darron @darron

@AmericaIsRussia @JeromyYYC You're an idiot. Go back to being pissed at 🇺🇸 - I'm not going to bother engaging with somebody as stupid as you.

@AmericaIsRussia @JeromyYYC I'm from here. With all the flags in your bio - do you even know where you are?

When Carney says he wants to “unlock” Alberta’s energy potential, Albertans should ask one question: Who put the lock on? It wasn’t Alberta. It was Ottawa—with years of anti-energy laws, delays, caps, taxes, and federal control over Alberta's economy and our kids future. Is this who you want holding the key to everything that affects your life?

“As we approach Canada Day 2026 (No. 159 in the series), the Confederation whose birth we observe is in question again. A leading party in Quebec favours a secession referendum, while Alberta has scheduled a referendum about having a secession referendum.” A country that once ranked fifth in the World Happiness Report now sits 23rd. A country that ranked first in global human-development measures in the 1990s has fallen to 16th. And a country once regarded as one of the freest in the world now ranks 48th for personal freedom. “I suspect if people are feelingmore discontented, it’s because governments have become much more involved in their lives, telling them what they can and, more and more, cannot do — or now even think.” -William Watson @financialpost financialpost.com/opinion/willia…

No oil. No gas. Limited mining and forestry. No AI data centres. We’ll all just live off the proceeds of the special tax on Galen Weston.

Avi Lewis @avilewis

21 hours ago

Inspiring to see so many people pushing back against corporate AI data centres, unleashed in their communities without democratic debate. The Liberal government is all in on the AI hype fuelled by tech giants and wealthy investors. But people will not stand by: the Carney

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Another "we are the solution to the problems we caused" moment.

Scott Robertson @sarobertson_

a day ago

Carney: The climate plan we inherited from the previous government was well-intentioned and well-suited for the times in which it was designed. The certainties of the world of 2015 are long gone ... In the current environment, the old plan was an open opportunity for those people

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Prime Minister Carney now says Canada must “unlock” its energy potential. Albertans should ask the obvious question: who put the lock on? It wasn’t Alberta. It was Ottawa — through years of anti-energy laws, delays, caps, taxes, and political hostility toward the industry that pays Canada’s bills. A lock that remains locked to this day despite the bad-deal pipeline.

Mark Carney @MarkJCarney

a day ago

It’s time to unlock Canada’s full potential as an energy superpower.

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If Albertans reject independence, Ottawa will not read that as a demand for reform. Ottawa will read it as permission to continue: equalization unchanged, spending unchecked, costs rising, communities less safe, and Alberta’s future increasingly controlled by people who do not share our priorities. Our kids deserve more than managed decline. LetAlbertaDecide.com

Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki

a day ago

A rejection of separation would tell us that Albertans want to remain Canadians. Strong support for greater provincial autonomy would tell us that many Albertans are dissatisfied with aspects of the federation. Expectations about political influence are beginning to change

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Raise of hands! Who is bluffing? I know I'm not.

To suggest the risk in a new west coast pipeline is from Alberta separatism and not a decade of regulatory and political morass is incredibly disingenuous. Also: the private sector is actually advancing new private sector pipelines and expansions. They haven’t asked for the west coast pipeline. It’s being advanced by politicians because we need it for political reasons: to foster Asian alliances, reduce dependence on US exports, and generate revenues to pay for defence and other spending.

Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @SPhillipsAB

2 days ago

*Of course* it will be Albertans’ public money fronting a new pipeline. Two reasons. 1. What investor in their right mind would sink billions in to a project where there’s a secession risk? 2. Canada’s oil industry’s internal monologue: “socialism for me, capitalism for thee.”

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Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial. Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.” For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again. The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis. To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump! If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

5 days ago

Just how much trouble is Canada's economy in? bbc.in/3StE8RD

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Communism has always appealed because it offers a morally simple answer to an impossibly complex human problem. >Life is unfair. >Therefore someone must be guilty. >If we punish the guilty, justice will follow. It replaces responsibility with resentment. Most importantly, it tells ordinary people they can become virtuous without becoming better. That is why it returns every generation. Not because it works, but because it flatters. History’s warning is not that these ideas begin with prison camps. They begin with moral certainty and the belief that society can be perfected if only the “right” people are given enough power to identify the guilty and reorganize everyone else’s lives. Today, that temptation is more dangerous than ever. Never before have governments and institutions possessed so much data, so many surveillance tools, so much influence over information, and such extraordinary capacity to shape public life at scale. Every generation inherits more powerful instruments than the last. Whether those instruments preserve liberty or erode it depends on the ideas guiding the hands that wield them. The lesson of the last century is not merely that communism failed. It is that no society is immune from believing that concentrating power in pursuit of moral perfection will finally succeed. History has already rendered its verdict; 100 million+ dead. Our responsibility is to remember it before we convince ourselves that this time will be different.

InfantryDort @infantrydort

2 days ago

Start doing the right thing and referring to socialists as communists. We don’t have time to beat around the bush to protect sensibilities anymore.

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I work in oil and gas. Wednesday is a regular work day, or would be if I wasn’t on my regular days-off this week. I’ll be working towards independence.

Alli Girl 💁🏼‍♀️ @AlliAlliG

3 days ago

I assume that Alberta separatists will be working a regular day on Wednesday and not taking advantage of the holiday celebrating a country they claim to want to leave. Right?

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Canada is the fourth largest resource nation on earth... and we chose to be poor. That's not Trump's fault. That's Ottawa's.

One of the dumbest arguments against Alberta independence is that “Alberta won’t have a military, so America will invade.” Right. Because the only thing stopping the United States from invading Canada is Canada’s overwhelming military superiority. People need to get serious.

Tracking the supersonic Beijing-Moscow hybrid war on the west's democracies. A supplement to my National Post piece nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-… here, with backstory, notes, sources, and what's next: therealstory.substack.com/p/the-walls-ar…

Here is a prime example of why Canada is in the situation we are in. Meet “Elbows Up” David. He thinks the real problem is that I am holding elected officials to account. Apparently, asking our governments to do the jobs we pay them to do is asking too much. Shame on me for expecting public servants to serve the public! When demanding accountability is treated as the problem instead of government failure, we are truly living in an upside-down world.

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