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Matt Stickland, bearded election elf
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Political reporter for The Coast, co-host of Grand Parade and Wander Grounds. Previously: Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him. matt@thecoast.ca
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This is incredible. The machine must have learned the John [Action hero] meme as a genuine naming convention.

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Yup as part of the JRTA announcement(s?)

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At the risk of getting your hopes up, BRT funding announcement is expected in November

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Ugh they took the fluoride out of the water in Calgary in 2011 and now they're trying to put it back because...

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"We are concerned about avoidable and potentially life-threatening disease, pain, suffering, misery and expense experienced especially by very young children and their families due to dental decay," Dickinson said in an emailed statement.

"In just eight years after fluoridation ended in 2011, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700 per cent at the Alberta Children's Hospital."

According to Dickinson, a recent University of Alberta study shows that for children under five years old, the rate of dental treatments under anesthesia doubled from 22 per 100,000 in 2010-11 to 45 per 100,000 in 2018-19.

For kids aged six to 11, the rates rose from 14 per 100,000 to 19 per 100,000.
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He's a heavyweight for the same reason Fillmore is considered a favourite—name recognition.

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Have you considered what this would do to our vehicular level of service numbers?

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Matt Stickland, bearded election elf
@landofsticks.bsky.social
Political reporter for The Coast, co-host of Grand Parade and Wander Grounds. Previously: Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him. matt@thecoast.ca
298 followers142 following797 posts