Marcus Riedner 🇨🇦

Just because he is a mole doesn't mean no he isn't pro union.

Ping me if you are in Mountainview County - I am a canvasser here.

Can confirm. It is routine for "misting" incidents to reach levels in the millions of cubic metres of methane. One in the mid 20-teens could have heated YYC for a month in winter. No repercussions from regulators.

He misspoke, it should be:

"...so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement -- way more tolerance of war crimes..."

Nature is on one hand a set of four simple forces, and on the other a hyper complex system which moves toward greater complexity. Trillions of living things per cubic meter all occupying different niches and working as a whole.

Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.

Bazookasaurus

xkcd.com/3216/

They are 100% going to bait and switch.

If the APP gets their signatures, they will just rewrite the question and swap it over and over until they cripple our social and economic standing.

Ah, yes, the old conspiracy against Alberta from the NDP and Liberals in Ottawa. Because bumper oil sales, bumper oil revenue, and a decade of massive industry growth are... Ottawa's fault?

Wait wait, no, it's Ottawa's fault that Kenny and Smith have had a decade of tire fire budgets... There we go

The fact that they are rewriting the question(s) means the entire process is pointless grandstanding.

Signatures were gathered for a specific question, not something the government wrote at a later date.

The UCP is shifty AF.

Actual peer review work is starting at the U of C, and peer review work on similar programs from other OECD countries show that this sort of policy increased red tape, increases costs, reduces outcomes, and results in added healthcare costs and lowers quality and quantity of life outcomes.

The 30 people she cited in her "small study" can't be found. It is mentioned only by Smith and government officials - there is no released data set, no study, no academic review, no peer review. Nothing. It is absolute smoke and mirrors bullshittery.

If it was a success, where is it?

Plus the $450 medical coverage is part of Universal Healthcare! It is a federally guaranteed support, so she is touting things from the federal government, which we should already be getting, as extra given to disabled people. Which is an amazing bit of doubletalk.

The poverty line in Alberta is $29,000/yr. ADAP gives $20,880 a year (max) and at best bumps a person to $20,880. That's 28% BELOW poverty for Alberta. AISH was $3000 more per year, so STILL below poverty by 20%.

If you get the $200 federal support, it COUNTS AS WORK INCOME.

ADAP is a maximum of $1740, not $1940. Full stop - it says so on the ADAP site.

It removes assistance at $350 in earnings per month, removing $1 support for $1 earned. There is an employment requirement to get the assistance. So this doesn't provide a hand up, or a hand out. It is a backhand.

This is why Smith is so dangerous. She is using a rhetorical technique of calm tones mixed with subtle incredulity coupled with very carefully chosen "reasonable" language.

She makes the outlier cases (30 people and $1940) sound like the default case, and hides the falsehood with outliers.

My friend, I grew up in a low income neighbourhood. 10 year old's were absolutely doing shots. The first person I knew to die of an overdose was 13.

the actual fuck is this? I wasn't raised in the bubble - this is what evangelicals are doing to their daughters? Jesus on a Cross giving a lecture...

I assume there are similar rules for boys? Like "Showing a 6 pack makes girls think ungodly things, and temps boys to be gay. Hide your abs for God!"

Conservative voters never can. When you chart corruption scandals over time cons out compete non-cons 5:1.

This is a global phenomenon, not just Alberta or Canada.

In the end what is stalling the fourth estate is a two prong challenge:

1) illiteracy of the American population.
2) corporate control.

There was a brief flourishing of media companies online from 2000-2015 but those were consolidated and algo gatekeeper controlled fully by 2020.

The "media" sold out 40 years ago with mass consolidation into a handful of corporate entities owned by a few billionaires.

Prior to that there was a narrow window from 1925 to 1980 where there was a wide range of media companies.

Before that it was the church or government.

Can start calling "The Markets" a deity?

When they are displeased, we change behaviors. We set our social patterns to them, we feed them our attention. We have sacred terms like "resources", "capital", "productivity", and so forth. Millions of pages of scripture are written about them.

Angry? No.

Hopeless. Tired. Exhausted. Drained. Apathetic. Lonely. Sad. Scared. Disillusioned. Broke. Isolated. Anxious.

Anger ran out 5 years ago, now it's just desperate efforts to keep myself from shattering and giving up.

Every day it just gets worse and worse, and my community loves the pain

I drove past 3 signature locations in YYC yesterday. Pleasant weather, high traffic locations off 16th Ave, one right beside Peter's.

Crickets. Nobody there signing. This was at 4pm, as Peter's ramps into supper rush. Peters was hopping.

These folks are struggling.

They rewrote the citizens initiative laws in the middle of multiple citizens initiatives, then ignored a judge who said they had to keep everyone already in play as valid, then had to agree with the judge when lawsuits started creeping into the picture.

The whole process is bunk.

The question from Forever Canada is easy. Yes, stay. No, leave.

It poses the same challenge as the APP question, which is reversed. Yes, leave. No, stay.

It's almost like the UCP didn't think their own legislation through...

Every time she gets cornered she runs her mouth and sets the stage for future lawsuits against the government, and thus wastes more of our taxes.

Clearly the citizens initiative process is only going to be valid if the initiative meets the UCP ideology, and damned the laws if needed.

*In exchange

... Basically the vast majority of Alberta needs are jurisdiction crossing projects, and those still have federal oversight. And Alberta hasn't used anyone's environmental reviews in decades, so that remains status quo.

So for a superficial UCP win, Carney sets Smith up to fail.

Hah. Carney handed her a lot of rope and hand grenades. It's actually pretty clever. The UCP have torched the provincial relationship with First Nations, and now Carney has set Smith up for a mountain of Nope and lawsuits.

I'm exchange he gives up something that was already done...

Our social programs are now the lowest in Canada for disabled people, 4th lowest for elderly and low income support.

AISH used to be the highest. But they killed that in 2025.