Who is ready for some charts.
*Debt to rise $17.9B (up to $128.7B)
*Per capita inflation adju spending $15.9K in 24/25, $16.2K in 25/26
*WTI forecast US$60.50 (down US$10 from budget)
*Expenses to rise 12% ($88.4B) in next 3 years
*Revenue to rise 8% ($81.5B) over same time
#ableg #abpoli
Danielle Smith and the UCP are squandering our resources on their separatist agenda rather than focusing on what matters to Albertans.
We NEED a better government.
We deserve better government.
Alberta's New Democrats are ready.
NOWHERE in any of the UCP's previous election platform is there any of the policies that they actually implemented, from the anti-trans laws, book bans, pause on renewables, use of notwithstanding clause, Alberta police/border patrol, or a anti-immigration policy.
You can search it for yourself
A study was recently published in Nature on how the X/Twitter algorithm promotes right-wing content and adjusts people’s political attitudes in the USA.
This is interesting to read if anyone is interested in how algorithms promote political polarization.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What's going on in that province
Alberta immigration trends and Danielle Smith's rhetoric: a visual timeline.
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the first image out of two. The text has the title “What is a demagogue?”. The text body says “A demagogue (/ˈdɛməˌɡɒɡ/; from Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós) 'popular leader, mob leader'; from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, populace' and ἀγωγός (agōgós) 'leading, guiding'), or rabble-rouser, is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity. Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.”
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the second image out of two. The text has the title “What is a demagogue?”. The text body says “Historian Reinhard Luthin defined demagogue as "a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices—a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses. He has for centuries practiced his profession of 'man of the people'. He is a product of a political tradition nearly as old as western civilization itself. Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens. Demagogues exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: Because ultimate power is held by the people, it is possible for them to give it to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population. Demagogues have usually advocated immediate, forceful action to address a crisis while accusing moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness or disloyalty. Many demagogues elected to high executive office have unraveled constitutional limits on executive power and tried to convert their democracy into a dictatorship, sometimes successfully.”
Here is some text going over what a demagogue is. This sounds familiar to me.
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the first image out of four. The text has the title “Aristotle on Demagogues (from “Politics”). The text body says “…A fifth form of democracy, in other respects the same, is that in which, not the law, but the multitude, have the same supreme power, and superseded the law by their decrees. This is a state of affairs brought about by the demagogues. For in democracies which are subject to the law the best citizens hold the first place, and there are no demagogues; but where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. For the people becomes a monarch, and is many in one; and the many have the power in their hand, not as individuals, but collectively.”
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the second image out of four. The text has the title “Aristotle on Demagogues (from “Politics”). The text body says “… At all events this sort of democracy, which is now a monarch, and no longer under the control of law, seeks to exercise monarchical sway, and grows into despot; the flatterer is held in honour; this sort of democracy being relatively to other democracies what tyranny is to other forms of monarchy. The spirit of both is the same, and they alike exercise a despotic rule over the better citizens. The decrees of the demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant; and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other. Both have great power; the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing.”
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the third image out of four. The text has the title “Aristotle on Demagogues (from “Politics”). The text body says “The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, by referring all things to the popular assembly. And therefore they grow great, because the people have a things in their hands, and they hold in their hands the votes of the people, who are too ready to listen to them.”
This is an image containing text that is on a red background with clouds and stars. This is the last image out of four. The text has the title “Aristotle on Demagogues (from “Politics”). The text body says “Further, those who have any complaint to bring against the magistrates say, ‘Let the people be judges’; the people are too happy to accept the invitation; and so the authority of every office is undermined. Such a democracy is fairly open to the objection that it is not a constitution at all; for where the laws have no authority, there is no constitution. The law ought to be supreme over all, and the magistracies should judge of particulars, and only this should be considered a constitution. So that if a democracy be a real form of government, the sort of system in which all things are regulated by decrees is clearly not even a democracy in the true sense of the word…”
I remember reading Aristotle warning of demagogues. I went and took this section from Politics and put them into these images, because I think it is good to reflect on.
Demagogues are getting into power around the globe, but I would argue that we have them running the government in Alberta right now
Good to see more lawyers speaking out about Smith and the UCP backsliding democracy.
I just hope this reaches people who need to see it.
ca.news.yahoo.com/second-group...
Well I learned that hardcore UCP supporters get extremely angry when they encounter political satire about the UCP and Danielle Smith.
Humour? Absolutely dead with some of these folks.
We have tried absolutely nothing and it hasn't worked so now the only obvious solution here is to blame others from other places.
I try really hard to think of a way out of the political situation we are in Alberta, and I can’t find a good answer.
I feel like we are being held politically hostage.
Here's that Mainstreet Alberta poll mapped out btw
LPC 19
CPC 18
Who do the UCP even think they are?
None of us real Albertans asked for any of these referendum questions.
Man the UCP are a bunch of losers that don’t have any friends, do they? You’d have to live in far-right online spaces filled with bots 24/7 to think those are a good idea.
Ric McIver states unequivocally he is not a supporter of Alberta separatism. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/ric-... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
I think someone needs to campaign and offer a positive change for Alberta in Canada. That’s what is missing. Getting those “lean” voters is really important. I think it’s a mistake to offer “status quo” against a “change” option.
Albertans approve the most of Mark Carney when it comes to major political figures and their approach on Alberta separatism, according to Angus Reid
Alberta - Support For Independence:
All:
Remain: 65%
Independence: 29%
Among UCP Voters:
Independence: 57%
Remain: 38%
Among NDP Voters:
Remain: 93%
Independence: 6%
Angus Reid / Feb 6, 2026
The UCP sure gets triggered at ✨ words ✨
I try to talk to the Alberta seppies online (because I do not know any in real-life), and I have learned that they want to nationalize oil.
I bet Pierre Trudeau is rolling in his grave right now.
I have a lot of thoughts about the UCP after the Epstein files have come out.
I mean… I had a lot of thoughts before, too. But I have more now.
"Democracy & justice in Alberta are being threatened. Alberta is being abused by its own government much the same way the United States of America is being abused by its current president."
Over 180 Lawyers have penned an open letter calling out Smith's attack on the law.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
fYI - My exchange in committee yesterday with Justice Minister Sean Fraser about Premier Danielle Smith’s threat to withhold funding for new Alberta judges unless the province is given more input into federal appointments. #cdnpoli #LCJC #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #SenateofCanada
“Threatening to withhold this funding is
not only unconstitutional, but also undermines the administrative autonomy of the courts”
The Canadian Bar Association has written to Danielle Smith about her threats.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Stephen Harper says the US is a "hostile" regime and Canada must urgently reduce its economic ties and hit back with counter tariffs.
He says business leaders are fooling themselves if they think things will go back to normal.
When I find myself in the same trench as Stephen Harper it's serious.
First, the UCP said there was an “election integrity crisis," which led to a voter ID law.
Then a “national unity crisis” → a sovereignty referendum.
Now a “crisis of confidence” in the courts → defunding judges.
There is no evidence of these crises.
The UCP is trying to manufacture them.
Not to mention that she was the one that started threatening a “national unity crisis” right after Trump started to threaten to annex Canada and Carney started to pull ahead in the polls.
We’re bringing Albertans together to have an honest discussion about two of the most urgent issues facing us today:
The growing threat of separatism and the worsening health care crisis.
Grab a seat, text a friend, and tune in at 7 PM on Tues, Feb 3.
www.albertandpcaucus.ca/events/under...
The huge Fuck Carney rally in #Lethbridge a few minutes ago, 1 hour 15 mins after starting bwahaha #Alberta
