Al🇨🇦

Mom, Canadian, survivor. She/her.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Danielle Smith two weeks ago - “We need a pipeline to the coast to insulate us from the US!”

Smith today - “We need to be more reliant on the US as our primary energy customer!”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

It’s happening again. Alberta’s four big oil sands companies are raking in HUGE profits. But, somehow, the Smith government wants us to believe that we, the citizens of Alberta, need to provide them with more “incentives” (ie corporate welfare) to invest.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

So, without any public consultation, the Smith UCP government signed agreements that will allow Meta, a foreign corporation, to use power equivalent to that used by city of Edmonton for at least TWO YEARS before Meta’s own power plant is up and running. https://t.co/SOwRnEipUI

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Let’s be clear: Meta chose Alberta because the UCP ditched the requirement for impact assessments. They got approval without having to address concerns about the project’s impact on our water usage or power prices. Smith serves the billionaire class, not Albertans.

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

👉🏻If you have school-age kids in Alberta, they’re the least-funded students in Canada.

👉🏻If you have university students, UCP cuts have driven tuition through the roof.

👉🏻If you drive, you’re paying the second-highest auto insurance in the country.

👉🏻If you’re a young worker, you’re earning the lowest minimum wage in Canada.

👉🏻If you are disabled Albertan, your provincial government clawbacks your Canada Disability Benefits.

And I could keep going.

Danielle Smith’s answer? $100 rebate.

[Dr. Lynora Saxinger MD FRCPC Infectious Diseases @AntibioticDoc]

Health numbers, licenses and caution:
the new Alberta ID cards and the quiet repeal/split of FOIP into ATIA and POPA. On paper, it looks like administrative housekeeping. There is more to it than that in terms of data epidemiology - it's a concern. Let's break it down. 👇
1/10

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Happy birthday to Canada! The most beautiful country on earth ❤️🇨🇦

[deo @deo_mister]

Open letter to @ABDanielleSmith #henrysircomedian

[Mother Of Eagles 🦅 @CCknockout]

The Iranians made a song about Mark Carney 🥹

[WeBelieve @WeBelieveEM]

tw // sa

The Myth: “The female judge literally said Carter Hart did nothing wrong.”

The Reality: Justice Carroccia never said anything close to that. In fact, she made it clear she was only ruling on the legality of the men, not the morality:

“It is not the function of this court to make determinations about the morality or propriety of the conduct... sole function of this court is to determine whether the Crown has proven each of the charges... beyond a reasonable doubt” (section E.479).

This statement is two fold: it implies that the conduct could be morally reprehensible despite the legal outcome, and it is a reminder that the burden of proof is high. If the “judge literally said they did nothing wrong”, she would not have had to make that clarification.

Hart’s supporters love to point to the LEGAL results as their main argument. But when you look at the results outside the courtroom, it is crystal clear that Hart and his teammates did something unequivocally wrong.

Following the accused’s acquittal, the league did not immediately reinstate the players. If they had truly done no wrong, you would think that their lengthy absence from the game would pressure the league to reinstate them ASAP. Instead the league had this to say:

“The events that transpired after the 2018 Hockey Canada Foundation Gala in London, Ontario, prior to these players’ arrival in the NHL, were DEEPLY TROUBLING AND UNACCEPTABLE...

In relying on both our OWN INVESTIGATION, and the conclusions reached by Justice Carroccia in her OPINION, and the players’ acquittal, the League has determined that the conduct at issue falls woefully short of the standards and values that the League and its Member Clubs expect and demand...

Given their conduct, we carefully evaluated the players’ acquittal in court and the time spent away from the game. Taking into account that the players have been away from the game for 20 months... we have determined that the players will be eligible... to play in NHL games no sooner than December 1, 2025, bringing their total time out of the League to nearly two years.”

Some context for the severity of the suspensions:

Todd Bertuzzi was suspended 33 games for literally crippling Steve Moore with a dirty hit.

Chris Simon was suspended for 30 games for stomping on the leg of Jarkko Ruutu.

In comparison the Hockey Canada 5 were forced to miss over 22 months, or the equivalent of 140 or so games.

So the league, with the benefit of a private investigation and free of the legal loopholes that compromised the evidence allowed in trial, ruled that the players conduct warranted a suspension 4x the length of Bertuzzi breaking someone’s neck.

