Karen Berger

To the people who are still talking about how Canada is "not taking Alberta seriously" -- what on earth are you talking about? The PM is an Albertan. The leader of the opposition is an Albertan. Our national politics revolve around Alberta's interests and concerns. What else do you want?

The covered COVID vaccines are not available at the moment. I’m in the queue for corneal tissue transplant surgery & need both flu & C19 asap. I can get paid C19 today which i hope my insurance will cover. I had to call a lot of places to get it. I’d qualify for C19 but supply seems to be rationed.

📣 Dear #UCP, The vote today in #Alberta? What a massive, massive, massive waste of resources and taxpayers' money. What a hate-mongering debacle. What a lie-infused polarizing clusterf*ck. Shame. On. You. 😡

TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Say no to her discriminatory referendum. Join me and sign up here. ouralbertaadvantage.ca

"Believe it or not, the planks of the UCP’s winning 2023 campaign platform were tax cuts, safe streets, mental health supports, education and career training, investing in tourism, improving healthcare for women and children, and a guarantee to maintain public healthcare." UCP hid their agenda.

Among Canada's pollsters, separatism in Alberta seems to be going nowhere for the time being

Today Danielle Smith became, the third Premier in Canada’s history to put a question on breaking up our country to a referendum. The other two Premiers were leaders of a Quebec separatist party and had a mandate to do so. Not the way I’d like to be remembered. #ableg #cdnpoli #Yeg #Yyc

Even after today's announcement, my four questions still stand. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Now we know. Smith committed to give separatists a referendum. She pre-recorded her tomorrow’s TV address, before the Legislature committee had a chance to vote on the #ForeverCanadian petition. UCP sent out a press release on a vote that didn’t happen, while they supposedly listened to me #ableg

As an Albertan, I'm embarrassed and angry. As an analyst, I'm torn.

#wakeupalberta #abpoli All the more reason why the referendum must be scrapped, it's just a lot of corruption and foreign influence tied with a severely incompetent premier and corrupt #UCP

This is absolute corruption, in case anyone was wondering. At no point should elected officials be involved designing their own electoral boundaries. Especially in their own favour. Win by doing a good job, not by stealing the voices of the electorate.

The UCP would win re-election today under the current existing boundaries that were drawn in 2017 and the majority report’s map, but the minority report’s map would make it basically impossible for the NDP to ever win in enough ridings to form a majority government — and that’s the point.

Annotated version of the Alberta Government Revenue vs Expenses chart showing some significant costs. #ABpoli #ABleg

Imagine having SIX times the resource revenue and still ending up with a larger deficit than when Alberta's New Democrats were in power. How embarrassing.

My latest: because one national unity crisis wasn't enough, Danielle Smith has decided to provoke another one —all, of course, in the name of placating the separatists that run her party. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/20/o...

Net migration in Alberta. Up, up, up, down, down, down. Net international migration to Alberta totalled 197 in Q3 2025, down 99% from 32,046 in the same quarter a year prior.

Alberta's Bill 11 puts Canadian medicare at risk. By @alonghurst.bsky.social #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

No clue who she thinks she's hurting with this threat, but it amounts to a direct attack on Albertans' access to justice. If Premier Smith wants to choose senior judges, she should run for prime minister. globalnews.ca/news/1165081...

I'm here for other premiers shaming Danielle Smith on her separatist bullshit, whether it's Wab Kinews sarcastic take or Doug Ford's earnest, slightly bullying stance. We need this from every mayor and MLA in Alberta as well.

Alberta will always be a part of Canada. Full stop. @mark-carney.bsky.social

Alberta separatists lobbying Trump’s people to break up Canada isn’t “grievance,” it’s betrayal. You don’t get to call yourself Canadian while asking a foreign power to tear the country apart. #Canada #ABPoli #Treason #CDNPoli #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AbxZ6QcEkRYC...

Here's a plain-spoken and accessible editorial - based in part on @reuters.com reporting - that outlines how much Donald Trump has enriched himself since taking power, and why that's so dangerous for democracy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Man conducts regime change in his neighborhood in the spirit of Trump's takeover of Venezuela

People keep asking "why didn't the triage nurse put a pt with chest pain in a care space immediately?" Let me simplify our current ED triage state in the face of SEVERE SYTEM OVERCROWDING threadreaderapp.com/... 1 open bed and 30-50 w serious complaints = an impossible choice

Seeing more and more weighing in about how the GNH Triage nurse/ED team should be held to personal account makes me realize that the avg AB just doesn’t understand what an utter dumpster fire our major EDs have been for months/yrs. 1/9

He has no mandate or right to do this.

Rath is a POS traitor to Alberta and Canada. He should really stay in Washington and rid us of his stupidity

On today’s episode of “the premiers office is just openly lying to you”… The premiers office is openly lying to you. No kids were getting irreversible changes without parental consent. All Bruce has is anger and lies it seems. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years. The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:

Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government. @abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/government...

Fun to see some campaigning happening for this year’s Best of Alberta Politics survey. Also, Daveberta now has more than 8,000 subscribers. 🤠👍 Voting is open until Dec 2: daveberta.substack.com/p/vote-for-t...

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Good morning. If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans. Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures. #ableg

"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Danielle Smith hates people who have Disabilities, that's why she is making their lives a living hell 🤬 #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #yql

'Whatever This Is' is back, and we're starting with a doozy. We unpack Canada's fast lane to authoritarianism—The Notwithstanding Clause. Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli

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$500 a day fines to teachers? $500,000 a day to the union? This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

I'm the next few days, it would be a mistake to: ❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education ❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.

Remember that the Alberta government plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause AGAIN this week to erase the right of trans youth to seek life-saving, evidence-based medical care. No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency. transactionalberta.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9V2...