Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...

.@ABDanielleSmith insists that referenda are democratic and give “power to the people”.

Ok, if that’s the case, why is she now totally disregarding and overturning the clear referendum result on daylight time?

Whats the point of referenda in Alberta when premier overturns them at a whim.

#ableg

Moving the Goalposts: Danielle Smith’s Referendum Narrative Starts to Collapse Under Its Own… There’s a point in politics where delay stops looking like diligence and starts looking like design. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith may…

Nailed it!
“When a Premier claims that delays are caused by a proponent’s inconsistency — and that proponent can demonstrably show otherwise — it doesn’t just undermine the specific argument. It erodes trust in the entire process.”
#ableg #ForeverCanadian

prairiesexposed.medium.com/moving-the-g...

Opinion: Possible changes to Alberta’s electoral map put democracy at risk If the UCP fiddles with the map, it could guarantee a conservative supermajority for a generation

Alberta's 17th Premier @rachelnotley.bsky.social published an excellent op-ed in the Globe and Mail about how the UCP is putting democracy at risk with their attempt to rig the election.

It is well worth the read:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

This text outlines arguments against adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Alberta, focusing on geographic location and health impacts. Geographic Mismatch: Alberta is located significantly west of the ideal longitude (\(105^{\circ }\text{W}\)) for the Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7) time zone. Solar Noon Delay: On standard time, solar noon in Calgary already occurs around 12:50 PM, similar to a typical DST solar noon, making MST function like DST. Health and Safety: Permanent DST would delay sunrises, with Grande Prairie seeing sunrise as late as 10:19 AM in December, depriving residents of necessary morning light and disrupting circadian rhythms. Benefits of Earlier Light: Aligning time closer to solar time promotes better sleep, lower risks of chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes, and improved academic performance in children.

On why we should not move to permanent Danielle Smith Time:
#AbLeg

Perspectives: Albertans being shut out of select committee's redrawing of provincial electoral boundaries The UCP is determined to stay in power, even if it means drawing their own riding boundaries to guarantee it. A couple weeks ago Alberta’s independent, non-partisan Electoral Boundaries Commission cre...

The UCP are it again. Albertans are being shut out of Danielle Smith’s latest attempt at election-rigging.

It’s wrong. It’s un-democratic. It’s un-Albertan.

#ableg #gerrymandering #alberta #demcracy

livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/20/o...

Alberta's Big City Mayors Call Out UCP Government YouTube video by Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

"There's no non-cynical take on what the government is doing."

#yyc & #yeg mayors @jeromyyyc.bsky.social & @andrewknack.bsky.social say the #UCP is on the wrong track with plans to rewrite Alberta's electoral map...

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/041726RTRT

🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/041926

youtu.be/WSXrl6wVbQQ?...

Network of YouTube channels pushing U.S. annexation and Alberta secession narrative, report finds A network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation, reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new repor...

A network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation, reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report.

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

#Alberta #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

I just signed off the last Alberta Water Council Board Meeting ever. I delivered these thoughts on the way out. Board Colleagues, There are moments when the decisions of those in power do more… | J... I just signed off the last Alberta Water Council Board Meeting ever. I delivered these thoughts on the way out. Board Colleagues, There are moments when the decisions of those in power do more than...

Another casualty of the incompetent #UCP government.

I guess you'd want to get rid of a water council if you want to ram data centre's down everyone's throats. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

www.linkedin.com/posts/jayswh...

I just signed off the last Alberta Water Council Board Meeting ever. I delivered these thoughts on the way out. Board Colleagues, There are moments when the decisions of those in power do more… | J... I just signed off the last Alberta Water Council Board Meeting ever. I delivered these thoughts on the way out. Board Colleagues, There are moments when the decisions of those in power do more than...

Another casualty of the #UCP incompetence in governance.

I guess you'd want to get rid of a water council if you want to ram #datacentre's down everyone's throats. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

#abpoli
#ableg
#alberta
#canada
#canpoli
#albertapolitics
#UCP
#ABndp
#ndp
#forevercanadian

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My latest newsletter: Canada's energy industry is either a hyper-competitive profit machine or a vulnerable protectorate forever at risk of collapse -- and sometimes both at the same time. It's bullshit.

Also: my take on an excess profits tax. #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...

Canada’s east-west electricity grid could be the pipeline of the future From solar arrays to wind projects and battery storage, First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities are investing in renewable power that creates local jobs, generates long-term revenue and strengthens...

"Now, clean electricity transmission could take the pipelines' place. Carney has an opportunity and a responsibility to ensure the future is built differently: powered by renewables, grounded in Indigenous rights and designed to deliver lasting benefits to communities across the country."

Wind and solar alone are currently providing nearly two thirds of electricity generation in Great Britain.

Source: www.mygridgb.co.uk

You don't say

Danielle Smith claims that her new UCP majority boundaries commission will follow the recommendations of one person on the old commission…

But that begs a simple question…

Why did they give themselves the power to do whatever they want?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Let’s bring the Cup home where it belongs. 🇨🇦
Let’s go Oilers!!!

The EU now requires all Mobile Phones to be sold with easily replaceable and standardised batteries, as they used to be.

From 2027 they all will be again, in Europe.

“Samson said she didn't see the break coming, but that she had no doubts that "something or someone" had pressured the UCP-appointed members to come up with a minority report.”

Another original commissioner member has stepped forward.

#abpoli #ableg

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Duane Bratt: Gerrymandering electoral map will erode Alberta democracy Thursday was a bad day for democracy, and possibly setting up an even worse day for democracy.

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

We had a referendum on this in 2021 but that doesn't matter
Alberta is now a dictatorship under Queen Dani
And although daylight savings isn't a hill I'm going to die on, it is another example of how it doesn't matter what Albertans want
MAGA Queen Dani will do what whatever she wants
#ableg #abpoli

Russia has looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects in the war. Finding them is a challenge — The Associated Press Ukraine is struggling to recover thousands of artworks and other cultural objects lost during Russia’s full-scale invasion.

“The fate of nearly 10,000 pieces remains unknown”

theonion.info

1/3 of Calgary households don't have enough to eat every month. YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

Surely, this isn't the Alberta 'Advantage' Smith keeps mentioning.

It's time to take real action to make life more affordable for Albertans.

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

Are Doctors Covering Up Government Failures? | The Tyee Our compassion and care offers patchwork fixes, but stalls action on structural problems.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2...

"And every consequence we absorb is one the system never has to face."

We spent the last 15yrs in Alberta "absorbing" in our EDs and in our hospital wards and hallways... we let sequential govt's avoid Workforce and Capacity Planning...
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Let's make electoral boundaries boring again Years ago, I was at a political science conference where the after-dinner speaker gave a history of electoral boundary processes in Canada.

Let's make electoral boundaries boring again
open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun... from the always wise @jlisayoung.bsky.social

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.