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Seán Sabraw
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Calgary musician, guitar/drum teacher.

Think Globally, Act Locally

Banner pic is inside Apple Studios from the movie Get Back, from l to r:  Billy Preston, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison.

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mariadunnmusic.bsky.social
To everyone travelling to see loved ones over the #winterholidays - wishing you safe and smooth travels! Ontario Song
Maria Dunn - Ontario Song (from Joyful Banner Blazing, 2021)
Ontario Song - from Maria Dunn album “Joyful Banner Blazing” (2021). https://www.mariadunn.com/music/joyful-banner-blazing/ A folk roots horn- and banjo-propelled travel song about staying…
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December 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
So they'll rape girls after attacking?
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
Are ye Newfoundlanders looking for a fun Tibbs Eve in #YYC?

Pop down to Kensington Pub (207 10A St NW) Tues night for an evening of music and good times. My group starts playing at 7:15pm and you may catch some Mummers coming through the door too!

Support local business and music!
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
It's a thing of beauty, watching Neil Peart keep 3/4 time with his feet while playing a 7/8 time with his hands.

Musicians know the challenge.
an aerial view of a man playing drums in a dark room with the word inho on the bottom right
Alt: an aerial view of Neil Peart playing his drum solo on stage
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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seumasb.bsky.social
“She was crossing 32nd Street on a green light with a walk signal when a woman in her 50s turned right from westbound 26th Avenue and struck her with an SUV.”

Prepare for the usual “safety is a shared responsibility” statements. FFS!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pedestrian dies following collision in northeast Calgary | CBC News
A woman has died from her injuries following a collision on Thursday evening, marking the 15th pedestrian death and the 38th fatal collision in Calgary this year.
www.cbc.ca
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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drkristopherwells.bsky.social
A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.

Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
seansabraw.bsky.social
🎶"Trim up the tree with fuzzle fuzz, and blipper bloos and wuzzle wuzz.
Trim up your uncle and your aunt
with yards of whofaunt flaaaaant!" 🎶
a cartoon of a christmas village with a christmas tree
Alt: a cartoon of a christmas village with a christmas tree, the whos in whoville set up their village
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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thatheatherc.bsky.social
Reflecting on this situation and the commentary from the police. Their reaction is based on their embarrassment, reputational risk, and trust erosion. There is no admission that a horrible thing happened, they want to understand how it occurred, or what they're doing to prevent reoccurrence, etc.
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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thatheatherc.bsky.social
Alberta's government is currently planning to restrict access to mainstream health services for newcomers. It is wrong & discriminatory a million times over. They will pass the legislation regardless, to secure the votes of their fringe supporters. #healthforall

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December 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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shastingssimon.bsky.social
As someone who immigrated to Canada this is personally terrifying

Under such a system I would have been “lucky” that I got cancer after I had been here for long enough to become a citizen.
"Maybe you don't get health care covered until you have been a taxpayer for a number of years. "Maybe you don't bring your kids over to be educated in our publicly-funded education system or use our taxpayer-supported child-care system until you have a certain number of years as a taxpayer. You have to pay into the system." Smith says those who want to become permanent residents would then know "the number of years they've got to work in order to be able to receive all the entitlements of those who have been taxpayers all their lives." Smith says being a citizen or being on the path to citizenship as a permanent resident has privileges. "Until somebody becomes a permanent resident and citizen we'll treat them like tourists," she says. "As a tourist you don't ren to camahady else's country and e. calgaryherald.com d education
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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andiewinnipeg.bsky.social
Skate Canada really isn’t trying to make some kind of political statement here. The history of the sport is rooted in the most extreme forms of discrimination.

They likely just don’t want deal with what a pain in the ass Alberta’s new laws are, like the policy experts warned would happen.
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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thatheatherc.bsky.social
Imagine if Hockey Canada, Canada Soccer, and Curling Canada do what Skate Canada just did in Alberta? Hmm...
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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brandywithawhy.bsky.social
All the sports organizations should be boycotting our transphobic province.
It is an embarrassment to us all how our government just takes away peoples rights.
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
Brilliant, more of this!

Force Alberta to its economic knees, says this Albertan. It's the only pressure regressive states will cave to.
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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msthpetra.bsky.social
RIP RAH SCS!
Today my love goes out to everyone whose life was saved at the RHA SCS.
To their families.
To SCS staff.
To those who fought to have it opened. 💜
I sent my anger and outrage to a heartless government that does not care if people who use drugs die 💔
#ABpoli
Group photo on opening day for the Royal Alexandra Hospital Supervised Consumption Site. Former AB minister of health Sarah Hoffman, me (holding a photo of my late son Danny), past medical director of the site Dr. Catherine Dong, former Mayor Don Iveson, standing near the brand new injection booths.
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
We have faced down this threat twice already via public backlash. First time was under Kenney in 2021. They backed down. Second time was a UCP-city council alliance in 2024. They backed down again.

