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Laura Finnegan
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She/her sí/í| 🇮🇪🇨🇦|Wildlife biologist | 🦌💻🔬
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This week Hintons ER has no on site Dr for 42 hours straight!!

In fact we only have a Dr on site a total of 24 hrs this week.

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Has it been 90 days yet?

@pfparks.bsky.social @thebreakdownab.bsky.social
Alberta Health Services Temporary service advisory for Hinton Healthcare Centre Emergency Department December 1. 2025 HINTON - Due to a clinical personnel shortage and an inability to secure temporary coverage, the Hinton Healthcare Centre emergency department (ED) will be without onsite physician coverage from: • 1 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1 to 7 a.m., Wednesday, Dec 3 • 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 to 7 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 4 • 1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 4 to 7 a.m., Friday, Dec. 5 • 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 to 7 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 6 During this time, nursing staff will remain on-site in the emergency department providing triage, assessments, and referrals for patients to alternate emergency departments in neighbouring communities, as needed Patients are asked to call 911 if they have a medical emergency during these times. EMS will remain available to the community and will be re-routed ta surrounding facilities.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Not sure what sort of spell these moose are casting on our snow stake...but I have a bad feeling about it 🪄

@friresearch.bsky.social #cameratrapping
A camera trap image of a snowy boreal forest during winter. There are four moose in the photo. 3 bulls with different sized antlers are facing each other with their heads down and antlers touching. A yellow and red striped pole (the snow stake) is in the middle of the photo. In the background a cow moose stands with her nose in the air. Are they casting a spell?
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Is this deer still considered an unmarked individual if it has such a distinctive (and stylish) coiffure?
@friresearch.bsky.social

#cameratrapping
Camera trap image from a Reconyx camera. The photo shows a showy boreal forest in late November. There are aspen and spruce trees in the background. There are two yellow and red vertical poles in the centre of the photo. To the right of the photo is an 8-pointed white-tailed deer buck with longer darker hair on the top of this head that looks kind of like a toupe.
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I suspect that the 10th president won't pull off tea cosy format as smoothly
Knitted tea cosy on a teapot. The teacosy looks like Michael D Higgins
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Whelp

This is the final edition of our local newspaper in Hinton. Sad to see it shutting down. Losing more local journalism from local sources, which is needed more than ever in rural Alberta right now.

Link to final edition⬇️
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Screenshot showing front page of final edition of The Hinton Voice. The headline reads 'water meter installs commence' and there is a box in the bottom right of the page saying 'This is the final edition of the Hinton Voice'
August 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Screenshot from folding mtn brewery describing this week's grilled cheese
February 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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We're getting some pretty sweet pictures from one of our camera arrays @friresearch.bsky.social

Do you think the deer made it?
Image from a Reconyx camera trap of a boreal forest. There are two large spruce trees either side of the frame, smaller trees in the background, and larger open area in the middle of the frame. There are also two vertical poles in the centre of the frame with red and yellow stripes. There is a blurry image of a deer running behind the farther pole. Time reads 6:03:00AM Image from a Reconyx camera trap of a boreal forest. There are two large spruce trees either side of the frame, smaller trees in the background, and larger open area in the middle of the frame. There are also two vertical poles in the centre of the frame with red and yellow stripes. There is a blurry image of a wolf running with it's head down behind the farther pole. Time reads 6:04:12AM
February 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This caribou is taking the TIFC protocol very seriously 😁 @friresearch.bsky.social
Camera trap image of a caribou in the snowy boreal forest. There is a yellow and red striped pole directly in front of the camera. The caribou is standing directly behind it, looking directly at the camera
December 15, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Greetings from the pristine view of the pristine tmx in the pristine viewscape of Hinton
View of the rocky mountains from a mud and snow filled pipeline cut through the foothills forest
December 6, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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And last night Jasper shared the information that Bear 222 (aka picnic bear, Maligne bear, swimming bear, golf bear, now fire bear) and her cubs are safe.
July 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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We're hiring - come join the team!!
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October 30, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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Check out the beautiful infographic Sunny Tseng sunshineland.netlify.app made for our recent paper
Infographic for publication on moose response to linear features
October 17, 2023 at 3:34 PM