Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦

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They already have all his game film, selected practice videos, as well as his advice to less-accomplished NHL goaltenders who HAVE been scored on by McDavid, Crosby, Ovechkin, McKinnon, etc. (My client still has not).

I wish they’d stop contacting him directly with paltry $8m/yr for 2+ option.

Sunday night at 8!

THIS is a conversation you don’t want to miss!

We sit down with Keep Alberta RCMP to set the record straight on policing in Alberta and what Alberta stands to lose if Smith plows ahead with her Provincial Police Force!

See you at 8!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Rare selfie with no respirator, and no clothes either after shower, but I don’t photograph below my shoulders.

Selfie of my team Canada jersey with Poppy for Remembrance Day.

Photo of my little yellow café table at Blush Lane.

Screenshot from Calgary Counselling Centre where donations are doubled from 15 Oct to 2 Dec 2025.

#Movember broom starting to come along, making me look 10 different ethnicities*, depending on day, angle and lighting.

onlineintake.calgarycounselling.com/Home/Welcome...

Enjoying a dirty latte (coffee/chai blend) and 50% off apple danish before 4.30pm CFL West Final.

*All 🇨🇦 Canadian, though.

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Me, breaking up the inexplicable ice cover on the “non-alcoholic watermelon punch”, where one would expect an undocumented ethanol concentration too high for ice to form at -15°C with wind chill.

#evaporation #fructose

a cartoon of homer simpson driving a pink car with his family in the back seat ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson driving a pink car with his family in the back seat

Why I need to come over from Xitter more often, where I fight hate and disinformation by spreading love and factual information, to this blue butterfly playground where the @cfl.ca trolling is fans threatening a gentle pillowfight at a couch-crash before I make frittatas from last night's leftovers.

Alberta government committee has $400M over 3 years to resolve class size and complexity problems | CBC News The Alberta government plans to use $400 million over the next three years — plus spending already earmarked in its existing budget documents — to pay for more teachers, educational assistants and bet...

There were many numbers shared during the Alberta teacher strike about the cost of contract proposals. But harder to find how much the govt planned to spend hiring new teachers and EAs.

The education minister says some of the $ to hire 3000 new Ts is money already in the 2025 budget #AbLeg #AbEd

My photo of my daughter’s old bike which I have propped up on its back wheel inside my bathtub to wash it, after years of gathering dust in my condo underground parking.

Things Divorced Dads can do that Married Dads cannot #443:

Retrieve your daughter’s dusty outgrown bike from condo underground parking (where seat was stolen 😡) and wash it in the bathtub.

P.S. I’ll be replacing tub & tile with new tub surround enclosure soon, as I am renovating room-by-room.

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

List of countries with the best reputation, showing change between 2024 and 2025.

According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.

The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…

Canadian Cities Guru Teams Up with Paris Mayor for Groundbreaking New Exhibition Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian teamed up with Paris and, in particular, Mayor Anne Hidalgo on a new exhibition, From Paris to Belém.

Canadian Cities Guru Teams Up with Paris Mayor for Groundbreaking New Exhibition.
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Mine 14: It’s Worse Than We Thought By: Nigel Bankes Matter Commented On: Responsive Records to Access to Information Requests re Mine 14 Decision-Making PDF Version: Mine 14: It’s Worse Than We Thought An earlier ABlawg post describ…

And here it is. When the first instinct of a so-called independent regulator is to call the Minister’s office for their “input” you don’t have an independent regulator
#abpoli #ableg

Documents related to Summit coal decision raise more questions about Alberta Energy Regulator’s independence Regulator’s CEO sought ‘input’ from Energy Minister’s chief of staff on a motion to cancel hearings about a proposed mine

Not only did the AER's CEO unlawfully interfere with the hearing process for Summit's Mine 14, he called the Minister's office for "input" pretty much as soon as the application for reconsideration came in. That's a foul.
#abpoli #ableg @cpawsnab.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

WE ARE HIRING FOR TWO POSITIONS!

1) A part-time Communications Lead (job description here: buff.ly/dhifVoP)
2) A part-time Consumer Protection Lead (job description here: buff.ly/gdMxHQR)

Email your cover letter and resume to Heather MacKenzie at executive.director@solaralberta.ca.

If you're a journalism student or blogger, read as much as you can find of Bob's journalism. He possesses an extraordinary skill for making complex topics understandable and readable. Thorough reporting and crystal clear writing.

YouTube video by ohcowclinics What the Evidence Suggests is Occuring for the Impact of COVID on Mental Health

"Educators' experiences during the pandemic:
Impacts of psychosocial hazards and exercising their rights."

Part of @ohcow.bsky.social
2022 OCC-COVID Webinar Series. 40 mins.
@gosiagasperophd.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @amandachapman.bsky.social @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social

youtu.be/-ua9uSeqbGQ?...

Surplus sales and public auctions The surplus sales catalogue contains bicycles, computers, office equipment & furniture, fire equipment, industrial equipment & machinery, trailers

I looked into one of the suggestions you gave: city surplus for the "staple" type bicycle racks. I see from this that @calgary.ca no longer has an online store for such material, but instead sells everything through a contract auctioneer.

That may work for my condo.

www.calgary.ca/buy-sell/buy...

2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct

2008 Trek 1500

2006 Brodie Fury

2019 Trek Marlin 6

Heads up #yycbike: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely.

2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct
2006 Brodie Fury
2008 Trek 1500
2019 Trek Marlin 6
2022 Trek Marlin 5

Reading about pedestrian deaths.

Without taking accountability away from drivers, may I suggest pedestrians wear a reflective vest like this?

Again, not blaming the pedestrian. Just increasing visibility.

$15 is a nice affordable gift too.

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Elderly pedestrian dies after being struck in downtown crosswalk | CBC News Calgary police are investigating after an elderly woman was killed in a downtown crosswalk on the weekend.

Yet another pedestrian death on Calgary's streets. This article doesn't include the context that last month, three pedestrians were killed in 24 hours and #yyc surpassed last year’s 10-year high for fatal traffic collisions. We need to talk about this more. #yyccc
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Bumped into @brettbergie.bsky.social today in the grocery store.

She was wearing a respirator but also a bike helmet. The clincher was when I saw how tiny her bike was folded up.

Very helpful. Thanks for the advice.

Filling up my bcc: on that email this morning to people I KNOW would love the news was my distinct pleasure.

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🇨🇦 CRACKS FORM FOR ALBERTA'S UCP 🇨🇦

In a sharp new column, Don Braid argues that "knobs are starting to fall off" the #UCP government.

He details a series of escalating "incidents and irritants" that suggest, halfway through its second term, the government's lustre is fading.

#AbLeg #AbPoli

Canada and Philippines sign defense pact to boost drills, deter China's aggression Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense agreement on Sunday to boost combat drills and expand se...

Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense agreement on Sunday to boost combat drills and expand security alliances to deter aggression, officials said.
https://to.pbs.org/3Lcjr9h

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.

Blasting Venezuelan fishermen to smithereens has nothing to do with saving 🇺🇸Americans from fentanyl addiction.
It’s all about neofascist Donald Trump and his grisly henchman Stephen Miller’s love of murdering people.
(Fentanyl doesn’t come from Venezuela).
🤷🏼🧐🤷🏼
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This morning the Bank of Canada lowered its policy rate to 2.25%, down 0.25 points, and projects relatively slow growth ahead.

Announcement: www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/10/fad...

Detailed analysis: www.bankofcanada.ca/publication... #cdnecon

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

@feistywaters.com

Should have said it in the original German