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There were lots of great signs at the teacher Day protest but stands out as the most artistic
Note the little crown on Smith's head
#ableg

05.10.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

03.10.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1071    ๐Ÿ” 446    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

People have had more than enough of Dani and her backwards world view

05.10.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A lot of people standing outside of McDougall Centre, a provincial government office and meeting space. They're holding signs and most people are dressed in red.

A lot of people standing outside of McDougall Centre, a provincial government office and meeting space. They're holding signs and most people are dressed in red.

The AB teachers rally in Calgary today, at McDougall Centre

I tried to get pics up close but it was way too packed to get a good spot. Biggest rally at McDougall I've ever seen.

#Alberta #abpoli #AlbertaTeachers

05.10.2025 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 183    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

#Alberta protests with over 20,000 people flooded Alberta Legislature.

In one of the largest demonstrations in Albertaโ€™s #history, an estimated 20,000 people flooded the grounds of the Alberta Legislature today, protesting #Premier #DanielleSmith and her #UnitedConservativeParty (UCP) government.

05.10.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

05.10.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2639    ๐Ÿ” 787    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 135    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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'Alberta Forever Canada' petition has nearly 80% of required signatures, organizer says | CBC News Thomas Lukaszuk, the former Progressive Conservative deputy premier in Alberta who submitted the petition in June, said the โ€œAlberta Forever Canadaโ€ petition has approximately 230,000 signatures so fa...

'Alberta Forever Canada' petition has nearly 80% of required signatures, organizer says
Petition needs about 294,000 signatures by Oct. 28

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

05.10.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Thousands rally at Alberta Legislature for public education as teachers' strike looms | CBC News Thousands of people gathered at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton Sunday morning to rally for public education, as a potentially historic teachersโ€™ strike looms.

Support our teachers!

Like all reform Cons, Dani hates public education. Knowledge and critical thinking counter her populist lies and corporate agenda.

Donโ€™t let Dani get away with further erosion of our education systems (like Doug Ford is also doing in Ontario!)๐Ÿ˜ข

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

05.10.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure.

Why are we chasing these crap projects?

www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

05.10.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canada Post faces two futuresโ€”a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine โ‹† The Breach The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

Canada Post faces two futuresโ€”a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

05.10.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today the mayor of Vancouver called me an antisemitic terrorist supporter. Here is my speech:

This isnโ€™t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial

05.10.2025 04:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 430    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Trump: "Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists... The governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives."*

*Not a single word of this is true.

05.10.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 607    ๐Ÿ” 182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives Back in 2012, when Canada's Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would beโ€ฆ

Remember Canada. #cdnpoli ๐Ÿ‘‡
Harper/Poilievre Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives.
The government's concerted attacks on environmental science compares to the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe.
boingboing.net/2014/01/04/c...

05.10.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trumpโ€™s Ice Proposed โ€˜removals forceโ€™ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

In the US, masked armed men are assaulting people with extreme violence. Many are disappeared or deported to places where torture is common.

And UK Conservatives want to copy that?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's nuts:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/europeans-lo...

05.10.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Itโ€™s Albertaโ€™s oil sands, but Canadaโ€™s tailing ponds

05.10.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Layoffs in Canada's oilpatch as producers brace for tougher times ahead: FP video This week FP Video looks at oilpatch layoffs, carbon capture tech and what return-to-work could mean for home sales. Watch them all

Over 30,000 oil and gas industry jobs have been lost in the last decade, while corporations earn billions more in profit.

It is unfortunate that Albertan's have been suckered.

BTW: Carbon capture is BS.

#abpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canada #green #energy #climate
shorturl.at/Pf1h5

05.10.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Controversial Actress Looks Exactly Like Me. Iโ€™m Horrified. In the strangest way possible, musician Stella Hennen found her doppelganger: Sheโ€™s a computer-generated actress stirring up controversy online.

slate.com/technology/2...

05.10.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Majestic Maroon Oak
Jeff Dillon
2022

05.10.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as โ€œState Terrorismโ€: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

05.10.2025 04:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13488    ๐Ÿ” 5802    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 829    ๐Ÿ“Œ 327

โ€˜Hereโ€™s the natural history of enshittification:
1 First, platforms are good to their users.
2 Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
3 Next, they abuse those customers to claw back all the value for themselves โ€“ and become a giant pile of shit.โ€

05.10.2025 11:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term โ€˜enshittificationโ€™ explains whatโ€™s gone wrong with the internet โ€“ and ...

The Great Enshittening as we enter late stage enshittification

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon - and social media as examples

05.10.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

04.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23368    ๐Ÿ” 7852    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 445    ๐Ÿ“Œ 226

Savage

05.10.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThey dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to othersโ€

04.10.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 105    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Proving once again that there are no rules for fascists

04.10.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Albertaโ€™s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Majorโ€ฆ

A new @alberta.ca oil pipeline would be a โ€œmulti-decade gambleโ€ that assumes global oil demand wonโ€™t declineโ€”despite cheaper alternatives and growing climate risks.

Itโ€™s a risk the private sector wonโ€™t take. โžก๏ธ

04.10.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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As Smith Pushes New Pipeline Plan, Eby Says No Way | The Tyee BC premier decries environmental risk of tanker traffic from proposed northern terminal.

โ€œThe fact that there is not a private proponent despite obviously huge willingness on the part of Alberta to subsidize this using tax dollars should tell you everything you need to know about the reality of this project, which is that it is not a real project.โ€ #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

02.10.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Norwegian F-35s have been deployed to patrol Polish airspace.

04.10.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 394    ๐Ÿ” 124    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Albertaโ€™s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...

โ€œItโ€™s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.โ€
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...

04.10.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 192    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Looks like #YEG is making sure that Edmontonians have the opportunity to show their support for teachers as well!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #ABED

02.10.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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