David J. Climenhaga

albertapolitics.caHas Danielle Smith just relegated the UCP to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? - Alberta PoliticsHas Danielle Smith just relegated the United Conservative Party to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? This is not yet clear, but it’s sure starting to look as if it could happen. Thanks ...

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Has Danielle Smith just relegated the UCP to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/has-...

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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

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It would be deeply ironic if the election of a BC Conservative government, and the ensuing war with First Nations in that province, scuttled the oil pipeline so many Conservatives in BC claim to support.

albertapolitics.caConflicting claims about separatist leaders’ status with Alberta Prosperity Project swirl on social media - Alberta PoliticsAccording to social media posts last night by two prominent figures in the Alberta separation movement, the board of the Alberta Prosperity Project terminated Mitch Sylvestre as CEO and Jeffrey Rath a...

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Conflicting claims about separatist leaders’ status with Alberta Prosperity Project swirl on social media. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/conf...

albertapolitics.caDanielle Smith didn’t draw a line in the sand for UCP separatists, she instituted a gentle policy of ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’ - Alberta PoliticsListen carefully to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s post-referendum message to the members of her United Conservative Party and you will understand that she is not sternly drawing a line in the sand ...

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Danielle Smith didn’t draw a line in the sand for UCP separatists, she instituted a gentle policy of ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

albertapolitics.caDanielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on! - Alberta PoliticsStanding behind a blue coroplast sign reading “Stronger Alberta within a united Canada” – surely a big step down from the heady days of a “Sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” – Premier Danielle ...

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Danielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

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emi gennis

@imemi.bsky.social

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

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Jason Markusoff

@markusoff.bsky.social

Happy exactly one year from the Alberta provincial election day, to everyone who "celebrates"

albertapolitics.caThe crowd wanted to hear for themselves what Canada’s prime minister had to say – and they liked what they heard - Alberta PoliticsPrime Minister Mark Carney came to Alberta’s capital city Friday evening to say what he had to say about why Albertans need to vote to remain in Canada at a standing-room-only Forever Canadian rally i...

The crowd wanted to hear for themselves what Canada’s prime minister had to say – and they liked what they heard. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/the-...

albertapolitics.caThe crowd wanted to hear for themselves what Canada’s prime minister had to say – and they liked what they heard - Alberta PoliticsPrime Minister Mark Carney came to Alberta’s capital city Friday evening to say what he had to say about why Albertans need to vote to remain in Canada at a standing-room-only Forever Canadian rally i...

The crowd wanted to hear for themselves what Canada’s prime minister had to say – and they liked what they heard. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/the-...

albertapolitics.ca‘On Treason’ – an essential quick guide to the plots and politics of Alberta’s separation referendum - Alberta PoliticsCometh the hour, cometh the book! Actually, On Treason: Alberta Separatism, Foreign Interference, and Canada’s Survival in a Revolutionary Age is more than a little late. It rolled off the presses onl...

‘On Treason’ – an essential quick guide to the plots and politics of Alberta’s separation referendum. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/on-t...

albertapolitics.ca‘On Treason’ – an essential quick guide to the plots and politics of Alberta’s separation referendum - Alberta PoliticsCometh the hour, cometh the book! Actually, On Treason: Alberta Separatism, Foreign Interference, and Canada’s Survival in a Revolutionary Age is more than a little late. It rolled off the presses onl...

‘On Treason’ – an essential quick guide to the plots and politics of Alberta’s separation referendum. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/on-t... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

albertapolitics.caMark Carney expected in Calgary and Edmonton for pro-Canada rallies as advance referendum polling begins - Alberta PoliticsHats off to Thomas Lukaszuk and the Forever Canadian campaign for getting Prime Minister Mark Carney to agree to show up at the group’s remain-in-Canada rallies in Calgary and Edmonton tomorrow and Fr...

Mark Carney expected in Calgary and Edmonton for pro-Canada rallies as advance referendum polling begins. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/mark... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

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The Tyee

@thetyee.ca

thetyee.ca‘Defeat These Questions’: A Senator’s Fiery Rebuke to the UCP Referendum | The TyeePaula Simons stood to urge fellow Albertans to reject ‘a scurrilous smear campaign’ against newcomers.

Senator Paula Simons on the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum: "‘We can’t let the anti-immigrant, anti-migrant rhetoric of the toxic Trump regime colonize our imaginations and trick us into thinking that Alberta has an immigration problem when it doesn’t." #ABPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

albertapolitics.caAdvance in-person referendum voting begins today; lineups are likely, so bring a coat and warm shoes - Alberta PoliticsAdvance voting in Premier Danielle Smith’s needless and divisive separation referendum begins at 9 o’clock this morning. If Elections Alberta’s prediction that 80 to 85 per cent of the provincial elec...

