January 2012
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Jan 18th
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December 2011
5 posts
Dec 25th
Dec 17th
The Protest Project Timeline →
A visual timeline of protests in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Dec 16th
Dec 11th
Heard this from a friend: “Homophobia: The fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.”
Dec 10th
November 2011
6 posts
Nov 25th
1 tag
Nov 22nd
2 tags
Nov 21st
1 tag
Nov 15th
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Nov 3rd
October 2011
12 posts
Democracy is a messy, messy, beautiful process. #OccupyCalgary yesterday was amazing. Thank-you to all participants! See you again today…
Oct 17th
1 note
On behalf of those staying overnight at Olympic Plaza for #OccupyCalgary tonight, thank-you to those who have given kind words and support!
Oct 16th
Dec.3: International #OpenData Hackathon 2011: Better Tools, More Data, Bigger Fun http://t.co/uDrQGZVU via @daeaves #yycdata
Oct 12th
Important to note that the “Base Camp Alpha” site is a proposal not yet put to consensus by the #OccupyCalgary General Assembly.
Oct 9th
10 Street hill is one of the best places to put a bike path. Least steep slope = easiest hill to climb (vs. centre, 14, 19). #yyccc #yycbike
Oct 9th
Great read: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now by @NaomiAKlein http://t.co/Orc6fDHL #OccupyCalgary #ows
Oct 8th
Resend: A new #OccupyCalgary event has been created (admins to be determined at tomorrow’s general assembly meet). http://t.co/VMTHgClo
Oct 8th
I’m thinking of trying a Diaspora install for the occupycalgary.ca website. Any local activist geeks want to help? #OccupyCalgary
Oct 4th
I live downtown, Ward 8. I do not want increased police budgets. Money better spent on social services to affect roots of crime. #yyccc
Oct 4th
Oct 2nd
Oct 2nd
“The Most Important Chart About the Patriot Act You’ll See” http://t.co/Vc6NMLVr #occupywallstreet
Oct 2nd
September 2011
13 posts
Should CAs act, or be treated, as community representatives? If so, let’s make the role explicit, and meaningfully engage the public. #yyccc
Sep 29th
Reading: Shut down the native industry and spend the money on natives, by (@TEDxCalgary speaker) John Reilly http://t.co/xsTbHusf #cdnpoli
Sep 28th
CartoDB →
“CartoDB allows you to map data & develop location aware applications quickly and easily.”
Sep 27th
Sep 27th
Publisher metadata tags - Google News (publishers)... →
Metadata tags to embed within html to indicate relative importance of articles or stories.
Sep 25th
Just to remind people that you are many, many, many, orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by a car than falling #spacejunk.
Sep 24th
A reminder to #yyccc readers that correlation is not proof of causation. “X happened when we did Y” does not prove “Y caused X”.
Sep 23rd
Heading to The Path to Food Sovereignty, Council of Canadians. 7:30pm at Unitarian 1703-1 Str NW. #yyc #yycfood #yyceco http://t.co/IpGT1ufa
Sep 22nd
Sep 19th
“MESH Government to the Rescue” TEDx talk by @ahoppin http://t.co/lPkgbcRu — via @mgifford #yycdata #yyccc #ableg #cdnpoli
Sep 17th
6 tags
Sep 17th
23,442 notes
Sep 16th
Sep 15th
August 2011
2 posts
A society that has enough to take care of everyone, but lets children go hungry and homeless, is barbaric. #yyc #yyccc
Aug 31st
Reading: Criminalization of Poverty, by @owjn http://t.co/zruySZl (h/t: @prettygunwoman) #cdnpoli #ableg #yyccc
Aug 30th
May 2011
16 posts
If the Conservatives were really “tough on crime™”, they would focus on crime _prevention_ instead of waiting until after the fact. #cdnpoli
May 31st
Some challenging riding to avoid squishing worms in the rain today. Otherwise good rides :-) #yycbike
May 27th
Declaring that someone is engaged in a “war on” something you support = you fail. e.g., McIver accusing Farrell of “war on our roots” #yyccc
May 14th
How To Remain Connected If Your Internet Gets Shut... →
“Burma, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Tajikistan, and - most recently - Egypt and Libya, are all countries where governments have controlled access to communication technologies as a way to…
May 14th
The Mia Birk event at the library theatre is just getting underway. #yycbike
May 13th
Obi-Wan Kenobi is Dead, Vader Says. http://bit.ly/mwTQwm Unlike Earth media, the user comments are hilarious.
May 12th
Vanishing Of The Bees →
“Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an…
May 12th
Call 211 to connect with social service info in Calgary. http://bit.ly/liLw4B attn: @lonnietaylor #yyc #yyccc
May 10th
RT @Jay_Nath A Door to Canadian Open Government Slams Shut http://bit.ly/jaeY6A #cdnpoli #elxn41 #yycdata #opendata #foip
May 7th
RT @Jay_Nath Participatory budgeting advocates make the case in San Francisco http://bit.ly/kTixwA #yyccc
May 5th