Once a sharp critic of Danielle Smith’s UCP Government, Independent MLA Scott Sinclair sure is quiet nowadays - Alberta Politics Lesser Slave Lake MLA Scott Sinclair, rusticated from the United Conservative Party Caucus by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for trying too hard to look out for his rural constituents, sure has been q...

Once a sharp critic of Danielle Smith’s UCP Government, Independent MLA Scott Sinclair sure is quiet nowadays. albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/once...

Hey #Lethbridge
If you are checking out the #DomesticDivas event at the #YQL Convention Centre come sign the #WaterNotCoal petition to save our slopes.
#ableg

I've canvassed for a few causes/petitions, and can't believe the number of people that say "I don't get involved in politics". Well, politics is involved with you!

Corb Lund: Facts dispute industry claims on coal mining Opinion:

"We are being asked to accept permanent environmental damage, long‑term public liability and water risks that can't be engineered away, all to support an industry in structural decline that contributes little in royalties and is largely owned by foreign investors."You tell 'em,@corblund.bsky.social.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Many disturbing things in here but this jumped out in particular:

"At Patel’s direction, FBI employees are polygraphed in an effort to identify leakers ... asked ... about Patel’s perceived 'enemies,' as well as whether they have ever said anything disparaging about the director or the president."

Opinion: UCP government has no business running Alberta's public libraries We don’t need a provincial government that contributes a meagre amount to public libraries to have any business overriding local governance.

Opinion: UCP government has no business running Alberta's public libraries

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Braid: UCP gives itself suspicious power on riding boundaries, but may avoid the worst result The UCP wants to redraw riding boundaries but may avoid the worst result, a flood of hybrid rural-urban seats.

Is the UCP rigging the voting system? Their actions say no - they didn't endorse hybrid ridings - but suspicion is the only sensible response.. Column.
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Back to the drawing board! UCP scrapping Alberta boundaries commission and appointing MLA committee to draw new electoral map Every day is a new round of chaos in Alberta politics

Back to the drawing board! UCP scrapping Alberta boundaries commission and appointing MLA committee to draw new electoral map

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This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process.

It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance.

You know, real conservatives.

It is not the increase from 89 to 91 that is problematic. It is this part of the motion. Throwing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission (and all of their work) and instead creating a new committee of MLAs with a new advisory panel.

Alberta to redraw electoral map, expand legislature to 91 seats in fast-tracked review The process would be overseen by a UCP-led committee of MLAs and would see the number of MLAs grow by four, up to 91

“The process would be overseen by a UCP-led committee of MLAs and would see the number of MLAs grow by four, up to 91, with no public hearings.”

Read that again:
UCP-led committee. No public hearings.
Ripping up the map to rig the election.

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I will have a lot more to write about this tonight on daveberta.substack.com 🙃

Alberta government takes aim at Globe reporter over coverage of procurement scandal United Conservative Party House Leader compares Globe reporting to ‘dietary advice from Jabba the Hutt’

Alberta govt takes aim at Globe reporter over coverage of procurement controversy:

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So long Viktor Orbán! The times, they are a changin’ … but can Wild Rose MAGA buck the trend? - Alberta Politics So long, Viktor Orbán!  Looks like almost nobody was sorry to see Mr. Orbán sent packing by voters yesterday, least of all in Hungary where he spent the previous 16 years creating a much-imitated temp...

So long Viktor Orbán! The times, they are a changin’ … but can Wild Rose MAGA buck the trend? albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/so-l... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #geopolitics

Scottish Sesame Street YouTube video by Scottish Comedy Central

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Beautiful home

The ostrich con: Arguments to save birds from cull in B.C. were based on falsehoods, evidence shows | CBC News The 10-month standoff on a B.C. ostrich farm last year was the most expensive poultry cull in Canada’s history. A fifth estate investigation reveals the campaign to save the ostriches was based on falsehoods.

The owners “claimed they would use the Edgewood birds to produce a weight loss supplement more effective than Ozempic called OstriTrim and a hair growth product that would reverse balding and hair thinning called OstriGrow.”

Grifters.

Hey AB, while you are worried about the price of groceries + rent, the highest electricity and insurance rates in the country, and while our govt continues to dismantle our HC system and underfund education, + marches on with cronyism, grift, and corrupt practices ...
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But there are so many unsavory bits...

What is wrong with us?

Never mind the law, public opinion, or common sense: Danielle Smith will ensure there’s a separation referendum on the ballot. albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/neve...

Legendary line

Dan Williams’ proposed book ban aims to gin up a moral panic ‘with no basis in reality’ - Alberta Politics Interesting question: Has Dan Williams, Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs and de facto chief censor, ever been inside a public library?  If he ever had been, he’d know perfectly well that childr...

"proposed book ban aims to gin up a moral panic" Way to go Peter! #ableg #abpoli #libraries

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Alberta judge questions government lawyers on potential role of foreign interference in separation referendum Government lawyer argues there is no evidence that separatist petition effort faces meddling from outside the country

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Braid: Startling riding boundary plan could tip Alberta politics to the UCP A riding boundary plan, if adopted by UCP, could tip an election in their direction.

Riding boundary changes are usually boring - but not this plan. It would tilt political advantage to the UCP for many years. Column.
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Breaking news in the Globe & Mail today - it appears Justice Minister Mickey Amery may have changed elections law to help with friend and relative Sam Mraiche.

It seems the UCP’s corruption doesn’t end.

Let’s make sure their time in government does. #ableg

Alberta Justice Minister curtailed election regulator when Sam Mraiche was under investigation Mickey Amery’s legislation shortened watchdog’s window of time to pursue sanctions for alleged political finance violations

SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation.
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