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an artist & a v good boy britt brat... food & wine, data fun, creative chaos, doggo pics: lotr, asoiaf, witcher stans. art IG feed @ colmancreativeyeg
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I think it's really special that Facebook did to our parents what they thought video games were going to do to us.
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"wE wAnT oUr frEedOm BaCk"
Gary you've been cracking cold ones and shooting off fireworks with the boys for over a week. You could probably do with a bit less freedom at this point.
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Living in Canada right now is like having the comment section on a news article come to life.
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Daily reminder: taxes aren't theft, they're your subscription fee to live in a civilized society.
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Has anyone tried turning Alberta off then on again?
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It's kind of weird when Suncor raises the price of fuel 20 cents a litre in a day, for several consecutive days, no one bats an eye; but a tax worth 2 cents a litre comes into effect with 24+ months warning its a national crisis.
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Lol how are we 21 months into this and during the fifth wave the only thing we're restricting is testing?
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I've seen three anti abortion signs and two flat earth billboards so far on Hwy 2.
Has anyone checked on Rural Alberta lately, you ok?
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Hear me out, reverse Lent where we all pick a new vice to crutch us through the next 40 days of nightmares.
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Anyone else notice those professions targeted for massive wage roll-backs or are made out to be public service pariahs by Kenney & Co are mostly female dominated professions?
Teachers, nurses, social workers, speech pathologists...
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This convoy could have been an email.
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Ezra rage tweeting about getting turned down for a mortgage is exactly the energy I need to get me through cold snap and vaccine side effects.
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Who wants to tell Jen that semis can, in fact be towed?
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Take a step back from bickering who signs firefighters checks in national parks to ponder half the fucking province is on fire (again), multi municipalities are evaced, and our beautiful Jasper is likely the first tragic domino.
Things need to change, we need to change.
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Can Edmonton separate from Alberta? Like, become the Singapore of Canada?
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It's really great we all freaked out over $3 a month in carbon taxes, but electricity 'transmission charges' alone are now 150% of what the entire bill used to be two years ago 🙄
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I really really want to grab my dad's semi-truck and park it outside Sheil, Ezra's, and the rest of the Convoy enthusiasts' homes and just lay on the airhorn for 24 hours straight while blasting Infant Annihilator to demonstrate my commitment to free speech
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I just realized a tonight that few weeks ago I passed more than 1,000 days clean from my 2020 relapse when I utterly imploded.. this is the longest I've ever gone without using since I started at age 16.
This is a point I never thought I'd reach and the amazing thing is...
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My dad is a career trucker, I grew up around people who truck.
These shit heads represent truckers like syphilis represents a sexual experience.
#freedomconvoy
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An unarmed security guard at City Hall tackled the shooter who reportedly was heavily armed and subdued him until police arrived.
This human saved lives today and deserves a medal and a lot of gratitude. Absolute hero stuff.
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He was a Registered and Practicing Psychotherapist who publicly counselled people to commit suicide because he didn't like their positions. You know, at some point, there has to be some rules around professional conduct of medical professionals.
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When we pride ourselves on a RAT free Alberta, I didn't think this would extend to the tests.
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My learning from 2021? This world needs far more Betty White and far less Elon Musk.
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Happy Mike Nickel retirement day errybody!
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So let me get this right: Alberta is perpetually angry that Ottawa doesn't do enough here. Feds announce a policy to help energy workers who are affected as the entire world decarbonizes over the next several decades, and we're also angry now that they want to help?
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Edmonton City Hall was violently attacked today and not a single word of support or anything from our Premier, Public Safety Ministry, or Municipal Minister is pretty galling.
Time to comment on the Feds, but not enough to care about your capital city...
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The Edmonton Police Association maintaining a blacklist of its critics (perceived enemies) and community members advocating for police reform is quite horrifying.
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I always find it really funny that the same crowd who feel the need to put testicles on their trucks are so offended by clarifying one's pronouns.
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Can we normalize the choice of not having kids is not a moral failing?
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Threatening to defund an online distance learning university because they won't force hundreds of staff from their homes to a new city is peak UCP policy for the modern age.
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Fascinating Scott Moe is dropping a cool $400,000,000 to distract everyone that his buddy is getting sued into oblivion for covering up rampant child abuse at his private school.
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Perhaps when children are in bomb shelters and villages are being shelled by howitzers is not the time to debate how much net benefit Alberta's energy sector will see from the slaughter of innocent civilians? Just a thought.
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@aaronhoyland
People: "Society is collapsing because kids aren't being raised by their fathers"
Also people: "The audacity of a father taking time to raise his children"
🙄
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Only 3.5 more days until Mike Nickel is unemployed, Edmonton!
