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As Alberta prepares for the 2027 provincial election, the electoral map’s scheduled redrawing has led to accusations of partisan gerrymandering. Here's why, feat. pretty maps by the @globeandmail's data team. Words by me #ableg theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…

@gcosteloe @Prominent_Bryan Skill issue

@Prominent_Bryan Plebs: "Etransfer is amazing! What other features would you want." Me: "I would like to schedule the same payment to the same recipient each month." Plebs: "That's far too much innovation to ask for after 20 years."

I will never understand why Canadians insist e-transfer is better It isn't. It's always more annoying to use than the US system (or what they have in the rest of the world) I'm not saying interac e-transfer is terrible or unusable but it is objectively less convenient than Venmo, especially if you don't already have this person in your contacts It's weird how defensive Canadians are on this. Weird elbows up stuff. But it's always from people who have never experienced the system in the rest of the world

@FoxLaw10 @d_h_sanders To bring that into the modern context - nukes and predator drones now on sale at Walmart?

@d_h_sanders As an european with no dogs in this fight, it doesn't make sense. Those rights were made not to have "safe amount of force" but to have force that can match against a tyranical state. Limiting the access to modern arms reduces the defense of the people.

It effectively illustrates that you could not commit a mass shooting with technology from the 18th century

@hogueonlife @marionumber4 'Overrun with invaders' is clearly a dogwhistle dude. You're just blatantly disingenuous

@A_Kam @marionumber4 You want another picture? There are plenty of them. By the way is it just a habit for you to call people racist? I don't see that word applying here.

Right-wingers when retirement

@hogueonlife @marionumber4 That photo is from a sanitation workers strike 🙄 It's hilarious that you're using the results of strong labour action - the reason the French have a strong social safety net and high quality of life - as an excuse to be a racist POS.

@A_Kam @marionumber4 Not overrun with invaders, items on the shelves of stores, working infrastructure, safety of native citizens, rule of law, that sort of thing.

@hogueonlife @marionumber4 I'll take a well funded retirement and functioning infrastructure over whatever your delusional notion of what a 'country' is.

@A_Kam @marionumber4 But they don't have a country. There is that.

@hogueonlife @marionumber4 The French have food (famously so) and retire at 64.

@marionumber4 Well someone has to. Things don't magically appear on shelves...

@SEELE_OPS @esjesjesj It's a world famous aquarium that rakes in tourist dollars

@esjesjesj id assume the prices are high because they let in poors for free. creating that equity hurts everyone else and takes from them. so now only ebt card holders go to the aquarium right, that or people stupid with money.

To be so extremely clear, letting poor families and children learn about marine biology is a pure good that helps society as a whole. These people want poor people to suffer merely for being poor

@CoryBMorgan The hardship you must experience on a daily basis 🙄

Has putting French on cereal boxes in Western Canada increased national unity? Yes or no?

@addammy1 Another bigger tunnel under the 401

Brace yourselves - you are about to witness the most insane slopulist policies over the next little while as Dear Premier tries to restore his polling lovefest. Think big. Speed limits abolished? Jack Astor’s vouchers? He will not tolerate being disliked like this

@calgarytransit If we're going to depend on shuttle buses, could we at least ATTEMPT to have enough of them to handle the capacity?

#CTRiders #RedLine There is no CTrain service between 39 Ave & Anderson stations due to mechanical issue. Shuttle buses are in place connecting you between all the closed stations.

@CarlHeretic @timhoven You know this isn't changing the amount of sunlight hours right? Cows don't know what clocks are.

@timhoven You know farm animals as outside workers .... need SUNLIGHT ???? Dont cry if inflation happens

Permanent DST is a dumb idea. Make STANDARD time the standard.

@xaviairrr @mil000 The leading Y tells you it's in Canada.

Hmmm, what a hard choice

@trimmingguy @coreyhoganyyc He represents a Calgary riding, and the Alberta Liberals are basically non-existant at this point.

@coreyhoganyyc Why is a federal liberal mp weighing in on provincial politics promoting the NDP??

Interesting big-sample poll from Pollara that exposes an Alberta provincial race different than conventional wisdom. In AB, if you want to govern you need to win 2/3 regions: Calgary, Edmonton, other. UCP trails in Calgary and Edmonton while running up the score elsewhere. But running up the score - winning a riding by 50 instead of 15 - won’t get the UCP more seats. This is much better than the NDP’s 2023 result in Calgary. And in 2023, the Alberta NDP would have won with 6000 more Calgary votes in the right places. As long as there isn’t a gerrymandering of the electoral map to split communities between now and when we vote, these numbers would result in an Alberta NDP government. Thats where we are - and those are the stakes of the independent electoral boundary commission’s work.

@B3man1 @sarobertsonca There's a strong possibility that Nate Erskine-Smith resigns his seat to seek the leadership of the Ontario Liberals. Beaches East-York seems like a decent enough riding for Avi to attempt a run in.

@sarobertsonca Let's see how long that declaration lasts. He's effectively resigned to leading his party from the outside, without a seat in Parliament, for the next 3 to 4 years.

Q: You don't have a seat in parliament... will you be doing what Poilievre did, which is persuading one of your caucus to gently step aside? Avi Lewis: There is no way I'm asking one of these spectacular people to step aside. Not in a million years.

@ssmackenzie75 @CanadianPolling No, seeing as the last election had a voter turnout of 59.5%

@CanadianPolling Would that be the 30% of the population who generally vote in elections? Just curious

Alberta - Independence Polling: All: 🔴 Remain: 73% 🔵 Independence: 27% NDP Voters: 🔴 Remain: 97% 🔵 Independence: 3% UCP Voters: 🔵 Independence: 55% 🔴 Remain: 45% Pollara / March 25, 2026

@Lam_mour @humantransit There's absolutely no way you're getting an uber in Vancouver for $4

@humantransit That's mainly because Canada thinks money grows on trees. Vancouver's bus rides cost more than Uber rides, but the cost is mainly paid by taxpayers.

Excellent piece on why Canada is better than the US at public transit. One thing it misses: There is just a lot more transit in Canada, measured in revenue hours / capita. More buses more frequently. Transit is more useful, so people use it.

a freeway costs $50-200 million per mile to build and we don't ask it to turn a profit. a train line proposes the same price tag and suddenly it needs to be self-funding by 2031. the infrastructure we subsidize reveals what we value and we have chosen the car every single time

@ryanwinchester @CoopTory Fukuoka to Sapporo is over 2000km and they're connected by the shinkansen.

@CoopTory It's 359km across Switzerland from Geneva to St. Gallen Just from Windsor Ontario, to Quebec City is 1200km

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