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Orlagh O’Kelly

@orlaghokelly.bsky.social

Hey #ableg #yeg friends. Say no to @cbcedmonton platforming false views of treaty advocating for USA interference via Wilson

September 23, 2026 at 5:02 AM

ema 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦🍁

@ema2ca.bsky.social

@CBCEdmonton @GlobalEdmonton @CityNewsYEG
@ctvedmonton
@edmontonjournal
@YourAlberta
@globeandmail
@TorontoStar

Get on this story TODAY!
#abmedia #YEGmedia #YYCmedia

August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Social Moi🇨🇦

@socialmoi.bsky.social

When Crazy Canucks gotta ski, they gotta ski. even if it's downtown Edmonton in the river valley.
I've seen people cross-country ski on the golf course and trails but never downhill!
#yegnews #yeg #yeggers
@ctvedmonton @GlobalEdmonton @CBCEdmonton

December 29, 2024 at 8:34 AM

Vintage Edmonton

@thevintageedmonton.bsky.social

March 14,1969 and it's The House Of Top Local Shows at Vintage Edmonton:

http://www.vintageed...

#yeg #alberta #edmonton #1960s #CBCEdmonton

March 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Janet French

@jantafrench.bsky.social

I’ll have more tomorrow on the issues at play in the Alberta teachers’ labour dispute. Here’s a starter: www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton... #AbLeg #AbEd

As most Alberta students prepare to return to class, uncertainty looms about whether 51,000 public, Catholic and francophone teachers will go on strike. #Alberta #teachers #negotiations #schools #ATA ...

TikTok video by CBC Edmonton

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August 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Gayleen Froese

@gayleenfroese.bsky.social

An open letter about EPL forcing staff to remove queer symbols from workplace. @cityofedmonton.bsky.social @SteveBoots #yeg #lgbtq2ia @globaledmonton @ckua @cjsr @cbcedmonton @edmontonjournal #prideedmonton #csu52 #amerjeetsohi

Last month, CSU 52 revealed that staff at the Edmonton Public Libraries had been forbidden to display symbols in support of LGBTQ2IA individuals. As Edmontonians, library users and queer authors, we were alarmed.
EPL Board chair Pilar Martinez claimed this rule was long-standing (staff have assured us it isn’t) and to preserve “neutrality.” She has also claimed that it applies to symbols of all kinds.
Symbolism is everywhere. We would be surprised to learn that Martinez had suppressed all forms of symbolic expression.
Neutrality serves the most powerful in society at the expense of the rest. This is unquestionably clear to Donald Trump and his supporters, who have used “neutrality” as an excuse for removing Black and queer history and monuments from US websites and federal lands. Because these things might offend someone, and the offence those people take at the existence and history of minorities is to be avoided at all costs.
To say queer people and their supporters can’t express this aspect of themselves in a workplace is to say that who they are is shameful. Unacceptable. Something to be hidden away.
Our representative on City Council has been, on paper, supportive about our concerns, but she claims she has no jurisdiction over the Edmonton Public Library board. If not City Council, then who? This is a tax-funded organization that answers to the public, or should, in the form of our elected representatives. To abdicate their responsibility here is to claim the Board answers to no one.
In a city that boasts of being worldly, forward-looking and inclusive, this is a jarring attitude for the head of our most valued public institutions to take. We are happy for our tax dollars to support a library system that is genuinely inclusive of ideas, even those we don’t support. This is what libraries are for. But paying taxes to push queer people back into the closet does not sit well with us.
We would like to see this policy removed and an apology to the queer community.

April 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Hazel B. 🇨🇦

@hab3261.bsky.social

The UCP-Separatists really don't like Albertans.
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...

Some teachers and sex education experts say Alberta's new vetting rules are limiting how they teach students, and keeping valuable information out of their hands.

TikTok video by CBC Edmonton

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February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM

ema 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦🍁

@ema2ca.bsky.social

2/ It was appalling to hear our local media allow a curt, dismissive rebuttal from the AB premier saying the Inst. was an #NDP front! What a disgusting example of both siding! Do better #MSM.

#YEGmedia #CBCEdmonton #CTVEdmonton #GlobalEdmonton #CityNewsYEG

french.bsky.social

March 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Edmonton's Food Bank

@yegfoodbank.bsky.social

Mark Connolly has been a longtime supporter of Edmonton's Food Bank through CBC's Make the Season Kind (formerly the CBC Turkey Drive).

THANK YOU MARK for all your wonderful years of support and we wish you our very best in your next chapter. Thank YOU! #yeg #edmonton #yegmedia #cbcedmonton

July 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM

Edmonton Transit Riders

@etriders.bsky.social

Today we were on CBC to talk about the fare increases coming up at the start of February, and the importance of keeping Edmonton's affordability advantage while supporting those who benefit most from affordable transportation

#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt

www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...

