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I find this a useful graphic.
Others may as well.
attribution on the bottom.

We'll have what they're having...

Happy Thanksgiving, Alberta! #WeStandwithTeachers

If you get your bike ready, it won’t happen

At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

A colleague spilled a bottle of water into my computer on Friday. This is the damage by today despite pulling it apart to dry it out as much as was feasible and blowing a fan at it all weekend. Repair cost $490 from a local electronics tech vs upwards of $800 for a new logic board from apple. 😖

Highway filled with slow moving, bumper-to-bumper cars

It’s still amazing to me that we’ve basically let ourselves be tricked into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #CarDependency

WELL. Looks like “unpaid work” isn’t fully over for Air Canada flight attendants after all.

New details are coming out that suggest flight attendants will only be paid at 50% of their hourly rate for pre-take off tasks.

Air Canada, pay your workers!!

The Air Canada strike is a huge deal in so many ways — and lots of them should matter to every single working Canadian.

The flight attendants are ignoring a back to work order. Canadians unions are behind them. The CUPE National President is prepared to go to jail.

Let's talk about it:

Jammin’ again!

If anyone has experience with refinishing formerly oiled wood surfaces please send advice!

#myoldehouseinyeg #doublehungwindows #homeimprovement

Elsewhere the original (oil?) interior finish is still there - looks like English Chestnut stain like I used on the kitchen window. But if it is oil I may need to remove it before refinishing, though sanding may take care of that. Maybe.

Did some paint stripping today. First sash of four stripped outside with my heat gun. Took about 3 hours. I may try chemical Peel Away 1 on the next one. The meeting rail is rough and may need some epoxy filler.

Jammin’ time!

Soon to be jam!

Juvenile white-tailed jackrabbit visiting our lawn

The “Widowmaker”, Kananaskis, AB

You forgot the original: economics

Raspberry season is upon us!

👏

Flowers of Kananaskis Country

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him | Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott Federal and provincial governments are ‘flooding the zone’ with damaging corporate giveaways under the guise of resistance

The view from the Guardian on how Canadian politicians are betraying the call from our people to stand up for democracy and the rule of law.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

I spent the last few days reaching out to advocates, experts and the government about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new border bill, Bill C-2.

What I learned was…not reassuring.

In fact, advocates are warning it could create a framework for Trump-style mass deportations -- and more:

Vicious cycle: Wildfire smoke and wind a growing threat in Alberta “Air pollution, exacerbated by wildfire smoke, is the leading environmental risk to health in Canada."

edmontonjournal.com/news/wildfir...

Global energy investment to reach record US$3.3-trillion, IEA says The 2025 World Energy Investment report shows clean technologies are attracting twice as much capital as fossil fuels

Want to attract capital to AB?
Make it easy to invest in the energy attracting the most capital: clean tech.
Not what we're doing, chasing it away.
"Global energy investment is set to increase to a record US$3.3T this year, with clean technologies attracting 2x as much capital as fossil fuels"