However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.
@natnewswatch Premier Smith’s referenda vote on Oct 19 is NOT the way to send a message, any message, to Ottawa. It is her role to communicate respectively on behalf of our province with other orders of government in our country Canada.
Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech:
"I'd like to close with a request.
We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction.
We need informed critics who will tell the labs when
we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.
Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot.
Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take.
Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."
@sarobertson_@LukaszukAB Graham is absolutely correct. Forever - Canadian petition was signed to request a free vote in the Legislature. I would also emphasize the fact that the separatists’ petition has not been counted nor verified as legitimate.
The Pope in Acerra: “Fatalism, complaining, and shifting blame onto others, are the breeding ground of illegality and the beginning of the desertification of consciences. Let each of us take responsibility, let us choose justice, let us serve life! The common good comes before the business interests of a few, before sectional interests, whether small or great.”
3:40 AM.
I turn to my phone on the nightstand and confirm the time. I already know I’m not going back to sleep.
Not after another reckless act from a Premier who, by every measurable standard, appears completely off the rails.
So Danielle Smith can take comfort in one thing: she got through to us. Loud and clear.
Albertans understand now that something is deeply wrong.
Whether she is compromised by foreign interests, political extremists inside her own party, or simply by the pursuit of power itself almost no longer matters. The result is the same: a government willing to risk Alberta, risk Canada, and risk social stability to preserve political control.
And the hardest part is this: it feels abusive.
The endless pushing.
The endless escalation.
The endless chaos.
Albertans are exhausted.
We don’t need months of anxiety hanging over our heads because of some reckless October 19 referendum fantasy.
We do not need our province turned into a political powder keg while healthcare deteriorates, education suffers, corruption allegations pile up, and long-term economic planning is nowhere to be found.
This is not leadership.
Leadership lowers temperatures.
Leadership negotiates.
Leadership builds confidence.
Leadership protects institutions.
Instead, we see attacks on courts, attacks on vulnerable communities, attacks on public trust, and constant deflection from accountability.
And for what?
To distract from failures in governance?
To avoid scrutiny over corruption scandals?
To feed a movement built on grievance, anger, and permanent outrage?
I’m tired of short-term politics masquerading as vision.
I want a government thinking 25 and 50 years ahead.
I want honest stewardship of Alberta’s future.
I want competence, professionalism, and stability.
Most Albertans are not looking for revolution.
We are looking for adults in the room.
I’m a patriot. I will vote to stay.
And I believe millions of Canadians will stand with those of us who want no part of reckless separatist agendas or imported political extremism.
This province deserves better than permanent chaos.
It deserves leadership.