Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱

josephsimons@mstdn.ca

🇨🇦 <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Alberta</a> is <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Canadian</a>, by law, under treaty, by a country-wide labour of love, and by 100+ years of pan-Canadian involvement and investment 🇨🇦Planet first, society second, economy servant of us all—not our master.Cube: includes '60s me helping my father load milk cans at our dairy farm. Header: North Saskatchewan river flowing through Edmonton, Canada.

Posts

Post #4360291
Why #Edmonton's $1 Billion Infrastructure Crossroads Could Remake the City #yegcc #yeg #highlevelbridge #infrastructure https://youtu.be/2KVhtH6R_5c
Post #4246493
Help #Canadian MP @leahgazan.bsky.social launch an official parliamentary petition (e-7522) that calls on the federal government to put people and the planet ahead of fossil fuel profits, and stop fast-tracking catastrophic #fossilfuel projects. Link below. #climatecrisis #cdnpoli https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7522
Post #4116446
A classic good is coming up! Inaugural Beaver Hills House Music Festival: #RafaelHoekman, cello; #JeremySpurgeon, piano: #EmilLevasseur, composer; #BeatrixBecker, composer and piano; #DongKyunAn, cello; #LynnKuo: violin. All Saints Anglican, July 29, 7:30. #yegmusic #chambermusic
Post #3962496
My plan is to use my payout from the shameless vote buying / misappropriation of funds of the #UCP's #energyrebate for something they'd truly hate but would be good for us all. Instructions below: #TrevorBastien #HarleysVision #Piikani https://open.substack.com/pub/crowsnestheadwaters/p/hate-the-rebate-take-revenge
Post #3866516
Suck to be U(SA). Mapped: Where People Think #QualityofLife Is Best. Yay, #Canada https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-people-think-quality-of-life-is-best/
Post #3788538
A Benefit Concert for #Canadian Unity: “A number of Alberta’s finest musicians and members of the music community are coming together ... in #HawrelakPark, in #Edmonton’s beautiful river valley, on Wednesday July 22, 2026 to voice their collective appreciation for their country." #abpoli #canpoli #yegmusic #yeg https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/musicians-for-canada-a-benefit-concert-for-canadian-unity-tickets-1989332331555
Post #3764092
“It seems that their sampling method is seriously flawed and could vastly underestimate the percentage of valid signatories,” Dr. #JeffreyRosenthal told the CBC. This just screams for an inquiry. #WaterNotCoal #CorbLundpetition @waternotcoalab.bsky.social https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/somethings-gravely-wrong-with-how-elections-alberta-torpedoed-corb-lunds-water-not-coal-citizen-initiative-petition/
Post #3696717
If you are a Masto bridged to Bluesky (via @bsky.brid.gy) you can now follow @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. These folks manage and decode the annual #pedalpoll and use it to advocate for safer streets. All that #bike data? Certainly worth a follow! Please boost. #PedalPollSondoVelo #yegbike #yycbike #bikeyfc #yhzbike #bikeyul #bikeyqb #yowbike #yytbike #yyzbike #yvrbike #ywgbike
Post #3562192
Looks like we failed. Sorry, anybody on the Canadian prairies who likes to drink clean water... 😞 #WaterNotCoal #abpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/corb-lund-water-not-coal-petition-rejected-9.7257566
Post #3537272
RE: https://mastodon.social/@trevortombe/116850778028287226 "All of this points to why programs that help every province deliver comparable public services matter. #Equalization has real flaws and can be improved in many ways. But the underlying principle that each province should have the resources to provide comparable services and #education benefits the whole country. It especially benefits strong economies like Alberta’s and B.C.’s." #abpoli #cdnpoli
Post #2536742
City of #Vincent becomes the first council in #WesternAustralia to support the #PlantBasedTreaty. Municipality commits to incorporating plant-based principles into its #sustainability strategies, as scientific evidence shows that food system transformation is critical for human and planetary #health. https://plantbasedtreaty.org/city-of-vincent-becomes-the-first-council-in-western-australia-to-support-the-plant-based-treaty/
Post #2231422
Help generate data for city councils across #Canada to prioritize #activetransportation. Volunteer count shifts for #PedalPoll / #SondoVélo 2026 available now! #yegbike #bike #urban https://velocanadabikes.org/pedalpoll/
Post #1568107
These #UCP really are scum. #abpoli #gerrymandering https://bsky.app/profile/naheednenshi.bsky.social/post/3mjmwr7n3ou2f
Post #1218137
Come sign the #CorbLundPetition #WaterNotCoal on Saturday afternoons from 1-3, or Sundays 2-4 at #EarthsRefilleryCoop (10831 95 St #Edmonton). ID is required, showing your home&#39;s physical address, not the mailing address. We go until June 10. #yeg #coal https://www.coalpetition.ca/
Post #625868
Thank you @bmcnews.bsky.social for running a story on the #CorbLundPetition #WaterNotCoal. After a good start, hopefully we get a bump up for these regular weekend afternoons at #EarthsRefilleryCoop. The #petition goal is 178,000 signatures. #sustainability #coal #abpoli https://bmcnews.org/story/citizen-initiative-petition-no-new-coal-mining-in-the-eastern-slopes-of-the-rocky-mountains
Post #386226
From @EmmettMacfarlane: &quot;#DanielleSmith is the most dangerous politician in #Canada, launching an agenda not only of fear and #greed, but one that seeks to undermine the country, its federal structure, and its spirit of tolerance and compassion. It is nothing short of evil, and it must be fought on all fronts.&quot; #abpoli #canpoli https://open.substack.com/pub/emmettmacfarlane/p/danielle-smith-is-no-separatist-shes