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What if the hokie pokie is what it’s all about! She/her, Treaty 6 Territory, 🇨🇦
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David J. Climenhaga
about 7 hours ago
Having opened door to Alberta separation vote, UCP changes rules to block competing referenda.
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Having opened door to Alberta separation vote, UCP changes rules to block competing referenda - Alberta Politics
Having made sure its secessionist wing’s Alberta separation referendum will have an easy time getting on a ballot, Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party cabinet has moved to ensure no oth...
https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/havi..
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Sean
about 4 hours ago
Its no surprise that the same people who want charities be the social safety net are the same people who want charities to have "freedom of conscience" to decide who is and isn't worthy of charity.
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Leeta 🇨🇦
about 4 hours ago
Danielle Smith “no longer has any credibility when she says that she’s not a separatist. She changed every rule in the book, just for separatists. Then…she closes the doors again.”
#cdnpoli
#Canada
#Alberta
#abpoli
#ableg
#yyc
#yeg
#CanadaSky
#ForeverCanadian
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Having opened door to Alberta separation vote, UCP changes rules to block competing referenda - Alberta Politics
Having made sure its secessionist wing’s Alberta separation referendum will have an easy time getting on a ballot, Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party cabinet has moved to ensure no oth...
https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/having-opened-door-to-alberta-separation-vote-ucp-changes-rules-to-block-competing-referenda/
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Polling Canada
1 day ago
(Models Available To Subscribers) Alberta Provincial Polling: UCP: 48% (-5) NDP: 45% (+1) ABP: 4% (+3) ALP: 3% (+3) Others: 1% Angus Reid / Dec 1, 2025 / n=362 / Online (% Change With 2023 Election) Check out AB model details from
@338canada.bsky.social
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338canada.com/alberta
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United Nurses of Alberta
1 day ago
United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith said eliminating information on COVID-19 outbreaks increases the risk of exposure and transmission of the disease. “Not even providing the information is just blatant suppression. And to what end?” Smith said.
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Beyond Local: Alberta quietly ends public reporting of COVID outbreaks in acute care
Alberta's government said the province is under no legal obligation to continue publishing the data in a “post-pandemic context.”
https://www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local/alberta-quietly-ends-public-reporting-of-covid-outbreaks-in-acute-care-11639112
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Yuen Pau Woo
about 23 hours ago
Can the government assure Canadians that the funding for any pipeline will come exclusively from the private sector and that this project will not proceed without the consent of affected Indigenous rights holders?
#cdnpoli
#SenCA
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Charlotte Clymer
1 day ago
The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
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Kim Siever
1 day ago
Alberta’s proposed Fairness and Safety in Sport Act is anything but fair
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Alberta’s proposed Fairness and Safety in Sport Act is anything but fair
Proposed legislation in Alberta could violate fundamental freedoms and endanger the rights of transgender people in the province.
https://theconversation.com/albertas-proposed-fairness-and-safety-in-sport-act-is-anything-but-fair-243883
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So Over the Conservatives 🇨🇦🍁
1 day ago
“So Albertans who don’t want to see their country destroyed, their pensions looted, their streets flooded with firearms and their province eventually absorbed by the shit show to the south had better wake up and smell the coffee.” Mmmhhhmmm.
#Abpoli
#Cdnpoli
#Canadasky
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk
2 days ago
Alberta Government cleared legal obstacles and circumvented Court decisions to help separatists. They are separatists.
#ForeverCanadian
will be ready to defend Canada in a referendum. Please, register yourself as a supporter at Forever-Canadian.ca
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Why an Alberta separation vote in 2026 is looking more likely
Alberta is inching closer and closer to a vote on leaving Canada after a fresh citizen initiative petition was filed with Elections Alberta. Applicant Mitch Sylvestre believes now is the time for inde...
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/12/16/alberta-separatists-new-petition-referendum-vote/
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TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP
2 days ago
🧵/8 Alberta is Canada's
#RightWing
, Conservative™️,
#FreeMarket
capital. This is where these ideas get to SHINE. Question 8: WHY ARE SO MANY ALBERTANS SO POOR?
bsky.app/profile/kims...
