🇨🇦 RitaLouise
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Addiction is a Disease. Recovery is a Choice. Here I am. All alive and shit.
An Open Letter to Premier Danielle Smith, The delivery of 301,620 verified signatures to Elections Alberta on Monday is not merely a bureaucratic milestone; it is a thunderous demand for self-determination that your government cannot ignore. These names represent Albertans who stood in the freezing cold, IDs in hand, to ensure their voices were counted. They have met and nearly doubled the legal threshold required to bring the question of Alberta’s future to the ballot. You gave your word that if the signatures were gathered, the question would be put to the people. Now is the time to honor that promise. We are acutely aware of the legal maneuvers and injunctions seeking to silence this movement. However, the political authority of the Premier of Alberta is derived from the people, not from the delays of the court or the objections of interest groups. The Referendum Act provides you with the clear power to place this question on the ballot for October 19. Any attempt to use judicial "pauses" as a shield to avoid this democratic duty will be seen as a betrayal of the very sovereignty you claim to defend. This movement has done the hard work of democracy under the most grueling winter conditions. They have operated with transparency, verifying every participant to ensure a pristine list that stands above reproach. The possibility that these 300,000 citizens must wait indefinitely while their rights are debated in a courtroom is an insult to the provincial electorate. You have the mandate, you have the numbers, and you have the legal framework to act. We demand that you bypass the legal static and immediately take the necessary executive steps to include the independence question in the October referendum. The eyes of the province—and the country—are on you. Do not let this historic expression of the democratic will be buried in legalities or process. Put the question to the people on October 19 and let Albertans decide their own destiny. Sincerely, Colin N. MacLeod
I feel so disgusted with the generational vibe that told us that having kids wasn’t a priority and that being a mom was kind of a lesser path. Dealing right now with someone close to me who completely missed the life she should have had, which would have made her very happy— as a mom of a bunch of kids. She believed the social justice messages and made other choices. Materialistic superficial choices btw. She’s traveled extensively and has fancy appliances and a nice (huge, empty) house — and a bunch of social justice bona fides. She was misled. This isn’t someone who was always a bit salty and never wanted kids. She wanted them, but it seemed lame and selfish and not as important as her SJW pursuits. (Which amounted to what? Nothing. The whole thing was a vibe.) I have the same life advice.
