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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦

@ziadfazel.bsky.social

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In Nov 2024, BlueSky became my primary platform. Still have my @ziadfazel on Xitter because of my history of threads there. Thanks for following me (back) here again. Photo summer 2024 at Stamps game with my friend @booshmeister. Life is good.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you Dr Young-Leslie @ethnographer.bsky.social for having @lukaszukab.bsky.social #ForeverCanadian petition at our chance meeting Friday at breakfast after @drdagly.bsky.social bicycle barista coffee at Constable Ezio Faraone Memorial Park.

Pleasure meeting you, and other great #yeg people.

a person is signing a contract with a feather in their hand

ALT: a person is signing a contract with a feather in their hand

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 1d

On this topic, a recent Freakonomics interview with Canadian author Dan Wang on why China is building these massive projects while the US stalls was fascinating—and also insightful as to the pitfalls of both approaches.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Boosh63 @booshmeister.bsky.social · 1d

From PoutineCrimes community on Reddit:

UNE
poutine
C'EST UNE salade

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

An ankle bracelet attached to a truck battery, powering an air horn attached around the neck blasting directly into the ear.

Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

As a middle-aged person learning to speak fully and clearly with increasing confidence, it’s a joy to see and hear another middle-aged person think quickly and then use complete, well-formed sensible paragraphs.

Huge contrasts to his predecessor’s nervousness, and his opponent’s immaturity.

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City of Calgary @calgary.ca · 1d

With public school classes cancelled across Alberta due to the teachers’ strike, we & our civic partners are stepping up to support families. Keep your kids active, curious, & engaged with fun one-day camps & activities across the city.

Find all programs & activities at calgary.ca/StrikeActivities

City and partner activities during Alberta teachers' strike

calgary.ca

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 1d

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just about signed, but the sticking point is over Boosh’s contract signing celebration with 10 shootout attempts by the Oilers’ best players.

My client obviously wants to stay unbeaten by NHL snipers, and not give up any, even to McD, Drai or Nuge.

One never breaks such mental domination.

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

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

As you know, truth in reporting means you must tell us how you voted. 😀

OK, maybe not. Thank you and Darren for your excellent coverage in yet another civic election.

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 1d

Day of advance voting in Calgary saw 14,442 advance ballots cast. Lower than 2021, but higher than 2017.

Cumulative vote count for the seven days of advance voting for 2013, 2017, 2021, and to date for 2025 below.

Cumulative advance voting counts for 2013, 2017, 2021, and 2025 (up to Day 1 of voting for 2025).

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 1d

Renewing Knoblauch and getting McDavid to sign at a discount is part of my master plan to allow the Oilers to afford my shutdown goaltender client @booshmeister.bsky.social for 3 plus an option, at the AAV we deserve.

And people question whether I am really an agent.

@stadnek.bsky.social

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d

Switzerland is “rich in something vanishingly rare in the rest of the world: common sense. This is most apparent in the way the Swiss get around…a model of sensible, sustainable — and yes, even enjoyable — transit. It’s simply the best transportation system in the world.” Via @taras-grescoe.com

Anatomy of the Swiss Revolution

How Switzerland Engineered Itself into Becoming the World's Greatest Transit Nation

www.highspeed.blog

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 2d

Not so random posting of a poem I love.

Today the message can be flipped from Albertans back to the teachers.

To the teachers of AB:
“We need you
and your stories
and questions
that like a fresh path
will take us to new vistas.”

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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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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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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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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

In this preview to his lecture this Wednesday, award-winning veteran journalist Stephen Maher speaks to how social media has changed everything, the Canadian response to Charlie Kirk’s murder, the problem of “news deserts” and whether future journalists will need rich parents. #uspoli #canpoli

Stephen Maher on News in Polarized Times | The Tyee

Ahead of his UVic talk, the political reporter on ‘partisan sorting,’ media ‘hucksters,’ MPs applauding Charlie Kirk and more.

thetyee.ca

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

The kids are back in school and so is COVID-19. 🏫🦠 #bcpoli #bced

Flu and COVID Vaccines Coming Soon to BC Pharmacies | The Tyee

They’ve also been ‘well supplied’ with rapid antigen test kits for this year.

thetyee.ca

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

Following Michael Bryant’s abrupt departure from Legal Aid BC after just two years as CEO, the provincial government agency paid him a salary for eight more months. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

Legal Aid CEO Got Eight Months’ Severance After Two Years | The Tyee

Michael Bryant was paid $277,778 after his unexplained departure.

thetyee.ca

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 2d

I’m supporting
@davidfor7.ca in Ward 7
@jeromyyyc.bsky.social Mayor

@calgary.ca has provided TONS of advance voting stations 10am-7pm from Mon 6 Oct thru Sat 11 Oct.

Today I’m printing stuff at downtown library so will vote at nearby Platform.

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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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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 3d

I've been to other protests at the #ableg but this one, the one to support teachers was by far the largest

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve covered dozens of protests at the provinces’s southern office at the McDougall Centre, but today’s teacher rally was by far the largest by a measure. Truly massive turnout for teachers to express their anger at the government.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 @ziadfazel.bsky.social · 3d

Do the permanent women’s bathrooms at Commonwealth have the circular communal sinks too?