Alison Creekside

Settler on the Salish Sea
http://creekside1.blogspot.com/

"Socialism is merely an extension of the ideal of democracy into the economic field"
~Eugene Debs

#cdnpoli #socialism #climatejustice #beyondgrowth #ProportionalRepresentation

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2026-03-30 01:25:54 CEST

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Thank you, Dana - a much more substantial article too:
CBC: More details of RCMP 'dirty tricks' revealed

2026-03-29 23:04:16 CEST

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You young 'uns won't remember but in 1999, Gwynn Morgan, then president of Alberta Energy Company, colluded with the RCMP to set off a bomb that blew up a shed at a gas well site. They did this to try to entrap locals who were acting against the oil wells' sour gas leaks, and also to drum up public sympathy for the oil&gas company whose shed was blown up. #fossilFuels
The original plan was for Gwynn Morgan and the RCMP to blow up an oil tanker truck but Morgan was afraid it would prove too unnerving to truckers.
There used to be a lot of CBC stories about this RCMP/oil&gas company conspiracy but I think this is the only one still standing:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/oil-company-defends-rcmp-collaboration-1.168596

2026-03-29 05:28:25 CEST

CTV: Prime Minister Carney plans to attend Sunday's Juno Awards #cdnpoli
The Cons are going to lose their shit about this ...
Why is Carney going to the Junos instead of sweeping up the broken glass in Aisle 6?
Nobody I know has ever gone to the Junos ...

2026-03-29 04:07:59 CEST

"Lewis-adjacent slate sweeps NDP executive election
In a surprise development, the 'non-establishment' slate swept the party's president, vice-president and treasurer positions, suggesting change is in the air." by Jeremy Appel #NDP #NDP2026
https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/lewis-adjacent-slate-sweeps-ndp-executive

2026-03-27 15:02:52 CET

The Carney gov will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas.👀
#cdnpoli #AI
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/25/carney-allowed-gas-powered-ai-centres-after-lobbying-from-alberta-energy-company/
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2026-03-26 17:43:19 CET

42 headlines in 2 weeks in the National Post as curated by David Mastracci of The Maple.
Postmedia is majority-owned by Chatham Asset Management, a US hedge fund tied to the Republican Party.
Only 0.23% of Postmedia shareholders are Canadian. #media #cdnpoli
Do all these headlines seem normal to you?
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2026-03-26 16:27:56 CET

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Israel has had 75 years of conscripting its 18 year old citizens into the army and a couple of years of us seeing those conscripts posting their thumbs up headshot kills on TikTok.
What does that do to an entire society over the course of 75 years?

2026-03-25 18:43:07 CET

"Canada rejected the permanent residence application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials." #AI #cdnpoli
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article_3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html
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2026-03-25 18:19:56 CET

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LA Times: Doing the Math on Trump's War Budget
"Trump has spent more than $25 billion on his Iran war and wants $200 billion more."
Center For American Progress, March 24: By the End of the Week, the Trump Administration’s War in Iran Will Likely Have Cost $25 Billion
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/by-the-end-of-the-week-the-trump-administrations-war-in-iran-will-likely-have-cost-25-billion/

2026-03-25 15:41:45 CET

US officials tell The Post they no longer believe it is possible to achieve the war's original goals of overthrowing the Iranian regime and putting its nuclear program permanently out of reach so $2billion later, the new goal is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz closed by the war. #US
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2026-03-23 19:41:21 CET

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Because Jack Layton chose him because he was from Quebec

2026-03-23 19:40:12 CET

I'm guessing Coke is thinking the part that's going to cause "undue hardship" to CocaCola is that the injured worker repeatedly warned management about the malfunctioning door that eventually injured him. #cdnpoli
Pillaged from Trapdinawrpool on BSky:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/go-public-coke-coca-cola-factory-injury-wcb-frustrated-empoloyement-disability-9.7133409
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2026-03-23 09:42:57 CET

Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair's lavish public praise for PP's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast seems unlikely until you remember Mulcair joined Stephen Harper's lobby firm Wellington Advocacy in January.
While Harper does not actually appear on Wellington's masthead, there he is in all the Xmas photos and formally welcoming new staffers.
Mulcair said Poilievre gave one of the best political speeches I've heard any Canadian political leader give." #cdnpoli

