### Sheila Petzold

Sheila Petzold  
@sheilapetzold999134

Canadian, retired (sorta) Producer-Director. Worked for our public broadcaster, then as an independent Producer-director-writer before becoming Director of Communications for an international NGO supporting ecological agriculture.

Sheila Petzold  
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### Change Does Not Come for Free

[the 613](https://the613.substack.com/p/change-does-not-come-for-free)  
[Sheila Petzold](https://substack.com/@sheilapetzold999134) restacked

[Alex Munter](https://substack.com/@alexmunter)  
[Jun 12](https://substack.com/@alexmunter/note/c-275305233 "Jun 12, 2026, 6:42 PM")  
Poignant moment today at a roundtable about the new federal online harms bill at CHEO, Ottawa’s pediatric health and research centre.

Dr Michael Cheng has been a CHEO psychiatrist for over 20 years. Back then, kids hospitalized on a mental health unit wanted to know when their parents would be able to visit. Today, their first question is, “when can I get my phone back?”

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### Other Notes

[Sheila Petzold](https://substack.com/@sheilapetzold999134)  
[May 28](https://substack.com/@sheilapetzold999134/note/c-266509703 "May 28, 2026, 8:15 AM")  
This is why we need to get a handle on this: Alberta is subject to international interference and manipulation.

[Scott Robertson](https://substack.com/@sarobertson)  
[May 21](https://substack.com/@sarobertson/note/c-262988957 "May 21, 2026, 4:57 PM")  
Jen Gerson: The current polling suggests that support for separatism is somewhere around 30%. What I would remind people is that at one point Brexit only had 20-30% support.
  
Andrew Nichols on '95 referendum: That was before smartphones, social media. That was before overt interference by a hostile American administration.