#Albertan Politics

[canadachronicles]

[very-lost-hobbit]

BTW I learned about Trudeau stepping down 5 minutes after it happened while on a plane waiting for takeoff. Some dumbass Albertan nearly got himself ejected from the plane by shout-announcing it

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The group behind an insurgency taking over the United Conservative Party and working to get Danielle Smith elected is alarming many Albertans with their aggressive tactics, and raising questions about their political agenda – including from conservatives. Take Back Alberta grew out of last year’s convoy blockade in Coutts when hundreds of vehicles blocked the Canada-US border. The Coutts blockade later hardened into an organized movement made up of Christian nationalists, separatists, sovereigntists and other disgruntled rural Albertans bent on ousting Jason Kenney and taking control of the United Conservative Party.

Danielle Smith now enjoys the full support of the group which credits itself for bringing down Kenney during his 2022 leadership review and installing Smith as Premier of Alberta. Take Back Alberta has also taken over nine seats on the party’s board and a number of regional boards to get like-minded members in the nomination races.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

March 11, 2024

Mrs. Petrovic: Madam Speaker, Trudeau and his continued mission to further encroach into the lives of Albertans is ignoring the voices of us in this matter. That is why Bill 204 is a necessary piece of legislation to make sure Albertans will be heard loud and clear. This is not just a hypothetical concern, either. Last August the city of Edmonton council voted 10 to 3 in favour of moving forward with a plan to potentially establish a national urban park in Edmonton’s river valley. This is not what Albertans want. From my experience leading a municipality as a former mayor, I can attest that this is not the approach Albertans want.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

'Scuse me, Bert, did you name yourself after the Canadian province?

this is the worst slander I've ever had to deal with on this webbed site

[kazhanko-art]

so my province has two bills in the works (I believe, I don’t think they’ve passed yet). One makes it so that all federal academic and research grants given to universities must be pre approved by the provincial government, so as to “ensure it lines up with provincial interests” (incidentally, I live in one of if not the most conservative provinces in Canada, which is also clinging to a dying oil economy)

the second bill would allow the provincial government to intervene into municipal affairs, such as bylaws, and remove anyone from municipal council (I think also maybe mayors but I’m unsure). Their reassurance for those concerned about the amount of power this gives them was that they probably wouldn’t use it that much

so that’s all kinda scary, and a reminder to Canadians that: the shit that is going on in the states can and will reach here. So please participate in the politics here.

If things go bad in the states, there’s gonna be a lot of people who need to come here, and we’re gonna have to step up on the world stage. But to do that we have to stop ourselves from sliding down that slope that the US has.

I know Canadian politics can seem small and boring compared to others, especially the US. I know a lot of people here feel apathetic towards our country. I know Canadian politics and news gets swallowed up by our neighbours a lot. But apathy is the democracy killer, and there are people in this country trying to make shit so much worse.

So if you have any elections coming up, vote in them. If you have a chance to make an impact, whether it be mailing your MP, volunteering, or whatever else, take it. We cannot afford to let our country and democracy deteriorate

[skiddo-xy]

Alberta you never fail to disappoint me

[osmanthusoolong]

https://tj.news/saint-john-south/carriers-suspended-for-refusing-to-deliver-sex-change-ban-flyer-union-rep

“Saint John-area carrier Shannon Aitchison says she was suspended for five days without pay for taking a stand against the latest material from Campaign Life Coalition, a registered national lobbyist who has sent out three postcards across New Brunswick ahead of the province’s Oct. 21 election.

These postcards have accused teachers of “pushing transgenderism” and described gender-affirming medical care as “chemical and surgical mutilation.” The third and latest postcard states that “no child is ‘born in the wrong body,’” and that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”

“The third flyer was straight-up nonsense,” said Aitchison, who is the mother of a transgender child. “‘God doesn’t make mistakes,’ so you’re telling me my child is a mistake? “

…

“Canada Post has maintained the content of the postcards doesn’t meet the criteria to be “non-mailable matter.” As a result, the Crown corporation has said it’s required to deliver the postcards even if their contents are objectionable to the organization itself, its employees or its other customers.

Five Saint John-area Canada Post carriers decided not to deliver the coalition’s latest postcard over the last week, according to Aitchison, who is the recording secretary for the local postal workers’ union.

Two of the carriers – one of those was Aitchison – were suspended, she said, while the status of another carrier remains in limbo. She told Brunswick News another two carriers used paid personal days, as recommended by management, to avoid working the window where the postcards were to be delivered.”

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“In August, Campaign Life Coalition threatened legal action against Canada Post after the national postal workers’ union claimed some of its New Brunswick carriers had been given the “option” to not deliver the first postcard.

Canada Post never confirmed nor denied it gave that option to workers, while the union maintained that it didn’t give workers that “direction.””

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“Aitchison claims the latest flyer violates Canada Post’s own Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Charter. All Canada Post employees and customers are required to adhere to the zero-tolerance policy.

