Phoenix Rising

@Reil76 So, the real only real way to attempt to fix these systemic problems is to exit the system that was specifically designed to do exactly what is being complained about. The things complained about are features for Ottawa, not a bug.

@Reil76 In the writings of PM Laurier, they built and structured Alberta and Saskatchewan they way that they did so that the prairie provinces couldn't become more powerful than On and QU and so that the prairie provinces remain subservient to ON and QU. System is working as designed. /1

To the people of Alberta, I hear you. I really do. The frustration is real. Feels like your province carries more than its share and still gets brushed aside. Watching decisions come out of Ottawa that feel completely disconnected from your reality, your work, your way of life. That kind of anger does not just appear out of nowhere. But I want to talk to you honestly, not like a politician, more like someone who actually cares how this plays out for you. Separation sounds good at first. It feels like control. Like finally getting to call your own shots. But the day after a yes vote, reality kicks in, and it does not wait for anyone to catch up. Suddenly, the markets you have always had full access to is no longer guaranteed. You are on the outside trying to negotiate your way back in. Those trade relationships took decades to build. They do not just reset overnight because Alberta wants them to. Then there are the everyday things people do not think about right away. Pensions. Passports. Federal funding that helps keep hospitals running and infrastructure moving. None of that disappears instantly, but all of it becomes uncertain. And uncertainty is not just a political word. It shows up as companies holding back, investments slowing down, costs going up, and people wondering what the next few years actually look like. And this is not something that gets sorted out quickly. Look at Quebec. Decades of referendums and constitutional fights, and they never even left. Look at Scotland. Serious economists were saying it could take at least ten years just to stabilize, and they still voted no. Alberta would not be simpler. If anything, it would be more complicated. Resource rights, land, debt, pensions, borders. None of that has a clean or fast solution. This could stretch across ten, fifteen years or more. That is a big chunk of your life. That is kids growing up in the middle of uncertainty. That is businesses trying to plan without knowing what the rules will even be a few years down the line. The people voting yes in a moment of frustration are not always the ones who have to live with that uncertainty long term. That part never makes it onto the slogans. And here is the thing. Alberta is not powerless in Canada. Not even close. You have one of the strongest economies in the country. You have leverage. You have a voice that can carry weight when it is used properly. Being ignored does not mean you walk away. It means you push harder. It means you force your way into the conversation and refuse to be sidelined. You deserve better. That part is not up for debate. But leaving does not fix the problem. It replaces it with a much bigger, much riskier one. Separation is not a fresh start. It is a long, expensive, uncertain road. Stay. Push harder. Demand more. And win the argument from a position of strength, not from the outside looking in.

@menard_ray @Reil76 Now, treaty obligations do have to be agreed on for transfer of the treaties, but mostly apply only for reserve lands. Yes, the Aboriginals have to agree to transfer the parts of treaties to Alberta.

@menard_ray @Reil76 You're half wrong. It's both a warning AND a roadmap. One has to realize that the same report that said that Ukraine was an oppressed region of the USSR recognized Alberta as an equally oppressed region of Canada, and nothing substantial has been done to change that. /1

All the whining about “Canada has to negotiate in good faith”, demands and illogical time frames, aren’t good faith are they?

@menard_ray @Reil76 in countries that have likely agreed to recognize Alberta as sovereign should a vote go that way, and those trade missions can be converted to embassies. ATB was set up as a sort of central bank. USD can be used in the interim. A bunch of dual use infrastructure is in place.

@menard_ray @Reil76 Also, the US has apparently agreed to recognize Alberta's independence which is the important part as about 87% of dollar value of product leaving Alberta goes there. There has been Alberta Trade Missions set up in other countries, probably as dual use infrastructure /2

@CanadianNeechie @HandmaidAlberta You mean land with all rights to it ceded FOREVER by treaty. Only treaty lands are the reserves.

@amosfella @HandmaidAlberta 100% of Alberta sits on treaty land...

Mario is a traitor too. Big surprise.

@Reil76 When Alberta has been pushing hard for 100 years with marginal at best improvements, why stay? Harper tried to fix a few of the irritants, and was told in a reference hearing that Canada and the provinces cannot amend the BNA Act which is the source of the biggest irritants.

@estherzelda0514 Mind you, I'm not balding, only have a bit of grey in the beard, and I can stand up straight without a gamer's hunch.

@estherzelda0514 Well, dating in my 20s as a man sucked. The options were terrible. The options were pretty much fat girls. Dating in my 30s was better. The girls were better too. Now, I'm in my 40s, and I have high school girls flirting with me. /1

Lurking manosphere conversations is hilarious. They're really telling each other to not bother dating seriously until their 30s or 40s because women all want rich old Chads, so they need to spend their 20s being grindset fuck boys. Horrible advice. You can never out earn the romantic disadvantages of a dwindling dating pool (as normies settle down and leave it) and an increased bald spot as you age. If there's a wall, men hit it just as hard, if not harder. The manosphere is like giving HIV to a tuberculosis patient as a cure. Whatever is wrong with these men, all it does is make them worse, to the enrichment of their false prophets.

@menard_ray @Reil76 Then you don't understand what the meaning of a bunch of the words in Para 155 of the Re Quebec Succession case means. It says that it can be done in fact although it's not legal. Not everything has to be legal. That's something most people miss.

The Supreme Court did not say Alberta could hold a referendum, dictate terms, allow three months, and then unilaterally declare independence if Canada did not comply. It said there is no unilateral right to secede, and that a clear majority on a clear question would create an obligation to negotiate. An obligation to negotiate is not an obligation to accept Alberta’s terms, and it certainly is not a licence to impose a deadline and walk away with the country.

@stayfreealberta Elected officials aren't as big of a problem as entrenched bureaucracy.

Will an Independent Alberta have term limits for Elected officials?

@TheXMatriarch This is part of why men aren't marrying and choosing to either live together, or just keep it more as FWB. Any woman who stops having sex with her husband is cheating on the relationship.

A lot of men don’t marry the real woman; they marry the audition version. The ring goes on and the real sexual honesty begins. Ladies, if you hate pleasing your husband don’t fake enthusiasm to secure commitment. That’s not modesty, that’s a bait and switch, and neither of you win in the end.

@usuallypregnant It would depend on how physically attractive the women find that particular man wearing skin tight clothing.

MEN ONLY: Do you agree???

@nairndavid_ You know what's funny? Virgin women tend to find themselves with men who have had lots of other women before Why? Women unconsciously look for experience and skills. The promiscuous man has the experience to lead her sexually, and he generally has much better interpersonal skills

Worst advice I've ever seen. Not denying that virginity is sacred and should be praised. But "Be a MAN GET A VIRGIN"... when 90% of men have a chronic porn addiction or have slept around before marriage. You can't expect a virgin if you've been jacking off to porn for years, and been using women for your pleasure. Double standards. Not one single part of this has the best dating advice... Wait till marriage before you have sex. And please don't take relationship advice from men who only care about virginity and sex.

@nairndavid_ @MizJChristian If the woman isn't married, can't be adultery. There is no equal reverse in the laws. Also, Historian Josephus said that polygyny was the way of the Jews at the time of Yeshua, and had been that way going back to the beginning.

@nairndavid_ @MizJChristian Adultery's definition has gotten fudged into something it was not when the original translations came out. In the sense of the word used in the Torah, Adultery is a man having sex with a married woman that's not his wife. That blows what you say out of the water right there. /1

@JeffreyRWRath Got to get the fed's permission to go south of the Can/us boarder. They likely won't give that either.

Why isn’t the Alberta Government publicly pursuing a US Route to the west coast? That is what REAL leadership looks like.

@Officialmadam8 @aruvinchan @tiredgirlxx She'd fuck him. She's just bargaining about the terms.

@aruvinchan @tiredgirlxx Im going to say that you two are not a match

the dating scene is in the trenches because it’s always sex sex sex with u people

@CanadianNeechie @HandmaidAlberta Pretty easy. Treaty lands are the reserves. Most of the Aboriginals on the reserves seem to support separation from Canada. It's the Chiefs and their families that are against separation. The reserves can remain part of Canada. This all from a big aboriginal fellow I know.

@HandmaidAlberta I just asked him how they plan to get out from underneath the Treaties - if they don't figure that out, this whole endeavor is pointless and moot. Complete waste of energy and resources when we should be bracing for the US meltdown. I'm positive they'll try and spin that though.