.-Canada energy cooperation, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 20h

Irony is dead. I laughed out loud when I read that line.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 20h

That’s my understanding.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21h

🤦🏼

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21h

- a customary dig at Ottawa: “institutions should explore ways of promoting Alberta's outstanding post-secondary programs with various countries and international students to address the REPUTATIONAL IMPACTS of the federal govt's policies and continue to attract top talent to Alberta.”

WTF

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21h

This is about as much as you’d expect from a Mintz panel:

- performance-based funding measures for post-secondary
- a focus on int’l students (because $$)
- a reference to DEI that includes protecting freedom of expression (I wonder what kind)
- ties to government priorities

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21h

The Mintz panel on Post-Secondary Institution Funding and Alberta’s Competitiveness was just released. I need time to read through it and analyze it. But here are their recommendations:

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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 21h

Need a Friday morning Calgary municipal election fix? How about hearing from the candidates in Ward 6? #yyc #calgary #yycvote

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