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Imagine having SIX times the resource revenue and still ending up with a larger deficit than when Alberta's New Democrats were in power.

How embarrassing.

And then blame newcomers.

Danielle Smith keeps feeding the beast If there’s a Pandora’s Box that Alberta's premier hasn’t opened yet, it’s not for a lack of trying.

My latest: because one national unity crisis wasn't enough, Danielle Smith has decided to provoke another one —all, of course, in the name of placating the separatists that run her party.

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Net migration in Alberta. Up, up, up, down, down, down.

Net international migration to Alberta totalled 197 in Q3 2025, down 99% from 32,046 in the same quarter a year prior.

The end of Canadian medicare? Alberta legislation opens the door to U.S. health care - CCPA Alberta’s two-tier health care legislation ends single-payer public health care and puts Canadian medicare at risk

Alberta's Bill 11 puts Canadian medicare at risk. By @alonghurst.bsky.social #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Danielle Smith says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection | Globalnews.ca Premier Danielle Smith said her government will withhold funds for new judicial appointments in Alberta if the federal government doesn't give the province a say on who is picked.

No clue who she thinks she's hurting with this threat, but it amounts to a direct attack on Albertans' access to justice.

If Premier Smith wants to choose senior judges, she should run for prime minister.

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Smith demands more say in Alberta judicial appointments Premier threatens to withhold funding, says the appointment process needs reform

From someone who clamours a lot about governments staying in their own lane, this is equivalent to jumping the middle meridian on the highway: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #ableg #cdnpoli

I'm here for other premiers shaming Danielle Smith on her separatist bullshit, whether it's Wab Kinews sarcastic take or Doug Ford's earnest, slightly bullying stance. We need this from every mayor and MLA in Alberta as well.

Alberta will always be a part of Canada. Full stop. @mark-carney.bsky.social

Eby accuses Alberta separatists of ‘treason’ for meeting with U.S. officials — The Globe and Mail B.C. Premier says he plans to raise the issue when he meets with Carney and his provincial counterparts

Alberta separatists lobbying Trump’s people to break up Canada isn’t “grievance,” it’s betrayal.

You don’t get to call yourself Canadian while asking a foreign power to tear the country apart.

#Canada #ABPoli #Treason #CDNPoli
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

Here's a plain-spoken and accessible editorial - based in part on @reuters.com reporting - that outlines how much Donald Trump has enriched himself since taking power, and why that's so dangerous for democracy.

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Man conducts regime change in his neighborhood in the spirit of Trump's takeover of Venezuela

Yes. Maduro was an illegitimate leader and Trump is an illegitimate invader. I also an a concerned Canadian.

People keep asking "why didn't the triage nurse put a pt with chest pain in a care space immediately?"

Let me simplify our current ED triage state in the face of SEVERE SYTEM OVERCROWDING

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1 open bed and 30-50 w serious complaints = an impossible choice

Seeing more and more weighing in about how the GNH Triage nurse/ED team should be held to personal account makes me realize that the avg AB just doesn’t understand what an utter dumpster fire our major EDs have been for months/yrs.
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He has no mandate or right to do this.

Rath is a POS traitor to Alberta and Canada. He should really stay in Washington and rid us of his stupidity

On today’s episode of “the premiers office is just openly lying to you”…

The premiers office is openly lying to you.

No kids were getting irreversible changes without parental consent.

All Bruce has is anger and lies it seems.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta using selective data to mask health care failings, Auditor-General says Doug Wylie says reporting on how the system is performing is not credible and has gotten worse over time

It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years.

The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:

Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them Albertans need to shout that message to their power-hungry premier

Governments Make Laws, Judges Interpret Them

Judicial independence is a cornerstone of representative government.

@abdaniellesmith would like you to think otherwise.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Fun to see some campaigning happening for this year’s Best of Alberta Politics survey. Also, Daveberta now has more than 8,000 subscribers. 🤠👍

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As an Albertan I cannot bring myself to watch or listen to our premier speaking. I am extremely concerned with her delusional prattling.

And know that the US President has accused the target of your aggression as being 'ungrateful'... again...

Can you imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler during WWII calling all Jews ungrateful?

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.

Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Good morning.

If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.

Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.

#ableg

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.

"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Danielle Smith hates people who have Disabilities, that's why she is making their lives a living hell 🤬 #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #yql

'Whatever This Is' is back, and we're starting with a doozy. We unpack Canada's fast lane to authoritarianism—The Notwithstanding Clause.

Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli