Chris McClure π¨π¦
@chrisjmcclure.bsky.social
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NigelBankes
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The Trump Administration Comes for Alberta From
@stewartprest.ca
Time to pay attention fellow Albertans
#abpoli
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#ableg
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The Trump Administration Comes for Alberta
The country must respond to this flagrant violation of Canadian sovereignty
https://open.substack.com/pub/stewartprest/p/the-trump-administration-comes-for?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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I would have to ask, as an Albertan, why should the rest of Canada be providing tax payer money to Alberta for a pipeline when the provincial government is not stopping this crap immediately.
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Trump cabinet member weighs in on Alberta separatism | CBC News
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta β making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province's politic...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/trump-cabinet-member-weighs-in-on-alberta-separatism-9.7058082
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Brian F. Kelcey
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Canada: the only country in the world specifically excluded from The Board of Peace!
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mauditanglais
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Matt
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U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html?smid=bs-share
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Someone should write a story tallying all the times that Poilievre, Smith and other conservative politicians compared Alberta vs BC drug poisonings using false numbers. Hereβs what was actually going on:
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*Morrissey voice* I've seen this haaappen in other people's lives And now it's haaaappening in miiiiine
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Bell: Premier Danielle Smith, I was an emergency room patient β they need your help
Danielle Smith vows to fix Alberta health care, Postmedia columnist Rick Bell ends up in a Calgary emergency room and asks premier for help
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/rick-bell-emergency-room-patient-help-premier-danielle-smith
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jamelle
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state-sponsored child trafficking
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An Italian Prosecco or a good Spanish Cava are acceptable substitutes.
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I give credit to the people in Minnesota that they haven't started fire-bombing ICE vehicles yet. A lot of places would have been in full riot mode by now.
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Albertaβ β β β β β β β β β β(Parody)
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Great news! Our UCP-appointed Ethics Commissioner, Shawn McLeod, who is a UCP donor & former UCP candidate, has dismissed a complaint against David Yager, who received over $400k in gov't contracts and is "special adviser" to me! Read:
www.readtheorchard.org/p/ethics-com...
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Ethics complaint dismissed against Smith advisor who supports publicly funded well cleanup
In a Dec. 10 letter obtained by The Orchard, Ethics Commissioner (and UCP donor) Shawn McLeod says the Conflict of Interest Act doesn't apply to David Yager.
https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/ethics-complaint-dismissed-against
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2 days ago
For the evening crowd...
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"Mark Carney Just Announced that the West Lost the Second Cold War" Entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand lays out why Carney's Davos speech may prove to be one of the most important speeches made by any global leader in the last three decades.
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Mark Carney Just Announced that the West Lost the Second Cold War
Entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand lays out why Carney's Davos speech may prove to be one of the most important speeches made by any global leader in the last three decades.
https://zeteo.com/p/mark-carney-davos-speech-cold-war-china
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Bruce Arthur
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These are, for the most part, not serious people
ca.news.yahoo.com/carneys-davo...
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If Greenland is giving up land and mineral rights to the U.S., it is now a de facto colony of the U.S.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Trumpβs Greenland deal could include U.S. sovereignty over military bases, mineral rights
Danish PM says Denmark rejects any proposal that relinquishes its sovereignty over Greenland
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-greenland-deal-nato-denmark/#comments
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My kids consider this weather that only requires this type of jacket. I donβt even put on my warm winter bike helmet until it hits -10c
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Recall Mickey Amery
2 days ago
Two former provincial justice ministers among those criticizing Alberta's current justice minister Mickey Amery and the rest of the UCP for recent government overreach.
#RecallMickey
#OperationTotalRecall
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2 former Alberta justice ministers criticize province's recent actions in open letter | CBC News
A group of 30 Alberta lawyers β including two former provincial justice ministers β is speaking about recent actions by the Alberta government that they say are weakening the democratic safeguards and...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/former-alberta-justice-ministers-open-letter-9.7055104
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Carney was only the third person to get a standing ovation at Davos. The first was Mandela and the second Zelenskyy. To say we are proud Canadians is an understatment. π¨π¦π
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Here's an idea: how about properly funding Alberta hospitals as a "province-wide response" Alberta was the only large province where real per capita hospital spending declined β by 4% over the last decade
#ABpoli
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Tony Lastname
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ππ΅πͺ΄ sometimes you have to do what needs to be done
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My buddy's father told us to think of having eggs between the feet and the peddles when we were learning to drive on snow. This would probably also work.
