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Elsie Wellgood
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Canadian 🇨🇦 sociologist with a background in health, food, technology & the intersectionality in inequality.
Vote because it is important. I vote with my ballot, my feet, my dollar, my time, my attention. Vote, don’t complain. #ElbowsUp
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When leadership is authoritarian, Albertans show up to say they value democracy & our democratic norms. Freedom doesn’t exist w/o an independent judiciary. To the residents of Brooks-Medicine Hat, go give our #dicktator the middle finger and sign the recall petition.

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Recall petition targeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith approved | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with two additional members of her cabinet, are now the latest MLAs to face a recall petition from constituents.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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How are the BC residents feeling about this? Have any of you heard from Poilievre asking you about your opinion about this? He does sit in western Canada after all. This is hot air politics. I’ve always thought these antics were cheap.
#BCpoli #ABpoli #CDNpoli #Canada

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Conservative motion will force Liberals to 'put up or shut up' on oil pipeline support: Poilievre | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilevre says his party's upcoming motion — which borrows language from the new Canada-Alberta energy agreement — is meant to force the Liberals to "put up or shut up" on wh...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Excuse me? You won’t even listen to all of your citizens concerns if they don’t agree with you. You shut down discussions and behave like #dicktators in a democratic country. You’re sounding very insecure and desperate there Dani.
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta

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Alberta Premier says courts should not be gatekeepers on independence questions | CBC News
Danielle Smith was asked about the independence question Saturday on her radio call-in show, weighing in for the first time after her government proposed legislation that ground to a halt an ongoing c...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Canada also participated in this war. This is the conversation that has been kept as quiet as possible. That’s gotta stop.
#Canada #CDNpoli #Canadapolitics
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Rules for thee but not for me is the UCP model. This idea of owning the libs or owning the opposition is petty and pathetic. It’s also a big circle jerk that gets everyone nowhere.
#Alberta #Canada #ABpoli #CDNpoli

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ANALYSIS | UCP government keeps blocking or nixing Alberta court challenges. Why? | CBC News
From transgender policies to referendums to "conservative" party names, the Alberta UCP has stepped in where others have feared to tread.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"Using a solution that failed before, we're trying to appease separatist movements in one part of the country by fuelling them in another part of the country," Guilbeault told host Rosemary Barton.

Alberta’s separatist movement is different, it’s foreign interference.

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Feds' backtracking on climate action is 'fuelling' Quebec separatism, ex-minister Guilbeault says | CBC News
The federal government is stoking Quebec separatism by walking back its climate commitments — including in its recent deal with Alberta — Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault says.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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After all the talk of a sovereign province, all that time and energy, the proposed referendum is deemed unconstitutional.
#Alberta #ABpolitics #Canada #CanadianPolitics

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Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News
An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introdu...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Stop interfering in Canada’s democracy. We know what is best for Canada’s defense. Standing with the Americans weakens democracy around the world. Canada needs to stand with countries that share our democratic values.

#FucktheF35

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December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Remembering Kai T Erickson and his important contributions to sociology and society at large.
#sociology #trauma #mercurypoisoning #GrassyNarrows

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He spent his career documenting collective trauma. Grassy Narrows was one of his toughest cases | CBC Radio
Kai T. Erikson, Yale sociologist who dedicated his career to documenting the collective trauma faced by communities in the wake of unimaginable disasters, has died at the age of 94. In the late '70s, ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Tell me which Bills that the UCP have pushed through have actually benefited Albertans?
#Alberta #ABpoli

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Alberta tries to legislate ban on lawsuits about AIMCo losses | CBC News
The Alberta government is proposing new legislation to prevent public sector pensions from suing the Alberta Investment Management Corp., or AIMCo, for decisions made before November 2024.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Throw the book at Stellantis! I smell bs. This looks and sounds more like a stalling tactic. Pathetic and unacceptable.
#stellantis #Canada #politics #Windsor

