The fact @Canes owner put 7 family members names on the Stanley Cup ahead of any players and in one case instead of a player who played 38 regular season games, is a disgraceful action in NHL history. What an embarrassment of a team. You can be champions clearly without class 🏒
Canada’s March to the Match continues to work its way through the Toronto streets toward the stadiums.
Beautiful scenes as fans chant and cheer and high five fans who are lining the streets.
It’s going to be electric inside the stadium today.
Canadians approaching Juno Beach on D-Day, 82 years ago today on June 6, 1944. Of the 14,000 Canadians involved, 340 were killed with 574 wounded and 47 captured. credit: cbc/Dale Gervais, Benjamin Moogk and Brad C. Croix 🇨🇦
Wow! What an incredible performance from Edmonton's Acro Crew! Congratulations on your Golden Buzzer! Alberta is cheering you on every step of the way. 👏🐕
⚠️URGENT⚠️
Word of caution to independence petition canvassers. The increased harassment you are facing is by design. Our opponents want us to react negatively to their taunts, so they can catch us on video.
But it goes deeper than that.
Based on the relevant Alberta electoral legislation (including the Election Act, but more directly the Citizen Initiative Act and Recall Act for petition-related canvassing, as the Election Act provisions do not apply to petition campaigns per official statements from Elections Alberta), the canvasser who reacts negatively to harassment is more likely to face prosecution under these acts.
This is because:
Canvassers are bound by a mandatory Code of Conduct that explicitly prohibits them from engaging in harassing or discriminatory behavior, or making abusive, derisive, threatening, insulting, offensive, or provocative statements, gestures, or actions toward others while canvassing. Violations of this code or the associated regulations can be reported directly to Elections Alberta, which investigates and can lead to fines or other penalties under the acts.
In contrast, (and contrary to popular belief) there are no specific provisions or penalties in these acts for a private citizen harassing a canvasser. Such incidents fall under general criminal law (e.g., Criminal Code sections on harassment or threats), requiring the canvasser to report to local police, with no dedicated electoral enforcement mechanism. Prosecution thresholds under criminal law may also be higher, making it less likely without clear evidence of a crime.
This asymmetry arises because the acts regulate the conduct of participants in the electoral or petition process (like canvassers), but do not extend similar protections or penalties to interference by non-participants in petition contexts.
In Alberta, citizens bravely exercising their democratic right to petition through a citizen initiatives, are held to a higher standard than the very politicians, civil servants, and unhinged hecklers they often challenge.
Democracy's foot soldiers get the rulebook; the powerful and the feral get a free pass. That's not equality under the law. That's a stacked deck.
Soldier on my friends.