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April 22, 1915: on this day 111 years ago the 1st Canadian Division was hunkered down in the Ypres salient. The Germans launched the first chlorine gas attack followed up by an infantry charge. More than 6,500 Canadians were killed, wounded, or captured. 🍁 held the line and fought back. #sacrifice

Ukrainian Village opening again after devastating fire Podcast Episode · The Courtney Theriault Show · April 20 · 7m

Some good news amidst everything.

The Ukrainian Village is re-opening next month, more than a year after being shut down due to a devastating fire.

More with officials on rebuilding, what's left to do and what it means to continue telling these stories.

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Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows Researchers studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats.

2026 is a year swimming upstream....

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@paulisci.bsky.social

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Opinion: Possible changes to Alberta’s electoral map put democracy at risk If the UCP fiddles with the map, it could guarantee a conservative supermajority for a generation

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... Rachel Notley speaks out.

Opinion: Possible changes to Alberta’s electoral map put democracy at risk If the UCP fiddles with the map, it could guarantee a conservative supermajority for a generation

“A government that has no electoral accountability can hardly be called a democracy.”

Rachel Notley has entered the chat.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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100 years ago: The Montreal Maroons duked it out with the Victoria Cougars for the Stanley Cup. The Cougars got to the final after defeating the Edmonton Eskimos.

#stanleycup #nhlplayoffs

"When I get into the office, I always look at this statue on my desk. It was given to me by Mike Myers just over a year ago, & this is General Isaac Brock. Faced with the threat of an American invasion, Brock built alliances across our land and inspired what would eventually become Canada." #cdnpoli

Yikes! A Dyson isn’t going to be enough; get a Stihl chainsaw.

$29 million to take a gander at a goose

Alberta Poli-Sci 113 Exam: please put these activities in the correct order
--think up policy idea
--send policy idea to a referendum
--get referendum results
--ignore referendum results
--make the decision
--take policy concept to the legislature for debate
--implement what-ever

All votes are equal; some votes are more equal than others. [with apologies to George Orwell]

"Notwithstanding" seems to be the order of the day.

"Notwithstanding" seems to be the standard operating procedure.

I tried to get a book at my local Edmonton Public Library on the subject of electoral boundaries. However, the library police had already scooped up all copies. @jlisayoung.bsky.social

Populists have souls?

Just another Saturday night in Battle River-Crowfoot. The MP slips into the dark arena his eyes drawn to the naked flesh in the ring. The sweat on the rippling muscles glistens like the condensation on his can of Coors Lite. The angry fight is like his unrequited love for the former prime minister.

As the lead-up to Valentine's, get your love a tank of high octane.

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Just got slapped up the side of my head with my latest EPCOR bill (water, wastewater, stormwater, and waste). While some folks claim that CPI is about 4.5%, EPCOR increased their rates by 10%. BOOOOOOO!!!

Correction: Photos previously reported as being Artemis snapshots of craters on the dark side of the moon have now been verified as potholes on Edmonton streets.

AI "agents" can do your shopping. Should you let them? Big retailers are embracing agentic commerce as a new way to shop. But you should think twice before handing over your credit card, tech experts say.

I'm telling you the honest truth. I didn't buy that; AI agents did.

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"Today, the vast and growing amount of online information is increasingly rife with false or misleading information. As a result, meaningful and factual information often gets lost in the noise."

Alberta hasn't separated yet but is behaving like it's already a Banana Republic.

An ugly story. Alberta deserves a public inquiry.

The Banana Republic of Alberta

The separation process isn't even complete and we're already a Banana Republic.

Hmmm.... I've heard this line before: ROI wasn't appropriate for the Dot-com bubble of 1999, nor the Mortgage Meltdown of 2008. The fuddy-duddy financial metrics may be old-fashioned but invariably figure into the calculus of post-crash aftermath.

Chevron executive Andy Walz suggests Americans should drive less amid high gas prices "People should try to drive less. They should try to conserve energies," Andy Walz told CBS News. "We should be doing that all the time. Energy's essential for people's lives, but we should conserve i...

Wait...whut?!

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