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[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

🌪️ Thirty-nine years ago, almost to the day, a summer storm did far more than soak the ground. What happened on July 31, 1987 is still the deadliest day in Edmonton’s history.

The morning felt like any other summer day, hot and hazy, with holiday traffic already building for the long weekend. A low-pressure system had been dragging warm, humid air up from the south for days, and by early afternoon the sky had turned an unsettling shade of green, the air heavy and strange. Just before 3pm, a man on an acreage near Leduc became the first person to spot the funnel and call it in.

At 2:55pm the funnel touched down and started tracking north into the city, intensifying almost immediately into an F4, the second highest rating a tornado can receive, with winds reaching around 418 km/h. Some later analysis of the ground scarring even suggested pockets of F5 strength, though the official rating stayed at F4. It briefly weakened crossing the North Saskatchewan River, but the worst was still ahead.

It tore through southeast Mill Woods first, dropping hail up to ten centimetres wide, then cut through the industrial core of the city, passing directly between two operating oil refineries and narrowly missing a chemical plant, a power station, and a second trailer park entirely. Freight trains were derailed, one of them hauling hazardous materials, and vehicles were thrown through the air. By the time it reached Clareview in the northeast around 4pm and finally lifted, it had been on the ground just over an hour, cutting a path of destruction roughly 37 kilometres long.

The worst of it hit the Evergreen Mobile Home Park, where a two-block stretch of destruction killed 15 people and destroyed close to 200 homes, some trailers left piled three high on top of each other. It remains the single deadliest location anywhere along the tornado’s path.

Another 12 people died along Refinery Row, bringing the total to 27, though early reports that afternoon feared it could reach as high as 36. Hundreds more were hurt, and hundreds of families lost their homes entirely. Crews spent the next 24 hours searching collapsed buildings and wrecked vehicles for survivors, working through gas leaks, fires, and flooding the storm left behind.

Mayor Laurence Decore declared a state of emergency that evening, once the scale of it became clear. The Canadian Red Cross opened a relief centre for those displaced, with Canadian Forces members joining local crews in the cleanup. Total damage came to more than $332 million in 1987 dollars, close to $800 million today, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in the country’s history at the time.

It’s still the second deadliest tornado ever recorded in Canada, behind only the 1912 Regina Cyclone, which killed 28. As of the most recent count, it remains the deadliest and most destructive tornado Alberta has ever seen.

Black Friday exposed how little warning people actually had once the weather turned deadly, and it led directly to Alberta’s Emergency Public Warning System in 1992, the forerunner to today’s Alberta Emergency Alert. It reshaped how the country invested in severe weather radar and warning technology for decades after.

If you were here in 1987, or grew up hearing about it from someone who was, drop your memories in the comments.

[𝕍𝕗𝕪𝕟𝕟_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Connor McDavid has been waiting for this moment — representing Canada in an Olympic gold medal game: “You have to learn from the bad times. You have to take something from it.

And what I took from it was this....

I don’t want to play golf. I don’t want to sit by the pool. I don’t want to be in the Bahamas. I don’t need a break, or a fresh start. I just want to be in Edmonton, playing hockey. I want to get back there again, whatever it takes. If that sounds like a robot, then I guess I’m a robot. But I see it differently. It doesn’t feel like work to me. It’s just the game that I love. Ever since I was a little kid, it’s been the same feeling…. It’s like every time you step onto a fresh sheet of ice, even if it’s at 5 o’clock in the morning, you’re just so excited for that Zamboni to come off and for that barn door to swing open so you can hop out onto the ice.

You hear that first crunch, and you just love it. I still love it, even when it sucks.

Every day is another chance, another opportunity to choose better. I really cannot wait for these Olympics. I’ll be bringing everything I’ve learned to Italy to represent my country. I’ve waited a long time to say that. I don’t think it will really hit me until I get over there. I was on the U17s the first time I wore a Canada jersey, and I’ve dreamt of this moment ever since. Pulling on that sweater, being in a room with the different generations of great players — Sid and Nate and Celebrini and all those guys. It’s such an honor, really.

I think best-on-best, country-against-country, that’s where hockey becomes something else. It reminds us of the shovels and the snow, the rollerblades and the roadrash.

I can’t wait to get in that room. I can’t wait to play more hockey.” https://t.co/7NUU6KAGOo

@cmcdavid97 | @HockeyCanada | @TeamCanada | @EdmontonOilers

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

Wow!.. This hit me hard... My dad is 73, & let's just say I'll answer every call/text from now on.....😢

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

We had a brand new speed skating arena for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and then immediately got rid of it, turning it into a rec center.

The ice should have stayed. Build another rec center.

Instead, we do things like provide free hard drugs for addicts, and spend billions on a fraudulent, indigenous reconciliation industry.

Victimhood ideology rules Canada.

[J∅kër Kîng 👑 @j0ker937]

I have exactly zero idea what portal opened up & caused this, lol.
His luck seems to align with mine some days.
Then again, I wouldn't use a snowblower with that tiny bit of snow...
But, hey, to each their own.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

This lady thinks she’s oppressed by white folks. Meanwhile, I let her in on the secret that white folks aren’t thinking about her. Let’s see how it goes…

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

"So cool!" A family of five Canada lynx, including three kittens, were spotted walking through the snowy scene in Ontario.

Lynx are a "solitary animal," according to Parks Canada. They only travel in pairs during mating season or in groups when kittens follow their mother.

[Munster48 @munster48]

@CrazyVibes_1 As a fellow crafter and creator you have an incredible talent and eye for detail. DO NOT let the opinion of others stop you from what you love. Those people are not worth your time. Keep up the great work. Crafting is an incredible way to express yourself and share with others.

[Mysticismail @xclusive_mystic]

A teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it, and throw it in the hallway.

The teacher then mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes to find their own balloon.

Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon, At that point, the teacher told the students to take the first balloon they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it.

Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon. The teacher said to the students, "These balloons arelike happiness.

We will never find it if everyone is
looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too."

May your day be filled with happiness!🎉

[Leftism @LeftismForU]

Meet Katia (@ittzkatia).

"If I owned a Soul Food place and a white MAGA family showed up in my restaurant, there's a high chance that I'm gonna put Windex in their food. Some type of toilet cleaner, saliva, feces.... There would be Windex in all of your food. And I'm gonna sit there and smile the whole time you're eating it."

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis"

This must be shared every day.

[TPS @TotalProSports]

Blue Jays flasher FTW! 👀

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canada like this tweet to give the #BlueJays luck vs LA in game 2 tonight! 🇨🇦🍁

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 @DKH013]

Even young kids can sense when something isn’t right
and this one came to the most logical conclusion.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE 🇨🇦⚾️