John MacKinnon 🇨🇦
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Retired journalist living in Vieux Montreal.
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Jared Wesley
about 7 hours ago
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.
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Pipeline or referendum: she can't have both
Danielle Smith's dreams of a west coast pipeline and sovereignty referendum cannot both come true.
https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/pipeline-or-referendum-she-cant-have?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=evscl
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Jared Wesley
about 11 hours ago
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.
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ICAO is revved up about the Canadiens playoff run.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦
about 18 hours ago
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
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Security Alert: Patrick Lennox on Foreign Interference in Alberta politics
Podcast Episode · Alberta Unbound · May 15 · 30m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/alberta-unbound/id1511810939?i=1000767962987
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5nark Twain
about 18 hours ago
#Trump
#China
#DV1
#ProudBlue
#Satire
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Julie S. Lalonde
about 15 hours ago
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.
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Marie 🇨🇦 🐸
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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
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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’ — Guardian US
All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities
https://apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qbaa2W2_rnQunA
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
1 day ago
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
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Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
https://www.wate.com/news/education-schools/alex-haleys-roots-to-be-removed-from-knox-county-schools-libraries/amp/
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Markham Hislop
1 day ago
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
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Danielle Smith is Not Fit to Hold Political Office
YouTube video by Energi Media
https://youtu.be/Yl0OK3_lpDs
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Max Fawcett
about 18 hours ago
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...
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Danielle Smith's democratic deficit
The Alberta separatist movement was dealt a crushing blow in a court decision on Wednesday. It didn't take the premier long to blame the courts — and the judge — for a mistake her government made.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/opinion/danielle-smith-alberta-separatism
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Shawn Micallef
about 18 hours ago
This was great. Such nostalgia, watching Dave's style of humour.
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Bruce Arthur
1 day ago
The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism.
www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...
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Clarke Ries: How two Alberta judges shot separatist delusions to death
(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.)
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-ries-how-two-alberta-judges
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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.
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Jared Wesley
1 day ago
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.+
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Scott Robertson
1 day ago
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
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Nut job.
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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.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
1 day ago
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.
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Watching the first round of the PGA, particularly interested in how the pros avoid the Thucydides Trap. Tricky business.
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
Me, on CBC television, talking about Alberta separatism.
#abpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z83q...
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Alberta voter list leak investigation faces uncooperative separatist organizer | Hanomansing Tonight
YouTube video by CBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z83qGVKY2Qw
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“But while Ms. Smith is wily, glib and determined, she’s not exactly smart.”
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Jason Markusoff
2 days ago
One in 5 new cars in BC, where EVs are subsidized. One in 20 in Alberta, where EVs face a special yearly tax
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David Hamer
2 days ago
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.🙄
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Ahmed Baba
2 days ago
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.
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Theo Moudakis
2 days ago
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Catherine McKenna
4 days ago
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!
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Cenovus CEO says oilsands dialogue ‘myopically focused on the climate agenda’ | Globalnews.ca
'The result of this myopic dialogue... is that we have created a set of national policies and regulations that make resource development and investment in Canada uncompetitive.'
https://globalnews.ca/news/11837684/cenovus-oilsands-development/
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The Cirque is back in town. Cirque du Soleil’s big top getting ready for Echo.
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Philip Gourevitch
3 days ago
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.
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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.
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David J. Climenhaga
6 days ago
Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance.
albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/dani...
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Danielle Smith – the public face of foreign interference in Canada – gets Canadian security clearance - Alberta Politics
Danielle Smith, who is basically the public face of foreign interference in Canada, has been given a Canadian “Top Secret” security clearance, her press secretary said on Thursday. According to Sam Bl...
https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/danielle-smith-the-public-face-of-foreign-interference-in-canada-gets-canadian-security-clearance/
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Kirk is Work! Awesome.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁
7 days ago
🔁 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 🇨🇦🍁❤️
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Timothy Snyder
7 days ago
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.
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
7 days ago
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.
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Charles Smith
7 days ago
Hey, luckily we’ve doubled down on fossil fuel extraction and ended environmental protection to pander to far right separatists in AB.
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Jared Wesley
7 days ago
Hard to read this and take Mitch's claim of 300,000 signatures at face value.
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Victor Ray
9 days ago
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.
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jamelle
8 days ago
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
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James Scott
9 days ago
It’s amazing how Trump ended all those wars nobody heard about but can’t end the war he started.
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Scott Robertson
8 days ago
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."
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Olivia Troye
10 days ago
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.
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Theo Moudakis
9 days ago
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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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.
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jamelle
9 days ago
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?
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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’
In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958
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Chris Kluwe
9 days ago
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.
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