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Janis Irwin, Peter Guthrie, and Rakhi Pancholi big winners in Best of Alberta Politics 2025 Survey Marlin Schmidt voted MLA with Best Sense of Humour and Brooks Arcand-Paul is the MLA to watch in 2026

🥇😎 Janis Irwin, Peter Guthrie, and Rakhi Pancholi are the big winners in the Best of Alberta Politics 2025 Survey.

After a week of fierce campaigning, all the votes have been counted and the winners of the ninth annual Daveberta Best of Alberta Politics Survey have been chosen. 🤠

Quote: "The oil and gas industry may have deliberately cultivated a reputation for itself as a place defined by risk-taking and swagger, but today’s oil and gas sector is run by glorified spreadsheet jockeys who consistently shy away from even the smallest quantum of uncertainty"

Carney dared 'em.

How would an MLA know which constituents vote in a provincial elections? This information is privileged only to Elections Alberta.

Also, any elector can initiate a recall, irrelevant of whether they vote. UCP wrote this law.

#ableg

Braid: UCP performing major surgery on Alberta health care The new legislation introduced Monday is fundamental, monumental, and could directly affect how much patients pay.

Bill 11 - There hasn't be a change to Alberta health care this profound since universal care was introduced more than 50 years ago. Column.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abhealth #abeg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg

Wow. Danielle Smith wants this sexually explicit material to be mandatory reading for children?? How disgusting! Where are her morals? Her values? 🫠

Finance Minister Nate Horner thinks 12% increase - over 4 years for teachers is too much.

But he voted in favour of a ln immediate 14% living allowance increase for MLAs.

Just sayin’…

Two line charts showing Alberta well ahead of every other province in terms of price inflation for auto insurance premiums (which have more than tripled since 2002) and home insurance premiums (which have increased more than sixfold).

The latest inflation data for car & home insurance, by province.

Alberta absolutely in a league of its own here.

All but one Conservative premier responded to the federal election with specific priorities.

Premier Smith had to be the outlier, even if it came at a serious cost to Albertans.

Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook And it's no accident they were released today.

"The UCP’s reforms reflect... the strategies pioneered by Trump Republicans: leveraging dark money, undermining trust in elections, weaponizing recalls, disenfranchising opponents, suppressing voter turnout, & empowering radical populist movements."

New from me.
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How To Vote | Liberal Party of Canada Voting is fast and easy. Find out more about the ways to vote in this election.

Remember - polls close at 7:30pm MT tonight.

But if you're in line to vote at 7:30pm, even if you haven't made it through the line - you can vote.

Bring the right ID and let's go out there and do some democracy! www.how2vote.ca

Mr. Civility himself calling for a general strike, Bill Kristol calling for ICE to be abolished, and GMU libertarians posting like they want to get the GC subpeonaed. We are 83 days in.

If the Minister of Justice has nothing to hide, he should table the receipts for his Florida trip to the Stanley Cup Finals — flight, ticket, hotel — and show Albertans he paid for it himself!

And while he's at it, maybe he could convince the Premier to call a public inquiry into #corruptcare too!

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

#BringHimHome NOW!
#KilmarAbregoGarcia

It’s not surprising that Smith read the room wrong on this again.

That’s what happens when you listen more to Trump supporters than Albertans.

And when you’re always acting in your own interests, not Alberta’s or Canada’s.

wearing a white shirt to a tomato-based food factory is a dead giveaway that this man has never worked a job in his life

Braid: Smith's cosy ties in U.S. wrecked Poilievre campaign opening Premier Danielle Smith's comments about enlisting Americans to help in election campaign hurt Conservative chances and Pierre Poilievre

Furious reaction from UCP quarters over this column, about Smith trying to win breathing room for Poilievre from Americans. Column. calgaryherald.com/news/braid-s... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #trump #trumptariffs #election2025

Looking back at the demise of Jason Kenney, a string of scathing columns from UCP-friendly scribes in Calgary helped turn the tide against the premier.

Must be an unsettling feeling for Smith. Donors and caucus members read the Herald.

I’d settle for someone showing this to Danielle Smith.

(Don’t worry, we will. But do you think she’ll care if it means giving up her fabulous vacations to Florida?)

Fuck off with this headline, CNN. We didn't "escalate" anything by defending ourselves.

Ukrainians in Edmonton mark third anniversary of Russian invasion The Ukrainian community in Edmonton came together to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Community members say they hope for peace and a better future. “It’s deep sorrow and...

Ukraine’s sovereignty is not for sale or up for negotiation. This brutal war, now at its third anniversary, must end on Ukraine’s terms.

We stand with Ukraine.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/02/23/u...

Our response to today’s provincial budget.

I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

There is A LOT going on right now.

And I know the great people of Edmonton-Whitemud want to talk about it.

Join me on March 13th for a conversation and townhall.

Register here - www.albertasfuture.ca/events/white...

"We should have core values, and being against corruption should be one of those, right?"

These aren't my words, they belong to a (former) UCP Cabinet Minister.

The call is coming from inside the house, but the Premier refuses to pick up the phone. Visit CorruptCare.ca to learn more.

#CorruptCare

Canada has the largest Ukrainian population outside of Ukraine & Russia.

Almost one third of them live here in Alberta.

It’s been 48 hours since the appalling insult to Ukraine by Trump and yet the Premier of Alberta has been silent.

Why?

‘CorruptCare Scandal’: Smith Thumped in Legislature | The Tyee After minister quits, Alberta’s premier deflects questions from an NDP on the attack.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

#abpoli #ableg #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead
#FireTheUCP #CorruptCare #healthcare #alberta #scandal

UCP Placed Mraiche Business Partner on Edmonton Police Commission | The Tyee Dr. Jayan Nagendran’s appointment by Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis raises ‘more concerns,’ say critics.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

#Mraiche #abpoli #ableg #edmontonpolice #eps #corruption #PoliceComission #CorruptCare #Scandal #Ellis #BusinessPartner

This is the time to change. YouTube video by Mark Carney

This is the time to change. This is our time to build. This is the time for Canada.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKLo...