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Alberta Premier defends fall referendum plans Danielle Smith stumbles when asked about costs of providing health care and education to newcomers; NDP says referendum proposals designed to inflame

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... Premier Danielle Smith said she does not know how much newcomers cost Alberta’s health care and education systems, despite arguing that Ottawa’s immigration policies are jeopardizing her province’s finances.

Hmmm... 🤔

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces fall referendum on immigration, constitutional questions | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith wants to hold a referendum in October on measures to limit immigration to Alberta and changes she believes would give the province more rights under the Constitution.

"After promising a big surplus, we are actually having a multi-billion dollar deficit because we were 20% out in our unreasonably but conveniently optimistic prediction about oil prices.
To distract you from this we are going to blame Ottawa and immigrants..."
#DogWhistle

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Danielle Smith promises Alberta referendum over immigration, Constitution changes | Globalnews.ca Premier Danielle Smith said the immigration changes her UCP government has determined Alberta needs to push for are a significant departure from the status quo.

Danielle Smith believes she’s giving us a masterclass in distraction, but this reeks of desperation and Albertans will see right through it.

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Why Renewable Energy Systems Lead to Lower Prices How renewables and storage structurally lower electricity prices. Market design, gas marginal power, and the 2035 storage inflection explained clearly.

Ignore the noise. Falling retail electricity prices are getting closer — structurally, not politically. As renewables and storage scale, gas sets the price less often and volatility compresses. Architecture determines price direction. Let me show you why — and how it unfolds to 2035. #Bettrification

Discussion on misinformation, Alberta separation draws crowd in Red Deer - Red Deer Advocate Presented by Council of Canadians for Red Deer and Area

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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

Oh fun!

The UCP’s latest push poll/survey comes with an email when you’re done, complete with an attack on the media!

What’s that a sign of again?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Blood filtering ‘another ridiculous celeb wellness trend’ | Deception Decoded Professor Timothy Caulfield debunks the ‘scienceploitation’ blood detox trend which celebrities claim filters out ‘plastic particles, mould,’ and ‘other toxins.

Blood filtering? Sigh. Yet another ridiculous (potentially harmful) celebrity health trend!

🚩 The promise of a "detox" = red flag for bunk! 🚩

My take: www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0... via CTV

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

Happy Flag Day, Canada! (Once more, with feeling.) #FlagDay #Canada #cdnpoli

The Case for Alberta Staying in Canada open.substack.com/pub/duanebra...

Vaccines causing 'turbo cancer'? How fake science is spreading online Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, claims that vaccines can cause severe disease have been widespread on social media, with skeptics raising the alarm about what they call "turbo cancer."

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!

Vaccines causing 'turbo cancer'? How fake science is spreading online medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

"The claim is FALSE and the term is not a medically recognized technical expression."

#VaccinesWork

My Cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

Why Scientists Worry About Breaking News About Life in Space The public could be frightened or skeptical. A lot depends on how scientists announce it—if they ever find life in space.

“We hardly have science journalists anymore. We have generalists who sometimes cover science." - Brianne Suldovsky, associate professor in the Department of Communications at Portland State University

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@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Research reveals which popular generative AI chatbots lie RIT and Georgia Tech artificial intelligence experts have developed a framework to test hallucinations on ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, and DeepSeek.

Research reveals which popular generative AI chatbots lie www.rit.edu/news/researc...

"...LLM could not distinguish between its very own self-generated truths and lies all the time."

Can nudge to agree. This means "...LLMs can provide an echo chamber to persistent users when they press..."

Most ABs would vote to stay in Canada, Angus Reid survey find 2/3 would vote to remain in Canada, most saying their decision is definite. Fewer than 3/10 ABs said they would vote to separation. Most said they are leaning toward that position not firmly committed.
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Signed.

Alberta justice minister uses powers from recently-passed law to veto $780K law foundation grant The grant makes up 99 percent of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre’s 2026 funding

“the government of Alberta has done what appears to be a politicization of the whole process and basically hijacked the organization and the millions and millions of dollars that it administers”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Danielle Smith is Playing with Fire - Policy Magazine Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is playing with fire.

About f--king time.
My question is why the media happily ran after every "flooding the zone with shit" play from MAGA Alberta while ignoring the obvious Donbas playbook being used in Alberta.
Donbas Danielle is not playing with fire.
She's burning our house.

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Danielle Smith Isn’t Governing—She’s Dismantling Albertans, this is your last polite warning. This is the Alberta Stress Test.

Headlines like this from the radical woke leftist mob are infuriating to me.

I never once claimed I was "governing"!

Read: prairiesexposed.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
#abpoli #AlbertaIndependence #AlbertaSeparation #AlbertaSovereignty

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Remember the hypocrisy of Danielle Smith telling Albertans we can't afford net zero and the power grid would be at risk if forced to adopt EV's. A year later she's building out and pushing data centres which would consume more power than any EV's ever sold and used in Alberta. #abpoli

UCP in 2019 - Foreign Interests are trying to mess with our energy industry! To arms! All guns to bear!

UCP in 2026 - The want to mess with our democracy? Ok, but does it comes with a table at Mar A Lago?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli