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@stephen_taylor I’m sorry but did we consult FN before taking a pole on who will be AB next premier?

hello police? i'd like to report a homicide.

@MikeJamiesonYYC They say the more local the government the more it affects you. I don’t agree with this, I try not to pay any attention to city hall, endlessly debating issues like backyard chickens for years, flip flop on zoning. Reading YYC bylaws would prob give me a heart attack.

The Infrastructure and Planning Committee voted successfully to advance the removal of the Free Fare Zone. Here's why I supported it: - $5 million in potential revenue recovery. - Simplifies fare enforcement for our officers. - Discourages fare evasion. - A safer downtown means more visitors and more business, it means a revitalized downtown. - Downtown disorder doesn't stay downtown. It rides trains into our communities - Why should downtown riders get free trips when Ward 12 and Ward 3 commuters pay full fare every time they step on a bus? - Low-income transit passes already exist for Calgarians who genuinely need support #yyc #yyccc #yycpoli #calgary

@CPComm @sarobertson_ @QwertyDee_ Now instead of a quick poll this will go on and on now

@sarobertson_ @QwertyDee_ So, I'm an oil company CEO considering investing in building a pipeline from Alberta to a coastline from landlocked Alberta. The premier of Alberta wants me to do it and has the prime minister on her side, but she also wants to be Queen of a sovereign country. What should I do?

Steve Paikin: "If you want to have a discussion about leaving Canada, you Albertans, well then surely the Indigenous people of Alberta are entitled to the same consideration given they've had treaties in place for hundreds of years."

@guyfelicella I joinedi joined in 2022. Back then it was a liberal echo chamber, then Elon bought it and it turned very right, now my feed is heavy on leftist repeat posts (same person 10 posts a day on same subject). It has its problems but it’s good to have a place all opinions can be shared

Anyone else feel like Elon Musk turned Twitter into a misinformation machine where outrage, baiting, and lies are rewarded with money and engagement? The algorithm amplifies rage over truth, and bad actors profit from spreading misinformation while credible voices get buried. Freedom of speech was never supposed to mean freedom to deliberately deceive millions of people for clicks and cash. People intentionally spreading dangerous misinformation should be banned 🚫

@knows_jill I agree. Quebecoise and their federal party are not Canadians! Shall we begin trying them for treason or is just Albertans you have a problem with?

It's really simple: if you are a separatist, you are anti-Canadian and should be treated as such by real Canadians. I will block separatists without commenting on their anti-Canadian comments. I suggest all real Canadians do the same!

@Cndn4Life Replace “society and culture” with “class of victims”. That’s the problem with Albertans that want separation. They have no victimhood credentials, now get back to work so you can pay monthly support to the victim classes in Canada!

There is no comparison between the Quebec and Alberta separation movements. Quebec separation is based on being a distinct society and culture. Alberta separation is based on money and the perception of some of being wronged.

@Reil76 The clean break would be pose the question and a majority say no to separating and that would be it. This judge just prolonged this for a long time. Kinda like “there will be no more ICE vehicles and we are transitioning no debate” followed by years of climb down to reality.

Breaking: Alberta judge quashes the separation petition. 300,000+ signatures. Doesn’t matter. Error in law. First Nations weren’t consulted. Done. Smith has a clean exit she’s been looking for since day one. Don’t expect her to add separation to October’s ballot voluntarily. The movement isn’t dead, but this path is

@YukonStrong I don’t recall indigenous consultation before the Quebec referendums 🤷‍♂️ you can’t pose a non binding seek your opinion question vote is ludicrous! Don’t care about your justification in law and the nice words, CDN judges should have common sense but they obviously do not.

Pissed about the decision? Me too. Imagine how our canvassers feel 💔 Analysis, predictions and how to respond. #WEXIT

@acoyne Getting tired of saying this but how did Quebec have a referendum and no one thought to tell them no. If you want separation to go away, have the referendum and if 70% say no then it’s done. It’s a non binding question to see what the public is thinking. 🤦‍♂️

Imagine that. Turns out you can’t lawfully hold a referendum on whether to take something that isn’t yours: like land covered by treaties, or the sovereign territory of Canada.

@nenshi Did you consult with the First Nations before you posted that comment? I guess you broke the constitution and I would guess “international law” 💩

Today, a judge has thrown out the Alberta separatist petition because Danielle Smith’s UCP government failed in its legal duty to consult First Nations. I want to thank the fearless First Nations who stood up and led this fight against separatism – not just for their nations, but for all Albertans and for Canadians. Specifically, thank you to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, the Blackfoot Confederacy, and Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, for fighting for our country with your time and money. First Nations are not alone, as the vast majority of Albertans stand alongside them, opposed to a costly, divisive exercise. This referendum violates treaty rights, it would cost Albertans hundreds of millions of dollars, and is now tied to serious public safety concerns thanks to the largest data breach in Alberta’s history. The Premier says that she’s exploring other ideas. Here’s an idea, Premier: call off the referendum and put this to bed. This petition is dead. This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist. Accept the court’s decision. Nobody is above the law – and certainly not this Premier. Albertans are proud Canadians and want nothing more than to move on from this and focus on the things that really matter.

@sarobertson_ The Feds mandated then all development stopped. Now you have AB under Auntie Danielle, proposing something that may work and the green priests retain some status in the church and they accepted. If AB had the power to decide, what would that look like? $20/tonne?

