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Bryan Versteeg

@spacehabs

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Concept designer, artist, geek, maker, builder, gamer/developer, learner. Husband, father. Canadian.

Calgary
Joined February 2012
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Bryan Versteeg
2 years
I’ve installed a projector on the ceiling above my gaming table. Painting dynamic lighting using @Procreate onto the game or layout. I use this for grid overlays, stats, fog of war, area of effect simulations, and for some dramatic lighting. #boardgames #conceptart #3Dprinting
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The interior of an O'Neill cylinder. 1km in diameter, 10km long. Produced by resources from asteroids. Home to thousands. Structural design as referenced from the 1976 book, The High Frontier, by Gerard K. O'Neill. Artistic interpretation my own.
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@familiarscape @Procreate Projector mounted to the ceiling. I use Airplay to screen share between the tablet and projector.
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Radius: 250m Population: 10,000
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At a radius of 250meters, the structure would rotate at around 1.9 RPMs to simulate 1G on the "ground" level. This Habitat is designed for 10,000 people with agricultural capacity to 15,000. The Ag levels are both above the "sky" and below the "ground".
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3 years
@jkenney How insulting would it be to Albertans if you fired their election commissioner while he was investigating your leadership race, voting, and the funding illegalities of your campaign?
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@jkenney It didn’t have to be this way. Didn’t have to wait until we’re canceling 1000’s of surgeries, cancer treatments, ICU’s at 160% of normal capacity. This trend started 2 months ago. You mocked our concern. “Best summer ever”, now an Albertan dying ever hour. This is all on you.
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3 years
@jkenney The increase in Ctax will cost about $1.30 per tank. You removing the cap on energy prices is costing the average household $120/month. At least the Ctax is rebated.
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@demetriosnAB What should be concerning to every single Canadian is the flood of foreign money dumped into this overt attack on our nations economy and democracy. Most Canadians want to get to the bottom of that. It’s telling that the UCP want us to quickly move along and forget about it.
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3 years
@jkenney People with treatable cancer and operable tumors are being denied procedures because the healthcare system has collapsed. These people would also like to get on with their lives. But you’re siding with the pro Covid, anti HCW protestors.
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Designed for a short term stay like tourism and research, this 75m radius station would rotate around 2 rpm and feel like .38 G (Mars like) on the "lowest level".
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3 years
A perpetual work in progress. Searching for aquifers on Mars. Part of my ongoing series, “Explain to me again why you are doing this”. #ArtAdventCalendar
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2 years
A little more info: the buildings are 3d printed and hand painted. 3d files are from @infinitedceo . I'll be making a video on how I put this together and you will be able to find that on my YouTube channel here:
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Making a nightlight for my son. This is a prototype. My theory is that if it's the last thing he sees before he goes to bed, it's bound to invoke some dreams of exploration. The rocket is 3d printed, the landscape is carved from foam and plaster. #3Dprinting #mars #LED
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2 years
@newbiedm Yes, the houses, etc. are 3d printed and hand painted.
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3 years
@jkenney Mid July I said that in Alberta, the 4th wave was on purpose. Everything the UCP has done since then prove my point. Everything.
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2 years
@aaronhoyland @IshatReza “People should consider slowing down in school zones”. We know mandating it would save lives but it the people who think that adding 8 seconds to their commute is an intolerable infringement on their freedom get upset.
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@MattWolfAB @KashFida You need to acknowledge this “community” that is actively and purposefully spreading the virus. ...only, it’s your base, isn’t it?
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@doggojones Any projector with Airplay can screen match your tablet. I have an open ceiling so mounting was easy. Then any drawing program (I use Procreate). Buildings are 3d printed and hand painted but you could project the entire map itself. Infinite uses.
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@jkenney We also pay more for your “tour manager” and Director of Talent” than any other province. So, speaking of efficiencies...
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Bryan Versteeg
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@stephen_taylor She gets accused of doing something that’s she’s been bragging about over and over and you think that’s a “smear”? She was proud of it until she found out she would lose her job because of it. Now it’s suddenly “baseless”? Uh-huh.
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4 years
Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar I enjoy designing homes for extreme environments. The Moon, Mars, lava tubes. ...the Alberta foothills. #yyc
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
@jkenney It’s all about freedom. In this case, the freedom of customs agents around the world to tell Albertans they cannot enter their country. Thanks.
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Bryan Versteeg
2 years
I've been working on a video to illustrate the concept of creating large orbital stations with resources from mining asteroids. Obviously, the pipeline from mine to product would not be as simplified as shown here but the principle is sound. All the resources we need.