2026-03-20 17:06:42 CET

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116262234419385777
Billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Northback is suing Canada for $2B under an investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, for their finding that the Grassy Mountain coal project in Alberta is too toxic to proceed. #cdnpoli
#note16a8…dgr2

2026-03-19 18:39:55 CET

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EKOS, Vote intention by region. Hello Alberta!
https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2026/03/from-collapse-to-dominance/
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2026-03-19 17:23:53 CET

EKOS: #cdnpoli #poll
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2026-03-18 14:54:43 CET

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I don't know #GiantLeap. Can you link me something? Here's the Leap Manifesto from a decade ago:
https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/#manifesto-content

2026-03-18 13:41:48 CET

I see media ans Alberta NDP people criticizing Avi Lewis for his advocacy of the Leap Manifesto a decade ago.
The 2015 Leap Manifesto called for :
*A shift to a "100% clean energy economy" by 2050.
*An end to gov subsidies to the fossil fuel industry
*Support for community-owned clean energy projects
*A universal program for retrofitting, prioritizing low income communities
*Re-training for workers in carbon-intensive industries
*Localization of agriculture infrastructure
*A moratorium on international trade deals that infringe upon democratic rights
*A debate on universal basic income
*An end to corporate funding of political campaigns and examination of voting reform.
Scary stuff, huh. #NDP #NDPleadership

2026-03-16 17:48:50 CET

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I liked something about all of them in the leadership debate.

2026-03-16 17:45:46 CET

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Cons ~678K; Libs ~400K; NDP ~100K
Numbers only as reliable as party reports on leadership races.

2026-03-16 05:34:59 CET

Canada has around 28,500,00 registered voters.
The current NDP leadership campaign has raised the number of NDP members from 60K to 100K.
That is around one-third of 1% of registered voters.
Gods but that's depressing. #NDP #cdnpoli
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2026-03-15 19:16:49 CET

Prime Minister Mark Carney in the HoC in French, now: “Canada is not participating in the offensive operations of Israel and the United States and will not ever." #cdnpoli #Iran

2026-03-08 18:40:07 CET

15 years ago Repub Senator Lindsey Graham, up in Canada to speak at the Halifax International Security Forum, pitched a pre-emptive strike on Iran to "sink their navy and destroy their air force".
Among the other speakers were Condi Rice, John McCain, a number of Israeli ministers and members of the American Enterprise Institute, John Manley, Janice Gross Stein, Vic Toews, and Mark Carney. #Iran #cdnpoli
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2026-03-06 17:12:09 CET

All this gas was refined weeks ago in Canada and has nothing to do with the Strait of Hormerz so why are gas prices rising at the pump here?
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2026-03-05 15:09:54 CET

So the US knew the location of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka bc both the US and Iran were part of a military exercise hosted by India which the US pulled out of at the last minute, presumably so as to bomb the unarmed Iranian ship.
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2026-03-04 17:20:12 CET

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Women across all age groups overwhelming oppose the air strikes; men not so much.
Huge gender disparity here in Angus Reid poll, which combines the results into one 49 - 34 overall poll.
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2026-03-04 15:54:24 CET

The Prime Minister of Spain on FB 3 hours ago:
"The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR."
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2026-02-28 18:46:53 CET

This from The White House 8 months ago is still up on their website :
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2026-02-28 16:18:01 CET

Carney and Poilievre release more or less identical statements on defending US and Israel from Iran.
Carney: Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the security of its people.
Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,
Poilievre: Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.
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2026-02-26 06:21:47 CET

Not The Onion : Ahead of Carney trip, Ottawa says India is no longer linked to violent crimes in Canada. This aligns with Carney’s vision of a “pragmatic” foreign policy. 👀 #cdnpoli
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ahead-of-carney-trip-ottawa-says-india-is-no-longer-linked-to-violent-crimes-in/article_d620c47a-b310-4b97-b0c5-5625d312f576.html

2026-02-26 05:50:52 CET

100 users are responsible for almost 70%t of all online conspiracy claims in Canada.
In 2025, Meta made $16 billion from ads for scams and banned goods, including from Epoch Times in ads targeting Canadians under false names.
But Musk's X is worst offender. #cdnpoli #media
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada

2026-02-22 21:14:37 CET

"In Q3 2025, there were 197 net migrants to Alberta from international origins"
This is a direct screen grab from the Gov of Alberta Economic Dashboard.
I don't think 197 migrants is enough for Danielle Smith to go all full-metal Kristi Noem about.
#abpoli
https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/dashboard/net-migration/
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2026-02-22 19:25:36 CET