Shannon Phillips reacts to Ottawa-Alberta carbon deal: "What an extraordinary moment this is in Canadian federalism when one province has essentially set the terms for climate policy for the entire country."

@Reil76 Now gross that up by 20% of all healthcare, education, banking, insurance, home construction etc that rely on those O&G peoples salaries.

@Everett19811 Add all that and it’s 20%

Alberta separatists claim oil is the key to independence and they’re not gonna pay income tax. Wellllll Alberta made $22B from oil & gas royalties last year. Sounds like the industry is carrying the whole province, right?Here’s what they don’t tell you. Income taxes brought in $24.2B. Regular Albertans and businesses quietly out-contributed the oilpatch. And oil isn’t stable. In 2015 when prices tanked, resource revenue collapsed to $2.8B. The province ran deficits almost every year from 2008 to 2022. Next year, with oil forecast lower, resource revenue is projected to drop to $13.2B while income tax stays steady near $24B. So when someone tells you we can’t afford to question the oil industry, or that pipelines and royalty breaks are non-negotiable because oil funds everything, ask them this: Why does a province sitting on one of the world’s largest energy reserves keep going broke every time the price of a barrel moves? The industry is important. Nobody’s denying that. But it’s a volatile. Alberta has been using boom revenues to avoid hard conversations instead of building something durable.

@RodAVanier So what you’re saying is the Canadian economy is completely dependent on trade with USA?

And then there is your friend Mr Trump, threatening to destroy the Canadian economy.

@Reil76 Yeah 8% work directly for O&G production companies. How many work for the trucking, drilling, enviro, engineering, equipment and construction cos providing services to them? Who are the big clients to the insurance and banking cos in AB? 8% lol, you have no idea!

@Everett19811 People there also like to overestimate since only 8% of the workforce is in o&g 🤷‍♂️

@theobjectivist Plus Mandan was wering black gloves, killers wear black gloves. I’m not saying Mandan is a killer but he is wearing killers gloves

Same move. Same hand on the heart, same wave to the crowd. Musk did it and gets called a Nazi to this day. Mamdani does it and those same people have not said a word. Well, not exactly. Once the side by side clips went viral, some of them did speak up. Not to apologize to Musk. To defend Mamdani. Suddenly the gesture is not the gesture. Suddenly we need to talk about arm speed. Whether the fingers wiggled at the end. Whether he was smiling. Whether his grandparents were in the right party. A year ago none of that mattered. The hand went up, the verdict came down. Now we get a forensic seminar on millimeters and microseconds to prove Mamdani's arm moved slower. Mamdani's own press office said "in no way was this a Nazi salute." Funny. Musk said the same thing. His did not count. Mamdani's did, instantly. That tells you everything. The "Nazi salute" thing was never about the gesture. If it were, they would be screaming right now. They are not. It was about Musk. They hate him because he is the richest man in the world and he was attacking their ideological piggy bank with DOGE, so they smeared him. Mamdani is on their team, so he gets a pass, plus a defense team running stopwatch analysis. Same hand, opposite verdict. A wave is a wave. The rule does not change based on who is waving. When it does, you are not watching principle. You are watching a hit job.

@Reil76 Some of the income tax in your stat are paid by O&G companies that pay higher rates & royalties and the salaries they pay are higher in O&G so higher rates. People like to understate the value O&G brings to Canada, exports and non-financial service industry is reality.

@Reil76 In AB we joke, do you work in oil and gas or oil and gas services? Point is all that a big portion of personal and small business income tax comes from oil and gas salaries and businesses connected. As for dependence on a boom bust industry, we all need it, it’s essential, period

@FidelisLobo @mario4thenorth Can we deal with fraud if that’s what it is regardless?

@mario4thenorth Not Canada federals issue. It’s is your heroines issue. Danielle’s issue. Alberta daycares (licensed child care centres or facility-based programs) fall under provincial jurisdiction, specifically regulated by the Government of Alberta’s Ministry of Education and Childcare.

Is this Canada's own Learing Center? Bluebird Child Care Centres: Edmonton. Their About page literally says "Early LEARING and Care." TWICE. Also on the page: "famalies," "prorgamed," "deveelopment," "fmailies," "benifit." Gallery? Two stock photos. No facility. No staff. No children. Business listing? Photos from "Bluebird Care" a UK ELDERLY home care company. Not a daycare. Not Canadian. Not them. I called. 4 times. Nobody picked up. Sound familiar? Cause I think I’m getting suspicious.

@sarobertson_ She speaks the language of victim hood, which is probably the most popular language in Canada

Outgoing Governor General Mary Simon: "We know that Indigenous languages are not part of the Official Languages Act, but to me they are just as important as English and French ... every day there are languages across the country that are being lost. To me that's not something we should just ignore. I think we need to do more for Indigenous languages."

@UnitedCanucks26 @LauraBabcock @althiaraj @ChantalHbert @BenMulroney The difference people treat Quebec separatists compared to Alberta separatists is breathtaking and that people don’t see that just highlights the case for separation.

“The only democratic solution to this is that what happens to Canada is decided by all Canadians. Not by a group within it. Or if I can really boil it down: You absolutely have a right to leave this country. It’s a free country. You have a right to leave Canada. You do not have a right to take a piece of it with you.” Well said @acoyne! 🇨🇦 Quote by: Andrew Coyne Canadian columnist.