Profile avatar
jerrymacgp.bsky.social
Registered Nurse & union activist in northwestern Alberta 🇨🇦. Pragmatic left-wing politics. Settler in Treaty 8 territory. Married, father of 3 & grandfather of 4. Vaccinated. Interests: Alberta & Canadian politics, heavy metal & Star Trek. He/him/his.
504 posts 375 followers 182 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
Posts 30 Comments 19

Sad to hear about the death of Marc Garneau. Engineer (PhD), Naval Officer, Astronaut (First Canadian in Space), Cabinet Minister. What a life!

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, and later a MP and cabinet minister, dead of cancer at age 76, by @ianabailey.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Truly Funny 😄💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

submitted 10 hours ago • 139 comments

I'm going to take a lot of heat for this but here goes IMO, We're not going to get rid of O&G anytime soon The technology just isn't there or affordable for most of us To drive from Edmonton to Prince George is 459 miles Some of the most expensive EVs get 400 miles from a charge

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

i hope katharine graham’s ghost haunts jeff bezos for all eternity

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

There're questions every news org should ask the #PipelinePremiers when their constituents are once again forced to flee as their part of the world is on fire again. They'll hit back with victimhood, fire & brimstone but it's what you do if you believe in actually covering a story #abpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"who then turned around and immediately called for more pipelines." #saskpoli #Wildfires #cdnpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I wonder if they have a box?

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Alberta Premier Smith says she's invited Prime Minister Carney to Oilers game nationalnewswatch.com/2025/06/04/a...

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

💙🧡🛢️🏒🏆 Let’s go Oilers! Alberta nurses are cheering on the Oil from the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario. #LetsGoOilers #WeWantTheCup

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

“Canadians are like Americans who do their homework and are nice to people and stuff.” The Brits get us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

When your neighborhood pizza guy of 25 years is labeled a “threat” and disappeared by masked men in body armor, maybe the problem isn’t him.

submitted 22 hours ago • 31 comments

Gotta wonder why Manitoba doesn’t use university residences to house fire evacuees. Most are probably nearly empty right now, aren’t they? #mbpoli #cdnpoli #cdnwildfires

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

With the dismantling of AHS, and the subsequent siloing of crucial health care services and the ministries responsible, public health is being sidelined. And it shows in Alberta's lack of action to address our rapidly growing measles outbreak. Must read: edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I love how the people who flip out over pronoun specifications on email footnotes & social media biographies have managed to contain their rage for decades over the Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms & Dr checkboxes on every bureaucratic form in existence.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I wonder if Poilievre & CPC supporters miss the anger-inducing 3 word slogans or Is it nice to NOT have to deal with it? If you miss it then maybe you need to- get back to basics reconnect with the people in your life travel to other countries to see how great Canada really is Just a thought

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's pride month Congratulations to the LGBT+ community If you are a parent of an LGBT+ child remember all you have to do is love and accept them That's it It's really easy and not at all complicated I speak from experience

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

That's how you have got to work with TACO man.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🗳️We're about to switch the federal baseline on 338, so how about some final charts with the transposed 2021 data? 📊See my latest here: www.338canada.ca/p/new-baseli...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

While RFK Jr. is fighting against fluoride in drinking water, the city of Calgary in Canada already made that mistake and is bringing it back this month. Back in 2011, Calgary voted to remove flouride, but childhood cavities rose and 10 years later in 2021, 62% of voters asked to bring it back.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This: ☝️☝️☝️. #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

« Nous sommes tous unis pour une dotation sécuritaire en personnel, tous unis pour de soins de longue durée sécuritaires, tous unis pour une assurance-médicaments, et tous unis pour des soins de santé financés et dispensés par l’État », a affirmé Silas, présidente de la FCSII. tinyurl.com/32uja6fs

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“We are all in for safe staffing, all in for safe long-term care, all in for pharmacare, and all in for publicly financed and publicly delivered health care,” said CFNU President Linda Silas. Read more: nursesunions.ca/largest-gath... #AllIn #CFNU25

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

UCP staffers and candidates are using fringe issues to make people angry and afraid. What's worse? They're blatantly misrepresenting what's actually happening. This isn't leadership, it bad faith gamesmanship at its worst. And vulnerable youth will pay for it. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

True Blood breakthrough.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

1/. What gives with the obsession with booze? Every time we have a conversation about interprovincial trade, alcohol is top of the agenda. #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Can physical activity improve #cancer survival? The answer is a resounding 'yes,' new study shows, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #exercise

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments