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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 16h

I will post "Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025" every day until Oct 20.👇
My post on the mayoral campaign will be out TOMORROW!
Vote on October 20! #YQL #Lethbridge #abpoli

Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025

I’m going off script in this post to discuss the slate of candidates for the October 20 Lethbridge municipal election. To cut through the white noise and offer some clarity (albeit no certainty), I…

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

Nailed it!!

Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 1d

I will post "Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025" every day until Oct 20.👇
My post on the mayoral campaign will be out soon.
Vote on October 20! #YQL #Lethbridge #abpoli
yalebelanger.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/m...

Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025

I’m going off script in this post to discuss the slate of candidates for the October 20 Lethbridge municipal election. To cut through the white noise and offer some clarity (albeit no certainty), I…

yalebelanger.wordpress.com

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

CALGARY — With the province's teachers on strike, Danielle Smith’s UCP government has tabled new legislation banning the use of the number 58,008, in order to “protect Alberta’s most precious resource...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Ubiquitous B🇨🇦 @colbecky.bsky.social · 1d

I swear, municipal elections are shady! #Lethbridge #YQL

Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone have additional information on this?
It appears that #Lethbridge mayoral candidate Ryan Mennie was once a Campbell River City Councilor who moved back to Lethbridge & continued to attend council meetings, via Zoom, while getting paid? 1/4
www.mycampbellrivernow.com/684/news/cam...

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 1d

This is the rw conservative bs that’s going on in the #yeg muni elections right now. Teachers are “terrorists”, and the clown wants your vote. #abpoli

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2d

Blaming immigrants is not new in Alberta. My latest for The Tyee.
'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee

Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.

thetyee.ca

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 3d

Every journalist should have the following response prepared for every time they speak with Premier Danielle Smith:

“With respect, Premier, that did not answer my question. What you provided was a justification aligned with your predetermined position, not a direct response."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah cool. Pull even more federal agents off counterterrorism, child porn, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and fraud investigations to do absolutely nothing.

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 3d

”It's up to them to come back to us and say what it will take to get to a deal,” Smith
They have! You just don’t like the answer … of the defiance.
But to suggest something untoward or illegal is occurring?
Not a good look, Premier Smith.
@schilldawg.bsky.social @albertateachers.bsky.social

Bell: A frustrated Danielle Smith wants Alberta teachers back at the bargaining table

Premier Danielle Smith wants Alberta Teachers' Association to get back to the bargaining table and hammer out a deal before a Monday strike

calgaryherald.com

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Ubiquitous B🇨🇦 @colbecky.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe check your local library for the dvd?

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Ubiquitous B🇨🇦 @colbecky.bsky.social · 4d

Just part of the many, many things our teachers, students & schools do to look after kids in our community. Please share this far and wide! #Lethbridge #YQL

Brief version. Churchill High school GSA will continue to provide lunches for students in need. They can now be picked up at either public library location. Just request a ‘healthy hero snack’.

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Brooke Fairplay aka Diane M🍁🌻🎗🏳‍🌈 @brookefairplay.bsky.social · 4d

HOLD YOUR YOUNG SONS CLOSER
Corrupt politician, Jamil Jivani
Charlie Kirk 2.0 Touring Canada
The modern Nazi youth group 2.0

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5d

Are you ok with this fellow Nova Scotian's? I am not, I am livid, 8 freaking days!! #NovaScotia

Nova Scotia legislature wraps fall business after short eight-day sitting

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Nova Scotia legislature wraps fall business after short eight-day sitting

The Nova Scotia legislature wrapped up its fall session today after a quick eight-day sitting.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 5d

With no apparent public apology from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for completely fabricating a story about a child and his parents…

It seemed like a good time to re-up her philosophy on how to deal with mistakes and accountability.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5d

Facts ⤵️

🇨🇦 Novid Scotia @novidscotia.bsky.social · 5d

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Ubiquitous B🇨🇦 @colbecky.bsky.social · 5d

#Lethbridge #YQL #ABPoli This stinks from top to bottom. Al Beeber, journalist, Lethbridge Herald is writing articles while running for muni office? With a campaign ad below byline? Conflicts of interest? Unfair campaign advantage? Optics?Fairness? There’s nothing about this that doesn’t stink.

Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 5d

@charlesrusnell.bsky.social spoke to my class yesterday—great session!
I asked him @ Al Beeber running campaign ads while still writing for the #Lethbridge Herald.👇
“You can’t be a politician AND a journalist,” and he said a leave of absence should have been mandatory.
Call 403-328-4411 to complain.

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 6d

This is SO wrong!! 👇
A campaign ad & Al's byline on the same page raise concerns about conflict of interest, abuse of media power, fair election practices, the ability to provide balanced coverage, credibility & trust.
This isn't right, @scottsakatch.bsky.social.
#YQL #Lethbridge #abpoli

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 6d

Always Ottawa, eh Rick? Carney, right?

The BC premier has some damn good, logical reasons for his rejecting Dani’s ideas. Like, for one, it threatens $10B in shovel-ready projects.

And why are you not pissed that $14M in tax dollars is being spent on what should be a private sector investment?

Bell: Is Danielle Smith's pipeline a pipe dream — will Carney shaft Alberta?

Premier Danielle Smith's government now leads the charge for a pipeline to the B.C. coast but Carney and Liberals are still not playing ball

calgaryherald.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7d

From the DM’s…

Forcing non-union healthcare workers to take unpaid time off is a heck of a way to attract healthcare workers to Alberta.

Good case study on why there’s value to having unions tho…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7d

On opposition for her pipeline project…

Smith said today is she had her way she would redraw the borders and then went into a treatise on how failure of Canada to give her what she wants is indicative of Canada being a failed state.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 7d

I will post "Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025" every day until Oct 20.👇
My post on the mayoral campaign will be out soon.
Vote on October 20! #YQL #Lethbridge #abpoli

yalebelanger.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/m...

Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025

I’m going off script in this post to discuss the slate of candidates for the October 20 Lethbridge municipal election. To cut through the white noise and offer some clarity (albeit no certainty), I…

yalebelanger.wordpress.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 8d

Smith starts out today hard with some pretty impressive numbers manipulations, claiming that the offer represented the highest raise in over a decade.

Completely ignoring that's part of the problem.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7d

A breathless Brian Jean has just announced that Alberta will be making oil and gas Alberta’s future for generations.

Smith says that she’s going to use $14 million in taxpayers dollars to push forward planning a bitumen pipeline through northern BC.

no money for teachers tho.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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