Just gave blood for the first time!! 15/10 experience, highly recommend having a hand in saving some lives 🥰
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"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich". - French Revolution 1793 "Fuck your fascist pancakes" - AB Protestor Pragmatic Progressive Secularist, Rowdy Stoic, Forever Canadian Albertan.
#cdnpoli #abpoli Seems 2 things at play here - fantastical application expectations of the technology & the financial scams that have been attached. The Tech Report also good source & House of El AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB55...
Big Tech Is Finally Paying for the AI Disaster It Created
YouTube video by House of El: AI
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Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 54m agoEvery Albertan should listen to this @onthemedia.bsky.social podcast featuring @doctorow.pluralistic.net on AI and AI Centres. AI is a fool's game that @daniellesmithab.bsky.social and the UCP are going all in on. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
#abpoli #cdnpoli Of course. Who is lobbying for the residents in the area & the utility & water consumers (that's the rest of us) who are all who will bear the brunt of the destruction? Elected officials sure as fuck aren't.
Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · 4h agoThe company behind a proposed data centre in Olds has hired former government insiders to lobby on its behalf. zurl.co/CbpiC
A colleague recommended Dense Discovery years ago. Been loving and following every since. Radically gentle and interesting ideas for how to make this planet more enjoyable for all of us. Congrats to them for their 400th issue! What a gift to all of us. www.densediscovery.com/issues/400
Dense Discovery #400: Hitting ‘send’ for the 579th time
Read the archived version of Dense Discovery #400: Hitting ‘send’ for the 579th time.
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In the midst of wildfires, heat waves, and flooding across Canada, Prime Minister Carney set a September 18 deadline for comments on a move to designate the West Coast Pipeline as a project of national interest under the Building Canada Act. #pipelines #cdnpoli #anybetterideas
Feds Move to Fast-Track West Coast Pipeline as Opponents Turn Up the Heat
The federal government’s latest move to fast-track the controversial West Coast Pipeline has opened up a new opportunity for opponents to turn up the heat on elected representatives to block the proje...
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Controversial developer Holborn Group promised new social housing buildings when it bought the Little Mountain land from BC Housing in 2008 and tore down existing social housing. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Social Housing Finally Arrives at Little Mountain | The Tyee
It’s taken nearly 20 years to create social housing, but the city still granted an embattled developer’s future project.
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A Nova Scotia man was wrongfully sent to jail by a prosecutor—and this isn’t the first time it’s happened. @desmondcole.bsky.social unpacks why we need independent reviews of shady prosecutions in the criminal justice system. youtube.com/shorts/blflv...
SHADY prosecutors
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There's got to be a better way to save endangered caribou herds than letting fracked gas companies build roads that benefit wolves, and then collecting money from those companies to kill wolves to protect caribou. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays | The Tyee
The program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat.
thetyee.ca
How to prepare for an evacuation: the basics 🆘 When preparing for an emergency evacuation, pack a go bag, register for support services and stay informed. Read more: sunpeaksnews.com/how-to-prepa... #SunPeaks #Wildfire
How to prepare for an evacuation: the basics
When preparing for an emergency evacuation, pack a go bag, register for support services and stay informed.
sunpeaksnews.com
From the Alberta Prosperity Project website.
Bruce 🇨🇦@manitos2016.bsky.social · 2d agoSaw a Poilievre clip from an event today and his major slogan was "Faith, family, and freedom". WTF??? So anyone who's not christian, not in a "traditional" family, and who believes in civic responsibility and the means to achieve it is not welcome in the CPC's 🇨🇦. Cause we know that's what he means.
What are Canadians supposed to do when their provincial government undermines their healthcare system? On the latest episode of Sources, we're sharing a recording of a virtual health panel we held last month on the subject of ‘when provinces go rogue.' 🎧 pressprogress.ca/canadian-hea...
Canadian Healthcare: When Provinces Go Rogue
Guest panelists discuss the ways provinces are undermining Canada's healthcare system
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Idk #cdnpoli #abpoli but hope @mark-carney.bsky.social & crew are paying attention. Don't need shills for AI scams making decisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB55...
Big Tech Is Finally Paying for the AI Disaster It Created
YouTube video by House of El: AI
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The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 22h agoIndia’s chief justice called unemployed youth “cockroaches.” Student Abhijeet Dipke asked, “What if all cockroaches come together?” Millions did, fuelling a youth movement that has become far bigger than its origins. Writer Arundhati Roy explores: https://ow.ly/4x6Q50Zw1bl
The Manitoba government has vetoed the Steinbach school board’s plan to override common law by making parents the ultimate authority on all student health issues.
Government overrides school board in ‘mature minor’ controversy
Reasserts older students’ right to make decisions about their health
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Maybe this can be added to the Edmonton Pit Tours. We have many similar pits in #yeg
St. Albert Gazette@stalbertgazette.bsky.social · 21h agoNEWS: Old Blind Pig site downtown still a hole as mayor hopes for progress
#cdnpoli #abpoli Curious whose fence. There's a difference between freedom of speech & memes financed & promoted by adversaries of Canada. Test is substitute name "Jews" for "Indians" to hear what its intention is. But now this has been brought up, let's discuss & expose the many levels of ignorance
APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 21h agoThe photo of a banner hung from a fence along highway 779 northwest of Edmonton went viral after it was posted online over the Heritage Day long weekend. “The Indians have done nothing in 100 years and now they wanna tell us how to run Alberta,” the banner said.
The Alberta government is ending an online mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers and those transferring from out of province. To speak more on the matter, Dennis Ward was joined by Melinda Moch, Secretary of the Indigenous Bar Association.
Alberta ends mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers | APTN News
The Alberta government is ending an online mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers and those transferring from out of province. To speak more on the matter, Dennis Ward was joined by…
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#cdnpoli Suing for defamation is very much the Donald MAGA playbook. Along with Caylan, another UCP buddy SLAPP is from Sam Mraiche suing @thebreakdownab.bsky.social for defamation reporting on the 2024 Sky Box Oiler gift. I've chipped in on both SLAPPs 'cuz the Discovery will be worth it.
Canadaland@canadaland.com · 8h agoIt might just be the longest media defamation trial in Canadian history: former Alberta UCP candidate Caylan Ford is suing PressProgress, the CBC, Toronto Star and several others, for $7.65 million. She says it’s cancel culture, but is she just shooting the messenger? buff.ly/bXKQEAt
#cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli Corporations & politicians aren't going to stop treating taxpayers as prey until people realize they have more in common with fellow prey (that includes MAGA conservatives) than with the predators motivated by feral greed.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 8h agoPolling shows Canadians support a new pipeline from Alberta to B.C. — if they don’t have to pay for it. Companies aren’t lining up to shell out, either. Here's a look at the economics of pipelines in Canada, including the cost of fossil fuel emissions and climate change thenarwhal.ca/canadian-pip...
Pictou County Mothers of Democracy inspire a ‘reawakening of the civic consciousness’ through series of talks in their community Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social
Pictou County Mothers of Democracy inspire a 'reawakening of the civic consciousness' through series of talks in their community - Halifax Examiner
Democracy Talks gets people offline and into their communities to have real, in-person and respectful discussions.
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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com · 3d agoJody MacPherson's investigative reporting on data centres for The Energy Mix has been bringing to light details that aren't being freely shared with the public, even within the communities where the projects are being proposed. jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/icymi-temp...