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Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.
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This is what Alberta separatists stand for.
If you want to put an end to this treason, please sign up as #ForeverCanadian supporter at:
Forever-Canadian.ca
This will allow us to organize and communicate with you.
#ableg #cdnpoli
If you want to put an end to this treason, please sign up as #ForeverCanadian supporter at:
Forever-Canadian.ca
This will allow us to organize and communicate with you.
#ableg #cdnpoli
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This is what Alberta separatists stand for.
If you want to put an end to this treason, please sign up as #ForeverCanadian supporter at:
Forever-Canadian.ca
This will allow us to organize and communicate with you.
#ableg #cdnpoli
If you want to put an end to this treason, please sign up as #ForeverCanadian supporter at:
Forever-Canadian.ca
This will allow us to organize and communicate with you.
#ableg #cdnpoli
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Want your early career to support Canada’s #CleanEnergy transition — not just talk about it?
We’re hiring 4 students for four-month summer internships in policy, comms, partnerships & HR.
📍 Hybrid | Across Canada
📅 Deadline | Feb 1
Apply today 👇
buff.ly/Vnlos7G
We’re hiring 4 students for four-month summer internships in policy, comms, partnerships & HR.
📍 Hybrid | Across Canada
📅 Deadline | Feb 1
Apply today 👇
buff.ly/Vnlos7G
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Want your early career to support Canada’s #CleanEnergy transition — not just talk about it?
We’re hiring 4 students for four-month summer internships in policy, comms, partnerships & HR.
📍 Hybrid | Across Canada
📅 Deadline | Feb 1
Apply today 👇
buff.ly/Vnlos7G
We’re hiring 4 students for four-month summer internships in policy, comms, partnerships & HR.
📍 Hybrid | Across Canada
📅 Deadline | Feb 1
Apply today 👇
buff.ly/Vnlos7G
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Last night, so many people tried to read this article that it crashed the website! Let’s try again this morning - for the love of Canada, and Alberta.
Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
Let’s not quit Canada. Let’s make it better for everyone—including Albertans
albertaviews.ca
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Last night, so many people tried to read this article that it crashed the website! Let’s try again this morning - for the love of Canada, and Alberta.
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Controlling our immune system like a rheostat is not only helping to treat cancer (dialing it up) but now leading to cures of autoimmune diseases (dialing it down). Mirror images. Shared technologies.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Controlling our immune system like a rheostat is not only helping to treat cancer (dialing it up) but now leading to cures of autoimmune diseases (dialing it down). Mirror images. Shared technologies.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
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The Do’s — and Definite Don’t’s — of Snowy Owl Photography www.projectsnowstorm.org/posts/the-do...
The Do's - and Definite Don't's - of Snowy Owl Photography - Project SNOWstorm
Every year, it seems that birders and photographers – whether intentionally or not – put more and more pressure on snowy owls in winter. So we we’re grateful that Melissa Groo, one of the most respect...
www.projectsnowstorm.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Do’s — and Definite Don’t’s — of Snowy Owl Photography www.projectsnowstorm.org/posts/the-do...
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Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw in the Lil’wat language, is closed to public access today through June 27. Should you be mad? Senior editor @michellecyca.com gets into it in this opinion piece, published last month: thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...
Why are First Nations closing B.C. parks? | The Narwhal
Two popular parks have been closed in B.C. and the public backlash is missing the point: Indigenous Rights
thenarwhal.ca
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw in the Lil’wat language, is closed to public access today through June 27. Should you be mad? Senior editor @michellecyca.com gets into it in this opinion piece, published last month: thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...
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"In reality, a Yes vote would kickstart an arduous process of negotiation — one in which Alberta would need to make considerable concessions in order to maintain the strong connections with Canada necessary to secure a stable future."
With Alberta staring down the barrel of a vote on separation, I've been revisiting research on the 1995 Quebec Referendum.
Here are 5 key lessons we ought to learn. And quickly.
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/5-lessons-...
Here are 5 key lessons we ought to learn. And quickly.
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/5-lessons-...
