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@NorthernPyrite @sarobertson_ It may cost more to extract, but it also adds billions to the Canadian economy which renewable don't. While the industry has some very real & serious issues, it is the driving force behind AB having high wages & contributing the most per capita to federal tax revenues

@86fromspace @sarobertson_ This is a non-renewable resource that is more costly to extract, the more vigorously we extract it. Nevermind all the earthquakes emanating from all the fracking. Seems you have a hill to die on for an industry that doesn’t care about you - and are missing the sense to notice.

Danielle Smith lashes out at “the 14 cowards who signed a letter to the PM trying to derail our MOU,” along with NDP leader Avi Lewis and BC Premier David Eby, accusing them of “creating the environment we find ourselves in” when pressed if she is to blame for the state of national unity.

@Daviers9 @baldpairie @DIYinvestor @338Canada Look up how often emergency rooms and other services are closed at rural hospitals.

@86fromspace @baldpairie @DIYinvestor @338Canada “They’re voting against their own interests” says someone who comes from one of many cities that have destroyed over the past decades

📊Alberta Referendum poll from the Angus Reid Institute: 🟢60% Stay in Canada 🔴35% Begin separation process [Angus Reid Institute, May 22-24, 2026, n=800] 338canada.com/alberta/202605…

@baldpairie @DIYinvestor @338Canada But I'm right, aren't I?

@86fromspace @DIYinvestor @338Canada Lolll. Condescend much?

@NorthernPyrite @sarobertson_ Yes, Alberta is producing record amounts of oil. The question is how much more could have been produced and exported if there was a federal govt that supported instead of hampered the industry?

@86fromspace @sarobertson_ Not a single one of the examples you gave, is hampering the Oil and Gas Industry- We are at all all-time high for extraction and export and profit. We are also looking to other sources of energy so our environment can balance this. Sustainable development is critical.

@NorthernPyrite @sarobertson_ Just how is this "drinking the kool-aid"? These are all measures that have hampered the industry. Especially egregious is Bill C-69 which killed the Energy East proposal. How do you have a resource rich country that doesn't have a cross country pipeline?

@86fromspace @sarobertson_ You drank all the Koolaid eh? Figures. The “tanker ban” just formalized the common sense approach to not have giant oil tankers creating natural disasters in an ecologically significant marine area, with very dangerous waters.

@joint_lord_420 @crunchytarian @guyfelicella Those programs have not kept pace with addiction due to highly addictive drugs like fentanyl and street drugs which are killing people. There needs to be a legitimate multi-faceted approach. Throwing people in an institution already exists, it's called jail.

@86fromspace @crunchytarian @guyfelicella They've tried this in multiple metropolitan cities in north America and all it's resulted in is wasted money and damaged property. They need to be institutionalized.

Let me break it down for everyone 👇🏼 Everyone is upset that an Ontario judge said you can’t just keep displacing homeless people. Here’s an idea: stop complaining about homeless people and start demanding governments actually house people. Then maybe the courts wouldn’t have to step in to protect basic human rights. You can’t oppose encampments, oppose supportive housing, oppose shelters, oppose affordable housing, oppose mental health supports and then complain that homelessness still exists. You don’t solve homelessness by pushing people from one sidewalk to another. You solve it by giving people somewhere to go.

@crunchytarian @guyfelicella What do you think supportive housing is? Prison already exists for those that have other issues beside addition or mental health.

@86fromspace @guyfelicella A non zero percentage of that housing needs to be mental institutions, rehab and for some, prison, otherwise supportive housing will fail to address anything… Wouldn’t amount to any thing more than moving them across the street for a month

@ZeeMatic1 @guyfelicella That doesn't solve the encampment problem. Ask any person with expertise or experience on this issue. Supportive housing needs to be a cornerstone of any policy. Without, the encampments aren't going anywhere.

@86fromspace @guyfelicella Look man, government can't build housing at the speed fentanyl creates homelessness. Crisis outpaces construction. It's physics, budgets, zoning, etc. Treat the addiction first. Housing follows recovery. Not the other way around.

@BertaTheFree @cspotweet @angusreidorg I am no fan of Trudeau. He was a terrible PM, but seriously consider the alternative. Most separatists seem to view the US as some kind of utopia, no thanks. I don't want daily mass shootings, weekly school shootings, medical bankruptcies and grossly underfunded public schools

@86fromspace @cspotweet @angusreidorg Are you from Edmonton? Hoping to understand how so many of you are happy with the direction Canada is going.

