Alberta has produced a lot of good people over its history. Preston Manning is not one of them. #abpoli

Smith’s UCP is corrupt AF.

If the premier wanted this to look above board and impartial, she would have picked from the many retired judges who don't have a recent history of donating to political party. Instead, we get this:

Gift article. Very much worth your time: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Opinion | Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption - The Guardian Keep up the good rage people.

I wrote about how Danielle Smith took a good, hard look at the existential damage that could be done to Alberta and to Canada by a separatism campaign and she decided that one thing mattered above all: Danielle Smith. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

“And that is how Ms. Smith found her way to the idea that 700,000 Albertans are demanding a referendum that she deeply regrets, but will facilitate because of her principled commitment to democracy. The disingenuousness of this argument is really something to behold…” #abpoli

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down & follow the law. 🧵

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

#ableg #abpoli

Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans, @lukelebrun.ca reports pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Please Advise! Can I Hit Mute on Alberta? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... Great effort Dr. Steve! Too bad irony is lost on the ditchbilles.

Today’s story is really one giant foreign-policy casserole: Trump went to China looking for a win, because his Iran war has metastasized into an energy crisis, Republicans are starting to sweat the midterms, Congress is still refusing to

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Fantastic analysis. This brief excerpt sums it up. “…enabled world-historical levels of strategic buffoonery.”

New guest Op-ed! With Albertans struggling to understand the full scope of the separatist data breach and asking questions about what can possibly be done, we've got a guest op-ed that pulls no punches by Chris Sturwold! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

Jeff Tweedy made his own New York Times crossword www.pastemagazine.com/music/jeff-t... Took me 42 minutes to solve🙁. It wasn’t the rock and roll clues that did me in.

Nobody ran on separatism. Or on lowering citizen initiative thresholds. Or on weakening Elections Alberta. Or having such a serious question be 1 of 10, added at the 11th hour. Albertans have been subjected to separatism by subterfuge.

Afternoon walk to Bow Falls

Alberta is almost certainly headed towards an independence referendum. But Danielle Smith has been spending the last two years trying to turn the province into a de-facto American state. Is that the real endgame for her? #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/22/o...

More on Alberta’s boundary mess… CBC News election unit analysed the maps: the main report would have produced a 7-seat margin of victory for UCP. The minority report by UCP appointees? A 23-seat win, with many seats narrowly flipped in Calgary. W/analysis by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

It's Not Me, It's Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/i... This piece is the best takedown I have read in a while. The sections on Smith’s response to expensive groceries and classroom disruption should be stapled to every Albertan’s front door.

open.substack.com/pub/womenofa... “a governing party that is confident in its ability to keep winning over voters doesn’t need to gerrymander ridings.” #abpoli #cheaters

2/ Unprecedented, unethical, and blatant rigging of the next election. This has never happened in Canadian history, and is clearly inspired by Trump’s politics. This is an assault on democracy.

1/ The UCP’s answer to the public’s outcry to the idea of gerrymandering? Dump the independent Boundary Commission work altogether and strike a UCP majority committee that will steer the decision towards the electoral map they want without any public input.

Truth. #Caturday

Facts, according to Pete 😳😳😳😡

“Everything you buy makes everything else you own a little less valuable.” - NYT Newsletter Astute observation and a good argument against ordering more shit off of Amazon.

and the Premier pretends she's a libertarian while she has the largest AB govt and has it meddling in our everyday lives??? This govt doesn't seem to prioritize what the vast majority of ABs do... what's the scoop AB? Why do we tolerate this? albertapolitics.ca/2... 3/3

Bring up blaming immigrants for all your problems and half the province laps that up. It's the real Alberta Advantage.

Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... A good read. Considering their identity is tied up in their superior work ethic it’s disappointing that the separatists take the lazy scapegoat approach to blaming immigrants for their own failings. #ableg

I think we can all agree that we've taken this whole "anybody can be president" thing too far.

This is perfect.

This has apparently really upset wotsit Hitler, so please don't share it

"The Premier's credibility is in tatters, and with it, the credibility of the government on fiscal issues... "Doesn't she see that her actions and her words simply don't line up?"

She’s good!

Real forceful rebuttal from the government here. The look on Nicolaides’ face screams guilt.

Parson Island Whales Pass OrcaLab BC, Canada #Canada

Today I want to tell you about my favorite sandwich, where to get it, and some other very important information you might not have heard before.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Rakhi is good!

Fox News using the body of a service member who sacrificed his life for his country to scrub the image of an incoherent narcissist who lied to avoid his own service. Disgraceful.

This is a great example of how Fox manipulates it's viewers. Because they trust only Fox, the Fox audience is completely vulnerable to manipulation by Fox. How could they know that what they're seeing with their own eyes isn't real? They couldn't. They're seeing it happen, it's right there!

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

The UCP's $30-Million AHS Firing Spree via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02... UCP incompetence is endless. Smith and her acolytes couldn’t manage a lemonade stand. #abpoli

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The end of Trumpism has to start in the U.S. but Europe needs to step up for Ukraine.

We can dream I guess.

I have a feeling this is about to become a much bigger story…