Edmonton transit prices are set to increase for the first time since 2021. Starting Feb. 1, fares will increase for most groups. Some increases include Arc single-trip fares going from $2.75 to $3, ...

TikTok video by CBC Edmonton

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January 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡

@spudislander45.bsky.social

#CBCEDMONTON

#NORAD tracking #Santa

A message to children everywhere wondering where Santa is and when he’s coming? 🇨🇦❤️☃️🎄

December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Sèafra

@woodward.ca

Just like the 80's baby!
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...

Remember the 80s? Well, back then you could get a job at a grocery store cruising around on roller skates checking prices. In February of 1987, CBC caught up with a man who did just that. Rolling arou...

TikTok video by CBC Edmonton

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May 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM

CosmicExplorationOfSpace

@spacecosmic1.bsky.social

The Houston Zoo approved the EEHV vaccine for their managed community, and they have inoculated 40 year old Asian elephant, Tess. So if it’s good enough for Huston zoo #AndrewKnack #Erinforanirniq #edmonton_anne #edmonton_anne #CBCEdmonton it’s good enough for #Lucy
Get 🐘 💉 get her 🧳 to sanctuary.

December 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM

Lise Gotell, PhD

@lisegot.bsky.social

Do better @CBCEdmonton! All male experts in a story about #femicide and the absolute failures of legal responses to domestic violence?? Consult experts on #ViolenceAgainstWomen.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Criminal history of man accused of killing Edmonton woman prompts calls for judicial reform | CBC News

The death of an Edmonton woman, allegedly at the hands of the man she was trying to leave, has prompted calls for stronger support for victims attempting to flee intimate partner violence and improved judicial systems to rehabilitate repeat offenders.

www.cbc.ca

November 7, 2024 at 9:46 PM

Lanrick Bennett

@lanrickbennett.bsky.social

Shared 3 pieces of Black specific content with my children this week.

• www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via #CBCEdmonton

• www.vox.com/2024/3/26/24... via #Vox

• podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... via #SecretLifeOfCanada

I think they're worth #Amplifying

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University of Alberta provides new online course on Black history at no cost

Course is open to all learners as of March 22

Nishat Chowdhury · CBC News · Posted: Mar 23, 2024 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 23
University of Alberta sign at campus
Black Canadians: History, Presence, and Anti-Racist Futures is a four-module, online course tackling anti-Black racism in Canada. (Richard Siemens)

Beyoncé’s country roots
A century of history of Black country music, explained by Alice Randall.
By Avishay Artsy Mar 26, 2024, 7:15am EDT
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Beyoncé spotted during New York Fashion Week on February 13, 2024, in New York City. James Devaney/GC Images
If you somehow haven’t heard: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, her eighth studio album and the much-anticipated sequel to Renaissance, drops on Friday. Its lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em” made history when it debuted at the top of the country charts last month.

S6 Crash Course: How Black students led Canada's largest student protest
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It would become one of the key moments in Black history in Canada. In 1968, six Black students from Sir George Williams University in Montreal filed a complaint of racism against their biology professor. By 1969, the university denied their complaint and more than 200 students began a peaceful sit-in. By the end of it, a fire broke out, police in riot-gear were sent in and 97 people were arrested. Named "The Sir George Williams Affair" it is now considered to be the largest student protest in Canadian history.

March 31, 2024 at 11:41 AM

Mommy Has Cancer

@mommyhascancer.ca

Why doesn’t anyone seem to care that northern AB’s only cancer centre patient beds are being obliterated by construction and COVID-19. What is the plan for these patients? @luanne_metz @DShepYEG @AdrianaLaGrange @CBCEdmonton @ctvedmonton @GlobalEdmonton

x.com/hemeoncABnorth…

January 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Mommy Has Cancer

@mommyhascancer.ca

I also meant to add @RachelNotley @CBCEdmonton @GlobalEdmonton @ctvedmonton

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Mommy Has Cancer @mommyhascancer.ca · Apr 23

This is abhorrent! How can we help northern cancer patients from continuing? When the CCI closes more beds due to ongoing construction it will only get worse. @AdrianaLaGrange @luanne_metz @DShepYEG @JenLeeCBC Can anyone help get answers to this northern AB oncologist?

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January 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM

James David Payne

@jimmydp01.bsky.social

Dishonest intellect and the fast talking?

Queen of Stupid strikes again UCP

#ableg

● there's 5M Albertans, not 59K.

● Insurance???

●UCP uses BC data, but doesn't use the final results, return to previous posted speeds because of Accidents increasing with speed.

#ctvedmonton #cbcedmonton