Jason
@jfw.ca
I like to draw stuff 🏳️🌈💙💜🩷 📍#YYC 🇨🇦 ☠️No NFT ☠️No GenAI he/him @jfw.gander.social on Gander All opinions expressed here are my own.
Why Albertans should vote Option 1 to Stay in Canada and No to the other 9 referendum questions: knowthenine.ca #abpoli #yyc #referendumb
Stay in Canada. No to the Nine.
Use Alberta's Voice's interactive ballot guide to review all 10 referendum ballots before you vote.
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And then last night we found out that Export Development Canada loaned $100-200 million to Greenlight, the gas plant behind Meta’s data centre in Sturgeon County. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n...
Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta
The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”
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On Tuesday, we discovered that Smith awarded a mysterious $300k “website” contract to a firm founded by her ex-advisor. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/n...
Former Smith advisers awarded $300,000 referendum contract by Alberta government
The contract was for the creation of a website, albertareferendum2026.ca, which belongs to the Government of Alberta and provides information on the province's upcoming referendum.
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This week I wrote three stories, all surfacing from overlooked public documents in Alberta. On Monday, we revealed that power generators are expecting wholesale electricity prices in Alberta to triple when first data centres come online. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/a...
Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres
In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...
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NEW: At a certain point, one must inevitably concede that Carney's concessions to Trump aren't concessions at all, but shared priorities. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
Mark Carney, CEO of Canada Inc.
At a certain point, you've got to admit the prime minister is making all these unrequited concessions to Trump because he wants to.
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Skip the Line, Not the Vote - #Referendum Advance polls and mail-in ballots in #Alberta. Thanks to @DrJaredWesley open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Skip the Line, Not the Vote
How advance polls and mail-in ballots are key to mobilization in Alberta this fall
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