"Democracy demands more than periodic voting. It requires ongoing cooperation with people we've failed to persuade." ☕📖 Weekend read: "losers' consent" meets "winners' restraint" - what each side owes the other in a democracy.

What Winners Owe Losers

A mandate to govern is not a licence to conquer.

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Albertans are Canadians and proud of it. #HappyCanadaDay to all Canadians. Whether you started your life here or came later on, thank you for choosing our beautiful nation and contributing your strength to hers! Vive Le Canada! 🇨🇦

Happy Canada Day! Time to get worried about national unity and the coming referendum campaign. According to the weekly financial disclosures, federalists are getting absolutely creamed in fundraising. Separatists have raised 5x what federalists have. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/shannonp...

Happy Canada Day! Time to get worried.

Waiting for Alberta’s federalist Conservatives to get their act together for the referendum campaign is not a good idea. They don’t seem to know what they’re doing.

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Jonathan David’s legend grows! 🇨🇦 #ViveLeCanada

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down & follow the law. 🧵

If she were a separatist how could we tell? What would she be doing any differently?

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 3mo ago

Today we learned just how little the UCP thinks of Albertans. A staffer’s mistake revealed just how much they’re stage managing every step to force us into a vote on separation. Because, for the UCP, democracy is just a sham. A game. And they’re willing to gamble your future to win. #abpoli

In the last few weeks, Alberta separatism has dominated headlines. Whether we like it or not, this debate is here, it's getting louder - and the pro-Canada side needs to show up. Let's talk about why and how we push back against Alberta separatism and fight for Canada. 🇨🇦

Let's talk about Alberta separatism

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I’m obsessed with this photo I took of Grizz today where it looks like he’s smiling.

This referendum violates treaty rights, it will cost Albertans hundreds of millions of dollars, and is now tied to serious public safety concerns thanks to the largest data breach in Alberta’s history. Nobody is above the law – certainly not this Premier or this separatist government.

Nobody is above the law – and certainly not this Premier or this separatist government.

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

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Committed to a sticker

Focusing on the one staffer makes sense for an opposition party trying to pin down the Premier on an issue that is becoming more difficult for her to dodge — but it misses the forest for the trees. I’m willing to bet that almost everyone on the Centurion Project zoom call is a UCP member.

Alberta separatists are entrenched in the United Conservative Party

Pro-Canada Conservatives need to speak up now before it's too late

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Tonight, Jen Gerson, Jason Kenney and I make the case for Canada at a Build Canada event. A national restraint, a global heritage, a collective sense of responsibility and an individual sense of opportunity have created the greatest country on earth:

On Canada

And why we care that it endures.

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"..the separatism debate won’t end with a referendum. . There is already a motion being proposed to adopt separatism as an official party policy at the UCP’s fall AGM. . Even if the separation referendum fails.. the UCP might still end up becoming an official separatist party by the end of 2026.."

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦@daveberta.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Focusing on the one staffer makes sense for an opposition party trying to pin down the Premier on an issue that is becoming more difficult for her to dodge — but it misses the forest for the trees. I’m willing to bet that almost everyone on the Centurion Project zoom call is a UCP member.

Nobody ran on separatism. Or on lowering citizen initiative thresholds. Or on weakening Elections Alberta. Or having such a serious question be 1 of 10, added at the 11th hour. Albertans have been subjected to separatism by subterfuge.

One year ago I was first elected to serve the people of Calgary Confederation and it has been an incredible honour to serve my constituents and my country. It is also an incredible responsibility. 🧵

This Horned Grebe has seen some shit

#Alberta’s #water reckoning: Conservation is now an economic imperative calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Alberta’s water reckoning: Conservation is now an economic imperative

Wetland conservation and natural infrastructure are now essential to the province's economic resilience.

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Suddenly rediscovered today is not a statutory holiday at 8am. I’ll have you all know I walked into that office at 9am and faced it with a well-trimmed moustache like a goddamned gentleman.

All of Canada will be watching. All of Canada will be cheering. A Canadian is going to the Moon. 🇨🇦🚀

Today, the federal New Democratic Party selected its new leader. It is clear that the direction of the federal party under this new leader, someone who openly cheered for the defeat of the Alberta NDP government, is not in the interests of Alberta. /1

Cocksure pigeon really struttin’ about town

Cocksure pigeon really struttin’ about town

TORONTO - Sources on the ground are reporting that one surprisingly cocksure pigeon was struttin’ down Bloor Street this past Monday as though he owned the whole town.

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A Pacific wren surfing on a leaf Original post

New substack on why being Liberal in deep-blue Alberta is less weird than people think — and why it might actually fit the place better than expected.

"Being Liberal in a Sea of Blue"

I'm not a Liberal in spite of western values. I'm a Liberal because of them.

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Alberta separatists are 20% of the vote, 100% of the noise. They've railroaded us into a conversation that erodes business confidence and pits us against each other. Absent polls suggesting any chance Albertans want this, the Premier should shut the door to a divisive referendum.

Majority of Albertans oppose separating from Canada: Leger poll

The majority of Albertans support the province staying in Canada, according to a March Leger poll.

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In the 1910s, when Charles Daniels was denied his seat at the Grand Theatre in Calgary, Alberta feared a "dark tide" of immigrants flooding its borders. "The rhetoric of today resembles the rhetoric of those years," says Cheryl Foggo. #ableg

Charles Daniels’s stand against racism: How Alberta history is repeating itself | The Sprawl

In 1911, province feared ‘dark tide’ of Black immigration.

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We got ‘em last time and we’ll get ‘em next time. Couldn’t be more proud of Team Canada and congrats to Team USA - incredible game.

FLAG DAY FACTS Is it Flag Day already? Here's some facts to amaze friends and relatives at your traditional Flag Day Dinner. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY7...

Heritage Minutes: Flags

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Congratulated moguls legend, Mikael Kingsbury on his gold medal win today for Team Canada 🇨🇦🥇

Let's grow our economy. Let's also make sure we keep making sure the benefit of a strong economy is felt by all Canadians.