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@RobynUrback Someone is full of sh*t. And it’s clearly the public hralth officials who are as useless at their jobs as they were during COVID. A whole bunch of people in close quarters on a small ship for days would constitute “prolonged close contact” by any measure.

Public health officials keep saying this strain requires “prolonged close contact” for transmission. When these people disembarked, Canadian public health said they had no known direct contact with anyone infected. So, uh, shouldn’t the assumption about transmission change?

@MalkinPCos Carbon capture increases the cost of production versus not having to pay for carbon capture. It is therefore a tax on production which is passed on to consumers. We are handicapping ourselves and making less money per barrel than every other country because of this nonsense

Carbon capture is basically about making Alberta energy more competitive in a world that increasingly rewards lower emissions. Think of it like two gas stations selling the same fuel for the same price. If Station 2 qualifies for rebates, investment, or preferred contracts because its fuel was produced with lower emissions, it gains an advantage and can eventually pass some of that value along to customers. That is the real game here. Not “selling buried CO₂,” but making sure Alberta oil and gas remain the product buyers, investors, and markets choose over competitors.

People keep talking about carbon capture like it’s some corporate scam, but very few people actually stop to ask what the alternative looks like for ordinary Canadians trying to afford life. Carbon taxes mostly reduce emissions by making energy more expensive. Carbon capture is different. It tries to reduce emissions without crushing affordability, jobs, or energy security in the process. People forget that energy is built into literally everything. Diesel moves food. Natural gas heats homes and powers industry. Fuel runs construction, farming, mining, manufacturing, and transportation. The second energy costs spike, the price of groceries, utilities, housing, and basic goods follows right behind it. That is why Pathways actually matters. If Alberta can produce lower emission oil through technology instead of shutting production down, we protect jobs, keep investment here, maintain stable energy supply, and avoid a future where governments only have one tool left: making energy progressively more expensive for consumers. And globally, demand for oil has not disappeared. If Canada produces less, somebody else fills the gap, usually with weaker environmental standards. That does not lower global demand. It just exports jobs, investment, and tax revenue out of Canada while consumers still pay high prices. Carbon capture is essentially an attempt to solve the emissions problem through engineering instead of economic pain. And from a consumer standpoint, that is a far more sustainable path than endlessly increasing costs on the people who still need to drive to work, heat their homes, and buy groceries. This is not a commentary on whether the carbon argument is a scam or not, this is a commentary on effecting affordability.

@MalkinPCos False. Carbon price should be zero. Anything above zero amounts to theft from Albertans.

This is great news for Alberta on Carbon pricing. #ableg #mou

@andrew_leach Carbon pricing and carbon taxes should not exist. They are a drag on the economy and have no basis in logis or reality. They are theft.

I've been calling for a price floor in Alberta for 15 years. I could not get it across the line in the design of the CCIR, but it was less important as the market would be short credits. Now that market is long and crediting has been getting more generous, this is a big deal.

@WayneMathison Manitoba could have all those things already were it not for decades of NDP mismanagement of the provincial economy. Spending billions on useless social programs and unions instead has proven to be a recipe for massive debt, societal and institutional decay.

That reply misses my point. Manitoba is poor partly because Ottawa built the country’s economic plumbing to move money, contracts, influence, and industrial opportunity eastward. People love pointing at equalization as if Manitoba is just sitting around with a tin cup. OK, Manitoba has structural problems. No argument. But who helped create those structures? When western provinces can do the work, build the equipment, service the contracts, process the resources, or expand the export capacity, too often the decision-making gravity pulls east. Defence contracts, aviation work, procurement, rail policy, ports, infrastructure, federal offices, regulatory approvals, industrial strategy: somehow the West is always told to be grateful while the real leverage gets parked somewhere else. The CF-18 contract is a perfect example of the deeper problem. Manitoba has skills. Manitoba has workers. Manitoba has industrial capacity. But the big federal system keeps treating us like a branch office, not a serious economic partner. So spare me the “welfare case” lecture. If Ottawa wants Manitoba to be less dependent, then stop designing a country where Manitoba pays high taxes, gets slow approvals, loses opportunity to eastern political favouritism, and then gets mocked for needing transfers. That is not federalism. That is managed dependency. Manitoba does not need pity. It needs power, contracts, ports, energy development, rail capacity, military procurement, and a western alliance that stops waiting for Ottawa to suddenly discover fairness.

@WayneMathison The rest of the western provinces have no incentive to include Manitoba. It is a welfare bum of a province and a massive drain on the economy of the west with a multi billion dollar black hole of debt. No thanks

Manitoba has two obvious escape routes from Ottawa’s managed decline. The realistic one is a western alliance with Alberta, Saskatchewan, and BC. That means coordinated pressure on Ottawa for pipelines, Churchill, rail, mining, nuclear, lower taxes, faster approvals, and equalization reform. One province gets ignored. Four provinces acting together become a problem Ottawa can’t politely smother with another study. The angry emotional option is the 51st state argument. People are tired of paying high Canadian taxes while Ottawa blocks Western development, ignores Manitoba, and ships opportunity east. Under a serious U.S.-style trade and energy strategy, Churchill might actually matter. Energy, agriculture, Arctic access, rail, mining, and defence would become assets, not talking points. But joining the U.S. would be a legal and political swamp. So the practical move is this: build a hard western bloc first. Manitoba should stop begging Ottawa to care. Partner with the provinces that still understand resources, trade, energy, and growth. And if Ottawa keeps treating the West like a tax farm with bad weather, don’t be shocked when people start asking why they’re paying premium Canadian taxes for discount Canadian treatment.

