Technically, they’re Remains now.

Fine, I’ll write about the Calgary Stampede party tent dustup, which Danielle Smith & Co. were even keener to write about themselves. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An interesting press release from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. #abpoli #ableg #yyc #Calgary

Thanks to @sarobertson.bsky.social for clipping this. The purported manifesto is an incel critique of capitalism with calls for a revolution to remake society into a misogynist hell. It takes ideas from the left and right but the common thread is a hatred of how women live their lives in the West.

I have had a lot of time to think about this lately, what with a 5-hour emergency room visit late last night without seeing a doctor and 630am line-up for routine testing at Alberta Precision Labs. All for an 80 year-old parent. This is the UCP's healthcare system.

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳

We have net negative immigration flow into Alberta, and the rate has been halved since 2025. This flies in the face of the Smith govt's anti-immigrant rhetoric that's fuelling this fall's referendums. Also shows that the Trudeau boogeyman is dead. economicdashboard.alberta.ca/dashboard/ne...

This isn't a slip of the tongue or an off-handed remark. The premier's office sends Bruce McAllister onstage and online to say vile things because they want him to.

How I wish this very funny paragraph did not make perfect sense in this essay you should read by @mitchellab.bsky.social. womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/this-week-...?

This week on 'Whatever This Is': we are watching political gravity finally catch up to Danielle Smith. #ableg #canpoli #abpoli

Apparently I’m the broken record that keeps reminding conservatives (!!) prices are up because of volatile supply. Higher costs deter depletion of said supply. Prices went back up when Kenney cut it, when Carney cut it, and would if Smith cut it, too. The market is market-ing! Ffs #abpoli

“The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs (AOTC) of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7, and Treaty No. 8 has unanimously passed a resolution calling for an investigation by the RCMP & Auditor General into the actions of Premier Danielle Smith & members of the UCP to determine whether they constitute treason”

The Alberta School Board Association earlier this month also affirmed their position that all children have a right to education as described in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is also apparently in open defiance of Smith’s prejudicial referendum question. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"Every child who walks through a school door in this province deserves to be there. This should not be a political question. It is a commitment every Albertan should be proud to uphold." The Alberta Teachers Association is calling out Smith's prejudiced referendum question. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

🎶 The cheeze stands alone, the cheese stands alone, high-ho the derry-o the cheese stands alone 🎶

This dopamine isn't working, let me try some of dopayours

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

Holding a big metal rod to own the libs.

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

Carney: Canada, to its great credit, did something unusual with those who came. It didn't require them to become something unrecognizable to themselves in order to belong. And it's the same bargain that we in Canada strike with every immigrant population.

Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.

BYE BITCH storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UCP board members at an independence rally, committee members campaigning for Leave groups: my look at the senior United Conservatives who don’t believe in a united Canada like Danielle Smith says the party does. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Love it when someone sums up my thoughts much better than I can. This is a great if disturbing read

“The reason Conservatives aren’t stepping up to defend democracy <on gerrymandering> is because they don’t think a situation where a non-conservative government can never win is a bad thing.” I hate it but I think Deirdre is right. This is how deep those conservatives “feelings” run in Alberta.

Splashing cold sea water on a favourite separatist talking point. #cdnpoli #abpoli #Alberta #Canada #BC

SpaceX IPO Final Boss

A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report. Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...

It's actually a false distiction. We live in a parliamentary democracy where all laws must be passed by government. Even governments that have received advice from the public in a "binding" referendum can (and have) decided not to pass the results into law.

As long as you are in line before polls close, you are allowed to vote. Yes: the lines will be ridiculously long across the province, but especially in urban areas. Tough not to see this as a voter suppression tactic. Get-out-the-vote orgs should be planning to motivate people to stay in line.

My gawd.

A lot of people have a lot of good questions about this fall's separatism referendum in Alberta. But they may be afraid to ask because they feel the answers are obvious. This is a safe space. No stupid questions. What do you want to know? (Spoiler: I won't have all the answers.)

Immigrants account for 1 in 4 health care sector workers. It's doesn't take a degree to figure out what Danielle Smith's anti-immigrant referendum is doing to healthcare workforce. Who would move here with their families? Who will stay? #abpoli #ableg www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Nothing says campaigning for a "united Canada" like making your case for unity conditional on your own agenda while simultaneously fuelling animosity toward the federal government.

TRANSLATION: Idiot CONS not willing to learn from the mistakes of others forced to learn the hard way that Americans pay more to get less for healthcare.

"I can’t be certain this isn’t the stupidest thing I’ve had to think about under Danielle Smith’s leadership but it feels like it has to be in the top three."

“If the private/not-for-profit sector still has to rely on government funding to provide services then it’s not a private/not-for-profit enterprise; it’s just a public service that elected officials aren’t held accountable for delivering poorly.“

Deirdre is right! You can’t create satire that’s stupider than the reality of how the UCP is purporting to “improve” delivery of public healthcare…..it’s no laughing matter! #ableg

"I can’t be certain this isn’t the stupidest thing I’ve had to think about under Danielle Smith’s leadership but it feels like it has to be in the top three." There are sooooooooooooooo many contenders though. #AbLeg

"UCP doubles payments for surgeries, says government 'must start somewhere' to lower healthcare costs." This is why we can't do satire anymore. #ableg #abpoli womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/surgical-c...

Trevor Tombe with important insights on the value of Canada's economic union, moving us beyond zero-sum arguments of who wins and who loses. thehub.ca/2026/06/04/h...

Danielle Smith's senior Calgary aide vends in several disproven 2020 US election conspiracy theories here, including noncitizen voter fraud and rigged vote machines. As part of argument for putting Canadian citizenship markers on Alberta drivers' licences.

“This is the worst breach in Canadian history involving voter data,” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli oipc.ab.ca/information-...

“the Nisga'a Lisims Government has held no discussions with Alberta and the Federal Government about any oil pipeline proposals” Well this just got awkward… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

For all the talk of hard hats and jobs for big boofy blokes, women have claimed 6 out of 7 jobs created since Trump's return. Let's explore why job growth is tilting so hard to women, and what this means for our economics and politics. Read & watch→ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-pink-c...

NEW: UCP MLA who promoted the separatist petition quietly quit his parliamentary secretary post last month, but will not disclose why. Premier Smith has strived to say her caucus and cabinet support staying in Canada. Jason Stephan has been the lone public outlier. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

Someone in the premier's office has to explain how holding a referendum on separation helps you achieve any of these other goals. Is it a knife-to-the-throat strategy? That's the only way it makes sense. Because a separation vote wastes any goodwill necessary to achieve these amendments.

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Why is anyone still talking to Pete Hoekstra? He’s a trump troll. Walk away. #cdnpoli

Danielle Smith is claiming that a separatist referendum doesn't violate treaty rights and that she would be able to implement the results "constitutionally". Last night we unpacked how ridiculous both of those claims are! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli