Sandi Hallgren 🟦

I AM ALBERTA!

[Sandi Hallgren 🟦 @HallgrenSandi]

To dumb it down for the @liberal_party clown show. 🤡

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Keith Wilson dismantled the fear narrative around Alberta Independence live on CBC.

They asked about uncertainty.

He pointed straight back at Ottawa.

CBC didn’t seem eager to let him keep going.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Dimitri Soudas: “Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, trustworthy Conservative Party we tried to build”

Fred DeLorey: “It’s almost like [Pierre] is rooting for a recession.”

Kory Teneycke: “It looks like Poilievre is applying to be A-hole in Chief”

This is what they say to Liberal funded media.

I see a clear pattern:

-They remind people that they are Conservative

-They claim to be just doing their job

-They claim to want to help

But if you did this in the private sector, and started badmouthing the CEO or company you work for to the media, you would be FIRED.

INSTANTLY.

WITH CAUSE.

You would become a persona non grata.

You have to ask yourself: what is the most reasonable explanation, for ex-Conservative staffers, who were paid well, to have such a keen interest in criticizing Pierre publicly? 🤔

Do. The. Math.

[Zuzana @DenZuzana]

LETTER FROM MEMBER OF A FIRST NATION TO MEMBERS OF THE FIRST NATION IN ALBERTA.

" The chief and council you vote for was not built by your ancestors. It was built by the Crown to manage you.

That is the origin of the system. Not self-determination. Administration.

And Ottawa still decides who is allowed inside. The federal government determines who is a status Indian and who is not, registration, the second-generation cut-off, the decades of sex discrimination that took Bill C-31, then Bill C-3, then Bill S-3 to half-fix and still hasn’t fixed.

Think about what that means. The government that built the band council also keeps the list of who counts as one of us. They define the membership and they define the office that membership votes for.

We did not draw either line. They did. And then we are told the path to sovereignty runs through the very machinery they designed to deny it.

So let’s look at the results, because results are the only honest measure. As of mid-2026 there are still thirty-eight long-term drinking water advisories in thirty-six First Nations communities.

Neskantaga has been boiling its water since 1995, a child born there has now grown up, had children of their own, and never once drunk safely from the tap in their home community.

Ottawa promised to end all of it by 2021. The deadline came and went. The water legislation, Bill C-61, got delayed again. One hundred and fifty-six advisories have been lifted since 2015 and we are still here, holding a cup of water up to the light and wondering. Ukraine got their money though........

For thirty years the water ran foul and no one called an emergency assembly. The children kept getting apprehended and no one filed an injunction.

But the moment Alberta let its citizens circulate a petition, not to leave Confederation, not even to hold the referendum, just to ask whether the question of leaving could one day be put to a vote, the chiefs found their fight.

Sturgeon Lake Cree, Athabasca Chipewyan, the Blackfoot Confederacy, Onion Lake, straight into the Court of King’s Bench to kill the petition on duty-to-consult grounds, treaty rallies on the legislature steps, the whole apparatus mobilized at speed to stop the question before it could ever reach a ballot.

Sit with the absurdity of it. They did not kill a separation. They killed a question about whether to ask a question, the most preliminary, least binding step in the entire process, strangled in the cradle.

And the thing they raced to bury was the best leverage our people have been handed in a century.

When the Mohawks stood at Oka they stood for land, for the dead in their own burial ground, for their own people, their own honour. That is what resistance is for.
The Alberta chiefs lined up to block a vote.

They blocked democracy in the province the same way they have blocked it on their own reserves for three generations, where the same one or two surnames have held the council table for seventy-five years and called it tradition.

A captured office defending a captured future, and calling the defense sovereignty.
So no.

I will not risk my liberty for that. I am not waiting for the band office to save me, I stopped a long time ago.
The Crown built the cage in 1876, but the people guarding the door now look like us, and they have decided the cage is comfortable enough to keep. One hundred and fifty years is enough evidence.

Sovereignty was never going to come from the men who throw away the one real chance at renegotiation because the old arrangement keeps them in their chairs, with full pockets.

The cage was built in Ottawa, but the door is held from the inside now, and I am done asking the men in the doorway to move."

Darren Grimes

#alberta #abpoli #albertaindependence

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

I have no words other than to call this so-called doctor and these so-called elected officials a complete disgrace.

Every medical intervention carries risk. That is a fact.

A credible and compassionate health care system recognizes that reality, acknowledges when people are harmed, and responds with honesty, support, and accountability. It does not dismiss, disparage, or abandon those who are suffering.

How does he continue to speak about public health and public trust with a straight face while treating injured individuals this way?

How does he continue to accept a public salary while showing such disdain for the very people he is supposed to serve?

His conduct speaks for itself.

@DougEyolfson do better for the sake of the injured like @Carrie298924321 @kcpollock and the thousands of others.

[Dennis Kalma @DennisKalma]

@prairiecentrist So, make your argument as to why a private citizen such as Eva ought not be legitimately criticizing elected officials for their improper behaviour?

Describe especially how it is ironic.

We'll wait.

[Dusty Rose @DustyRoseYYC]

Danielle Smith is falling for the same trap that the "O'Toole Conservatives" have fallen for over and over and over again.

