We spent $10 million on "Alberta is Calling" and $100 million walking it back
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Union member. Anti-fascist. ABC. ACAB. Ram Rancher. Electoral Reform. Police Reform. Energy Reform. Slava Ukraïne!
it's funny that "blueskyism" is conventionally understood as "extreme leftism" when it's in fact "merciless factional infighting"
I think "Little Huang" was in charge of due diligence...
AI labs writing 400-page threat models on how a superintelligence might socially engineer humanity while the guy holding the entire planet's GPU supply folds to a regular 1962 honeypot
I also love how they accidentally ended up with a sentenced Jan6 rioter in the mix.
"how things work" is not really a focus of rhetoric "on here".
Imagine having so much money you need AI to keep track of where it is.
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Yes, and you people also don't read. Which is a far bigger problem.
this election has proven that voters of america are hopelessly out of touch with editorial boards all across the country.
Look, I wasn't born yesterday, but it will really help my follower count if I pretend like I was.
The separatists in Alberta lost. Badly. Why we don't have to go around pretending otherwise -- and why those who keep trying to platform their voices and reason with their unreasonable grievances are doing more harm than good. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/26/o...
We don’t have to listen to the separatists any more
Alberta's separatist movement spent months collecting signatures, attracting attention, and rallying their vote — all to end up exactly where they've always been. It's time to stop giving them the att...
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Right on cue.
There’s disappointment and hope among Albertans who supported the idea of independence | CBC News
Now that the results of the referendum have come in, with three-quarters of Albertans voting to stay in Canada, we reached out to some residents who supported the other side to see how they feel and w...
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John Q Public@johnqpublic.bsky.social · 3w agoCBC will sit down with the forgotten eight percent to find out why they feel they are being replaced.
Something for the #ableg folk to think about, at length: The Separatists didn’t even achieve 600k votes in this referendum. The threshold for their petition was originally 600k until Danielle Smith changed it to 177k. Had she not done so, there would’ve never been a referendum. 1/2
CBC will sit down with the forgotten eight percent to find out why they feel they are being replaced.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3w ago“David Coletto of Abacus Data polled on that and found that only one-third of the separatist voters truly want Alberta independence. The convinced separatist vote in Alberta is about eight per cent.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a...
I guess Dani has decided she doesn’t want to be premier any more.
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Why would Canadians give Trump a win to take to the ballot box? Why would Canada make a deal before the midterms weaken Trump? The whole point of walking away from trade talks was to punt this into a Democratic Congress.
No trade deal expected before U.S. midterm elections: sources | CBC News
The Canada-U.S. trade war is poised to grind on for the foreseeable future, as sources tell CBC News hope of a deal before the American midterm elections has completely faded.
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Dani’s Big Speech Changes By The Minute. #abpoli #cdnpoli
Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦@blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a *very* speculative projection I took Q10 counts to get expected total votes and figure out how many remain for each riding and vote method for Q1-9. I then project how remaining votes will go based on Q10 riding x method fit. Given so many mail-in ballots remain, i get Q6-9 flipping No
