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🇨🇦 #Canadian placemaker, artist, geek, active citizen, tech writer, ally. 🌈 Photography, painting, music, books, science, lateral thinking, creativity, kindness. She/her. Treaty 7. 🍁🦫 #CanadaSky #Canada #Calgary #yyc #art READ:WRITE:DRAW:PAINT:CREATE:DO

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · Aug 24

Check for a pop up location near you, loyal Canadians in Alberta!

Forever-Canadian.ca

#Alberta #yyc #yeg #yql ##abpoli #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadaSky #Forevercanadian @coreyhogan.ca @lukaszukab.bsky.social

Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rural Alberta editorial: It’s your civic duty to sign the Forever Canadian petition to keep Alberta in a united Canada.

#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #ForeverCanadian 🇨🇦 @lukaszukab.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca @cmcalgary.bsky.social

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 23h

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 9h

Danielle Smith announces plans to hold her breath until she gets what she wants

EDMONTON – After meeting with Mark Carney to discuss pipeline construction, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has vowed to hold her breath until the Prime Minister gives her absolutely everything she ask...

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 2d

Go to Forever-Canadian.ca to find a location to sign the petition!

We need 70,000 signatures in the next 3 weeks.

LET’S GO!!

#Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #Canada #cdnpoli

Beema 🇨🇦 @cindyouellette-57.bsky.social · 2d

🤬 #Alberta #DanielleSmith

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

“Anti-immigration is always a cheap and available tactic for populist governments.”

'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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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 1d

#ForeverCanadian #cdnpoli
#Canada #Alberta

Send #pp and #SmithisUnfitForOffice a message. #CanadaStrong

youtube.com/watch?v=R6NW...

Forever-Canadian.ca because the only independence Alberta should have…

YouTube video by Lisab0923

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

‘Outbreak in #Alberta was preventable’: AMA president criticizes province’s handling of #measles outbreak, premier defends it

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

‘Outbreak in Alberta was preventable’: AMA president criticizes province’s handling of measles outbreak, premier defends it

The new president of the Alberta Medical Association shared some sharp criticisms on social media Friday of the way the province has managed the measles outbreak.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 2d

#UCP / Smith are using teacher strike for adequate public school funding to siphon even more taxpayer resources into private schools / homeschooling.

Despicable. Yeah, they are as slippery as all MAGAs.

Be informed, parents! Don’t fall for it!

#albertateachers #ATA #abed #ableg #abpoli

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

Last week Alberta quislings were in Washington to further the break up of our nation. Meanwhile Danielle Smith is setting up a fight over a pipeline that no-one is trying to build.
It is about stoking the base and driving rage against Canada.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-maga-p...

The MAGA Pipeline to Breakup Canada

MAGA Alberta’s latest attempt to sow division came in the form of a two-pronged assault.

charlieangus.substack.com

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 2d

Go to Forever-Canadian.ca to find a location to sign the petition!

We need 70,000 signatures in the next 3 weeks.

LET’S GO!!

#Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #Canada #cdnpoli

Beema 🇨🇦 @cindyouellette-57.bsky.social · 2d

🤬 #Alberta #DanielleSmith

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 2d

The Alberta government could, instead, choose to support the teachers.

But Danielle would rather tear our public education system apart to profit expensive private schools.

WE SUPPORT THE TEACHERS

#abed #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #Canada #CanadaSky

CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 2d

The Alberta government has added more supports for families to support student learning and life during the teachers' strike #yyc #yeg www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Province adds more supports for parents during Alberta teachers’ strike

The door are closed at hundreds of schools across Alberta as labour unrest between educators and the government continues.

www.ctvnews.ca

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debatepolicy.bsky.social @debatepolicy.bsky.social · 2d

It's great to see an MP actually reflect on the issues of their constituents. #abpoli #cndpoli #yyc

Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 3d

Today is World Teachers’ Day.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

Some big bombshells in our new episode with Dr Paul Parks!

Including that Danielle Smith was warned by many experts her healthcare "refocusing" would only make healthcare in Alberta much, much worse!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 2d

Locations to sign the Forever Canadian petition today (Monday).

#yyc #Calgary

www.facebook.com/groups/37693...

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Kelly Hofer @kellyhofer.bsky.social · 2d

Alberta showed up for the rally to support better education. #yyc #calgary #teacher

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Danielle, this is what an actual Alberta “town hall” looks like.

WE SUPPORT THE TEACHERS!

#Alberta #Canada #yeg #yyc #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #abed

20,000 people showed up to support Alberta teachers and protest Danielle Smith and the craven UCP starving public education.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 3d

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you. Then they insult you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win. - Gandhi
#cndpoli #UCP #albertateachers #WeAreATA #abed #abpoli #ableg

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve seen a lot of rallies at the Alberta Legislature, but today’s Teachers’ rally had to be the biggest one.

#ForeverCanadian volunteers were there, collecting signatures.

Teachers, thank you for your support!!!

#ableg #abed

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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 3d

"According to security estimates, 18,000 educators, parents and students attended a rally at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton Sunday morning. Another rally was held at the McDougall Centre in downtown Calgary Sunday afternoon, where around 3,000 showed up" #ABED #ABpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thousands in Calgary, Edmonton rally for public education as Alberta teachers' strike looms | CBC News

Thousands of people gathered at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton and the McDougall Centre in Calgary Sunday to rally for public education, as a potentially historic teachers’ strike looms.

www.cbc.ca

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 2d

"Tomorrow, We Stand Together"

via Alberta Teachers’ Association

teachers.ab.ca/news/tomorro...

#Alberta #abpoli #AlbertaTeachers

Screenshot from the text at the URL in the post

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d

Wow #yyc!

(Pics by Kelly Hofer FB)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 3d

It’s become pretty clear at this point that the Poilievre blueprint for Canada— pushed even harder by Jivani and Kuruc, is the carbon copy of “Project 2025” in the USA we’re seeing under the GOP and Trump.

That’s Canada’s future if we aren’t careful.
#cdnpoli #uspoli

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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