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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHd2O_KuCxA&list=RDsHd2O_KuCxA&start_radio=1

2026-02-22 19:01:32 CET

Billy Bragg, 10 minutes ago :
"Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA." #hockey #olympics
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2026-02-22 18:25:12 CET

Oh very nice. #olympics2026 #hockey
We'll just store this one alongside the Fox News chyron: "Loser Canada loses"
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2026-02-22 17:59:07 CET

Danielle Smith peddling her Kristi Noem crush into 9 immigration-related and constitutional questions on Oct. 19, 2026. #abpoli
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1662609259388108801/pu/vid/640x360/LRxFS-RtTKEert5p.mp4?tag=12

2026-02-22 10:12:15 CET

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UCP TV ... UKIP TV -- all same
@npub170y…28tz

2026-02-21 18:30:05 CET

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: “Here in Canada, we like pipelines. We like oil and gas pipelines.” #CPPIB #cdnpoli
CPPIB manages assets totaling $777.5 billion, from 22 million contributors to the CPP.
CPPIB has major investments in American fossil fuel companies, AI companies, and fossil fuel companies seeking to power America’s AI expansion.
https://thewalrus.ca/the-canada-pension-plan-is-funding-trumps-fossil-fuel-and-ai-ambitions/

2026-02-20 15:26:16 CET

Here's Danielle Smith whining at Trudeau in 2024 about Alberta not receiving a larger allotment of immigrants and temporary workers. #abpoli
She would like the number allowed doubled!
h/t @KatyET www.abresistance.ca
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2026-02-20 14:59:32 CET

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She kinda needs there to be no new pipeline to boost her 'boohoo Ottawa won't give us another pipeline so let's separate' story.
Andrew Leach: "Smith's government has seen the highest real, per capita resource revenue outside of the governments of Lougheed and Klein. To blame immigration because you can't manage a resource boom is awful." #abpoli
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2026-02-20 14:35:54 CET

Duh.
Edmonton Journal Feb 18
The provincial government's search for a major private investor to build a pipeline to the West Coast is reportedly stalled by the uncertainty surrounding a potential separatism referendum this fall. #abpoli
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2026-02-16 21:42:31 CET

On his field trip to the USA, CPC MP Jamil Jivani went on Breitbart to explain his Charlie Kirk incel clone tour of Canadian universities:
“We started planning it before the great Charlie Kirk was assassinated; rest in peace. But… in the aftermath of that tragedy, there were so many Canadian students who spent their entire lives watching him on YouTube, and wanted to honor that same commitment to free speech and free debate that he represents,” Jivani said. “So we got so many invitations to go to Canadian universities and colleges, and we’ve been doing this tour since October now, very much like Charlie did." #cdnpoli
Alrighty then.
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2026-02-16 20:17:01 CET

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Alberta has the same big mads energy you had when you were 7 or maybe 10 years old and considering "running away from home". You hadn't really put much thought into where you were going to sleep after the first night or who was going to pay for your guitar lessons now.
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2026-02-16 04:27:09 CET

Jeffrey Rath of Alberta Prosperity Project is suddenly more coy about their ultimate 'sovereignty' objective actually being Alberta joining the US.
Nuh-uh-uh... #AlbertaSeparatism #abpoli
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2026-02-14 05:15:07 CET

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And after he's deported his 20 million migrants, what's he going to use all those detention camps for?

2026-02-14 00:35:35 CET

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Also Globe & Mail today: Enbridge tops fourth-quarter profit estimates, shares climb to all-time high.
Enbridge Inc. says it made a profit of $1.95 billion in the fourth quarter, up from $493 million in the same quarter last year.