5 Lessons from 1995
What the Quebec referendum tells us about Alberta secession
drjaredwesley.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"In reality, a Yes vote would kickstart an arduous process of negotiation — one in which Alberta would need to make considerable concessions in order to maintain the strong connections with Canada necessary to secure a stable future."
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Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
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“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
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Jen Gerson sends the bat signal to all knife-and-fork conservatives in Alberta. Will they heed the call?
A very incisive piece of writing.
open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
A very incisive piece of writing.
open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
Jen Gerson: A few thoughts on leadership
Trigger Warning: This one's gonna be preachy.
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Jen Gerson sends the bat signal to all knife-and-fork conservatives in Alberta. Will they heed the call?
A very incisive piece of writing.
open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
A very incisive piece of writing.
open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
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In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook
And it's no accident they were released today.
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
No public consultation. No meaningful debate.
How bad is Bill 54?
Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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@jlisayoung.bsky.social gets it right again: "The government’s eleventh hour amendment demonstrates the truly remarkable extent to which no one has thought this through clearly."
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
Seriously?
Seriously, Alberta.
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@jlisayoung.bsky.social gets it right again: "The government’s eleventh hour amendment demonstrates the truly remarkable extent to which no one has thought this through clearly."
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
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A better question:
What if Ottawa sent freshly formed provincial governments a list of demands they'd need to meet to avoid federal interference?
That would be an infringement on their sovereignty, I reckon.
See how that works? 🤔
What if Ottawa sent freshly formed provincial governments a list of demands they'd need to meet to avoid federal interference?
That would be an infringement on their sovereignty, I reckon.
See how that works? 🤔
Are we going to see this from every prov govt after their team loses a federal election?
A list of demands to relitigate issues that were either not raised or not endorsed by voters in the campaign the previous month?
Can you imagine if BC and MB did this to Poilievre?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A list of demands to relitigate issues that were either not raised or not endorsed by voters in the campaign the previous month?
Can you imagine if BC and MB did this to Poilievre?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Scott Moe releases list of 10 changes Ottawa 'must make' to reset relationship with Sask. | CBC News
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has published a letter he sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney outlining 10 policy changes he says the federal government "must make" in order to reset the relationship be...
www.cbc.ca
May 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A better question:
What if Ottawa sent freshly formed provincial governments a list of demands they'd need to meet to avoid federal interference?
That would be an infringement on their sovereignty, I reckon.
See how that works? 🤔
What if Ottawa sent freshly formed provincial governments a list of demands they'd need to meet to avoid federal interference?
That would be an infringement on their sovereignty, I reckon.
See how that works? 🤔
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@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country only to keep a separatist party from becoming as successful as the Bloc Québécois.
Is This Really Why Danielle Smith Wants a Separation Referendum? | The Tyee
The Alberta premier says her goal is to prevent a Quebec-style independence party.
thetyee.ca
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country only to keep a separatist party from becoming as successful as the Bloc Québécois.
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“But Ms. Smith has added something new. Instead of merely predicting disaster if the winner doesn’t immediately adopt the policies of the loser, she vows to ensure it happens!”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/some...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/some...
Some thoughts on that shocking 36% of Albertans we’re told by a pollster would like the province to separate from Canada - Alberta Politics
Where there’s smoke, the martyred American president John F. Kennedy famously and accurately observed, there’s often a smoke-making machine. Whatever can be said about the accuracy of the notorious A...
albertapolitics.ca
May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“But Ms. Smith has added something new. Instead of merely predicting disaster if the winner doesn’t immediately adopt the policies of the loser, she vows to ensure it happens!”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/some...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/some...
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I've been hesitant to write something like this because I didn't want to give oxygen to Alberta separatists. The conversation alone is dangerous.
But with the threshold to a separation referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. www.coreyhogan.ca/p/three-albe...
But with the threshold to a separation referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. www.coreyhogan.ca/p/three-albe...
Three Alberta separatism myths
No, we wouldn’t be able to force the rest of Canada to build pipelines.
www.coreyhogan.ca
May 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I've been hesitant to write something like this because I didn't want to give oxygen to Alberta separatists. The conversation alone is dangerous.