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3 years
@MattWolfAB Ooooh, I have an idea! Jason Kenney should one-up Trudeau and throw a snap election, right now. Right now. Right now. I’d love to go to the polls in Alberta. Right now.
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3 years
@jkenney 78% of Albertans either didn’t bother to vote, or voted no. Your 22% doesn’t carry the weight you think it does.
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
@_Astro_Nerd_ I design and build models of vehicles and habitats for space exploration. Here’s a couple shelves and years of work.
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@TheBreakdownAB @UCPCaucus I think this was written by the virus.
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2 years
Augmented reality. The layout in the foreground is a scan of the tabletop layout in the background (rotated 90) and overlayed. The terrains are offset here but can be joined, overlayed, scaled, and used as background or features. #TTRPGs #NeRf #photogrammetry #AugmentedReality
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
@jkenney Alberta may need vaccines more than the rest of the country because of the way the pandemic is being handled. Even Ontario conservatives are saying, “at least we’re not Alberta”!
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
@jkenney You know what else would be devastating? Dismantling rural healthcare while also saddling rural Albertans with massive property tax increases to cover for letting O&G off the hook for paying their own taxes. Devastating.
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
@jkenney Is now a good time to talk about insurance rates, school fees, non indexed income tax brackets, park passes, or the energy costs that you removed the caps for?
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4 years
@UCPCaucus If doctors don’t make twice as much after expenses than Kenney’s “tour manager” or “director of talent”, I’m gonna be pretty pissed. Let Kenney set up his own drum kit (or whatever the tour manager does)
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@jkenney Can we vote on whether or not you can steal pensions? Or give away our watersheds to foreign coal companies? Or fire an elections commissioner investigating yourself? Or sell off our parks? Or gamble billions on longshot special interests? Or remove protections for LGBTQ youths?
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3 years
@jkenney You literally wrote a letter to him asking for help to stop the blockades that were costing Alberta $100’s of millions. Blockades that you did absolutely nothing about. That your own MP’s provoked. He stopped them. And those of us not on the donors list are happy about that.
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Bryan Versteeg
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@sunlorrie Billions of dollars spent on cancer research, still haven’t cured it. I guess we just give up eh? Should we stop trying everything that’s hard or only the things that you can make cheap political points on?
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4 years
@jkenney What would be really concerning is if you bet 7.5 billion that it wouldn’t happen.
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2 years
A photogrammetry scan of one of my gaming tables overlayed on any surface so that I can bring the layout with me to other tables. Buildings are 3D printed and hand painted. #TTRPGs #Photogrammetry #AR #VR @Metascan3D
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
@maxfawcett If they think the vaccine could be harmful, wait till they find out what concussions do.
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
@jkenney Increasing production while shedding jobs because of automation. You didn’t campaign on production, you campaigned on jobs. What is it you are championing right now besides profits for those you’ve slashed taxes for?
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@jkenney Albertans needs a break? So you cut a source of government revenue to create a gap in the budget that you’ll use to explain further cuts to AISH, education, rural healthcare, instead of addressing the massive costs you’ve already downloaded to Albertans in every other area.
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
@jkenney @UAlberta @NobelPrize Hey, didn’t you slash U of A’s funding by hundreds of millions and now talk about “performance based funding” models? So does a Nobel get the cuts reversed?
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Bryan Versteeg
2 years
@Robotbeat I like human space flight because I dream big.
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@jkenney That’s it? It’s important? That’s all you have to offer? No new supports for teachers? No hiring back of any of the 20,000 Educational assistants and janitorial staff you laid off before school reopening. No new nothing? “Tidy up more”. That’s it?
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
@jkenney Alberta’s house is in on fire and you offered us oven mitts. No mask mandate or federal tracing app. Easy, and they would cost us nothing to implement.
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Bryan Versteeg
4 years
Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar To some it’s Christmas, Holidays for some. To some, it’s just winter. Whatever it is for you, I hope for you and yours, it’s wonderful! This is my family enjoying the seasonal effects of a boreal forest ecosystem within a 500m diameter cylinder.
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
A cross section through an agricultural level of a rotating space station. This is located at the 56m radius. #space #Hydroponics #conceptart
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3 years
@jkenney You talked about how we couldn't compromise, "... for an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the elderly, the immuno-compromised.” Now the people who are fighting any and all regulations, are quoting you. Your comments are the reason this is so difficult.
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Tis the season. Although we usually see temperate or tropical biomes in space settlements, I'd always liked the idea of bringing a Boreal forest with us. A 6-8 week winter. December through January, then into spring. This is a 250m radius cylinder.
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3 years
@blhalldritt @jkenney Great idea for lottery prizes. You could win your insurance rates lowered to where they were before the UCP. You could win an exemption from the new curriculum for your child’s school. Hundreds of prizes to make people’s lives better by eliminating the actions of the UCP.