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
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Budd
2 days ago
Jack Smith just revealed that Trump broke the law: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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Courtney Theriault
1 day ago
I don't have an issue with a higher barrier of entry for citizen driven initiatives or recall petitions. But the huge fee jump shows the UCP is once again talking out both sides of its mouth about empowering grassroots Albertans - or that they're just bad at crafting legislation
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Courtney Theriault
1 day ago
And I wonder what the UCP means when it says "frivilous"? Would be easy to say it's pointed at the onslaught of recall petitions - but is it a back-handed way at criticizing the anti-private school funding drive, or Corb Lund's anti-coal, believing that they are "frivilous"?
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Courtney Theriault
1 day ago
The timing of limiting initiatives is also incredibly suspect, *right* after the APP refiles its sovereignty petition and during Xmas break. It's hard to read it as anything other than the Premier wanting to ensure the APP question going to a vote, whatever her reason might be.
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Druh Farrell
2 days ago
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦
2 days ago
As someone who immigrated to Canada this is personally terrifying Under such a system I would have been “lucky” that I got cancer after I had been here for long enough to become a citizen.
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Magic Man
2 days ago
The exact same wrecking ball to democracy that is destroying the USA is being swung by Danielle Smith and the UCP in Alberta. Pay attention, Canada.
#ableg
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
#elbowsup
#canada
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🦋MOM🦋
3 days ago
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Laurie Buckland
3 days ago
He has no official status or authority to be representing Alberta in any way.
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
Her clowns, her circus.
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Alberta separation draws loud support during UCP AGM, Premier tries to subdue crowd - CityNews Calgary
While questions were flying from UCP members to cabinet ministers on multiple topics like vaccines, auto insurance reform, and policing, one man’s turn got the attention of everyone.
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/11/29/alberta-separation-draws-loud-support-during-ucp-agm/
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
It sure would be nice if the Premier of Alberta would call out this treasonous behaviour by one of her own party members for what it is.
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The Breakdown AB
3 days ago
From the DM’s… So patients are discharged from hospitals to seniors homes that can’t support them to free up space in hospitals… But they go back to the ER because those facilities can’t support them. The UCP haven’t solved healthcare… They’ve created a mobius strip.
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Lisa
3 days ago
Argh!!
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Lumps of coal for the UCP #ucp #nicholaides #alberta #parents #daniellesmith
YouTube video by Lisab0923
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I0Z0c90PrFg
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Jared Wesley
3 days ago
Can comfirm. Since we started surveying Albertans in 2019, this is the *only* policy reform that's received majority support in the province.
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Euan Thomson
3 days ago
📣 Media looking for an important story related to prisoner abuse, pharma lobbying, public sector profiteering & expert advocacy –– this letter has it all and more. I included the full letter along with the government's new Sublocade policy + BCCSU's 2023 guidance for comparison. Please run with it!
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Kevin Nimmock
3 days ago
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
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Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/skate-canada-events-alberta-transgender-9.7018092
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Frazzlehead (Lonna Cunningham) (she/her) 🇨🇦
4 days ago
Holy moly,
#Alberta
, things are a mess in health care. We have multiple OB units closed "indefinitely", wait times over 8 hours and close to 12 (!!!) the other day, highest ICU since Mar 2024, and 7 more covid deaths.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
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@pfparks.bsky.social
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BrownSugarBunny
4 days ago
fucked up
#Alberta
is to
#Canada
as fucked up
#Texas
is to the
#USA
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Ann Petersen-Kane
4 days ago
Faith!? What the fuck? Albertans didn't vote for religious based govt. The UCP did not campaign as a faith focused/driven party. No one voted for religious overlords. Are they planning to "notwithstand" evangelical Christianity down our throats? There better be an election in the new year.
#ableg
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Curious Georgette 🐒💀
5 days ago
Definitely giving this:
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Judy C
4 days ago
Yet, DS blames AHS for missteps, as if it is a separate body. She always needs to blame someone else, since all she does is deflect, deny & avoid any accountability. Enough is enough!
