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@kathyedm.bsky.social

Protect Eastern Slopes. No to coal. Support public healthcare & public education #HandsoffCPP Retired AB govt coms director. Save the wildlife and animals, love to travel. 🍁🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://youtu.be/8peiLVFsLdw?si=ErXHvdFgDj_kGoDm

File this under scaling new heights of hypocrisy, Ric McIver encouraging people to get a mail in ballot. He was the minister who eliminated tabulators and tightened voter ID rules based on no evidence. The long line ups, and astronomical cost of the referendum to taxpayers are on him.

Legislative Assemby Speaker and Calgary-Hays UCP MLA Ric McIver is one of the few conservative politicians I’ve noticed who is encouraging Albertans to apply for a mail in ballot to avoid any long lines on October 19. Along with a link to the Elections Alberta website, McIver posted his plea on LinkedIn:

That is where I will get my mail in ballot to vote to keep Alberta in Canada.
You should too. All eligible voters can use the mail in ballot so do it now.
Remember, the vast majority of Alberta people want to remain in Canada.
So, the only way to lose is to not vote.

Do not do that.
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦@daveberta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Even after writing about Alberta politics for more than 20 years it’s still sometimes hard to fully understand and explain what is happening in our province. 🙃😬

222,000 signatures is impressive. It's still lower than the original threshold set by the Kenney government. Not to mention time frame and regional requirements. Key takeaway: without Danielle Smith's rule changes, the separatist petition would have failed.

I'll take McIver's support for Canada at face value. But why encourage voting by mail? To avoid embarrassment? He knows 10 referendum ballots for a few million voters is a horribly expensive idea that will lead to long lineups at polls, confusion, and possibly days of counting votes.

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2w ago

File this under scaling new heights of hypocrisy, Ric McIver encouraging people to get a mail in ballot. He was the minister who eliminated tabulators and tightened voter ID rules based on no evidence. The long line ups, and astronomical cost of the referendum to taxpayers are on him.

forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

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I have been very terminally online since Gamergate™ and since then the same pattern always emerges; the loudest voices in any movement start with a reasonable point and then must escalate from there to stay relevant. Berta Proud Dad is our local incarnation of this phenomenon #ABPoli #ABleg

Performance Politics and the Pawn Economy: The Case of “Berta Proud Dad”

This felt like a fitting follow-up to our previous article.

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Wait a minute. Are you suggesting Danielle Smith & the UCP are misleading Albertans? I’m shocked! Is there more she’s lying about to us?? She sounds so sincere when she’s offering Albertans a HUNDRED dollars through a simple process that also has the bonus of collecting more personal data. #ABpoli

Donald Glover as Troy Barnes: Wow Shocker

ALT: Donald Glover as Troy Barnes: Wow Shocker

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Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

Alberta electricity companies are telling the public data centres will save Albertans money. But the companies are telling investors they'll triple electricity costs. An investigation by @rorywh.bsky.social

Now companies just building #datacentres on spec. Tourmaline, Canadian senior oil and natural gas Co, just going ahead near Edson. Promising the world to local town council - they can return more water to source than they use & remove. #Alberta #UCP no barriers, no rules. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Another AI data centre proposed for rural Alberta | CBC News

A company wants to build a data centre in west-central Alberta but doesn't yet have a tech company that has agreed to occupy it. At the proposed project's first public presentation, Yellowhead County ...

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