So thank your lucky stars you got protection. Walk the line and never mind the cost. don't wonder who them lawmen was protectin', when they nailed the savior to the cross. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trumps-bor...

Alberta exceptionalism is as big a myth as American exceptionalism. We have oil. A geographic and geologic lottery. 50 years of government mismanagement has pissed those lottery winnings away. Now... we'll pay the piper.

Alberta immigration trends and Danielle Smith's rhetoric: a visual timeline.

NEW: The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs has unanimously voted no-confidence in the UCP government. “Danielle Smith’s government is acting as an embassy for the worst we’ve seen from south of the border, and it’s time to say no,” says Treaty 6 Confederacy Grand Chief Joey Pete.

Premier Danielle Smith claimed Ontario doesn't offer health coverage to temporary foreign workers' families. But that province does, under several conditions. Watch this fact check. #AbLeg www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The more I think about it the funnier it is that the star player for the Ottawa Senators thought he could pal around with a guy who keeps threatening to invade and conquer Canada and is now surprised that the optics aren’t great

So… We’re spending 2.3 billion to replicate the services that were built into our former integrated system because Dani was committed to disintegrating it? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

The Alberta budget follows a decade of real per capita hospital cuts From 2014-2023 provincial real per capita hospital spending declined by four per cent Alberta was the only large province with per capita spending cuts over these years #abpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"We will not sit back and watch as this government lays out the welcome mat for making Alberta the 51st State in breach of our Treaties." Mikisew Cree First Nation has filed a lawsuit for Danielle Smith’s flagrant disregard for Treaties. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Happy #abbudget day everyone #ableg #abpoli

All health care workers deserve to be fairly compensated But we need to be clear: this 22% increase will not likely increase access for Albertans by expanding services, it is for increased compensation Where is the plan to increase access? #abpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

I have a hard time believing ICE has ever vetted anybody who works for them.

These are the kinds of stories that need to get to the people who think ICE is simply being too aggressive right now, but is generally fine

Demonizing immigrants must be gaining traction for the Conservative Party of Canada. Also, the federal CPC and Alberta's UCP must be sharing the same political comms strategist, who appears to be either an American who has worked for the Trump regime or a Canadian Trump regime acolyte.

What a letter to the Montreal Gazette! Correcting health info. Spread this far and wide! montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

A 'Tiny Minority' of Social Media Accounts Drive Canadian Conspiracy Content via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Listen, I don't trust these guys to be super aware and can get the "the White House is the White House so I still want to go for what is usually the honor" angle. I even get that some of them like the dude. But man, don't say "why is everyone making this political" and then put on his personal merch

When Danielle Smith claimed 80% of federally picked judges had donated to Liberals, that was way higher than any figure I'd researched. I dug into it. Could confidently write here: "It is not true. The single media source Smith got that fact from has since corrected it." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Put them in whatever order you wish, I am equally proud and grateful to uncountable others for all three: I am a Canadian I am an Albertan. I am a descendant of Immigrants.

This may qualify as ‘staggering.’

UCP: We’re making a historic investment in finding doctors! Physicians: Say what? First we heard about it! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/ucp-...

“The pattern that we’ve seen with other really quite expensive failures like the failed lab privatization, which cost taxpayers over $100 million, and the gov't had to backtrack on … is poor decisions,” said @alonghurst.bsky.social w/ @policyalternatives.ca calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/22/a...

The data centre will consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...

Canada should invite the American women's hockey team to join the Canadian women's team in a celebration of how far women's hockey has come. I was inspired watching both teams. As for Trump and the pumped up males who cheered on his derision of real athletes: f--k them.

InformNapalm says that Ukrainian hacktivists exposed Russia’s use of UAV control repeaters and Belarusian civilian infrastructure to expand drone strikes on northern Ukraine. Access to Russian operator accounts allowed monitoring of routes over Belarus and revealed incursions toward NATO countries.