2026-02-13 20:47:33 CET

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As I recall, the pollster oversight trade body Market Research and Intelligence Association disbanded itself in 2018.
Is there a replacement I'm not aware of?
I'm pretty hard on pollsters for their links to their conservative-leaning parent firms that nobody cares to acknowledge, when really the problem is more the media's fault for using them far too much b/c cheap filler. And there is also the problem of political polling being such a tiny percentage of pollsters' income compared to corporate.
Angus Reid thoroughly publicly disgraced himself by piling residential school denialism on top of being gulled by a rw site blaming Trudeau for church burnings, but I wouldn't call AR bias the worst of them.
That said, AR CEO Shachi Kurl is not Angus Reid.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/albertan-separatism-has-left-pierre-poilievre-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/article_5dfbddf7-4862-4302-97e3-7948e744993f.html

2026-02-13 19:04:26 CET

An independent Alberta would be "a real sausage party" according to an Angus poll.
71% of females plan to vote no.
Of those 81% would leave AB following a yes vote. Modelled out, 58% of all women would leave #Alberta
Biggest predictor of no vote is gender. #Poll
From Angus Reid poll data breakdown here :
https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2026.02.07_Separatism_FINALS_PR.pdf
h/t ‪@sqirlgirly.bsky.social‬ on BSky for link
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2026-02-13 16:39:01 CET

Ecologist Ben Lockwood boosts Mastodon:
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2026-02-13 10:04:28 CET

Dennis Modry, founder of the Alberta Prosperity Project, reports asking US help in setting up an Alberta army.
He said the group asked American officials whether the U.S. would be willing to provide a $500 billion line of credit if needed.
“Alberta will also need its own military,” Modry said, adding: “And would the U.S. be willing to work with Alberta in the development of an Alberta military? That’s on the table for discussion.” #abpoli #AlbertaSeparatism #treason
NBC: Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230

2026-02-12 23:06:22 CET

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Amazing, isn't it?
The average Canadian working fulltime makes less than a third what an MP makes.

2026-02-12 21:42:54 CET

An MP's base salary is $209,800.
When CPC MP Mike Dawson tried to refuse the standard $10K April raise as a matter of conscience because the average salary in Canada is 69,000, he was admonished & heckled by his CPC colleagues. #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-pay-bump-heckled-chastised-9.7086772

2026-02-12 05:29:55 CET

Alberta CPC MPs decline to speak out on Canadian unity in Alberta because they "don't want to undermine CPC Leader Pierre Poilievre's chances of forming government in the next election."
Well ok then. #cdnpoli
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2026-02-11 22:55:43 CET

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It’s because we’ve apparently all accepted the Israeli/US notion that it’s an open air prison on its way to becoming an exclusive waterfront resort.

2026-02-11 20:13:52 CET

Dr. Hassan Kapasi from Guelph has done humanitarian work in South Sudan and Bangladesh bringing in medical equipment to doctors where there are shortages. Despite clearing his entry with the IDF before arriving, he has twice been denied entry to Gaza and is now permanently banned.
#freepalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-doctor-denied-gaza-entry-9.7080727

2026-02-10 01:29:00 CET

Latest installment in Trump's Canada Derangement Syndrome:
1) China will forbid Canada to play ice hockey and eliminate the Stanley Cup
2) US should get to own half the bridge Canada built and paid for between Ontario and Michigan.
3) "I will not allow this bridge to open until the US is fully compensated for everything we have given them." #cdnpoli

2026-02-09 21:18:12 CET

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Weirdly if you type DP World (Dubai Ports World) into Google News, you get a lot of stories about golf.

2026-02-09 20:54:15 CET

CEO behind Canadian ports was close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, emails reveal
DP World's Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem discussed sex with young women in emails with child sex trafficker #cdnpoli
IJF has paywall. Alternate for details: https://www.ft.com/content/d8f95644-b2d2-48d4-8027-7b1e2ac0e59d
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2026-02-08 17:25:57 CET

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CPC MP Michael Chong once explained why Poilievre does not have or apply for top security clearance. #cdnpoli
It is not very reassuring.
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2026-02-08 17:23:26 CET

HoC petition sponsored by LibMP Bruce Fanjoy calling for all party leaders to get top security clearance. Poilievre, who Fanjoy bested in the last fed election, is the only party leader not to have one.
If you haven't signed a HoC petition before, validation of your signature comes after you sign a link in an email they send you. #cdnpoli

2026-02-07 18:58:48 CET

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So ... 20% of sitting UCP MLAs support Alberta independence and support an additional referendum “to gauge the will of Albertans to seek U.S. statehood or territorial status.”