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I just want to say as someone who has successfully beaten a horrific drug addiction that came within inches of costing me my life.. compulsory recovery is fucking stupid and, well, the dumbest thing we can do.
Another 'are you fucking kidding me' Thread from Colman. 🧵
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Spoken exactly like someone who's never had to ever worry how they were going to pay their rent.
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Man, both far-sides of the spectrum are working real hard at the Chrystia Freeland is a closet fascist, eh?
Whatever it takes, I guess, to prevent an insanely brilliant woman from reaching the top.
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I dunno if we could stop comparing tow trucks removing semis and inflatable hot tubs to clear up our three week national Big Valley Jamboree to people getting run down by tanks at Tinnamen Square that would be great.
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Ummm.
People with a $180k a year salary are getting the same relief as AISH?
WUT?
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Albertans, I hope you remember our health system isn't collapsing because it's bad.
It's collapsing by design.
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Oh boy... There is jumping the shark and then there is this.
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Fun fact, we're still in a pandemic and schools have 40% absence rates due to sickness, but our Chief Medical Officer has ghosted us after promising to fix a data flow problem... 35 days ago.
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Here we are, at the peak of human civilization, flabbergasted at why a 96 year old woman passed away.
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Am I missing something here why this vacation is a controversy? Literally the properties are owned by a close family friend whose relationship goes back 5 decades? Shocker that he made a donation to the Foundation in memory of the man who was your kid's godfather?
NEW | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family spent the holiday season at a luxurious estate in Jamaica belonging to a wealthy family which made a large donation two years ago to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. With my colleague
@danlebla
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Some of the other provinces have never dealt with a Kudatah before, and it really shows.
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Oh, good "Nazis" is trending and it's about Alberta's education curriculum.
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Tbh this is actually a really underrated benefit of living in Edmonton, and we should really be marketing it a lot more.
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Can we tax Brett into poverty just for funzies though?
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It's pretty amazing Alberta as a whole is going to do another lockdown so a minority of Calgary would watch horse pull old timey carriages.
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So, like, who didn't get blocked by Kenney today?
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Does anyone else let your dog know how long you'll be gone to reassure them, or am I fucking weird?
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@KikkiPlanet
Truck nut bro with a grade 10 education making 120k/year in OT digging holes in MacMurray? Alberta Advantage.
College educated woman saving lives and dealing with horror each day making 120k/year? Scam.
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Looking back, wanting to be an adult was pretty fucking stupid.
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Kind of funny the UCP/CPC line is it's now suddenly inappropriate to comment on matters before courts in a "foreign country" after shrieking and condemning KXL and Line 3's journey through the American judicial system.
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Can you imagine the average white dude confidence it takes to decline assistance from the Feds then loosening restrictions the next morning, then a few days later have to introduce a bunch more while blaming the people you declined help from and ending on personal responsibility.
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One of the single dumbest political moves of this decade.
Like you have no fundraising, you just finished paying off your millions of debt from the 2021 election the other month, polling to lose 10 seats AND you were getting key policy through.
RIP Fed NDP it was a subpar run.
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Albertans: we can't afford food, get ambulances in emergencies, we're getting gouged for utilities and all our schools are over capacity.
UCP: ok we hear you so we're going to put all our energy into pretending we are a country not a province.
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Can we just go one fucking week? One week? Is that too much to ask?
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I'm sorry but Trudeau having a glass of wine and singing Bohemian Rhapsody long after any official duties at his hotel with colleagues is a national crisis?
How fucking joyless are these people in their lives?
Also that was a pretty on point cover. 🔥
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It's colder than Danielle Smith's heart out here today, gang.
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Largest Cabinet in history is about to get larger as the Health Portfolio will add 3 add more associate ministers
This makes cabinet 26.. or 30% of all parties' sitting MLAs. This would be equivalent for Trudeau having 101 Ministers
Put that in your small govt pipe and smoke it
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Have they tried giving the power grid ivermectin? I heard that shit fixes everything.
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All I want for Christmas is for all of us to just fucking choose either dd/mm/yyyy OR mm/dd/yyyy as the single standard.
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Just an FYI, the reason the UCP are so focused on Charter schools is they aren't accountable to school boards and they aren't unionized.
Easier to bust the ATA.
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@BrianJeanAB
Hahaha you actually put FREEDOM in giant letters then followed with a plan to reduce freedom? Hahahahaha.
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I really respect London Drugs to not have a product strategy and instead just try and sell everything.
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This is such a good pilot program and I really hope it gets expanded.
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*reads the rest of the Smith mandate letters*
Look if you're going to be an unelected custodian Premier who wants to fundamentally restructure our provinces entire existence within Confederation, have the courage to drop the writ and put your proposals to citizens.
