Hadyn Place

Campaign strategist @MashStrategyCA | Former #ableg | Husband to @mmaslink | Pro straw, anti bike lane

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

You don’t have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us.

A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated.

Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we’re not quite ready for that.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Of boredom.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Nearly as awful as soccer itself.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

The World Lives Here.

Canada is all together different. Truly unique. And so is our relationship to the beautiful game. This is our opening to the 2026 World Cup. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. #FIFAWorldCup

[Brian Bateson @Bateson_AB]

From an “unbiased journalist” to head of comms for a socialist political party in the blink of an eye.

Funny how that works.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Would never cast a vote to support Rath/Parker/Sylvestre’s delusions but delusional also describes Bratt’s "there’s no reason for Albertans to be upset" attitude.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Happy that Harper went 3/3, however, Bratt misses forest for trees as usual. Kyoto’s been replaced by the latest climate confab and even dumber firearms legislation exists today. While technically correct, Trudeau found ways to alienate the West that Chrétien never dreamed of.

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

I keep hearing from Alberta separatists that the status quo is unacceptable and nothing ever changes in Canada. Well look at this bumper sticker that was prominent in the early 2000s. All of them are gone.

[Between The Goalposts @NoahBeauso]

I know he's just doing what he's told to do, but god this play is the exact reason why I dislike the new Rouge rules.

Who wants to watch Javon Leake, one of the CFL's most dynamic returners, walk beside a ball as he waits for it to roll out of bounds in the endzone? All this rule does is give returners a reason not to return the ball.
#CFL | #BetweenTheGoalposts

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

@scottmhayward I assume they were trying to pin them way downfield but the wind here tonight is crazy.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

That new rouge rule on a kickoff is hot garbage. #cfl

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

The best option was left out.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

As Premier, I was attacked for refusing to give FIFA a blank cheque to host a couple of World Cup matches in Edmonton.

We were open to supporting a host bid within reason, but not to give into FIFA’s ridiculous open-ended demands.

It looks like our prudent approach has saved Alberta taxpayers several hundred million dollars.

[Kelden Formosa @KeldenFormosa]

My essay today in @TheHubCanada

https://t.co/Y33LawGnuw

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

If you look hard enough, there are glimpses of beauty in Toronto.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Vile

[Guillaume Roy @guillaum3roy]

Le groupe pro-Hamas Mtl4Palestine affiche le drapeau des Canadiens à côté de ce qui semble être une effigie d’un Juif portant une kippa, pendu avec une corde.

[Brad Tennant @bradktennant]

For every Ottawa commentator who spent the week calling Danielle Smith a separatist, she just spent the last couple hours passionately and intelligently defending Alberta’s place in Canada to thousands of Albertans on a telephone town hall.

Danielle has been clear: Alberta can work in Canada. A little less elitist scorn from the East would help.

[Kelden Formosa @KeldenFormosa]

Last winter a homeless man froze to death while overdosing on drugs in the park near my house. Another homeless man accidentally set part of the forest on fire. At both times, there was shelter space available in Calgary.

Rulings like this one will lead to more dead homeless people, not fewer.

Beyond just being activism from the courts, it is false mercy--what wealthy, well-credentialed people do to *seem* merciful, even as they allow profound human suffering to continue all around them.

[Baseball Canada 🇨🇦⚾️ @baseballcanada]

Last night, Markham’s Jonah Tong became the 24th 🇨🇦 to appear in the majors this season! 🍁 ⚾️

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Another day, another insane judicial ruling, and a good response from Premier Ford. An Ontario court has ruled that the Region of Waterloo cannot clear a 30-person tent encampment from a parking lot it owns to build a major transit hub.

Buried in the decision is that the court declared homelessness an analogous ground under s.15 of the Charter. A "constructively immutable characteristic." A "discrete and insular minority." This argument has been tried before and failed, including in this very case, three years ago.

If this holds, every municipal bylaw that differentially affects homeless people faces Charter equality scrutiny. The court went further, ruling the region cannot use its own land unless it first provides an alternative legal encampment or "tenting protocol" with equivalent services.

Elected officials passed a bylaw, amended it, dropped fines and offered housing plans. None of it mattered. A single judge overrode all of it and made himself the region's chief housing policy-maker. The Charter has become not a shield against state overreach but a sword by which courts dictate municipal governance on questions that belong to elected governments.

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Notley carbon-tax spin doctor and federal Liberal MP feigns concern for Alberta’s "social fabric and economy"

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

STATEMENT ON PROVINCIAL ADDRESS

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down and follow the law.

The premier can wrap these actions in the words of democracy, but she is willfully ignoring the will of the vast majority of Albertans who want no part of this separatist conversation.

The simple reality, a reality you would not find in her speech, is this: she has pushed along a question because a group has threatened to bring down her and her party if she does not.

Her internal political problems have become our national crisis.

The Premier asserts her patriotism. I will take her at her word, but I will remind her a patriot puts country ahead of party. A leader steers the agenda, rather than having it blindly dictated to them. An Albertan finds ways to do what’s right, not justifications for doing what’s wrong.

This baffling, referendum-on-a-referendum question will do nothing to settle anything. It adds another layer of confusion. It will divide. It will distract. It will damage.

I hope her government will consider how to step back from this madness before the damage to our province’s social fabric and economy is too great.

Corey Hogan MP
Calgary Confederation

[Hadyn Place @PlaceHadyn]

Hilarious and accurate! Great work @albertaNDP

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

New separatist bingo card just dropped?