Annalise Klingbeil

Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.

Happy Halloween

It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.

The first (and until today only) time Alberta invoked the notwithstanding clause - in 1998
- the public outcry was so great that Premier Ralph Klein reversed his decision in less than 24 hours. FWIW.

Striking Alberta teachers forced back to work by fast-tracked legislation, notwithstanding clause | CBC News Bill 2 passed early Tuesday morning after a long night for lawmakers in the provincial legislature. Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced the legislation the day before.

At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg

Albertans, if we have a problem with what’s happening, we need to make our voices heard.

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?

An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.

I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

For a magazine piece, I'm looking to talk with first-time home buyers in #yeg or #yyc who are currently looking or have made a purchase in the past few months. If this is you, or someone you know, please send me a DM or email cailynn.klingbeil@gmail.com. Thanks!!

Two Years on a Cargo Bike Why cargo bikes are the best

Two Years on a Cargo Bike. @cailynn.bsky.social makes a great point here on e-cargo bikes (and e-bikes in general). Thought of as occasional or recreational use case, they are pricey. The math changes fast however if they start replacing vehicle trips. #yycbike gooutside.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Two Years on a Cargo Bike Why cargo bikes are the best

In case you're wondering if taking the leap into electric cargo bike ownership is for you... gooutside.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Two Years on a Cargo Bike Why cargo bikes are the best

@cailynn.bsky.social has spent the past two years gushing about her cargo bike. Read why here: open.substack.com/pub/gooutsid...

Fun fact about Calgary's new City Council: there are as many councillors-elect named Mike/Myke as there are women.

Political Gossip with Friends Alberta’s 2025 municipal elections are looking different this year. Join Nonprofits Vote on October 23rd for nonprofit focused debrief!

Alberta Voted: Now What?
I'll be moderating this Nonprofits Vote event with panelists Matt Solberg, @markusoff.bsky.social, Rachel Swendseid & @jacklucas.bsky.social discussing the election that was.
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Thanks, Almoonir!

Jeromy Farkas wins the closest ever Calgary mayoral race. 91, 065 (26.1%) compared to Sonya Sharp's 90, 480 (25.9%). A win by only 585 votes (0.2%). An incredible comeback (politically and personally) for the kid from Dover after his loss to Gondek in 2021.

This is a metaphor that applies more broadly, too: pandering to a tiny minority of conspiracy-curious Albertans makes life objectively (and needlessly) worse for the rest of us.

Remember that. #abpoli

True, but I feel like you're being too nice here. The reason they don't like electronic vote tabulators is because many of them are neck-deep in American conspiracy theories about electronic voting machines and don't realize these are different.

The extra form that created massive lineups to vote & the super slow counting by hand (instead of tabulators) is what happens when you have a provincial government that makes policy based on the conspiracy theories their far right fringe base believes.

Whew, what an election night. Fun time on Global's "expert" panel with @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social & Colin Aitchison.

Who will Calgarians send to work here for the next 4 years?

Global Calgary’s election night results coverage begins at 9pm. Link below for how to watch:

globalnews.ca/news/1148343...

I'd like to speak to the manager! Go ahead.

Got so annoyed while waiting to vote that I wrote a substack post. open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

The lowest voter turnout for a muni election in Calgary in the last 50 years was in 2004 when Bronconnier won a second term and only 20% of Calgarians voted.

Unofficially, about 10.7% (96,549) eligible voters cast their ballot in advance polls this year, + another 10% (89,900) up to 4pm today.

Those of you standing in long lines for municipal elections in Alberta today:

1) stay in line; your voice matters
2) the long lines are a direct consequence of the conspiracy-driven policy changes brought forward by the UCP government (and not your beleaguered election workers); be kind

Thanks, Zoey!

GO VOTE TODAY! & watch election results starting at 9 p.m. on Global. I'll be on the show offering my thoughts. (Decision Calgary coverage will be streamed on the Global Calgary website, on Roku, Prime and the Global TV app.)

10 years of feelings toward Justin Trudeau by asking one question:

Do you have a positive or negative impression of Justin Trudeau?

All in a single chart

‘This Isn’t about Evidence.’ Alberta’s Costly, Confusing Voting Changes | The Tyee The UCP’s local elections requirements will delay results and may suppress turnout.

"The only major instance of voting irregularity in recent Alberta history was the well-documented voter fraud in the UCP leadership race that elected Jason Kenney. In that same race, Kenney ran a so-called kamikaze candidate."
thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

‘This Isn’t about Evidence.’ Alberta’s Costly, Confusing Voting Changes | The Tyee The UCP’s local elections requirements will delay results and may suppress turnout.

"In an interview with CBC’s Edmonton AM morning show in April 2024, former municipal affairs minister Ric McIver admitted there was no evidence of any issues with the tabulators.

“This isn’t about evidence. This is about the confidence of people,” McIver said."

thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

The long count: Alberta communities prepare to tally ballots by hand | CBC News Alberta municipalities are in for a long night — and in many cases, days — to complete the more complicated process of counting every ballot on election day by hand, rather than machine.

When the election is long past and you still don't know who your councillor is, please remember it's because Danielle Smith's base doesn't like electronic vote tabulators (which are accurate, have been used for decades, and saved time and money).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Smith Not Impressed With New Plates "Political Agenda" Written by Brent Manke Monday, Jul 14 2014, 12:00 AM The three choices for Alberta's new license plate, plus what we have now. The Opposition Wildrose party is up in arms over the removal of the "Wild Rose Country" slogan from the bottom of the plates, calling it politically motivated. Highwood MLA Danielle Smith is no fan of Alberta's proposed new license plates. She supports the new reflective paint job, but not changing the slogan at the bottom from "Wild Rose Country." She says it's more PC political nonsense. "All of a sudden this comes out in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a leadership race, taking off the Wild Rose slogan. It's clearly political. People have seen through it. They are outraged and responding in massive numbers. We have a poll going with six thousand respondents so far, most of which, about 70-percent who say keep the Wild Rose slogan." She says the province would have been better off asking us if we wanted to change the plates in the first place, as well as if we wanted to change the slogan, before moving ahead on their own.

Subscribe $1 for 6 months Breadcrumb Trail Links HomeNewsLocal NewsNationalPoliticsOpinionColumnists Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate Alberta to get a new licence plate. It reads Strong and Free Author of the article: By Rick Bell Published Oct 14, 2025 Last updated 34 minutes ago It’s coming. A new licence plate for Alberta vehicles. Article content It is a licence plate with attitude. It is long overdue. Psst … the current licence plate was designed more than 40 years ago. Article content Article content The words on the plate have been decided. Article content Strong and Free. It is the motto of Alberta. They are words found in the national anthem. Article content A generation ago some Albertans fought for a Strong and Free licence plate, including this scribbler and legendary Edmonton Sun columnist Neil Waugh...

Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.

Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.