Alex Middleton

Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.

Alberta teachers should dress up as Australian coal miners for Halloween. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

To what end? The few available proponents won't want to strand their existing Line 5 to Sarnia, and the east coast has no interest in paying a premium for Alberta oil when it's cheaper for them to import. And no, a port in Hudson's Bay or James Bay makes no sense for oil either because of ice.

When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.

A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.

Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River in Oregon after being absent for more than a century. The announcement came roughly a year after the last of four major hydroelectric dams on the river was demolished.

Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way

Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

Using the notwithstanding clause to stop legal challenge to back-to-work legislation is a nuclear event for all unions. Will it lead to a general strike in Alberta? It certainly should lead to the Supreme Court establishing Constitutional limits to the clause, or else we have no rights and freedoms.

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.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. N... TikTok video by Zohran Mamdani

Very powerful condemnation of anti-Muslim attitudes of his opponents, and too many people broadly, from Mamdani www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMxmPDYg/

I just saw a city bus, two pickup trucks, and a semi blow through a crosswalk with flashing lights and half-a-dozen kids about to step into the road.

There should be much stiffer fines for bad driving in Alberta. How many people have been hit by bad drivers this month alone in Calgary?

Conservatives are fiscally responsible...

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NEW: With all 69 polls reporting, independent candidate Harrison Clark has been elected in Ward 9.

Well deserved.

I mean... those three words basically sum up his political career.

Billions of dollars in investment in renewables down the toilet because some of Smith's supporters are scared of windmills.

Patience a virtue in Alberta municipal elections with shift to hand-counting | CBC News In 2024, the province banned the use of electronic tabulators in municipal elections, saying hand-counting would bolster trust in the election outcome, which it said is better for democracy.

Anyways hand counting may be slower and less accurate but at least it is also $4.5M more expensive www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Lesson learnt!

reaping, sowing, etc

#edmonton #abpoli

Alberta Joins the Battle to Deny the Right to Vote | The Tyee Right-wing governments across North America have targeted democracy.

U of A political scientist @jaredwesley.ca raised a red flag about this in @thetyee.ca article. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024...

And all because Danielle Smith wanted to appease the lunatic conspiracy theorists in her party and drive down voting numbers.

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

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).
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UTV!

Protesters aren't the rioters. The cops are.

Yes yes yes

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

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For those keeping track...

"Alberta Strong and Free": United Conservative Party

"Canada Strong and Free Network": New name for what used to be known as the Manning Centre

"Strong and Free": Alberta's new licence plates

"Truly Strong and Free": Republican Party of Alberta

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

Dear Danielle Smith, I would much prefer that my kids return to school than hear you announce spending millions for a new license plate design? Right now? Why are your priorities so fucked up? Please do you job as the leader of my Province. Thanks Tony.

Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate Alberta gets a new licence plate with the Strong and Free brand, Premier Danielle Smith will roll out eight designs and Albertans will vote

Prentice scraped a similar plan in 2014 that would have cost $15 million.

"The priority of the government should not be designing licence plates. We have other priorities that are more pressing, that matter to Albertans," Prentice said at the time.

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