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Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch🇨🇦 #Alberta is #Canadian, by law, under treaty, by a country-wide labour of love, and by 100+ years of pan-Canadian involvement and investment 🇨🇦
Planet first, society second, economy servant of us all—not our master.
Cube: includes '60s me helping my father load milk cans at our dairy farm.
Header: North Saskatchewan river flowing through Edmonton, Canada.
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About me...:
I worry about pollution, urban and farming sprawl, what we eat and how corps control us, democratic slide, and why our votes don't count. I bike around town and get a thrill from pruning my fruit trees.
Bluesky users, follow this bridge first!:
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Help #Canadian MP @leahgazan.bsky.social launch an official parliamentary petition (e-7522) that calls on the federal government to put people and the planet ahead of fossil fuel profits, and stop fast-tracking catastrophic #fossilfuel projects. Link below.
#climatecrisis #cdnpolihttps://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7522
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@thejessiekirk@ohai.social I delivered new school buses in the 90s and had to stop every hour or two to clean the windshield. But I drove last year from Edmonton to Winnipeg (1300 kms) in late May (prime bug splatter time) and didn't clean the windshield a single time. #Pesticides are killing the land.
#climatecrisis
If you are a Masto bridged to Bluesky (via @bsky.brid.gy) you can now follow @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. These folks manage and decode the annual #pedalpoll and use it to advocate for safer streets.
All that #bike data? Certainly worth a follow!
Please boost.
#PedalPollSondoVelo #yegbike #yycbike #bikeyfc #yhzbike #bikeyul #bikeyqb #yowbike #yytbike #yyzbike #yvrbike #ywgbike
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@trevortombe@mastodon.social Doug Ford "standing alone protecting Canada." That's a good one. The hero complex in action!
#cdnpoli #tariffs
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@ormand.bsky.social #Canadians will find the logic and history in this piece compelling. I certainly do. But many #Americans will just think this LMA guy must be a commie to slap down his fellow citizens so harshly. #AmercanExceptionalism also means no capacity to see yourself in this video in any way other than noting his unprovoked attack. "Why, oh why, do they hate us so?"
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@velocanadabikes.bsky.social And thank *you* for your tireless work on this #Canada wide shift to safe #active #infrastructure!
#yegbike #bike #velocanadabikes
Come sign the #CorbLundPetition #WaterNotCoal on Saturday afternoons from 1-3, or Sundays 2-4 at #EarthsRefilleryCoop (10831 95 St #Edmonton). ID is required, showing your home's physical address, not the mailing address. We go until June 10. #yeg #coal
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@ormand.bsky.social Oh, oh. Upgrade problem?
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@todmaffin.com A day later we go from 8K to over 13K signatures to punt #PeteHoekstra. Interesting to see who by province most signs #Petition e-7531 (at https://b.link/chucklehead)
#cdnpoli #canpoli #elbowsup
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@kariraymerbishop.bsky.social Ah. It was a long shot! 🫣
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@wimiezwierzat@mastodon.com.pl I see it as magical and transformative. Like stem cells, tofu can become almost anything!
A classic good is coming up!
Inaugural Beaver Hills House Music Festival: #RafaelHoekman, cello; #JeremySpurgeon, piano: #EmilLevasseur, composer; #BeatrixBecker, composer and piano; #DongKyunAn, cello; #LynnKuo: violin. All Saints Anglican, July 29, 7:30.
#yegmusic #chambermusic
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@McRocker@thecanadian.social @action_jay@thecanadian.social @AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca Ha ha! No doubt the beginnings of another land rush...
Thank you @bmcnews.bsky.social for running a story on the #CorbLundPetition #WaterNotCoal. After a good start, hopefully we get a bump up for these regular weekend afternoons at #EarthsRefilleryCoop. The #petition goal is 178,000 signatures.
#sustainability #coal #abpoli
https://bmcnews.org/story/citizen-initiative-petition-no-new-coal-mining-in-the-eastern-slopes-of-the-rocky-mountains
Help generate data for city councils across #Canada to prioritize #activetransportation. Volunteer count shifts for #PedalPoll / #SondoVélo 2026 available now!