“Whoever vet this (postcard) did not do a good job,” said Aitchison, who has since returned to work and has been told she’ll be paid for her days off but is still grieving her suspension. “

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“Campaign Life Coalition has already registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections New Brunswick ahead of the Oct. 21 race, previously telling Brunswick News it plans to issue a voters’ guide and other materials.

Under third-party advertising rules, individuals and groups are entitled to each spend up to $17,600 province-wide on election advertising during the official campaign period.

However, Elections New Brunswick has acknowledged it doesn’t have the power to investigate complaints of collusion between groups, political parties and candidates to get around spending-limit rules. It also doesn’t have the power to levy administrative fines if parties are found to be in violation of the rules.”

So the Albertan astroturf christofascists can freely interfere with the election, very cool

I really hope CUPW stand up for the workers with a conscience. I was visiting family in New Brunswick when we got one of their propaganda mailers, and it was so vile

@allthecanadianpolitics

[sga-owns-my-soul]

anyways i'm thinking about rodney mckay again and how he's literally the great character on tv to ever exist. the complexities. the contradictions. the way his character growth is so incredible but it's not linear. the way he's soooooooooo fuckable. like there's literally nothing about rodney's character that i don't love. he's albertan canadian. he's an asshole. he's the smartest man in two galaxies. he's an absolute moron. he knows more than anyone. he doesn't understand the reasons behind polite greetings. he strives to learn more. he's hates biology/medical sciences. he's a hypochondriac. he's the strongest character in the show. he has tons of health issues and weaknesses. he hates people. he cares more about the people in his city than he does about himself. he's a selfish bastard. he will risk his life over and over again for other people, even if they don't deserve it. he's also so fucking hot have you seen his fucking arms and his HANDS UGH HES LITERALLY THE. CHARACTER. WHY ARE YALL SLEEPING ON HIM HES SO INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! the internet does not deserve him and yet we are blessed with him anyways and y'all need to give him the respect he deserves!!!!!!!!!!

[riflesniper]

spent enough time cooking up this guy behind the scenes and now i feel like i can toss him out here now. this big boy is aegis :3 a sapient mech that ran from his makers to a resistance militia, who plopped a gay little pilot (green) into his hands. more details below the cut

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his storyline takes place a few centuries in the future, where a small-scale war has kicked up between a newly socialist canada and a dystopian oligarchical US. aegis comes from a particularly powerful corporation called valkyrie machines, who definitely pioneered sapient AI tech some hundred years prior and definitely didn't just steal the tech from somewhere else before stealthily bribing the actual inventors into a silence or death deal

on the other side of the border is the canadian shield alliance, though most people just call it the alliance or the shield. they've played a lot of roles since their inception that was also some hundred years prior, notably aid programs, disaster assistance, fighting for land back/secure human rights/immigrant protections, scaring corporations into NOT being shitty, better economic policies, etc.

unfortunately the US did NOT like any of that. when canada's economic system is officially changed from mixed to socialist, the oligarchs of the states kick off a race to try and see who can annex it the fastest. fortunately, the shield doesn't give them an inch.

aegis is one of valkyrie's newer warden models; nimble, fleet-footed mechs with sapient AI cores to enhance battle prowess. valkyrie is Very strict about what their mechs and pilots do and don't know, and are not above both executing pilots who try to rebel and wiping AIs whose thoughts stray too far. aegis and his last pilot were able to keep sneaky about their plans to escape, but said pilot was disposed of before it could be carried out, aegis made a break for it on his own, racing from the montana base he was stationed at to the albertan border.

despite broadcasting a plea for the shield to find him, he didn't get out unharmed; valkyrie's air fighters were eventually able to catch up to him before he scaled the wall. they plucked at him for a couple hundred kliks until the shield managed to find him near a small town. a skirmish broke out to claim him, ending with one shield mech being non-fatally damaged and all of the valkyrie fighters being shot down.

aegis, battered from the run, was hoisted to a shield base near calgary for major repairs before being shipped to the edmonton for external repairs and retrofitting. it's here that he's assigned a new pilot; green reinhart, a skilled, kind man with a underlying justice-driven rage to match the heart on his sleeve. a man who would not be killed so easily, not with the transhuman tech that's available. it's here that aegis would actually get his name, and so much more that he never would have had back in the states.

the world was opening up to him now. his pilot wasn't the only one talking to him like he was a person anymore. green gets him a proxy frame to explore with. the two of them spend hours together, on and off the field; perhaps this is the best thing that's could've happened for either of them.

