Becks 🇨🇦📎

Becks 🇨🇦📎

@mx-replicant.bsky.social

Neuro-spicy, Opinionated, Communications & Media Studies Degree, Journalism she/they Loves: nature, humanity, family, Canada, Ukraine & Norway Hates: n@zis, fake news, spineless politicians, threats to peace 🇨🇦📎🇺🇦 💛🤍💜🖤 Blog: https://www.becks-notes.ca

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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What if Canada could make groceries more affordable for underserved communities and support Canadian farmers / food workers all while taking power back from Galen Weston and the price-fixing grocery barons? @vassb.bsky.social says public grocery stores could be a good idea in Canada too:

perspectivesjournal.caA New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives JournalA grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

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This is a friendly reminder that vaccines save lives and they are one of the greatest public health achievements we have ever created. It’s worked so well that people forget how bad these diseases used to be.

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Replying to @thebreakdownab.bsky.social

In the Alberta Next survey on immigration, it literally says we would be able to stop allowing “types of immigrants we don’t want” if levels get too high. Let’s just let that percolate for a minute.

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If 🇨🇦Canada needs to ban exports of oil, gas, potash, hydroelectricity, aluminium and critical minerals to the 🇺🇸USA in order to respond to their trade attacks, then so be it. The rest of us will then need to share the costs with the affected provinces. 🇨🇦#ElbowsUp

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Please watch this, esp from 1:00-3:00. Charlie's right. Trump and his gangsters are "building a narrative" using the "right-wing playbook": "creating a convenient enemy, an existential threat that must be dealt with." *Just like Putin did w Ukraine.* We and our money are NOT coming back to USA. 💸

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social

Kristi Noem says the Canadian border is swamping the US with El Salvadorean gangs. Kash Patel claims terrorists are based in Canada. And a Canadian died in ICE Captivity. South Park was a funny movie. It's a dismal regime. Please watch my latest press conference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWN...

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It is the rhetoric of invasion. On Gaurd!

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social

Kristi Noem says the Canadian border is swamping the US with El Salvadorean gangs. Kash Patel claims terrorists are based in Canada. And a Canadian died in ICE Captivity. South Park was a funny movie. It's a dismal regime. Please watch my latest press conference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWN...

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UCP doing UCP things. "Accessing the shot will also be more limited: in the near future, pharmacists like "People are scared," Elfishawi said during an interview at his south Edmonton location, describing the calls he's had from clients – especially seniors." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caWhat charging for COVID-19 vaccines means for Albertans going forward | CBC NewsAlberta's new path makes it an outlier in Canada, prompting questions about why the province has diverged from national recommendations on vaccines, what the timeline is for rolling out the new distri...

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We are relieved to see the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta grant an injunction which restores Alberta physicians' ability to make clinical decisions based on evidence, in consultation with patients and their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caAlberta judge grants temporary injunction blocking a transgender health-care bill | CBC NewsJudgement puts on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

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The fact that the UCP have a $8.3B surplus and have the lowest per student spending in Canada, have purposely broken our healthcare system, and are taking $200/month away from people living with a disability tells you everything you need to know about their “values”. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caAlberta posts surplus of $8.3B in 2024-25 fiscal year | CBC NewsThe final numbers are in on last years' Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus.

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“British Columbia Premier David Eby says the growing spread of measles across Canada is "the sadly predictable outcome" of the "recklessness" of anti-vaccination politicians.” **weeps in Albertan**

Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca

B.C.'s premier says measles spikes across Canada a result anti-vax 'recklessness' https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/bc/b-c-s-premier-says-measles-spikes-across-canada-a-result-anti-vax-recklessness/article_fe911559-0552-5371-bca3-c49b78790812.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

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MONDAY, JUNE 23, IS ELECTION DAY! You want a better Alberta where seniors are respected, rural families can thrive, and healthcare remains accessible. I’m ready to stand up for you. Stand with me. 🗳️ Polls are open 9AM - 8PM 📌 Find your poll location: albertandp.ca/vote #VOTEforBETTER

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Pierre Poilievre is the only national leader in the history of Canada who refuses (or can't get) national security clearance. He doesn't have a clue what he is talking about as he tries to stoke war in the Persian Gulf. No wonder voters booted his arse out of Parliament.

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The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940. He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims. Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

independent.co.ukStarmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weaponPrime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’

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BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament approves the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Decision needs ratified by Iran’s Security Council. It would trap 20% of the world’s oil supply and send a catastrophic shock through the global economy.

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They were at the negotiating table, Ursula! They weren’t the ones that pulled out of the JCPOA! Experts say they were not going for the bomb! Is the EU going to sanction Israel and the US for their violations of international law?

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Iran must never acquire the bomb. With tensions in the Middle East at a new peak, stability must be the priority. And respect for international law is critical. Now is the moment for Iran to engage in a credible diplomatic solution. The negotiating table is the only place to end this crisis.

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There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

Keith Boykin@keithboykin.bsky.social

The US has hust dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, according to Trump, bringing American military forces into Israel’s war with Iran.

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After years of advocacy, applications for the $200/month Canada Disability Benefit opened today. But the only provincial govt in Canada that will keep its citizens with disabilities from actually benefiting from it is the UCP. They are the only ones clawing it back. It’s cruel & shameful.

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They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days. But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼

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How about this alternative headline: “Alberta government returns $137 million transfer payment from Ottawa for cleaning up orphan wells, losing local reclamation jobs in the process.” And the UCP thinks they’re great with money and red tape reduction. 🙄

cbc.ca'A lost opportunity': Alberta gives back $137M to Ottawa in unspent funds to clean up inactive wells | CBC NewsQuestions remain about why the Alberta government was unable to use all of $1-billion in federal funding aimed at cleaning up aging oil and natural gas wells, considering there are tens of thousands o...

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Time for another pollinators tip! Pollinators need places to lay eggs, overwinter and just hide. Old logs, dead plant stalks, fall leaves, and other "messy" areas are all good for pollinators. Flowers are just a food source. They need homes and nurseries too! So let's keep things a bit messy! 🌱 🌎

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Kate Aronoff@katearonoff.bsky.social

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

tandfonline.comHarming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker banThis paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...