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So let me get this right, you want to prove someone doesn't believe in democracy by corrupting and undermine their democratic leadership race with faithless electors purposefully put in place to implode a party's ability to make its own democratic choice to preserve democracy?
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Everyone that can't believe it's snowing in May didn't spend their teenage years camping in Victoria Day Weekend, and it really shows.
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So Ezra pressured Smith on behalf of the Pawlowskis (whose legal defence he is funding) to have his charges stayed. Provided material to attempt to have this done to the Premier, who gave it to her staff who forwarded it to the Justice Ministry, who had his charges stayed?
Damn.
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Just to be clear everyone, we all know that admitting a substance use issue does not absolve you from accountability for the horrible and shitty things you did throughout that period right?
Right?
- a recovered addict.
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If you drew a Venn Diagram of the 'You should be drug tested daily for welfare' crowd and the 'I shouldn't have to communicate my medical status to go to Applebees' crowd it would be a single circle.
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So is Danielle Smith's health policy basically to turn the Cross-Cancer Centre into a 24-hour gym?
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Some potentially positive news today, gang!
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Alberta is fascinatingly full of contradictions, fun things like: our premier and health minister don't feel comfortable recommending vaccination because they aren't medical experts but also just passed legislation to solely decide on matters of public health during an emergency.
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Oh while I'm pissed off and ranting, it's 20 fucking 24 fellas. Rape jokes have never been cool. Get your fucking lives together.
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Alberta's Current State:
- Imploding education system
- Collapsing health system
- Inflation crisis
- (Multiple) public health crises
- General housing crisis
- Opioid crisis
- Houselessness crisis
Alberta govt primary focus
- Picking unnecessary fights in confederation
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Ah, yes, breaking the centuries old democratic tradition that Prime Ministers always resign after losing a by-election by 3.95%. Much dictatorship, no more moral imperative. Exactly how this works.
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What in the flying fuck is this monstrosity?!
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Me: Albertans are totally going to make a good decision in spring.
Albertans: did you know this image from the British Olympics explaining parking zones proves the WEF is going to turn Edmonton into a giant gulag?
Me: Fuck. We're doomed.
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Someone really needs to do an explainer, probably in crayon and pop up pictures, on how pension and retirement benefits are correlated to population demographics for these folks.
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Re: LogoGate (A thread): The concerning issue surrounding
@CDNEnergyCentre
isn’t the inadvertent usage of a trademark, it’s the apparent complete lack of corporate controls, procurement procedures, and due diligence this incident has brought to light.
#ableg
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Probably a thread.
This pisses me the fuck off.
Fair warning it's been a really really bad day, but as many of you know I have profoundly struggled with addiction in my life.
Profoundly.
To ruinous extents.
We are a byproduct of a failure of our social conditions.
1/x
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Pretty amazing we can make >$35M appear for the Pope to come apologize for the Catholic Church's atrocities but money can't be found to provide untainted drinking water to 27 FNMI communities.
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Totally normal behaviour from a Minister of the Crown.
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Dunno man, entering in at the 11th hour to undermine a progressive woman frontrunner isn't probably the best reintroduction after leaving office disgraced by sexual harrassment scandals.
Be. Fucking. Better.
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Things that keep me going? Thoughts of
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Madame Premier (
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At what line is enough for you to disavow and condemn this slanderous stain on our civil society? The head of the organization who holds many seats on your Board is straight up spreading horrific straight up lies, threatening civil servants...
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I'm not sure if Ric Mcyver has ever read an academic grant application, but declaring you anticipate that reviewing every single federal grant application won't take much effort is really fucking hilarious.
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Everyone: you're going to have big regrets about this.
Blundell then: IM BEING CANCELLED
Blundell now: "...mistakes were made everybody. I didn't see this coming. There was no way to know."
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There was a profound moment when I was in early recovery, doing my 90 meetings in 90 days.
A houseless man came in and took a coffee and sat down. Emotion running over his face: shame, guilt, embarrassment.
But the energy of the room changed. A thread on recent events 🧵
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This is objectively and proudly idiotic and irresponsible legislation.
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Our Premier's Facebook account was banned today for violating its ToS. Totally normal province.
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Still kind of funny that people legitimately expect our national leader to stay in a Holiday Express to represent our country at our monarchical head of state's funeral.
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Also men we should normalize this lewk again.
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Wow food prices rose 28.7% and Loblaws Profits increased 30%.
ABSOLUTE MYSTERY WHAT'S CAUSING THIS...
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lololololol, the CPC axed Wyatt 😂
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Dunno maybe it's just me but when a large portion of the province is still on fire and Albertans are evacuated from their communities, promoting your husband's restaurant as Premier seems like a bad lewk
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