But with the threshold to a separation referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. www.coreyhogan.ca/p/three-albe...
But with the threshold to a separation referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. www.coreyhogan.ca/p/three-albe...
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New from me:
Mark Carney is known as a guy who doesn't suffer fools. But yesterday at the White House, we learned he can find a way to quietly suffer one gigantic fool, because what choice does he have? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9bc9b25...
Mark Carney is known as a guy who doesn't suffer fools. But yesterday at the White House, we learned he can find a way to quietly suffer one gigantic fool, because what choice does he have? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9bc9b25...
Mark Carney goes to the Oval Office and learns a new skill from Donald Trump
After meeting at the Oval Office with Donald Trump, we know there is at least one colossal fool the Prime Minister will find a way to suffer quietly
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New from me:
Mark Carney is known as a guy who doesn't suffer fools. But yesterday at the White House, we learned he can find a way to quietly suffer one gigantic fool, because what choice does he have? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9bc9b25...
Mark Carney is known as a guy who doesn't suffer fools. But yesterday at the White House, we learned he can find a way to quietly suffer one gigantic fool, because what choice does he have? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9bc9b25...
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There is value in asking big questions about Alberta’s future and doing so in a way that brings people together. However, the “Alberta Accord” and “Alberta Next Panel” are likely to do the opposite.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Charting Alberta’s Future
A Constructive Look at Premier Smith’s “Alberta Accord”
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There is value in asking big questions about Alberta’s future and doing so in a way that brings people together. However, the “Alberta Accord” and “Alberta Next Panel” are likely to do the opposite.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Ten years ago today, Alberta's NDP swept to power.
But I've been thinking a little more about the future of the federal NDP lately. On Substack, I've published a behind-closed-doors speech I gave to the federal NDP caucus in April 2016.
shannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-failur...
But I've been thinking a little more about the future of the federal NDP lately. On Substack, I've published a behind-closed-doors speech I gave to the federal NDP caucus in April 2016.
shannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-failur...
The failure of the federal NDP
A speech I gave behind closed doors to the federal NDP caucus in 2016
shannonphillips.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ten years ago today, Alberta's NDP swept to power.
But I've been thinking a little more about the future of the federal NDP lately. On Substack, I've published a behind-closed-doors speech I gave to the federal NDP caucus in April 2016.
shannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-failur...
But I've been thinking a little more about the future of the federal NDP lately. On Substack, I've published a behind-closed-doors speech I gave to the federal NDP caucus in April 2016.
shannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-failur...
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Reposted by Janice McDougall
"We're so cute when we're angry" was a subtext to much of the international response to Canada's election.
--Do not underestimate "nice" people.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
--Do not underestimate "nice" people.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Carol Off: In the election Canadians fought like hell against Donald Trump. But, even at our most aggressive, we reinforced an important truth about our country
In the election Canadians fought like hell against Donald Trump. But, even at our most aggressive, we reinforced an important truth about our country
www.thestar.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"We're so cute when we're angry" was a subtext to much of the international response to Canada's election.
--Do not underestimate "nice" people.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
--Do not underestimate "nice" people.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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"Whether Alberta follows the full arc of the Trump example remains to be seen. But today’s legislation makes clear that the risk is no longer hypothetical. It is real, present and growing. And the further it progresses, the harder it will be for concerned Albertans to stop it."
My latest.
My latest.
While billed as technical updates to restore faith in elections in Alberta, sweeping changes made by the UCP Tuesday do precisely the opposite. @jaredwesley.ca writes. #abpoli
Smith’s Anti-Democratic Electoral ‘Reforms’ Are Straight from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
It’s no accident the changes were announced as attention was focused on the federal election.
thetyee.ca
April 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Whether Alberta follows the full arc of the Trump example remains to be seen. But today’s legislation makes clear that the risk is no longer hypothetical. It is real, present and growing. And the further it progresses, the harder it will be for concerned Albertans to stop it."
My latest.
My latest.