Jamie Whittaker

My life is now fully comprised of First World Problems. Proud Albertan, proud Canadian and proud of our resources. I always try to be a shepherd in life.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@WatcherUpNorth @jkenney You know what a huge cost in trade is? Shipping. Our trade ties are so deep with the US because it is cheap for both sides to do business with one another.

It doesn't matter left or right, dems or republican, liberals or conservatives. Governments change, people change.

[FarmGeek @miss_tanyac]

More Albertans are exploring sovereignty today than at any point in our history.

I don’t think it’s because they’ve become radical.

I think many are questioning whether government remains sufficiently accountable, transparent, and connected to the people it serves.

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

If Canada wants Alberta to stay, it's actually quite simple - just treat Alberta fairly.

Here's how Ottawa could do that:

1) Fix the House of Commons so it's proportional to population.

2) Fix the Senate, so it's elected and there are an equal number of seats per province.

3) Repeal the multiple pieces of legislation preventing pipeline and energy project construction and let the private sector get to work.

4) Get rid of the equalization program.

5) Convert transfer payments using a tax point transfer.

6) Give up the "spending power" on issues that are provincial jurisdiction.

Note that literally none of these would change things to favour Alberta, they would simply remove existing inequalities to make things fair for all provinces.

If the rest of Canada isn't willing to even consider making things fair, why should Alberta stay?

[Rob Anderson @FreeAlbertaRob]

Well said - anyone who blames Premier Smith or any Albertan for the current unity problems in Canada needs to look hard in the mirror and ask themselves how they would feel if for 10 years Ottawa attacked their largest job creator, triggered mid-winter instability in their power grid and topped it off with taking $25 billion in net equalization/transfers while vilifying us at the same time.

Let’s cut the “Alberta is just complaining and ungrateful” BS and get to solving the obvious root problems. The energy-deal undoing the 9 destructive Trudeau laws is the first big step in undoing that damage. But there is much more to be done.

And a little bit of self reflection and self awareness by Laurentian elites, eastern media and Ottawa/BC politicos would be helpful to the unity cause.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

What don’t the Laurentien clique get about Alberta?
That we are fed up with stacked media, judiciary, Senate & House of Commons.
And fed up with grabby federal over-reach into our lives.
And them buying into climate alarm doesn’t give them the right to strangle our economy.

[Jeff Berube @ABJeffBerube]

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing.

When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX.

Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau.

Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground.

But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.”

TC cancelled it shortly after.

Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction.

Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out.

Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed.

Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country.

But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner.

That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard.

It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa.

Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry.

Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen.

In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense.

Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time.

If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence.

Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc.

Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending.

We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing.

In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit.

We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history.

The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do.

Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session.

Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines.

Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in.

The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

The moment Alberta independence signatures cross 300,000 & submitted

Suddenly the airwaves are flooded with:
Russia narratives
U.S. interference narratives
Fake AI YouTube channel stories
Alberta voter data leak headlines
Attempts to tie the UCP to controversy

Then out comes Mark Carney promising deregulation, faster approvals and suddenly acting like Ottawa discovered urgency overnight.

Amazing how quickly the political class moves once national unity and public anger become REAL threats.

Convenient timing across the board.

[Alberta Secession - Why? @cnm5000]

The independence debate isn’t about referendum night. It’s about the year after — when Alberta stops asking permission and starts setting terms. This essay lays it out.

https://t.co/pROSPBs1sU

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - U.S. Energy Secretary: "Let's just engage with reality. Oil, gas, and coal are what run the world. Full stop. We can't make a wind turbine or a solar panel or a nuclear power plant without massive amounts of oil, gas, and coal. That's how the world works."

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

🧵 Who organized and funded the pro-Maduro demonstrations?

I was up when the news broke that U.S. forces had possibly had a military strike on Caracas. Immediately, I knew where to look next, not for confirmation from the Pentagon, but for signals.

��� READ my 1st story for @FoxNews in my new role as senior editor of investigations to understand the full narrative of how the street protests were organized within 12 hours, before Nicolás Maduro was even on U.S. soil: https://t.co/t5tSwhVR7s

📽️ WATCH the video here to hear the protest organizers in their own words as they chronicle how they mobilized foot soldiers for the new "class war" they say they are fighting against "American imperialism." They admit they got an unexpected ally: Democratic Party activists in 50501, a group launched last year to organize #TeslaTakedown protests against Elon Musk and #HandsOff protests against Trump.

What I discovered:
As U.S. forces captured Maduro, a parallel operation began almost instantly inside the United States:a rapid, coordinated information and street-mobilization campaign by a network of self-described socialist, Marxist, and communist organizations, most of which operate as nonprofits that DO NOT have to pay taxes.

I'll lay out how I followed the breadcrumbs in this special X Reporter's Notebook...

For three years since Oct. 7, I’d been seeing the same thing at protest after protest: Venezuelan flags showing up at anti-Israel rallies. Not randomly. Not organically.

Always alongside the same slogans, the same organizers, the same faces. That’s when I knew this wasn’t about Gaza, or Venezuela, or “peace.”

🔻 When activists protested Benjamin Netanyahu and burnt the American flag and painted an upside red triangle using the symbol Hamas uses for targets, writing HAMAS IS COMIN, I went to their bus pickup spots to follow the money. I saw protestors climbing into busses. That's when I saw their t-shirts: they were all proudly wearing red t-shirts for the Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational. The group had rented the busses.

Then I went to the address for the @answercoalition that had gotten the protest permit. It was in Adam's Morgan on Florida Avenue NW not far from where I had lived as a 20-something in DC.

Outside there were two flags flapping in the wind. Whose flags are they, I asked the woman who answered the door.

