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Kevin O'Leary pins water licence for $70-billion data centre project on a small Alberta municipality Kevin O'Leary's plan to build the "world's largest" data centre at a cost of $70 billion in northern Alberta depends on a deal that lets the celebrity investor walk away from the project if the local ...

This is egregious www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/n...

Worried about gerrymandering? Pay attention to the closest races from Alberta's 2023 election Fifteen of the twenty closest races were in Calgary

Worried about gerrymandering? Pay attention to the closest races from Alberta's 2023 election. Fifteen of the twenty closest races were in Calgary.

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Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

Alberta government's AI strategy in action. It's all about using natural gas to generate electricity to power the data centres. The community, desperate for regional economic development, is on the hook to obtain a water license that is 51 times their population.

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So then, shall we tax oil and gas companies at 78 per cent, like Norway does, but also allow them to deduct their industrial carbon taxes (which would, at $130 per tonne, average 50 cents per barrel)?

Do we have a deal, Mr. Energy Exec? Or are you just complaining for the sake of complaining?

Jason Kenney warns Alberta independence movement could become ‘a real factor’ in politics The former premier is one of the few politicians making the federalist argument in opposition to the province’s separatist cause

Who gave them legitimacy so they could be part of his "united conservative" party, Jason?
Who?!
/goose meme

Smith today...

"No worries everyone, if people are unhappy with the time change we can do a referendum at the next election!"

Amery 3 weeks ago...

"I'm changing the laws to ensure that there aren't referendum questions asked during elections!"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Or you might possibly get it from a majority government who thinks (or realizes) that its majority is a fluke. But the one instance that I know of that I thought had promise for that was not acted upon.

Go ahead and debate whether the ABNDP should have pulled the trigger on that.

I’ll watch.

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

ICYMI: Danielle Smith is working...to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada “The major aim of Bill 11 is to encourage the creation of a much larger private health insurance market" in Canada," said @alonghurst.bsky.social #cdnpoli breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box...

Covid vaccines all over again

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines The report found that the shots cut the likelihood of hospitalizations, but the agency’s acting head said it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccines’ effectiveness.

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.

Greg Clark and Susan Samson have issued a clarification to the final version of the majority report on the boundaries commission.

The majority did NOT support immediately adding in two more seats.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.

Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.

The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

Besides creating a distraction from UCP gerrymandering and the health care procurement scandal, what’s the rush?

Alberta legislature votes to redraw electoral map to make a 91-seat legislature Alberta has voted in favour of the governing United Conservative Party's (UCP) motion to overhaul the province's new electoral map.

Alberta NDP leader @naheednenshi.bsky.social: “It’s been clear for some time that the goal here is to dilute the voices of people in Calgary and Edmonton."
#ableg #abpoli #yeg #yyc

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Danielle Smith Why are you so afraid to put the #ForeverCanadian question to a Legislature vote?

If you are afraid and insist on a referendum, then put this question on the ballot. It received half million signatures, is approved and constitutional.

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Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

This is the tech on which Mark Carney has staked the future of the Canadian economy and what passes for public-sector reform.
People are rightly mocking Poilievre for touting bitcoin at the top of that bubble.
But if (when) the AI bubble bursts, Carney will have to answer for his own economic folly.

“Before the sale goes through, the municipality must "act as an agent" for O'Leary's company by securing provincial water licences that give the facility access to up to 24 million cubic metres of water annually.”

Last year the municipality declared an agricultural emergency because of drought.

Promise very broken. When I worked on Mayor Farkas’ campaign, we were clear that the direction would be repeal with replacement. Instead we have repeal and not even a hint of a plan for replacement. We all advised against this. Hard to watch him flip flop like this. He needs policy guidance STAT.

Government motion passes to take second run at redrawing Alberta's electoral ridings EDMONTON - A controversial motion to send recently proposed changes to Alberta's electoral maps back to the drawing board has passed in the legislature, leading the Opposition NDP to accuse

The fix is in.

Smith’s latest Orbán-esque-Trumpian move to override established legislation by a motion to then gerrymander Alberta cities out of the right to vote, ensuring her majority for several election cycles.

#ableg

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Banning surveillance pricing for groceries should be an easy yes and an easy win.

Among all the good reasons, legal scholarship on AI regulation has supported this kind of approach for decades. It’s specific & addresses an obvious harm that is enacted at scale only because of this underlying tech.

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...

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Still boggles my mind how unserious Canada is about disinformation, considering the deleterious effect it is having on almost every aspect of our society. I’ve had serious conversations with serious people about it, and their eyes glaze over.

We should go back to referring to people by their age group instead of by their generation. Enough of this “elder millennials” shit. Just say “people in their 40s” or whatever.

CCLA and Coalition to MPs: Scrap Unprecedented Surveillance Measures in Bill C-22 - CCLA CCLA joins coalition in calling on all MPs to scrap Bill C-22's unprecedented and unjustified expansion of surveillance.

CCLA and a broad coalition of groups call on all members of Parliament to scrap Bill C-22’s unprecedented and unjustified expansion of surveillance.

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The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism | The Tyee A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.

Danielle Smith decided to open Pandora's Box in order to keep her separatist supporters at bay. Now the rest of us have to contend with the forces that she unleashed. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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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.