Char

Mostly a lurker & comment reader. Occasional retweeter.

[🇨🇦 Anton G II 🇨🇦 @ScorpioRising08]

Tonight was different.

Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled the trade negotiations. Not Trump. Carney.

He looked at the final terms, called them unfair and uneconomic, pulled our negotiators home, and matched the 50% tariffs dollar for dollar,

This is what sovereignty looks like.

This is a Prime Minister who refused to sign a bad deal just to claim a deal.

For days, the radical right was busy proliferating 'Mark Carney caved.'

Never count the chickens before they hatch.

Thank you @MarkJCarney. Canada is not for sale. 🇨🇦

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

If governments can approve and build massive AI data centres at record speed, don't tell me affordable housing, hospitals, and critical infrastructure take decades.

The speed isn't the problem. The priorities are.

[Robb Fergusson 🍁🍁🍁 @robbfergusson]

Danielle Smith roadblocked renewable energy projects “to preserve prime farm land”
Now, she’s tripping over herself to OK data centres that guzzle water, consume endless electricity & offer few jobs - with little consultation & full NDAs. And built on “prime farm land”

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Trump is currently at war with Iran to achieve a peace deal that was already in place.

Trump is engaged in a Trade War with Canada to achieve a trade deal that was not only already in place, but his. He called it the best deal in American History.

Take off your Carney hate blinders for a minute and acknowledge the absolute circus that is Donald Trump.

You can criticize Carney all you'd like, but acknowledge reality too....

[🇨🇦🍁SillyRabbitFaFo🍁🇨🇦 @sillyrabbitfafo]

Alberta is projecting a $9.4B deficit after an estimated $4.1B deficit last year, yet Danielle Smith thinks it's a good use of taxpayer money to spend $100M on overseas private companies to force severely disabled Albertans into work. She's a fucking ghoul #ABpoli #ABleg

[Sisu van Hellberta @sisuvanhell]

Hope "Berta Proud Dad" is real proud his rage baiting caused people to rage out and harass volunteers to the point Sundre cancelled their parade. The gross things that man will do to try to stay relevant and sell his shitty AI t-shirts.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Sandy @Duckett62]

@RonaAmbrose She changed legislation 3 times to enable the separatist’s agenda! She is promoting 300,000 unverified separatist signatures ‘claimed’ by lawyers who have previously lied and may be disbarred! She is indeed a traitor to our beautiful province!

[Carol Potter 🇨🇦 @intell59]

@CarrieTait @camtait Our premier apparently enjoys punching down. Who steals $200/mth from the severely disabled? Who kicks them all of AISH & makes them reapply? Only a ghoul imo. She wastes billions on pet projects, yet treats the most vulnerable like dirt. Thank you for covering it as #msm won't

[Barb @Barbielynn01]

It’s time to start talking about this @ABDanielleSmith

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

No I don't need to recognize the Alberta separatists grievances against Ottawa.

There are more people in Alberta with legitimate grievances against the Alberta UCP than there are separatists in this province.

Clean up your own house first.

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

Thank you @WabKinew Too few have the backbone to call out @ABDanielleSmith lies. From a grateful Albertan.

[Aritha van Herk. @validmavericity]

Remember in the election debate, @RachelNotley said calmly, “all she wants to do is fight, not govern.” She was right in every way. @ABDanielleSmith is a rage monger. She has no interest in making Alberta better for Albertans.

[Char @JustAnABMom]

@TheBreakdownAB Of course. Always the wrong priority at the wrong time with the UCP.

[John Roggeveen @AbJrogg]

Danielle Smith calling the court decision undemocratic when she used the notwithstanding clause to quash Albertans' rights is pretty rich, but totally on par with her arrogant, self-righteous attitude.

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

Danielle Smith needs to explain to all Albertans why the Provincial Government using our tax dollars would appeal a court decision about a petition organized by a private citizen initiative.

Unless she is taking ownership of the separatist movement.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Let me break it down for everyone:

This “just force everyone into rehab until they’re clean” line is one of the laziest talking points in this entire conversation.

People voluntarily go to treatment all the time and relapse, that’s the reality of addiction, and rehab is not the magic finish line people think it is, it's what happens AFTER treatment is what matters.

Do people have housing? Employment? Mental health support? Community? A real chance to rebuild their life?

Because if you don't address ALL the SOCIAL DETERMINANTS of HEALTH then relapse shouldn’t shock anyone.

Recovery is not a light switch, it’s a process.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Alberta has been governed by conservatives for nearly 60 years. If healthcare is strained, schools underfunded, housing unaffordable, and the economy unstable, blaming the NDP after one 4-year term isn’t analysis — it’s political amnesia

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

The Albertans who are/were so concerned about election integrity that they got rid of vote tabulators and are having a referendum on voter photo ID, seem much less concerned about the breach of the voters list.

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

Who thinks this massive AB voters list breach is significant? Elections Alberta, Privacy Commissioner, Judge, EPS, RCMP, UCP Government, commentators from across the ideological spectrum. Its not just a phone book with easily accessible data.