Anyone know if the UCP's 2026 budget still has a line item for paying the municipal taxes for delinquent oil and gas companies because I know what I'd rather my tax money paid for than corporate dividends. #AbLeg

Oil is booming, but Alberta is a have not province. Things gotta fall apart purely to service reactionary conservative ideology it sucks so much

more people should be reading Paul Sweezy he's very good

$40 billion in debt because our government refuses to touch royalties while oil & gas production (and profits) are at record highs. Austerity isn't a necessity, it's a choice based on who this government puts first - ordinary people or corporate interests. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Alberta has roughly 240,000 unplugged wells and more than 80% of them are either “marginal” wells or do not produce oil or gas at all. What’s needed is financial assurance–mechanisms that ensure decommissioning will be funded when the bill comes due. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Reminder: The Alberta govt's "Mature Asset Strategy" proposes using AI data centres as a way to burn more natural gas, which would cause natural gas prices to rise, as a way to keep companies profitable (at our expense). The rest of us would be stuck paying higher natural gas prices. #ABLeg #ABPoli

The project, if built, would include the second-largest power plant in Alberta and consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton - Residents are concerned about emissions, water contamination and more. thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Let’s tax billionaires first. Worry about migrant workers “abusing the system” later, shall we?

🚨 Don't forget. Smith's proposed "Mature Asset Strategy" threatens to shift BILLIONS in unpaid oil & gas cleanup costs onto Alberta taxpayers. Rather than holding O&G companies accountable, this govt wants Albertans to pay their bills with money that should fund OUR public services. #ABLeg #ABPoli

"Study after study from very credible organizations say oil demand in #China is going to fall from roughly 17 million barrels a day to either between 5 or 7 million barrels by 2050, so Canada would be building a 1 million barrel a day pipeline to a market that is basically going to disappear."

The only real "strain" on our social services is this govt's infinite handouts to oil & gas companies and it's refusal to touch royalties. Corporations profit off AB's workers & resources while the govt scapegoats immigrants for why we have "no money." 🖕 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art... #ABLeg #ABPoli

“Carbon capture has never been done at this scale before and we don’t know what kind of impacts it will have.” - Several First Nations say they weren't adequately consulted on a plan to build one of the largest CCUS projects in the world on their territory. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Absolutely awful news. That team was so talented and seemed to work on banger after banger. We interviewed some of them for our Demon's Souls remake doc. I was so excited to see what they brought to life next. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBJ...

Oil & gas companies already owe rural municipalities >$150 million in unpaid taxes. Now Enbridge & Tourmaline are lobbying the Alberta govt to avoid paying taxes - taxes which are NEEDED to fund crucial public services and infrastructure. Scumbag behaviour. theijf.org/brief/albert... #ABLeg #ABPoli

“This is simply appeasement dressed up as diplomacy. While statements are issued, the systems that produce these horrors remain untouched, leaving ordinary people, Palestinians, Venezuelans, Iranians, and now Cubans, to bear the consequences.”

🎯🎯🎯 @codepink.bsky.social #CDNPoli

"Ottawa has deliberately hidden behind bureaucratic loopholes while allowing Canadian-made weapons components and ammunition to move through U.S. supply chains and into Israel, insulating itself from accountability while profiting from the machinery of war." www.codepink.org/from_gaza_to... #CDNPoli

No money for healthcare, education, public transit, green transition / renewables, food security, public services or any other basic needs, but an unlimited budget for the military-industrial complex, war and imperialism. Carney the warmonger. financialpost.com/news/economy... #CDNPoli

Commenting on Canada's latest federal immigration numbers, executive director in the Premier's office Bruce McAllister gets real blood-and-soil with it. "Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage has worked so well here?"

This is what happens when all our political parties represent the same interests. We have two conservative parties and MPs can just cross the floor at will to ram through harmful legislation that puts corporate profits over the interests of ordinary Canadians. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art... #CDNPoli

Same thing here in Canada as well. BUT, we live in a global economy that prioritizes profits above everything else (including social needs). If we want governments to stop doing this, we have to end capitalism plain and simple (not saying it's easy, but that's the ONLY solution). #CDNPoli #ABLeg

Alberta was a leader in renewable energy until the UCP banned it. They want Alberta to fail because that keeps people angry and they excel at farming anger.

