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These columns by Andrew Nikiforuk and Don Braid are the most scathing indictments of a politician in Alberta that I have ever seen. Resign, Danielle Smith. Resign via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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"I'm going to keep feeding you grievance porn but you need to believe in Canada and our capacity to make them give us what we want." What utter fucking bilge.

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with 0 polls reporting and 0% of votes counted, I am confidently calling this all a bunch of vaporous theatrical nonsense that cost us tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars of public money which should have gone to the fucking hospitals

If the Alberta Government wanted people to understand the realities of equalization, both sides, they could make it happen. Misunderstanding works in their favour. They want you angry. Think about that. #abpoli #ForeverCanadian

How we got here --> where we're going Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cleared legislative hurdles for the separatists and amplified their message. Now, these activists - the ones who brought her to power - want to bring her down. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Speaking as an Albertan, I cannot roll my eyes hard enough every time someone insists that Albertans are a separate people because of their "work ethic" and "entrepreneurial spirit," as though it was their hard work and ingenuity that put the oil in the ground in the first place.

More than half of Alberta doctors say they would leave the province if Alberta separates from Canada: AMA survey www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...

Mitch Sylvestre: "I went to the US...I actually met with the Premier that very day & told them that we were going there to talk..." Premier's Office: "The Premier is not affiliated with these individuals' activities & has no knowledge of these alleged meetings." #abpoli

Should Danielle Smith be able to order your local council to vote to approve rezoning for a massive AI data centre? And threaten to fire your democratically elected mayor if they vote against it? This latest provincial overreach isn't about density. It's about your legal right to a fair hearing.

An organization barring media from covering “the most important free speech event of the year” is chef’s [redacted]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

This is why Smith want's to gerrymander the ridings to cut the urban vote in the next election #ableg #abpoli 338canada.com/alberta/2026...

Very interesting piece/take by the esteemed Andrew Leach. TL;DR (but you should!) version: one of her proposed constitutional amendments would make it *harder* to build pipelines, not easier. It might, in fact, give a progressive BC government a veto over them. leach.substack.com/p/is-daniell...

US Republican organizers are in Alberta to help separatists mobilize their vote. They’re not even hiding it. They are openly working for the national interest of the United States. Cast your vote for Canada. Reject these treasonous imposters. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

For the sake of basic accuracy, shouldn't the lede say Smith recounted a long list of what she claimed were historic indignities. Or has Canadian Press decided Albertans have suffered at the hands of the federal government? Basic journalism failure here. Sheesh.

At best, the Elections Alberta is an underfunded, over-employed shambles. At worst, it was responding to government pressure to ensure a desired outcome. If the latter, it’s a 5-alarm fire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The ABSOLUTE GALL of Danielle Smith trying to paint the Alberta NDP as poor money managers. The UCP brass are the worst money managers this province has ever seen. They're rolling in money, but year after year, they piss it all away, while Albertans struggle. #ableg #cdnpoli

Something very Canadian about this quote from Angine de Poitrine’s Klek: “It’s only music. I’m not saving people’s lives. I’m just playing drums. One comment on KEXP said: ‘Now there’s a reason to live.’ I was like: calm down, man. Go kiss your mother or something – that’s a reason to live.”

Fuck Todd Loewen. He's a bloodthirsty evil murderer of wildlife. Sickening.

A Parliamentary committee should convene next week and issue a legal summons to the executives of Google Canada to explain why they are actively undermining our sovereignty. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

Live at MapQuest Headquarters:

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

Firing a commissioner over numbers you don't like is bad. But it's the visible part, easy to call out.⁣ ⁣ That points to the loss of a shared source of truth. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-the-bls-guardrails-held-and-the

And Danielle Smith acts like it every day too.

We’re not changing it.

Smith has never been Alberta first, or Alberta only, because she doesn't care about Albertans She is an agent of chaos, just like her buddy Trump She is incapable of responsibility or compassion either as a provincial leader or a human being #ableg #abpoli

We aren’t just in a trade war. We are in an info war, too. This isn’t something we are normally good at due to our reflexive secrecy. But we need to win. That means going on the attack. Right now. Tell the world EXACTLY what happened. My latest in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Always a good reminder from David Cochrane. “America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is” — David Cochrane CBC Power and Politics

Great takedown of Smith and the UCP's lies on data centres. "Again, not true. In fact, your government passed a raft of AI fast-tracking laws in 2025 to incentivize this industry after listening to lobbyists." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

“Given the desperate tone of your nine-minute sales pitch, it’s pretty obvious you’re stuck with a thorny political problem that is squarely of your own making.” Andrew Nikiforuk has some notes for Premier Danielle Smith’s latest data centre video. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

I’m fine with this. My buying behaviour, meanwhile, has been forever altered. Win win. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

Hiring temporary foreign workers and new immigrants to run Danielle Smith’s racist referendum would be peak Alberta UCP separatist at this point. #Canada #Alberta #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg

Dear @ucalgary.bsky.social As an alumni, I would like to know why the university scrubbed a report on AI data centre power and water usage from its website? Links is dead here and barely visible on wayback machine. cabinradio.ca/295061/news/...

Ha! Province that wants to be an independent country lacks the means to run a referendum on sovereignty.

UCP OFFLOADS RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY ONTO MUNICIPALITIES AND FIRST RESPONDERS #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta man planning protests against data centres as province announces town halls (Alberta)