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That is pretty wild you can track this live
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π¨π¦π¨π¦ Proud Canadian π¨π¦π¨π¦
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newrepublic.com/article/2054...
Trump is learning that little Canada with its mere 40 million people actually has some leverage over the mighty United States that the bully didnβt think it had. Yes, we have leverage - & we have something else: backbone & we never give up.
#CanadaStrong
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Trump Is About to Find Out What Every Bully in History Has Found Out
Last year, Trump had a lot of people scared. But there are goodβand encouragingβreasons to think that this year will be different.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205416/trump-canada-europe-tariffs-isolation
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lauren
3 days ago
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
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At one time, Hootsuite was a great tool. Then it lost its way and is now resorting to sewer level work to stay in business.
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
YARDENI, on Japan: β.. The US President spent the last week effectively undoing tariff deals that the [EU] and the [UK] thought were set. .. β.. how can Tokyo be sure its comparatively low 15% US tariff rate is safe? What if Trump suddenly decides Japan isnβt being sufficiently compliant?β
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I've been wondering why so many Canadians who gave up American products, vacations, and liquor still are big
#NFL
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#CTV
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The Breakdown AB
3 days ago
Only days after insisting the provincial coordination of a dis-integrated system was just fine and that no single command and control was needed... Matt Jones seems to now agree that some centralized control is in fact, needed.
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No platitudes. Just cold, hard truth. Now the world must react to Trump.
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there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
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Anonymous
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You can either deny reality or fix it, Trump is a reflection of your country as it has always been. It's not enough to reject or oust his regime, but also, have a serious reflection as a nation of how you actually got here, allowed corruption & impunity to exist openly for so long, and change it.
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3 days ago
Read the full transcript of PM Carneyβs speech to World Economic Forum.
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Read the full transcript of Carneyβs speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
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The EU is debating retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., or employing its Anti-Coercion Instrument--known as the βtrade bazooka,β the ACI would limit access to public tenders, investments or banking activity, or restrict trade in services, including digital services.
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This EU politician wants to use a 'trade bazooka' against Trump. Hereβs what that means | CBC Radio
"It's time to speak the language that President Trump understands," Swedish MEP Karin Karlsbro tells As It Happens host Nil KΣ§ksal.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/mep-trade-bazooka-9.7051791
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@GottaLaff
3 days ago
If
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Dr Alex Cruikshanks
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"May you step barefoot on a Lego brick"
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I know a lot of Canadian leftists on Bluesky don't like Carney and see him as further right than advertised. But I think a technocratic pragmatist is probably the best PM that Canada can get right now. No fluffy dreams, no partisan fights. Focused results.
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'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-davos-speech-9.7052725
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For the electrical and environmental cost of AI, it is so wasted on absolutely useless things.
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Cheaper French wines for the rest of the world as U.S. demand dries up - sounds good to me! π₯
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wines if Macron snubs his βBoard of Peaceβ
Source close to Macron said the French president intended to decline the invitation to join
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-france-macron-board-of-peace-gaza/#comments
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
Donald Trump wants to own Greenland. Canada might be next. One thing is certain: if he does attack Canada, there will be plenty of right-wing media figures and Conservative supporters who will happily justify and defend his decision.
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www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
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Canadaβs fifth columnists are showing their hand
Donald Trump is threatening to invade Greenland, and Canada might be next. It's time to look around and figure out who would fight back β and who would surrender.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/opinion/canada-united-states-trump-threats-sovereignty
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This speech feels like a long-overdue reckoning with the end of an old world and the start of something new
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β¬οΈ this says it all. Canada needs to choose Gripen β¬οΈ
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RoseMarie
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: It seeks to annihilate rather than convert.
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