Why are journalists still amplifying the separatists' 300,000 signature number? Even in pieces like this. The separatist talking point was concocted by a man with a passing familiarity with truth in numbers. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

First a referendum on independence. Now a constitutional amendment to limit s35. Is Premier Smith deliberately sabotaging her own pipeline bid by threatening to remove treaty rights? Or are her advisors just that naive? nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

A “clear” question: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” Yes! Wait: No! Yes? Yes AND No?

I stand with the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation! #ABPoli #ABLeg #ABusesOfPower

"You can't light a fire and then claim you're not responsible for the smoke." Legendary entrepreneur @arlenedickinson.bsky.social says Premier Danielle Smith is fuelling separatist sentiment in Alberta. Do you agree with her? 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/052026Arlene 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/052026 #RealTalkRJ

The UCP's incompetence is only overshadowed by their sheer arrogance. This is "democracy" according to the UCP - stage-managing outcomes while pretending they're listening to Albertans. Alberta - you deserve better. #abpoli

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

The moment calls for another flowchart from @jlisayoung.bsky.social! Lisa is right: the most likely scenarios flow to a showdown at the UCP AGM followed by a Forever Canadian referendum. Makes you wonder why she'd bother calling a referendum at all, then. open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

Pandora's Caucus

#Lethbridge City Council wasn’t truthful. The UCP will no longer fund integrates services. How did some council members deal with this debate & the community fallout? By claiming they were being bullied by residents looking for answers. Or by lashing out & name calling to kill debate. /1 #YQL #AB

Among hard-core Alberta separatists, the level of contempt for courts and hate for Indigenous people is palpable following yesterday's ruling. This is going to be an ugly summer. Reasonable Albertans will need to stand up for the constitution and treaties. Staying silent is being complicit.+

How Albertans feel about the referenda…it ain’t good.

Understand this Lethbridge: Integrated service: if you need an ambulance and one is not available, fire can show up with the proper training and life-saving equipment. What’s coming: if you need an ambulance and one is not available… you wait. Not “fear mongering.” Just the new reality!

So depressing.. Calgary & Edmonton were both showing others how to establish cycling networks.. all at once. And both are incredibly successful. The Alberta government demonstrates willful ignorance on a daily basis. (As well as the gleeful pundits egging them on)

If you don’t “feel qualified” to understand or consider public policy, you shouldn’t be sitting on City Council. Just saying …

Here's a link that is not behind a paywall. archive.ph/5wZ8o

12:30 today (Tuesday Nay 12) at City Hall (910 4th Ave S). In theory, the debate/vote should be early on the Agenda. Come and show your support for life-saving care in Lethbridge!

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Scoop! Emails obtained by The Breakdown reveal a $1,000,000 funding cut to social safety net organization "The Alex" resulting in decreased programming and multiple job losses. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #YYC open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

#Alberta #Separation is not possible and is a really stupid idea politically, economically, environmentally, socially, and #firstnations hold most of the cards! youtu.be/0OT2IQSoVEs?...

Last night in the ER: 💊 patient with a heart arrhythmia hadn’t been able to afford his medication for months 🦷 patient’s 4th visit for a tooth infection and couldn’t afford surgery @mark-carney.bsky.social this is preventable suffering and disability without adequate #dental & #pharmacare.

I guess we can strike “Rule of Law” off the list of ‘Democratic principles still functioning in Alberta.’ #ABPoli #ABLeg #ABuseOfPower

A UCP staffer's involvement in David Parker's presentation — using potentially improperly obtained voter data to dox Jason Kenney — may have been deeper than the party has so far admitted, digital signs suggest.

Yup. We’re in the centre.

Great commentary! lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/o...

Mitch Silvestre on Alberta separation: "Our constitution, it says that you're going to have to be born in Alberta to become a citizen...so we're going to have to get those girls making more babies."

“The letters were sent to 23 people that the Centurion Project, a separatist group, identified as having received a voters list from Centurion. The letters also were sent to another 545 people that were identified as having accessed the list.” 23 people have a voters list. Where are the lists now?

It’s great news that the Privacy Commissioner has initiated an investigation into Centurion Project and their (illegal) use of the voter registry. What about the “23 individuals” that Elections Alberta has identified who have access to the list? Are they next? #ABPoli #ABleg #ABuseOfPower

S163 of the Election Act makes it an offence for a person to use information obtained from the register of electors for a purpose other than that listed in the Act. The penalty for contravening the Act is a fine up to $100K or jail for up to 1 year OR a fine and jail. The Great Awakening, indeed!

Wherein Martin Belanger, host of a flagship Western Standard show, apparently confirms that he simultaneously had access to the electors list while collecting signatures for the separatist petition. That should be the end of that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"Government has failed miserably." Former major crimes investigator Neil LeMay warns Alberta’s voter data breach could fuel organized crime and mass fraud, blaming weak laws and RCMP cuts. What should happen next? 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/050726Neil 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/050726 #abpoli #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

Well ... let's be honest here: This is simply a list of well-trained, highly respected professionals who have studied, teach, and research issues of public policy, electoral integrity, data safety, Responsible Government, populism, Rule of Law, the Constitution, The Charter ... What do THEY know?

This is more than enough justification to hold a public inquiry.

Support this “call” any way you can! #ABLeg #ABPoli #IncapABle

I see nothing about immigrants, a provincial police force, an APP, municipal overreach, ending AHS, halting renewable energy, relaxing environmental rules, reducing AISH/PDD funds… Nothing about a separatist agenda either. It’s almost like they are doing things we didn’t give permission to do!

… and perhaps the “Elections Alberta” header and logo … Again, a “good” researcher.

"Smith said that the staffer ... regularly does research for caucus but she insisted that there was no way he could've known it was an official voter list from Elections Alberta." A good researcher would recognize a data breach by seeing personal addresses and phone numbers. A "good" researcher.

Every inch we give on our values, ethics and laws is an inch we may never get back. So, hold the line.

Nailed it!

“Canada’s cognitive sovereignty — the ability of Canadians to make political decisions freely, without foreign coercion or manipulation — is not simply under threat; it is being actively contested by foreign actors seeking to shape Canada’s democratic future.” disinfowatch.org/wp-content/u...

Now do Danielle Smith!

✊ While Ontarians protest in 60+ cities today Doug Ford is somewhere above it all. 🛫 Gravy Plane out now on Spotify. 👇 open.spotify.com/track/59iGn4... #cdnpoli #onpoli #FightFord

Yep! Totally! I don’t begrudge the industry their revenues, but we have to be honest about the relationship between energy and climate. #CDNPoli

JUST received ours in the mail!! I'm setting aside time today to complete it. #YAY

People being excited to fill out the census feels like an underrated part of Stephen Harper's legacy.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #yeg #ableg

Quite honestly, I would like city council to stand up, look at city residents in their eyeballs, and explain that they can afford event centers, airport improvements, and money to fight grasshoppers and Fox tails, etc. but not emergency personnel who are already overworked and stretched too thin.

1/ The myth: cutting integrated EMS saves #Lethbridge taxpayers money. The reality: we pay for it anyway. Here's how, #yql! 🧵

👀 We will have a lot more questions than answers about this unfolding story and what it means for Albertans’ privacy this week, but the five questions that immediately popped into my mind over the last few days are: daveberta.substack.com/p/largest-pr...

Will #Lethbridge City Council, specifically Mayor Hyggen & Councillors Beeber, Dodic, Wolfe & Campbell, vote to blow up our integrated Fire & EMS service today? The meeting starts at City Hall at 1:30 pm & it is open to the public. What's the story & the potential ramifications? 👇👇 #yql