Alberta tries really hard to not be taken seriously as a province.

You know it is garbage legislation when the UCP rolls out the “in due course” mumblings of their least qualified party member to try and explain it.

This is the scrum with Brandon Lunty and reporters today in the Alberta legislature. He’s the UCP MLA tasked with overseeing the Alberta government’s re-do of the Electoral Boundaries commission report, with the help of a new panel.

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process. It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance. You know, real conservatives.

Five alarm fire for democracy in Canada. Not just Alberta. The whole country. Not hyperbole. When we take away effective representation, we no longer have a real claim to being a liberal democracy. If Alberta gets away with this, other provinces will follow.

This is a very troubling story via @brettmckay.bsky.social.

This is Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade & Immigration of Alberta. He can be reached at [email protected] and by phone at 403-653-5070. Send him a note asking about the RCMP investigation & if he is capable of making up a better analogy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In case anyone has forgotten, Joseph Schow was in charge of field operations for the Jason Kenney leadership campaign and was interviewed by the RCMP for its voter fraud investigation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Proposed in Olds, Alberta. A disaster in the making. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said, fighting back tears. The Tucson Democrat described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “It is frightening in there,” Grijalva said. “It is disgusting.”

If you've lost track of all the twists and turns in the ongoing scandal in Alberta, here is an explainer.

ICYMI - This is unprecedented in Alberta. Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton's Top Cop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The UCP would win re-election today under the current existing boundaries that were drawn in 2017 and the majority report’s map, but the minority report’s map would make it basically impossible for the NDP to ever win in enough ridings to form a majority government — and that’s the point.

“Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment” Because of course they did. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...

A timely reminder of MLA, now minister of municipal affairs, Dan Williams, speaking to Bill 28 (well perhaps not quite at that time). Some might have thought that that incident wd end his parliamentary career. But here in AB it's a qualification for promotion And now here he is berating a journalist

The oil and gas industry doesn’t ❤️ you back. It never will. Coal won’t love you either.

This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest. Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Thank you and HT for this. Section 18 of Bill 25. Continuing the usual trend in the centralization of power. #abpoli #ableg

Without a doubt, Nicolaides will be remembered for being one of the worst to ever oversee Alberta’s education ministry. He bans books he hasn’t read, mismanaged the teacher’s strike & now proposes this ridiculous legislation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New from me: former Alberta justice minister Jonathan Denis is taking legal action after the province’s human rights commission shot down attempts to anonymize his unsuccessful discrimination complaint against a high-end jewelry store. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

At the height of ICE operations in Minnesota, reporters descended on the Twin Cities. I wanted to know what was happening in the small farming & meatpacking towns in the rest of the state. So we sent @emmarjanssen.bsky.social there, & she produced this stunning report. prospect.org/2026/03/30/a...

“None of the Premier’s Office, Alberta Infrastructure nor Municipal Affairs acknowledged inquiries for this story.” Probably because they are too busy redacting everything…

SCOOP: RCMP search accounting firm owned by appointee of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, police attend home of former AHS procurement official www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social @mattscace.bsky.social @janapruden.bsky.social @alannasmith.bsky.social

The moment Israel targeted British journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.

🚨BREAKING!!!🚨 Danielle Smith was forced to admit to a secret trip she kept from the public! On her trip to the Middle East she and her staff accepted gifts of private flights and hotel rooms from the Saudi Government! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is a MUST watch!!! Yesterday Nenshi said what everyone has known for a long time. Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopolous was right, she was fired for being right & Smith is wasting taxpayers money because she can’t admit those simple truths. #abpoli #ableg #Justice4Athana

From the new Globe story… (And this is a thread you’ll want to follow all the way down!) Allegedly MHCare CEO Sam Mraiche operated under the alias “Fred” when acting as a go between on contracts for recovery centres. /1 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

As the Globe breaks the story on Melewka… Let’s go back to November last year when Smith was asked about exactly this issue, Marshall Smith’s involvement & she not only denied it… She seemed to reference the podcasters who were allegedly hired to intimidate witnesses. Was she covering up then?

MAGA Smith was forced to admit to a secret trip she kept from the public! #cdnpoli On her trip to the Middle East she and her staff accepted gifts of private flights and hotel rooms from the Saudi Government!

SCOOP: Two companies involved in building some of Alberta's addiction recovery centres are mired in litigation, including accusations of forgery on one side and allegations of intimidation involving Sam Mraiche, of MHCare www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

The reintroduction of corporate political contributions in Alberta has created a new avenue of influence for lobbyists, an @theijf.org data analysis suggests. @brettmckay.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

The more restrictions to public information, the more to hide from public scrutiny.

This is an absolutely shocking proposal that would disrupt the very foundations of democratic accountability in Ontario #Onpoli #cdnfoi

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

This response from the ethics commissioner is an indictment of AB's public office ethics legislation & no exoneration of Mr Yager. The fact that Ms Smith has just reappointed Mr Yager confirms that real ethics, as opposed to narrow legislated ethics, don't mean a thing to her. #abpoli #cdnpoli

The judge mentions EPS lawyer Megan Hankewich by name & suggests her actions were similar to those of former Justice Minister Kaycee Madu, who called the EPS chief over a distracted driving ticket (faced law society discipline for it). Seems to be an implication there. www.canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/d...

As ever, @annamerlan.bsky.social has written something timely and resonant. The quote from Dmytro Iarovyi had the odd effect of galvanizing me, by reminding me that my despair is not simply a defect, but is evoked by design.

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

The Trump administration fired a quarter of the nation's immigration judges and the Pentagon authorized 600 military lawyers to replace them. The full story: lataco.com/los-angeles-... By Nik Venet

The Centre for Free Expression has done far more legwork, contacting every Alberta school division, asking how many removed books, and sending access to info requests to every division that said they did remove materials. The results they have so far are in this national challenge database #AbEd

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material. Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

her doc, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, is streaming for free via the NFB. it struck me as a really thoughtful look at how the overdose crisis is affecting people in the Kainai First Nation, and acts as an argument for harm reduction as a practice of care. www.nfb.ca/film/kimmapi...

Honestly, the payoff here is when he imitates what he assumes people are reading when they read. He assumes it is about pirates.

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. 🧵

Independence would shift, not like erase redistribution. Calgary and Edmonton would further subsidize rural regions in bust times. High-income earners in Alberta would subsidize low-income Albertans. That’s how modern tax systems work.