Smith says she's cutting access to social support programs because she "heard that people were moving here just to be on social programs."
This sort of hearsay framing is a dangerous rhetorical device employed by populists. Consider Donald Trump. +
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"...Treaty 6 First Nations Grand Chief Joey Pete accused Smith’s government of having “created conditions in Alberta that are unsafe... — promoting ignorance & intolerance along with its support for the separatist agenda is leading to outright racism.”"
thetyee.ca/National/202...
All these angry little men with their Napoleon complexes.
White House insider says US considering renaming US Department of War - 'Department of Things Resembling A War But It Is Definitely Not a War.'
Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin
Sleeping at night.
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
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Please repost with your own caption.
My guess was Botox. I think she’s going blonder too.
Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.
Dennis Modry defrauded his aunt and uncle of more than $1 million. Jeffrey Rath has been reprimanded by the Law Society twice in the last year.
It's nice to be reminded that not only are Alberta separatist leaders comically incompetent, they're also deeply terrible human beings.
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This administration is scared and is in way, way over its head.
As the price of oil & gas explodes, I recently read about how the price impact is almost entirely speculative, as the *supply* of oil and gas hardly budges, particularly in places like Canada. It's all just straight up profits for the gas companies. Remember that as you fill up the tank this week.
The red disc of a total lunar eclipse gleams over the Seattle skyline, as thin clouds blur across the sky in long exposure.
Emerald City / Crimson Moon
Naturally we were completely clouded out for this latest lunar eclipse, but it’s a good excuse to revisit last year’s surprisingly visible one!
friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh
Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.
He needs to go back to being a cheesy entertainment show host.
Yes, Canadian productivity is terrible and per-capita performance has been weak, but the economy has expanded faster than all of its non-US G7 peers since the pandemic:
Local man being paid to sit on sidelines for past eleven years says people should do things.
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Ick. It’s bad enough reading about them in the news.
’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.
Trying to follow his logic makes my head spin and leaves me feeling very unsmart.
Trying to follow his logic makes my head spin and leaves me feeling very unsmart.
When Danielle Smith claimed 80% of federally picked judges had donated to Liberals, that was way higher than any figure I'd researched.
I dug into it. Could confidently write here:
"It is not true. The single media source Smith got that fact from has since corrected it."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Albertans: your premier is lying to you.
