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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 12h

It’s weird being in Edmonton and hearing the same street car racing I hear in Calgary.. I think it’s hysterical neither Calgary or Edmonton police agencies have figured it out.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 13h

Trigger warning.. 17yr old being hit by a van in Airdrie. They are looking for the driver.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 20h

There are few things that make me imagine doing violence to strangers like seeing something like this.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 23h

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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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 22h

WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 16h

🥹 that’s a lovely thing to read. ❤️

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning everyone. A Tribute Ride to Dr. Darren Markland has been set up for this Sunday. All the details can be found here: yegbike.info/events#calen...

Source: x.com/thegrillgeek...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 16h

So grateful when folkx listen/watch and give feedback! 🥹✊🏾

slrashka @slrashka.bsky.social · 17h

Another incredible episode

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 20h

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate:
linktr.ee/nativecalgar...

Patreon: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
YouTube: youtu.be/JXhFSn2TFvg?...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 20h

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate:
linktr.ee/nativecalgar...

Patreon: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
YouTube: youtu.be/JXhFSn2TFvg?...

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Description: Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate to this podcast:
https://linktr.ee/nativecalgarian

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2Fposts%2Findian-oil-and-140572146%3Fimmediate_pledge_flow%3Dtrue%26post_tier_unavailable%3Dtrue
YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXhFSn2TFvg?si=pSL7_f1y7lz8p2GK

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 20h

Mahsi cho Alicia Taylor!!

Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 23h

NEWS RELEASE – Today, a new citizen initiative petition application was approved for “Alberta Funds Public Schools” and Notice of Initiative Petition issued.

To learn more, visit https://ow.ly/J60850X80pz.

#CitizenInitiativeAct #Alberta #ElectionsAB See less

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 21h

Mercy.. lol! I’m gonna stick with misery, lol! Gawd this colonial country. #Forced #Catholic #DeneThoughts

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.

Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times. Source: x.com/nancyafrench...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Mahsi cho Grandmother Moon for my mom’s medical team, the team helping my aunts, uncles and cousins through Auntie’s wake. My heart hurts hard. Being away from my own immediate family.. my husband, my youngling and my puppers.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Mahsi cho! ✊🏾

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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · 1d

Hey it's @nativecalgarian.bsky.social, getting right to the point: "Our children are still being watched over by police and that's not fulfilling the Calls to Action and reconciliation in any capacity."

Cops in schools is police-state policy / white supremacy culture.

#cdnpoli #defundthepolice

As more schools bring police officers back to classrooms, parents remain divided | CBC News

Less than a decade ago, many Canadian schools were dialing back programs stationing police officers in their hallways. Now, they're returning or being contemplated anew — a shift being celebrated in s...

www.cbc.ca

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

All Aboriginal Persons (Indian, Inuit, or Métis) who allege that they were assaulted at any time while being held in custody or detained by RCMP Officers in the Territories (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon), and who were alive as of December 18, 2016.

kmlaw.ca/cases/rcmp-d...

RCMP Discrimination against Aboriginal Persons in Detention in the Territories Class Action - Koskie Minsky LLP

kmlaw.ca

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

#JusticeForJackie
Sat., Oct. 11th, 2025
219- 18th Ave SW, Calgary, AB
12:00PM
The walk begins at St. Mary's Cathedral and ends at 17th Ave & 11th St SW.
Jackie's sons will run from the Blood Reserve to Calgary.
A GoFundMe has been created to support a reward fund for information leading to an arrest

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 2d

Beyond Burnout!
Virtual Rage Room for Professionals Done With Their Institution's Silence &
Complicity
Thursday October 16th
4:30pm PST / 7:30pm EST
SIGN UP:
nalgonapride.com/virtualrager...

Nalgona Positivity Pride

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

In Alberta, there was an old bumper sticker that said: Dear God, I promise to not piss away the next oil boom.
I think we need that same energy for Canada post: Dear God, I promise to send mail through Canada Post from now on..

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 4d

Links to Sisters in Spirit March & Vigil's

www.facebook.com/events/s/21s...

www.afccalgary.org

nwac.ca/sisters-in-s...

Alt text: Dark purple background on left, light purple background on the right side with half of the quilted pattern start from the Final Report artistic expressions. Text in white reads
Tomorrow is the 21st annual Sisters in Spirit March and Vigil to honour the missing and murdered exploited Indigenous Peoples’ that we love and miss.
Follow our account where we share the 231 Calls for Justice and find the final report at
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 4d

In this final breakdown on our public statement from Aug 5th we talk about the violence against Indigenous peoples related to extractive projects.

Tomorrow is the 21st annual Sisters in Spirit March & Vigil, we share the details below and hope to see many of you there.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 4d

Join us as we share each segment of the 231 Calls for Justice beginning with the Introduction and Support Line.

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

#MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice #Indigenous

Alt text: Light purple background with darker purple square in the top right corner with quilted patterned star representing the National Inquiry shared artistic expressions. White box in the middle on the left with text and an arrow pointing up to the right. White line between text and above the website www.mmiwg-ffada.ca and Instagram address @Reconciliation_action_group
231 Calls for Justice
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The full report can be found here:
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

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persephone2008.bsky.social @persephone2008.bsky.social · 4d

abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Chicago alderperson says federal agents handcuffed her at Humboldt Park medical facility | LIVE

A Chicago alderperson said federal immigration agents handcuffed her, while she was questioning them at a Humboldt Park medical center Friday.

abc7chicago.com

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 5d

Mahsi cho @skippingstone.ca for the donation so we can pay our dancers and drummers. ✊🏾 #231CallsToJustice

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5d

WHAT THE FUCK!
As a UAlberta alumna, this is wildly embarrassing.

This is beyond overreach. The Admin are way out of line here.

Fellow @ualberta.bsky.social #UAlberta alumni, join me in contacting the university to condemn their suspension of @floralashes.bsky.social

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 5d

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charlie Kirk, uAlberta, and Me
@floralashes.bsky.social

cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

By placing me on leave, the University implicitly condoned and supported the targeted harassment of progressive academics across the United States and Canada for expressing a wide range of views critical of Charlie Kirk as part of a large-scale effort to have them terminated. In heeding this harassment campaign, the University echoes the United States government’s foray into McCarthyism and Nazi-like behaviour.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 5d

“Lightning-Earle’s principal, Eileen Sasakamoose, was in attendance, alongside Mandamin, who served as Sasakamoose’s principal and is the lodge’s scholar in residence.” www.ualberta.ca/en/law/about...

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 5d

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charlie Kirk, uAlberta, and Me
@floralashes.bsky.social

cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

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