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submitted 12 hours ago • 238 comments

Timing is everything. The evacuation & bomb dismantling took place yesterday (Wednesday, June 4). I was wandering around that section of town five days earlier (Friday, May 30). Wow! 🍀 www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The tent encampment / occupation / sit-in on the grounds behind Queen's Park went through the night. Indigenous people are protesting Bill 5, which tramples over Indigenous rights. About 10 tent up, a couple dozen people around the sacred fire (not pictured).

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s a trap! Cooling separatist feelings will lead to a confrontation with Smith ‘cause Dani’s stoking the very fires she suggests need cooling. 🤷‍♀️ That she & @rickbellwrites.bsky.social believe we’re this collectively stupid and/or gullible is insulting. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Left Basel at 6 am for Hamburg flight. Hamburg to Calgary at 1:30 pm Germany time. Landed Calgary at 3 pm, got through customs & baggage in record time. Home to Lethbridge in time for opening face-off. Up for 28 straight hours to see Drai score in OT. Awesome! Night night!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As I was walking into a bathroom at the Basel airport in Switzerland, an irate man nearly knocked me over, muttering “F*cking Trump” under his breath. 🤣😂

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This stupid separation noise in Alberta is depressing AF. I don’t even care that it won’t fly on a referendum, it’s already doing real damage to our economy & our values, and it’s diving us further. And when it fails, then what? It’s harder by the day to live here.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Watching the Jays from Speyer, Germany. VPN rules.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Great analysis.👇 MAHA Report Mostly ‘Data Vibes’ www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social "It’s an exercise in hypocrisy as RFK Jr’s commission seeks to protect kids while his boss endangers their health." "...a stubborn refusal to confront known answers to important problems."

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Yup, Premier Smith remains neutral! 🤦‍♀️ My ass! Sorry, but she’s playing both sides and increasingly pandering to the AB separatists. When is it safe to she too to call her a separatist? www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished The Devil in the White City. Just … wow! 👍

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Getting ready for my excursion to Cologn after ~3 hrs sleep. My oh my. 🥱 Gonna be 27C after four days of 15C and lot’o’rain. A must do!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

2:24am local time. Perry! 1-0.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Another jet lag night, this time in Germania. Go Oilers (2:21 am local time)! 👍👍

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I am 76 years old and live in Southern Alberta! On Saturday I have an appointment to get a measles vaccine. I am so tired of Alberta's stance on vaccines. Maybe I believe in vaccines because my mom's youngest sister died at age 14 of diphtheria because there was no vaccine yet! Vaccines work!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Jet-lagged in Amsterdam, 3:19 am and streaming the Oilers game on the IPad.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The UCP may be starting to see the first signs of the FO part of their bad faith engagement with Albertans. There are a LOT of folks who simply don’t believe their claims about the books “found” in schools with Kindergartners having access to them. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

I know it’s been said before and I know the recipes are free and I shouldn’t complain, but I’m going to anyway because I’m in a mood. The novelization of recipes sends me up the wall. STFU, list ingredients, provide cooking instructions. That’s all I want from you. That is all.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

We’re on our way to a general strike in Alberta. That’s sone fine governing, Dani. 🙄

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

“The King mentioned that when his mother …opened Parliament in 1957, it was … in the midst of the Cold War. The world faces a different threat with democratic pluralism, the rule of law and freedom under assault, he said.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a8e29b0...

submitted 9 days ago • 83 comments

UCP - Youth shouldn’t be exposed to sexually graphic materials at any school age! Reality - more than half of youth are exposed to being graphically sexually active by 14. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

The university grads are are going to need some support and understanding These kids were born around 9-11 & grew up w/ terrorist fears Schools had lock down drills due to school shootings They graduated HS around Covid, so no proms etc Now they join the workforce during a trade war

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

From the DM’s… At least one UCP MLA is using their legislature resources and position to fundraise for the UCP as a party. And yes, we’ve been presented with proof. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

How Pierre Poilievre Used Taxpayer Funds to Run a Permanent Campaign. While he was running this permanent campaign, we can strongly infer he was doing something else too: charging the public for it. #cdnpoli letterkenny.substack.com/p/the-dual-t...

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

This is bicycle culture. First time I’ve seen this up close. Amsterdam. Unreal.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The Guardian asked me to try to explain what’s going on in Alberta for their readers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

It's a beautiful day for sailing into our BOOK SALE !! 5 BOOKS FOR $10 320B 13 St N !!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bunk used to justify distrust. Researchers find rampant misinformation at government meetings during the height of the pandemic publichealth.uci.edu/2025/05/22/r... "Misinformation about vaccines & disease prevention continue to be pervasive in our society & can be harmful to people & communities”

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Incredible the degree to which vaccine hesitancy is now ALL about political identity. Views on vaccines = ideological flag. Science means nothing. Politics means everything. Unvaccinated? Likely voted CPC & VERY against immigration. via @voiceoffranky.bsky.social cc @picardonhealth.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "The findings suggest that more time spent on social media during early adolescence may contribute to increased depressive symptoms over time."

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Why is it when we make the national news it’s negative? 🤦‍♀️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 bsky.app/profile/drja...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments