You better bet my sparkly new Canadian citizenship voting rights will be exercised on October 19th.

See ya there.
#YEG #CanPoli #ABpoli

(reference: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-danielle-smith-fall-referendum-9.7098568)

The 9 proposed questions (many of these seem worded to try and force a Constitutional crisis in Canada):
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/national-news/increased-control-over-immigration-nine-questions-on-alberta-referendum-in-october-11902437

You better bet my sparkly new Canadian citizenship voting rights will be exercised on October 19th.

See ya there.
#YEG #CanPoli #ABpoli

(reference: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-danielle-smith-fall-referendum-9.7098568)

The 9 proposed questions (many of these seem worded to try and force a Constitutional crisis in Canada):
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/national-news/increased-control-over-immigration-nine-questions-on-alberta-referendum-in-october-11902437

Dennis Modry, founder of the Alberta Prosperity Project, reports asking US help in setting up an Alberta army.
He said the group asked American officials whether the U.S. would be willing to provide a $500 billion line of credit if needed.

“Alberta will also need its own military,” Modry said, adding: “And would the U.S. be willing to work with Alberta in the development of an Alberta military? That’s on the table for discussion.” #abpoli #AlbertaSeparatism #treason
NBC: Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230

Here’s something I hadn’t considered before…

We see oil derricks and pump jacks all over the province, with hostile gravel and unfertile soil all around them… but when you see solar panels and wind turbines you see houses with lawns, gardens, pastures, and fields all around them.

I wonder why no one ever chooses to live under pump jacks?

#ClimateChange #abpoli #ableg #renewableenergy

Dennis Modry, founder of the Alberta Prosperity Project, reports asking US help in setting up an Alberta army.
He said the group asked American officials whether the U.S. would be willing to provide a $500 billion line of credit if needed.

“Alberta will also need its own military,” Modry said, adding: “And would the U.S. be willing to work with Alberta in the development of an Alberta military? That’s on the table for discussion.” #abpoli #AlbertaSeparatism #treason
NBC: Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230

"There's nothing humans can do. Only a dictator would use science and medicine to save lives."

#abpoli #COVID #COVID19 #covisIsNotOver #publichealth #healthcare #health

All three of Canada's badgers are now species at risk. Badgers are incredibly important keystone species that create habitat for other species like nest burrows for the wonderful but endangered Burrowing Owl. Badgers are specialist predators of Richardson's ground squirrels, and get killed by secondary poisoning when poisons like stryctnine are used. Stryctnine cannot be used on ground squirrels without a risk of secondary poisoning to at risk badgers, threatened Ferruginous Hawks, and endangered Swift Foxes. Stryctnine causes a terribly painful and cruel death.

Despite the endless harm to biodiversity and ecological health, and the inhumane use of stryctnine, #CBC is again on the disinformation bandwagon and is promoting the poisoning of ground squirrels, badgers, hawks and carnivores. The use of stryctnine is responsible for the extirpation of swift foxes from Canada.

Tell the deplorable AB and SK govts that you do not want stryctnine allowed again.

#CdnPoli #AbPoli #SkPoli #Biodiversity

All three of Canada's badgers are now species at risk. Badgers are incredibly important keystone species that create habitat for other species like nest burrows for the wonderful but endangered Burrowing Owl. Badgers are specialist predators of Richardson's ground squirrels, and get killed by secondary poisoning when poisons like stryctnine are used. Stryctnine cannot be used on ground squirrels without a risk of secondary poisoning to at risk badgers, threatened Ferruginous Hawks, and endangered Swift Foxes. Stryctnine causes a terribly painful and cruel death.

Despite the endless harm to biodiversity and ecological health, and the inhumane use of stryctnine, #CBC is again on the disinformation bandwagon and is promoting the poisoning of ground squirrels, badgers, hawks and carnivores. The use of stryctnine is responsible for the extirpation of swift foxes from Canada.

Tell the deplorable AB and SK govts that you do not want stryctnine allowed again.

#CdnPoli #AbPoli #SkPoli #Biodiversity

This is a longer, more in-depth version of what @avilewis posted from mstdn.ca, which he posted on FB. I get it. I was on mstdn.ca too, and the character limit was my biggest gripe... But now I'm on beige.party so I can post the whole damn thing for ya'lls, links and all. ;)

'This post has been on my mind for a few days now, so I’m going to say something about it.

The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.

The post itself radiates the same kind of defiant impunity we’ve seen from both Israel and the Trump administration when it comes to flouting international law.

Here’s the case:

The ICJ has found that there is a plausible genocide going on in Gaza, committed by Israel.

https://archive.ph/CAYd8

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”.

https://archive.ph/Evlsl

This is not new. Israel has long used its apartheid system, built on top of an almost 60-year illegal occupation, as a laboratory for technologies of social control, violence and dispossession. And it has then turned those cruel and immoral technologies into a major export industry - including selling phone hacking tech to bad actors all over the world.

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory

Canada should not be exploring deeper collaboration with Israel around these tools and technologies: quite the opposite. We should be doing everything we can - diplomatically and economically - to rein in their sale and use around the world. Just as we should be using every tool we have to rein in Israel’s impunity and ongoing genocide.

