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Marlin Schmidt

@marlinschmidt.bsky.social

Alberta’s most unparliamentary MLA

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If Danielle Smith wants a referendum on separation, bring it on.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi If Danielle Smith wants a referendum on separation, bring it on.

Danielle Smith isn’t just picking fights with Ottawa; she’s threatening Alberta’s future.

If she wants a referendum on separation, bring it on.

Albertans will defeat it.

youtube.com/shorts/Exptw...

02.06.2025 18:43 — 👍 280    🔁 72    💬 16    📌 7
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72-million-year-old sturgeon discovered in Edmonton is a fossil first A 72-million-year-old sturgeon fossil has been discovered in Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley — the first fish material of any kind found from that time period and geographical area.

Just heard about this discovery of a 70 million year old sturgeon fossil in Capilano park!

www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

02.06.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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That colleague? Shaye Anderson

02.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
It's harder to own a home in Alberta than anywhere else in the country. #VoteforBetter
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi It's harder to own a home in Alberta than anywhere else in the country. #VoteforBetter

Everyone deserves a safe, affordable place to call home.

But under Danielle Smith and the UCP, that goal is slipping further out of reach: Alberta now has the worst housing affordability in the country.

We can change that. 🔽 /1

30.05.2025 23:02 — 👍 172    🔁 60    💬 5    📌 2

I was taken by how emotional you seemed when discussing your personal interactions with JD Vance. Disappointment with him? Disappointment with yourself for not seeing the kind of person he was? Whatever the reason, it was the most interesting part of the conversation for me.

30.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Oilers are going back to the Stanley Cup finals!

Related question - why did the Jets struggle to beat the Stars? The Oilers made it look easy.

30.05.2025 02:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Vote for a Better Alberta YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

🎥 WATCH LIVE - Naheed Nenshi, Leader of Alberta's New Democrats launches by-election campaigns

youtube.com/live/s2hyva0... #BetterisPossible #VoteforBetter

29.05.2025 17:27 — 👍 65    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0
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Alberta has the fastest-growing unemployment rate in the country, and it’s hitting young men the hardest.

We can do better.

Better is possible. #VoteforBetter

29.05.2025 01:41 — 👍 248    🔁 77    💬 11    📌 9

Seems like a good guide to understanding Danielle Smith.

28.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I thought the King would challenge Donald Trump to a sword fight for control of Canada in today’s throne speech. Disappointed again!

27.05.2025 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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King Charles III opens the new Parliament with the speech from the throne this morning. Here’s the last time the monarch opened Canada’s parliament:

27.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Naheed Nenshi Your Alberta NDP candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona

On June 23rd, we can choose better for our province.

I'm proud to run as your Alberta NDP candidate to fight for the strong, competent, and ethical leadership that we deserve.

Together, let's build a province where #BetterIsPossible.

For Edmonton-Strathcona. For Alberta. For all of us.

27.05.2025 00:49 — 👍 835    🔁 222    💬 32    📌 18

This to me is the most frustrating kind of public policy failure. We know what works, we can afford to do it, and we just… don’t.

26.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CANVax

Here’s the frustrating thing. Canada HAS an evidence based approach to increasing vaccine uptake. It’s called CANVax. But it costs money - money that the UCP wont spend on public healthcarehttps://canvax.ca

26.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Alberta measles cases continue to grow. Most cases are in the south and most cases are unvaccinated people. 10% have been hospitalized. Fortunately no one has died yet, but if this epidemic isn’t controlled someone will likely die soon.

26.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1
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Jim Stanford: Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them During the so-called decade of federal 'attacks on oil,' Alberta oil giants set records for production and profits, writes Jim Stanford. So why is the average Albertan not getting their

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

24.05.2025 15:17 — 👍 743    🔁 414    💬 22    📌 53

Did your strategy include a Western sponsorship scandal?

24.05.2025 02:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Points of order: Who were Alberta's most unparliamentary MLAs this sitting? 88 points of order were called since the start of the spring sitting in February, with 39 of those resulting in an apology and withdrawal

The customs of the Legislature have evolved to protect the government, and are more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

21.05.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Albertans deserve better than a separatist Premier chasing clout with extremists.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi Albertans deserve better than a separatist Premier chasing clout with extremists.

Danielle Smith said the quiet part out loud:

She is putting our country at risk because she is chasing clout with extremists to stay in power.

Albertans deserve so much better than this selfish, separatist, power-hungry Premier.

youtu.be/W7KWHqcw9p4

20.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 236    🔁 78    💬 9    📌 8

Mortgage payment on a $1.6 million house over 25 yrs is around $9000 a month. Marshall Smith was only paying $1900 a month, according to the story.

20.05.2025 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Alberta regulator approves Northback coal exploration project in Rockies

This mine has already been rejected by regulators. But Danielle Smith directed the regulator to review the project again and here we are.

www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7536463

16.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The legislation also creates a billing framework so that customers who use hydrogen pay for the costs associated with it. Which is fine, I guess, but I hope people aren’t duped into something expensive and useless because of the hype.

15.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hydrogen is mostly propaganda on the part of natural gas suppliers. Want to really reduce emissions? Use renewable electricity.

15.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We just passed legislation here in Alberta to allow for hydrogen blending in our natural gas distribution system. We in the Opposition suspected this was a gift to incumbent gas suppliers. This interview confirmed that suspicion for me.

15.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Alberta's first hydrogen refuelling station removed after less than a year Less than a year after it opened with much Government of Alberta fanfare in Nisku — 30 minutes south of Edmonton — the province’s first commercial hydrogen refuelling station was removed at the end of...

edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/04/01/a...

15.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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two men are sitting at a table with bloomberg in the corner ALT: two men are sitting at a table with bloomberg in the corner
15.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are other ways of assessing students studying these topics? My daughter just asked me for help with her Grade 12 English essay, and I was a bit surprised to see that these were still being assigned.

14.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Edmontonians can cheer for this one Calgary team only because our fair city doesn’t have a team yet. Also, why doesn’t Edmonton have a team?

11.05.2025 23:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You need to beat Dallas first…

09.05.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Threatening separation from Canada will drive up unemployment

09.05.2025 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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