Julia F
@juliaf11.bsky.social
A British Canadian living in rural Alberta.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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'The canary is dead': Doctors call out province as ER deaths, close calls spike. Paul Parks (@pfparks.bsky.social) says he circulated the document on Jan. 11. He has yet to receive a response from government. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #AbLeg #AbHealth #MedHat
'The canary is dead': Doctors call out province as ER deaths, close calls spike - Medicine Hat News
[email protected] Doctors have shared a list of anonymized cases with hospital leadership that illustrate a system at its limits as crisis conditions continue in Alberta’s ERs. The News obtai...
medicinehatnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
'The canary is dead': Doctors call out province as ER deaths, close calls spike. Paul Parks (@pfparks.bsky.social) says he circulated the document on Jan. 11. He has yet to receive a response from government. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #AbLeg #AbHealth #MedHat
Yep. This is what Im most scared about. It was the disinformation and lies that got Brexit voted in.
Buckle Up: MAGA Disinformation Targets Alberta Separatism
Prof @duanebratt.bsky.social says that Alberta will probably be flooded with Brexit-like propaganda from the United States.
#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/9aX6Hl3Y28Q
Prof @duanebratt.bsky.social says that Alberta will probably be flooded with Brexit-like propaganda from the United States.
#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/9aX6Hl3Y28Q
Buckle Up: MAGA Disinformation Targets Alberta Separatism
YouTube video by Energi Media
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January 23, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Yep. This is what Im most scared about. It was the disinformation and lies that got Brexit voted in.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis
Trump: "No nation is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the US. We're a great power. Much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis
What a buffoon. We don't want your golden dome.
LIVE: Donald Trump addresses the World Economic Forum
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LIVE: Donald Trump addresses the World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Reuters
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January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
What a buffoon. We don't want your golden dome.
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this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
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Some days , I find it amazing how many people just keep going in a world where the abusers and bullies still reign and the appeasers still appease (and call appeasement being “grown up”) but thank you to everyone who gives us faith when so often the odds seem so stacked against us
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Some days , I find it amazing how many people just keep going in a world where the abusers and bullies still reign and the appeasers still appease (and call appeasement being “grown up”) but thank you to everyone who gives us faith when so often the odds seem so stacked against us
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Oh my.
NEWS: the entire staff of the Alberta Law Foundation has resigned in the wake of Bill 14, which gives the justice minister more say in how the independent org operates. This is according to a board member who says she was ousted by the law society for speaking out edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...
Alberta Law Foundation board members ousted, staff resign in wake of controversial justice bill
Moira Vane says she and another lawyer were told the Law Society of Alberta is removing them from the board of the Alberta Law Foundation.
edmontonjournal.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Oh my.
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21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
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We can’t fix what we don’t measure.
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says
Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.
ottawacitizen.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
We can’t fix what we don’t measure.
Good god.
🚨BREAKING: Multiple fires have broken after ICE unleashed ANOTHER ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical gas at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Good god.
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Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/albe...
Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms - Alberta Politics
Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only so...
albertapolitics.ca
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/albe...
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Here is how you do it, from Congressperson Sarah McBride.
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Here is how you do it, from Congressperson Sarah McBride.
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All the evidence always shows this
Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
Study published in JAMA Network Open tracked rates of assault, auto theft, break-and-enter, robbery and theft over $5,000 from 2014 to 2025.
www.thestar.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 AM
All the evidence always shows this
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Maduro is a drug dealing corrupt dictator who stole the 2024 election. But I am concerned about this outright violation of international law and the absence of US Congress. This was Trump unilateralism in many ways. What will be the blowback?
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Maduro is a drug dealing corrupt dictator who stole the 2024 election. But I am concerned about this outright violation of international law and the absence of US Congress. This was Trump unilateralism in many ways. What will be the blowback?
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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“Most insidiously, they normalize & cement their harmful views by recruiting much broader swaths of the public, such as my swim club, into their power play, counting on many people being too busy or otherwise not paying close enough attention”
#abpoli #ableg
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
#abpoli #ableg
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Opinion: Alberta's new gender rules sink one woman's participation in swim club
Swim Alberta now requiring club participants to declare sex at birth and gender.
calgaryherald.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“Most insidiously, they normalize & cement their harmful views by recruiting much broader swaths of the public, such as my swim club, into their power play, counting on many people being too busy or otherwise not paying close enough attention”
#abpoli #ableg
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
#abpoli #ableg
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Pay close attention to who is saying that 14 year-olds *can* consent to sex with trump and other damp billionaires but *can’t* consent to gender affirming care provided in close and collaborative partnership with their doctor.
December 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pay close attention to who is saying that 14 year-olds *can* consent to sex with trump and other damp billionaires but *can’t* consent to gender affirming care provided in close and collaborative partnership with their doctor.
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Periodic reminder that governmental obfuscation is not just a burr for journos: It runs counter to the public interest. It makes for an ill-informed population with less trust in institutions.
The people who work for you don't want you to have information you own. Be mad about that.
The people who work for you don't want you to have information you own. Be mad about that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Periodic reminder that governmental obfuscation is not just a burr for journos: It runs counter to the public interest. It makes for an ill-informed population with less trust in institutions.
The people who work for you don't want you to have information you own. Be mad about that.
The people who work for you don't want you to have information you own. Be mad about that.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
