Sonya 🇨🇦

Sonya 🇨🇦

@icedsnowberry.bsky.social

Mom to 2 ● Wife ● HCW Guardian of Kali the Samoyed 🐾 Powered by Coffee ☕️ Often found on hiking trails 🥾 🌲 (she/her) 📍Calgary, AB

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Logo: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR RIVERS

From providing fresh water and supporting biodiversity to regulating the climate and sustaining cultural traditions, healthy, free-flowing rivers have always been critical for people and the planet. But rivers worldwide are at risk–increasingly fragmented, polluted, and undermined by climate change and irresponsible development projects. When rivers are at risk, so too is our collective future. 

Healthy rivers and access to clean water are fundamental human rights that connect us all. The International Day of Action for Rivers is a time to come together in solidarity with rivers and the communities that protect and defend them. By taking action on behalf of rivers, we affirm that we have the power to protect rivers and ensure that communities have access to clean, free-flowing water and the right to participate in decisions directly affecting rivers, and ultimately, their lives.

The theme of this year’s International Day of Action for Rivers is Protect Rivers, Protect People. At a time of intensifying climate impacts and global crises, when both people and planet face enormous threats to life and liberty, it is our collective responsibility to protect our shared waters. This has never been more urgent than it is today. Rivers are life-giving systems. Without them, our health, food security, livelihoods, and communities are at risk. We cannot survive or thrive without healthy rivers.

When rivers are polluted, over-extracted, diverted, or blocked by destructive infrastructure, it is vulnerable communities and river ecosystems that suffer first. Protecting rivers is not only about safeguarding human well-being; it is about defending biodiversity, strengthening climate resilience, and securing a just and livable future for generations to come.

Join us and communities around the world in making rivers our priority.

It's the 29th Internation Day of Action for Rivers 🏞 A GREAT day to sign the @waternotcoalab.bsky.social petition here in Alberta! Visit waternotcoal.ca/sign-the-petition to find locations.

#WaterNotCoal #WaterIsLife #ProtectWatersheds

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Signing Events | Water Not Coal Find a petition signing event near you. Browse upcoming signing events across Alberta.

Indoor Water Not Coal petition signing events in Calgary today:
💧Patagonia on Stephen Ave 2-6pm
💧Stash Needle Art in Inglewood 11am-2pm
💧Kent of Inglewood 11am-5pm
💧I Love You Coffee Shop 9am-4pm
💧Out Fly Fishing 1-8:30pm

Bring ID with physical address (no PO boxes)
#WaterNotCoal #ProtectWatersheds

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Tuesday March 17 at Marlborough Mall NE Calgary #yyc
#WaterNotCoal petition - come and sign! Bring ID.
www.waternotcoal.ca/sign-the-pet...

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Water Not Coal | Corb Lund's Petition To Protect Alberta's Rockies Join Corb Lund and thousands of Albertans to prohibit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Sign the citizen initiative petition.

#WaterNotCoal Petition in Sherwood Park:

Saturday, March 14 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

30 Minute Hit
2755 Broadmoor Blvd #120
Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2R7

#abpoli #ableg #SherwoodPark #ShPk #ShPark #Strathco #YEG #WaterisLife

www.waternotcoal.ca

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a woman making a funny face with the words absolutely not above her Alt: Moira Rose from Schitts Creek emphatically saying ABSOLUTELY NOT
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crazy level of sad

with Ford, Smith and Houston attacking healthcare as premiers... I listen to/read growing support for 'BCCons'...a party of candidates rustled up by BC elites... and I want to punch people

so we can then cry to the Prime Minister to save us from what we voted for, too?

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Signing Events | Water Not Coal Find a petition signing event near you. Browse upcoming signing events across Alberta.

#WaterNotCoal Petition Signing - Fort Saskatchewan!

Cornerstone Parking Lot
Near Walmart, Fort Saskatchewan, AB T8L 4P7

Saturday, March 14, 2026

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

#ableg #abpoli #FortSask #FtSask #Strathco #Alberta

www.waternotcoal.ca/sign-the-pet...

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This man is fucking insane and in charge of the world’s most dangerous company.

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Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy.

Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity.

No court hearing necessary.

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The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.

A Canadian journalist documents a group of white nationalists who’ve been meeting at a gym in Montréal, unbeknownst to the owner of the business.

What happens after the story comes out? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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Happy 65th 🥳

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The separation movement was always a political show for Smith but this just killed it. She can’t afford to alienate Alberta business as that is where her donations come from. That being said it will be fun for her and the UCP to put out the conflagration she created.

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Oil and gas industry group backs proposed merger of Alberta's largest river basins | CBC News A Canadian oil and gas industry group is backing a proposal to consolidate Alberta's two largest river basins, a move that would make it easier for industry to transfer water in that area without requ...

