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Alberta’s Tax Advantage Is Being Paid For by Your Property Tax Bill I am sitting here running code to pull and process British Columbia property tax data for a project Gillian Petit and I are doing on property tax regressivity across Canadian provinces — work that …

For the morning crowd. Read my lips: no new taxes. Alberta style

Alberta Budget 2026 didn't raise taxes. It just raised your property taxes — the one tool the province left municipalities, then spent years criticizing them for using. Wrote about it

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YouTube video by Not Just Bikes Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

It's hard to find words for this level of hypocrisy Premier Smith.
#cdnpoli #abpoli

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NEW: Reporting from Postmedia and newly disclosed briefing materials at today’s special Council meeting outline the scope of the provincial property tax increase. Cities like Chestermere will see increases as high as 32%, making this the largest property tax increase in Southern Alberta’s history.

Incredible scenes out of Tehran. March 4, the US began dropping 2000 pound bombs on the densely populated city of 9 million people. I guess we’re not trying to free the Iranians anymore. Also, the administration still says this is not a WAR.

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

"In my opinion, it is clear that there will be foreign interference from American actors, either from the administration directly or from actors close to the Trump administration," says Boucher."

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Smith and Amery's citation for this '80 per cent' claim is, hilariously, a Lorne Gunter column

Dennis Modry defrauded his aunt and uncle of more than $1 million. Jeffrey Rath has been reprimanded by the Law Society twice in the last year.

It's nice to be reminded that not only are Alberta separatist leaders comically incompetent, they're also deeply terrible human beings.

Opinion: Child poverty is deepening in Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan Party government has not really made an attempt to seriously address poverty for more than a decade.

“78,050 children under the age of 18 in Saskatchewan were in poverty, a child poverty rate of 27.1 per cent. This is well above Canada’s national child poverty rate of 18.3 per cent and is the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces.”

And by keeping taxes low, my UCP GOVERNMENT means raising your property taxes by 60% over four years in Calgary to pay for Education shortfalls due to our persistent, petulant, egregious conduct. #yyc #abpoli

I don't pretend to know much about business, inflation, the grocery sector etc. But Mr McLean is correct; food prices in Canada are bananas (see what I did there?). The fact remains that grocery stores are raking it in, despite their complaints that they're just scraping by.

The Fifth Column: How MAGA Is Using Alberta Separatism to Break Canada Apart Alberta’s separatist movement is not what it appears to be. Behind the cowboy hats and grievance speeches about equalization payments lies…

Behind the cowboy hats and grievance about equalization lies something far more serious: foreign influence, backed by the Trump government, aimed to use legitimate frustrations as a crowbar to split Canada and hand our oil, water, and minerals to the USA.

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Going to war with NATO?

That escalated quickly.

I watched that newish Netflix documentary about Devo on the weekend and it was great. So now I am revisiting their discography. Their first album is truly great.

I mean I already thought the Alberta separatists were just another form of the shameless political grifters who are rampant throughout Alberta, and I gotta say this does very little to dissuade me of that.

‘A constant stream’ of serious flu cases leaves hundreds dead in Alberta Canada is emerging from a difficult influenza season that has strained hospitals across the country, with experts pointing to a combination of vaccine mismatch, lower vaccination rates and a particula...

‘A constant stream’ of serious flu cases leaves hundreds dead (so far) in Alberta

Incompetence, thy name is:
“Marlaina Danielle Smith”

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

I was wrong, and I need to apologize.

Bessent Says Trump’s Tariff Hike to 15% Likely Coming This Week Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a 10% universal tariff up to 15% will likely be done this week.

Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or someth— ah, I see now

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Thousands of Alberta seniors to lose income supplement as province faces rising provincial deficit | CBC News Alberta is making cuts to seniors' benefits and tax credits for caregivers as it faces a $9.4-billion budget deficit.

Thousands of #Alberta seniors to lose income supplement as province faces rising provincial deficit

Additional cuts mean many Albertans caring for seniors will lose their $1,000 provincial tax credit

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Every single one of those officer need to be retired right now.

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

Thousands of Alberta seniors to lose income supplement as province faces rising provincial deficit | CBC News Alberta is making cuts to seniors' benefits and tax credits for caregivers as it faces a $9.4-billion budget deficit.

'Thousands of Alberta seniors to lose income supplement as province faces rising provincial deficit'

This government consistently attacks the most vulnerable: the disabled, immigrants, children, the LGBTQ community, and now seniors.

This is a disaster.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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If I was a UCP MLA I would be embarrassed and ashamed to stand up there and spout this sh*t

If they had the guts to stand up to Smith this would all be over and Albertans would get an election
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The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

There is mounting evidence of an explicit U.S. strategy to exploit the Albertan independence movement to destabilize Canada. newrepublic.com/article/2069...

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

In 2025, the UCP Govt spent only 1/3 of the allocated public #health budget.

Meanwhile we just had our deadliest flu season on record, with 250 deaths & steadily declining vaccination rates since 2022, when Danielle Smith became Premier.

They are destroying public healthcare.

#abpoli #yyc