Eric of Alberta

Pro-Energy. Anti-woke. AI fanboy.
Reads books.
Supporter of Alberta Independence.

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

A simple solution: Alberta Independence. Then no need to negotiate any Orwellian Bill C-22 with Ottawa for years and years. It will simple go away.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Canadians are now hearing the warnings loud and clear: Bill C-22 would give Mark Carney's Liberal government sweeping surveillance powers over your information.

Conservatives are fighting back. Stop the Liberal surveillance agenda: https://t.co/VFHssaqJBx

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Do not fear the scary colors

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Ottawa has extracted $784.9 billion from Alberta since 1961.

That is money Albertans sent and did not get back in services, while Ottawa treats us like a colony to be taxed, controlled, and ignored.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Hong Kong was long the main place where large-scale, open remembrance of the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 was possible. It drew hundreds of thousands.

In mainland China, it is snuffed out to a degree that is shocking.

Steadily, this has been eroded by the authorities.

In 2020, under the premise of covid19 restrictions, there was a clamp down. Many defied it; arrests followed for unlawful assembly. This coincided with Beijing imposing the National Security Law (NSL) in June 2020, which broadly targeted secession, subversion.

In 2021, Tiananmen memorials, museums, and statues (like the "Pillar of Shame") were removed from universities.

Arrests and detentions continued throughout the years for the mere crime of bringing flowers, wearing black clothing, or even just social media posts in commemoration of the Tiananmen massacre.

Just a few weeks ago, the trial of the former organizers of the yearly Tiananmen vigil concluded. They await the verdict, which is almost certain to be a jail sentence.

This year, the authorities have banned family and relatives of the victims from visiting their graves in Beijing.

The ruthless efforts of intensifying censorship by the CCP has swallowed the truth in the land where it happened and now, Hong Kong which was the keeper of its memory.

But this role is no longer, even if it still exists in the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers.

To those of us overseas, this is a duty. We are the keepers of a memory the powerful wish to bury. In our living rooms, across time zones, through late-night conversations and quiet tears, we hold the history to which there are no more monuments, to which there are blank pages in the history books.

We remember the students with their hunger strikes and hopeful banners. We remember the ordinary citizens who stood beside them. We remember Tank Man. We remember the mothers who lost children and were told their grief was unpatriotic.

We remember because forgetting would betray not just history, but the very humanity we share. We honor the courage of those who stood in the square and the quiet strength of those who still mourn in private. We keep alive the dream that was crushed but never fully extinguished.

I hope those of us overseas will post the images, share the news and tell the stories. In this act of fidelity, we become a bridge between what was lost and what may yet be reclaimed.

The CCP may control the narrative within its borders, and now increasingly, well beyond them, but we in the West with an open information ecosystem have a duty to not let this memory die.

As long as we remember, they have not won.

June 4th, 2026
37th Anniversary

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

You can't hate @CBCNews enough.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This horrible organization can’t be defunded soon enough.

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@MimiProbably Pronouns in bio = you're a woke idiot with an uneducated opinion.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

But the Canadian economy is rooted in empathetic feminist economics so patriarchal metrics mean nothing to Kind Canadians.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of Chinese communist security forces killing hundreds of protesting students on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. 🇨🇳

[静之竹 @jz86574932]

一位女士在天安门广场高呼：台湾不是中国的，台湾万岁🎉你们听到了吗？台湾是自由的。随后被中共警察带走，这是真正的勇士！

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

This is the full Tiananmen Square Massacre ‘Tank Man’ photo from June 4th 1989.

One brave man temporarily halting an entire column of tanks. 🇨🇳

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

On the left:

Xi with his wife Peng during the Tiananmen Square protests

On the right:

Peng singing to martial law forces on Tiananmen Square after they massacred the students

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

For the last 10 years, Canadians kept the most corrupt, incompetent, scandal ridden government in history in power. As Canada slips into recession, it looks like Canadians are content with incompetence yet again.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre

On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.

Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.

The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.

In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.

Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.

To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@lovelylibrary She her lol. 🤡 🤡

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

With the besties as I am always All-In

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@CoryBMorgan I'll be sure to buy more.

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@alleria_eh What is one good reason for Alberta to stay?

[Michael Thomlinson @miket136]

Alternate world history.....

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@CalgaryDave @JackDan110 @speedymogalis True, but then I'll have to start all over. 😅😅🤣🤣

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@JackDan110 @CalgaryDave @speedymogalis Im on a few good ones too...

[Eric of Alberta @EricInAirdrie]

@BertaMemes No thanks. Ill wait for independence to renew.