Advance in-person referendum voting begins today; lineups are likely, so bring a coat and warm shoes. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/adva...

albertapolitics.caChief Electoral Officer tells third-party advertisers only registered political parties can have referendum scrutineers - Alberta PoliticsLeaders of pro-separation groups were complaining on social media yesterday about a decision communicated to them by Elections Alberta just after 5:30 p.m. advising them that third-party advertisers w...

Chief Electoral Officer tells third-party advertisers only registered political parties can have referendum scrutineers. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/chie...

albertapolitics.caDanielle Smith orders Edmonton City Council to drop its infill housing policy - Alberta PoliticsAlberta Premier Danielle Smith and her municipal affairs minister, Dan Williams, announced yesterday that their United Conservative Party Government will overrule Edmonton City Council’s infill housin...

Danielle Smith orders Edmonton City Council to drop its infill housing policy. Respect for local democracy? Forget about it! This isn’t a request from Alberta’s premier; it’s an order! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

albertapolitics.caIt’s no surprise that the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap - Alberta PoliticsIt’s no surprise the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks that Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. But it does clear the air to have it right out there, don’t you think? I speak of course of Elo...

It’s no surprise that the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/its-...

albertapolitics.caLess than 2 weeks to Danielle Smith’s separation referendum and the gong show continues - Alberta PoliticsWe’re less than two weeks out from the Oct. 19 separation vote that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was determined to put us all through come hell or high water and the election gong show continues una...

Less than 2 weeks to Danielle Smith’s separation referendum and the gong show continues. Elections Alberta says at least 3,000 mail-in ballots can’t be counted as received. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/less...

albertapolitics.caDanielle Smith knows nothing about those separatist ‘negotiations’ in D.C.? So what good is her ‘Top Secret’ security clearance? - Alberta PoliticsEarly last May, news media reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had been granted “Top Secret” security clearance. Really? A report in The Globe and Mail Saturday with new details about what a ...

Danielle Smith knows nothing about those separatist ‘negotiations’ in D.C.? So what good is her ‘Top Secret’ security clearance? albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

albertapolitics.caDanielle Smith knows nothing about those separatist ‘negotiations’ in D.C.? So what good is her ‘Top Secret’ security clearance? - Alberta PoliticsEarly last May, news media reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had been granted “Top Secret” security clearance. Really? A report The Globe and Mail Saturday with new details about what a gro...

Danielle Smith knows nothing about those separatist ‘negotiations’ in D.C.? So what good is her ‘Top Secret’ security clearance? albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

albertapolitics.caIt’s time to send Danielle Smith and the UCP a resounding message they’ll never forget: Yes to Canada! No to the Nine! - Alberta PoliticsQuite naturally, most of the focus by the groups hurriedly formed to support a remain-in-Canada vote in the separation referendum that has been aided, abetted and forced on Albertans by the United Con...

It’s time to send Danielle Smith and the UCP a resounding message they’ll never forget: Yes to Canada! No to the Nine! Guest post by Bradley Lafortune. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/its-...

albertapolitics.caOttawa designates Alberta’s latest bitumen pipeline to the Salish Sea a project of national interest - Alberta PoliticsHallelujah! Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Canadian government has designated Alberta’s next bitumen pipeline to the Salish Sea a project of national interest, big smiles all ’round – including,...

Ottawa designates Alberta’s latest bitumen pipeline to the Salish Sea a project of national interest. Rest easy in the knowledge God’s in His fossil-fuelled Heaven and all’s right with the Petrosphere! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/otta... #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli

albertapolitics.caFormerly confident Alberta separatists pivot to lamely pleading with voters to ‘send Ottawa a message’ - Alberta PoliticsHave you noticed how Alberta separatists who a few months ago were boldly predicting a massive separation victory on Oct. 19 have turned to whinging about how we need to “send Ottawa a message”? Even ...

Formerly confident Alberta separatists pivot to lamely pleading with voters to ‘send Ottawa a message.’ It’s starting to look like NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi was right when he challenged Danielle Smith to call a real referendum. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/form...

albertapolitics.caEverybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop - Alberta PoliticsIt’s a three-hour drive from Edmonton to Calgary – maybe less with Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen’s new higher speed limits. So does it really make sense to spend $38 billion or more t...

Everybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ever...

albertapolitics.caEverybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop - Alberta PoliticsIt’s a three-hour drive from Edmonton to Calgary – maybe less with Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen’s new higher speed limits. So does it really make sense to spend $38 billion or more t...

Everybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ever... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦

@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

parklandinstitute.caParkland InstituteParkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.

This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.

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joe

@shariauncle.bsky.social

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac...

Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/poli...

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Mark Ungrin

@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac...