2026-02-07 18:22:51 CET

19 UCP MLAs who publicly support Alberta separating from Canada: #abpoli #cdnpoli
Bouchard, Eric -- Calgary-Lougheed
Cooper, Nathan -- Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
Cyr, Scott -- Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Dreeshen, Devin -- Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
Getson, Shane -- Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Horner, Nate -- Drumheller-Stettler
Hunter, Grant -- Taber-Warner
Johnson, Jennifer -- Lacombe-Ponoka
Loewen, Todd -- Central Peace-Notley
Long, Martin -- West Yellowhead
McIver, Ric -- Calgary-Hays
Nally, Dale -- Morinville-St. Albert
Petrovic, Chelsae -- Livingstone-Macleod
Pitt, Angela -- Airdrie-East
Schow, Joseph -- Cardston-Siksika
Sigurdson, R.J -- Highwood
Stephan, Jason -- Red Deer-South
Wright, Justin -- Cypress-Medicine Hat
Yao, Tany -- Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
https://albertarepublicans.com/actionhub/mla-independence-scorecard/
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2026-02-05 04:40:39 CET

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One day later ... FFS
Jamil Jivani on X:
"Productive meetings today with the White House and State Department.
The President asked me to pass along a message: “Tell the Canadians | love them.” I'll have much more to say later. More meetings with Senators, GM, and others this week."
#cdnpoli
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2026-02-04 20:23:09 CET

Former PM Stephen Harper at the formal unveiling of his portrait:
“Come together against external forces that threaten our independence and against domestic policies that threaten our unity. We must preserve Canada, this country handed down to us by Providence, preserved by our ancestors and held in trust for our descendants. We must make any sacrifice necessary to preserve the unity and the independence of this blessed land.”
#cdnpoli

2026-02-04 13:36:00 CET

Along with Alberta traitors bragging about hitting up the US for a $500 billion loan to break up Canada, Danielle Smith changed AB election law last July to make foreign bribery and interference in elections & referendums easier to do and more difficult to trace. #Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli
▶️ Allows corporate contributions for provincial elections
▶️ Increases maximum election expense limit to $5 million per registered political party.
▶️ Increases third party election advertising spending limit to $500,000
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2026-02-04 06:34:10 CET

Whoa. Creepy CPC MP Jamil Jivani, friend of US VP JD Vance, announced on X he's on his way to Washington to help the Liberal gov negotiate a trade deal with the US.
Jivani recently completed a Charlie Kirk clone tour across Canada
He says he's tired of hearing posturing about "elbows up" when the US is our largest trading partner and he's unhappy about "EVs coming from Communist China". He says he "has a strong network in the US and can help build bridges between our two countries."
Ugh. #cdnpoli
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2026-02-03 00:24:57 CET

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Hi Paul. You perhaps missed my post before yours earlier today
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/116002063742020079
@npub14fj…q4pk

2026-02-02 23:48:13 CET

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Years later we're still having to explain to people you can have ranked ballots as part of #ProportionalRepresentation
@npub14fj…q4pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkVPduMg3w

2026-02-02 17:03:13 CET

Avi Lewis: "The next time the NDP has the clear balance of power in a Liberal minority, one demand - proportional representation. That's the only one.
Not studying it further or deciding later or having a referendum - implementing the damn thing.
Let's have a citizens assembly, a quick process to decide which version - there's lot's of good ones .... and then we just implement it.
And I think then our political culture will re-align. I believe there's a progressive majority in this country.
There's a progressive majority for an independent policy from the US, particularly around Israel.
There's a consensus in this country for renewable energy, for real climate action,
There's a consensus that we need to not just stop privatization of our healthcare but expand.
So I think we'd get some of these things if we had a better electoral system so we gotta fight for it."
#avilewis #ProportionalRepresentation
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bYAiYLDqB2c

2026-02-02 07:02:47 CET

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Look, Glen, I don't want to defend the pipeline pushers but the gov of Canada has about a billion pages of hourly pipeline utilization at that link I left and "committed capacity was effectively fully utilized each month, averaging 99% utilization" sounds pretty straight forward to me.

