Latest posts tagged with #DemocracySky on Bluesky
1/5 🇨🇦 ONTARIO TO SHIELD PREMIER FROM FOI REQUESTS 🇨🇦
The Ontario government is introducing legislation to exempt Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet from public records requests, keeping decision-making secret.
Source: The Globe And Mail
#DemocracySky #CdnPoli #OnPoli #OpenGov #DougFord #NoKings
1/8 🇨🇦 UNDER UCP ALBERTA RETURNS TO CORPORATE DARK MONEY 🇨🇦
The #UCP reversed a decade-long ban on corporate donations.
Now, PR firms and active lobbyists are pouring thousands into the governing party's coffers.
Source: Athabasca Advocate
#DemocracySky #CdnPoli #AbLeg #Lobbying #AbPoli #NoKings
1/7 🇨🇦 INDIGENOUS CHIEFS CONFRONT ALBERTA SEPARATISM 🇨🇦
Dozens of leaders rallied at the legislature Monday, demanding Premier Smith halt the province's exit push.
The stakes are constitutional.
Source: Canadian Press
#DemocracySky #CdnPoli #AbLeg #Treaty #FirstNations #AbPoli #indigenousRights
1/8 🇺🇸 TRUMP’S FOUR-FRONT WAR TO DISMANTLE THE FREE PRESS 🇺🇸
Donald Trump is providing a master class in destroying the press, using wealthy oligarchs and criminal charges to silence critical media.
Source: Michael Harris, The Tyee
#WorldPolitics #USPol #DemocracySky #FreePress #CdnPoli
1/10 🇨🇦 NDP TO DANIELLE SMITH: CUT THE BULLSHIT 🇨🇦
Worthy Repeat
Rakhi Pancholi's response to the Premier's address, calling out the UCP's desperate distractions & demanding a general election.
Source: Rakhi Pancholi, Alberta NDP
#ABpoli #AlbertaNDP #CdnPoli
#DemocracySky #MedSky #EduSky #EnergySky
1/9 🇨🇦 ⚠️ WHITE NATIONALIST FIGHT CLUBS POSE EXTREME RISK ⚠️ 🇨🇦
A CDN report warns the growing neo-fascist "active club" movement, operating under the guise of combat sports, poses a severe threat of violence.
Source: Eric Szeto, CBC News
#CdnPoli #Extremism #NatSecSky
#Fascism #OSINT #DemocracySky
1/6 🇺🇸 MISSING EPSTEIN FILES DETAIL ALLEGATIONS OF TRUMP SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR 🇺🇸
DOJ omitted FBI memos from the recent Epstein document dump.
The files contain explicit allegations of abuse against Donald Trump from the 1980s.
The Guardian
#USPoli #Epstein #DemocracySky
#NoKings #Resist #OSINT
1/6 🇨🇦 DANIELLE SMITH LOSES ALL SENSE OF REALITY 🇨🇦
Faced with a looming budget deficit of up to $8B, #DanielleSmith is opting to scapegoat immigrants rather than address the province's economic realities.
Gillian Steward...
#CdnPoli #ABPoli #AbLeg #DemocracySky #Racism #Fascism #NoKings #Elections
1/6 🇨🇦 FACT-CHECKING SMITH'S JUDICIAL CLAIMS 🇨🇦
#DanielleSmith claimed 80% of federal judges are Liberal donors to justify provincial control of appointments.
CBC News debunks this, revealing similar political ties within the #UCP.
Jason Markusoff...
#CdnPoli #ABPoli #DataSky #DemocracySky #AbLeg
1/6 🇨🇦 SMITH'S AGENDA IS A THREAT TO FEDERALISM 🇨🇦
In a scathing piece for The Tyee, political scientist Emmett Macfarlane argues Danielle Smith’s new referendum proposals represent a "xenophobic assault" designed to fracture Canada.
#CdnPoli #DemocracySky #NoKings #Fascism #ABpoli #AbLeg
1/6 🇺🇸 POLLS: TRUMP DRIVING U.S. IN WRONG DIRECTION 🇺🇸
A day before his State of the Union, new data reveals 55% of adults feel the country is rapidly changing for the worse.
Eric Berger...
#USPol #DemocracySky #NoKings
#Resist #Elections #Trump
1/6 🇨🇦 ALBERTA REFERENDUM TARGETS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS 🇨🇦
Niigaan Sinclair argues #DanielleSmith is scapegoating #Immigrants to distract from a constitutional power grab designed to bypass Indigenous rights.
Winnipeg Free Press...
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #AbPoli #IndigenousRights #DemocracySky #FossilFuels
1/6 🇺🇸 UK GRANDMA DETAINED BY ICE FOR 6 WEEKS 🇺🇸
Karen Newton, 65, had a valid visa but was shackled and locked in a US detention center.
Her ordeal exposes the extreme risks tourists now face.
The Guardian...
#USPol #DemocracySky #NoKings
#TravelSky #NewsSky #WorldPolitics #Resist
1/6 🇺🇸 TRUMP HIKES GLOBAL TARIFF TO 15% 🇺🇸
Defying a major Supreme Court setback, President #Trump announced an immediate 15% global #Tariff, escalating his aggressive trade strategy.
The New York Times...
#USPoli #EconSky #TradeSky #SCOTUS #NoKings #Geopolitics
#DemocracySky #TrumpTariffs
1/6 🇨🇦 ALBERTA PREMIER DEMONIZES #IMMIGRANTS FOR HER OWN FAILURES 🇨🇦
#DanielleSmith admits her government isn't sure how much restricting newcomer social services will save amid a multi-billion-dollar deficit.
