Pipelines require stable relationships, long timelines, negotiated trust, and political cooperation across multiple governments and Indigenous nations. Platforming separatism with a referendum prevents all of this. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

If Premier Smith's whole strategy to this point has been to bait the courts and then apply the notwithstanding clause to work around them, her advisory team has not just let her down. They've betrayed their separatist friends. And the rest of us, too.

ICAO is revved up about the Canadiens playoff run.

Here is the iTunes link for my Alberta Unbound conversation with Patrick Lennox @patricklennox.bsky.social about foreign influence in Alberta’s separatist campaign and the danger is poses for all Canadians. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a... #SenateofCanada

#Trump #China #DV1 #ProudBlue #Satire

Oil and gas represents only 5% of our GDP. Carney and Smith are investing our money into soon-to-be-obsolete technology just to appease fascist seditionists. We are scheduled to have another record breaking hot summer with some wild fires already raging. This is a terrible, terrible decision.

194 people killed by US military boat strikes. No trials. No public evidence. Ever. Some were fishermen. It took 20 journalists 5 months just to name and identify 13 of the dead. This isn’t a drug war. It’s the blatant execution of poor people. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qba...

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

Danielle Smith is Not Fit to Hold Political Office Her record speaks for itself. She's a disgrace. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/Yl0OK3_lpDs

For once, the Alberta separatists have a right to be angry. That's because Danielle Smith wasted their time and energy with a petition that was unconstitutional and bound to get set aside by the courts. Now, will they turn their sights on her? #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/o...

This was great. Such nostalgia, watching Dave's style of humour.

The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...

In hockey, as in life, you either make things happen or you let things happen to you. Demidov is making things happen on every shift tonight. Beautiful.

Among hard-core Alberta separatists, the level of contempt for courts and hate for Indigenous people is palpable following yesterday's ruling. This is going to be an ugly summer. Reasonable Albertans will need to stand up for the constitution and treaties. Staying silent is being complicit.+

David Cochrane: You've been meeting with the Americans, going across the border... Jeff Rath: The other side ... they're the ones that are actually being funded by foreign sources and you know uh... that are tied to communist China

Nut job.

Tex! Yessir!

Alberta separatist lawyer Jeffrey Rath on CBC ranting about Federalist activists being funded by George Soros and other dark money sources connected to communist China was revealing, to be polite. What a total nut job. “Try to keep up,” he told David Cochrane at one point. Crackers.

Forward-thinking China is blazing a trail developing renewable energy that makes the Middle East's fossil fuels irrelevant. It doesn't need to turn to the backward-thinking United States for climate-damaging energy solutions.

Watching the first round of the PGA, particularly interested in how the pros avoid the Thucydides Trap. Tricky business.

Me, on CBC television, talking about Alberta separatism. #abpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z83q...

“But while Ms. Smith is wily, glib and determined, she’s not exactly smart.”

One in 5 new cars in BC, where EVs are subsidized. One in 20 in Alberta, where EVs face a special yearly tax

Mr. Martin is right about everything here in today’s @TheGlobeandMail.com except one: having the U.S. as “our foremost culture shaper” was ALWAYS a bad thing. The 🇺🇸USA has been defined by its racism, addiction to violence, anti-intellectualism, and unrestrained materialism since its very beginning.🙄

Trump had Project 2025. But China has a Project 2049 to become the world's superpower. Trump is playing into China's hands. He's eroded America's soft power. He's ceded the renewable energy industry to China. He's weakened US global leadership, and China will exploit that.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Wow.

Facts: Cdn taxpayers bought pipeline boosting price for AB crude! Oilsands are among world’s most expensive & carbon-intensive barrels. If sector can’t compete after massive public subsidies, problem isn’t climate policy. Global capital is moving to clean energy because that’s where growth is!

The Cirque is back in town. Cirque du Soleil’s big top getting ready for Echo.

Really hard to imagine a crew more comprehensively crude, malign, incompetent, corrupt and shameless getting hold of a previously mostly functional state than the appalling specimens now running this country into every available ditch.

Weird, wild stuff in this Sabres-Canadiens game. Pity it's the Sabres and not the Bruins, back when Harry Sinden was on the boil. I can hear his anguished bleatings still. Lindy Ruff will have to do.

Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance. albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/dani...

Kirk is Work! Awesome.

🔁 Danielle “Trait0r” Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta… “We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world” Really. She said that 💩 with a straight face🤦🏽‍♂️😡 Via: @thebreakdownab on August/2025 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Every syllable of this. So absolutely refreshing to hear the truth spoken. A political party tries to court your vote. And an authoritarian regime tries to keep people from voting because they know they cannot win.

Hey, luckily we’ve doubled down on fossil fuel extraction and ended environmental protection to pander to far right separatists in AB.

Hard to read this and take Mitch's claim of 300,000 signatures at face value.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

It’s amazing how Trump ended all those wars nobody heard about but can’t end the war he started.

Jason Kenney: "They have their own separatist parties. Why are they trying to infiltrate a federalist party? There's one reason, because it's the party in power, and because they can't get elected on a separatist ticket."

I’m proud to support No ICE in the Cup. I grew up loving soccer. Some of my favorite memories were made on the field and in the stands. The World Cup should bring people together, not leave immigrant families living in fear. Everyone deserves to experience the game safely. NoICEintheCup.us ⚽️

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

I like to think Game 1 was a case of the Canadiens clearing their throat, which for Lane Hutson was a highly rare fur ball. À la prochaine fois.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.