@ABDanielleSmith Higher taxes, being forced to accept unreliable “renewable” energy projects and bowing to Ottawa for the promise of maybe, someday, getting a pipeline in front of a review committee is not the win you think it is. Onward to Independence.

When Alberta stands strong, Ottawa listens. Our province is on track to double our energy production in the coming years, beginning with the pipeline to the West Coast that will move more than 1 million additional barrels of Alberta oil per day to new markets— with construction targets as early as September 2027. We have also successfully pushed back on harmful federal policies by securing an elimination on the oil and gas production cap, stopping net-zero power regulations from being imposed on Alberta, ensuring Alberta companies are no longer censored under "greenwashing" provisions, and reducing severe, planned increases to the Trudeau-era industrial carbon tax. These are big wins for Alberta workers, families, and our economy. See more from today’s announcement: alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…

@KirkLubimov This is farcical. The UAE will have designed, built and commissioned a new pipeline before this mythical one even gets to the hearing stage. Canada is not a serious country under Liberal administration and Smith has sold out Albertans. Higher taxes, more sketchy renewables.

Pipeline to the coast details: * Alberta submit a proposal for a new oil pipeline to the major projects office by July 1. * Federal government designate it as a project of national interest by Oct. 1. * Design and construction "may commence as early as Sept. 1, 2027. It's not clear how it navigates the tanker ban Bill-C48 but Bill-C5 will be the key for it Bill-C69. Need to see if it holds as I'm sure challenges will come up. All Alberta had to do to be able to potentially develop its economy is just surrender to all of Mark Carney's demands and green agenda ideologies and buy into Pathways Project that will cost taxpayers billions.

@ABDanielleSmith The UAE will have built an entire pipeline from scratch have have oil flowing before your mythical Alberta - West coast pipeline even sees the inside of a review hearing. You have made the worst deal possible.

Great news Alberta! A critical milestone has been reached under the Canada-Alberta energy agreement (MOU) so that our province can expect approval from the Federal Major Projects Office for actual construction of the West Coast Pipeline on or before September 1, 2027. When achieved, this would be the fastest approval of a major oil pipeline from Alberta in a generation! This project will deliver 1,000,000 new barrels of Alberta oil every single day to new Asian markets, creating jobs, strengthening our economy, and generating a phenomenal amount of wealth for Albertans and Canadians for decades to come. And just as importantly, Alberta has successfully fought to permanently end Justin Trudeau’s punitive oil and gas production cap and roll back his absurdly high industrial carbon price to a much more realistic level that will save our job creators over $250 billion and protect the livelihoods of Alberta workers. This is what happens when Alberta stands strong.

@CoryBMorgan No!!!!!!

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.

@govt_corrupt Is Brookfield financed by China a third option?

So who is going to buy Canadian air and seaports? China or Brookfield?

@wyatt_claypool You are partly incorrect. Liberals are scared sh*tless the petition will succeed. That’s why the lawfare and propaganda are going full tilt.

As an Albertan who is on the political Right but not pro-Independence I am still disgusted by the shutting down of the pro-Independence Referendum petition. Liberals knows the Referendum would fail but are using the petition issue against Premier Smith. youtube.com/watch?v=QTPCUu…

@peteremcc UAE will have built an entire new pipeline in the time it takes Canada to schedule hearings on whether a pipeline should be allowed. Canada is not a serious country nor are its politicians competent people.

Two and a half years to approve a pipeline is not "speeds not seen in generations". It's better than it was under Trudeau, of course. But that's such a low bar...

@KristinRaworth Youhave just proven otherwise. It is not lossible to want success for Alberta without becoming an enemy if the Left and the feds.

Funny thing these days is anytime you defend Alberta’s rights you are immediately called a separatist. Loving Alberta and wanting to see our province strengthened and supported by the federal government AND loving Canada and being proud of confederation are not mutually exclusive.

@ABDanielleSmith By strong fiscal Management you mean overspending on bloated unionized services and then being bailed out by a spike in world oil prices? Slash the spending and build the Heritage Fund

Strong fiscal management in uncertain times is helping to ensure Alberta’s credit rating remains strong 💪

@shandro Buddy, the UCP is majority separatist membership. You may not be but many others are.

Separatists also love to quote the Quebec Secession Reference: “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…” They’ve never answered how a referendum which will end up with about 30% turnout will be “a clear expression” of anything. And with no government party with a mandate to negotiate separation, how do separatists even think this should be given any weight, let alone “considerable” weight.

@TerryGlavin Yes it sure is. Just like it would have had Quebec vited yes.

But it's okay for a bare majority of Alberta voters to amputate a massive territory from Canada that Ottawa established as a province in 1905?

@ABDanielleSmith Declare the independence referendum. One lower court judge who is clerarly biased and who’s ruling is nonsensical cannot be allowed to silence the voices of 700,000 + Albertans.

It was great joining MLA Brandon Lunty for a fun event in his constituency last night. Brandon is a strong advocate for his community and someone who works tirelessly to support the families, businesses, and residents of Leduc-Beaumont. His commitment to the people he serves is clear every single day. Thank you to everyone who came out to support Alberta’s conservative movement. We remain strong because of grassroots supporters who continue showing up, getting involved, and fighting for a stronger future for our province.

@AlbertanMitch I support Alberta Independence, not tinkering around the edges to beg for more lube while Ottawa reams Albertans.

Do you agree?