2026-02-02 05:05:57 CET

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From my limited understanding from the gov's TMX pipeline info pages, the 80% of TMX reserved for "committed shippers with long term take-or-pay contracts" is at capacity:
"From June 2024 to June 2025, committed capacity was effectively fully utilized each month, averaging 99% utilization."
while the remaining 20% set aside on a monthly basis for uncommitted spot shippers is not at capacity due to the higher rates.
So the pipeline's overall capacity is 84 -89%.
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/dc343c43-a592-4a27-8ee7-c77df56afb34/resource/404fa9e0-73b1-4a8c-9f43-8045d7edb426

2026-02-02 03:59:37 CET

Thing is about AB wexit and their sacred pipeline .... both Eby & Carney would likely be just fine with expanding TMX instead of building a whole new pipeline in a new location but then Alberta would:
~ lose their perpetual grievance avatar
~ not be in control of a TMX expansion, the feds would be
~ not be able to blame enviro regs & FN & the Libs in Ottawa for all their woes that oil&gas corps don't want to fund #Alberta #cdnpoli

2026-02-02 00:10:38 CET

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Also how weird is it that Rath slags Ottawa as communist at every available opportunity yet all this wexit crap is to enable oil&gas corps to get another pipeline to sell to the communist Chinese.

2026-02-01 23:28:31 CET

AB separatism booster Jeffrey Rath explains to CTV's Vassy Kapelos that rather than being a pawn in a US game, he and his wexiteers are more like a rook or a queen.
Alrighty then. Pillaged from Scott on BSky.
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2026-01-31 23:00:59 CET

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Good point. Also explains preponderance of white male teenage delegates in the Calgary crowd.

2026-01-31 22:19:47 CET

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Chattels here means personal belongings - they are not so stupid to include women in that descriptor. It's part of Danielle Smith's "bastions of freedom" standards she got from the US.
@npub1klm…jxt2

2026-01-31 17:55:21 CET

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Alberta has the fourth highest population in Canada and so winds up paying the fourth largest amount in federal taxes.

2026-01-31 17:26:27 CET

Congratulations to Skippy on his 53% approval last night from 2,166 votes out of a possible 4,116 elected Conservative delegate votes.
#cdnpoli #CPC26 vt.tiktok.com/ZSa4Kwvc8/
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2026-01-31 16:32:48 CET

Althia Raj, reporting from the Con convention in Calgary last night that voted 87.4% to keep Poilievre:
"Another huge applause line was when Poilievre promised to “stop the Liberals from censoring politically incorrect Bible verses.”
Looking at video of the crowd, a surprising number of the voting delegates appear to be teenagers, #cdnpoli
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2026-01-31 10:07:51 CET

Factchecking Alberta separatist grievances...
"Alberta is the sole pillar holding up the rest of Canada"
Net federal tax (thousands of dollars) by province or territory in all tax brackets for the 2023 tax year,
as per StatsCan #cdnpoli
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2026-01-30 20:25:10 CET

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I don't dismiss people agitating for Alberta secession as much as you do because it mimics some Great Game components.
I imagine the Ukrainians who make up a majority in the Donbas are no longer as excited by Russian folk clubs touting the prospect of being promised independent statehood by Russia as they were before Russia invaded.

2026-01-30 20:01:30 CET

"Premier Danielle Smith indicated to him that if the province goes it alone she’d stay on as its leader. And the title she’d prefer in the role is prime minister."
Really? Not governor? I thought she was going for governor. #AlbertaSeparatism
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/30/Separatist-Says-Premier-Smith-Talked-Leading-Independent-Alberta/
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2026-01-30 16:39:42 CET

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CPC had 5 times the amount of money as the Libs in 2023 after Poilievre was elected leader in 2022.
David Coletto, Abacus Data:
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2026-01-30 15:41:40 CET

Danielle Smith: “So part of when I decided I wanted to run [for Alberta premier], I knew how important it was to make sure that we addressed the issues of autonomy,” Smith said at the Alberta Prosperity Project and Ezra Levant’s Rebel News event.
“And I talked to Dr. Modry as one of my first steps. I said, ‘let’s try this together.’”
#AlbertaSeparatism
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/14/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-backs-separatists-calling-undrip-marxist-agenda/

2026-01-29 23:52:22 CET

I'm not sure why Alberta Wexiteers wanting to join the US is suddenly a big story about treason 11 months after Jeffrey Rath went on Fox&Friends to announce it and DeSmog wrote about it.
Except that Premier Eby read about it in the Financial Times yesterday. #abpoli #media
CBC radio was all omigod about it this morning, although they don't like the word treason any more than they like the word genocide.
They also gave AB Premier Smith a big pass, saying its not her fault, even though it was Smith who actually altered Alberta election law to help the future separatist referendum succeed.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/20/meet-the-calgary-lawyer-pitching-alberta-to-the-u-s-as-the-51st-state/
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2026-01-28 15:32:21 CET

