And therefore we can alter it -- for the better.

In which Wab Kinew sees right through Smith’s BS and provides real time fact-checking:

NEW Expert witnesses on the side of supervised consumption: Five doctors/professors and a site user. On the side of Alberta: A guy in Italy who says nice things about cops for cash from an American thinktank. How’d that work out in cross-examination? drugdatadecoded.ca/albertas-exp...

It’s really frightening.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Autocrats don’t just attack educational institutions; they seek to turn them into “a place that breeds the values of authoritarianism, suspicion, hostility,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. Listen to the full episode of “Autocracy in America”: theatln.tc/4xDXZcjA

Danielle Smith is pushing a separatism vote to save herself, and we’re the ones who pay for it. And here’s the trap: we could win the argument and still let her walk away without consequences. #ableg #canpoli #abpoli

Bike lanes are mobility lanes. Build them.

Shannon Proudfoot has the best analogy for the disingenuous position of Danielle Smith www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

“Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all gynecological cancers,” Nami Mun writes. When hers was diagnosed, she had a tumor “as wide as a peach and as long as my hand.” She writes about what she learned from her body after years of self-silencing:

Catriona Le May Doan is a record-breaking, two-time Olympic gold medalist, a world record holder, and one of the most decorated speed skaters in our country’s history. She’s a proud Albertan and a proud Canadian. And she’s standing up to fight for our home. 🇨🇦

In political science school they didn't teach us enough about the role bad faith actors play in politics. I am always, naively, amazed at how craven it all is.

“These people are children poisoned by cynicism and self-regard running an ugly little grift and ordinary Albertans will foot the bill in the long run.” www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...

Still more of a lark than living through the UCP's slappy-shoes political performance. #abpoli #canpoli

Should I make a poll for you to answer? Yes No

Danielle Smith: since we're going to ignore the courts, we thought why not ignore the clarity act, too? the fuck lol #ableg #abpoli

Danielle Smith’s separatist referendum puts us all at risk. We will not stand by and let the extremists who run the Premier also run this province. We’re going to stand up and fight. For our home. For Alberta. For Canada. And with your help, we WILL win. Join us: ForAlbertaForCanada.ca

It's time for all of us to stand up and save Canada. Join us: ForAlbertaForCanada.ca

If you've never protested in AB before, make this the time you commit to it. We have a lot to say to this government - and they need to see that a lot of us are saying it.

There is a new event for the day of protest in Calgary on #MAY29. This is the third of three events in Calgary. Please share.

Here's the UCP caucus statement on the committee voting for a referendum issued after Thursday's vote and the one issued inadvertently on Wednesday. The first and last paragraphs are slightly different, but it is otherwise the same as Wednesday's statement, including grammar issue on paragraph 5.

Local woman trapped in unmapped minefield she built in her backyard.

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

credit: thecoolestkate on Threads via James La Salandra on FB

This is your daily reminder: The claim that separatists collected 300,000 signatures rests on one man's word. And reasonable people should question whether he is telling the truth.+

What if, on May 22 and onward, there was a MASS drop-off of viewers on CBS, a mass cancellation of Paramount+, and other consequences for Paramount Global/Skydance? Cancelling Colbert is even worse than what they did to Kimmel, but they cancelled Colbert slowly, which shouldn’t make any difference.

He adds... “and you’re free to pursue your happiness in Alberta." Unless of course you're not. Trans policies, book-banning, NWSC-ing labour rights, anyone? Those are just the first things off the top of my head...

Clown car crash in Edmonton today.

"Canada’s National Observer has found a similar app on 10XVotes’ website stocked exclusively with names and addresses of several thousand Albertans.” ##abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...

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

Danielle Smith is a separatist Premier, and the UCP is a separatist party. They don't even believe in democracy. They don't respect our rights. This whole thing is a sham, and we won't stand for it. youtube.com/shorts/4ZvCg...

Danielle Smith still has a choice to make: She can say no to a referendum that she and the UCP so clearly want. Or she can go ahead with it, owning forever that she is Alberta’s first Separatist Premier. What'll it be, Premier?

Province wide day of protest. A new event has been added for #MAY29 At 3 p.m., City Hall steps (800 Macleod Trail SE). At 3:30 p.m., we’ll march west on 8th Avenue and then north on 6th Street to McDougall Centre (455 6th Street SW). March will wrap up at 4:30 p.m. Fightbacknow.ca 1/2

Live footage of the UCP at a committee meeting:

On top of everything else, they're a bunch of clowns.

Last week, two UCP ministers said they didn’t support Danielle Smith’s plan to ignore the courts and force a referendum for her separatist friends. Today, they both “resigned” from cabinet. Danielle Smith serves only the separatists.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

WATCH LIVE: Naheed Nenshi calls out Danielle Smith’s plans to push separatist referendum https://youtube.com/live/fylH9yi6U9s?feature=share

Cancel the referendum.

SCOOP: Premier Danielle Smith appointee to Invest Alberta's board is not an accredited accountant, despite claiming so for more than a decade: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

We're joining @exposedwildlife.bsky.social + Grizzly Bear Foundation in opposing the re-opening of a grizzly bear hunting season. A series of 3️⃣ letters will be sent to ministers, with the first one available here: www.albertawilderness.ca/threatened-a...

Already knee-deep in grift, Alberta’s Quisling Queen of Stupid revealed by @TheGlobeandMail.com to have appointed a phoney CPA to a senior position of trust. (Wish The Globe would do as much similar digging on Big Dumb Doug Ford.) 🤷🏼🧐🤷🏼

Canada, 🇨🇦 in case you are unfamiliar with spewer of Kremlin talking points & advancer of Kremlin interests, #ElbridgeColby, it is he who is the driver of suspending 🇺🇸🇨🇦 joint defence advisory board. For laughably trumped up reasons. #cdnpoli #CdnNatSec

This is appalling. And it is the perfectly logical consequence of the Alberta government’s anti immigrant rhetoric and referendum questions. #yyc #ableg #abpoli #referendumb2026

Join the #ForeverCanadian team! Pick up a lawn sign!

Sound familar, Albertans? 👇It’s called a “pump and dump”. In Alberta every well can be traced back to its original owner(s). Many foreign, mostly US, corporations have dumped their problems onto uneducated purchasers: Gulf, Shell, Exxon, BP, PanCanadian/Ovintiv, Chevron, Conoco, & many others.