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MPs ‘speechless’ after Stellantis fails to show up to hearing, citing technical issues | CBC News
Members of Parliament from multiple parties slammed Stellantis on Tuesday for failing to show up to a committee hearing about the federal government’s multimillion-dollar funding deals with the global...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I see AI legislation as a dereliction of duty. I’ve read AI works and it sucks. This is legislators pawning off the job to something even more incompetent than they are. Resign. The Smith regime does not want to work.
#Alberta #ABpoli #AI #legislation #badactors

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Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Release these transcripts too.
#Trump #transcipts #Khashoggi

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Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
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November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Really Vance? My question to the DL diva queen: If Canada’s standard of living is stagnant, why is our life expectancy consistently higher than yours? Sounds like your standard of living is declining if life expectancy is down.
#FuckOffFascists
#Canada
#USA #immigration

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JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Incredible! Wolves using crab traps to snatch a meal from humans.
#wolves #BCwildlife

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B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species | CBC News
Within a day of the cameras being set up in the Heiltsuk First Nation last year, researchers  captured footage of a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth. The footage the...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Perhaps this is a window into similar circumstances in other provinces. Affordable housing and shelters for victims of domestic violence must be available for Canadians. More should be built.
#Canada #BCpoli #domesticviolence

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Report reveals how domestic abusers weaponize B.C.'s housing crisis, calls for more legal aid | CBC News
A legal group's interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence show that many stay in abusive relationships because they can't find affordable housing. Following the interviews, a report from ...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Does anyone else think these “men’s clubs” are gay? It’s safe to come out of the closet here in Canada.
#CanadianAntiHateNetwork #misogyny #racism

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I don’t think I have ever seen a Newfoundlander pup half shaved. I’m so used to seeing them as adorable shaggy dogs that I don’t know if I would have clocked them as a dog from afar.

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The ‘lion’ filmed roaming the Irish countryside is a Newfoundland dog named Mouse | CBC Radio
It turns out, the creature filmed slinking through the forest was not a lion, but rather a Newfoundland dog with a lion haircut.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This is a war crime and must be condemned as such.

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Called narco-terrorists by Trump administration, men 'executed' in Venezuela are mourned by loved ones | CBC News
More than 60 people killed since early September when the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs. The Associated Press learned the identities of...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It is egregious that Canada weapons are finding their way to the frontlines of not one, but two genocides.
#Canada #Gaza #Sudan
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Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, accused of civilian massacres, have posted numerous images posing with rifles bearing the logo of a small B.C. manufacturer called Sterling Cross Defense Systems. Ex...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Good! It is an abuse of power.
#Alberta #ABpoli #ATA #teacherstrike #courtchallenge

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Teachers' union taking Alberta government to court over notwithstanding clause | CBC News
The Alberta Teachers’ Association has filed a constitutional challenge of a provincial government law that forced educators across the province back to work and imposed a new contract.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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They were not in their 40s. These women were in their 50s and 60s playing women in their 50s, with the exception of Blanche (sorta iykyk) and Sophia. They were playing women their age (the exception being Sophia). The youth really seem to struggle with #aging sheesh 🙄

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November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I remember attending a charity event in university in support of the people in the Darfur region. That was 20 years ago. Today, I have a difficult time getting any information about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. That’s not right.
#Sudan #humanitariancrisis

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Mass killings continue in Sudan's El Fasher, aid groups say | CBC News
Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian cri...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Not gonna lie, the lineup was ridiculous. If was a senior or had an injury, I don’t think I would’ve waited that hour. Thanks Dani for making voting more inaccessible than it needs to be.
#ABpoli #Alberta #municipalelections

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Fewer Calgarians cast a ballot in this municipal election than the last one | CBC News
Turnout was down in the 2025 Calgary municipal election, with 39 per cent of eligible electors casting a ballot, a decline from the 46 per cent who voted in 2021.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I see this as a failure and us Canadians deserve answers. And Ukraine definitely deserves better from us. What the heck happened? #Canada #Ukraine

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Canada cancels plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine: defence minister | CBC News
A contract to supply Ukraine with refurbished light armoured vehicles is officially dead, the defence minister told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM