#danielle smith

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Alberta government is proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar farms that conservationists think are more about limiting renewable energy than protecting the environment. Last year the Alberta government imposed a seven-month moratorium on new renewable energy projects, after which Premier Danielle Smith announced her government would be taking an “agriculture first” approach to regulating renewable energy project locations. That approach includes preventing renewable energy projects from being within 35 kilometres of “pristine viewscapes” and parks and protected areas, and a near total ban where soil conditions are prime for yielding crops. “We need to ensure that we’re not sacrificing our future agricultural yields, or tourism dollars, or breathtaking viewscapes to rush renewables developments,” Smith said at the time.

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[godbirdart]

Bill 29: The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act

Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party are being creepy weird about children again and since this also directly targets people like me [trans people] I have opted to skip the niceties cut scene and get right down to choosing violence.

Seriously, I cannot be the only person weirded out over how creepily obsessed Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party are over trans people. They talk more about trans people than anything else. Just in October they pushed out three anti-trans bills - the above included. For what? There's MAYBE 2000 trans kids out of the 800,000 students in the whole province. It's pretty damn insane they're trying to legalize gender checks on children at all.

Ofc, some people are waving it off saying "No! It's just for the trans kids!! >:C". Nah mate. If your kid is a slight bit too effeminate or masculine or just plainly doesn't fit the Gender Roles, you bet their ass is getting reported by faculty members acting in bad faith. Hope you aren't aiming for sport scholarships in college / university👍

Some people are also whining about trans people having "athletic advantages" again so lemme say here: I have cis friends who played girl's rugby in high school. They were VERY capable of decimating the boys. If your cis kid can't measure up against a trans kid, that's just a straight up skill issue. get good maybe? lmao

This ain't the time to take the moral high road. If Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party want to throw the tiny 0.3% of Albertans under the bus in the name of snatching authority over kids' bodily autonomy, then yeah I Will stoop to their level and be a dick about it because that shit is unhinged freak behavior. They keep saying trans people are out to get their kids but girl... the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE

[terriwriting]

UCP Party Spokeperson: "Yes the premier of Alberta believes that the United States government uses 'chemtrails' to poison and control the population. But she does not believe the US government is spraying chemtrails in Alberta. So that's alright."

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office says her recent comments about chemtrails don't mean she believes the United States government is spraying them in the province. "The premier was simply sharing what she has heard from some folks over the summer on this issue," Smith's spokesperson Savannah Johannsen said Tuesday in a statement. "She was not saying that she believed the U.S. government was using chemtrails in Alberta." Johannsen added: "The premier has heard concerns from many Albertans about this topic. In response, the provincial government looked into the issue and found no evidence of chemtrails occurring in Alberta."

To be clear, the premier's office just admitted that Danielle Smith used government resources to look into a batshit conspiracy theory.

These people are absolute wackjobs.

[smokeweedeattherich]

I saw this going around on reddit but not tumblr so I figured I'd share it here.

The image was posted by Danielle herself and can be seen here. This symbol is associated with Liberty Fund, a far right American think tank that credits themselves as partially responsible for Ronald Reagans presidential campaign.

Danielle has claimed that it's not related and is the cuneiform symbols for "freedom" and "liberty", but ask yourself, do you really trust her to tell the truth? She's revised her campaign promises multiple times, continues to condone private healthcare despite signing a measure to protect public healthcare. I'm just saying it wouldn't be a stretch to guess she might be funded by them, afterall she has some pretty damn uncanadian ideas that parallel those across the border.

[genzmilf]

PROTECT TRANS KIDS

I live in Alberta, Canada, which you may have heard is the latest province to introduce their version of "parental rights" legislation.

Here are some of the things our premier, Danielle Smith, promised to do on Wednesday;

mandate teachers report to parents (and ask permission if the child is younger than 16) if a child wants to use a different name/different pronouns in class

mandate permission forms anytime a teacher wants to mention gender or sexual orientation

ban children under the age of 16 from accessing hormones or puberty blockers

ban top & bottom surgery for anyone under the age of 18 (bottom, surgery is already illegal for anyone under 18 in Canada)

ban transgender women from competing in womens sports

These laws have been called "draconian" and were not drafted with consideration from medical, pediatric, or LGBT organizations. Danielle Smith is pandering to the social conservative wing of her party and putting queer kids in danger because of it.

"Parental Rights" are a sham that ignores the lived reality of queer kids.

I've spent the past few days feeling angry and heartbroken, and I wanted to spread awareness and share with my American followers because I haven't seen many news outlets outside of Canada covering this.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

October 29, 2024

Ms Smith: I’m pleased to rise today to move second reading of Bill 24, the Alberta Bill of Rights Amendment Act, 2024, a piece of legislation that will affirm and reaffirm the values that make Alberta one of the freest jurisdictions on the planet.

[jiminiminycrickerrttt]

The UCP is destroying a beautiful province with beautiful people. Danielle Smith’s rhetoric has been consistently discredited and debunked by experts and educators in almost every field imaginable, saying that her policies will actively cause harm to Albertans, but she does not care.

I hope selling out and tabling all those bills that significantly restrict our rights and freedoms was worth it for that 91.5% approval rating from her party.

But premiers don’t only make policies for their parties. Or even for the people that voted for them. They make decisions for every single person in Alberta, whether they voted, whether they couldn’t vote, literally everybody. Why can’t anyone seem to grasp that?

anyways I’m sad at the direction this province is going in. There are lovely people here, people who don’t spew hateful rhetoric, people just trying to take care of their friends and families. Division is a poison, don’t let politics make you forgo your humanity.