#yegbike #bike #urban
https://velocanadabikes.org/pedalpoll/
City of #Vincent becomes the first council in #WesternAustralia to support the #PlantBasedTreaty. Municipality commits to incorporating plant-based principles into its #sustainability strategies, as scientific evidence shows that food system transformation is critical for human and planetary #health.
https://plantbasedtreaty.org/city-of-vincent-becomes-the-first-council-in-western-australia-to-support-the-plant-based-treaty/
A Benefit Concert for #Canadian Unity: “A number of Alberta’s finest musicians and members of the music community are coming together ... in #HawrelakPark, in #Edmonton’s beautiful river valley, on Wednesday July 22, 2026 to voice their collective appreciation for their country."
#abpoli #canpoli #yegmusic #yeg
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/musicians-for-canada-a-benefit-concert-for-canadian-unity-tickets-1989332331555
Suck to be U(SA). Mapped: Where People Think #QualityofLife Is Best. Yay, #Canada
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-people-think-quality-of-life-is-best/
"Most Edmontonians don’t want to leave #Canada. We want fairness, not fragmentation. But if #Alberta pushes ahead with #separation, #Edmonton must be ready to chart its own course—to protect our economy, our diversity, and our place in Canada and the world." #YEGxit #abpoli
https://edmontonfree.ca/the-problem
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@ormand.bsky.social Ha ha! And just in case someone is wondering...
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/andywilliams/moonriver.html
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Why #Edmonton's $1 Billion Infrastructure Crossroads Could Remake the City
#yegcc #yeg #highlevelbridge #infrastructurehttps://youtu.be/2KVhtH6R_5c
Why Edmonton's $1 Billion Infrastructure Crossroads Could Remake the City
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@dustinbajer.com Wow, what a storm. Here's the story.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/thunderstorm-edmonton-power-outages-9.7266715
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@drtcombs.bsky.social Scary situation. Nowadays Shrek the owner taking care of it might not be enough. There are so many ways to intimidate online. Those old immediate ways of maintaining order are passing away.
“It seems that their sampling method is seriously flawed and could vastly underestimate the percentage of valid signatories,” Dr. #JeffreyRosenthal told the CBC.
This just screams for an inquiry.
#WaterNotCoal #CorbLundpetition @waternotcoalab.bsky.social
https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/somethings-gravely-wrong-with-how-elections-alberta-torpedoed-corb-lunds-water-not-coal-citizen-initiative-petition/
Looks like we failed. Sorry, anybody on the Canadian prairies who likes to drink clean water... 😞
#WaterNotCoal #abpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/corb-lund-water-not-coal-petition-rejected-9.7257566
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@action_jay@thecanadian.social @AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @McRocker@thecanadian.social I have to say that I have been laughing all day every time I think of this Alberta made call to arms!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@trevortombe/116850778028287226
"All of this points to why programs that help every province deliver comparable public services matter. #Equalization has real flaws and can be improved in many ways. But the underlying principle that each province should have the resources to provide comparable services and #education benefits the whole country. It especially benefits strong economies like Alberta’s and B.C.’s."
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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Roughly, there’s ~$800 billion in taxpayer-funded education sitting outside the province that paid for it. With Alberta and B.C. the largest beneficiaries.
My latest for @TheHubCanada on the largest financial transfer nobody talks about: https://thehub.ca/2026/07/02/the-biggest-financial-transfer-in-canada-that-nobody-talks-about/ #cdnecon #cdnpoli
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@kariraymerbishop.bsky.social I have to ask, but the brid.gy won't DM. Are you somehow related to Linda Miotto Raymer, whose dairy is not far from you? I grew up with her in Beachville in the '60s (St Anthony's Catholic) and the '70s (WCI).
My plan is to use my payout from the shameless vote buying / misappropriation of funds of the #UCP's #energyrebate for something they'd truly hate but would be good for us all. Instructions below:
#TrevorBastien #HarleysVision #Piikani
https://open.substack.com/pub/crowsnestheadwaters/p/hate-the-rebate-take-revenge
Unity Rally at the Legislature — Sun, Oct 18 · 1–3 p.m. · Edmonton. RSVP or grab a volunteer shift: https://fightbacknow.civicdeeds.com/a/5ASE #FightBackNow #abpoli
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@jacobdawang.com I saw one cornered by three magpies a few years ago. Often wonder how that ended.
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@yegbike.bsky.social Very expensive cars! What a disgusting development. Thanks for your advocacy on this.