#ableg
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
3 days ago
You *don't* do it by spending $1.7 billion to recruit internationally while funding continues to stagnate at woefully insufficient levels at home.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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In Canada, scientists are struggling with stagnant funding
Lackluster growth in federal spending squeezes research community
https://www.science.org/content/article/canada-scientists-are-struggling-stagnant-funding
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Parksy
5 days ago
Not sure how many Albertans want this plan... but I don't recall the UCP campaigning on "Let's Make Charities Great Again" Or stating they were going to privatize HC and Education to for-profits and abandon any govt social safety net... 10/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
One in five households cannot guarantee their next meal. And the Premier’s response: let’s give more TAXPAYER MONEY to rich for-profit businesses, and let the charities sort out the rest…
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HungerCount
OVERALL FINDINGS Every year, food banks across the country are setting new records. This year, they recorded nearly 2.2 million visits in a single month. That’s double the monthly usage recorded just six years ago. It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to...
https://foodbankscanada.ca/hunger-in-canada/hungercount/
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Parksy
5 days ago
AB has consistently high rates of "severe" food insecurity = meaning people are skipping meals or going entire days without eating because they cannot afford it. The "Alberta Advantage" right now is apparently the advantage of starving faster than the rest of the country. 8/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
2025 data: nearly 31% of AB households are struggling to put food on the table (significantly higher than the national average) 7/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
The "Lazy Poor MYTH": all food bank users are just "lazy" is not factual. 19% of clients are employed. = ABs with jobs who still cannot afford to eat = failure of wages, not work ethic. 6/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
Children: 36% of food bank users are children = ~ 76,000 visits in a single month made on behalf of children (not all “orphans” i’d guess) 5/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
Big Surge: This represents a 21.8% increase from 2024 = second-highest jump in the entire country (only behind the territories). Since 2019, food bank usage in Alberta has exploded by 134.4%. (Who's been governing since then?) 4/10
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Parksy
5 days ago
Monthly Visits: In March 2025 alone, there were over 210,500 visits to food banks in Alberta = people begging for basic sustenance in a resource-rich province 3/10
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Curious Georgette 🐒💀
5 days ago
What do Albertans need a govt for if they're planning to supply social care via churches & faith based groups?
#abpoli
#UCPCorruption
#RecallThemAll
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Charles Smith
3 days ago
"In this rush to amass power in the premier’s office, Smith has made it clear she will listen to no one but those in the UCP who support her extreme views."
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Gillian Steward: Danielle Smith grabs more power as she redefines definition of democracy in her favour
Premier Smith is defining democracy after bringing in all sorts of legislation that impedes democracy, minority rights and overrides the constitution.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/danielle-smith-grabs-more-power-as-she-redefines-definition-of-democracy-in-her-favour/article_62218654-3d2d-4913-bc1b-f24c5f08ff03.html
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
You don’t say.
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Most Albertans would vote to end public funding of private schools, poll suggests | CBC News
More than half of Alberta adults say they would support eliminating provincial funding for private schools if the issue went to a referendum, a recent survey suggests.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-public-private-schools-poll-9.7015645
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Barb Hymanyk
6 days ago
Why play the game if you can just rewrite the rules? This “government” is a joke and an embarrassment.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
3 days ago
“Mostly, however, it’s concerning that they aren’t listening to people who should be able to get through to them; their voters and supporters in rural Alberta. If they don’t have any sway with the UCP, then I think it’s important to ask who does.”
#ableg
#abpoli
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Are Danielle Smith and the UCP even listening to Albertans?
A lot of things don't add up with this government and I think it's time to ask some hard questions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/womenofabpoli/p/are-danielle-smith-and-the-ucp-even?r=1tcmr&utm_medium=ios
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David J. Climenhaga
3 days ago
With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit.
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With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit - Alberta Politics
Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t right about much, but he was right when he got up at the recent United Cons...
https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/with..
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Euan Thomson
4 days ago
NEW Federal prisons are removing methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month injection for prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serious concerns about harms to prisoners––and the corporate motivations behind the move.
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150 experts demand Correctional Service Canada reverse "coercive" opioid treatment guidance
A new policy in federal prisons removes methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month gel injection available to prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serio...
https://drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-sign-letter-demanding-correctional-service-canada-reverse-new-opioid-treatment-guidance/
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
4 days ago
Today marks 10 years since the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an invaluable record of the crimes and injustices committed through the residential school system.
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wellwattayaknow
4 days ago
Why is the UCP supporting separatist actions? A government that supports the actions of people seeking to take Alberta out of Canada needs to be out of office.
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