Since there's a few bad faith separatist snowflakes predictably manufacturing outrage by weaponizing clips out of context... Here's the full clip of @duanebratt.bsky.social's response. It wasn't calling anyone racist. It was pointing out that minorities of all types exist. #abpoli

If you want to see the most important segment from last nights WS debate, this is it right here. Dr Bratt addresses and contextualizes the grievances around Senate Reform, the real situation with underrepresentation in Ottawa and more! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I did not have “Japan is a sleeper cell” on my bingo card.

"Let the separatist cowboys have their costumes. Let them pound the bar, or promise miracle cures or gold beyond the next hill. We have a phrase for that in my family: all hat, no cattle." My latest for LeadNotLeave.ca. www.readtheline.ca/p/jared-wesl...

We will open at 1pm today!!

When a statistical expert calls out your shit. 🫢

“We are confident in our process, which was validated by government statistical experts.”

For clarity: you're saying that the one creature wasn't able to provide for itself, so another provided for it from the common goods? Hmm. Imagine that. And WE are the "advanced species."

Having rather fond thoughts of Belgium tonight. Not sure why.

Guessing ICE has arrested and is deporting the BEL-USA ref to El Salvador as we speak! #WorldCup

Reupping this announcement. We are now at 50% of capacity. If you want to come to this event, click the link below.

Sure. Put US liquor on the shelf. Still not going to buy it. #ElbowsUp

So, if we have enough (taxpayers') money for a pipeline to Vancouver, and a pipeline to Sarnia, and a high-speed train from Calgary to Edmonton, could we please have a new hospital in south Edmonton? (Asking for some taxpayers).

Wow! First a publicly funded pipeline with AB/Feds, and now a publicly funded pipeline with AB/ON. I never thought that as a regular taxpayer, I’d become an oil baron!! Embracing the mantra “No taxation without pipelines.”

This is a significant and positive shift!

Alberta Advantage? My current natural gas plan is with ATCO and is a wholesale floating rate that works out to $1.825/GJ My 3 years is up in September and ATCO wants me to switch to a fixed price of $3.98/GJ Dani is willing to give me $100 to help with affordability. Utility rhymes with futility 😳

Terry Newman has the Freedom to leave Canada. No one is oppressing him to stay. #Canada

In the “Diplomatic Relations” section of my Intro to Politics course, I’m going to have to add the term “persona non grata.”

Day 35 Albania: Tonight, Tirana's streets fill again — thousands demanding Rama's resignation, month after month, undeterred by tear gas. Meanwhile in the US, "8647" stays coded, quiet, almost timid by comparison.

What I’ve learned from watching the #WorldCup …

With a municipal election pending, perhaps this councillor needs a reminder of electoral math: Thousands of non-developer voters - developers = Thousands of non-developer voters. #MathIsHard #TOPoli #Ward13

Reupping this. The first TransMountain pipeline won't pay back the billions of taxpayer dollars that funded it. How will a second pipeline? Is Trans Mountain's Profitability an Accounting Illusion? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

On at Galt Gardens until 5pm! Afro-Caribbean Festival hosted by Southern Alberta Ethnic Association! This is what #brightertogetheryql looks like! #lethbridge #yqljenn #yql

It’s too bad the City of Toronto doesn’t have any extensive literature about how putting more people on the street increases safety and grows community, lowering the need for police enforcement. Nope. Nothing written by a former TO resident whose works are referenced world wide! #JaneJacobs

Alternatively: "What we really need is... ...a wind-down of the fossil fuel industry in this province and across Canada, and investment in renewable energy, which Alberta could deliver in spades. We need to do this not only for environmental reason, but also... ...for good economic reasons.” 🌎

My latest: Mark Carney knows the biggest impediment to a new west coast pipeline is basic economics, and he's not going to let his government or country take the inevitable blame. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/03/o...

*deep sigh* AI isn’t going to destroy us; LI is! LI - Lack of Intelligence

Anyone who actually believes this is not only kidding themselves, they're full-on delusional. In no way can Alberta both lower taxes and pay for all of the things an independent country needs to on oil money alone, especially once we're back in a supply glut. Honestly... thelogic.co/news/the-big...

