“A network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation, reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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🚨BREAKING!🚨
The UCP have officially voted to ditch the Electoral Boundaries Commission Report to appoint their own commission and draw their own maps!
Gerrymandering is official UCP policy in Alberta!
Contrary to her script, Smith didn't even show up for the vote.
If Texas hadn’t done it, California and Virginia wouldn’t have even pursued it.
"While they don’t know exactly who is behind the network or why, the researchers flagged it as a “potential covert influence operation” in a new report released Tuesday," writes @alexboyd.bsky.social.
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Alberta NDP are accusing the UCP of stalling progress on the successful Forever Canada petition so that its work won't be finished until after a potential seperatist referendum.
They add motions to finish work by May 7th and to hear from proponent Thomas Lukaszuk were shot down.
Agreed.
It's the democratic equivalent of lead in the drinking water. The longer we wait to remove it, the more lasting the damage will be.
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you
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“A government that has no electoral accountability can hardly be called a democracy.”
Rachel Notley has entered the chat.
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NEW: The Consumer Federation of America sued Meta this morning over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years.
Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.
A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
“The UCP government’s plan to dismiss an independent electoral boundary commission riding map recommendations and undertake a redo is a “stab in the heart for democracy,” said one commission member.”
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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.
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And the disappearance of the headphone jack. Fuck you, Tim Cook
That being said, the government is ignoring a referendum result that it previously claimed would be "binding"
What does that mean for the referenda scheduled for the Fall?
There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.
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."
Calgary and Edmonton drove the the 'No' vote in Alberta's 2021 referendum on permanent daylight savings The question — 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? — was narrowly defeated by a vote of 50.2% to 49.8% provincewide. But the vote breakdown varied by geography. Source: Elections Alberta Chart: Robson Fletcher, Data & Storytelling Strategist
Albertans narrowly rejected permanent daylight saving time in a 2021 referendum.
But today Premier Danielle Smith revealed the province *is* going ahead with it anyway.
Opposition in the referendum was strongest in the biggest cities, while support was stronger in smaller towns and rural areas.
Meanwhile, virtually every Canadian governmental official (with the exception of our privacy commissioner) is not only not questioning the legality of X becoming the largest CSAM and non-consensual porn site on the internet, they continue to support the site by posting there.
I'm starting to get the sense that referendums in Alberta are performative exercises instead of ways to resolve policy disputes.
Someone’s gonna have to explain the Streisand Effect to Patel at the bar tonight www.reuters.com/world/fbi-di...
Whether it's JD Vance telling the Pope not to stick his nose in Theology, or Pierre Poilievre claiming that Mark Carney is bad at Economics, we are truly living through a Golden Age of self-entitled mediocrities whose only move is projecting their own inadequacy upon their critics and opponents.
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
I voted no originally but I've changed my mind. DST year-round is my preference.
Is that bad? Seems bad
“The Premier… stated (incorrectly) that the retired judge who had chaired the commission raised the possibility of using voters, rather than residents, as the basis for drawing boundaries.
It wasn’t the Chair, but rather the two UCP appointees who suggested this”
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Smith says that she wants to redraw the maps to ensure that rural gets the representation it deserves because rural constituencies are complex & too big.
This compares the majority report & the minority report.
It's the cities that get carved up, rural barely moves.
