Dixie Lorentz

[Dixie Lorentz @ographics58]

@abmarkman The All Black Tesla Roadster is an eye catcher.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

The reality is becoming impossible to ignore.

After nearly 10 years of disastrous government, voters in Eastern Canada looked at the damage and still chose more of it.

You cannot save a country that keeps voting for decline.

Alberta needs independence.

[Dixie Lorentz @ographics58]

@SaskLass Happy Birthday!

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

I read this post and found myself thinking about how absurd the entire premise of a race war really is.

You see, I’m both.

I carry Nigerian ancestry. I carry European ancestry. The same DNA that some people demand I celebrate is intertwined with the DNA they tell me I should be suspicious of. The same bloodline that produced Africans also produced Irishmen, Scandinavians, Sicilians, and others who all converge in me.

So when people start talking about racial conflict, I have to ask a simple question:

Which half of myself am I supposed to hate?

Am I supposed to reject my father’s lineage while embracing my mother’s?

Am I supposed to condemn one set of ancestors while celebrating another?

Am I supposed to look in the mirror and declare that half of my own existence is somehow the enemy?

The entire idea collapses under the weight of its own stupidity.

Over the course of my life, I have met wonderful white people and terrible white people. I have met wonderful black people and terrible black people. I have met honorable men and women of every background imaginable, from all over the earth. I have met fools, criminals, liars, and opportunists from every corner of humanity.

Character never asked permission from skin color.

Neither did evil.

What concerns me is that there are people who profit from keeping Americans focused on race. Every election cycle, every social controversy, every national tragedy somehow gets filtered through the same tired lens.

Divide. Categorize. Agitate. Repeat.

Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are working, raising children, caring for aging parents, paying bills, building businesses, serving in churches, coaching little league teams, and trying to leave their communities better than they found them.

Those people are not enemies.

The real battle has never been black versus white.

The real battle is truth versus lies. This is the war I wage.

Responsibility versus excuses.

Wisdom versus foolishness.

Good versus evil.

And every race, every nation, every tribe, and every family contains examples of both.

As a man who is both Nigerian and European, I refuse to participate in a conflict that requires me to hate my own heritage. I refuse to judge people by categories. I refuse to surrender my ability to evaluate people as individuals.

Judge a man by his conduct.

Judge a woman by her character.

Judge all people by the same standard.

That is the only standard that has ever made sense to me.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨 This is the two-tier healthcare system the Liberals swore they’d never create… while they were busy building it.

A Conservative MP just laid it out cold at the Health Committee:

Rejected asylum claimants and failed refugees get **Cadillac coverage** that tax-paying Canadian seniors don’t — vision care, dental, physio, home care, appliances, the works.

Even after their claim is denied, they keep the benefits through years of appeals.

Even after their deportation is ordered, they keep the benefits.

Even when they fail to show up for deportation (the government has lost track of **32,000** of them), they keep the benefits while on the run.

And here’s the real scam: doctors are charging the federal government **five times** more to treat someone with a refugee card than they charge the province to treat a Canadian senior for the exact same procedure.

Same surgeon. Same hip replacement. $1,000 for your grandma… $5,000 if the patient has that federal refugee card.

The Liberals spent years fear-mongering about “American-style two-tier healthcare” while quietly creating one that prioritizes failed claimants over the people who actually built and paid for this country.

This is unacceptable.

Canadians are done watching their parents and grandparents get pushed to the back of the line while the system bends over backwards for people who have no legal right to be here.

Where do you stand?

#cdnpoli #LiberalFail #TwoTierHealthcare

[Dixie Lorentz @ographics58]

@RealSteve55 You are exactly right. Canada is in trouble. We wake up quick or it's gone.

[Jon Alberta Patriot @JonFromAlberta]

FOREVER CANADA.

That’s the slogan. That’s the demand. That’s the emotional appeal.

But every time someone asks a simple question:

“What exactly am I getting in return for staying?”

The response i never an actual argument.

Albertans ask why we send tens of billions of dollars away while our own infrastructure struggles.

We ask why our energy industry is constantly targeted by policies designed by people thousands of kilometers away who neither understand nor depend on it.