"We inherited a situation where our budget is over reliant on resource revenues." The UCP has been in power since 2019. At some point you're going to have to take responsibility for the decisions your party has made.

I wrote a thing. Maybe leave a like or a comment maybe why not? voxsocialism.wixsite.com/blog/post/ca...

Behold, the consequences of our choices.

historian here! Yes

The Carney government has cut the only funding program for community archives, cut funding for access to information, and cutting 56 jobs. Harper made very similar cuts in 2012: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012... @thetyee.ca

This headline should tell you all you need to know about who will benefit the most from carbon capture & storage (CCS/CCUS). CCS is NOT a climate solution, it's just a scheme to funnel more public money to already-profitable oil companies www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli

Today, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments or CPPIB) released its Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 results. The quarterly results show that CPPIB made nearly $2 billion in fossil fuel investments between October 1 and December 31, 2025.

nice anti-communist talking points you got there. did the pedophilic capitalist class give them to you?

Amidst a frenzied resale market, Calgary’s east remains the last bastion of affordability for moderate income buyers—why? I delve into this in my latest story for the Globe and Mail 👇

After 25 years of extreme wealth concentration, the top 1% own 23% of the wealth—up $3 trillion. Our new report w/ @bcpolicy.bsky.social sounds the alarm: to protect our democracy & sovereignty, we need to stop our slide into US-style oligarchy. Read it now: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Carney’s budget cuts leads to workers losing their jobs at the human rights museum in Winnipeg. www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves. Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!! act.progressive.international/flotilla/

You clean up your mess. Oil companies won’t.    Now, Alberta’s MAS could make taxpayers foot their $130B cleanup bill.   Enough. Demand a public inquiry into AB’s well cleanup crisis now.   👉

You pay your taxes. You pay your bills. You clean up your own mess. It’s the law. Why should oil and gas companies have a different set of rules? Demand a public inquiry into Alberta’s oil and gas cleanup problem! 🛢️ ecojustice.ca/take-action/... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social

I agree 💯 No cleanup, no pipeline. @davidebybc.bsky.social @naheednenshi.bsky.social @elmeligisarah.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"Marx’s vision of socialism was one of sustainable human development. It opposed production for production’s sake and accumulation for accumulation’s sake, as well as the negative side of capitalist production, which destroyed necessary natural conditions." monthlyreview.org/articles/eco...

"The connections between our two countries are deep. And yet, now that Donald Trump is turning the screws to Cuba and to Cubans, where are our leaders?... Mark Carney has seemingly said nothing about this crisis, despite our long history with Cuba." noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus... #CDNPoli

The municipal issues of Calgary in 2026 are giving “blast from the past”: elevated Green Line, public hearings to debate blanket rezoning, water main breaks, talk about Olympic bids #yyc #yyccc

And don't forget. From 2021 to 2024 (just four years), oil & gas companies that operate in Canada posted combined profits of $150 BILLION. #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli

"The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age." True, but this isn't the role of government under capitalism. Government exists to protect and maintain corporate profits (i.e., "line go up" = good).

And according to an Aug. 2025 report from the Pembina Institute, over the last decade (to 2023): "the number of jobs per barrel of oil (and natural gas equivalent) fell by 43%, while production increased by 47%." The O&G industry is booming, just NOT for workers. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

"By 9:23 a.m. on January 2 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made what the average worker will make all year... In 2024, top executives made 248 times more than the average worker, up from 246 times in 2022." www.readthemaple.com/top-paid-ceo... #CDNPoli #ABPoli #ABLeg

"Alberta’s oil and gas industry cut about 10,000 jobs last year, but economists say it may not be a terrible thing." - That's because more production (& less jobs) means more profits for shareholders. Attention Alberta workers: Oil & gas doesn't ❤️ you back. edmontonjournal.com/business/ene... #ABLeg

Today in Alberta - February 6: A risk analysis from City of Calgary administration finds that if council repeals citywide rezoning, $861-million in federal funding could be impacted.

We agree 💯! Corporations should pay to clean up oil and gas wells. Click here to send a postcard to the Premier and your MLA. #CleanUpYourMess postcards.cleanupyourmess.ca?utm_source=F...

Are you a parent or caregiver ready to bring climate action to your child’s school community? Join the @forourkidscanada.bsky.social Schools Working Group on Monday, Feb 16, for an evening of strategy, storytelling, and community building. www.forourkids.ca/schools_feb2...