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[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

@jengerson Doesnt make it right but...
1) there's a vacuum of strong federalist voices. From the west. They're late to the party at best, save for a few usual suspects
2) we feel threatened

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford is back in court, this time fighting the release of documents related to the failed blue license plates that cost Ontarians millions in taxpayer money.

First it was his personal phone records.

Now it’s documents tied to one of the government’s most embarrassing and wasteful scandals.

When will this Premier spend as much energy helping Ontarians as he does covering up his scandals?

[Brooke Espinoza @BrookeMH__]

Smoke a cigarette you fucking loser

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

Democracy is not an enemy. Our democracy requires our elected officials tell us what they actually believe and what they plan to do in office before putting those beliefs into action.

Our democracy demands separatists generate real democratic legitimacy to hold a secession referendum.

Democracy demands a separatist party declare itself as such before it is elected to power.

Democracy demands that an explicitly separatist party defend itself in debate during a writ period; to be honest with the voters about the benefits and risks of holding a secession referendum.

Democracy demands that a separatist party win power in the legislature in a free and fair election prior to holding a referendum.

Albertans deserve this. Anything short of it isn't "democracy." It's an abuse of democracy by process. It's a betrayal of the trust of the voters of the highest order.

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

Democracy also requires that all Canadians have a say when a fraction of the electorate in one part of the country tries to break Confederation.

And democracy requires that in the event of an actual attempted separation, the parts of the province that don’t want to leave Canada, such as, oh, say, the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, remain part of Canada. If Canada is divisible, then Alberta is divisible.

But none of this is about democracy. Democracy is not a free floating concept. It operates within existing institutions and social constructs. Separatists aren’t engaged in a democratic project, they are proposing a revolutionary act of constituent power.

Democracy is the wrong lens through which to view attempts to break up a country in the absence of genuinely inhumane conditions or systemic oppression. And as much as I agree enthusiastically with many separatists’ grievances with Ottawa (and other provincial governments), this is not that.

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

So now what? @jengerson

[Carrie Tait @CarrieTait]

And that means the committee did ** not ** recommend cabinet add the secession question to the referendum ballot.

They ran out of time. No motion.

[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…

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

Another fantastic episode to start the week @petermansbridge & @SteinJanice . You briefly mentioned declining birth rates. Came across this and immediately thought of your conversation
https://t.co/BxfylkhD3B

[Josh @chabbadoo]

@mattgurney Someone should warn them that China will stop them from playing baseball or whatever

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Apparently there are a lot of folks who have no problem with separatists putting everyone's private information online, but won't complete the basic census because privacy rights, LOL.

The same people want Alberta to have more weight in Parliament, but refuse to do the one thing that can give Alberta more weight in Parliament, i.e. demonstrate population growth.

Clown show.🤡

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

@chellebe @Daniell90179739 @nenshi Not sure how we go here but I'm pulling for you Michelle. Hope you find the answers you're looking for.

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

@chellebe @Daniell90179739 @nenshi I hate to break it to you but not everyone is as lucky as you... There are violence survivors, SA survivors, even politicians and journalists who have very legitimate reasons to have their personal information unavailable to the public. I'll let you use your imagination on why

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

If the stories of the Centurion meeting are true, and a room full of separatist activists was given personal information about @jkenney, to whom many will have ill will, that's exactly the type of behaviour everyone is worried about. And it was done in full view.

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

@chellebe @Daniell90179739 @nenshi The phone book also didn't include voter IDs and voting pole information... Which can be used to determine where kids go to school etc. Now imagine you're trying to not be found by someone trying to hurt you or your family...

[Sandy @SandyJohn2286]

@chellebe @Daniell90179739 @nenshi Being in the phone book is a choice. You can have your information removed/unavailable. Information on a voter list is required for our democracy to function. You can't ask for it to be removed. As a result, the strictest of controls are in place to protect that information

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.

The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.

Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation.

This obtained video also shows Centurion Project members demonstrating how to use a database to search for personal information of Albertans by searching for the name and address of former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Jason Kenney’s personal information was shared on screen with all meeting attendees. This video appears to show the database that was built using the unauthorized electors list that was the subject of an injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench on April 30, 2026.

Premier Smith must immediately confirm whether Rob Smith and Arundeep Sandhu identified in the video are the same individuals that are associated with the UCP party and caucus. If these were the same UCP associates, the Premier must also explain:

-Why were senior UCP officials attending the meeting? Were they directed to attend?

-How she can claim, as recent as yesterday, that she only learned of this data breach from police statements on April 29-30, published almost two weeks after this meeting took place?

-Why was it not reported or disclosed by any UCP or any government official to the RCMP and Elections Alberta that the Centurion Project appears to have unauthorized access to the electors list?

-What actions, if any, she has taken to protect the privacy of Albertans?

Albertans deserve answers and transparency from Premier Smith and this UCP government, now.

[Sean Amato @JSJamato]

WOW.

The UCP is now confirming their staff attended a Centurion Project meeting on April 16, but say they did not know the data was (allegedly) illegally obtained.

The NDP shared screen shots of the mtg, where Jason Kenney's info was allegedly displayed.
#ableg #cdnpoli

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

.@ElectionsAB Is one to surmise that separatists’ petition signature collection process was linked to the illegally leaked list of Alberta electors???

#ableg