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Something positive to focus on. Thank you @lukaszukab.bsky.social for your dedicated work to accomplish this for Albertans who value being part of Canada. 🇨🇦

YouTube video by Serena Mah The Numbers are in You Did It

If you missed the handing over of the #ForeverCanadian petition to Elections Alberta, here’s a video:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GRVV...

#ableg #cdnpoli

This is the Alberta my fellow British Columbians warned me about when I moved to this province over 20 years ago. I’m at least grateful it took this long to manifest. I’m going to focus on the @lukaszukab.bsky.social win to help me get through staying here awhile longer.

Why Alberta voters filled out forms at the polls — and how the information will be used | CBC News Municipalities are now provincially mandated to create and maintain permanent electors registers, or lists of eligible voters.

Not impressed with this new/old way of voting but now I have clarity on the forms: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all, and that can deter democratic participation.’”

Interestingly enough, there is now a recount in Ward 12. CBC stating tonight that there were “sufficient rejected ballots… to affect the result of the election.”

Thank you @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I’ve also just started following @brodiefenlon.bsky.social and look forward to his announcement re: CBC (as an organization) joining Bluesky. 🤗💙🇨🇦

So, we watched the poll clerk fill out the form and then put in a pile with others. Neither I nor my husband were asked to sign that form - does that mean our votes are invalid?! (36 minutes in line). @jlisayoung.bsky.social

SE Calgary: approx. 40ish people ahead of us and 36 minutes. 🙂

Olive green cookbook with title: The Art of Gluten-Free Bread in clay coloured text. Author: Aran Goyoaga. A ball of plum coloured yarn sits beside the book and the beginning of a cuff of knitting on cable needles.

New and old and new.
I’ve been immersed in Aran Goyoaga’s new baking book. Last week alone: over 5 hours in the kitchen building sourdough starter & testing out recipes. It’s her best book yet.
I’ve also started knitting again with this beautiful Akara Rose BFL yarn. I’ve had this skein for awhile!

Everything you make is exquisite. ✨

One reason to be glad I live in Calgary. 😂

#Sundaysentence
“Xiao Wang, let me tell you: By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.”

- Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

They have time to write that up, but not update the 1985 Alberta Visual Arts curriculum… 🙄

If you haven’t signed this petition yet, please do!

Construction paper collages of orange hands and hearts on a cool colour gradating background.

Construction paper collages of orange hands and hearts on a cool colour gradating background. Phyllis Webstad quote at bottom of display: “Every Child Matters”

Inspired by @shinebriteroom401.bsky.social summer talk on collaborative murals at Online Art of Ed Conference & the work of master carver, Hayalthkin'geme Carey Newman, students created positive/negative hand heart collages for tomorrow’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation. #orangeshirtday #arted

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Thank you for this. I’m originally from Kamloops, grew up around Ponderosa pines… and you captured the essence of the BC interior perfectly. ❤️

redux: heaven’s door Note: this was written two years ago and I was already back at the pool. This morning’s lake swim was cool but I’m not ready to give it up just yet. Green clear water, ravens squabbling…

theresakishkan.com/2025/09/21/r...

Tree of Spirits
Jane Ash Poitras ~ Cree
1995

After today, I can no longer ❤️ your slug art, as beautiful as they are. 🤩 It would be blasphemous to the bucket load of slugs who met their demise this morning. Looks like hostas are more important to me after all. 🥺🐌

Passage on Hellenistic art from “The History of Art” explaining the period of art where artists strived for realism in depicting a wide range of human experiences and emotions. ISBN 0 60035803 8 1985

Spine of a 1985 History of Art textbook, sitting on a standard vinyl wood veneer looking school desk.

Still bothering me and I must comment that I feel this is a further affront to visual art education in Alberta. Not that I showed my kids some of the images from here, but, taking the award from my own 1985 high school art teacher home and wondering where culture in AB is headed.

Thank you! I’m fairly new to dahlias and this is interesting!

Thank you so much for the share. There are some new titles I’m going to check out! Here are a few I use throughout the year (grades 1-4) Just picked up the game this summer for sub days/filling in the gaps. Have a great school year! 💫

Book covers of art inspired picture books

Some of my favourite art room read alouds for the 1st month of school…ones that help build community, celebrate identity, reinforce proper use of materials & embrace a growth mindset ✨📚🎨 #EduSky

They truly do!

Quietly creating, sans images This morning I was watering the back garden. Ferns fried from the recent heat wave, hostas mangled from the wet summer slugs. And amongst all the disappointment, a few small fronds of oak fern grew…

Just writing, that’s all. bwanhill.ca/2025/09/07/q...

Thank you!

Perhaps this is why the government has abandoned updating the provincial fine art curriculum.