Ben Haney
@benhaney.bsky.social
Edmonton's Premiere Pedestrian.
Freelance Writer and Video Maker. Above all else, an Alberta History fanatic.
#Alberta #Yeg
Freelance Writer and Video Maker. Above all else, an Alberta History fanatic.
#Alberta #Yeg
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So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
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too damn much of this stuff this year, "shutting down after 50, 100, 200 years"
Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
too damn much of this stuff this year, "shutting down after 50, 100, 200 years"
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Map updated to reflect October incidents #yycbike
For those of you in #yycbike the map is back. I will update likely on a monthly basis, and clean things up a little when I have a chance. But the base data is there. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
Cyclist's Hit by Driver - Google My Maps
A Visual Representation of Cyclists that were hit by Motorists in Calgary, Alberta
www.google.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Map updated to reflect October incidents #yycbike
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Manitoba children have been hit by vehicles 36 times this year.
Distracted, impatient drivers put school bus passengers at risk: MPI
‘Treat every school zone like your own family is there’
www.winnipegfreepress.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Manitoba children have been hit by vehicles 36 times this year.
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Seriously, fuck the National Post.
![Ties to right wing politics
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In October 2018, in an opinion piece for National Observer, Davide Mastracci reported that CEO Andrew MacLeod had declared Postmedia's publication, the National Post, "insufficiently conservative". It was reported that in June 2019, Kevin Libin, who helped defeat a union drive at the National Post earlier that year, took the role of "executive editor (politics)" to "oversee or run federal political coverage in the Post as well as federal and provincial coverage in all of the chain’s metro daily broadsheets." Mastracci and Sean Craig of Canadaland argued this was to ensure the newspapers became more "'reliably' conservative." [29][30][31]
In November 2019, Postmedia announced that 66% of its shares were now owned by Chatham Asset Management, an American media conglomerate which owns American Media, Inc. and is known for its close ties to the Republican party.[9][32]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4haiyncvn42gamwbgx6mixlm/bafkreia2ndmd7f54z4u34x7xvpzlpbocc645n6r3nacnvmt7dz4x6trm74@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Seriously, fuck the National Post.
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After the UCP increased co-payments by 40% on seniors’ drug plans, a leaked cabinet document reveals that Danielle Smith has secret plans to charge Albertans hundreds of millions more for their prescription drugs.
Swipe the photos for our full statement. #abpoli #ableg #abhealth
Swipe the photos for our full statement. #abpoli #ableg #abhealth
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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CTV News is reporting that the government's negotiators have secured authorization to lock teachers out as a "reactionary response" if they deem it necessary—a clear escalation as talks about teacher pay and working conditions stall
Alberta votes to lock out teachers ahead of potential school strike
The government has voted to lock out teachers ahead of a potential strike, CTV News Edmonton has learned.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
CTV News is reporting that the government's negotiators have secured authorization to lock teachers out as a "reactionary response" if they deem it necessary—a clear escalation as talks about teacher pay and working conditions stall
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The leftwing Saskatchewan NDP under Roy Romanow did this in the 90s (hospitals they built too!) and they’ve been shut out of power for almost 20 years by a right wing party that took full political advantage of what these closures did to the NDP’s rural base.
August 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The leftwing Saskatchewan NDP under Roy Romanow did this in the 90s (hospitals they built too!) and they’ve been shut out of power for almost 20 years by a right wing party that took full political advantage of what these closures did to the NDP’s rural base.
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Kevin Charles Pyles is an affiliate of the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League. It’s a disservice to our community by failing to mention any of that in any of these articles on this.
A Glendale man made frightening threats against the Jewish community on social media, police said.
Glendale man accused of making terrorist threats against synagogue
A Glendale man made frightening threats against the Jewish community on social media, police said.
www.azfamily.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Kevin Charles Pyles is an affiliate of the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League. It’s a disservice to our community by failing to mention any of that in any of these articles on this.
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Investigating MacEwan University's crackdown on Palestinian advocacy, David Slater finds that the institution has drastically increased its surveillance of students—and that the crackdown was directly managed by the university's top executives
Inside MacEwan's War on Student Activists
www.theprogressreport.ca
August 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Investigating MacEwan University's crackdown on Palestinian advocacy, David Slater finds that the institution has drastically increased its surveillance of students—and that the crackdown was directly managed by the university's top executives
Heroic.
More unions need to stand up to the State and it's imposed state of Canadian Labour Relations Law. Such systems were codified to prevent effective union resistance.
Legalize sympathy strikes.
I pray I may yet live to see One Big Union rise again.
More unions need to stand up to the State and it's imposed state of Canadian Labour Relations Law. Such systems were codified to prevent effective union resistance.
Legalize sympathy strikes.
I pray I may yet live to see One Big Union rise again.
CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
August 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Heroic.
More unions need to stand up to the State and it's imposed state of Canadian Labour Relations Law. Such systems were codified to prevent effective union resistance.
Legalize sympathy strikes.
I pray I may yet live to see One Big Union rise again.
More unions need to stand up to the State and it's imposed state of Canadian Labour Relations Law. Such systems were codified to prevent effective union resistance.
Legalize sympathy strikes.
I pray I may yet live to see One Big Union rise again.
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CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
August 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
Surely car culture and it's lobbyists can be defeated with one educational conversation! Right???
July 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Surely car culture and it's lobbyists can be defeated with one educational conversation! Right???
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My argument is to abolish the 3-level worker status model (employee-dependent contractor-independent contractor) & replace it with:
True Entrepreneur OR Worker
If work on own account then “Worker” & protected by worker protection laws unless it’s demonstrated you’re engaged in a true business.
True Entrepreneur OR Worker
If work on own account then “Worker” & protected by worker protection laws unless it’s demonstrated you’re engaged in a true business.
Small labour law changes can make a difference. Card check and reclassifying workers as employees (not the more ambiguous dependent contractor model) can make a huge difference.
Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada
UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.
www.readthemaple.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My argument is to abolish the 3-level worker status model (employee-dependent contractor-independent contractor) & replace it with:
True Entrepreneur OR Worker
If work on own account then “Worker” & protected by worker protection laws unless it’s demonstrated you’re engaged in a true business.
True Entrepreneur OR Worker
If work on own account then “Worker” & protected by worker protection laws unless it’s demonstrated you’re engaged in a true business.
Knowing some Cree-Syllabics makes Dune's graphic design really funny.
Verbatim, since Dune's graphic design uses symbols also used in Cree-Syllabic, Dune's title art spells:
tatetita [the english letter O]ta totetita.
Which is to say: She tatetita on my toteita till I Néhiyaw.
Verbatim, since Dune's graphic design uses symbols also used in Cree-Syllabic, Dune's title art spells:
tatetita [the english letter O]ta totetita.
Which is to say: She tatetita on my toteita till I Néhiyaw.
July 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Knowing some Cree-Syllabics makes Dune's graphic design really funny.
Verbatim, since Dune's graphic design uses symbols also used in Cree-Syllabic, Dune's title art spells:
tatetita [the english letter O]ta totetita.
Which is to say: She tatetita on my toteita till I Néhiyaw.
Verbatim, since Dune's graphic design uses symbols also used in Cree-Syllabic, Dune's title art spells:
tatetita [the english letter O]ta totetita.
Which is to say: She tatetita on my toteita till I Néhiyaw.
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Exploding a door and a dozen guys and an MRAP to look for one guy and abuse one woman and two children
And don't forget the sound of the drone in the background they're using for surveillance too
These agencies must be liquidated and destroyed permanently
And don't forget the sound of the drone in the background they're using for surveillance too
These agencies must be liquidated and destroyed permanently
June 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Exploding a door and a dozen guys and an MRAP to look for one guy and abuse one woman and two children
And don't forget the sound of the drone in the background they're using for surveillance too
These agencies must be liquidated and destroyed permanently
And don't forget the sound of the drone in the background they're using for surveillance too
These agencies must be liquidated and destroyed permanently
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ICE just murdered a Canadian.
INBOX:
MIAMI — Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by the Miami Fire Rescue Department June 23 at 1:36 p.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.
MIAMI — Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by the Miami Fire Rescue Department June 23 at 1:36 p.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.
Canadian national in ICE custody passes away
ICE makes official notifications to Congress, nongovernmental organization stakeholders, and the media upon an official report of a detained illegal alien’s death and posts a news release with relevan...
www.ice.gov
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ICE just murdered a Canadian.
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Just so we're clear, this is not the first death from ICE.
There have been multiple examples of pregnant Americans, unwell Americans, and various brown people of unidentified origins who are dying or near death in ICE custody.
There have been multiple examples of pregnant Americans, unwell Americans, and various brown people of unidentified origins who are dying or near death in ICE custody.
June 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Just so we're clear, this is not the first death from ICE.
There have been multiple examples of pregnant Americans, unwell Americans, and various brown people of unidentified origins who are dying or near death in ICE custody.
There have been multiple examples of pregnant Americans, unwell Americans, and various brown people of unidentified origins who are dying or near death in ICE custody.
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“Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting almost seven times more methane than the official estimates”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Old, inactive oil and gas wells emitting almost 7 times more methane than official estimates | CBC News
Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting seven times more methane than the official estimates, according to a new study fr...
www.cbc.ca
June 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting almost seven times more methane than the official estimates”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/science...