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A Cree elder came to a museum one summer, asking to find where his brother was buried. Farmer showed up, too, with long-faded grave markers. Inside the long quest to remember the children of Red Deer residential school: macleans.ca/longforms/reside…
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Well, an admission here from the premier's chief of staff that redrawing the electoral map is, at least partially, to "level the playing field" with the NDP seems notable.
Total garbage. @DonBraid is literally just regurgitating exactly what is NDP buddies are telling him. Would be nice if he represented both sides of an issue for once.
One of the most respected court of appeal justices in Alberta history is chairing the boundary committee. It’s a lie to say that it’s the UCP. The maps aren’t even available yet (though clearly leaked to the NDP by someone).
In addition, Judge Miller and half the NDP caucus complained that there should be 2 additional seats added to account for population growth. So that was done and left to the independent judge-led committee to figure out how to do it. I assume they have done so.
Further, last election the NDP lost the popular vote by almost 10 percent and still almost ended up winning the most seats. So obviously they don’t want any change whatsoever that could level the playing field.
How do you explain that Don? Did the NDP gerrymander the map last go around under Notley? Was the 2023 election undemocratic too?
The UCP isn’t making that claim because it’s disrespectful of the people - including the judge - who did the hard work of determining those past boundaries.
Your bias is so clear Don. It’s disturbing.
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cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a… @markusoff breaks down the referendum by all 87 Alberta ridings.
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Mitch Sylvestre is the president of this UCP constituency association. UCP MLA said the CA voted in favour of pressing for a review of Danielle Smith's leadership. The MLA supports Smith.
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Q&A: Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t need Alberta separatists’ support. Premier sat down with CBC Radio’s West of Centre for an in-depth interview cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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How 'bout those dots. #ableg
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Terrible news for #Yeg
Hopefully we will hear more about what happened.
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Alberta separatists lost the vote. They'll continue their fight inside Danielle Smith's party
Analysis by @markusoff
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When those first unofficial results started rolling out, there was silence here at the APP watch party and I heard someone say “uh oh.” Then, no reaction when CBC projected that the remain side had won the vote. I saw a couple people cross their arms.
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Danielle Smith has said no to a second referendum. But that decision might not be hers to make
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/d…
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Who else besides Danielle Smith is saying 'yes to the nine' in Alberta's referendum?
Analysis by @markusoff
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43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's referendum questions.
Doubt they're explicit targets of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent 1 in 7 of them. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/u…
43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's referendum questions.
Doubt they're explicit targets of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent 1 in 7 of them. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/u…
Danielle Smith lavishes praise on Ottawa for how much it collaborated w/ province before naming new judges, days before Alberta’s referendum Q that proposes to constutionally overhaul judicial appointment system.
(bonus, surely, that 1 new judge was her deputy justice min.)
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‘Not as long as I’m premier’: Danielle Smith rules out 2nd separation referendum if Albertans vote to remain
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a…
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The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a…
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"Polling ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum suggests the separatist cohort is a minority of residents now, just as the COVID policy critics and the vaccine-wary were in the minority then". Analysis by @markusoff
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a…
The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a…
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First came the blockade. Then came separatism. Old tensions revived in Coutts
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