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A wonderful idea! Why give the grumpy separatists control of the narrative? Let's talk about what's great in Alberta, and what we ourselves can change. Let's show everyone that the grumpy folks aren't the only opinion and maybe that they aren't the biggest voice, even if they are loud.

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This is a very good idea by @jlisayoung.bsky.social and the Alberta NDP should find a way to make it happen -- immediately. lisayoung.substack.com/p/less-ottaw...

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

Monstrous.

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This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Meanwhile… It appears the province has successfully blocked the former AHS CEO from forwarding on two emails to the auditor general. Because Smith and Amery are committed to full cooperation and transparency. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.canlii.org/en/ab/abca/d...

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Measles was ended thanks to vaccinations. Now it is running rampant because of disinformation. Polio was wiped out but is now reappearing. Here is my latest on the role Kennedy Jr and Danielle Smith are playing in tearing down trust in medicine. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-maga-w...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

“The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.”

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"Energy producers in Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, blew past the province's self-imposed limit on annual natural gas flaring in 2024 for a second year in a row, Reuters calculations show. Late last week, Alberta's energy regulator said it was ending the limit on flaring."

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So, what have we learned. We have no money for U.S. citizens for schools, medical care, food, or quality of life issues. We do, however, have money for missiles, unprovoked wars, and for kidnapping people off the street. We have also learned that one party is evil incarnate and the other is useless.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

“Alberta separatism was never about prosperity — it’s about control.” – Cole Bennett Book bans. Anti-LGBTQ+ hate. Extreme ideology in disguise. CBC isn’t fooled — it’s exposing the truth. Defend the CBC. #SaveTheCBC #CBCInvestigates #NoMAGAinCanada #CdnPoli #PublicBroadcasting

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Pierre Poilievre is the only national leader in the history of Canada who refuses (or can't get) national security clearance. He doesn't have a clue what he is talking about as he tries to stoke war in the Persian Gulf. No wonder voters booted his arse out of Parliament.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Emergency room wait times are bad. But they are going to get worse. The recent Ontario budget falls far short of the funding needed to maintain even the current level of hospital services, by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

- war without congressional approval - masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process - concentration camps on foreign soil - US military deployed against protesters - tariffs costing families thousands - gutting healthcare for millions … we’re only 152 days in

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

Masked men in vests for Donald Trump's U.S. Customs and Border Protection are seeing in a viral video "violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into the back of an unmarked car," according to KTLA News.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war. I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

Trump's bombing of Iran serves no larger political or security purpose. He just didn't want to look like a loser as he was goaded by the war criminal Netanyahu. Canada must separate ourselves from the reckless violence of the gangster regime in Washington.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 3 days ago • 345 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 3 days ago • 2096 comments

RFK Jr.’s version of a high fiber diet.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

So unnecessary. :( www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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“Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting almost seven times more methane than the official estimates” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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“Out of 196,901 entries, 118,574 duplicates and 932 blank entries were removed” More than half of the total results were duplicates. This survey isn’t worth the 0’s and 1’s it’s made of. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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Danielle Smith’s UCP is making COVID vaccines harder to get — and charging seniors up to $110 per dose. It’s not about health. It’s about politics. CBC is exposing it. That’s why Conservatives want it gone. Read: r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... Defend the truth. Defend the CBC. #SaveTheCBC

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Trump came to the G7 to promote Russia, undermine his allies, take shots at Canada. And then he went off to pour gasoline all over Netanyahu's latest act of political arson. My analysis of what we are facing. charlieangus.substack.com/p/trump-ligh...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

This is honestly too much. The Premier talking about 135M HC dollars just wasted and acting like she has NOTHING to do with why we are here. Everything she and her govt has done has brought us to this point, a 🧵to recap: buff.ly/HuESfWk 1/10

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Undocumented immigrants can't vote. They don't vote for Democrats because they can't vote. Democrats don't look the other way to let them into the country for votes, because, again: they can't vote. If you are a news org and people tell you otherwise, it's a lie, and you should call it that.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The Premier claims Alberta’s vaccine wastage is the problem. But the real problem is how we got here: – Public health dismantled – Expert leadership removed – Education silenced – Delivery fragmented Alberta’s measles crisis and vaccine collapse were manufactured — not accidental. #ABleg #ABpoli

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It would be really interesting to learn who is advising the Premier on her HC "restructuring"?🧵 Current state: 1: Four new silos, with NO operational control between them (none, nada... ) buff.ly/ufR6u6j

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Where is Jim Dinning? #ableg

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Danielle Smith gov't fought for 2yrs to not release its Alberta pension plan survey results. It's finally out. Only 10% of people expressed support, 63% said don't. by Ed Journal's @matthewblack.ca ack , at long last. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

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My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness. Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Would love to have reporters dig into this incident, which is reminiscent of the Portland arrests of protesters in black vans. My additional question: did these black vans even have government plates?

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

I wonder if the Premier has thought about being on the frontlines taking care of very sick ABs when a new Global Pandemic has hit? Watching pts die of the new virus and worrying if we might contract the virus while at work (and even worse maybe bring it home)? buff.ly/s7M577X

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