Hey @grok@xai — any chance of adding a native Google Forms connector? Being able to just chat with Grok and have it create a Google Form for me would be huge. Thanks.
🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨
I’ve been rereading the decision of Justice Leonard blocking the Alberta Independence Referendum in contemplation of our scheduled Alberta Court of Appeal Stay Hearing on June 18th, 2026.
Besides, again, remarking on the numerous errors in the decision I was taken with the extent to which the Court has seen fit to interfere with a legislated process of consultation with both indigenous and non indigenous citizens alike.
At paragraph [232] of her decision Justice Leonard makes the finding that the “Executive” is not engaged in any decision making - which would include specific First Nations Consultation until the Chief Electoral Officer had concluded “verifying that the signature thresholds are met”.
In other words all @ABDanielleSmith has to do is call a meeting with the Alberta Chiefs to “consult” with them and then call a Referendum Question that complies with the Clarity Act under section 1 of the Referendum Act.
My two big take away are this.
1. Justice Leonard unlawfully interfered in the legislative process PREVENTING the government of Alberta from consulting First Nations after the signature thresholds were verified by judicially interfering in the legislatively mandated signature verification process.
2. That Danielle Smith lied to the citizens of Alberta when she looked them in the eye and said that the “courts” prevent her from calling a referendum question on independence. All Danielle has to do is call a meeting of the Alberta Chiefs to “consult”, listen to them assert a veto over democracy in Alberta, and then go call a Referendum Question under s. 1 of the Referendum Act. (That is presuming that the law around consultation can be stretched so far as to require a government to consult with First Nations about consulting citizens in a referendum that the Supreme Court says doesn’t effect anyone’s legal rights”)
The fascinating thing about this is that on Justice Leonard’s own reasoning, the point where the executive would need to consult with First Nations has not yet arisen because JUSTICE LEONARD blocked the CEO from verifying the signatures so that the executive could then do its job and consult First Nations.
Intentionally or otherwise the court appears to have catastrophically failed in its role as a neutral arbitrator of the law.
@echipiuk@ikwilson@PardyBruce@ABDanielleSmith
HUGE: The House of Commons just confirmed it.
An Alberta independence referendum does not need 60% or 66%.
The threshold is 50% + 1.
A clear majority is enough to change everything.
Mark Carney got 30.1% of the vote from eligible voters in Canada
and then he stole a majority. Total power with 30% of the vote.
and hes over here telling Alberta that a 50% + 1 referendum is not good enough to leave Canada.
F'k Mark Carney!
Dear Premier Smith,
A referendum to have a referendum… after two justices told you, you could call Mitch Sylvestre’s question under Section 1 of the Referendum Act is hardly decisive or honest leadership.
On Thursday you lied to everyone in Alberta when you falsely claimed you couldn’t use either Lukaszuk’s question or Mitch’s question because of “the courts”. The courts in fact said the opposite.
Chief Alan Adam had his picture taken SIGNING the Lukaszuk petition. How would he oppose THAT question.
The simple fact is that you promised Mark Carney that there wouldn’t be a vote on independence this year. By stabbing 301,620 of YOUR VOTERS in the back you delivered on the promise as part of the package to sell out Alberta for a Chinese pipeline to Asia. No binary choice for Albertans as you promised. Only political sleight of hand.
You have lost the ability to refer to yourself as “Right Honourable” . You have lost the moral authority to lead the UCP.
Please resign.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey R.W. Rath
B.A. (Hons.), LL.B.(Hons.)
Foothills, Alberta
⚡️Children remember the moments when the family becomes fully alive.
That is the core. Vacation is just the common vessel.
A child does not encode childhood as a spreadsheet of responsible parenting.
They encode atmosphere.
They remember the motel pool, the gas station stop, the smell of sunscreen, the weird restaurant, the long drive, the sunset, the parents laughing differently, the feeling that normal life cracked open and something larger appeared.
That is why ages 5 to 10 hit so hard. The child is old enough to form durable narrative memory and young enough for the world to remain enchanted. Parents still feel mythic. A beach, cabin, lake, theme park, road trip, or even a cheap rented house can become sacred geography.
The real mechanism is interruption of routine plus emotional safety.
Ordinary life teaches stability. Trips create myth. The family leaves the repeating loop of school, work, chores, screens, exhaustion, and time pressure. For a few days, the child experiences parents outside their normal roles. Mom and dad are no longer just managers of homework, food, discipline, bedtime, and logistics. They become companions inside an adventure.
That imprints.
The money matters far less than parents think. Luxury is mostly adult vanity. Children remember intensity, freedom, attention, surprise, and togetherness. A $200 trip can beat a $10,000 trip if the child feels wonder and the parents are emotionally present.
Many adults are starved because their childhood had no sacred interruptions. Everything was duty, stress, survival, noise, pressure, or emotional absence. No mythic family scenes. No private homeland in memory. No recurring proof that life could be warm and strange and alive.
That matters for the adult psyche. People draw from childhood memories during loneliness, fear, ambition, loss, and love. Those memories become inner architecture.
Deepest compression: a good childhood is not built only by protection. It is built by unforgettable shared worlds.
Take the kid somewhere. Break the loop.
Make the ordinary world disappear for a few days.
That becomes part of them forever.
Bullsh*t.
Mitch Sylvestre invited 48 chiefs in Alberta to a meeting in Panoka. Sat there all day & not a single one showed up.
We had very public and open town halls meetings for 2 years all across Alberta...
First Nations had every opportunity to join in, but their leadership never did.
Our message, simply asking for a fair share of what Alberta generated & sent to Ottawa, is being ignored.
That’s why we will be holding a referendum to scrap equalization from the Constitution in Oct 2021.
Albertans demand a fair deal from Ottawa - we won't give up that fight.