A new poll from @angusreidorg finds 61% would vote No on a referendum to call a separatist referendum, compared 35% in favour. A larger number would vote entirely against separation. And a majority say Premier Smith has handle the issue poorly. angusreid.org/alberta-refere…

@ZeeMatic1 @guyfelicella With the advent of fentanyl and similar or more powerful drugs, the problem has skyrocketed. Funding to address the problem from the policing, healthcare and housing sectors has not kept pace.

@86fromspace @guyfelicella That is what government is already doing and have been doing for years.

@BertaTheFree @cspotweet @angusreidorg Right. So why would you diminish the validity of their vote? They have just as much right as anyone else.

@86fromspace @cspotweet @angusreidorg Interesting given that 55+ is one of the highest supporters of independence in that poll.

@crunchytarian @guyfelicella Govts shuttered mental health facilities or "deinstitutionalization" to save money. While 100% eliminating homelessness will probably never happen, providing supportive housing would go a long way towards reducing it.

A non zero amount of homelessness is a mental health and drug use problems. Not a lack of housing. A non zero percentage of them would be best suited to asylums, rehab without government supply, some prisons. But we stopped doing those things b/c of misguided or suicidal empathy Until we start addressing that uncomfortable truth, we won’t be solving homelessness any time soon

@ZeeMatic1 @guyfelicella Govt's are responsible for policing and healthcare which are responsible for addressing the drug problem driving addiction. Homelessness will never be 100% eliminated, but taking informed, reasonable steps to limit it is govt responsibility.

@guyfelicella Blaming government for homelesness while ignoring the addiction driving it is like blaming a restaurant for someone refusing to eat. No government can house every homeless person.Demand is endless,resources finite,land limited,costs astronomical. It’s not lack of care-it’s math.

@BertaTheFree @cspotweet @angusreidorg Approximately 220k students between the 2 cities. Many of whom are from........ rural Alberta or from outside the province who can't vote in the referendum. Seniors? The ones who actually built the province, I guess their votes are just not as important as anyone else's.

@86fromspace @cspotweet @angusreidorg Want to rethink that one?

@BertaTheFree @cspotweet @angusreidorg Yes, Edmonton and Calgary, a combined population of over 2 million people are predominately college students & seniors. This is the intellectual capacity of a separatist.

@cspotweet @angusreidorg Here's the focus areas. Calgary/ Edmonton - Colleges and Seniors. Jobs and Pensions.

@DIYinvestor @338Canada You've never been in rural Alberta obviously. You could paint a rock blue and run it in a provincial election and it would win at least 60% of the vote. Rural Albertans regularly vote against their own best interests because they've "always voted conservative"

@338Canada The heart of anti-separation is Edmonton, where most government jobs are. The heart of pro-separation is everywhere outside Edmonton/calgary, where the least government jobs are.

@NorthernPyrite @sarobertson_ I never said anything against a carbon price. That is only one of several measures the Trudeau govt took which severely hampered the O&G industry. Bill C69, the tanker ban, the emissions cap, & clean electricity mandates. Just look at the lack of investment in the industry.

@86fromspace @sarobertson_ If you think that putting in a reasonable carbon price for an industry that is massively profitable, highly subsidized, and not held to their environmental obligations by government - will “destroy” the industry - I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

@RealDeal_KB @guyfelicella Then fly him to the States. Canadian already have choice. And what if his medical care cost $10,000 and you had no insurance?

@86fromspace @guyfelicella Freedom is about choice , you should have the option to go private. My son sat in an emergency room for 6 hours with a broken arm in 2 places in an unsupervised fall and reception said going to be another 6 hours at least. That’s 3rd world bud.

In America, it’s easier to access a gun than it is to access mental health care. That should terrify everyone.

@RealDeal_KB @guyfelicella How many people go bankrupt in Canada paying for healthcare? How many avoid seeking help because they can't afford it?

@guyfelicella In Canada only cops and criminals have access to guns and you’re free to wait in an emergency room for 10 hours with broken before you see a doctor. You pay 45% of your income In taxes for this privilege. That should scare you!

@JasonOnTheDrums @TheBreakdownAB @Barbielynn01 It's easy to get Dani to call off the referendum, just tell her those CT scanners she could buy would go to Sam Mraiche's companies for private health care.

@TheBreakdownAB @Barbielynn01 Fun fact: the cost of the seprrwtist referendum questions will cost taxpayers $25,000,000. That’s enough for 13-17 brand new CT Scanners. But priorities, right?

The Westview Health Centre is a government owned and operated facility. A Minister/MLA celebrating that they are so underfunded that they're having to fundraiser to buy a CT scanner is a hell of an admission. Especially when funding the staff, so they know it's needed.