(first image is when they've already been partners for a long while; green's organic body does eventually get killed in a battle, and his transhuman body is activated. im still kinda fleshing out the details, unsure if i'll get much deeper into the socio-political-economic shitshow behind the worldbuilding, since i originally made this guy to just have a gay mech/pilot thing w/ green, but its kinda feeding off the current shitshow of the US wanting to annex canada in this day and age. i gotta focus more of that energy on makin characters WAUGH

if anyones got suggestions for like. videos or audiobooks that Could help add onto the worldbuilding though, im all ears. just keep in mind that i struggle with text only stuff, so audiovisual is heavily preferred)

[anduinwrynngaysex]

Stormwind is like keeping his spine as decor and what does Westfall get. Nothing. Fuck all. Literally less than nothing as there is now just a swirling void of negative space.

We need to start #wexit

Deathwing doing his cataclysm shit to the alliance, carefully planning his attacks and making sure that everything he does to stormwind, darnassus, silvermoon etc is 100% fixable and not permanent, then flying to a totally empty patch of grass in the middle of Westfall and going FUCK this place and making sure it's physically impossible for them to ever recover

Like no amount of lore explanation would ever be able to change my mind on this; That man just hated wheat or something.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

May 8, 2024

Mr. Getson: Mr. Speaker, let me share with you and the members on this side of the House and socialist members over there what I’ve heard from Albertans.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Okay Canadians, I need input here, because I often avoid political news (I'm Albertan; 'nuff said). Tumblr seems to think the Trudeau thing is dramatic, but to my extremely uninformed perspective it seems more to have been a slow and fairly boring decline, per the normal run of Canadian politics. Is this accurate?

[agnarid]

PSA- Please Read

If you are in Alberta, PLEASE don't vote for Danielle Smith in the next election.

Danielle Smith has introduced new laws that put trans youth in danger by outing them to their families if they come out at school, banning them from getting gender affirming care and banning all trans people from sports and washrooms. She has also cut funding to schools to put it toward oil and gas, and plans to make guns legal, introduce an Ablerta Pension Plan which takes peoples retirement money to use for oil and gas and cut funding to healthcare (which is very bad for me since I need regular checkups on my physical and mental health to make sure I don't die, and my mom has MS and we wouldn't be able to pay for any of our treatment if it weren't paid for by the government.)

If you're one of those people who votes conservative only because it's what you've done your whole life, please grow up and just vote NPD. The UCP has become more fascist in recent years and the NPD has become more centric. The NPD likely supports your political views more than the UCP now.

Even if you aren't Albertan or Canadian please share this post, it would mean a lot to me and many other people.

And if you have the money please consider donating to Skipping Stone, they're an orginization that helps trans people and they plan to due the government for their anti trans laws.

Thank you for reading.

-Raven

[sailorzenin]

This is done on purpose imo. Imma put the tinfoil hat on for a second: Alberta Conservatives base their entire platform on two things: oil = good, everything else = bad. But the more important thing in this context is "Federal Government Hates Us, the rest of Canada Hates Us, so Alberta Looks Out for Itself"

In order to make this a "viable" excuse, they need people to actually hate us, because nothing works better for "Us vs Them" than visible hatred/disgust. So they put out stuff that makes Albertans look like MAGAts (weirdy just realised that slogan could work for Alberta too, now I'm sad).

Premier compares trans kids to faeces - Albertans vote her in and now we look like bigots

Farmers hold a protest where they hold up signs saying "Kudatah" during the one time we had NDP leadership - now we look like uneducated hicks

Convoy protestors get ignored at the border - MAGA anyone?

No COVID regulations - Albertans don't care about anyone else but themselves.

I could go on and on - but this stuff gets force-fed to the rest of the country - while anything good is barely, if ever, in the news. Now we look like a province of bigoted, racist, uneducated, selfish hicks. And people start trashing on Albertans, and the government goes "look, see?! They hate us! They don't want what's best for us Albertans, so vote conservative and we'll do what's right for the province".

And this has been going on for 44 YEARS!

Alberta has a reputation devised by it's own government to keep us in our own isolated bubble because it suits their purposes

The only way to counter this is to try and spread the news that we aren't the image that we've been forced into. To send out good things, and rehabilitate our own image, because the government certainly wants us to be hated.

*I know this sounds conspiracy theory, and is really just based on my own observations. I remember being a teen in the early 2000's visiting Ontario and being mocked for being Albertan. That sucked but it was eye opening to how the rest of the country sees us*

You know, as a disabled, queer leftist living in Alberta, it really fucking bothers me looking at the comments and seeing so many comments shitting on the people living here. As if we all want to secede or support Danielle Smith. Hardly. There are many Albertans living here who are BIPOC, LGBTQA+, and/or disabled. Many of us don't even have the means to leave this province or even want to. We fucking hate Smith and her ass-kissing and how the UCP has dismantled everything here. Yet some of the comments I've seen keep lumping us all in with the MAGA shits and it pisses me off to no end.

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[ceasarslegion]

The albertan political sphere is just that video of Gary Johnson getting booed for saying that people should get licensed before they drive a giant metal car capable of going 200km/h