Don’t let this seem inevitable. Start organizing — they do not have the support they project.
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
Remembering the wonderful @therealjoeely.bsky.social

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All Just To Get To You
YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic
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December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
We know who the Meathead really is.
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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mitchellab.bsky.social
The only thing "uniting" this govt is their determination to lie to us for as long as they can.

Unless you can prove that's what they're doing and then they'll cost us hundreds of millions in cancelled contracts because they got busted.

#ableg #abpoli
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Excerpt from the article: He said senior officials should be asking themselves, “What is worse, the public learning how badly coal mining in Alberta has been harming downstream water quality and aquatic ecosystems, or the public learning how badly coal mining in Alberta has been harming downstream water quality and aquatic ecosystems and that we’ve returned to muzzling our scientists in an attempt to cover it up while the government tries to convince Albertans that coal mining is environmentally benign?”
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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thatheatherc.bsky.social
This is what I've been sharing with folks who come to me privately & ask me to "do something" about the Alberta government. I respond to them and say "it needs to be your voice, not mine". I'm already out there doing all of @jaredwesley.ca's 10 points. Be brave, do just 2 steps for your own future.
jaredwesley.ca Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 11d
The UCP has made 2025 one of the darkest years for Alberta’s democracy.

Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026.

By simply being Albertan.

Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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seandunn.bsky.social
Things I would say to Mr. Rogers to bait him to punch me:
charlesrusnell.bsky.social Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 11d
Here is a transcript of what the premier said.
When I came in, I thought, why is $40 billion of our budget in an Alberta Health Services agency we have no oversight over and then when you look at schools, we have $10 billion of our budget that we've delegated authority to 61 school authorities that we have no oversight over. We have another huge chunk that we give to universities that we have no oversight over, and on and on and on it goes. So I think you need to have a conservative vision for what you're going to do with the government’s spending. And our conservative vision is very different than the progressive vision. Our conservative vision is to partner with private entities, whether in the private sector, whether in the nonprofit sector, or whether it's charities, to deliver on the services that people care about. When you think about historically, where did all of the supports for widows and orphans come from? Where did the supports for the vulnerable sector come from? It started with faith-based communities. And government said, ‘Wait a minute, we've got a patchwork here. Why don't we step in to help?’ But in doing so, they have often crowded out some of that incredibly important nonprofit work. And so we're restoring that. We're finding a way to create a structure in government where you do have competition and choice and funding following patients or students or clients, so that you can create an internal market. So that is what I want to do, is I want to apply principles that I know work in the private sector to how we deliver government services, and we're making great strides in a lot of different areas. I think education is probably the greatest example in Alberta of how we do that. You have a choice of sending your kids to a public school or a Catholic school or a charter school or an independent school, or even home school if you want. We have different funding models for each of those. But in Alberta, we have parents willing to pay a portion of their own money to homeschool thei…
December 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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charlesrusnell.bsky.social
Here is a transcript of what the premier said.
When I came in, I thought, why is $40 billion of our budget in an Alberta Health Services agency we have no oversight over and then when you look at schools, we have $10 billion of our budget that we've delegated authority to 61 school authorities that we have no oversight over. We have another huge chunk that we give to universities that we have no oversight over, and on and on and on it goes. So I think you need to have a conservative vision for what you're going to do with the government’s spending. And our conservative vision is very different than the progressive vision. Our conservative vision is to partner with private entities, whether in the private sector, whether in the nonprofit sector, or whether it's charities, to deliver on the services that people care about. When you think about historically, where did all of the supports for widows and orphans come from? Where did the supports for the vulnerable sector come from? It started with faith-based communities. And government said, ‘Wait a minute, we've got a patchwork here. Why don't we step in to help?’ But in doing so, they have often crowded out some of that incredibly important nonprofit work. And so we're restoring that. We're finding a way to create a structure in government where you do have competition and choice and funding following patients or students or clients, so that you can create an internal market. So that is what I want to do, is I want to apply principles that I know work in the private sector to how we deliver government services, and we're making great strides in a lot of different areas. I think education is probably the greatest example in Alberta of how we do that. You have a choice of sending your kids to a public school or a Catholic school or a charter school or an independent school, or even home school if you want. We have different funding models for each of those. But in Alberta, we have parents willing to pay a portion of their own money to homeschool thei…
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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nigelb.bsky.social
This interview, actually a speech, sets up the ideological challenge for the next election in Alberta.
Let's leave it at that for now, but unless progressives want to keep reacting they/we need to articulate a clear progressive vision for education, health care & the environment.
#ableg #abpol
thebreakdownab.bsky.social The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 11d
Smith finally said it out loud...

She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services.

Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
seansabraw.bsky.social
I'm not surprised Conservatives are crossing the floor to join the Conservatives.

🇨🇦
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
seansabraw.bsky.social
Anyone else used to depress the "rec" & "play" buttons only slightly on their tape recorders to record at a fast speed so that the playback would sound like a monster?

No? Just my audio fixated family?
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM