All hell is breaking loose in Alberta. @thelineca.bsky.social's Jen Gerson says Premier Danielle Smith should pull the plug on the Oct. 19 referendum. Is she right? 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/050526Gerson 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/050526 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

The National Post might have once been concerned about their role in working in public interest but they demonstrate daily that is no longer the case. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Alberta’s voters list scandal demands a public inquiry. I make that case in the interview below. But, instead of waiting for the results of the many ongoing investigations, there are 8️⃣ things Premier Smith could do in the next week to address the situation.🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...

Why do we need a public inquiry into the voters list scandal? Because limited, piecemeal, closed-door, hamstrung investigations aren't enough. Here's my interview with Calgary’s Eyeopener this morning. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Jason Kenney has entered the chat. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Anybody who has ever been involved in a campaign understands the security around the voters lists. Especially those high up in political parties. Every one of these people claiming they thought the list was obtained legally is lying. Every one of them.

Parties are built to score political points. So I don't begrudge the NDP for going public with these allegations or call for an emergency hearing /debate. That's fine. But Albertans also deserve an independent, transparent investigation. A public inquiry. Now. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

"We were just there to observe a couple of our friends rob a bank, not to show support necessarily, but to give them a ride home if they needed."

The Canadian Association of Journalists is growing, and now we are looking for an extra Alberta-based director! Nominate yourself or someone excellent for our Calgary/Edmonton vacancy. Would be dreamy if we had an Edmontonian join us, tbh caj.ca/about/our-te...

“An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

This is what happens when parties stop pursuing the common good and start dictating the public interest.

Sir, this is a strip club.

Colorado Gov Jared Polis: "Just know that the whole country obviously doesn't agree with President Trump. If anything, Canada and the US took our close relationship for granted. We just thought it was something we didn't even have to think about. Now because of Trump's actions, we realize it's not."

The only way to clear the air before Albertans cast another ballot: Premier Smith should call a public inquiry. Tomorrow. I will have more on my thinking this afternoon.

"Quote from Count Dankula" — the Russian government

This isn’t just about who gets a tax cut. It’s about who bears the long-run burden. Higher prices for basics plus temporary relief is a rotten deal for working households.

Wow! Thanks so much to everyone who came out for my Jane’s Walk through Borden Park today. And thanks to @janeswalkyeg.bsky.social and the @edmontonheritage.bsky.social for making this festival possible. #JanesWalk #yeg #Edmonton @janeswalk.bsky.social

Urban nerd win: led my Jane’s Walk, “The Calgary That Could Have Been” this morn. Among the 50ish walkers, one woman brought along her original copy of the 1914 Mawson Plan that pitched Calgary as a “Vienna on the Bow.” She found it at an antique store in Aberdeen, Scotland, for £20 in the 1980s

This is why I’ve come to think of conservative leaders as small-ball. Sure, he’s got part of that right, but being unwilling to share the reality and scale of the problem makes him entirely ill-suited to a leadership role of actual import. #cdnpoli

Pierre Poilievre says Mark Carney "expects to have gushing media coverage for going on another trip" -- an event where Canada has been invited as a guest of honour, the first time a non-EU leader has joined the European Political Community Summit.

With the distinct possibility that the courts will prevent validation of the Stay Free Alberta petition, we are left with a single source for the separatists' claim that they collected enough signatures to spark a referendum. And that source is far from trustworthy.👇 But also...🧵

Claims that Stay Free Alberta was unaffiliated with the Centurion Project strain credulity. This post is *still active* as of 11:00pm MT, May 2, 2026.

On March 31, the UCP government introduced Bill 25, a piece of legislation that, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, “entrenches censorship in schools.” Comedian Henry Sir gives us a satirical look at a “neutral” classroom under UCP supervision. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli

A must read from @mitchellab.bsky.social. womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/elections-...

15 is a lot… have to dig deep to find 15 favourite TV shows (spanning more years than I care to count) Bones Silk Stalkings Moonlighting Law and Order Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place Charmed The Good Wife The Dead Zone Psych Shrinking Scandal The Office Masterchef Murphy Brown Frazier

Elections Alberta was warned about the Centurion Projects list as far back as March 31st. Jen Gerson lays it all out here. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

After some wait and a lot of debate… Elections Alberta got back to us on the recent changes to referendum regulations! Looks like the takeover of the Liberal Party can go ahead! And… There are no spending limits for parties, constituency associations or MLA’s! #abpoli

Heads will roll for this and they should. There were so many red flags it looks like a parade of fire; it should be treated as nothing less.” @mitchellab.bsky.social on the Elections Alberta mess. open.substack.com/pub/womenofa...

“The office of the information and privacy commissioner is opening an inquiry into the Alberta government’s refusal to share documents related to a 2024 land deal involving health care entrepreneur Sam Mraiche” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Gets worse and worse. Elections Alberta knew weeks ago. WEEKS! And they declined to do anything? Because the UCP govt told them not to? 🤷‍♀️ #abpoli SCOOP: Jen Gerson: Elections Alberta's massive failure could have put people in danger. I tried to warn them. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

I cant emphasize enough how really bad and dangerous this data breach of electors is.

As a privacy lawyer, it's seemed to me for a while that the treatment of the list of electors is misaligned with privacy principles - an anachronistic laxity with PII that operates without regard to the scope and the sensitivity of information they're entrusted with. This is the exclamation point.

Let me say, it is one of my political ambitions never to have Jeremy Appel and Jen Gerson investigating me at the same time. #abpoli @readtheorchard.org

Different party, same actors, same right-wing populist fascination with weaponizing Albertans' personal information for their own political ends. When will libertarians speak out?

Alberta politics as a whole is quite weird, but the weirdest part is each individual detail.

RCMP confirms they're investigating the leak of most Albertans' names/home addresses to the Centurion Project separatist group. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stay Free Alberta, the group behind the separatism referendum petition, is not part of this Elections Alberta probe, far as I know. Centurion Project and Republican Party are distinct entities in this strange Alberta separatism galaxy

This raises doubt about the authenticity of every signature on the separatists petition.

Wiiiiild *Elections Alberta gets court injunction for separatist group to pull down its searchable voter list *Court told the list was provided by Republican Party of Alberta, an upstart separatist party *Unauthorized use of voter list: Really, really illegal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This claim has yet to be validated. I hope it is inaccurate. If true, though, it is a massive problem. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/prairies...

Leaking the list to anyone - not just a far-right separatist group - would be very bad. It could expose private citizens to unwanted contact, intimidation, profiling, or harassment.

Looks like the alleged data breech does indeed involve David Parker’s “Centurion Project”… And to put the cherry on top is based on tech Parker learned about from..: Tucker Carlson. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Big court date for the InfoWars takeover tomorrow. Cross fingers, knock on wood, send one up. We're hoping our agreement with the families and receiver is greenlit by the judge, despite Alex's hate campaign against them all. If we win, expect an Emergency Broadcast. Stay tuned, and wish us luck.

Remember when the NDP won the election, the PC's were caught staying up all night shredding documents and smashing harddrives?... We are by far the most corrupt province in Canada. There are skeletons in the closets of the legislature.

I thought wrong, apparently.

And I fully expect the only journalist or media org who will cover it, yet again will be @carrietait.bsky.social Honestly, local media should be ashamed of themselves

Before this government buries it.

I was once told there are no coincidences in politics. The Auditor General has been working on a pretty big file for the past 14 months. And he’s finished like, tomorrow. I think a savvy investigator might think to make sure those files and notes were preserved. I’d think. #ableg #abpoli

okay, Buffalo can put their alcohol back on our shelves