Today is the last day to join the NDP so you can vote in the NDP leadership race at its convention in March.
A Green New Deal, housing, health care and a public option for groceries, Lewis’s labour platform offers a bold agenda to expand workplace democracy and workers’ rights, rein in artificial intelligence, fix Employment Insurance, and promote justice for migrant workers, immigrants, and refugees.
Avi Lewis’s NDP Labour Plan Is A Remarkable Document
https://www.readthemaple.com/avi-lewis-ndp-labour-plan-is-a-remarkable-document/

2026-01-28 14:42:03 CET

You can do that?
France will replace US Microsoft platforms with its own domestically developed video conferencing platform for all gov departments by 2027 as part of a strategy to stop using US software vendors & regain control over critical digital infrastructure.
(h/t @npub1qfd…pmm0
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con

2026-01-27 15:01:04 CET

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Zipps Sports Grill at 32nd & Shea, Phoenix, Arizona
https://bsky.app/profile/zhbuchanan.bsky.social/post/3mdf3rik2c226
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/27/homeland-security-executes-warrant-popular-arizona-sports-grill-chain-zipps/

2026-01-27 13:55:49 CET

ICE just driving around in trucks macing people on sidewalks now ...
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2026-01-27 11:35:22 CET

Carney's bill to counter the 27% increase in food prices over the last few years will mostly serve to subsidize the big 5 grocery stores - Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Costco & Walmart - which have already profited billions by that same 27% price increase:
Carney's bill includes:
$11.7 billion boost of 25% to GST benefits over 6 years. Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit to 12 million low income Canadians.
$500 million to help businesses address the costs of supply chain disruptions without passing costs on to consumers.
$150-million Food Security Fund that will help small- and medium-sized businesses to expand greenhouses and abattoirs.
$20 million to food banks.
Poilievre said in the House yesterday that he will support the bill.

2026-01-26 02:48:19 CET

ICE ordered fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Brampton, Ont., firm Roshel said to meet ICE's requirements for vehicles 'to support agents in the field’
And here they are pushing thru people "in the field"'
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2026-01-25 13:58:31 CET

In the Batman series, The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot) is a villain due to childhood bullying, his desperate deep-seated need for respect and power, and his use of violence to assuage paranoid perceived slights.
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2026-01-25 12:48:00 CET

Wexiteer Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath says he hopes Washington would provide Alberta a $500-billion US line of credit to get started.
He also said Alberta would have a “common tariff market” with the US and "would also quickly adopt the U.S. dollar as its currency and abandon the loonie". #abpoli #Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-separatism-scott-bessent-9.7059168

2026-01-23 14:43:03 CET

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Carney did accept Trump's Board of Peace invite in principle though, didn't he?
"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says while he’s accepted Donald Trump’s invitation on principle to join the president’s “Board of Peace” to oversee next steps in Gaza, it’s just unclear now what the $1 billion permanent membership fee is for."

2026-01-23 14:34:55 CET

Most of the world's problems could be solved by directing money currently being funneled to billionaires to solving climate change, health, education, housing, & poverty instead.
125 countries at the UN had a plan to recoup some of that yacht money by tackling global tax avoidance as a joint global issue.
The 9 countries that voted against it one year ago were US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and Korea. #EattheRich #billionaires
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/keir-starmers-government-votes-to-block-un-plan-to-tackle-global-tax-avoidance/

2026-01-22 13:56:07 CET

Pillaged from BSky:
Adam Schwarz: "Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America."
Trump already suggested in his Davos speech that his Board of Peace could replace the UN.
But first the Trump/Kushner/Bibi consortium will build a resort on the ruins of #Gaza.
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2026-01-20 14:42:47 CET

I guess Trump's "Board of Peace" with its 2-tier billion-dollar invitation-only membership is supposed to b a parallel United Nations only run like a real estate crime syndicate.
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2026-01-20 13:56:14 CET

Canadian Cynic :
"I think it only makes sense that Alaska belong to Canada. Who's with me?"
Well definitely the Panhandle for starters, right?
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2026-01-19 16:47:38 CET

"Alberta is the linchpin [...] They are getting out of the Canadian union, they are going to become an independent state, we're gonna recognize them and put them on the pathway to become the 51st US state." #abpoli
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2026-01-19 15:20:24 CET

So Trump says he is going to invade an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of *Denmark* because *Norway* didn't award him the Nobel Peace Prize.