This morning at the @LetABDecide Stampede Pancake breakfast, @ikwilson blew the roof off the place as the audience welcomed him to the stage. He's right, we need to find common ground with the undecided. Let's do this!
The United States' second amendment is a beautiful thing.
Nothing demonstrates it more perfectly that someone using a rifle in their backyard to play the The Star-Spangled Banner on steel targets.
Happy 250th.
@politicalham@GadSaad Our taxes are usually used to fund corruption.
Look at how much tax we pay and what little we get for it. Our taxes are absolutely being stolen
This story should make everyone absolutely furious, for a bunch of different reasons.
An 8-year-old girl named Nina Napope was killed in 2023 in Edmonton. She suffered terrible, long-term abuse and died from blunt force trauma. Her body was found in a hockey bag.
The woman caring for her, Ashley Rattlesnake, was originally charged with first-degree murder. But the the Crown later agreed to a manslaughter plea deal, meaning they accepted that she caused the death but didn't plan it as murder. WTF?
In February 2026, Rattlesnake was sentenced to 8 years in prison. After credit for time already served, she’ll only serve about 3 years and 9 months more.
The Edmonton Police were very angry about the manslaughter deal. They believed the evidence showed it was murder. For the first time ever, they wrote a strong official letter to the Crown, basically saying "This is a miscarriage of justice." They viewed
the abuse as extreme, and threatened to release all their detailed evidence to the public. They wanted the case to be tied in the court of public opinion.
This was highly unusual. Oolice are not supposed to pressure prosecutors like this.
What actually happened? The Crown did NOT change the manslaughter plea. The deal stayed the same.
The case went to sentencing. The judge was furious at the police for sending that letter. She called their actions “reprehensible” and said it was wrong for police to try to interfere.
Because of the police letter, the judge reduced the sentence by 1 year as a penalty. So the woman actually got a lighter punishment than she might have otherwise.
Now, Alberta’s police watchdog (ASIRT) is investigating the Edmonton Police for their unusual letter and conduct.
Bottom line: the police tried to publicly shame and pressure the Crown to get a harsher charge/sentence, but it backfired. The plea didn’t change, and the sentence was made shorter partly because of what the police did.
Many people are upset that the punishment seems too light for such a brutal crime against a child.
If judges are willing to do this to the police, what hopes do any of us who challenge the system have?
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No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.
You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.
Enough!
If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.
If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.
For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.
It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.
As the Mayors of Alberta’s largest cities, we are standing up against the referendum for a referendum and encouraging Albertans to vote this October.
Leaving Canada would create uncertainty for Alberta’s economy, threaten jobs and investment, and put at risk the quality of life we’ve worked so hard to build.
Our country is stronger together. The diversity of our people, communities, and regions is one of our greatest strengths.
On October 19, stand up against the referendum for a referendum and vote for a strong Alberta in a strong Canada