Born-again Albertan. Sceptic. Ask questions.
Joined August 2021
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23 Oct 2025
Alberta kids having Grade 12 wrecked by squabbling adults are the same cohort that had Grade 6 cut short by Covid.
The kids didn't know they'd never be back; there was no graduation, no goodbye's to teachers or friends going elsewhere.
Now they sit in Limbo again, wondering...
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1 Jul 2025
Happy 69th Birthday, Alan Ruck
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
This movie isn't about Ferris, it's about giving a person the strength to break the cycle of abuse. This movie was always Cameron's story.
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3 Jun 2025
June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month.
Check in on the men you love.
Not all pain is visible.
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26 May 2025
Reminder of our meeting in Cardston tomorrow night! Everyone is welcome.
If you know anyone in Cardston, Raymond, Magrath, Welling, Leavitt, Mountain View, Hill Spring, Glenwood or Moses Lake, please let them know.
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24 May 2025
Each day, I am looking at famous photos from Canada's past.
Today, it is this picture of Blackfoot men taking part in a Sun Dance ceremony on the Blood Reserve near Cardston in 1953. The Sun Dance was banned by the Canadian government from 1895 to 1951.
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ALT The photo shows two individuals performing a traditional dance, wearing regalia with feathers, beads, and bells. One dancer is in a red and black outfit with a raised leg, while the other, in yellow and black, is bending forward. A third person in similar attire is in the background, with a crowd watching. The scene appears to be outdoors during a cultural event.
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23 Apr 2025
horizons.service.canada.ca/e… — here’s the report
23 Apr 2025
WARMINGTON: Poilievre addresses dystopia predicted for Canada in government report torontosun.com/news/national…
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16 Apr 2025
My first Canadian history book, Canada's Main Street, releases on May 13, 2025!
It tells the story of the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway, from the earliest highways to the difficulty each province had in choosing a route.
Pre-order it here 👇
sutherlandhousebooks.com/pro…
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23 Mar 2025
Follow Craig Baird for excellent historical context of important things happening in Canada at any given time.
23 Mar 2025
With the election now called, I will be doing daily threads about the elections in Canada's history.
Will begin tomorrow with the 1867 election, and continue daily until April 28, covering one election a day.
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23 Mar 2025
With the election now called, I will be doing daily threads about the elections in Canada's history.
Will begin tomorrow with the 1867 election, and continue daily until April 28, covering one election a day.
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8 Mar 2025
The government has your back.
7 Mar 2025
New @ISED_ca data confirm net loss of 131K small businesses thru pandemic downturn so brutal @CFIB took suicide calls from desperate shopkeepers: 'Their life's work crumbled in their hands.'
blacklocks.ca/131000-operato…
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28 Feb 2025
I had never heard of Alex Janvier. His art is amazing, thanks for sharing @CraigBaird
28 Feb 2025
On this day in 1935, Alex Janvier was born.
He became one of the most acclaimed painters in Canadian history and his work is found nationwide.
Let's learn more about this amazing First Nations artist.
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ALT The photo shows an elderly man wearing a white cowboy hat, a blue patterned shirt, and a bolo tie with a turquoise slide. He stands in front of a vibrant, abstract circular painting featuring colorful lines and shapes in blue, green, red, and yellow against a white background. The man has a name tag on his shirt and appears to be at an event or exhibition.
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12 Feb 2025
As part of the Alberta Recovery Model, the province has built three Recovery Communities and is building eight more. Five of them are in direct partnership with Indigenous communities.
Stay for a year, medications, counselling, training; individual plan and peer mentor.
11 Feb 2025
Opioid deaths are plunging like nowhere else in North America, after the conservative (small and large C) government undid much of the everybody-gets-free-needles nonsense and moved to a (forced) treatment strategy
That's what's happening in Alberta. But the media won't admit it
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12 Feb 2025
MPs are taking another pay raise ($7,900 - $15,800) on April 1.
Here are their annual salaries after the raise:
Backbench MP = $211,000
Minister = $311,500
Prime Minister = $422,000
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12 Feb 2025
This is the reality that renewables are up against. Alberta is in a two-week-long cold snap with little wind.
That means it’s almost entirely the burning of natural gas that’s keeping us warm and the lights on, especially at night.
12 Feb 2025
At this moment 92.4% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 3.3% of capacity and producing 1.8% of total generation, while solar is at 0% of capacity and producing 0% of total generation. At the same time, we are importing 124 MW, which is 1.2% of the total generation of 10395 MW.
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11 Feb 2025
In hindsight, perhaps it wasn't a great idea to use the War Measures [Emergencies] Act against the kind of people you would need to fight for a country's independence.
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7 Feb 2025
RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency say one has died and 15 were arrested after three separate illegal border crossing attempts were made into Canada via the United States. #Canadaborder #RCMP #bordercrossings #news
bridgecitynews.ca/three-bord…
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24 Jan 2025
"It’s time we learned to think."
24 Jan 2025
"If you destroy the Left you tend to become the Left; if you destroy the Right you tend to become the Right. It’s all quicksilver, a teeter-totter, and great men have been trapped and fooled by the switching of the balance. Politics, wars, causes – for thousands of years we have ended up with a sack of shit. It’s time we learned to think."
~ Charles Bukowski
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24 Jan 2025
"If you destroy the Left you tend to become the Left; if you destroy the Right you tend to become the Right. It’s all quicksilver, a teeter-totter, and great men have been trapped and fooled by the switching of the balance. Politics, wars, causes – for thousands of years we have ended up with a sack of shit. It’s time we learned to think."
~ Charles Bukowski
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24 Jan 2025
Southern Alberta is the place to be.
24 Jan 2025
A investment market report by Avison Young says that Lethbridge will see a dramatic increase in commercial, industrial and residential developments beginning spring 2025. #Lethbridge #news #Investments
bridgecitynews.ca/lethbridge…
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10 Jan 2025
That the fees to provide the product exceed the retail cost of the product does not make sense.
Is there any other thing we buy that is priced like this?
10 Jan 2025
My December 2024 electricity bill.
Electricity used = $77.15
Admin fees, tax & delivery fees = $115.30
I have to pay taxes, including a carbon tax, to keep my lights and heat on at -30°C to save the climate, yet hosting an outdoor hockey game in Florida is somehow acceptable?
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