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M A Shane
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🇨🇦 Ph.D. LGBTQ2S+ Ally. Pro social justice, peace, public education & politics. Cruelty is not state craft. Chaos is not strength. Stupidity is a moral failing (Bonhoeffer). Gratefully living & working on Treaty 6 land.
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If as Vaclav Havel says, hope is the certainty that something makes sense, then hopelessness is the experience that nothing does. Hopelessness is fuelled by relentless non-sense.

Witness the hopelessness of Trump’s America.

Canadians must not abandon hope or sense. #Cndpoli #abpoli #ableg
Separatist fever dreams.

This is non-sense. It reads like grade 7 essay logic.

These are the people for whom #UCP-MAGA are risking OUR future!

Resist! Tell #UCP we are Canadians! That Alberta is not a hive of lunatics & traitors.
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Also in Medicine Hat.
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Also in Medicine Hat.
February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Now is the time for Albertans to stand up for Canada!

Be seen. Be peaceful. Be loud. Gather in solidarity with our country, demand our freedoms be protected for ourselves and generations to come.
#ableg #abed #abpoli #yeg #yyc #ymm #yql #abhealth #abpostsec
Mark your calendars, Saturday Feb 21!
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Listening to #BondiHearing sounding like a demented screech owl. Clearly the US no longer functions as a democracy.

Canadians, & particularly Albertans, avoid MAGA dysfunction! Adhere to our values & rule of law! Inoculate Canada & AB against #MAGA infection. Stay sane. #UCP #UCP-MAGA #cndpoli
February 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The news of the BC school shooting is devastating to all Canadians. In the coming hours and days, we will learn how we can support our brothers and sisters in this stricken community. Stay aware, stay informed. #bcpoli #bcshooting #cndpoli #abed #bced
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 PM
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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Howe appropriate! 🍁🇨🇦
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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That’ll be an interesting read. Can’t manufacture consent in the open-answer replies!
Last week, I learned an adjudicator had sided with me in 5 inquiries re: the province refusing to release results of its Alberta Next surveys

GOA published the multiple choice results in Dec but has been ordered to give me 213 pages of open-answer replies that haven't yet been shared
#ableg #abpoli
Province broke its own access to information laws in withholding Alberta Next survey results
The Alberta government wrongly withheld hundreds of pages of results from its Alberta Next surveys an adjudicator has ruled.
edmontonjournal.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
tinyurl.com/2kbr2bpw

Smith & #UCP-MAGA know this. They KNOW THIS.

Yet they stoke their cynical polemics & play footsie with the separatist lunatics for #UCP backwards political agenda. All at a time when Canada is threatened & Alberta is seen as a nest of traitors. #UCP #ableg #cndpoli #abpoli
Alberta separation needs First Nations’ permission, says AFN national chief
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says Alberta separatists will not be taking treaty land.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Every country surely must understand by now that any agreement they have entered into with the US and any agreement they are currently negotiating is utterly worthless while Trump is president.
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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We’re getting the housing supply up so your costs come down.

A key part of that mission is converting federal lands into housing more quickly.
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Alberta separatists!📣 You don't own the land.
#Indigenous peoples own the land. All of it.
It is un-ceded treaty land.

There's nothing to separate. Not even a Walmart parking lot in Olds. #ForeverCanada #WeAreAllTreatyPeople #ableg #abpoli #
February 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Wake up, separatists! It would be an utter disaster. You say you don't want to be the 51st state - well, that's exactly what would happen. #abpoli #NoSeparatists #ForeverCanadian
I hope someone smarter than me educates Albertans on the disaster that is Brexit
Because if an established country, with all the infrastructure needed, falls into economic disaster after splitting with the EU
Imagine how bad it'll be for Alberta to split with Canada
#ableg #abpoli
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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If I understand this correctly, Trump is outraged that Canada built a bridge without charging us anything for it.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/p...
#Canada #GordieHoweBridge
Trump threatens to block opening of new US-Canada bridge | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block the opening of a new bridge connecting the US and Canada, again lashing out at his country’s northern neighbor over a range of economic issues as the ...
www.cnn.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Oh HELL Ya!

Thank you!
February 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Murderous #ICE using Canadian-made vehicles to terrorize US citizens make me sick to my stomach.

Feel the same way? Please write to Anand and Carney to withhold export permits!

@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

@mark-carney.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/4pavn83k

Please share! #cndpoli #abpoli
ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm | CBC News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb bla...
tinyurl.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
If you ever wondered what you would have done to defy fascism, to stand for civil rights, to protest unjust wars, to be an ally to the marginalized...

You're doing it now.

#cndpoli #ableg #abpoli #elbowsup #overtheboards #UCP-MAGA #UCP #MAGA #uspoli #yeg #ycc #ymm #yql
February 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZR...

THIS is the regime #UCP-MAGA seeks to inflict upon Alberta. Resist.

Withhold the export permits for Canadian-built armoured vehicles ICE will use against civilians.

#elbowsup #cndpoli #overtheboards #UCP #ableg #abed #abpoli #ontpoli #yeg #yyc #ymm #yql
FURIOUS Canada RESPONDS STRONGLY to Trump ATTACK!!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM