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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦

@sambir.bsky.social

Geographer. Mostly harmless. Mountains > oceans. Permafrost is cool. Rivers and lakes are pretty nice too.

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Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2d ago

When Wilfred Grenfell came to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1892, he had one goal. Improve the lives of the people living there. To this day, he is celebrated there for his selfless dedication. This is his story. 📸 Walter Stoneman 🧵 1/10

Wilfrid Grenfell wearing a formal suit with a tie, a white shirt, and a flower pinned to his lapel. He has a pocket watch chain visible across his vest and is seated with a slight smile, against a plain dark background.
David Shepherd@dshepyeg.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s 11 days until the referendum - do you know where your special ballot is? 😉 If it’s not in the mail yet, Canada Post suggests getting it in by 5 PM tomorrow. And if you haven’t received it yet, you can vote in the advanced polls next week. Watch to learn more. Don’t miss your chance! #abpoli

Keith Stewart@climatekeith.bsky.social · 3d ago

There's a great story out today in @thenarwhal.ca on this secretive, pro-oil network that gathers at the Calgary Petroleum Club to report back to their funders. The Energy in Action Network has lots of money, but terrible infosec: thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...

‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists

New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change

thenarwhal.ca

Greenpeace Canada@greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 3d ago

1/8 🚨 NEW: We found a network of 30+ pro-oil front groups coordinating, tracking progress, and reporting back to their funders about how they are shaping energy conversations in Canada. It looks like that was supposed to stay under the radar, except they left their platform completely public 👇

Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦@sambir.bsky.social · 5d ago

I filled in my mail in #Alberta referendumb ballots today. I was surprised just how angry it made me to see that question about separating from the rest of my country on an actual real ballot. Fuck you Danielle Smith. Fuck off forever the whole rest of the #UCP and all the seppos and their lies.

Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · last wk.

I've seen several posts by people saying things "oh I didn't have plague on my bingo card" Seriously, get it together, put all the worst things on your bingo card - locusts, hurricanes, miseries that nobody has even imagined Haven't you learned

Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦@sambir.bsky.social · last wk.

The UCP's primary objective of governing is not to solve actual problems but to create issues, real or imagined, that keep Albertans worried & in the dark. They do this to reinforce excuses to blame others b/c: -it's easier -better clickbait than solving real problems &, -avoids #UCP accountability

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · last wk.

There appear to be two big takeaways from this... 1) The UCP inherited a program that the NDP put into place that allowed for the limitation of temporary workers, they extended it past its two year pilot and it worked for them. They kept it going until 2022. /8

Aaron Putnam@aaronputnam.bsky.social · last wk.

Congratulations to #quartz. I have learned much from the secrets locked within your lattice. And I will probably suffer from lifelong nightmares that involve dissolving you with HF.

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · last wk.

Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...

A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.
Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last wk.

The University of Calgary launched its new Electricity Centre this morning. It will be a place where researchers, policymakers & the public can intersect on the increasingly important issues surrounding our power grid, generation, distribution & emissions. Expect to hear more soon!

University of Calgary Electricity Centre directors Blake Shaffer and Sara Hastings-Simon speak at the centre's launch event.
Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦@sambir.bsky.social · last wk.

Even if this connection didn't exist (Wilson happily agrees it does), this story shows there is a dark industry that exists to push propaganda & profit from division. There are many such grifters manipulating parts of our society for their own profit but this one is big & our very own #Alberta.

Alex Boyd@alexboyd.bsky.social · last wk.

This story, about the links between the top Alberta independence social media account and a well known separatist leader that I did with @jeffyates.bsky.social, has been pretty well read today. There have also been some common questions, so I'm going to add my 2 cents! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nathaniel Schmidt Ward 8 City Councillor@natefor8.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's now a tradition for me to post my trip home after late night budget hearings. Tonight, the bus, which makes my family's life easier and more affordable. We're not alone. Our budget only succeeds by understanding every family, every person, and every challenge is different. More to come.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦@sambir.bsky.social · 2w ago

Really more of a scheme than a plot but otherwise this is what Danielle Smith and the UCP want, a perpetual excuse to "fight" & gripe about Ottawa instead of governing the province to fix real problems. Basically, an excuse to distract from the facts of all the UCP money wasting scandals & failure.

Naheed Nenshi@naheednenshi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Danielle Smith’s referendum is an evil plot to keep the separatist fire burning. On referendum day: Vote Option 1 on Question 10. Vote NO on Questions 1–9. It’s the only way to save Canada.  To find referendum information and get involved with the campaign, visit savecanada.albertandp.ca.

Man about cowtown@manaboutcowtown.bsky.social · 2w ago

It makes me angry that an Alberta government that ran a years long “Alberta is calling” campaign straight up lies in commercials and blames the Federal government for “unsustainable” immigration. We’re f’ing paying for this bullshit.

Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦@sambir.bsky.social · 2w ago

I like following @reliableab.bsky.social because it reminds me that Alberta success is, and has always been, more than just hydrocarbons. If left to the types of revisionist narratives and stereotypes of Danielle Smith and the UCP, Alberta would be in a worse place today and tomorrow.

Reliable AB@reliableab.bsky.social · 2w ago

At This Moment in Alberta 27-Sep-2026 @ 09:59 🔥 Fossil fuels are supplying 70.8% of Alberta's electricity. 💨 Wind • 16.9% of capacity • 9.9% of total generation ☀️ Solar • 80.0% of capacity • 15.6% of total generation ↔️ Exporting: 105 MW 📊 Total Generation: 9,706 MW

Alberta electricity generation at 27-Sept-2026
Eos@eos.org · 2w ago

See here! We're voting for #quartz in today's #MinCup26 quartz-erfinals. Gaze at this quartz (and bronze, marble, frit and obsidian) @metmuseum.org find from ancient Greece ... www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Eyes ready to be inset into an over-life-size sculpture in ancient Greece
Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 2w ago

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 2 Both of today's minerals can be found in hydrothermal vein deposits as cobalt arsenide #Skutterudite is against classic silicate #Quartz for a spot in the semi-finals. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2w ago

I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.