The Political Loonie

New official logos for a free and independent Alberta. Let's all rally behind this logo!

@RiseOfAlberta By raising their hydro energy to market pricing, Quebec would be a net contributor to equalization. It's currently government capped to shelter Quebecers from the market price. I believe they would have a modest surplus when combined with immigration control

Question for Quebec sovereigntists, asked in good faith. I see Alberta independence as being driven heavily by economics. Alberta sends far more to Ottawa than it gets back, so the financial argument is obvious. Quebec’s case seems different. Quebec independence appears to be driven more by language, culture, nationhood, and self-determination. So I’m curious how Quebec sovereigntists think about the economic side. If Quebec became independent and no longer received equalization from Canada, what would replace that revenue? Is the argument that independence would create enough savings and new control over taxation to make up the difference? Or is the cultural and national argument strong enough that some economic tradeoff would be worth it? Genuine question. I see Quebec and Alberta as having different reasons, but a similar frustration with Ottawa.

94% of Alberta's Court of Appeal judges were appointed by Ottawa Liberals. 83% of Alberta's Court of King's Bench judges were appointed by Ottawa Liberals. Alberta votes Conservative. Alberta is judged Liberal. Independence fixes this.

@globeandmail Because they'll lose their jobs in the next election if they oppose their voters

Opinion: Why aren’t more Alberta MPs standing against separatism? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

@CalgaryPolice I hate when you shove this shit down our throats. Less time posting gay shit on social media, more time searching for gagandeep singh and all the other foreign criminals running loose in Calgary

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So now that a Liberal appointed judge is attempting to shut down a referendum on separation and a bunch of elbows up leftists bitching and whining about distribution of Albertans names and addresses, only to find out now that the feds sell unlimited census info $10,000 to buy it

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing. When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX. Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau. Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground. But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.” TC cancelled it shortly after. Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction. Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out. Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed. Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country. But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner. That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard. It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa. Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry. Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen. In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense. Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time. If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence. Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc. Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending. We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing. In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit. We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history. The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do. Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session. Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines. Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in. The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

@globepolitics Signal you can't comply. That's what they want

Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

UAE 🇦🇪 just announced they are building new pipeline opening next year Canada today announced a pipeline with a 9 year timeline with BILLIONS for carbon capture Liberals call this moving at unimaginable Speeds

@yegwave Throw him in prison and he'll be gagandeep in no time

A man in Edmonton was kidnapped at gunpoint on May 6 and forced to Calgary in an alleged extortion plot targeting a member of the South Asian community, according to the Calgary Police Service. Police say the victim was abducted from an Edmonton home, assaulted, threatened with a gun, and driven to a residence in Calgary’s Cityscape neighbourhood where suspects tried forcing him to lure the intended target outside. When he refused, he was assaulted again. The target and his wife were later followed and threatened at gunpoint while trying to leave the home before retreating inside and calling police. Officers arrested two suspects that night after stopping a vehicle near Metis Trail and 104 Avenue N.E. Taranveer Singh, 24, Daksh Gautam, 25, Akashdeep Singh, 18, and Pardeep Singh, 24, have all been charged. Gagandeep Singh, 29, remains wanted on warrants. Police say he has connections to Calgary, Ontario and B.C. Investigators say a privately manufactured firearm was seized and believe more suspects were involved.

@yegwave @ABDanielleSmith you don't have to wait for the courts. You can approve a referendum

BREAKING: Premier Smith says it shouldn't be up to a single, unelected Trudeau-appointed judge should overrule the 700K Albertans who want a separation referendum. She also suggests she would appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court.

Now that Bill C-22 is threatening our business, where should Windscribe move to?

@Jamessstanton @CoryBMorgan Not if we keep the same broken system. I'd like to think we can build something learning from the mistakes of other constitutions. The US system protects rural areas well. The Swiss system has direct voting. The Australians have health care and education well balanced

@PoliticalLoonie @CoryBMorgan so question for you. Do you really think you will be getting better representation once alberta becomes independent with 83% of the population in the cities? last provincial election edmonton voted NDP along with Half of Calgary.

Straw poll time. Has the Alberta/Ottawa agreement to maybe, possibly, hopefully approve a pipeline in a year and a half made you less inclined to vote for independence in a referendum? Yes or no.

@windscribecom I wish I'd known of your stance when I got a VPN recently. It would've influenced my decision. But if my current provider also closes ops here, I can only hope that you'll take a stand and provide services for Canadians in defiance of this bill. Otherwise freedom is lost here

We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data. Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens. Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.

@randyhorst3 @CoryBMorgan I think we should turn Vancouver into one really big tank farm since the oil has to be stored somewhere

@PoliticalLoonie @CoryBMorgan Did the announcement include the removal of the tanker ban? A pipeline will be useless if the tanker ban is still intact.

@Jamessstanton @CoryBMorgan Rural Alberta. The part that funds the entire country

@PoliticalLoonie @CoryBMorgan Do you live in rural alberta or the cities?

@RebelNewsOnline What about the tanker ban? Or are we just going to turn Vancouver into a really big tank farm?

Premier Smith says it's a "good day" for Alberta as she joins PM Carney to sign a new deal between the province and federal gov't. It's a "major step forward," Smith says, adding construction on a new pipeline to the west coast could begin "as early as September 1, 2027."

@WeAreCanProud Not a single Canadian in the video

It turns out that not all security guards in Canada will just stare and watch you steal things!

@duchess_elle @Alberta_UCP @ABDanielleSmith @SamBlackettAB Bro your bio is wild. You'd be first in line to speak at an NDP convention with all those victim cards. But are you a UCP member? Because if not, you don't get a say on membership. Freedom of speech has to be the top priority above all else.

If this person holds @Alberta_UCP membership its time to remove him. Racism has no place in the party. @ABDanielleSmith like he says enough is enough. When is racism okay? @SamBlackettAB remove western standards press access until they are able to remove him from the platform. End racism. Enough is enough. Signed This Fucking Indian from up north. Lois Cardinal

‼️MAJOR BREAKING: Carney's surveillance Bill C-22 comes under fire from Big Tech + US Government -Signal: "we will pull out of Canada" -Meta: "the bill will conscript private companies into service as an arm of the government’s surveillance apparatus" -Apple suggested it might withdraw some of its privacy services if Bill C-22 is passed as is -Jim Jordan, chair of the judiciary committee: "it will drastically expand Canada’s surveillance and data-access powers in ways that create significant cross-border risks to the security and data privacy of Americans."