Grimkin

Why adore the dead but battle the living?
We. Are. One.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

I love Canada 🇨🇦

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

Rick, I offered you an interview on separatism. You passed. Instead, you’re out here cosplaying as Alberta’s bravest keyboard warrior while carrying water for one of the dumbest ideas in modern Alberta politics. The old Rick would’ve had the guts to ask the questions himself.

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This morning @TravisToewsAB @jfdinning @PGarritty @trevortombe @andrew_leach @jengerson @DrJaredWesley and I launched Lead not Leave.

Read our joint statement here.
1/6

https://t.co/UcRFqTljmr

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This is the most important, most brilliant, and most well written thing you could read today.

If you’re an Albertan, or a Canadian, and read nothing else, fine. Just read this.

Goodness me. Every word. https://t.co/TliiUbwj6H

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

We have an ABSOLUTELY unprecedented attempt by the POTUS to discredit election results in advance (if he doesn't like them) and a GOP Congress that WILL NOT challenge him. Which means we independents must rely on the only other major party our system has to protect us.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

@FreeAlbertaRob Using the notwithstanding clause literally overrides Albertans' rights.

It does so, definitionally, in a way courts would find unreasonable/inconsistent with a free and democratic society.

We should always fight for Albertans' rights. I'm surprised you want govt to limit them.

[Grimkin @grimkin]

@YourCFOGuy PowerPoint

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@oliviakrolczyk_ donald trump wears make up you dumb ass

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob says Canadian films are struggling because of “poor quality.”

No. That’s not it.

I love going to the movies. I’ve been going to theatres since I was a teenager. The problem isn’t the films.

It’s the cost of concessions.

Everyone wants popcorn and a drink at a movie. But when popcorn is $12, drinks are $8–$9, and snacks are $6+, a simple movie night suddenly costs a fortune.

People aren’t staying home because of the movies.

They’re staying home because Cineplex made movie night too expensive. 🍿

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

I’ve always admitted that @ABDanielleSmith is one of the most, if not the most, skilled communicators I’ve ever seen in politics.

Which makes this, @DavidColetto’s latest poll, quite disturbing.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

My stepfather always said "The elephant doesn't have to tell anyone he's big".

This guy needs therapy. Its embarrassing. Eisenhower's generation would laugh at him. This is like dialog from a terrible B movie script. Or a Roy Cohn tutorial.

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

I don't know the source of this data but if true it is appalling.

AHS had, by far, the lowest admin spend in Canada. Anything to replace it would be more but to double it? From a gov that complained about admin?

This is sickening hypocrisy.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Wonky but interesting, Alberta looks set to abandon the fiscal framework it enacted in 2023, which limited deficits to no more than three in a row. This budget forecasts a 4th... plus this line. #ableg

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Looks like Budget 2026 directly violates the fiscal framework (so will be abandoned in the implementation act?). Section 11.2(3) of https://t.co/7jPiwfumdY would limit this year's projected deficit to ~$4.9B (I estimate). Instead, Budget 2026 deficit is $9.4B. #ableg

[Dr. Raj Sherman @RajSherman]

Dear Fellow Albertans,

This letter is written not as a partisan, but as an emergency physician who has cared for more than 100,000 Albertans, a former MLA, and someone who has devoted a working life to this province.

Across Alberta, the strain is obvious. Housing is scarce. Emergency rooms are overcrowded. Schools are stretched. The cost of living weighs heavily on families. Anxiety about the future is real and justified. This is not anger. It is concern, because moments like this demand leadership.

When people are under pressure, leadership is not just about solutions, but about direction: an honest explanation of what is actually going wrong, and reassurance about who we are as a society while we fix it.

In recent weeks, Alberta’s challenges have been framed by the Premier, Danielle Smith, in a way that has left many people angry, not at systems or long-standing policy failures, but at immigrants and other governments. That is deeply troubling.

The frustration people feel is understandable. But much of that anger is being misdirected at immigrants. With the exception of Indigenous peoples, all Albertans come from families that arrived here seeking opportunity.

Immigrants did not break Alberta’s healthcare system or tear up family doctor contracts. They did not close hospital beds or cancel planned hospital capacity. They did not under build housing, assisted living, long-term care, or schools. They did not dismantle community care. Politicians did.

Every day in emergency departments, the consequences are visible: acute-care beds occupied by patients who should be at home or in long-term care; ERs functioning as inpatient wards; and population growth encouraged without matching investments in primary care, continuing care, and hospital capacity.

In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem.

Many of the people caring for seniors, staffing hospitals, and holding the healthcare system together today are newcomers themselves. Blaming them delays real solutions and divides communities.

That lesson is personal. Growing up as a newcomer involved violence, black eyes and broken bones, and learning early what happens when fear is tolerated and adults look away. Home was not always safe either, shaped by alcoholism and domestic violence. Those experiences leave marks.

What mattered most was a mother who taught that anger shrinks a life, while forgiveness, discipline, and service strengthen it, and that opportunity carries an obligation to give back. That belief led to decades in emergency medicine, the training of thousands of doctors, and public service at personal cost.

Those experiences lead to a clear conclusion. Albertans deserve leadership that lowers the temperature, not raises it. Leadership that fixes systems, not finds scapegoats. Leadership that takes responsibility for planning failures and invests in capacity to match growth.

For these reasons, Alberta needs a change in direction and ultimately, a change in leadership, so the province can unite around practical fixes rather than division.

This is not about racism. It is about judgment, competence, and the ability to govern responsibly during difficult times. Alberta needs leadership that brings people together and focuses on solutions, not blame.

Premiers Lougheed, Klein and Stelmach have led through very difficult times and would not take our province to this sharp edge.

Albertans are much better than this.

I am a Canadian, an Albertan and I am an immigrant.

God bless Alberta.

Dr. Raj Sherman
@ABDanielleSmith @nenshi @FreeAlbertaRob
@PfParks @NightShiftMD
@Alberta_UCP @UCPCaucus @albertaNDP @TheBreakdownAB @ryanjespersen @cspotweet
#yeg #yyc #ABleg #cdnpoli

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

This line was very eye opening!

“In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem.”

[Dan Gardner @dgardner]

Missing: The vast majority of judges donated to no political party. Add that to the graph and it looks radically different. This is appalling journalism.

The politicization of the American judiciary is a blight on that country. Let's not do the same in Canada, thanks.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Danielle Smith’s address was a chilling moment that recalls some of the ugliest anti-immigration chapters of our country’s history.

This is what demagogues do: pit the public against the most vulnerable and blame them for the very crises their austerity policies have created.

Immigrants aren't to blame for Alberta's crumbling healthcare system, overcrowded classrooms, and strained social services — Danielle Smith and the UCP are.

All federal leaders must come together to condemn Smith’s politics of division and stand up for the human rights of people who are our neighbours, friends and a part of our communities.

https://t.co/NUGYexb0mn