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Bryan Versteeg
5 years
@doug_schweitzer @JustinTrudeau @nenshi @KayceeMaduYEG The most juvenile tweet from any Minister of Justice in our country today. You win. You know, tomorrows a new day. You don't have to win every day. Maybe tomorrow you act like an elected official representing THE people, not just YOUR people. Try to deserve your title.
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2 years
A drilling rig I've made that uses the same modular chassis as all of my vehicles. I scanned it using @Metascan3D and I can now import it into 3d programs, walk around it in VR, use the accuracy of the san to get measurements, or superimpose it into other scenes.
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3 years
@demetriosnAB So you don’t think that institutions should have the FREEDOM to proactively protect the people who work/learn in their facilities? You gonna make them take the “wash hands” signs out of washrooms too?
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3 years
@jkenney Tell this to the person who wrote the formula. Oh, you? …awkward.
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11 months
These renders are dated almost exactly 10 years ago. I'll do it a lot differently now. I called this one Hammer Station. It was 140 meters in diameter. The center wheel and hub are stationary, while the outside "hammers" spin.
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Bryan Versteeg
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To my new friends, I should introduce myself. I'm a conceptual designer mostly focused on space exploration. I also have 100's of hobbies, one of which is showing people how I do my hobbies. I play games (table and digital) VR, 3d print, paint, garden, build, and play some more.
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@IvisonJ You said, “we can do better”. Now you’re showing you can’t.
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Bryan Versteeg
3 years
@jkenney @NPowerCanada Welcome to pandemic capital of Canada where the premier will cut your ability to get paid overtime, negotiate your deal, protest unsafe working conditions. Said premiers been on vacation since he told us to stop testing and cases and hospital admissions have skyrocketed.
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4 years
@jkenney Some people advocate for moving some funding from police to social services that can handle specific societal problems more effectively. But not you. You’re slashing funding for both the police AND social services.
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3 years
@SPhillipsAB He’ll only put ballot questions that lure his voters. The pension question would draw the rest of us. He saw the passionate outcry against leaving the CPP, and knew it would work against his preferred candidates.
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Bryan Versteeg
2 years
@maxfawcett @RajanJSaw Provincially and federally, the conservatives don’t offer solutions, only “enemies”. You’ll never know what they plan to do, but you’ll always know who they hate. Look at all their posts. It can’t be coincidental.
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4 years
Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar After reading the book "Mining the Sky" by John S. Lewis, I was so intrigued by the possibilities of the solar systems resources, I spent months working on what asteroid mining could look like. Months turned to years. It's been gratifying effort.
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@jkenney @StolleryKids In 5 weeks almost half million unvaccinated children in Alberta go back to school and you’ve removed testing, tracing, or isolation when sick from our tools to keep them safe. If you cared about kids, you would be an entirely different human being than you actually are.
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@erin_allin You couldn't hire 13k teachers so you laid off 20k Education Assistance and janitorial staff? What was the thinking behind that? If you can't make it much better, might as well make it much worse?
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2 years
@jkenney How have things been going in Alberta since you removed protections?
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And just like that..... covid in #yeg wastewater is 1.5x higher than the Sept 26 peak and more than halfway back to the Jan 21 peak. Masks on. Stay safe. Remind yourself every dang day that this is NOT normal! #COVID19Ab
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@jkenney It would also be devastating if thousands of parents are required to take the winter off work because you did nothing to mitigate the risks in schools. In fact you cut schools budget and laid off 20k education staff that might have helped. You literally did worse than nothing.
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2 years
Powdering on the paths. #3dprinting #mars #art
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I’m building a collection of Mars settlement models and having a blast designing and building various dome layouts. It’s fun because they can be anything. Gardens, farms, water slides, basketball court, sidewalk cafe. #garden #model
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4 years
@demetriosnAB @WBFinTrades You KNOW that one of the reasons women were disproportionately effected was because of lack of childcare. You KNOW that. We know you know that. Your government has done nothing to address that. Nothing at all.
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3 years
@jkenney Attacked by who? Bigfoot?
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4 years
Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar A panorama. The “ground” has a circumference of around 1.5 kilometers. Population density equivalent to that of a small rural town. Ample park space and completely climate controlled. #space #conceptart #artistsontwitter
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@smartereveryday I want to convince millions of people they might one day want to live in space. People who previously didn't think it could be for them. I want them to say, "that doesn't look so bad". Then WHAM! Next thing you know, a whole generation of engineers and scientists figure it out.
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@CooperZurad Personally, I like the 500m in diameter and 325m long variations. Been working on those proportions for over a decade. Since the light is projected, we could match the 24hr cycle and sync it with any region on Earth that we'd like.
