LOL:
"A clear majority of Albertans don’t want to live in a Christian ethnostate powered by hydrocarbons and hatred, and conceived by people we wouldn’t trust to sit the right way on a toilet. My greatest hope is that the separatists will feel as embarrassed and angered by their inevitable failure as I feel by their movement’s existence."
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/01/Among_Separatists/
#ableg #Alberta
I attended this webinar on Tuesday. The risk of continued investment in fossil fuels is astounding, yet governments continue to push it as a solution.
Here’s Tova Gaster’s report:
“...Canada’s stalled progress on climate finance disclosure standards makes it impossible for investors and the public to fully understand the scale of fossil fuel risk exposure.”
“Industry lobbyists and some forecasters have framed international oil price spikes as an opportunity for Canada to expand its domestic extraction and production capacity.”
“However, panelists emphasized that fossil fuel infrastructure is a long-term investment, ill-equipped to respond to short-term economic shocks—or to withstand a shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity that will likely be accelerated by the energy price shock.”
With the transition away from fossil fuels under way, gaining momentum, and picking up a major boost from the past month of energy price shocks, Canadian banks, provinces, and the larger economy remain heavily exposed to the financial risk of continuing to prop up oil and gas companies, warns Carbon Tracker.
We are in this terrible position because of all the folk who have been convinced that tolerating the bigots is the only way to be prosperous, and that tacit support or sympathy for the bigots isn’t so bad after all.
Alberta separatists have started a war of values for the soul of Alberta: we need to stop being polite about sympathizers and enablers and call them what they are - bigots.
“Even when the independence referendum fails, the damage will be done. By legitimizing a movement built on bigotry, we’ve legitimized the bigotry itself. Alberta won’t emerge from this exercise as the bad place separatists yearn for. Thankfully. But I fear we’ll be a worse place than we were before.”
And just as much then we need be absolutely clear about who we are and what we stand for: a diverse, inclusive, pluralistic province that values people first; that celebrates joy, creativity, empathy, and love.
Alberta should be a place where we understand that *every* person is inherently, uniquely, and infinitely valuable.
“But not enough of these people exist to vote Alberta out of Canada, Lisa Young says. Independence organizers will need to dial back the crazy.
“I don’t know whether the leadership of the separatist movement has the capacity to make that strategic shift,” Young.”
Bc there’s nothing at the core: it’s bigotry and rabid hatred in a Stetson and boots instead of a swastica and brownshirt.
Separatists complaining that ‘leftists’ “aim to replace Canada’s original character “with abstract, universal concepts: diversity, tolerance, equality.””
Separatist Stephens is mostly right: “Every single political issue comes down to a religious issue,” or more properly - is a matter of values. They see Canada is at risk of becoming more inclusive, diverse, accepting, pluralistic and the thought terrifies them.
Bruce Elrick
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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦
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