We ask why our representation in national institutions seems perpetually weak compared to regions with fewer people and less economic contribution.

We ask why decisions that shape our future are increasingly made by bureaucracies, courts, agencies, and political classes that are culturally and economically disconnected from Alberta.

We ask why mass population growth continues despite housing shortages, strained healthcare, crowded schools, and declining affordability.

We ask why speech is increasingly censored, monitored, and categorized as hate speech while political activists openly demand even more restrictions.

We ask why the answer to every problem seems to be higher taxes, more debt, more bureaucracy, and less local control.

And what happens?

Do we get a serious discussion?
Do we get numbers?
Do we get evidence?
Do we get a vision for the future?

No.

We’re told we’re divisive.
We’re told we’re angry.
We’re told we’re extremists.
We’re told we’re American.
We’re told we’re Russian.
We’re told we’re Trump supporters.
We’re told to stop asking questions.

That should concern everyone.

Because if the argument for Canada is strong, it shouldn’t be threatened by questions.

A healthy political system welcomes scrutiny.

A confident country can explain itself.

A legitimate arrangement doesn’t need emotional blackmail to survive.

The longer I spend talking to ordinary Albertans, the more I hear the same thing:

“Nobody ever explains why this is supposed to be good for us.”

People are not questioning Canada because they’re hateful.

They’re questioning Canada because they’re thinking.

I support independence.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

“Lead, not leave” sounds appealing. But it is a slogan, not a plan.

Lead whom? With what votes? Under what constitutional formula? Against which entrenched interests?

Albertans have tried Mulroney, Reform, Harper, Senate reform, equalization reform, pipeline fights, court challenges and “fair deal” federalism.

After all that, Alberta is still asking Ottawa for permission over fundamental decisions affecting our future.

“Lead, not leave” only works if someone can explain how Canada will actually be fixed.

[Jon Alberta Patriot @JonFromAlberta]

I walked around Ross Street Patio and City Hall Park in Red Deer asking people one simple question:

Are you patriotic to Canada?

Most people say yes.

But when you ask the obvious follow-up question — “what does that actually mean?” — the answers get thin very quickly.

That is the problem.

A lot of Canadian patriotism today seems to be shallow loyalty to a flag, a government, or a system that many people have never seriously questioned.

But real patriotism is deeper than that.

It is loyalty to your people.
Your home.
Your culture.
Your heritage.
Your values.
Your shared dreams for the future.

That is why I call myself an Alberta patriot.

Being Albertan is not an ethnicity. It is a mindset. I have met Ukrainians, Filipinos, and other immigrants who understand Alberta patriotism better than many people who were born here.

What I saw left me disheartened.

Homelessness. Addiction. A struggling downtown. Immigrants willing to talk. Homeless people willing to talk. But many comfortable lunch-hour Canadians just walking by, completely oblivious to what is happening around them.

Years of bad government brought us here.

And yet people still cannot explain what they are loyal to.

https://t.co/T7Jicr1wws

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

The “Canada forever” crowd wants Albertans to keep paying 50% taxes to an increasingly authoritarian government that censors speech, abuses emergency powers, and treats our province like a tax colony to fund their corruption.

And they call us traitors for wanting out.

Unreal.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

Why should Alberta stay in Canada?

Tell me why the systemic discrimination against Western Canada is okay?

If Alberta were an independent country, it would…
• have more land mass than 70% of all other nations.
• have more farmland than about 85% of all other nations.
• have a population larger than 45% of all other nations.
• have more resources than 95% of all other nations.
• have a nominal GDP larger than 82% of all other nations.
• have a larger GDP per capita than 90% of all other nations.
• have a lower crime rate than 70% of all other nations.
• have a higher education level than 85% of all other nations.
• be more diverse than 70% of all other nations.
We would be a powerhouse, yet people are content with being serfs in a system of systemic discrimination.

Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population.
Alberta pays 17% of all federal income taxes to Ottawa.
Alberta gets 9% of federal spending.
Why are you okay with our vote being worth less than the rest of Canada’s — much less?

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Even CBC is calling out Carney’s creative accounting.

