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Activist: "Beef uses an obscene amount of water. Fifteen thousand litres per kilo."
Farmer: "Where did the water come from?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The fifteen thousand litres. Where was it before it was on the bill."
Activist: "I don't know. A river?"
Farmer: "The sky. About ninety-four percent of that figure is rain that fell on the field and got drunk by the grass. The cow ate the grass. The rain was on its way down whether the cow was here or not."
Activist: "But it still counts as water used."
Farmer: "By the grass. Which would have used it whether I farmed or moved to Spain. The cow isn't commissioning the rainfall. The rain isn't on the cow's payroll."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The rain still falls. The grass still drinks it. The water cycles back into the air anyway, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's rain, grass, cow, river. Or it's rain, grass, rot, river. Same circle, fewer dinners. Meanwhile every almond in your milk took a gallon of pumped aquifer water in California to grow. That one you might want to worry about. The rain in Wales is doing fine without your concern."
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@Martyupnorth Multiple women in my family had severe menstrual cycle disruptions, including miscarriage.
But we’ll never know for sure.
I’ll always wonder, but I’ll never have concrete root cause surety.
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@Martyupnorth Yes. My sister went to bed on a Wednesday, and just never woke up on Thursday morning.
It took 14 months for Alberta autopsy results, the only indicator of anything was that she had bitten her tongue, so official cause of death was “presumed seizure”
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Do you know anyone who you suspect was vaccine injured, or died from the jab, but won't admit it, or no one talks about?
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@MetamateDaz I’ve done both.
If you think I’m paid to just go to meetings, you do not understand very much.
Each worker, in both roles, must contribute to earning wealth.
The problem solving and knowledge levels (skills) are different and not as interchangeable.
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Service industry workers being called “low skilled” frustrates me so much because I could absolutely do a desk job and sit in meetings all day, but I guarantee you’d quit in 10 minutes if you had to serve the public for 12+ hours with a big fake smile on your face and no breaks
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Nothing will stoke Alberta separatism more
then having an unelected judge
telling them they can't leave Canada.
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Call me old fashioned, but I've always associated freedom and democracy with people being able to say things and vote on stuff.
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I don't want to live in a country where judges have more power than democracy.
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average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”
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According to THIS New Brunswick Born...
Trudeau Appointed LIBERAL...
Mark Carney LIBERAL Judge...
ALL CITIZENS MUST CONSULT THE FIRST NATIONS in order to Petition Their Own Elected Government to even ask a Fucking Question?
THIS JUDGE just overthrew the entire Democratic Process of Citizen Petitions - to Cater to 5 Tides Foundation BRIBED, Environmental ACTIVIST, First Nations "CHIEFS"...
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Who is Canada’s most popular author who is under 50 years old?
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"A citizen-led democratic process established by law is effectively halted, not because citizens failed to follow the legislated process, but because of obligations assigned to government itself. Yet the government retains the full ability to ask the same question directly."
If you don't laugh you'll cry! What ridiculous bureaucratic nonsense.
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@Angus75Grieve @echipiuk Thomas Sowell discusses this exact concern in “Conflict of Visions.”
I don’t know how to stop judges from doing it.
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@echipiuk The problem is you/we assume the judges will uphold the spirit of the law. It's been proven repeatedly that courts will twist any well meaning laws into pretzels just by ignoring, reinterpreting or redefining wording. We've also proved repeatedly judges can/will act politically
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Today’s ruling by Justice Leonard essentially found that the citizen-led independence petition process cannot proceed because the government did not fulfill certain constitutional responsibilities owed to First Nations.
But here is the important point: the Alberta government did not initiate this petition process. Citizens did, through a lawful statutory mechanism created by the Legislature itself. So how does a court conclude that the government failed to fulfill duties that had not yet even arisen or been carried out, particularly when the government itself had not initiated the referendum process?
It is also important to understand that the Alberta government has always had the ability to call a referendum on independence at any time if it chose to do so. That is not in dispute, and it was not the legal question before the Court in this case. Nothing in today’s ruling prevents the Alberta government from calling the very same referendum itself tomorrow.
So think about that carefully.
