x - Mike Pierik

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

On issue after issue, separatists just wave their magic wand to wish away serious problems with secession.

Myth: “Federal lands and federal building (sic) don’t add up to much”

Fact:

- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Banff National Park
- Waterton National Park
- Elk Island National Park

Together encompass 53,860 sq KM, or 8.2% of Alberta’s land mass

- CFB Cold Lake
- CFB Suffield
- CFB Wainwright
- CFB Edmonton

Together encompass ~12,000 sq KM, or 1.9% of Alberta’s land mass

- 138 Indian Reserves encompassing 6,556 sq KM, or 1% of Alberta’s land mass

- YEG and YYC airport lands, encompassing 49 sq KM

Plus hundreds of other parcels of land, buildings, etc, much of it prime downtown property (eg armouries, RCMP facilities.)

So ~12% of Alberta’s land mass, including some of the most valuable and strategically important in the province. The total value would be in the tens of billions of dollars.

But don’t worry, the separatists say. No biggie. We’ll just keep saying “Canada sucks” and stuff, cause facts are hard.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

No disrespect to @jkenney; but there is simply no one in the province better positioned to argue for staying Canada in an open debate with @ikwilson than the highest profile federalist in Alberta: @ABDanielleSmith

[Steve Manta @mantalicious]

@cspotweet This conservative talking point about 10 years of Lib policy shut down the energy sector growth needs to be put to bed

Alberta energy production has nearly doubled in the last 10 years with record profits for AB oil and gas

[Semafor @semafor]

🟡 Exclusive: The US relied on a spurned friend during the Iran war: Canada

https://t.co/6gkeFzTjvJ

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Canada struck a landmark deal to export liquefied natural gas to Germany, according to two senior officials. https://t.co/fTYQb9yJ8y

[Kevin Gausman @KevinGausman]

If the roof is closed tonight we riot

[James Moore @honjamesmoore]

A referendum that will divide your party and make the province look unstable for investment, all to ultimately affirm the constitutional status quo, is an odd choice…

[Lars Callieou @ExtraLars]

.@JanisIrwin Well said.🙏

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Tim Powers reacts to Danielle Smith calling Alberta judge's decision 'antidemocratic': "Let's not forget the obvious fact we all learned in our civics classes: there's nothing undemocratic about the judiciary — they exist in our system to provide a check and a balance in circumstances like this."

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

Danielle Smith just announced that the GOVERNMENT will be appealing today's decision as undemocratic if you were unsure what side of the fence she is on.

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

I cant emphasize enough how really bad and dangerous this data breach of electors is.

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Kenney eliminated the investigative arm of Elections Alberta during their investigation of the UCP leadership. Later, government further cut the budget and jurisdiction of Elections Alberta.

This is the outcome.

This is the outcome . It’s a free for all for the separatists.

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

The crazy part about it being ruled a goal on the ice is no official was behind the net to see the puck cross 😶

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Jeff Rath got his first thing right:

“Coincidentally, I asked separatist leader Jeffrey Rath yesterday if he considers forming a separatist party like the Parti Quebecois in Quebec. ‘We’ve already got one — the United Conservative Party,’ he said.”
#ableg https://t.co/leMG8eMOsa

[x - Mike Pierik @mbam99]

@thackattack41 Savoie
Period 1, 14:35
26 saves from Ingram

[Canada Goose 🇨🇦 @CanadaGoose911]

Spring break departures to America from Vancouver

[Dale Thompson / Дейл Томпсон 🇺🇦 @daleethompson]

Dude… you got your career in television because of your dad.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

Where was this kid on April 15, 1912 🙄

[Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @woofknight]

Fun fact: To keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were actually filmed on Earth rather than on location in outer space.

[x - Mike Pierik @mbam99]

@PuckPedia @thackattack41 @easternrefugee @Kgill39 Ok, thanks for the clarification. I had thought that we could not get a player back like E. Kane with retention because we traded him within the year. I did not realize it also applied to teams signing UFAs to their old teams within the same year.