"Cuba and Venezuela."

That's when I knew. This wasn't about peace or anti-war.

It was about ideology.

Stoking discord was a part of that ideology as a tactic called agitation propaganda, or agitprop.

Their goal was to overthrowthe "American empire" and install some version of a Marxist, communist or socialist system. Talk about regime change.

And I learned something else: they had very close ties to Iran, Russia and China, with its leaders taking regular trips to those countries. They wanted communism or socialism in South Korea, the Philippines, Puerto Rico....America.

I saw them again in Chicago, protesting the @DNC. We had cells of proud communists, socialists and Marxists in America and they were appropriating the latest cause of the day to press their cause to dismantle "American imperialism."

They were self-declared, self-professed and proud of their ideological beliefs but the media usually glossed over them to describe them generically as "demonstrators."

So when we learned that there was an air strike on Caracas, I watched the clock -- and waited for the signals.

⏱️ 1:35 AM — As U.S. special operations reportedly land in Venezuela, @BTNews, a socialist propaganda arm of the ANSWER Coalition, posts early video and frames the mission as an “illegal bombing of Caracas.” The narrative is set.

⏱️ 1:45 AM — Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo of @PeoplesForumNYC echoes the “illegal bombing” line. Message discipline is established. The People's Forum had been funded by a tech tycoon named Neville Roy Singham, who lived in Shanghai and funded a global network of socialist causes.

⏱️ 2:29 AM — The ANSWER Coalition drops a red-siren graphic on X calling for protests in Times Square: “NO WAR ON VENEZUELA.” The shift from commentary to mobilization begins.

⏱️ 2:34–2:43 AM — The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation amplify the call. Same poster. Same language. Same timing.

⏱️ 3:21 AM — @VijayPrashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a research institute funded by Singham that examines issues through the lens of "national liberation Marxism," weighs in with a tweet: “Down with U.S. imperialism.” The ideological framing goes global.

⏱️ 6:09 AM — @CodePink condemns the U.S. as “terrorist.” The group was cofounded by Singham's wife, Jodie Evans, a fixture in anti-American protests, along with cofounder @medeabenjamin. Professional CodePink protestor @OliviaDinucci frequently yells at Trump administration officials around town. The nonprofit ecosystem is now fully engaged.

⏱️ 7:49 AM — The International People’s Assembly @peoplesassembly, a global umbrella group for socialist and communist organizations that partners with Singham's Tricontinental institute, circulates an “EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION,” urging resistance to U.S. “hegemony.” The command-and-control layer activates.

This wasn’t outrage catching fire.

This was a socialist, communist, Marxist transnational network executing information warfare with military precision.

By daylight, the narrative was locked.

By midday, the protests were live.

By afternoon, politicians like @RepRashida Talib, Rep. @AOC and @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani were repeating the same lines I’d seen first pushed in the dead of night.

I’d seen the signals broadcast for years. Thorough investigators like @DataRepublican and @thestustustudio have followed the breadcrumbs on this vast network seeking to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system in the name of "anti-imperialism," and I encourage you to follow them to see well-documented information.

Friday night, they came in strong and precise, in a parallel military operation run by comrades in the cause to destroy America as we know it.

This wasn’t just about Venezuela. It was about a global war -- an information war running parallel to a kinetic one -- and what I learned next was that it had been years in the making. 🧵⬇️

[M.R. Binnion @mrbinnion]

I love this story

Humanity has not left us

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This statement from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is very well done. A statement we should all be ready and able to make. Thank you Bernie.

[Lisa Bildy @LDBildy]

Convincing people that "words are violence" has led us to a place where the response to words is violence.

We may very well have crossed the Rubicon. People are angry and radicalized on one side, and gleeful and smug on the other side. Neither sees the humanity in the other side. The thirst for violence and retribution is growing all around.

The options are to either pull back and focus on restoring the foundations of society that are meant to keep us from tearing each other apart -- free speech being paramount. Or...we start solving our disagreements by assassination, like someone did today.

Civilization is a thin veneer. Once the darkness that lives in all our hearts is given licence, we will soon be wishing all we had to worry about were offensive words. Choose wisely.

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

1/10 The US bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities is an unprecedented event that may prove to be transformational for Iran, the Middle East, US foreign policy, global non-proliferation, and potentially even the global order. Its impact will be measured for decades to come. 🧵

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@yegwave I bet that is on 41 SW. That road is disgusting. My friend lives nearby and he says they throw everything out on the Beaumont side of the road. City of Edmonton does nothing, claims they dont want to be racially insensitive. It is disgusting. Start charging people.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@brianlilley Just wait until the money Iran pays these protestors is gone. I'm betting their funding dries up and there will be no more Palestinian protests by fall. It has been long cited that these protesters are funded the IRG.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@ShaneWenzel Very well said, but I would argue that Calgarians are not smart enough to think for themselves given the city councilors they keep voting in and mayors Nenshi and Gondek. So many citizens have no idea what is going on, but vote anyways.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@dstaples I was there, row 6. He actually lead with the elbow. I was shocked that Brown got up. Brown got up and immediately yelled at the ref for not calling the elbowing and the ref didn't care.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@BCTradingCardTX @BizNasty2point0 And then Edmonton will bring up a farm team goon to put Rantanaan in the hospital. What will it solve?

It was a dumb play for Hintz to crosscheck Nurse and for Nurse to retaliate with a slash.

[Jamie Whittaker @TheMaybeJamie]

@espn How is your hockey announcers so bad? So far Sean McDounagh keeps referencing to game 1 as being played last night 11x now in 14 minutes.

Also there are 2 teams playing, not just the @DallasStars

The @EdmontonOilers are playing too and are really good.

#NHLPlayoffs