In other news, while 13.9% of Trudeau appointees had made political donations to the liberals... 33% of Smith's appointees have made donations to the UCP. Or using Amery math... 100% of UCP appointments who have made donations made them to the UCP! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The Tyee has republished my post on Danielle Smith's fear-sowing, xenophobic, unconstitutional 'referendum' plans. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Why the FUCK is the director of the FUCKING FBI using YOUR TAXES to FLY TO ITALY so he can party with pro hockey players?!? In WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE is this ok?!

Real near-miss from an AB ED: Pt was examined standing up in a hallway - no stretchers available for a pt w chest pain EMS on offload delay, dropping all patients to the ED WR Only place to see the patient was a non-private hallway with no monitors or staff. 1/2

Ended up being a life-threatening lung blood clot! This case and many others were sent to the Premier and Ministers and they have not even acknowledged receipt... They promised action publicly, but nothing has happened since early January when these cases were shared. 2/2

In 2024, Premier Smith was demanding Trudeau allow 20,000+ additional immigrants to Alberta. But now with a huge budget deficit, she's scapegoating the immigrants she wanted to come to Alberta. #ableg #abpoli

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h... Photo: Bart Heird / Flickr cc

Recently, UCP government advertised that “Alberta is open for business”, wanting to grow Alberta’s population to 10 million by 2030. Now, influx on new Canadians is blamed for overcrowded hospitals, schools, and deficit. In reality, mismanagement is the culprit, not immigrants.

Immigrants are not Alberta’s problem. They’re here legally. They’re the ones serving you coffee at Timmies. Populist governments need a scapegoat, an “out-group”. For Hitler it was Jews, for Trump it’s Latinos. It’s an un-Canadian and deplorable political strategy. #ableg

Alberta's NDP slam Premier Danielle Smith's planned referendum on limiting access to education and health care for some immigrants www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social and friend

Rakhi Pancholi made it very clear today… She believes that Smith’s rhetoric is absolutely fueling racism and bigotry in Alberta and called out her failure to condemn Bruce McAllisters recent bigoted comments. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Premier Smith cares only about keeping her job. And if she has to burn Canada to make that happen, well, that's a sacrifice she's willing to make.

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

Remember, Auditor General Doug Wylie's term ends April 28. Will he have enough time to properly investigate and complete his report? This is where the RCMP's progress, or lack thereof, on its criminal investigation becomes important.

None of Smith's referendum questions are likely to result in actual policy change. Because they require constitutional amendments (federal veto) or are plainly unconstitutional. Assuming "yes" votes carry, what then? Kenney's equalization referendum didn't soothe separatists. It emboldened them.

Net migration in Alberta. Up, up, up, down, down, down. Net international migration to Alberta totalled 197 in Q3 2025, down 99% from 32,046 in the same quarter a year prior.

Can we talk about some of the oil-related stuff in the Premier's address? I'll get into the immigration piece in a column tomorrow, but some of the assumptions around oil production and exports she was using were....bananas?

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

Dr. Wesley's prediction likely to be correct; the UCP government and their alt right media auxiliaries have been beating the anti-immigration drum pretty hard for at least a few months now. Not just as an appeal to the fringe, but also as an excuse for lack of progress on health and housing.

Premier Danielle Smith and her close circle of advisors marinate in the extended MAGA media eco-system like no other Premier’s Office in Canada.

To prebunk what we can expect to hear tomorrow: 🔴 Immigrants pay provincial taxes. 🔴 Many non-immigrants don't. Cutting off immigrants' access to public services isn't about protecting taxpayers. It's about picking and choosing who is worthy of healthcare and education.

And from the province with the lowest per capita hospital spending in the country

👀🟥 Edmonton Riverbend MP Matt Jeneroux has crossed the floor to the Liberals. He had served as a Conservative MP for the south Edmonton riding since 2015 and was a PC MLA for the three years before that.

"Racism is immoral. It is poison" Jason Kenney is sounding off at the right-wing website Juno News for platforming a white nationalist The white nationalist who advocates mass deportations is causing a rift between Alberta's former premier and a right-wing outlet run by his own former spokesperson

"We are in a lot of trouble, and we need to move fast. There is no reason to confine our imagination to what is reasonable or even practical. It is not enough to hope for the best. We have to plan for the worst." - Andrew Coyne www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...