Alberta Watch Dog

685 people filed a simple online form. That slowed Canada’s largest data centre in Olds - not politicians, not lobbyists. Citizens using the AUC. Meta. Wonder Valley. Beacon Foothills. All the same process. albertawatchdog.ca shows how

Conflicted here… Smith is a populist pure and simple More Albertans should be telling her directly how unpopular her governing is More people need to take a stance and say no more to her corrupt ignorant and harmful policies Suggest a more civil: Shove Your Fascist Pancakes

@watchdogAB @barlyn108 They also called without using caller ID asking to confirm private information. I wouldn’t answer that either. Do better @ElectionsAB

@itspawsibl @MondoABx Already on Etsy 🤣

@MondoABx We need someone that can make bumper stickers with 'fuck your fascist pancakes' They'd sell out!

All heroes don't wear capes. ✊✊

@AaangelaShapiro Thanks for the catch! Will update the website

@watchdogAB Tracy Allard isn’t GP’s MLA. It’s Nolan Dyck. Both equally useless.

685 people filed a simple online form. That slowed Canada’s largest data centre in Olds - not politicians, not lobbyists. Citizens using the AUC. Meta. Wonder Valley. Beacon Foothills. All the same process. albertawatchdog.ca shows how

Kevin O’Leary, a close confidant of Trump, just said this: “The Canadian economy, that has everything the US needs, is going to merge with the American economy.” Did he just say the quiet part out loud and reveal MAGA’s real plan for North America?

Think coal debacle, children’s unused Tylenol, private surgical facility and car insurance sweetheart deals. The UCP rewards grifters. They can’t fool us all the time.

@cmcalgary @BradCelmainis UCP should get their butts out of municipal government responsibilities and focus on provincial Here’s a guideline to share with your UCP MLA

Many reasons to not trust the UCP. Many reasons to #FireTheUCP. #ableg #abhealth

@DevinDVote This seems awfully biased. Designed only to get negative answers. Many Albertans use bike lanes everyday. My concern is that there's not enough bike lanes, but the UCP won't let me say so.

@DaleNally_AB expired Canadian passport is valid as proof of citizenship for a new passport. But not for driver’s licence here in Alberta. Sadly, your government is forcing my constituents to pay for a passport renewal first, just to get drivers license. Red tape reduction?

@TrueEager @Reil76 Similar to how Danielle Smith refuses to call a public inquiry about the healthcare debacle

@Reil76 I think we all know why... The only reason one has to not show their books, when they are legally required to do so, is because there's something in there they don't want seen by those legally authorized to look

WHY ARE THEY ALL SO SHADY?!? Mitch Sylvestre Won’t Show His Books Mitch Sylvestre wants Albertans to hand him a mandate for independence. He can’t be bothered to hand Elections Alberta his group’s bank records. Sylvestre runs the Alberta Prosperity Project and leads Stay Free Alberta, the petition drive behind the push for a separation referendum. He’s built his public image around plain-spoken populism: a guy from Bonnyville who built a business, and now just wants Albertans to get a vote. But the paper trail on his group’s finances tells a different story. Election Commissioner Paula Hale’s office sought a court injunction against APP after the group defied two separate formal notices to produce financial records, where the money comes from, how it’s spent. That’s the legal threshold for any group doing political advertising in Alberta: cross $1,000 in spending, you register as a third-party advertiser and show your work. APP’s answer, delivered through lawyer Jeffrey Rath, was that zero dollars had been spent on advertising and no invoices existed, this from a group that put up a billboard on the highway between Edmonton and Calgary, ran dozens of town halls, and solicited donations through its own website. When that story didn’t hold, it changed. Rath told investigators Sylvestre had informed everyone connected to APP that the group had no role in the petition campaign and individuals were on hiatus, a pivot that landed right as disclosure obligations were closing in. The Election Commissioner didn’t accept the loose-affiliation framing. Her office noted APP incorporated as a society on Jan. 26, with Sylvestre as chair and Rath as a director, a corporate entity with named officers, not a handful of unaffiliated individuals. Sylvestre also has a documented history of circulating false claims: that billions in federal spending were personally diverted by Justin Trudeau, that large numbers of immigrants entering Canada could be foreign soldiers, and that Canada profits from organ sales tied to assisted dying. Even the headline number driving the movement is softer than most coverage treats it. The claim that Stay Free Alberta collected 300,000 signatures rests almost entirely on Sylvestre’s own say-so, with academics flagging it as unverified. Sylvestre has also claimed Premier Danielle Smith personally asked him what he’d think about Alberta trading in U.S. dollars, a claim her office has denied, saying she supports a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada. Add it up and the picture isn’t a folksy outsider fighting the system. It’s the head of an organization that stonewalled a lawful records request, changed its story when caught, and is asking hundreds of thousands of Albertans to trust it with the most consequential vote of their lives. If Sylvestre wants Albertans to believe he’s running a transparent, grassroots movement, the bar is low. Show the books.

@ABLabourToday That would’ve been so scary. I’m so sorry that happened to them. I hope everyone’s safe and healthy.

Railworkers who found themselves halted in a hellscape of wildfire in northwestern Ontario this week had to flee the carnage on foot, according to their union. “They had to run a mile or so,” Teamsters spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier told CTV News Thursday. “They ended up having to run for their lives.” The Teamsters have already questioned why the workers were in that area to begin with. Gauthier claimed CN was aware of wildfire activity in the region. ctvnews.ca/northern-ontar…

I barely recognize this province anymore. We need anti-slapp laws.

@DrouinNorm32708 I know 😞 we can’t lose hope though. If enough of us are engaged we CAN make changes

@watchdogAB This will cost us dearly

“Did Smith really welcome to her province a corporate miscreant now lobbying the U.S. government to amend its laws to grant it legal immunity from thousands of lawsuits from young people and their families harmed by its products? Yes, she did.” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/0…

Given these robust, record-setting profits, why are we, the citizens of Alberta, being asked to pick up the $100 billion-plus tab for the proposed new pipeline and carbon-capture facilities? Why are we, the owners of the resource, being asked to forego billions in royalties?

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement. "Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

US has been banning/eliminating heath regulations and inspections of food and food related products. They have removed the ban on cancer causing products used to boost ag production. Canada needs to ban US food products from entering our food chain.

Rural towns like @TownOfOlds think that having an AI center will be an economic boom. Folks you are being sold a monorail. The O/G do not even pay their taxes. You think Smith is going let these douche bags pay your town any taxes? She and her UCP MLAs will tell us to F O.