The NHL made it clear: what the players did was wrong. The player’s association did not fight the league’s unprecedented punishment.

For everyone that defaults to the now infamous “tHe FeMaLe JuDgE sAiD...” nonsense, our response should be simple: “the male commissioner said...”

For everyone that points to a lack of appeal as proof the players did nothing wrong, our response should be simple: “Why did the NHLPA not appeal the league’s ruling?”

And that is just the NHL’s stance. Hockey Canada agreed what the players did was wrong. In 2022, after reaching a 7-figure settlement with EM, the organization stood in the House of Commons, and based on their own findings (including critical testimony not heard in trial) determined “harm was caused” to EM.

When both the league and Hockey Canada, the de facto employers of the accused, are making it clear there was wrongdoing, illegal or not, we should take note.

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

Vassey Kapelos basically ended Danielle Smiths narrative in its place with this entire interview

she is full of shit

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

SICKENING: AOC Just showed off the Georgia drinking water from Meta's AI Data Centers. Thank you @AOC:

"This is the current drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia. Right after a data center was constructed, the metadata center was constructed, the only difference between the clean water and this was that data center. I have another one as well. So this wasn't just one well, these wasn't just one family's situation. This is what the drinking water now looks like next to that data center. And I think both of us can agree that neither one of these things are drinkable. These families now have to ship, in a rural area, have to ship water to their house in order to cook and bathe themselves."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

Senator Merkley: "I want to go on to the Epstein investigation. Is it closed or open?"

Todd Blanche: "When you say the Epstein investigation, what are you referring to, Senator?"

Merkley: "Well, the FBI said in last year in July that it had closed the Epstein investigation. So I'm just using their words. Is it open or closed?

Blanche: "I don't believe the FBI said that. Well, if you're referring to..."

Merkley: "Your head of the Department of Justice is the Epstein investigation open or closed."

Blanche: "But I guess I don't understand what Epstein investigation means."

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This confirms our DM’s from earlier in the week.

Yet another death in an Alberta Hospital Waiting Room.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Watching Carney and Poilievre go at it in Parliament is starting to feel uncomfortable. Not in a dramatic way, just in the way it feels when someone is clearly out of their depth and keeps pressing anyway.
Carney knows the file. When he answers, he answers the actual question. He doesn’t need to perform outrage or repeat a catchphrase three times and call it a rebuttal. He just explains things, clearly, because he understands them.
Poilievre comes in loud and confident, same as always, and that works great on a campaign trail or a Facebook video. But in a room where the other guy actually knows what he’s talking about? The gap shows. Every time.
The frustrating part isn’t even the politics. It’s watching someone confuse intensity for competence and expect nobody to notice the difference. People notice.
This stopped being a left vs right thing a while ago. Now it just looks like one guy who did the reading and one guy who thinks he doesn’t have to.

[Patrick L Riley ᐰ @Acquired_Savant]

Alright. I'll be THAT guy.

In the room before the panic we clearly hear 5 shots. The video Trump posted shows him run through, agents drew guns.

Cole Tomas Allen had a makeshift shotgun, not an automatic rifle. The shots were the agents.

Agents shoot center mass. Something 'stopped' the shooter. He is shown on the ground, chest and back exposed (center mass).

Where did the Agents shoot him? What stopped him? Where is the blood? Why is his supratrochlear vein not indicating that he is in any pain or distress?

The video of Trump, Melania, and the magician shows the women reacting as if there's a shooter before Trump or others react, as if it was practiced.

Is this another staged event?

[ForMYCanada @ForMYCanada]

🧾 Pierre Poilievre spent two years screaming about grocery prices. Yesterday, Parliament voted on Bill C-226, a national framework to improve food price transparency, and force grocery chains to show Canadians where the money actually goes.

Poilievre voted NO. Every Conservative voted NO.

📊 Final tally: 168 Yea. 150 Nay. The bill passed, no thanks to the party that built its entire brand on "axe the tax" and grocery affordability.

🎭 This is the pattern. The grievance is the product. Solving the problem would end the grift. When there's an actual mechanism to hold grocers accountable, Conservatives fold for the industry every single time.

Poilievre doesn't want lower food prices. He wants the issue.

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