Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we stand with 2SLGBTQ+ people in Alberta and around the world.
Everyone deserves to live safely, openly and with dignity, free from hate and discrimination.
Diversity makes our communities stronger. Love is love. And human rights belong to everyone.
@iamamylou@MibshaD Managing their own body and behaviour. You just sound like another toxic controlling women. The real reason for most divorces and why men are choosing to stay single. Women have become worth less.
@GeumpyCabin@MibshaD Well you just told on yourself. 'Keeper of the temple’ says it all. Women become gatekeepers responsible for managing male behavior instead of equal human beings with agency.
Also, abortion rates drop with sex ed and contraception access, not shame-filled misogynistic lectures.
Separatists: Who Owns Alberta’s Oil After You Leave?
Everyone talking about Alberta separation loves to talk about keeping the oil royalties. Stopping equalization. Building a new country on $88 billion in annual energy GDP.
But nobody wants to answer the hard question: what happens to Indigenous land rights the day after independence?
Here’s the reality. Treaties 6, 7, and 8 cover virtually all of Alberta. Those treaties weren’t signed with Canada – they were signed with the Crown. They predate Confederation. An independent Alberta doesn’t get to walk away from them. International law is pretty clear that successor states inherit treaty obligations. You can’t secede your way out of a legal commitment made in 1876.
Then there’s Aboriginal title. The Supreme Court confirmed in Tsilhqot’in (2014) that Aboriginal title includes the right to decide how land is used and to benefit economically from it. Huge portions of Alberta’s resource-producing territory sit on land where title is unresolved. Right now, that gets worked out through Canadian courts and the federal duty to consult. Post-independence? You’re on your own. No Supreme Court of Canada. No federal backstop. Just an infant government facing decades of unresolved land claims with no institutional framework to resolve them.
And here’s the part that should give every separation cheerleader pause: multiple Treaty 8 First Nations have publicly said they would seek to remain part of Canada if Alberta left. The oil sands sit in Treaty 8 territory. If those communities assert a different political relationship with Canada than with a new Alberta republic, you don’t just have a legal problem – you have a jurisdictional nightmare sitting on top of your most valuable resource.
The Enbridge pipeline deal, where 23 First Nations and Métis communities own a $1.12 billion stake? That’s a private contract. It survives separation. The communities that own a piece of Suncor’s Northern Courier pipeline? Still own it. You can change the flag. You can’t change the title deed.
Separation advocates imagine a clean break where Alberta keeps the wealth and ditches the obligations. But the wealth and the obligations are sitting on the same land. You can’t separate one from the other.
Before anyone starts designing a new passport, they should explain exactly how an independent Alberta resolves unresolved Aboriginal title claims, honours treaty obligations without a federal partner, and prevents First Nations in the Athabasca from simply declaring their territory outside Alberta’s jurisdiction entirely.
This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s the first legal challenge filed the morning after a yes vote.
I’d rather own a BYD than a Tesla, not just because it’s a better product.
Because Musk chose to pour millions into Trump’s campaign knowing he was in the Epstein files.
That wasn’t a mistake, it was a choice.
Boycott Tesla.
@iamamylou@MibshaD Keeper of the temple should keep it clean. If I could get pregnant I would take that part seriously. We know what causes it and the dozen ways to prevent it. Getting an abortion is just trash and shows the low life’s of society that we should have done without
@GeumpyCabin@MibshaD And 'keep your legs closed' is always aimed at women, never the men who, with their irresponsible ejaculation, created the pregnancy right alongside them. Funny how responsibility suddenly becomes a one-player game.
@GeumpyCabin@SMills35@peeonlolipop@MibshaD No, Canada does not have elective
9th month abortions! Late-term abortions are extremely rare and always involve catastrophic fetal abnormalities or serious risks to the pregnant person. Pretending women are casually terminating healthy full-term pregnancies is propaganda.
@Exotic97372692@imoblivius@MibshaD Women have over 9 kinds of contraceptives you don’t have an argument and if you aren’t a real woman that can get pregnant your opinion doesn’t matter anyways
@GeumpyCabin@imoblivius@MibshaD There's two problems with this. One, vasectomies are reversible in most situations, and there's such a thing as freezing it. And there's wearing a condom, like OP mentioned. And two, giving a man 3 options that are legal while women only have 1 (birth control) is not controlling
@WynterRain2@peeonlolipop@MibshaD You have your shit backwards. A sign of a lack of intelligence and reasonable preponderance of evidence. Even philosophy tells us you are making the wrong statement l.
@GeumpyCabin@peeonlolipop@MibshaD Tit for tat. If women can't have control of their bodies why should men? Men are making decisions for women but we can't make decisions for men? Now THAT seems hypocritical.
@WynterRain2@King_1455@MibshaD Oh now you get it. You don’t get to use forced vasectomies as an argument for bodily autonomy and responsibility. Pass that along to your ignorant toxic sisterhood. I’m all for you making that argument but not while being a total hypocrite freak
@GeumpyCabin@MibshaD if it were as easy as women “keeping their legs closed” then it should be just as easy for men to keep their miserable penises in their pants. however this argument leaves no room for victims of sexual crimes and i do not believe they should be blamed for any resulting pregnancy.
@Zarish5062 You can always ask and condom sales prove they are being used extensively. Women can always say no or take a pill get depo or get implants or iud or diaphragms with gels etc the list goes on. I’m asking where personal responsibility kicks in
Pregnancy can kill her.
Birth can disable her.
Motherhood can trap her.
But sure, tell me more about how the real victim is the man being asked to wear a condom.
@nyaraVT If you just existed no one would care. What you want is a parade and a fetish suit. Don’t be a spectacle and people won’t treat you like a circus freak
The main reason why trans people struggle with their mental health is because of how difficult society makes it for us to just exist.
Dealing with gender dysphoria is already difficult, but having to endure so much abuse constantly makes you hate yourself, depressed and anxious.
@King_1455@MibshaD I get it. You can’t handle it. Trust me bro. I’ve forgot more than you will ever learn. Now go keyboard warrior to someone else from your moms basement kid
@GeumpyCabin@TroyWestwood Yup, sure sure...
If you actually voted last year in April...that's when he got power...
400,000 "bots" signed Forever Canada...lol
@vicentebuendia@PierrePoilievre The politicians in power today are the problem and they are guilty. You focus one way because that’s your propaganda. Libs love to gaslights
@GeumpyCabin@PierrePoilievre have I said anything about any Liberals? have you asked? deflecting guilt today by saying others are guilty too doesn't remove guilt itself. It's not such a hard concept to grasp.
@peeonlolipop@MibshaD No that’s not why the argument was brought forward. It’s a toxic hypocritical argument with no moral basis other than control. It invalidates anything else the person says. women are saying they aren’t responsible enough to handle their urges or to use birth control on their own.
@GeumpyCabin@MibshaD The vasectomy conversation has only been brought up due to abortions being ILLEGAL in certain places (women have lost their lives due to this), so please get a grip