This needs to be reiterated. Every chance we get. "Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa are mostly manufactured, always exaggerated and, often, completely illusory."

This is what "digital sovereignty" looks like, not the AI data centres Carnage is forcing on us in an obvious bubble. www.politico.eu/article/neth...

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Big thoughts after a game three loss for the Montreal Canadiens in this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1186359...

Canada must defend itself against America by building more oil pipelines for their majority-US owners while allowing the American government access to all our data — elbows up, right??? 🙄

They definitely should be found in contempt, and we definitely should be told who paid and/or is paying them. I would be shocked if our suspicions are not confirmed. We ask: "Who benefits?" And the list is very short. #CorruptCare

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He is 💯 correct. Danielle Smith is no patriot. She’s a self interested, Machiavellian politico who is married to a twisted & absurd ideology (that has proven to be entirely destructive in practice), & panders to seppies because without them, she would’ve never won the leadership. #ableg #cdnpoli

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That’s where I’m gonna shop 😀

Nice! @sproudfoot.bsky.social absolutely nails it with this analogy for Danielle Smith’s cynical, destructive, self-serving referendum question. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Smith's foray into politics was as a public school board trustee. Premier Klein was forced to disband the school board because it became so toxic. Smith has spent a lifetime breaking things. We must not let her wreck Alberta. Kick Smith and her band of lickspittles and hollow men to the curb.

The Canadiens Canes series is even after a lacklustre second game. After 15 exciting games, we were due for a lull. The Wilde Cards is a revisit of the Newhook trade to see who won that one. 😀 The Call Of the Wilde is written for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1186197...

This reminds me of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's great, horrifying story about how a town in Canada that had relied on a Facebook group for info was left adrift during a wildfire because Facebook had blocked news links. The woman who ran it was forced to screenshot stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Cops don't make anyone safe. More cops doesn't reduce crime and never has. By the way, the tools he wants to give the RCMP are insane breaches of your privacy rights.

Canada is underreacting. The Alberta separatist movement is a foreign state-sponsored terror operation organized by American’t Big Oil, possibly Big Tech and the CIA. Canada should treat the issue seriously, because it’s an attack on Canadian democracy.

It's a strange world when the Premier of the Province thinks that it's more important to give voice to maybe 20% of voters rather than the 80% who are satisfied with the status quo. The Premier may or may not be a separatist but she is certainly a deliberate enabler of separatism. #abpoli #cdnpoli

As to the agenda of the last decade? Again, we saw the first new oil pipeline to the west coast in 70 years and the first major LNG terminal -- the biggest energy project in Canadian history. Those have done the very opposite of "land-locking" Alberta's resources. This is Orwellian stuff.

Yeah this is just our local iteration of a strategy playing out globally: One where oil & gas interests are doing everything that they can to make the climate concerned *think* we are alone, so we stay silent and don't start talking with others: www.theguardian.com/environment/... We are the norm.

Vast majority of us don't want a provincial police force or a provincial pension plan either, but Smith doesn't fucking care. Danielle Smith is all about herself. If it helps her, she forces it on us. Separation is just one more thing she's shoving down our throats. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Remember when. "Immediately after the meeting in Edmonton, Smith issued a list of demands and said Carney risked an “unprecedented national unity crisis” if they were not met within six months of the April 28 election." thenarwhal.ca/alberta-trum...

Danielle is a liar, and is a danger to Alberta and Canada. “The misinformation is so profound that there is no redemption for such ignorance,” retired Mount Royal University political science professor Keith Brownsey commented in a conversation about the address last night.

Please consider registering with forever-canadian.ca (Thomas Lusaszuk was proponent of the Forever Canadian petition). We're in a fight for our Canadian lives in Canada. If you can, please consider donating to the campaign.

Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

call me crazy, but i think forcing the adoption of tech that intentionally hollows out the human labor market and accelerates climate destruction in order to concentrate wealth is just mass-murder with extra steps

Game one is a shocker. The Montreal Canadiens score more goals in game one than the Senators or Flyers did in their entire series against the Hurricanes. The Call Of The Wilde is written for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1185958...

Like the #GOP and the #CPC, the #UCP is now the Party of #ChristoFascism, and moderates are being pushed out. And the common thread is #StephenHarper and the #IDU.

Brexit lessons: - An insurgent populist right will be invigorated by a referendum, not vanquished - They don't care about Leave/separate as a real policy. They possibly don't even want it implemented. It's a vehicle for grievances, racism, and graft - Crypto and dark money will sink you

Wow. This is fire.

Jen Gerson: "The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night."

There’s always been a lunatic fringe in Alberta. They believe Alberta’s entitled to more than the rest of Canada, & like a petulant child, want to run away from home, even tho, like a child they’re dependent on adult Canada Smith is completely choosing, supporting & enabling the fringe #TraitorSmith

“Now, all Albertans know what we have always known: you can't trust Danielle Smith. She's a traitor and a separatist.” Mikisew Cree First Nation responds. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

At a time when people are worried about affordability, health care, housing, and jobs, Smith is pouring gasoline on division and fear. She is selfishly pitting Albertan against Albertan and dragging our province into chaos to save herself and her scandal-ridden government.

Danielle Smith is tearing this province apart to save her own political skin. Instead of standing up for Alberta and a stronger Canada, she’s appeasing separatists and giving legitimacy to groups tied to illegal data breaches, foreign interference concerns and attacks on Indigenous treaty rights.

No matter how they try to spin this, Danielle Smith and the UCP own this separatist referendum. She is a separatist Premier, and the UCP is a separatist party. And Albertans will be left paying the price. youtu.be/xmc49CbuGZw

A vote for the NDP is a vote for Canada. A vote for the UCP is a vote for separation.

Narrator: no, there wasn’t. Jason Kenney, Danielle Smith, Ezra Levant, Pierre Poilievre and others manufactured false narratives about equalization, pipelines, and COVID, using social media to infect the minds of gullible Albertans. The only thing the feds failed at was calling out the b.s.

"Unblock the resources." Oil production is at record highs. Alberta has the highest per capita incomes in the country. Just mouthing along with the invented grievances of the bad faith actors who put us in this position.

Not only is Smith a lunatic. She’s getting more and more desperate by the day. She’s trying to manufacture support from any dark corner she can latch onto.

Today we learned just how little the UCP thinks of Albertans. A staffer’s mistake revealed just how much they’re stage managing every step to force us into a vote on separation. Because, for the UCP, democracy is just a sham. A game. And they’re willing to gamble your future to win. #abpoli

One thing is clear: media won't stop this; judges won't stop this; Congress won't stop this; the GOP, which is no longer a political party, won't stop this; his cultists won't stop this; and he's *so fucking crazy* that he can't stop *himself*—and aims to make voting impossible.

“Today’s events should make it very clear to Albertans that not only is this government run by separatists, but that they are also incompetent separatists.”

Meanwhile Canada is rushing to build pipelines to sell fossil fuels to India and other developing economies in Asia. Solar + storage + cheap EVs are going to undermine global demand for oil.

I knew that the MLA Committee was going to be a sham. But releasing a statement while the Committee was still deliberating is conclusive proof. Couldn't they just delay pressing send to give them a semblance of plausible deniability?

The committee is still in session, they have not yet voted, yet the UCP caucus has released this… This isn’t democracy, it’s authoritarian theatre. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The UCP once again proving not only how completely incompetent they are, but also how corrupt they are. #abpoli

It's astonishing! A place of such natural beauty, packed full of smart, capable people with so much to offer the world, stymied at every turn by a febrile, cantankerous clutch of swivel-eyed curmudgeons who insinuate themselves into positions of power and influence. Alberta is an *epic* tragedy.