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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦

@ziadfazel.bsky.social

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In Nov 2024, BlueSky became my primary platform. Still have my @ziadfazel on Xitter because of my history of threads there. Thanks for following me (back) here again. Photo summer 2024 at Stamps game with my friend @booshmeister. Life is good.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you Dr Young-Leslie @ethnographer.bsky.social for having @lukaszukab.bsky.social #ForeverCanadian petition at our chance meeting Friday at breakfast after @drdagly.bsky.social bicycle barista coffee at Constable Ezio Faraone Memorial Park.

Pleasure meeting you, and other great #yeg people.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 10h

Does he need an agent?

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 10h

This is the situation we find ourselves in: fast-tracking a pipeline under C-5 hands BC a veto by law, whereas the regular CER process does not, but doesn’t come with the concierge service of the Major Projects Office. Trade offs! #cdnpoli

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Majority of Canadians — including B.C. residents — support Alberta’s pipeline push, poll finds | CBC News

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests a majority of Canadians — including British Columbians — support the idea of a northern Alberta-B.C. pipeline, but fewer agree the project should be f...

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David Barrett @davidfor7.ca · 7d

As a parent, I see the dedication of our teachers every single day. They show up for our kids & now it's our turn to show up for them. I stand in solidarity with Alberta teachers as they fight for better learning environments and supports for our public education system. #yyccc #AlbertaTeachers ✊🏼

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

That's how police described his reaction:

Oct. 7, 2025

Airdrie RCMP seek public assistance in identifying suspect in hit and run of a pedestrian

Airdrie, Alta. – On Oct. 2, 2025, at approximately 8:38 a.m., Airdrie RCMP was dispatched to assist EMS with an injured teenager who was hit by a vehicle. Upon arrival, it was determined that the 17-year-old female was walking across a marked crosswalk at the intersection of Windhaven Gate and Windstone Road, when she was hit by a white Dodge Caravan. The male driver got out of the van and appeared to be upset with the pedestrian. He then walked back to his van and fled the scene, driving eastbound towards 8 Street.

The pedestrian received minor injuries as a result of the collision.

Anyone with information about this incident, or can identify the suspect, is asked to please contact the Airdrie RCMP at 403-945-7267. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the "P3 Tips" app available through the Apple App or Google Play store. To report crime online, or for access to RCMP news and information, download the Alberta RCMP app through Apple or Google Play. To contact RCMP non-emergency line within any Alberta RCMP jurisdiction call 310-RCMP(7267).

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 10h

The reason why this video is being shared and not hidden out of respect due to a fatality is b/c Airdrie has a 30km/h residential speed limit.

This is not to excuse the driver for what happened. Lower speeds are safer for people walking when people driving make mistakes.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 10h

xo my brother. Too busy with events in Calgary, including some estate matters from my parents and volunteering for my friend @davidfor7.ca in our municipal election, to sneak a trip out to Ontario (or BC) to watch a CFL game, but I’ll have time and funds enough next season.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a device to allow cars to slice & dice cyclists suddenly ejected from a protected bike line into traffic, when the protected lane and parallel sidewalk could easily have been continued safely the remaining few metres to the intersection.

a person is using a vegetable slicer with the words 2 laminas de fatiar written on the bottom

ALT: a person is using a vegetable slicer with the words 2 laminas de fatiar written on the bottom

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 10h

My $9.4m AAV shutdown goaltender client who plays drums at the NHL awards ceremony where he takes home 3 pieces of hardware is.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 10h

But can she stop McDavid on a breakaway?

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 19h

@booshmeister.bsky.social

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David Barrett @davidfor7.ca · 20h

🚃Choo choo🚃
Next stop 4-car c-train service!

#yyccc

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 19h

To date some 54,622 Calgarians have cast their ballots at advance polls. On Oct. 9, 14,500 ballots were cast.

This remains higher than in 2013 and 2017, but lower than 2017.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 20h

According to RFK JR, women carry babies in their placentas. I wonder if the “studies he is making” will adjust for that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2d

When medical influencers get after me for saying things like "medicine has no meaningful standards of competence for leadership", "COVID is the Dunning-Kruger pandemic", or "public health policy is routinely based on pseudoscience", this is why I am right.

It's a 🤬 gong show.

#StandUpForScience

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 2d

Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne?
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• Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here.

Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission
Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection.
An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP)
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roplet nuclei.
Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You
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Does breathing generate aerosols?
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Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets.
Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols.

The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP?
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Wednesday, 10:04 a.m.
To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

That's my future Premier.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 2d

I was honoured to meet today with Grand Chiefs, Chiefs and Elders of the confederacy of treaties 6, 7 and 8.

First Nations are proponents of #ForeverCanadian

Thank you!

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Alanna Smith @alannasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking the chain: Canada eliminated #measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27 – barring a "miracle" experts doubt will happen. Here’s how falling vaccine rates got us to this point and what happens after. @theglobeandmail.com

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?

Experts blame waning vaccination rates and disinformation for outbreaks that have continued for nearly a full year

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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 1d

AMA statement on Health Minister Mandate letters:
While we appreciate the government’s focus on improving access, innovation and accountability, we are concerned that the mandate letters do not adequately address the need for integration across ministries.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.

Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?

- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans

Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 3d

On this topic, a recent Freakonomics interview with Canadian author Dan Wang on why China is building these massive projects while the US stalls was fascinating—and also insightful as to the pitfalls of both approaches.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Boosh63 @booshmeister.bsky.social · 3d

From PoutineCrimes community on Reddit:

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poutine
C'EST UNE salade

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 3d

An ankle bracelet attached to a truck battery, powering an air horn attached around the neck blasting directly into the ear.