This is a lie that Alberta has repeatedly told itself. The NEP didn't cause an oil shock. The global oil market went into a supply glut at the same time and prices crashed, but rather than blame those factors, they chose to blame Pierre Trudeau and created a mythology out of it. Same again in 2014.

Alberta and Ottawa said any new pipeline would be privately funded. Today that promise was broken: a private company will cover just 10%. Taxpayers will front up tens of billions of dollars. If oil exports are such an economic opportunity for Canada, why won’t companies invest? buff.ly/Ao6yGt3

“power costs for government and school facilities would rise by nearly 25 percent starting July 1, adding an estimated $5 million in the next fiscal year.” Albertans will be on the hook for their personal AND provincial/local government power costs. Policies have consequences. #ABsurd

If you've ever thought about running for politics, you need to listen to the latest episode of Balance Of Power. Full of good advice & info from @sphillipsab.bsky.social & Leah Ward. Find it wherever you get your podcasts: Balance of Power share.google/Flow2tkdmloF... #ableg #yyccc

Are the public welcome?! Asking for 5M friends (some of them scared, many of them angry). #ABPoli #ABLeg

Are the (now) former AISH recipients invited to the announcement as funders of this (government funded) pipeline? #ABPoli #ABLeg

What we need are elected officials who are “effective” at “flooding the zone” with Common Goods like strengthening healthcare, improving social services, protecting the environment… people who will make us dizzy with positivity, not the disheartening bad policies we see now. #Hope #FightLikeHell

“I’m sure they are counting on people either not applying or giving up in the process.” That’s the philosophy they are using with the AISH to ADAP transition so … that tracks! #ABhorrentGovernance #ABuseOfPower #ABsurdLeadership

There are fewer elected leaders working for the Public Commons and the common good. Instead, leaders are serving power, money, and dogmatic ideology. This has to end. Now.

Today's the day candidates begin registering for election in #winnipeg. So far 3 sitting cllrs have decided that time is up. What we need is real leadership for our city. We are too quick to accept mediocrity. Looking forward to a better conversation! #wpgpoli open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...

Remember that skeet I made at 7:59PM tonight? The one about ER wait times, where I said “My level of disappointment and frustration with the provincial government is beyond anything I’ve felt.”? My level of disappointment and frustration with the AB government is well beyond that now. #MadAsHell

Pray to any deity you know that you don’t need emergency care in Edmonton, right now. My level of disappointment and frustration with the provincial government is beyond anything I’ve felt.

$1.708B of taxpayer funds on things not even UCP voters voted for?!?!? UCP governance is the epitome of a kakistocracy!

“I will not spend my one life proving to the Government of Alberta that I have a right to exist on terms it had no business setting.” That’s exactly what most disabled face: one (already challenged) Life proving they have the Right to exist. Please read and repost!

My conversation with CBC’s Lyndsay Duncombe about 24 Sussex is now online, for 7 days only. The segment is at 1:01:20. This competition could be an exciting process, with a transformational result. Let the debates begin! gem.cbc.ca/hanomansing-...

If we want to make a difference for our fellow citizens and ourselves, we can vote with our wallets. I, for one, will never buy anything Telus is selling.

Alternative headline: Why are UCP MLAs, elected on a promise not to privatize surgical services, allowing the premier's office to override their constituents' expressed interests?

On last nights open mic we talked about a lot of different issues, but the UCP's indifference to the harm that they are causing disabled Albertans definitely was a central theme. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

It’s amazing what people can learn when they read ALL of the sections of an Act! Reality is much different when you consider the entirety of the legal framework. It would be like taking a religious text and only adhering to certain parts of … oh: wait.

This should be front page news Albertans are being put a through a hellish referendum because Smith & the UCP want a certain outcome And they are manipulating the questions to get what they want IMO, this should also be criminal #ableg #abpoli #Alberta

And THERE we go: there's the purpose to causing such widespread harm to disabled folks. Always, always follow the money. I wonder which UCP folks these CEOs just happen to be pals with? #abpoli #aish #adap #disability www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

At least the AKG Canada site has less “military industrial complex” feeling to it! akgcanada.ca AKG’s parent company is in Australia. So … people assigned to ADAP will be working in the mining industry? 🤷🏽