"This isn’t about constitutional reform. It’s about politics. More specifically, it’s part of a broader and increasingly brazen conservative effort to either control the courts or, failing that, convince the public not to trust them." https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/danielle-smith-drags-the-judiciary-deeper-into-her-partisan-mud-slinging/393813
#judiciary #abpoli #cdnpoli #separatism #UCPCorruption #GOPNorth #democracy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@EmmettMacfarlane/116103212683982972
#Smith’s vision is one that would create a nightmarish, dystopian underclass. It is a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook we have seen play out in the United States and other western countries. It is anti-Canadian."
@jacobin The province of #Alberta could have had a thriving #renewableEnergy industry but it was kneecapped by #GOPNorth and #BigOil
"So #Albertans who don’t want to see their country destroyed, their pensions looted, their streets flooded with firearms and their province eventually absorbed by the shit show to the south had better wake up and smell the coffee." 💯 https://www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/12/17/UCP-Separatist-Wing-Winning/
A motley crew not serving #Alberta or #Albertans. https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-mlas-facing-recall-alberta/
"The ability to sell abhorrent ideas as if they’re bake sale muffins." Yep, that is #DanielleSmith!!!! https://markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-smiths-superpower-making
"What #Canadians are seeing is a national ideological campaign run by a sitting Member of Parliament, operating through an external political brand, and doing so without any public disclosure of financing or sponsorship. In an era where foreign influence,dark money, and political data operations are under increasing scrutiny, the lack of transparency surrounding Restore the North is not simply unusual; it is a red flag." https://provincialtimes.ca/questions-mount-over-jamil-jivanis-nationwide-restore-the-north-tour/
Ripping #publicservices to pieces and ensuring no clean, safe #environment seem to be the agenda of the #Alberta #UCP https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/danielle-smith-dared-eastern-slopes-coal-mine-opponents-to-start-a-citizen-initiative-petition-so-corb-lund-did/
Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the offices of Elections Alberta for a referendum petition seeking permanent protection of the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains from coal mining. In other words, a situation much like what we had from 1976, when […]
@AlisonCreekside Alberta and Saskatchewan will be all over this.
LM Little
