Cameron Galisky

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison

[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

“That's the whole argument for the pilot, confirmed. Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen made exactly this case when the zone went live on April 29.”

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[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

“It does not make sense to waste taxpayer money ripping out driving lanes and parking lanes and putting in bike lanes and then having to spend taxpayer money to rip out those bike lanes and bring back parking lanes and driving lanes.”
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[Dominion Aesthetics @CanadianAesth]

Power, Courage, Faith

1933 Canadian National Exhibition poster

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

Work to bring back the Expos is temporarily on hold while we start up several life insurance companies

[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

Great to see Made-in-Alberta common sense policies being promoted in other jurisdictions!

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[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

Great to visit folks at Country and Sunset Manor in Innisfail! Lots of advice on how we can make Alberta an even better place to live, work, and raise a family.

Dropped off their new Alberta flag!

[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

“On the heels of an announcement about closing 20 Alberta trucking companies and five driver training schools, the minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors said they’re hoping to establish a Red Seal program.”

[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

It was great to announce $1M in provincial support for @SylvanLake_AB Pogadl Park improvements.

The new turf field, parking, and additional recreational facilities will help make Sylvan Lake and surrounding communities that much better.

[Cameron Galisky @CameronGalisky]

@RealAlbanianPat - Emperor Charestite Komnenos. 1118AD

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

BREAKING NEWS: Dallas Cowboys practice was delayed two hours today after a player found an unknown white powdery substance on the field. Jerry Jones immediately suspended practice and called the police. After analysis, experts confirmed it was the goal line. Practice resumed once officials decided the Cowboys were unlikely to see it again this season.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Alberta is hammering rogue truckers, booting 20 carriers off its roads and issuing 443 penalties in an escalating safety crackdown.

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[Ian Brodie @irbrodie]

Dreeshen deserves more credit for this work. He keeps freight moving while cracking down on the unsafe operators, the fake credentials, the fly by night schools. This is the hard, day-to-day work of governing.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy won a Phillies charity auction to call an inning on the radio and sounded like a complete professional

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

Free Speech is a foundational Alberta value. We don’t believe in policing unpopular or religious-based statements even if they are controversial. That’s a slippery slope other countries have fallen into and we can’t go down that road.

Our Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services, Mike Ellis, will be writing to our provincial and municipal policing providers to ensure they understand Albertans’ policing priorities should focus on violent crimes, illegal drugs, theft and vandalism…not people’s free speech.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

“Tarik Skubal has been traded”

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

A cool thing about baseball is how local broadcast teams get progressively more unhinged over the course of the season.

GAME 1: “This team will go as far as its rotation takes it.”

GAME 108: “Yeah, chupacabras are real. I hit one with my Buick back in ‘87.”

[Devin Dreeshen @DevinDVote]

Great to see provincial projects and city projects working together for Calgarians! Thanks Mayor @JeromyYYC

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In the Frasier series finale, Kelsey Grammer recites the entire final stanza of Alfred Tennyson’s Victorian-era poem “Ulysses,” about the last voyage of Odysseus, in an episode that was seen by twenty-five million people.

[Owen Arands @OwenArandz]

Accidentally the most dramatic camera work ever seen in the commons just now...

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."