Shawn Coverini

video game, transit, and gym enthusiast. big tech guy (love to code). I help make software for the semiconductor industry.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

So what did Don Jr just pull out of his coat pocket and put in his mouth?

[AnnRuth 🇨🇦 ESC @AnnRuth8587]

@Mellyfax @CPC_HQ This basically sums up what happened to the old 'Conservative' party. They're nothing but 'ReformaCons' now.

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

Because conservatives hate women.

[Stephanie Shostak (Стефанія Шостак) 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @sashostak]

I woke up this morning to see that my most recent Letter to the Editor was published in today's Edmonton Journal.

I you cannot read the font in the picture, here it is:

Saturday's letters: Referendum a waste of public money

This UCP government’s decision to pursue /2

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Right-wing streamer Cam Higby was caught on video walking up to a group of protesters and pepper spraying multiple people, outside the Newark ICE Facility.

Then, as people reacted to being sprayed, an armed man pulled him away, telling him, “It’s not worth it… it’s time to go.”

Last time I checked… walking up to a group of people and spraying them with a chemical irritant is commonly charged as assault or battery.

And then, after spraying the crowd, the video show Higby, and the armed man, running into the ICE facility while agents allowed them inside.

Imagine the outrage if a left-wing activist walked up to a group of conservatives, pepper sprayed them, and then disappeared behind federal gates.

The headlines would never stop.

The law is supposed to apply equally to everyone.

[Alexandre Landry. Un Acadien🦞🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🦞 @AlexandreLand15]

Beware of traitors
#canadianbakin

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

She flat-out lied about the law. He called her on it, and it was something to see.

[~Darlene 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @DarPeterson92]

DS is a dangerous woman. Pay attention Canada.

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Doesn’t she live in Oklahoma?

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Trump threatened Canada’s economy, mocked our sovereignty, talked about annexation jokes, and disrespected Canadians repeatedly.

Then they act confused when Canadians push back?
No Pete, Canadians didn’t suddenly “rally against America” for no reason.

People are reacting to arrogance, disrespect, and constant attacks from Trump.
If you can’t understand that, then you can absolutely pound sand 🇨🇦

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce CEO called out Danielle Smith’s separatist movement:

- 83% of Alberta businesses see recession risk
- 74% are considering relocation

The fact is Danielle Smith’s separatists are doing one thing REALLY well:

Destroying Alberta’s economy

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

I'm absolutely sick and tired of this bullshit argument about how Justin Trudeau and the liberals shut down Alberta oil & gas. This is reality as posted by Brian Jean the Alberta Minister of Energy.

Stop the rage-baiting and gaslighting.

[Brooke 🥀 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇬🇱Proud Canadian @FairplayDesigns]

How can Danielle think that 400,000 Albertans who signed a petition that they did not want a referendum now say, they want to take a chance on a referendum?
Danielle Smith is a liar

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

TMX is often used as proof that Ottawa blocked Alberta. The record shows the opposite. Ottawa approved TMX in 2016. Private capital stepped back in 2018, well after federal approval was already in place.

Canada then bought the project, organized delivery through Trans Mountain Corporation, carried the risk, addressed the legal and consultation delays, corrected the process failures, and delivered Alberta’s pipeline to tidewater.

It did so after the 2014 oil-price collapse, in a lower-price era, as climate risk and competing energy technologies became more central to investment decisions.

Canada did not block Alberta’s pipeline to tidewater.

Canada delivered it.

My latest in The Alberta Effect series on separation.

#Ableg #Alberta #Energy #TheAlbertaEffect

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

A “fiercely loyal” Canadian would not have spent two years trying to burn down Canada.

A “fiercely loyal” Canadian would not have made a deal with separatists to give them everything they wanted.

A “fiercely loyal” Canadian would not ride the fence and only say she stood for Canada when it became politically convenient.

Danielle Smith is not an innocent bystander. She cannot blame 700,000 Albertans for this. She has been driving the separatist bus the entire time.

[kyall glennie @kyall]

Separatists demonstrating in real time that democracy is not something they respect.

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

Rempel. Lives in the US full time. Is married to an American. Only comes to Canada to collect a pay cheque. She needs to shut her pie hole. Vote Rempel out Calgary Nose Hill the first chance you get, she’s nothing but a grifter Republican wannabe.

[@RGBAtlantica @RGBAtlantica]

July 27, 2024 We all watched on our TV, Jasper burnt to the ground in another Danielle Smith disaster as she cut 30 million from the wildfire budget including the Aerial Rapattack fire service team. She blamed the fed. govt.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Alberta joined Confederation in 1905, not 1867. The founding deal was already written, the rules were already set, and Alberta signed onto an existing arrangement. Then Alberta struck oil.

Now Alberta wants to rewrite the constitution it inherited. Think about that dynamic for a second.

You are the new hire. You did not build the company. You did not negotiate the founding partnership agreement. You showed up decades later, accepted the terms, and were handed a desk. Then you hit a massive sales streak and suddenly you want to vote like the CEO and renegotiate the partnership from scratch.

The original partners, Ontario and Quebec, built the institutional framework, absorbed the risk of Confederation, and carried the country financially for generations before Alberta was even a province. The equalization system Alberta despises today exists because the founding provinces understood that regional economies are uneven, and a country only holds together if the arrangement is broadly fair over time.

Alberta’s contribution to Canada is real and significant. The oil revenues that flowed east supported federal revenues and transfers for decades. That deserves acknowledgment.

But “we generate revenue now” is not the same as “we designed this institution and therefore get to unilaterally change its rules.” Every new partner in any organization brings value. That does not automatically translate into governance authority that overrides the foundational agreement everyone else built and agreed to.

If Alberta wants more weight in Confederation, the path is constitutional negotiation with the other partners. Not threats. Not sovereignty referendums. Not pretending the founding compact was illegitimate because it predates your membership.

You want a seat at the head table? Earn it through the process that exists. You do not get to flip the table because you are currently the top salesperson.

[Paul Andrews @PaulEAndrews]

Time for the Premier of Alberta to call an election. She has no mandate for anything she is doing, especially a separation referendum.

UCP and their supporters jumped all over the NDP for not having a mandate for the Carbon Tax, now they’re silent.

#hypocrites