There's a statement from elections alberta (EA) in this CBC post to the effect that EA has ltd enforcement powers. Not so. EA has significant enforcement powers under the Citizen Initiative Act (see Part 6) in relation to initiative votes. It needs to use them. #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

The locker room talk wasn’t empty bluster. It was the operating system of men who had learned to treat girls and women as props for their pleasure or their humiliation, and to call that friendship.

But the incompetent UCP is happy to give hundreds of millions to coal companies without a fight. "Alberta is tightening eligibility requirements for provincial seniors' benefits and tax credits for caregivers as it faces a $9.4-billion budget deficit." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The next Einstein is out there. The first person to walk on Mars is out there. But we're all so busy trying to survive paycheck to paycheck that we'll never know, and these amazing people will instead live miniaturized, frustrated, and short lives. This is about UBI.

Important story here. The UCP's conscious decision to ignore advice and to not promote vaccines is, as forewarned, producing record flu death rates.

don’t doomscroll. read a chapter instead.

If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot: Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus. It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

An independent Alberta would need to fund: • National defence • Border services • Foreign affairs & trade • Immigration • Higher level courts • Aviation regulation • Debt servicing • Central banking, etc. This stuff is also conveniently left out of the "-$23B" fiscal balance calculation.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

Willie Nelson didn't know his song would be playing when my mom died. In fact, writing and recording that song might have been a slog—something he slapped together to pay the bills. It doesn't *matter*. Good or bad, art is part of the structure of our lives. We need it. We *inhabit* it.

a bunch of cloistered worms decided to make my fucking friends the national punching bag and I will never, ever forgive them

xtramagazine.com/power/politi... This is good resource for the family and friends of trans youth in Alberta. #supporttransyouth #albertatrans #mentalhealthmatters

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

This is the way

20-year-old Carter Rodgers has been missing for over a week, after his vehicle got stuck in a ditch on Valentine’s Day but was found burned on a road in O’Chiese First Nation the following day. His family and Alberta RCMP are asking the public for help.

@emmettmacfarlane.com: Albert Premier Danielle Smith’s vision is one that would create a nightmarish, dystopian underclass. It is a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook we have seen play out in the United States. It is anti-Canadian. #abpoli

One thing is becoming very clear: the Premier CANNOT be trusted on HC. If anything she said was true she'd have held a Public Inquiry by now. It should concern all Albertans, including life-long conservatives, that our Premier cannot be trusted. x.com/PfParks/status...

Alan Cumming explains why trans people are like superheroes

Australian PM Anthony Albanese has announced that Canadian PM Mark Carney will address the Australian Parliament in March — a privilege extended to very few foreign leaders in history. This is a coordinated, deliberate, & strategically significant signal .. youtu.be/2_zvO5RpjNM?... #cdnpoli

Someone said that the FBI is now a Make-A-Wish Foundation for a mid-tier podcaster

#CdnPoli #CanPoli

Reposting this letter from Smith to PM Trudeau asking for more immigrants She can't request more immigrants and then say immigrants are the problem I wish someone in Canadian media would ask her about this #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli www.alberta.ca/system/files...

Good night Canada, We Ride at Dawn, join us! 🍁

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I asked @spiegel.de to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. Rafaela von Bredow made it happen. This is how American media should be talking: "We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance" www.spiegel.de/internationa...

From Max Fawcett's today: "What she didn’t note is that during Trudeau’s entire decade as prime minister Alberta’s population grew at an annualized rate of 1.93 per cent, a figure that is lower than the preceding (Harper-dominated) decade, when it grew at 2.21 per cent." Inconvenient truth.

Enough is enough, Premier. Albertans see right through these distractions. Cut the bullshit. Call the election. youtube.com/shorts/RnRaw...

Hey now why is it that Albertans are suddenly clicking on this story from October 2023? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Where’s the great Stephen Harper this week? thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

So Alberta is holding an anti-immigrant referendum to help create an excuse for why Danielle Smith is running multibillion dollar deficits? “Smith’s address comes one week before Finance Minister Nate Horner tables the 2026 provincial budget which is expected to have a multibillion-dollar deficit”

A must read here for all Canadians, but especially Albertans via @emmettmacfarlane.com emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

Water main will be offline again starting March 9 for 4 weeks and restrictions will be back in place. Almost as though we need to have long term ongoing behavioural changes regarding water use

Rachel Notley is not mincing words:

The UCP has been in power for 51 of the last 55 years but according to Danielle Smith it's the family who arrived six months ago that is wrecking the province.

This…

I know it's a lot to ask but can liberal/progressive Canadians from outside Alberta just come here for like two years in droves and stay and vote like sane normal people and relieve of us this fucking UCP nightmare? We could have game night on Thursdays at my house.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... She is actually dangerous. Are we taking over/unders yet on when she starts getting Mar-a-Lago face procedures?

If you don't live in Alberta, let me explain Alberta politics to you. 1. *long sigh* 2. *incoherent mumbling* 3. *muffled tears* 4. *long sigh* Thank you for listening.

My latest: Alberta's separatist leaders keep using Norway as an example of why an independent Alberta would work. Let's put that to the test, shall we? #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/19/o...

Huge irony in the medication being destroyed at the Swan Hills Waste Treatment Plant. It's a Klein-era white elephant that has cost Alberta taxpayers at least $1.6B and counting. Yet, many Albertas continue to believe conservative govts are better financial managers than any alternative party

I do, in fact, remember the day when WTI sank to $28/barrel, we had a Treasury Board meeting that day, we were dealing with the upcoming Budget. I also remember the clear direction from Rachel Notley: we will not make Albertans suffer for the oil price roller coaster. And we didn’t.