A citizen-led democratic process established by law is effectively halted, not because citizens failed to follow the legislated process, but because of obligations assigned to government itself. Yet the government retains the full ability to ask the same question directly.
Courts and those in government must always have regard to the overall interests of justice, including democratic participation, the integrity of legislated statutory processes, and public confidence in lawful democratic frameworks established by the Legislature.
I figured it would be appropriate to reflect on a few words from the Supreme Court of Canada:
“…liberal democracy demands the free expression of political opinion” and political speech lies at the core of the Charter’s guarantee of freedom of expression. The Court further affirmed that freedom of expression includes “the right to attempt to persuade through peaceful interchange.” — Harper v. Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada has also held that:
“…the right of each citizen to participate in the political life of the country is one that is of fundamental importance in a free and democratic society.” — Figueroa v. Canada
And in the Reference re Secession of Quebec, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized that democracy is grounded in the participation and democratic will of the people, and that a clear expression of the will of citizens carries constitutional and political significance that cannot simply be ignored. Specifically, the Court confirmed:
“The democratic principle identified above would demand that considerable weight be given to a clear expression by the people of Quebec of their will to secede from Canada…” — Reference re Secession of Quebec
So how does any of this truly reconcile with a situation where government itself can ask citizens a question through a referendum process, but a group of citizens following a lawful statutory process established by the Legislature is not permitted to ask the question?
What message does that send when citizens engage in lawful democratic participation, comply with the very process created by government, and yet their voices are disregarded or treated as something to be feared?
Democracy is not strengthened when lawful citizen participation is restrained or silenced. In this case, it was not government stopping the process, but the Court. That reality raises profound questions about the role institutions play in democratic participation and how citizen engagement is treated when it touches controversial political issues.
After all, citizens do not hold institutional power. Their power is their voice. And if even that voice can be restrained after citizens lawfully engage in the exact democratic process created for them, what meaningful role are citizens truly left with in shaping the political future of their province and country?
What do you think? Should lawful citizen participation be encouraged, even when institutions disagree with the message?
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@echipiuk Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable.
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Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
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The point everyone is missing - especially First Nation Chiefs and Liberals - is that the consultation part starts AFTER a successful referendum in independence. It is not permission before it
No one gets a veto. No one is entitled to pre-empt a democratic vote on any referendum question - not even Premier @ABDanielleSmith
After a successful referendum vote the First Nations will have three options to negotiate in the consultation process:
1️⃣ Continue to have the Treaties managed by the Federal Government. No change to status quo
2️⃣ Have the new nation of Alberta manage the Treaties. Only change is who manages the Treaties
3️⃣ Negotiate a new modern agreements with the new nation of Alberta
In all 3 options, the Reservation rights and hunting and travel rights do not change
The @liberal_party are exploiting these Chiefs’ lack of understanding of their own Treaties, to create a dramatic crisis that doesn’t even exist in Alberta.
Yukon Strong 🫎@YukonStrong
Can any chiefs provide evidence of an attempt to consult that was denied? There were dozens of town halls open to the public, many opposing independence attended and were allowed to speak. The opportunity to consult was available for months STRONG GROUNDS FOR APPEAL #WEXIT
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@the_pauls_pizza I believe these ladies were both working when my husband and I stopped in a few weeks ago.
We commented how professional, polite, and genuinely HAPPY all of your staff seemed.
It was nice to see local kids working, earning, and learning.
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@jamie_blom I take vitamin K, it reduces my bruising.
If my coworker takes too much vitamin K, he could die because he has a blood clotting disorder that almost killed him.
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@BrianJeanAB @HeartandStroke Requires email address and names to even start.
Nope.
Data collection under the guise of a “helpful tool” is manipulative.
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Most heart attacks and strokes are preventable. It is critical to get checked out regularly by your doctor, eat right, and exercise.
The @HeartandStroke Foundation has developed a new online survey to help you monitor your your heart health, it is definitely worth checking out!
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Alberta held a referendum on equalization under Jason Kenney.
Won it decisively.
Ottawa didn't move an inch.
And Jason Kenney is still out there telling Albertan's that the system can be fixed?
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