John Nelson
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Math teacher,dad…Oilers hopeful, Archers listener.
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The Tennessee Holler
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This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
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Dissolve ICE. Now.
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Chris Hayes
13 days ago
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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Danielle, we don’t want an Alberta police force, we want lower priced auto insurance and cheaper electricity.
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I’m so bothered by the deceptive height scale!
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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵
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The Breakdown AB
about 2 months ago
Danielle Smith has just increased the buy in on a citizen initiated referendum from $500 to $25,000 and massively clamped down on fundraising to do so.
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The Breakdown AB
about 2 months ago
“Senior Alberta government officials stalled the submission of a coal mine pollution study to a scientific journal and prevented the lead researcher from speaking publicly about his work”
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Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal
An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stalled-coal-mine-pollution-study/
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Canadian In Alberta
about 2 months ago
Sadly, Albertans voted for the UCP mess so Albertans have to fix the UCP mess It doesn't matter if you've always voted conservative, never voted conservative or simply didn't vote As Tommy Douglas said "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." An important read 👇
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Canadian In Alberta
about 2 months ago
It seems that the UCP are just itching to poison Albertans water
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I certainly didn’t read that in her election platform!
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy
about 2 months ago
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
Hey people who care about Alberta! If you're in Lethbridge tomorrow, you can give the Northback CEO a piece of your mind. in person. 11:30
lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/12/07/m...
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Mining CEO speaking in Lethbridge Monday about Crowsnest Pass project
Residents of southern Alberta will have the chance to speak directly with the proponent of a proposed steelmak...
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/12/07/mining-ceo-speaking-in-lethbridge-monday-about-crowsnest-pass-project/
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Jared Wesley
2 months ago
I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it. The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
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Alberta used notwithstanding clause to avoid costly arbitration with teachers, infrastructure minister says
Alberta infrastructure minister says the province invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back was due to cost.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/alberta-used-notwithstanding-clause-to-avoid-costly-arbitration-with-teachers-infrastructure-minister-says
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Brian Hughes
2 months ago
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Bridget Stirling
2 months ago
This is the sort of thing that in any normal province would sink a government. The Sky Palace pales in comparison. It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.
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The Breakdown AB
2 months ago
WOW! In March, Danielle Smith justified not calling for a public inquiry in part because her new right hand man... (former
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Police Chief, Dale Mcfee) had looked into the corrupt care scandal The same one who the Globe showed was partying with Sam Mraiche!
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Forward Canada
2 months ago
NEW: This week on 'Whatever This Is' we explain why Danielle Smith’s pipeline hype hides something worse. Bill 11. A plan that lets doctors work public and private at the same time. Rich Albertans get a private pipeline of care. The rest of us wait longer and pay more.
NoTwoTier.ca
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The Breakdown AB
2 months ago
This laugh after the boo tho… She’s legit laughing at her own party.
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Jared Wesley
2 months ago
A clear synopsis of the new Alberta-Ottawa MOU from a rare kind of guy who knows both the policy and the politics. Read the latest from
@maxfawcett.bsky.social
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www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/opinion/method-mark-carney-madness
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
2 months ago
Circulating on facebook. Might as well circulate here too. Not my content.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
2 months ago
I know the UCP line is “healthcare like Europe” but these people don’t have a collectivist bone in their bodies. In the European countries they’re nodding to, taxes support a well-funded public system alongside a well-regulated private one. The UCP won’t do that.
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Canadian In Alberta
3 months ago
I've made a plan to sign this petition & IMO you should too “Should the government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?” We can't leave this to the teachers They need our support
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Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
https://abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/public.cgi
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Colleen Chanel (Colleen Toscano)
3 months ago
A small shift. A massive impact. 🇨🇦 Spend $50 a week on Canadian-made products and keep billions flowing back into our communities. Take a minute and look where the product is from - buy the Canadian option.
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CAKE
3 months ago
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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Katelyn Burns
3 months ago
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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Shawn Micallef
3 months ago
They also say nobody in Canada will ride a bike or use a bike lane in winter. Many liars.
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CAKE
3 months ago
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Peter MacKay with quote of the day. Taking part in a class size and complexity committee with this government is like participating in a "How to bring peace in Ukraine" panel chaired by Vladimir Putin.
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Jay Gamble
3 months ago
How to say what you can’t say without saying it. Go, go Schilling!
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The Breakdown AB
3 months ago
So… The only voting members of the committee to address class size and complexity are all UCP Ministers/MLA’s. Wonder how that will out? Maybe the Auditor General has some thoughts?
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The Breakdown AB
3 months ago
On the same day that Peter Lougheed's Eduction Minister said the 1981 cabinet would have never used the notwithstanding clause in the same way Smith did... Smith doubles down and says Lougheed would have. That's a special kind of something...
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
3 months ago
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.
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We need to keep seeing threads like this. The next Alberta election is 2 yrs away and we can’t let the track record of this UCP government fade.
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The Breakdown AB
3 months ago
NDP MLA David Shepherd held very little back as the UCP effectively fired the Auditor General in committee today… Including highlighting that for a government under suspicion of covering up massive scandals, this only makes things look worse.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
3 months ago
accountability for thee, and not for me, he said.
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Ben Steiner
3 months ago
So close. Centimetres.
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Joe McFarland
3 months ago
Whoa whoa whoa! Despite repeated calls from Albertans that we don't want a provincial police force, and despite a travelling road show where they were supposedly going to "weigh their options," they're moving forward with it right away anyways? Colour me shocked.
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Bill 4: Alberta moves forward with independent police agency, proposes changes to domestic violence disclosure act
The Alberta government is proposing a number of amendments to allow the Alberta Sheriffs Police Services (ASPS) to begin hiring officers.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/embargoed-policing-and-public-safety-legislation
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Sean
3 months ago
In 2004, Klein knew it was a problem. In 2019 we knew it was a problem. The only reason they say they didn't know is because they didn't care to measure.
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The Breakdown AB
3 months ago
Anytime anyone claims that Smith used the Notwithstanding clause in a way that Peter Lougheed would have approved of… Feel free to share this from his 1998 paper that makes it clear that absolutely isn’t the case.
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Martin Z. Olszynski
3 months ago
Heads up
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: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely. 2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct 2006 Brodie Fury 2008 Trek 1500 2019 Trek Marlin 6 2022 Trek Marlin 5
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Alberta minister of education gets scorched by Vassy Kapelos! A worthwhile use of 8 minutes of your time!
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'Prolonged outages affect students academically': Alta. minister on ending teachers strike
YouTube video by CTV News
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So I have tried twice to call the premier’s office to leave a message voicing my concern over her preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract on teachers. Both times I get a recording that says “thanks for calling…” then hangs up!
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Chantelle Robinson
3 months ago
The Lt. Governor is our last hope. Please send an email or phone her office and ask her to withhold royal Assent to Bill 2. Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani, AOE, BSc, LLD
[email protected]
780-427-7243
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Audric Moses 🇨🇦
3 months ago
With Danielle Smith, there's ALWAYS a clip 😂.
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These sound like foundational principles. When did the premier abandon them?
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Kikki Planet
3 months ago
Premier Danielle Smith in an airport lounge, Saudi Arabia bound, while her government strips Charter Rights from Alberta’s teachers.
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