They’re subtracting the Canada Pension Plan from our national debt to make the numbers look better.

Suddenly our debt-to-GDP drops to just 10%.

That’s not fiscal responsibility.
That’s straight-up bogus accounting.

You can’t use pension funds to pay government debt. Every serious economist knows it. The CBC panel didn’t hold back: “subtracting the Canada Pension Plan to calculate our national debt is totally bogus!”

While they cook the books:

• $67+ billion deficit this year
• Interest payments already $54 billion+ and climbing fast
• Tent cities exploding in Edmonton and across the country
• Another $100 million heading to Palestine on top of $400 million already sent

Canadians get the bill. Carney gets the creative math.

This isn’t “building Canada strong.”
This is hiding how badly they’re breaking it.

#cdnpoli #CarneyFail #LiberalFail #DebtTrap #CanadaFirst

[Dixie Lorentz @ographics58]

@NeatSweet1 Wow, irony in action. There's only one way forward for Albertans and it isn't in a country that's imploding (ie: Canada).

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 10 years of Liberal governance.

Here’s what they built:

🏠 Home prices: $431K → $673K  +56%

🛒 Family grocery bill: $8,286 → $17,572. Doubled. 

💸 Federal debt: $692B → $1.27 trillion. +83%. 

🍽️ Food insecure Canadians: 8% → 24%. Tripled.  

🏦 Debt interest bill: $53.7B/yr. More than all GST collected. 

🍞 Food bank visits: 850K/month → 2.17 million. 712,000 children. 

📉 GDP per capita vs US: 80 cents on the dollar → 67 cents. 

🏚️ Household debt: worst in G7 at 103% of GDP.

📊 Q4 2025: only G7 economy to shrink. 

They didn’t run out of money.

They ran out of competence.
And Canadians re-elected them.

Repost and Bookmark 🔖 this post.

🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #Liberal #Carney

[Dixie Lorentz @ographics58]

@CoryBMorgan Sheila Copps can remain in Canada. As an Albertan, I'll make my own decision. Her advice isn't and won't be under advisement. Sheila - keep it.

[Mark Dietz @MarkDietzinAB]

🇨🇦True Canadians Worthy of Honour 🇨🇦

Canada has roughly 80,000 Somalis.

At the same time, there are several hundred thousand Labrador Retrievers.

Black, yellow, and chocolate Labs outnumber Somalis, never scam the system, rarely attack people, they contribute to society, serve as guide dogs, search and rescue dogs, and make the most loyal companions.

Their biggest crime might be stealing the odd snack.

Maybe we should give Labs a month instead.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

This is so bad. Albertans, if you vote no in October, you're agreeing to join the EU. The floodgates of Immigration will be open wider, and you'll be replaced in less than 30 years.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

What happens if Alberta votes to leave Canada?

The answer is not chaos. It’s negotiation.

National parks. Military bases. CPP contributions. Federal assets. Debt. Land. Jurisdiction.

Everything would be put on the table.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Canada spent $10.2 billion on foreign aid in 2023-24.

That same year:

🍽️ 10 million Canadians couldn’t afford enough food

🏦 4.5 million Canadians lived below the poverty line

🏥 1 in 11 Canadians reported unmet healthcare needs

🏠 Chronic homelessness rose 9.4% in a single year

🍞 2.17 million food bank visits in one month — 712,000 of them children

Ottawa’s priority wasn’t you.

And Carney’s campaign promise?
“My government will not cut foreign aid.”

He said that in April 2025.

By November 2025 his budget cut $2.7 billion in foreign aid over four years.

So he lied to the world AND he lied to you.

$10.2 billion went overseas in one fiscal year.

Canada’s entire annual spend on the National School Food Program?

$1 billion.

We export generosity we haven’t earned.

We import the optics of a caring government.

And the bill goes to the family at the food bank.

Charity begins at home.

In Canada, it ends there too — on a waiting list.

🇨🇦 Repost if Canadians should come first.

🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #ForeignAid #CanadiansFirst #Carney

[Jeffrey Rath @JeffreyRWRath]

I LOVE THIS!

Albertans have retaken Adam’s Island!