The Canadian Press...
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #AbPoli #PublicHealth #EduSky #DemocracySky
1/5 🇨🇦 #UCP IGNORES MISSING SEPARATISM QUESTION & DEMONIZES IMMIGRANTS 🇨🇦
#Lukaszuk claims #DanielleSmith is intentionally leaving #Separatism off the Oct. 19 ballot, waiting for a rival pro-independence petition to qualify.
CityNews...
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #DemocracySky
#Resist #UCP #Elections #AbPoli
1/5 🇨🇦 ALBERTA REFERENDUM TARGETS IMMIGRANT SERVICES 🇨🇦
#DanielleSmith defends an Oct. 19 vote that could cut social programs for newcomers, despite admitting she cannot quantify their exact cost to Alberta.
The Globe and Mail...
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #HealthcareSky #PublicHealth #MedSky #DemocracySky
1/7 🇨🇦 SMITH'S REFERENDUM BLITZ: A SEPARATIST PLOY? 🇨🇦
Premier #DanielleSmith unveiled a raft of referendum questions targeting immigration and the Constitution.
Critics argue the true goal is pushing for independence.
David Climenhaga...
#AbPoli #CdnPoli #UCP #Elections
#DemocracySky #Resist
1/6 🇺🇸 SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN TRUMP'S TARIFFS 🇺🇸
In a stunning 6-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court declared the president overstepped his authority, toppling a key pillar of his economic agenda.
Callum Jones reports
#USPol #SCOTUS #Geopolitics #NoKings #DemocracySky #WorldPolitics
1/8 🇨🇦 DENYING PEDIATRIC CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION 🇨🇦
Global restrictions on gender-affirming care aren't just "medical caution"—they are regulatory ideologies justifying violations against children.
Swarupa Deb reports.
#MedSky #PublicHealthSky
#HumanRights #CdnPoli #DemocracySky #AbPoli
1/10 ⚠️ MAKING RACISTS FEEL GREAT AGAIN ⚠️
Freedland argues Trump, Musk, and now Jim Ratcliffe are dismantling decency.
The "vibe shift" isn't just economic anxiety—it's the rich enabling hate.
Jonathan Freedland / Guardian
#DemocracySky #Fascism #Autocracy #UKPolitics #WorldPolitics #Racism
1/9 🇨🇦 CORB LUND'S COAL PETITION GETS GREEN LIGHT 🇨🇦
Country star Corb Lund wins approval for a citizen initiative to block new coal mines in the Alberta Rockies.
The goal? Protect our water systems.
Somia Lohia...
#AbPoli #Environment #EnergySky #WaterNotCoal #DemocracySky #CdnPoli
1/14 🇺🇸 CLASS WAR IS THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS 🇺🇸
A new era of extreme wealth politics is dawning.
From Silicon Valley's "Stop Hiring Humans" billboards to a proposed billionaire tax, lines are being drawn.
David Wallace-Wells reports.
#USPol #DemocracySky
#USEcon #Inequality #NoKings #AISky
1/10 🇨🇦 ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE: ILLEGAL AND "IMPOSSIBLE" 🇨🇦
Despite rhetoric and foreign meddling, the law is clear. Constitutional hurdles, Indigenous rights, and international law block the path to separation.
Robert J. Currie reports...
#CdnPoli #AbPoli #DemocracySky
#NatSecSky #IntlRel
1/10 🇨🇦 SEPARATISTS FACE BATTLE-HARDENED FEDERALISTS 🇨🇦
Chretien, Harper, and Dion enter the fray.
The assumption that pro-Canada forces will stay silent is shattered. "Canada is finally in the ring."
Don Braid reports...
#CdnPoli #AbPoli #CanPoli #BcPoli
#OnPoli #DemocracySky
#Alberta
1/13 🇺🇸 ⚠️ US SLIDING INTO AUTHORITARIANISM ⚠️ 🇺🇸
A brutal assault on rights defines Trump's second term.
From mass raids to lethal sea strikes, the "foundational pillars" of US democracy are being dismantled.
Human Rights Watch...
#USPol #DemocracySky #HumanRights #NoKings #Autocracy #Geopolitics
1/10 🇨🇦 RECONCILIATION NOT OPTIONAL 🇨🇦
B.C.’s Premier wants to limit the courts' role in Indigenous rights.
For Chief Marilyn Slett, this is a return to a past where the Crown was the sole gatekeeper of justice.
Marilyn Slett writes.
#BCpoli #IndigenousRights #Reconciliation #CdnPoli #DemocracySky
1/6 🇺🇸 U.S. ATHLETES BREAK SILENCE IN MILAN 🇺🇸
The Olympic truce hasn't stopped the culture war.
Team USA athletes are speaking out about the turmoil back home, sparking fury from #Trump and his allies.
Bruce Arthur for the Toronto Star.
#Milan2026 #TeamUSA #Olympics #UsPol #DemocracySky
1/8 🇨🇦 MISINFORMATION IS THE NEW NORM 🇨🇦
Misinformation has shifted from spin to strategy.
When leaders trade accuracy for outrage, public trust becomes collateral damage.
Michael Spratt reports
#CdnPoli #DisinfoSky #DemocracySky
All lawful democratic nations of the world need to be boots on the ground in Ukraine in a defensive posture against the terrorist russian regime. #CdnPoli #DemocracySky
