Independent Senator-Alberta 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 You can also find me at drkristopherwells.bsky.socia…

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ok, Canadians. You know what to do. Tighten our belts. Strengthen our resolve. Show our unity. Demonstrate our national pride. Support our real allies. Put Canada first forever and always.
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You can see my desk. First row, first seat on the right. Will be in it very soon. 💫🇨🇦
#DYK you can watch Senate proceedings in person? As parliamentarians return this fall, visitors are welcome to watch live debates and parliamentary meetings from the gallery. Plan your visit: ow.ly/fQbU50WYLcT
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You can read the Canadian Pride Caucus statement mentioned in this article. We stand with the LGBTQ+ people of Türkiye. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Anand says Canada supports LGBTQ rights despite Ottawa's silence on Turkey crackdown nationalnewswatch.com/2026/0…
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Residential Schools denialism causes lasting harm and deepens injustice. New funding will support trusted organizations to help Canadians learn the facts about Residential Schools and counter false information. ow.ly/bjak106FfYX
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RT @AFN_Updates: Cree lawyer, former Member of Parliament, and residential school Survivor Chief Wilton Littlechild has dedicated his life…
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The Council of Europe has adopted its first Strategy for Equal Rights for LGBTI People! 🏳️‍🌈 The Strategy (2027–32) sets out a common framework for upholding the dignity and equality of LGBTI people.
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Absolutely. Canada is a country for everyone. Diversity is our strength & should never be considered a weakness. Diversity leads to innovation, resilience & adaptability. Precisely the strengths we need in an increasingly complex world. We ridicule or ignore it at our own peril.
Jason, you’re right. At some point, we need to stop pretending this is harmless anger at Ottawa. When Alberta separatism keeps putting antisemitism, racism and homophobia in the window, we need to take their word for it. And conservatives need to stop making excuses for it.
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You are 💯 correct. The overwhelming majority of Canadians strongly support MAiD as both safe and humane. We are a country that believes in choice and quality health care for everyone.
I've become a big fan of Canada in seeing how (relatively) little controversy euthanasia seems to arouse in that country despite the entire right-wing Anglosphere losing its mind over it. Canadians have the most up close experience with MAID. They know that it is a humane, rational policy that provides people in difficult situations a humane way to die with dignity. Rightists sitting in America and the UK getting their information about MAID from the Daily Mail and the New York Post are convinced that Canada is eliminating every twenty year old who comes in with a cough. But Canada knows what it is doing is right. All the data and facts are on their side. The other side has sensationalist anecdotes that fall apart under scrutiny, and paranoid conspiracy theories about Canada being the Fourth Reich and eliminating the weak and vulnerable for pleasure and profit. On that basis, they want government to force people to be indefinitely tortured. It's hard to think of many positions more disgusting than that. I'm proud of you, Canada. You are showing humanity the way forward. 🇨🇦richardhanania.com/p/canadia…
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De Stonewall Inn is niet zomaar een gay bar in New York, maar de plaats waar in 1969 rellen plaatsvonden als reactie op jarenlange discriminatie en geweld van de politie. Dit wordt gezien als startpunt van de wereldwijde lhbtiq+-emancipatie en activisme. Tegenwoordig is de bar een nationaal monument, gewijd aan de lhbtiq+-rechtenbeweging. Voor mij is het indrukwekkend en ontroerend om vanavond hier te zijn. En ook passend want de verdediging van mensenrechten is een belangrijk onderdeel van ons buitenlandbeleid. Nederland staat aan de zijde van de Stonewall Inn-gemeenschap als het gaat om het recht van iedereen om openlijk, veilig en met trots te leven, wie je ook bent en van wie je ook houdt.
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UK🇬🇧 está comprometido con la promoción y protección de los DDHH de personas LGBT+🏳️‍🌈 en Colombia y el mundo, y reconoce el papel de @EqualRightsC en este esfuerzo. Seguiremos trabajando con sus miembros y la sociedad civil para fortalecer la cooperación que promueva la igualdad.
Ante la decisión del Gobierno nacional de retirar a Colombia de la Coalición por la Igualdad de Derechos (Equal Rights Coalition @EqualRightsC), hacemos un llamado a garantizar que esta determinación no se traduzca, directa ni indirectamente, en un debilitamiento de la protección de los derechos de las personas LGBTIQ+ ni de los estándares de igualdad y no discriminación que obligan al Estado colombiano.   El Gobierno nacional tiene la facultad de definir las prioridades y estrategias de la política exterior. Sin embargo, dicha facultad debe mantener plena correspondencia con las obligaciones constitucionales e internacionales permanentes del Estado en materia de derechos humanos. Los derechos de las personas LGBTIQ+ no pertenecen a una ideología ni a un gobierno: son derechos reconocidos constitucional e internacionalmente y su protección es un deber del Estado. Leer pronunciamiento aquí 👇🏽
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NEW: Calgary city council has voted 14-1 in favour of affirming Calgary's place as a vital part of Alberta and Canada - a motion from Mayor Jeromy Farkas. Ward 12 Coun. Mike Jamieson was the sole vote against.
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I ran for Mayor saying Calgary should lead a strong, united Canada. Now it's time to follow through. Separation threatens investment, jobs, and the confidence of newcomers who chose Calgary home. That's why I'm asking Council to stand up for Calgary's future within a strong Alberta and Canada.
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Cutting Canada out of US trade to embrace nightmare dictatorships like Belarus. Absolute madness.
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September 21 is International #PeaceDay. This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” Indeed: the pursuit of peace is a year-round effort that requires all of us to participate.
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These attacks and intimidation must stop. There is no place for any form of hate in Canada.
Praying for the police officer, whose heroism outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville kept people safe. The shooter must face the full extent of the law. Jewish communities have a right to be & feel safe in Canada. Waiting for police to investigate before saying more.
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Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre: "I can hardly think of any bilateral partnership which is moving forward at the pace we do now with Canada, Canada and Norway."
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100 percent true.
Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., @Gladwell tells @JeffreyGoldberg that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.” theatln.tc/65NUk0Q9 #TAF26
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Terry Fox showed us the best of Canada. Courage in the face of adversity. Determination to make life better for others. The belief that each of us can make a difference.    To everyone taking part in a Terry Fox Run today: thank you for carrying forward what he started. Step by step. For all of us.
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Bienvenue à Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, cher voisin @MarkJCarney ! Moment historique. Première visite officielle d’un Premier ministre canadien sur cette terre française d’Amérique du Nord. Dans un monde en crise, notre amitié est une force. Nous affirmons ensemble notre souveraineté, notre liberté de décider et notre volonté de bâtir un avenir de paix et de prospérité.
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All sports betting advertising should be heavily regulated, if not outright banned. The consequences to the integrity of sport and to the wellbeing of young people are enormous.
Canada allowed private sports betting in 2021 and then walked away, wishing the families of the country good luck with their men and boys. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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