AND PROTECT TRANS KIDS

[not-sure-what-im-feeling]

Can I ask what’s happening in Alberta? In regards to queer laws

Yes you may! So our premier, Danielle Smith, is of the United Conservative Party. She has been trying to put forth a bill dubbed the “Parental Rights Bill”. What it would do would be making children 14 and under unable to use a different name and pronouns at school without parental permission. If they did use a different name and/or pronouns parents will be contacted. 15-18 can use them without permission, but their parents will still be told.

Additionally, gender affirming care for 14 and under will not at all be allowed. 15-18 will still be allowed, but made even more difficult.

On top of that, Alberta is already an extremely blue (conservative) province. It’s pretty homophobic and transphobic already, and giving people like Smith such a platform and power just hurts the queer people living here. Especially when they target the youth under the guise of “protection”.

I’m not completely up to date on the bill as I haven’t received any new info on it, but if anyone does know more about it I would love to listen.

[fireladybuckley]

I don’t usually get too political on this blog, but…

If you’re from Alberta, for the love of all that is good in humanity, please go and VOTE.

Danielle Smith wants to privatize healthcare, remove funding from programs that actively help people, blames late stage cancer diagnosis patients for not noticing their condition sooner, among numerous other terrible things. And true to the usual UCP bull, she cares more about money and oil and trades more than the actual people of the province.

She is a huge admirer of Ron DeSantis and thinks he’s doing a great job, which I’m sure anyone from the US and especially Florida can tell you is NOT a good thing!!

Please… if you want a premier that at least cares about people and not just money, vote NDP.

Rachel Notley is far from perfect, but she is a hell of a lot better than the alternative. She at least actually cares about people, and cares about the marginalized in our society. She may not balance the budget, but she will fund education, healthcare and other important things, rather than funnelling everything into a dying economy and ignoring the citizens struggling.

If you don’t want hate and cold disregard to rule our province for the next 4 years, vote NDP. Liberal, Green and any other party don’t stand a chance. This is UCP vs NDP, period.

Vote orange if you care about the people around you.

Thanks for listening. Let’s all cross our fingers that tonight’s vote isn’t the start of rights being taken away. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

[ppcbug]

Love to see such common sense policies coming from Alberta! These policies will protect children from making decisions that will leave irreversible damage to their bodies.

Even though this is a win we must continue to fight further against this radical gender ideology.

Federally we must repeal bill C-4! The so called “conversion therapy bill” that prevents children suffering from gender dysphoria from getting the professional help that they need in order to accept themselves.

It’s time for a change in Canada 🇨🇦

#voteppc to repeal bill C-4

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta's premier shared new details Tuesday about her government's proposed gender legislation. Danielle Smith will introduce it when the Alberta legislature's fall session starts near the end of October. In a six-minute video posted to social media, Smith went over the points of her policy, much of which has already been released. One new detail involves 16- and 17-year-olds choosing to use a different name or pronoun at school. "In those extremely rare circumstances where a teacher feels that a child might be at risk should the parents be notified of a desired name or pronoun change, Alberta Education will provide a protocol to ensure the protection of that child throughout the parental notification process," Smith said in the video.

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[godbirdart]

I'll apologize to those who followed me for art and pictures of nature. I know y'all didn't come here to watch me metaphorically bite worm-brained politicians.

Unfortunately Danielle Smith (The Alberta Premier) and the United Conservative Party (Alberta's Republicans) are being freaky creeps about transgender people again and now it's everyone's problem in Alberta, Canada.

Danielle couldn't function on a school board and got fired. I don't want her trash bin paws meddling with ANYTHING to do with ANY students, trans or not.

"trash bin paws" isn't just a throwaway diss btw. girl really was known as Trash Can Dani for a while oof

[terriwriting]

Talk-radio host noted for her ignorance of how Canadian government works and for using social media to spread conspiracy theories is shocked to discover that her supporters are a bunch of ignorant conspiracy theorists.

[wuts-good-gatsby]

[doomsayersunited]

Image 1: chart showing that renewable energy sources of electricity are now as-cheaper or cheaper than fossil fuel sources. Image 2: Electricity generation in Alberta, Canada, broken down by fuel source. 90% of electricity generated in Alberta is either by burning coal or fossil fuel gas (aka "natural gas). Alberta's power grid emits more than half of Canada's greenhouse gases from electricity generation, despite the province having just 11% of the country's population. Image 3: map showing which homes & other buildings were destroyed in Jasper, Alberta this week by the convergence of several wildfires, which themselves were created by perfect fire conditions such as bone-dry forests teeming with pine trees that had been killed by the mountain pine beetle, which Alberta has in far larger numbers than ever before because of climate change/global warming. Approximately a third of the town was destroyed. Image 4: What Jasper looked like on the ground, once the smoke had cleared. It's not even a question of economics anymore. Doing the right thing and taking measures to prevent further climate change disasters, like switching to green energy production, is a better deal economically. Those who refuse to do so are death cultists. We can save ourselves (or, more likely, stave off our horrific deaths by a few more years) by electing politicians that will prioritize the environment. Or we can keep electing politicians that will do nothing about climate change or (in Alberta's case) actively block initiatives to prevent/mitigate climate change and watch our communities burn.