Wherein Smith posts a pic of the headline, not the article.
"favours aligning with Sweden and Finland’s approach, where puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are reserved for children and teens with a history of gender dysphoria that started in early childhood and has persisted for many years."
Of course he predicted higher gas prices....Now.
Small government!
This is a meme circulating among the Alberta separatists. This is not about equalization or pipelines. It is a desire to create some sort of (dis)utopia based on conspiracy theories.
Because the question posed was designed to fail. I voted for against daylight time because I wanted standard time year round as it is better for SAD.
"Do you want Alberta to adopt year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is summer hours, eliminating the need to change our clocks twice a year?"
"This isn’t about constitutional reform. It’s about politics. More specifically, it’s part of a broader and increasingly brazen [UCP] effort to either control the courts or, failing that, convince the public not to trust them. "
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Calgary researcher advocates for ending daylight saving time as debate re-emerges calgaryherald.com/news/circadi...
Those Who Agree - "It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power"
🟢 All: 81%
🟢 BC: 86%
🟢 ON: 83%
🟢 ATL: 83%
🟢 SK/MB: 82%
🟢 QC: 72%
🟢 AB: 69%
Read it free: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...
Please let the anger over ads during the CBC Olympics broadcast finally create the pressure for the government to fund CBC enough so it can stop having to rely on ad revenue.
If you're big comfy couch posting watch out because #Bluesky will label it as graphic media
"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
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Wherein Tanya Fir refers to the next caller on her “callback list” as the “next motherfucker"...
Not knowing that next person was a journalist.
After she failed to hang up the phone properly.
Just the most competent government ever.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
A reminder: Canadian Charter Section 24.(1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.
A lot of questions today about how Danielle Smith -- the "libertarian" and "conservative" -- could use closure & the notwithstanding clause to remove Albertans' Charter rights.
The answer: she's neither libertarian nor conservative.
Is the province or her party, though? We'll soon find out.+
Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
Today Danielle Smith claimed that this is exactly how Peter Lougheed would have believed the notwithstanding clause should be used...
She couldn't be more wrong.
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Alberta introduces back-to-work legislation, imposes new contract to end teachers strike
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FWIW, the notwithstanding clause says that legislatures are empowered to breach certain rights and freedoms.
Not premiers.
Time allocation removes the ability of MLAs to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to Albertans.
Perhaps that's the point.
We are at the point where Danielle Smith would rather violate charter rights and create a constitutional crisis…
Instead of paying teachers fairly and giving kids the classrooms they need.
Read that again.
Because this is where we are.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
With US carmakers pulling back to the US and Trump once again saying he’s cutting off negotiations with Canada, it seems pretty clear what Mark Carney should be doing: taking a meeting with BYD and other Chinese automakers to see if they want to build in Canada in exchange for lower tariffs.
In December of 2022, the Govt of Canada offered 96,000 bottles of Australian Tylenol (the real brand) to Alberta.
It wasn’t AHS that refused.
It was the govt, saying that wouldn’t be enough.
How many bottles were actually used in hospitals?
9,000.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
At tonight’s “consultation”…
When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.
Listen to the clip yourself…
It’s…
Telling.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Fourteen staff members at a US animal shelter have been taken to hospital after the FBI used an incinerator at the facility to burn two pounds of seized methamphetamine.
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If he is really concerned he should ask Danielle Smith to use the creature of the legislature power, supported by section 92 of the Constitution Act 1867 to dissolve the city. He won't though because this stunt has nothing to do with what is actually desired by the citizens of Alberta.
I advocate for a "grim trigger strategy": cooperate until they deviate from the cooperative equilibrium, and then respond by ceasing to be cooperative "forever" (meaning as long as Trump is in power, at the very least). There is no forgiveness. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/the-civili...
"We need systemic reform designed to foster trust, not just transaction. This means re-introducing routine, rules-based intergovernmental relations, where leaders know they'll meet regularly, under shared agendas, with accountability built into the process."
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