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After touring grand cathedrals, impressive shrines and awesome monasteries…it was nice to be back in my own little parish church today. It’s relatively small and plain…but it’s holy ground and I love its simple, wooden sanctuary and its peaceful cemetery grounds.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The UCP is just an amalgam of the fiscal corruption of the PC's and the unhinged social phobias of the Wildrose party, because they have nothing else going for them, they don't want to govern, they want control and money. #abpoli #AbLeg calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Holding public consultations on what books should be banned from school libraries in Alberta is simply a way to solidify and grow anti-woke sentiment, which of course benefits the party in power. That's what this is. A continuation of the culture war.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Flowers in the Attic didn’t make all of Gen X sleep with their siblings. Calm down on the banning, folks.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

The Liberals bought a pipeline for Alberta and the response from the UCP was fomenting a separatist movement. History shows that giving anything to petro-conservatives and the multinational oil corporations they serve gets you nothing except more extreme demands.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Edmonton, I am excited to announce that I am running to be your next mayor.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Please inform Lady Grantham we’ll be having tea on the lawn.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

FUCKING THIS! Are you following Edmonton City Council? We had a decent system that took multiple payment types, was reasonably reliable and not the worst to use. Replaced it with a shitty app that is terrible to use, has more limited payment options and terrible fucking ui.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

May 17, 1962 and B.F. Goodrich Is Gardening Headquarters at Vintage Edmonton: http://www.vintageed... #yeg #edmonton #alberta #1960s #BFGoodrich

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure I get why everyone’s so tense about tonight’s Leafs game. I mean if they lose the series tonight they can just go to Alberta and play a beer league team to get back into the playoffs, no?

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

It's been a busy few weeks with a lot of traveling to rally obedience trials, helping be the demo dog at school, and planning presentations about disabilities at a local university. So today was a play day for me and a catch up on rest day for my human. Unlike me, she needs more than a quick nap!

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Seconded

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A Moscrop-led NDP government will ban retail outlets from asking you for your name, email address, phone number, or postal code. It’s none of your business. Take my money and give me my shirt.

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

I am proud to say that @drjenadjacent.bsky.social is now a Canadian Permanent Resident!

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

Alberta should separate. By that I mean Alberta should separate from the absolute fucking idiots running this dumpster fire of a province.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

It's been REALLY hard to keep up with social media lately! Between helping my human give some training classes, dog show season starting, and helping look after my best friend who recently had surgery, my paws are full! But I wanted to pop in and say thank you for being you.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

Without popular support for separation, she has seriously limited options. But Moscrop is exactly right: this is live ammo-stuff now, the way Brexit was, the way Trump as a candidate was. She is reckless, and part of a political movement of delusion and dishonesty. Very dangerous

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Doug Ford is a terrible premier and is currently do a lot of damage governing Ontario, but he is still somehow a lot more principled than Danielle Fucking Smith.

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

Alberta doesn't subsidize anyone it simply pays taxes

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Wanna know why Pierre is staying in politics and not riding off into the sunset with the wife and kids? Because no private firm wants a guy with 0 skills and no resume. Living off tax payers money is the only skill he has ever known. Facts.

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Danielle Smith is playing fast and loose with the future of the country. It seems like a long shot that Alberta would vote to leave, but who knows what happens once you start down this path. It’s a live-ammo outing now. Utter insanity.

submitted 24 days ago • 121 comments

She is very dangerous. Unleashing forces without thinking of potential consequences, lying at every turn while draining Alberta's coffers for her and her cronies gain. Services and infrastructure falling down around us while she distracts with this nonsense. We may never recover.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

My teaching background is exactly why I'm talking about western seperatism this way. One of the first things you are taught is to try to understand the underlying causes of bad behaviour. Trying to understand what led the person to act in an antisocial way. Instead of just being mad.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

A good thread, but let's be clear, this isn't just a movement "with" elite leaders, it is a movement largely created by elite leaders, based on false premises and a lot of pettiness. The issue isn't "yokels" or stupidity, but selfishness and dogmatic ideology.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

I’m happy that the Liberals have succeeded in securing a minority government. However, the 2025 Canadian federal election has merely bought some time for those who don’t want to see Canada devolve into a hard right-wing regime that’s vulnerable to the US. There’s a lot of work ahead, Canada 🇨🇦

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

Great post. It's why I continue to use FB.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Well folks, I'm nervous as fuck. Canada sinks or swims tonight.

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives. The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.

submitted 31 days ago • 105 comments

We can do it Canada! Vote Liberal April 28

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Me too! It's going to be a long couple of days.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A thoughtful column - as always - from @keithgerein.bsky.social. But I would add this. I think well designed separated bike lanes can actually help car traffic move more smoothly - provided cyclists actually use them. This is what happened on 100th Ave in downtown Edmonton. A win win. #yeg #yegdt

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

There is nothing wrong with being woke. Republicans/Conservatives have co-opted the word and made it into something “bad”… If we care about racism, misogyny, hate toward LGBTQ, we’re “woke” which is somehow a negative. Vote wisely 🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

I am running as your new Liberal candidate in the St.Albert-Sturgeon River riding. I AM READY to take on a tired Michael Cooper and his anti-Canadian slogans. Are you ready to join me in the fight for our Canadian way of life? #elbowsup #letsdothis

submitted 77 days ago • 18 comments