Excellent coverage from @djclimenhaga.bsky.social.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

A reminder that this was not a question of 20/20 hindsight, or a legitimate scientific dispute. The N95 respirators that likely would have saved these workers' lives were required under the national standard (CAN/CSA-Z94.4),...

albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac...

Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/poli...

albertapolitics.caWhy are Calgary voters growing disaffected with the UCP? Is it Danielle Smith, or just her referendum? - Alberta PoliticsThe $64,000 Question, as they used to say, is whether urban voters in Alberta are growing disaffected with Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government because of Danielle Smith’s divisive separatio...

Why are Calgary voters growing disaffected with the UCP? Is it Danielle Smith, or just her referendum? albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/why-...

albertapolitics.caGuest post by Lorne Gibson: The voters list, scrutineers and the question of trust - Alberta PoliticsLorne Gibson has served both as Alberta’s chief electoral officer and its election commissioner. The latter position was created by the NDP Government of premier Rachel Notley in the spring of 2018 to...

Guest post by former Alberta chief electoral officer Lorne Gibson: The voters list, scrutineers and the question of trust. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/gues...

albertapolitics.caAbout that 13-cent fuel tax cut: UCP brain trust decides not to repeat its midsummer rebate bungle - Alberta PoliticsSay what you will about the big strategic brains behind Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, at least they didn’t repeat their midsummer “energy rebate” bungle. Mind you, they’re bringing ...

About that 13-cent fuel tax cut: UCP brain trust decides not to repeat its midsummer rebate bungle. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/abou...

albertapolitics.caAfter the referendum, Alberta will be angrier, more divided, more radicalized, and a worse place to invest - Alberta PoliticsWhatever happens on Oct. 19, the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith will have left Alberta a worse place than it was before the 10 referenda scheduled to be voted on that day. After ...

After the referendum, Alberta will be angrier, more divided, more radicalized, and a worse place to invest. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/afte...

albertapolitics.caUCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says - Alberta PoliticsThe United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a fundamental m...

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UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ucp-... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

albertapolitics.caUCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says - Alberta PoliticsThe United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a fundamental m...

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UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ucp-...

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Heather McPherson MP

@heathermcpherson.bsky.social

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Let’s be clear: Question 10 is separation. The other nine are a slow walk toward it. These racist questions divide Albertans and scapegoats immigrants. It’s shameful. That’s not the Alberta we should be building. No to the nine. Yes to Canada. 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Alberta’s shameless attempt to scapegoat immigrantsOpponents of secession have been vocal, but where are the people standing up for newcomers to the province?

albertapolitics.ca‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation - Alberta PoliticsAccording to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada yesterday as “Con...

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‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/hold...

albertapolitics.ca‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation - Alberta PoliticsAccording to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada yesterday as “Con...

20 Sept

‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/hold...

albertapolitics.caAs divisive separation vote nears, UCP suddenly changes voter list rules, hampering scrutineers - Alberta PoliticsAs Alberta careens toward a chaotic and divisive vote on separation seemingly drafted to discourage the United Conservative Party’s dominant separatist faction from trying to force Premier Danielle Sm...

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As divisive separation vote nears, UCP suddenly changes voter list rules, hampering scrutineers. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/as-d...

albertapolitics.caEven with no realistic scenario, ‘independent advisory panel’ couldn’t make Alberta separation look good - Alberta PoliticsAt the end of their exertions, even the reliable team of neoliberal apparatchiks assembled by Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite economist last June couldn’t come up with a “scenario” in which Alberta...

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Even with no realistic scenario, ‘independent advisory panel’ couldn’t make Alberta separation look good. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/even...

albertapolitics.caModest success of the Progressive Tory Party candidate in Calgary-Shaw may be bad omen for UCP - Alberta PoliticsOn the day of the Calgary-Shaw by-election, a photo began to appear on social media of United Conservative Party candidate Mike Derry’s campaign manager, Craig Chandler, planting signs begging Conserv...

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Modest success of the Progressive Tory Party candidate in Calgary-Shaw may be bad omen for UCP. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/mode...

albertapolitics.caNDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest - Alberta PoliticsAlberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the evening a...

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NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ndp-...

albertapolitics.caNDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest - Alberta PoliticsAlberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the evening a...

15 Sept

NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ndp-...

albertapolitics.caTomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? - Alberta PoliticsTomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith for its de...

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Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/tomo...

albertapolitics.caTomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? - Alberta PoliticsTomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith for its de...

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Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/tomo...

albertapolitics.caDespite UCP scheme to fuel AI data centres, there’s nothing wrong with Crown corporations - Alberta PoliticsAdmittedly, the revelation by The Narwhal yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is seriously pondering a scheme to create public corporations to build and operate pipelines to ...

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Despite UCP scheme to fuel AI data centres, there’s nothing wrong with Crown corporations. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/desp...