They hope that by endorsing Ottawa's flavor of the day that they will somehow gain popularity.

But it never happens. They end up losing their own support and gaining nothing from the other side. They are voluntarily throwing rakes in front of themselves to step on.

We've seen this movie a hundred times already.

[GS Charles @fkasgschas]

@ryangerritsen @HallgrenSandi Then they’ll say about Poilievre: “yeah but it’s his tone when he tells the truth” 🙄

[Sandi Hallgren 🟦 @HallgrenSandi]

@mrowley1987 @wyatt_claypool 100%

[Sandi Hallgren 🟦 @HallgrenSandi]

This should be worth watching.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

BREAKING: President of Tim Hortons will be joining The Food Professor Podcast this week!

We’ll discuss Tim Hortons’ new growth strategy, store expansion plans, Canadian employees, and whether Dunkin’s return to Canada represents a real threat—or not.

Going live this Thursday!

[Wyatt Claypool @wyatt_claypool]

The light has left Kory’s eyes.

[MBrant75 @MBrant75]

Mimbo @TurnbullWhitby admits his immigration policies were a huge mistake…then goes on to blame ‘crisis after crisis after crisis beyond the governments control’.

[Jason Lavigne @JasonLavigneAB]

Laurentian Elites are a special breed. They are absolutely comfortable speaking out both sides of their mouth.

That's how Carney is able to send billions to Ukraine while still building closer ties to China while they support Russia.

Jason Kenney just demonstrated this as well during the Wilson/Kenney debate when he said Alberta needs to keep fighting to change Ottawa, then said it's impossible to change the constitution as demonstrated by his failed attempt to change equalization.

Not all politicians are bad, but all Laurentian Elites are. Learn to spot them.

[Herb Powell @Humanlty1o1]

I never thought I'd see half the population defend a recession like their lives depended on it.

Liberal Canada is something else.

[Sandi Hallgren 🟦 @HallgrenSandi]

Mark Carney's Recession Argument Runs Into an Awkward Problem on Live TV https://t.co/oOJXQOubgw via @YouTube

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Watch this opening two minutes of CBC’s Power & Politics.

Cochrane’s intro says it all “well there were a whole lot of competing messages this week on the true state of the Canadian economy”
He may as well continued with “so as your state funded media representative, I’m going to tell you not to believe your lying eyes & ears, everything is great”

This is North Korea level propaganda & no other party would get this level of protection. Canada is declining & the media wants you to believe everything is sunshine & lollipops, Carney’s got this…

[Dusty Rose @DustyRoseYYC]

Canadians aim for the middle and are satisfied even when the results are nowhere near that high.

Albertans aim high and are never satisfied even after they have exceeded it.

That's why Albertans thrive and Canadians don't.

#cdnpoli #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

It is fascinating to watch how the narrative shifts depending on who is in the chair. Back when the Harper government was in office, any dip or fiscal struggle was treated by the commentariat as a fundamental failure of his economic philosophy. Columnists like Andrew Coyne were quick to hold the Conservatives to the fire, criticizing deviations from fiscal discipline as a complete abandonment of their principles.
Fast forward to today, and suddenly the discourse is all about technical this and unforeseen that. We have gone from holding leaders to a high standard of market driven results to giving them a pass on the semantics.

The math of a recession does not change based on the party in power. If it was a crisis back then because of policy choices, why is it just a technical footnote now? We deserve a consistent yardstick. If you are going to be a critic, be one, but stop moving the goalposts depending on who is holding the ball. We are tired of the spin. Lets get back to some real, objective economic reality.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

It took more than 2 days for my bank (Scotia) to reverse one of their screw ups.

An automatic payment I've made every month for 12 years was somehow sent to the wrong account (even through the transfer receipt showed all the correct data). I made at least a dozen different calls, and was literally ready to give up. I was going to resend the money tomorrow, and take a loss.

Miraculously, one lady named Grace, who said she'd look into it and call me back..... actually did.

I wish I had a better way to recognizing her effort.

[Jeffrey Rath @JeffreyRWRath]

The truth of s that all oil sands mine expansion is being put on hold or cancelled because of federal and provincial over regulation and decarbonization requirements.

All the major developers including Suncor are transitioning into SAGD because @ABDanielleSmith ‘s Carbon Tax MOU is killing mine developers.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Dear Danielle, did you ask Quebecers if they'll consider dropping the equalization program while you were visiting last week?

Equalization is a federal program administered by Ottawa and funded from general federal revenues. These are taxes paid by all Canadians, not direct transfers from one province to another.

But on a net basis, it functions as a massive redistribution: Alberta (a consistent "have" province) contributes far more in federal taxes than it receives back in spending and transfers. Quebec, by far the largest recipient, gets over $13 billion annually, roughly half the total program, while Alberta gets $0.

Very importantly, there is no other equivalent transfer program like this. The Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer are largely per-capita based and not designed for the same fiscal redistribution.

Claims from Quebec that "in return, they subsidize Alberta's oil industry" are categorically false. Federal oil & gas supports are minimal compared to the scale of equalization, and Quebec benefits from its own massive hydro subsidies and exemptions in the equalization formula itself.

Albertans are simply asking for fair treatment in Confederation. We don't want handouts to any province, we want an end to one-way transfers that ignore resource development realities.