Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦

[Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦 @BSorokan]

@cspotweet Doesn’t help if you allow the other team score 900 goals.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Yeah but now Canada will think twice about having fires

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

It's time to cut through the bullshit about the Cowboys tent. Stampede succeeds because Calgarians welcome millions of people into our city. That goodwill matters. A few operators do not get to treat neighbours like garbage and damage the reputation of an event that belongs to all of us.

By now you've seen the coordinated smear campaign from out-of-town politicians. They think you're stupid and want you to believe that we're somehow cancelling Stampede by asking the big tents to use the same rules in place at Coachella, Lollapooloza and all the other world class festivals.

That's the first piece of bullshit. We're not talking about Stampede at all. We're talking about a few off-site tents that have been treating their neighbors like garbage.

Here's the truth. In the last few years, the tents were given a special exemption way above and beyond what was in place up until about 2019. People living near these tents were told to call 311 and wait. Their windows shook and broke. Their shelves rattled. Music ran on weeknights until 2 or 3 a.m. They dealt with property damage, public disorder, and excessive intoxication outside their homes.

Thousands of Calgarians raised their concerns. And just like when we repealed blanket rezoning, the city chose to listen to the people rather than answer to the money.

The second piece of bullshit is that Calgary's rules suck compared to everywhere else. In fact, the changes are modest. There's no change on weekends. But on weeknights, concerts now need to wrap up by 1230am. Even with this change, it means that Calgary still allows outdoor music later than anywhere else in North America.

The third piece of bullshit is that this was done last minute. This wasn't a last minute change. The big tents knew in February that their exemption was under review. Cowboys was told again in May. Their exemption depended on managing noise, safety, and impacts on nearby residents. They did not meet that standard.

But what isn't bullshit is that as your mayor I'm fighting for you. I want you to know that a permit is not a licence to bully a neighbourhood. It is not a profit guarantee. I was elected to stand up for Calgarians, not to take orders from wealthy donors, lobbyists, or politicians protecting their friends.

I am more than happy to seek compromise and work with operators who respect Calgarians. But I answer to the nurse on an early shift, the parent getting kids ready for school, and the worker who needs sleep.

So no. We are not cancelling Stampede. We are protecting it. Stampede succeeds because Calgarians welcome millions of people into our city. That goodwill matters. A few operators do not get to damage the reputation of an event that belongs to all of us.

If you want to do business in Calgary, respect the people who live next door.

[Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦 @BSorokan]

@peteremcc @jengerson @CoryBMorgan Which pieces of your original passport application still apply? How could canada grant dual citizenship to a citizen of a country that had yet to set up any border controls? The separatists are no longer Canadian!!!! Isn’t that the point of separation?!

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Alberta referendum called off.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Maybe CBS did him a favor bc some of these public access show clips are funnier than anything else I’ve watched recently

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

What. The. Fuck.

The internal CBC emails that eventually get released about this are going to be wild.

[Charles Prepolec 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @sherlockeditor]

🇨🇦 Arlene Dickinson laying out the Danielle Smith UCP problem. 👇

"Sorry but this isn’t western alienation. This isn’t a protest vote. This sure appears to be a deliberate step-by-step attempt to dismantle Canadian democracy and Albertans deserve SO much better."

[kyall glennie @kyall]

They're such good pals.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

I warned Elections Alberta about the potential Centurion Initiative data breach on March 31. They did Sweet FA for almost a month. My latest: https://t.co/P94FBhR9Cq

[Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦 @BSorokan]

@mattgurney

[Roman Fisher @RomanFisher__]

Building at speeds not seen in generations

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

I’m a Conservative… but I’m begging us to get serious. I’m begging on my knees for someone else to write his speeches.

We can disagree with Mark Carney all day long on policy. Fair game.

Necessary, even.

But saying the guy has an “illusion of knowledge” is like saying Connor McDavid has an illusion of being able to skate.

We don’t win by pretending competence is fake.

We win by proving we can do better.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

It’s amazing that this even needs to be said in 2026, but the collapse of communism was a good thing:

[Greg Clark 🇨🇦 @GregClarkAB]

Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1

[Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦 @BSorokan]

@jec79

[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

After 8 days of war between Iran 🇮🇷 and the USA/Israel 🇺🇸🇮🇱, here is a new MAP UPDATE

In total, the US and Israel conducted around 4 500 strikes across Iran, while Iran retaliated with 3 500 vectors, including ~905 missiles.

🧵THREAD🧵1/24 ⬇️

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@acoyne Yup

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

It's about time that there would be more realism in Canadian foreign and security policy.

(stating it is good but now Canada needs to implement a realist foreign policy. The list of challenges is long; at the top is a lack of capacity and the need for a radical culture change)

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

A long post that will likely upset some people, but it has been on my mind for quite some time.

I am of the view, and data backs this up, that the country is quite divided between two different groups.

The first, let's call them the have nots, are people for whom basic cost of living issues and a feeling of being locked out of opportunities in this country are their driving concern. These are people who don't benefit from the status quo and want change. This is the Conservative coalition.

There's another group of people, overwhelmingly older and wealthier, likely to own a very expensive home and people that benefit from the status quo. This is a good portion of the Liberal coalition. These are the people who are the most likely to be in the "elbows up" crowd who were most likely to engage in performative politics around Trump and all the 51st state threats.

But, and i'm speaking to my own side here, it's vital for conservatives not to misread this divide. It's not just irrational boomer neuroticism to look at what Trump is saying and doing with regards to Greenland and be shocked and outraged, and it's not irrational to have been outraged with how he's treated us in the past year or so and have a genuinely different view of America than you did a year ago - that has happened to me.

He's threatening to invade a NATO ally and imposing tariffs on countries that resist him, seemingly because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Price, and even if he doesn't completely destroy what's left of the western alliance he's doing serious and I worry irreversible damage to it. I don't think everyone just forgets about all this in a few years. And all the does is embolden and strengthen authoritarian regimes like China.

There are some conservatives who are guilty of a brainless and hyper online twitter brained contrarianism. An America that threatens to invade allies, even if its rhetoric, is a threat to us and you cannot be a Canadian patriot and be comfortable with them - it's a threat to us too.

This country needs change, and we've been far too complacent and naive for far too long and it has made us vulnerable. Fixing this is part of the change we need. But if you want to see that change, being a pseudo 51st state quisling will make that impossible. We can be the coalition and movement for change and also be patriots who want to make Canada strong and sovereign and realize we need to do big things to change our current predicament.

This is the path and there's no path to winning or change otherwise. Being a Canadian conservative does not mean you have to support whatever America conservatives are doing or support the Republican in the Whitehouse, and right now it actually does especially require being able to distinguish between the two.

[Brenen Sorokan 🇺🇦 @BSorokan]

@dieworkwear In their dying breath which comes first. The order in which it is said is extremely important.