“A Canadian oil and gas industry group is backing a proposal to consolidate Alberta's two largest river basins, a move that would make it easier for industry to transfer water in that area without requiring legislative approval.”
#BadGov #CdnPoli #Treaty #EIA

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Water Not Coal | Corb Lund's Petition To Protect Alberta's Rockies Join Corb Lund and thousands of Albertans to prohibit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Sign the citizen initiative petition.

March 14, 2026 - Saturday Morning at 30 Minute Hit in Sherwood Park

30 Minute Hit
2755 Broadmoor Blvd #120, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2R7
From: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

#abpoli #ableg #SherwoodPark #ShPk #ShPark #Strathco #WaterisLife #WaterNotCoal

www.waternotcoal.ca

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Inside the classroom: A deep dive into Alberta schools through the view of teachers | CBC News In January, CBC News took the rare step of emailing teachers directly because of the unprecedented labour situation in Alberta and the teachers' claims about what kids are facing in the province's cla...

Just before I left my job at CBC, I scraped more than 23,000 teacher email addresses from hundreds of Alberta school websites.

The CBC's Elise Stolte then sent a questionnaire to each one.

She got more than 6,000 responses!

Those form the basis of a new series.

The stories can be found here:

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Water Is Our Life: Water Not Coal Petition Signing Event! 💦

🏔️ Water is our life. 🏔️
📅 Saturday, March 14, 2026
🕑 1PM to 4
📌South Trail Crossing, 4889 130 Ave SE, Calgary
📌 North of Marks Work Wearhouse, just West of the Tesla charging stations. Plenty of parking—easy peasy! #WaterNotCoal #Calgary

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Water Not Coal Logo
Patagonia Calgary 
135 8th Avenue SW
Saturday, Mar 14
2-6pm

ID Required 
waternotcoal.ca

Indoor petition signing opportunity this Saturday in Calgary 💧

#WaterNotCoal #ProtectWatersheds #MountainsNotMines
#EasternSlopes

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From the DM’s…

(And a confirmed source)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Indigenous chiefs go to Alberta legislature, pressure province to nip separatism push EDMONTON — More than a dozen First Nations chiefs and even more band councillors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push f...

“More than a dozen First Nations chiefs and even more band councillors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for the province to quit Canada.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...

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Good job Calgary – let’s keep it up!

Yesterday’s water usage was 496 million litres (ML) which keeps us in the green zone.

To stay up to date on the feeder main reinforcements visit calgary.ca/savewater.

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Majority of Albertans oppose separating from Canada: Leger poll The majority of Albertans support the province staying in Canada, according to a March Leger poll.

“When asked if Alberta should stay in Canada, 70 per cent of respondents said the province should. Only 17 per cent believed Alberta should become an independent country & 4 per cent believe Alberta should join the United States.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Two important Alberta Petitions #alberta #adap #coalmining #petition #ucp #politics YouTube video by Lisab0923

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www.darryllearie.com and
www.waternotcoal.ca

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Attending the first meeting of 2026 for the Warburg-Pembina Surface Rights Group tonight. Landowner representative Mark Dorin is presenting on: "Land Rights: Do Alberta Government Agencies Support Law Abiding Landowners or Law Breaking Oil Companies?" @markdorin.bsky.social #ABLeg #ABPoli 🧵 [1/N]

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Advocacy groups call on feds to review Alberta's Bill 11 health-care reforms | CBC News Doctors across Canada are "deeply concerned" about the Alberta government's plan to expand private health care, said Dr. Margot Burnell, president of the Canadian Medical Association — and they want O...

"Parallel private systems do not reduce wait times. They make them longer," @danyaalraza.com said.

#cdnpoli #abpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Wherein Smith claims that "newcomers" are costing the province $9 Billion in social programs.

In order for that to be true, every single newcomer would have to be accessing social programs that many don't even have access to.

These are evil misrepresentations.

#abpoli #ableg

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Secretary Noem is either completely incompetent or violating our rights with impunity, she should be removed from office.

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Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.

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Disabled Albertans Deserve Better Than a Dual-Track Assistance Program | The Tyee People deemed fit to work will begin receiving fewer benefits this summer. We are already living in poverty.

“I want to be clear: I am deeply grateful for Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped, or AISH.

“But gratitude does not mean I am living well. Feeling grateful and experiencing well-being are not the same thing.”

Donald L. Slater writes. #abpoli

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Matt Jones claimed today that no one is trying to blame the AMA for the delay in the Triage Physicians...

Bot we had to go all th way back in the archives to...

(Checks notes)

Yesterday...

To fact check that claim.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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