Jason Markusoff

Writer, editor, TV & radio talker, still on this app in spite of it all.

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

A Cree elder came to a museum one summer, asking to find where his brother was buried. Farmer showed up, too, with long-faded grave markers. Inside the long quest to remember the children of Red Deer residential school: https://t.co/YUyeOP0NAy

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

Q&A: Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t need Alberta separatists’ support. Premier sat down with CBC Radio’s West of Centre for an in-depth interview https://t.co/wEzRltqNrx

Find out more at https://t.co/l0cc1sDwjo

[Matthew Scace @mattscace67]

How 'bout those dots. #ableg

https://t.co/35UKKsc7eH

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

@peteremcc @CarrieTait But if we are talking practicalities, when the proponent is screaming for the premier not to call a referendum (notwithstanding his form checkmark) and it’s patently clear that side didn’t want it.
Oh, and change laws she has, repeatedly, on this front.

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

@peteremcc @CarrieTait But that’s a moral choice, not a bound by law choice. Smith has been trying to stand on what is technically true.

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

@peteremcc @CarrieTait But she was not bound by her legislation or Kenney’s to put that sort of petition to plebiscite/ref. Hence the committee’s study of it

[Keith Gerein @keithgerein]

Terrible news for #Yeg
Hopefully we will hear more about what happened.

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

Alberta separatists lost the vote. They'll continue their fight inside Danielle Smith's party
Analysis by @markusoff
https://t.co/0AcwbbBARw

[Julia Wong @JuliaWongCBC]

When those first unofficial results started rolling out, there was silence here at the APP watch party and I heard someone say “uh oh.” Then, no reaction when CBC projected that the remain side had won the vote. I saw a couple people cross their arms.

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

Danielle Smith has said no to a second referendum. But that decision might not be hers to make
https://t.co/UBeEi68u7J

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

Who else besides Danielle Smith is saying 'yes to the nine' in Alberta's referendum?
Analysis by @markusoff
https://t.co/8FFlDSkKye

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's referendum questions.
Doubt they're explicit targets of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent 1 in 7 of them. https://t.co/tYskhMCWli

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

https://t.co/Vlp8PqTnXi

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's referendum questions.
Doubt they're explicit targets of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent 1 in 7 of them. https://t.co/tYskhMCWli

[Dave Breakenridge @BreakenridgeYEG]

Social media denizens after the drop in bot traffic

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

Danielle Smith lavishes praise on Ottawa for how much it collaborated w/ province before naming new judges, days before Alberta’s referendum Q that proposes to constutionally overhaul judicial appointment system.
(bonus, surely, that 1 new judge was her deputy justice min.)

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

‘Not as long as I’m premier’: Danielle Smith rules out 2nd separation referendum if Albertans vote to remain
https://t.co/ThyFVZprRo

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: https://t.co/7crcoZ3OHP

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

"Polling ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum suggests the separatist cohort is a minority of residents now, just as the COVID policy critics and the vaccine-wary were in the minority then". Analysis by @markusoff
https://t.co/oLYmkDUlBM

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: https://t.co/7crcoZ3OHP

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

First came the blockade. Then came separatism. Old tensions revived in Coutts
https://t.co/59J03j4H93