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I enjoy flying through the many passes that I create to identify different elements within a scene. I feel like I'm putting surreal glasses on. It's like I'm augmenting a reality. Not THE reality, just A reality.
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@jkenney Between the spring and now, you spent the summer comparing COVID19 to a bad flu that only effects old people. Now your supporters are weaponizing that language against any attempts for mitigation of the spread. Alberta’s current rates are the least surprising thing about 2020.
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@jkenney “Hot spot”? The entire province is a hot spot. Why is Alberta’s situation so much worse than the rest of North America?
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@LukaszukAB @jkenney For context, this is early November. Absolutely EVERYONE could see that that the trendlines were going in the wrong direction. Kenney looked a these numbers and decided to stay the course. We are not talking about "hindsight". He was willfully ignoring data.
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2 years
This one has been on the drawing board for years. Finally got around to finishing it. Quite happy that it’ll be in the collection of Dr. Zubrin. Prototype #35 . “Zubrin Base”.
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Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin received a Mars base model for his 70th birthday from senior Mars Society staff. The design was made by Bryan Versteeg of @spacehabs 🇨🇦. No surprise here - Robert loved it! On to Mars! #humanstomars #marsbase
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@jkenney Every day that you delayed imposing restrictions while our COVID rate skyrocketed, cost us lives. We’re still breaking records for deaths in a day because you refused to be a leader. Now you’re upset that the feds can’t bail us out fast enough? Your “concern” is 3 months too late
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Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar A world in a box. 8”x2.5”. #mars #3dprinting #miniatures
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@ABDanielleSmith Despite O&G increasing production almost every year, it employs fewer people almost every year. With automation, those jobs are not coming back. Jobs in renewables keeps growing. Go to where the puck will be, not where it was. The writing is on the wall.
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@jkenney We’ve been saying this all along: Kenney has been trying to sell our environmental, human rights, and labor standards to the world while actively undermining each of them.
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@jkenney Nobody is debating that students and parents would prefer in person learning which is why it’s everyone is so angry that you’ve implemented zero measures to make it work. No masks, tests, ventilation, or reporting. If you WANTED kids/teachers to get sick, this is what you’d do.
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@QuirkyGirl69 @demetriosnAB @demetriosnAB You didn't knock on my door before the election but one of your volunteers did. I mentioned my concerns about Kenney's apparent disdain for public healthcare and education, and she told me you'd be an advocate for both. Was she lying to me, or were you lying to her?
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3 years
@jkenney No, the clear majority of voters didn’t even care enough about the issue to vote.
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4 years
@TheBlueGem3 Alberta is a cautionary tale because O'Toole would do the same things federally. Obstruct public healthcare, education, parks, workers rights, environmental regulations, social programs in favor of private and corporate welfare. We should make O'Toole answer for Kenney's UCP.
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This is a small one. Only a 75m radius. Population around 2000. Designed to serve a Research/University type function. Stays of 6 months to 2 years.
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@jkenney It’s not a production cap, it’s an emissions cap. Something that industry has proposed itself. You are literally the only one fighting it.
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2 years
Merry Christmas. From my family to yours! 250m radius. Boreal biome.
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@jkenney So is this where Albertans can tell you that endangering our water supply for 1% royalty on coal mining isn’t worth it? To not sell off our parks? Keep your hands off the pensions? Stop cutting AISH? Fire your highly paid internet trolls?
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4 years
@Robotbeat I did an annotated section of one of the cylinders that was based on the Kalpana One dimensions so I could more clearly illustrate the layout. Hard to describe "upper floors" and "lower floors" when its all just round.
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Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar My boys work. I love drawing with my son and thoroughly enjoy every mark he puts on paper. This is a 5 year olds dinosaur. The only thing more satisfying than creating to me, is watching my son do it.
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@jkenney Cuts $100’s of millions in funding quietly, holds press conference to announce $10’s of millions in “new” funding. So... ...thanks?
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My favorite part of spring is the gardening. It’s some of the most rewarding labor I’ve ever spent. Physically, mentally, emotionally, with a payback that lasts years. It feels like spring. So I’m gardening.
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@jkenney Please don’t talk about Calgary’s transmission rates after the Stampede! Eh, Jason? Am I close?
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Bryan Versteeg
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@WBrettWilson @gmbutts You keep telling everyone to look at Ottawa as our own Premier is burning Alberta to the ground. "Look! they have matches!!", says the guy emptying the jerry can.
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@gthomsonink "The maneuver should save $1 million in the next five years, Toews said." He didn't specify if that $1 million was from UCP fines or administrative costs.
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