They should sue. ALF is an independent entity, funding grants with the interest on trust accounts held by lawyers. It is definitely not the government’s money.

That was 3 days ago. This is now: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-greenland-soldiers-trump-tariff-nato-denmark-9.7050621

In view of this Danielle Smith’s flirting with separatism is downright treasonous.

I think the time has come for the UN to expel the United States. As Secretary General Anotnio Guterres stated, as long as the US is a member of the UN, it has a legal obligation to fund those agencies. The US owes $1.5 billion in dues.

I honestly do not understand why the Government tries to appease Trump. What possible benefit to Canadians is there in this.

The article itself has many caveats. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to an attention-grabbing headline.

This is the part that I find interesting:

If Cisco ultimately proves its larger target, the project could anchor a domestic lithium supply chain linking Quebec mines and battery factories.

Or, you could just get up and flip the damn switch. And if you want it warmer turn up the thermostat. This is not hard.

Before everyone gets their knickers in a twist, no, the referendum question has not been approved. The application has been approved. Now they have to collect the necessary signatures. What has collected the necessary signatures and been validated by Elections Alberta is the opposite motion, “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” By law, this has to go either to a vote in the Legislature (which is extremely unlikely) or a referendum within six months. Many people believe the UCP willl call an election rather than a referendum, as all referendum questions die when an election is called.

Carney instead touted carbon capture and storage — a key condition of the Alberta agreement — as well as nuclear power generation.

What rubbish. CCUS is a fossil fuel industry scam (https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Buyer-Beware-FFS-2022.pdf), and Carney should know it. Nuclear power generation needs to be heavily subsidized to compete with other energy sources, and of course it’s not renewable, and Carney should know that too.

Because the Forever Canadian initiative has been so successful more people see this as a way to resist the UCP. For example Corb Lund’s attempt to get a referendum vote on the disastrous coal mine leases. This is what has the UCP scrambling. But they can only stop future citizen initiatives. The Forever Canadian question “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” has been approved. By law, it must lead either to a vote in the Legislature or a referendum and there’s nothing the UCP can to stop it. Well, there is one thing: a general election. When the writ is dropped, the referendum question dies, and so do all the recall campaigns. This is why it is extremely likely that we will go to an election soon.

Enshittification proceeding nicely. I use Freetube on the desktop and Newpipe on my Android phone. I have ExpressVPN on my router.

They work fine for me, you just have to keep them updated.

It may or may not be intentional, but it could serve to answer what-if questions. If I want a certain outcome, what should the inputs look like?

I’m happy that Polievre may get the comeuppance he so richly deserves, and the CPC may sink further into irrelevance. But there’s a bigger point here: the LPC is now openly the real conservative party–it has been for a very long time, but they succeeded to some degree in making people believe they were “progressive”–and further, thanks to these desertions they are now very close to having a majority of seats. (I hope the people who voted for the floor crossers have learned their lesson). If the Liberals do get a majority, they should do the decent thing and call an election, because nobody voted for this.

Exactly. It’s time to put to an end the myth that the LPC is a “progressive” party.

Put Linux on them and give them away to people who need them?

It’s pretty obvious why, but the article doesn’t address the question asked in the headline.

Sounds like they’re preparing for war.

This is part of the Free Alberta Strategy, penned in 2021 by Smith’s right-hand man Rob Anderson, UofC political science prof and climate change denialist Barry Cooper, and someone called David From. The Sovereignty Act is also in there. Smith has clearly been trying to implement the strategy from day one. For those who are curious, freealbertastrategy.com .

The consequences for those who think they are protected are clear: they will be charged starting in October of 2026 (so much for “law-abiding gun owners”), and the RCMP is not in a bind. They will simply do their job. Smith is bringing this up now because her government is crumbling and she needs the crazy fan base more than ever.