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ICYMI: Dark Sky Preserves in Alberta - Northern Lights! COOL WINTER GUIDE: One of the world’s most unique and dazzling phenomena is the canopy of fluctuating hues that are called the northern lights (aurora borealis).

COOL WINTER GUIDE: ICYMI: Dark Sky Preserves in Alberta - Northern Lights! #CoolWinterGuide #AdvertisingFeature #AlbertaTravel

Petition Verification In Progress We are currently conducting petition verification for the Alberta Forever Canada and contacting electors who signed the petition to verify their information. Our name will be in the call display or email message and our agents will indicate their verification team number when they call you. If you receive a voice mail or text message from Elections Alberta, please follow the instructions in our message. A legitimate phone call or email will ask you about specific information you entered on the petition. If you have received a call or email and are concerned it may not be from Elections Alberta, please contact 780.427.7191 and we will confirm its authenticity.

Elections Alberta posted a news release about Petition Verification In Progress.

Anyone who signed, please stay vigilant and respond accordingly if you receive a message from Elections Alberta. Their name will be in the call display or email message.

See here for full details: www.elections.ab.ca

“You don’t necessarily have to ban cars to create great places. But you do have to completely redefine the cars role. You have to prioritize cars last and people first.” — Brent Toderian

You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.

“Alberta, which has been particularly hard hit, has seen its youth measles vaccine rate slip well below herd immunity levels.”

Hmmm — what could have possibly contributed to the Province of Alberta having exceptionally low vaccination rates?

Bueller?

Bueller?

Anyone?

As we ready for the UCP's 2nd pre-emptice use of the notwithstanding clause in as many weeks, let's clarify what this means.

1️⃣ The move is constitutional. They *can* invoke it.
2️⃣ The UCP is not *required* to do this. There are other means to pass the law.
3️⃣ They should not use it, in my view.🧵

A paper with different color painted lines that don't connect.

When you turn on the "bike" layer on Google Maps.

I used to think that a watershed was a fairly immutable physical concept but yesterday the GoA passed an order in council including the Upper Smoky basin within the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan. Bizarre.
BTW the plan will "provide continued opportunities for coal development."
#ableg #abpoli

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦

Alberta is #ForeverCanadian

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi Alberta’s New Democrats will always protect your rights and your freedoms.

We do not take the privilege of serving in this House for granted.

You have my word:
Alberta’s New Democrats will never use the notwithstanding clause to violate your rights or abuse the power of the Premier’s office.

youtu.be/-7KOGnd8drI

Or three wheels — don’t exclude us e-trike riders!

Meanwhile, in Manitoba…

At least one premier has a grasp of just how serious using the notwithstanding clause is…

And is taking steps to ensure that at least one province doesn’t use it before hearing from the courts.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is great. If only more "journalists" would actually read and apply some of this.
Truth isn't dead. Trust is just scarcer.

Petition to keep Alberta in Canada ‘really close’ to collecting enough signatures | Globalnews.ca Organizers of the 'Forever Canadian' petition say they are 'really, really close' to collecting enough signature to trigger a vote on the province's future in Canada.

Petition to keep Alberta in Canada 'really close' to collecting enough signatures.

Come on Alberta. Almost there!
#Alberta #Canada
@lukaszukab.bsky.social

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Found the following on the interweb, but not an official source — “Alberta’s motto is «Fortis et Liber,» which is Latin for «Strong and Free.» This motto was officially adopted in 1907 and has since become a symbol of the province’s resilience, independence, and spirit of freedom.”

Dear Minister, I just wanted to commend you and the caucus for your clearly non-partisan decision to replace “Wild Rose Country” with “Strong and Free” on Alberta’s license plates. It’s such a relief to know this slogan—identical to the one in your official party logo—was chosen purely on merit and not because it happens to serve as free advertising for the United Conservative Party. What an incredible coincidence! I can only imagine the brainstorming session: “What phrase captures Alberta’s identity?” “Maybe something new, something inspiring?” “Wait! What if we just use our own slogan! Nobody will notice!” Genius. Truly. Thank you for keeping Alberta “strong, free, and conveniently branded.” Sincerely, A Very Impressed Albertan (From Wild Rose Country, you maniacs) Sent to Spruce Grove-Stony Plain <SpruceGrove.StonyPlain@assembly.ab.ca>, Premier@gov.ab.ca, Danielle Smith <Danielle.Smith@corusent.com>, health.minister@gov.ab.ca, nenshi@albertandp.ca

Another day, another email to the assholes of the UCP. #ableg #abpoli #ucp

Doubtful that many of those who lived in Alberta in 1907, the year the provincial motto was formally adopted, were able to speak or read Latin either.

If it is Alberta’s provincial motto that they feel should appear on Alberta licence plates, then it should be the actual provincial motto, “Fortis et Liber”, not an English translation of it.

"On a bike it's normal to meet people, which only happens in a car if you're beeping at somebody for cutting you off or something. Do a regular route, commuting to work or something, you actually begin to meet, recognize & talk to people you share that space with, which just doesn't happen in a car"

The new proposed slogan of “Strong and Free”, being a phrase from Canada’s national anthem, does nothing to distinguish Alberta from any other Canadian province.

Gee — what a coincidence. NOT!!!

And no big surprise — just like the Alberta Next surveys, the online “pick a plate” poll does not include the option that I (and I suspect most Albertans) would like to choose — in this case to stick with “Wild Rose Country” as the slogan on Alberta licence plates.

Graph of Canada and US metro areas with a breakdown of percentage of people that live in density density bands

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Appears to be a problem with the link.

My understanding is that it was the economy that got the €1.46, not the government. Still a positive result, but not a “moneymaker” for the government.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

"It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us"

Jane Goodall

Why some Alberta teachers will vote against the latest contract offer | CBC News Many Alberta teachers say the latest contract offer from their employers and union isn’t good enough to stop them from striking.

“The consumer price index rose nearly 21 per cent in Alberta during the last six years while teacher pay rose about 3.8 per cent”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.

This is really cool.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

Here’s the study of several MILLION children with sibling-control that proves acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism. In case you need to refer to it in the coming days.

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