Manipulation for gain is the name of the game.

A quick Google gives me Jason Nixon, Rajan Sawhney and Tara Sawyer, pluc chair Brandon Lunty.

3 UCP legislature committee members forced a vote through to deny me, the proponent of #ForeverAlberta petition, Alberta’s largest ever petition, to appear before the committee and speak on behalf of the nearly 500,000 Albertans.

This is another move to assist the separatists.

Many parallels to the convoy action and undertaken in the most receptive part of Canada. I won't hold my breath that the UCP will see this as a problem to solve either.

The foreign interference is here, and has already attracted truckloads of eyeballs. Will the UCP do anything about it?

TL;DR: Use our software if you wanna turn your democracy into a dictatorship! We have a FAQ page!

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

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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.

“It is not an exaggeration to say that the minority report was gerrymandered to benefit the UCP by significantly diluting urban voters.”

Duane Bratt: Gerrymandering electoral map will erode Alberta democracy

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Alberta premier rejects Opposition claims UCP interfering on electoral boundaries EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that her United Conservatives are pulling the strings behind the scenes to rejig election ridings in their favour.

Alberta premier rejects Opposition claims UCP interfering on electoral boundaries

Commissioner Susan Samson says “something or someone” sure did, but she doesn’t expect to ever learn the truth.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Who needs a water council when we’re replacing water with selenium?

Albertans are the least satisfied with quality of life across Canada: StatCan | Globalnews.ca A new survey from Statistics Canada shows that Albertans are less satisfied with the quality of life in Canada when compared to other Canadians.

I wonder why? Alberta is the richest province in Canada with the lowest tax rates!

This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the constant negativity Albertans hear from my UCP gov't and our endless attacks on Ottawa.

Read: globalnews.ca/news/1180815...
#abpoli #UCPCorruption

Trump and the IRS are in talks to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unautho

Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.

Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.

Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.

We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.

Debate over B.C. private school funding reignited after new report findings Education is a top priority for families across British Columbia, whether their children attend public or private school—but a new report is raising questions about how provincial funding is being dis...

“We’re not increasing investment in public schools as the economy has grown,” @alonghurst.bsky.social said. “And at the same time, private schools are continuing to see stable public funding.” @policyalternatives.ca #bcpoli www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

In a nutshell. 😊

Alberta Poli-Sci 113 Exam: please put these activities in the correct order
--think up policy idea
--send policy idea to a referendum
--get referendum results
--ignore referendum results
--make the decision
--take policy concept to the legislature for debate
--implement what-ever

Referenda in parliamentary systems yield results that are binding if the party in government wants to treat them as binding, sacrosanct if multiple parties agree to treat them as sacrosanct, and completely disposable if the governing party or a new government chooses to ignore them.

This was adjourned by consent this morning. No date set for next hearing.

THE OSHOW: CANADIAN DEMOCRACY AT RISK, ONTARIO GROUNDS FORD GRAVY PLANE, SMITH DANGEROUS MOVES IN AB YouTube video by The OShow with Laura Babcock

Did Ford’s Gravy Plane fiasco show us power of protest leading into April 25? Can we stop Alberta’s Danielle Smith from gerrymandering? What can Canadians DO to protect our democracy at all levels including Carney’s PMO? 🇨🇦

Author @petermacleod.bsky.social on The OShow youtu.be/4Mvz21Fx4WA?...

Of course, we *did* have a referendum on this.

In 2021.

Ordered by the UCP government.

And Albertans voted 'No'.

The website is still up.

It says: "The results of the referendum are binding. Alberta will continue changing their clocks twice a year."

So our referendum touting Premier of Alberta isn't all that into referendum results unless she agrees with the outcome or the results support a particular political agenda. Got it 🙄

Another voice raising concerns over Alberta's plan to redraw the electoral map, with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association saying the UCP's plan "casts a doubt over the equity and fairness of Alberta’s electoral process."

Britain’s populist-right Reform UK wants to put local government pensions to work for its policy aims.

But critics see it as high-handed meddling.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/refo...

On this day in 1995, the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. 168 men, women, and children were murdered and hundreds more were injured. 1/

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.

WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)

that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

This is outrageous!! #DanielleSmithIsMAGA

This is kind of huge actually.

Palantir V @PalantirTech X.com Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense ot the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

🧵 Why is Palantir advising on foreign policy?

This bit is interesting:

“National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost”

Full post ⬇️

🇺🇸 US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz: US-Iran talks will resume within the next 24 hours.

He stated that Donald Trump may extend the ceasefire agreement with Iran, which expires on April 22.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.