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glenda_aus🍁🦘 @glendaaus.bsky.social · 1h

A thousand people marching for teachers on a Wednesday in Lethbridge?

Unheard of, but makes me so happy, to see people are waking up to the dishonesty of the UCP/MAGA govt.

Please share #Alberta

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Another huge crowd turns out for teachers

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Close to 1,000 people gathered along Mayor Magrath Drive Wednesday afternoon wearing red, holding signs, and

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 3h

“Fraser said it would be "unimaginable" for a federal government to steer clear of a case affecting Charter rights that will have lasting impacts and suggested the premiers' argument is "untenable."”

Hard agree.

🦋 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊® @thorchrs.bsky.social · 3h

👇🇨🇦"Justice minister rejects premiers' request to pull out of notwithstanding clause case" #NotwithstandingClause #JusticeMinisterSeanFraser #CharterOfRightsAndFreedoms #Canada

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3h

The “pro-life” Republican Party strikes again.

NPR @npr.org · 4h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 3h

Any and all ICE agents entering Canada should be arrested under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

We have a legal framework designed to address the unconscionable. We ought to use it!

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3h

‘Global warming is very much a thing’: A Nova Scotia water delivery company owner on the drought and climate change

Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

'Global warming is very much a thing': A Nova Scotia water delivery company owner on the drought and climate change - Halifax Examiner

An interview with Tammie Isenor with Maritime Clean and Care Ltd. in East Hants.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 5h

Dani wants to reverse this trend.
More sad.
#cdnpoli

NPR @npr.org · 5h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 4h

Bike advocacy can look like:
- meeting politicians and celebrating cycling on Parliament Hill
- going to a rally for safe streets
- biking your kids to school
- biking to work

And sometimes you can do all of them in only 12 hours (🥱)

#OttBike #BikeDayOnTheHill #SafeStreets #BikeBus

The view over handlebars of an orange bike in a green painted left turn bike box

A group of people wearing helmets listen to someone in a black jacket and pink hat speaking on a street corner.

A group of people including kids wearing backpacks waiting to turn left

Cassie, a white woman with bangs, smiles in a selfie with the Peace Tower behind her

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TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP @thegentyyc.bsky.social · 4h

You get tired (like bone tired, like *exhausted*) of pointing out the hypocrisy but as far as how to act like Canadian Danielle Smith is like the worst possible example in the entire country #abpoli #cdnpoli

cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 22h

BC Energy Minister Adrian Dix has dismissed the latest push by Alberta's premier for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, saying the "definition of being Canadian isn't to agree with everything Danielle Smith says."

www.rmoutlook.com/beyond-local...

#BC #Alberta

Beyond Local: B.C.'s Dix says it is 'Canadian' to disagree with Alberta Premier Smith over pipeline

Danielle Smith says B.C. Premier David Eby's recent rejection of her pipeline pitch last week is "un-Canadian" and "unconstitutional."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 4h

Four in five Canadians surveyed believe boycotting U.S.-made goods or avoiding travel to the United States could help strengthen #Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/nan...

Most Canadians think boycotting U.S. goods or travel is helpful: Nanos

Four in five Canadians believe boycotting U.S.-made goods or avoiding travel to the United States could help strengthen Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 4h

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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

I think for Halloween I may put on a blue suit, a strand of pearls and a brown wig, and wander around saying “Well look,” in an authoritative but slightly pissy tone because that’s the scariest thing in Alberta right now.

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Alex Middleton @alexyyc.bsky.social · 22h

Because Communities First is a UCP-backed party... they'll never criticise the province.

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 16h

Davison is all slogans. Farkas is getting hammered on his previous record as a councillor. (He's matured and admitted he made mistakes before.) Sharp is getting hammered on her voting record & her friend Danielle Smith. Thiessen is doing well, and Gondek is doing well.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, #Canada! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🇨🇦
#ElbowsWayUp
#BoycottUSA

vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/08/c...

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Bridget McGrath 🇨🇦 @o-tawdry.bsky.social · 4h

We can't "integrate" with a country that violates human rights & international laws.

Stay in your fascist lane,🇺🇸. Keep out of Canada!

Canadians need to call their local MP as well as Carney to voice their concerns over this proposed 🇺🇸 foothold into 🇨🇦.
#uspoli #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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The Warrior Nurse 🇨🇦🇵🇪 @thewarriornurse.bsky.social · 3h

The disappointment with our Canadian government on this matter continues. Do better!
youtube.com/shorts/RCnuw...

Israel just illegally intercepted six Canadians in international waters. Here's what we know

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4h

A parent who parked his Audi on our school's open street yelled at me after I politely asked him to move his car just a little from where the students would come out. "You people are so entitled!" It was the dad of a kid who is in my son's class. We know each other and have seen each other socially!

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

What makes it so striking is that these are people with whom you have an obvious, built-in social tie. You see each other regularly. These aren’t total strangers, and it’s still too much to ask to even consider the possibility they’re actual people.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 17h

Danielle Smith loves to pick fights but if I were her I might have thought twice about picking one with a guy who is 6’7”, spits facts, and absolutely nailed the real reason she’s shilling for a pipeline.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 19h

Tensions rise over potential golf course in #WestMabou

Anger with the #NovaScotia government is growing as Cabot Golf tees up another bid for a possible development. The land is protected by law and has previously been deemed out of bounds for such proposals.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Tensions rise over potential golf course in West Mabou

Anger with the Nova Scotia government is growing as Cabot Golf tees up another bid for a possible development at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park. The land is protected by law and has previously been ...

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 19h

#UCP = MAGA

UCP/MAGA want quality education only in private schools.
then public school kids are perpetually disadvantaged; a permanent underclass of exploitable labour.

Think! And then get in #UCP's way.
Don't let AB kids suffer as US kids do. #ableg #abpoli #ableg

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🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her) @peislandergirl.bsky.social · 19h

I won the @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social Summer Overnight challenge! All that camping paid off 😁 Thanks so much to the fab prize donors! #yycbike

Prizes from Go Big Inc, The Bert Shoe, Old Man Mountain Racks, and Squire Locks.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 22h

Hey guys did I mention I like ebikes?

here is a short clip of me counting the ways with lots of data

#yycbike #ebike #bike

Energy vs Climate Podcast @energyvsclimate.bsky.social · 22h

@shastingssimon.bsky.social discusses her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd love: E-Bikes
With @davidkeith.bsky.social & Ed Whittingham.

From "Energy Tech That Has Us (and You) Talking" - full episode at:
www.energyvsclimate.com/tech-that-ha...

youtu.be/uVjElecZfn4

#cleantech #cleanenergy #climatechange #podcast

Energy Technology We Like: E-Bikes #podcast

YouTube video by Energy vs Climate: climate change & energy systems

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 1d

MARK THE DATE, ghosts & goblins! The Hub's INAUGURAL #Hallowheelin' event is coming up Saturday, Oct 25th!

🧛‍♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!

& MORE!!

RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc

Event is Hallowheelin against a dark Calgary backdrop with folks in costumes on bikes, a trick or treat filled pumpkin, City of Calgary & Hub logos

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 1d

Happy second Wednesday of the month, a reverent day for funicular users, as on this day, regularly scheduled funicular maintenance will occur. #YegFunicularStatus

Proud of self for remembering this time.

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