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Norm Fassbender

@rantdog.bsky.social

I’m a Canadian that believes in “peace, order and good government.” I guess that makes me a radical leftist. Long live ANTIFA.

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I just wish people would debate facts and not blather on and on, blaming all of our self-inflicted Alberta problems on others.

01.12.2025 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I totally get it.

And fyi, there are plenty of UCP wing-nuts in Edmonton. Thankfully they are in the minority.

01.12.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

30.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 23396    🔁 6984    💬 482    📌 236
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.

The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”

29.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 1744    🔁 734    💬 38    📌 43

Glad you said “part of Alberta.”

The UCP wingnuts get all the headlines.

I live in Edmonton, in the last provincial election we voted in 100% Alberta NDP. Their policies are very centrist- and sane.

30.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

30.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 21125    🔁 6191    💬 322    📌 202

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

29.11.2025 23:01 — 👍 16699    🔁 6274    💬 504    📌 283
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Green Party of Canada 🇨🇦 -
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters. #cdnpoli

22.11.2025 09:59 — 👍 487    🔁 234    💬 23    📌 38

This has been explained many times, but Conservatives don't seem to believe it. But investors will not invest in this. Meanwhile, Carney gets green energy initiatives in AB that will attract investors. bsky.app/profile/peip...

28.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wow. Game set and match. Many thanks for posting.

I’m guessing Carney knows these facts.

Smith and the UCP must have plans to spin the eventual pipeline demise into more Alberta political theatre.

It’s just who they are.

28.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I totally agree with Max

The pipeline will never happen.

28.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Max Fawcett, National Observer.

“This isn’t going to happen.

…today’s oil and gas sector is run by glorified spreadsheet jockeys who consistently shy away from even the smallest quantum of uncertainty.”

28.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The method to Mark Carney’s madness The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer

Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.

Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...

27.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 961    🔁 361    💬 130    📌 178

Lying is a lot of hard work.
Remembering those lies is even harder.

28.11.2025 03:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

26.11.2025 15:50 — 👍 3234    🔁 2105    💬 416    📌 272

We may be getting the Epstein Files in December, but they’re still hiding the Jobs Report, the Inflation Report, and the GDP Report.

25.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 11035    🔁 3081    💬 383    📌 128
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"I didn't hear any #UCP MLAs getting upset about how the (recall) law was being used against Jyoti Gondek..."

Dr. @duanebratt.bsky.social and Janet Brown chime in as recall efforts ramp up in Alberta...

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/112525RTRT

🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/112525 #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

25.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 49    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0

If there's another pandemic during a Trump presidency, the death toll may well end up being in the tens of millions

You will lose friends and neighbors who didn't have to die but did die purely because some incredibly mediocre, juvenile, largely uneducated dickwads wanted to play at being Big Men

25.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 517    🔁 198    💬 31    📌 6

Yoooooooooooo!

I think Canadian intelligence services may want to look into this. I am being serious. All the Alberta separatist or Alberta statehood or Maple MAGA accounts... none of them are Canadian. They are all American. This may be an American disinfo op.

23.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 160    🔁 43    💬 8    📌 2

Carney:
Intelligent, clear, concise. Talking as a humble citizen of the world, seeking cross country partnership toward solutions for ALL.
Contrast with
Trump:
Incoherent ramblings of a narcissistic grifter who could not care less for his own citizens nevermind the citizens of the world.

23.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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“Keep on keeping on.”

24.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spectacular idea and execution of that idea!!

24.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was born in Banff, a block away from the camera’s position.
As a little kid I grew up talking to people from all over world.

24.11.2025 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties He emphasised that he won’t have his agenda dictated by US President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

#Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties

www.straitstimes.com/world/canada...

23.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 1155    🔁 290    💬 65    📌 29

This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.

Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...

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I was doing wildlife monitoring. Making sure it's empirical. Sadly we use numbers for stories of hope "not extinct yet", not as senses of reality. I quit. Lyle summarizes my own feelings better than I could: "way to declare the patient stable while ignoring that the heart no longer beats on its own"

23.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3

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