Shawna #FireTheUCP

Candidate for Prime Minister #FiretheUCPTBA #FireDanielleSmith #landback

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Every Monday, I like to share a bit of nostalgia to help everyone's day get off to a good start.
This week, it is The Log Driver's Waltz, one of the most famous pieces of animation in Canadian history courtesy of the NFB, Wade Hemsworth and Kate and Anna McGarrigle!

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Mistaseni was a sacred rock for the First Nations of southern Saskatchewan.

When dams formed Lake Diefenbaker, despite calls to save the rock, the provincial government chose to blow it up.

This is the story of that rock 👇

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[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

The UCP cares about its corporate donors; they don’t care about the people in this province.
Incidentally, one of my immuno drugs costs $50k a dose and if I live long enough, I should be getting several doses. Enjoy the private health care Smith wants you to pay her buddies for.

[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

On May 1, I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and secondary brain cancer (with 6 brain tumours). I was told that, ideally, I would get radiation on my brain within 10 days. I wasn’t able to get in for radiation until May 27, and by then, I had 18 brain tumours…

[Alberta Medical Association (AMA) @Albertadoctors]

Cancer care is calling for action. ⚠️ Oncologists and their patients are on the line.

"It has been extraordinarily challenging to recruit new doctors."- Lisa Barbera

[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

Like nearly everyone else in this province, I haven’t had a family doctor for years. I had to go to a medi-centre for my diagnosis. A functioning health-care system wouldn’t leave people hanging like this, not knowing if they have weeks to live.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

The Shining is my favourite movies, and a movie I watch once a year or so.

But did you know that The Overlook Hotel is absolutely FULL of Canadian artwork?

Follow along as I take you on a tour of the haunted hotel, and the Canadian artistry inside! 👇🖼️

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[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

We’re not journalists or astroturf.

We don’t know most of the actual journalists who cover Alberta politics, but we’re sure they’re really, really nice.

We have a Prime Minister and a premier (god help us), not a president or a governor.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Ismail Kadare, Whose Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World, Dies at 88 | @nytimes https://t.co/JrX8AEutwT

[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

@JasonNixonAB Loser says what?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Good morning!

Who dresses better? Alpha males or little dogs? Let's explore. 🧵

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Star Trek aired in Canada before it aired anywhere else in the world.
The series premiered on CTV on Sept. 6, 1966, two days before it aired on NBC in the USA.

So, I thought it would be interesting to look at Canada's fictional history in the Star Trek universe 👇🖖

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[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A team of workers were on a job in Edmonton, Canada, when they saw through a window a library’s public piano. “I’d told my co-workers for years I played piano,” said Archie Gould of Venger Electrostatic Coating, “but never had an opportunity to show them”:

[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

@emayeg2 @cspotweet Yup - but I guess it’s pretty easy to have an answer for everything when you make it all up as you go along!

[Shawna #FireTheUCP @sesquipedaliac]

This whole thread ❤️

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

[Scientific American @sciam]

Solar farms seeded with wildflowers can boost pollinator populations https://t.co/OVGFoOsGch

[Gareth Roberts @garicgymro]

Fun fact: William Jones, the Welsh farm boy from Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd who introduced the symbol π for 3.14159..., was the father of the William Jones who realised that Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek might all be related to each other, and to the Germanic and Celtic languages.