Providing cover and normalization for Israel as an exporter of these technologies is not just wrong, it’s dangerous for Canada. Israel is a country still in the act of committing an ongoing genocide. Almost 500 people have been killed by Israel since the so-called “ceasefire” started.

https://archive.ph/p3gCI

Talking AI and other tech tools with Israel opens Canada up to international censure, isolation and even indictment.

And it offers a stark contrast with the kind of story the Prime Minister is telling about Canada these days.

Many Canadians were proud to hear Mark Carney pledge that Canada would help forge a new international order that would be "fairer" than the last.

This sure isn't it.

We can't lecture the world about shredding the international rules-based order and then pal around with the people who have been shredding it before our very eyes for the last 2 years - not to mention all the decades of occupation and apartheid that preceded this horrific moment.'

- Avi Lewis

#cdnpoli #abpoli #freepalestine #israel #ai

This is a longer, more in-depth version of what @avilewis posted from mstdn.ca, which he posted on FB. I get it. I was on mstdn.ca too, and the character limit was my biggest gripe... But now I'm on beige.party so I can post the whole damn thing for ya'lls, links and all. ;)

'This post has been on my mind for a few days now, so I’m going to say something about it.

The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.

The post itself radiates the same kind of defiant impunity we’ve seen from both Israel and the Trump administration when it comes to flouting international law.

Here’s the case:

The ICJ has found that there is a plausible genocide going on in Gaza, committed by Israel.

https://archive.ph/CAYd8

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”.

https://archive.ph/Evlsl

This is not new. Israel has long used its apartheid system, built on top of an almost 60-year illegal occupation, as a laboratory for technologies of social control, violence and dispossession. And it has then turned those cruel and immoral technologies into a major export industry - including selling phone hacking tech to bad actors all over the world.

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory

Canada should not be exploring deeper collaboration with Israel around these tools and technologies: quite the opposite. We should be doing everything we can - diplomatically and economically - to rein in their sale and use around the world. Just as we should be using every tool we have to rein in Israel’s impunity and ongoing genocide.

Providing cover and normalization for Israel as an exporter of these technologies is not just wrong, it’s dangerous for Canada. Israel is a country still in the act of committing an ongoing genocide. Almost 500 people have been killed by Israel since the so-called “ceasefire” started.

https://archive.ph/p3gCI

Talking AI and other tech tools with Israel opens Canada up to international censure, isolation and even indictment.

And it offers a stark contrast with the kind of story the Prime Minister is telling about Canada these days.

Many Canadians were proud to hear Mark Carney pledge that Canada would help forge a new international order that would be "fairer" than the last.

This sure isn't it.

We can't lecture the world about shredding the international rules-based order and then pal around with the people who have been shredding it before our very eyes for the last 2 years - not to mention all the decades of occupation and apartheid that preceded this horrific moment.'

- Avi Lewis

#cdnpoli #abpoli #freepalestine #israel #ai

This is from nearly a year ago on FB.
Don't let them pretend they haven't been taking steps toward US statehood for a year.

Jeffrey Rath, March 6, 2025: "There's a group of Albertans that are working together right now to put together a delegation to go to Washington to talk to the Trump administration about Alberta positioning for US statehood."
#abpoli #AlbertaSeparatism

This is from nearly a year ago on FB.
Don't let them pretend they haven't been taking steps toward US statehood for a year.

Jeffrey Rath, March 6, 2025: "There's a group of Albertans that are working together right now to put together a delegation to go to Washington to talk to the Trump administration about Alberta positioning for US statehood."
#abpoli #AlbertaSeparatism

Alberta separatists won’t say which Trump officials they met with https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/very-high-level-alberta-separatist-group-wont-say-which-trump-officials-it-met-with/ “When asked by host Vassy Kapelos whether those officials would be recognizable to Canadians, Rath said “probably,”

“We have an agreement with the people that we’re meeting with that we’re not disclosing the identities of the people that we’re meeting with,” Rath said.”
#CanPoli #AbPoli #Treason

Alberta separatists won’t say which Trump officials they met with https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/very-high-level-alberta-separatist-group-wont-say-which-trump-officials-it-met-with/ “When asked by host Vassy Kapelos whether those officials would be recognizable to Canadians, Rath said “probably,”

“We have an agreement with the people that we’re meeting with that we’re not disclosing the identities of the people that we’re meeting with,” Rath said.”
#CanPoli #AbPoli #Treason

I also have been thinking about this connection, it is so damn obvious, but no one in the media is talking about it.

The rise of authoritarianism, and the deep connection to the oil industry.

It has been obvious to anyone willing to stop for a moment and think... but #TheAmericanFascist, in his infinite wisdom and/or senility, has thrown down the veil.

#Venezuela is about access to #Oil in South America.

#Greenland is about access to Oil and Minerals in the #Arctic.

#Alberta Separatism is about access to Oil and Gas in #Canada.

Deposing the Iranian Regime is access to Oil and Gas in the Middle East. (Get #Iran, and you might get #Iraq too)

And lets not forget #Russia... fighting the #RussiaUkraineWar funded by their oil reserves and all about returning to an old empire in oil-rich Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

So is the fight to end fossil fuel use in order to preserve a liveable, recognizable planet, also a fight against authoritarianism and fascism?

You're damn right it is.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli #EndFossilFuels #climatechange

My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320