#abpoli — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #abpoli, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@TheBreach/117010418106374943
In Canada we would never violate our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, upon which our entire legal system depends. Right? ...right? Oh, oh no:
university emergency managers shared information to surveil and suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses
and then the universities tried to cover it up:
Across the universities, a clear pattern emerged: each institution sidestepped, weaponized, and ignored the access-to-information process
Even further, multiple universities' employees LIED about their involvement to journalists - and those lies were unambiguously revealed by freedom of information requests to other universities. For example,
According to U of A’s disclosure, MacEwan advised U of A on which records to release from the network—records MacEwan simultaneously claimed did not exist
If you've ever had a car or bike stolen, you know how long it can take to get the ball rolling. Guess what?
Calgary Police, for its part, established a mobile command post minutes after the U of C encampment formed.
And in 2026 there's always room for surveillance on campus!
Conway’s University Protective Services was also using facial recognition technology to identify encampment participants, as revealed in a review of the encampment response.
Incredible, dogged work by the Breach and DrugDataDecoded.
https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-universities-set-up-a-secret-network-to-crack-down-on-student-palestine-demonstrators/
https://drugdatadecoded.ca/university-of-calgary-destroyed-records-related-to-may-9-police-violence-against-protesters-2/ -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@TheBreach/117010418106374943
In Canada we would never violate our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, upon which our entire legal system depends. Right? ...right? Oh, oh no:
university emergency managers shared information to surveil and suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses
and then the universities tried to cover it up:
Across the universities, a clear pattern emerged: each institution sidestepped, weaponized, and ignored the access-to-information process
Even further, multiple universities' employees LIED about their involvement to journalists - and those lies were unambiguously revealed by freedom of information requests to other universities. For example,
According to U of A’s disclosure, MacEwan advised U of A on which records to release from the network—records MacEwan simultaneously claimed did not exist
If you've ever had a car or bike stolen, you know how long it can take to get the ball rolling. Guess what?
Calgary Police, for its part, established a mobile command post minutes after the U of C encampment formed.
And in 2026 there's always room for surveillance on campus!
Conway’s University Protective Services was also using facial recognition technology to identify encampment participants, as revealed in a review of the encampment response.
Incredible, dogged work by the Breach and DrugDataDecoded.
https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-universities-set-up-a-secret-network-to-crack-down-on-student-palestine-demonstrators/
https://drugdatadecoded.ca/university-of-calgary-destroyed-records-related-to-may-9-police-violence-against-protesters-2/ -
Data centres are coming for the Alberta grid…and a proposed new bridging program will give them an easy way in.
Story updated with full answers from AESO, and more commentary from the Pembina Institute.
“There’s a way to do it that makes sense and the way that Alberta is doing it doesn’t really line up with best practices that we’re seeing across the world.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/icymi-temporary-grid-power-for-data#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #Meta #electricitygrid #AIdatacentres #AIDataCenters
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Data centres are coming for the Alberta grid…and a proposed new bridging program will give them an easy way in.
Story updated with full answers from AESO, and more commentary from the Pembina Institute.
“There’s a way to do it that makes sense and the way that Alberta is doing it doesn’t really line up with best practices that we’re seeing across the world.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/icymi-temporary-grid-power-for-data#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #Meta #electricitygrid #AIdatacentres #AIDataCenters
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#WaterNotCoal has filed an application for judicial review in the #Alberta Court of King’s Bench, challenging the Chief Electoral Officer’s decision to deem the Water Not Coal Citizens’ Initiative unsuccessful. Press release below.
#abpoli #coal #CorbLundpetition
https://waternotcoal.ca/ -
#WaterNotCoal has filed an application for judicial review in the #Alberta Court of King’s Bench, challenging the Chief Electoral Officer’s decision to deem the Water Not Coal Citizens’ Initiative unsuccessful. Press release below.
#abpoli #coal #CorbLundpetition
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/117010006927302669
“Her record suggests she already planned to do exactly what she’s doing and successfully played Albertans for suckers.”
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/117010006927302669
“Her record suggests she already planned to do exactly what she’s doing and successfully played Albertans for suckers.”
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My latest on the Alberta referendum: the constitutional questions. This is where the gloves come off.
https://write.as/abreferendum/and-then-there-are-the-constitutional-questions
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My latest on the Alberta referendum: the constitutional questions. This is where the gloves come off.
https://write.as/abreferendum/and-then-there-are-the-constitutional-questions
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Michael Ranger brings us the latest of Corb Lund's Citizen Initiative.
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While the Citizen Initiative Act is used to bring dangerous and unconstitutional petitions forward, like those in favour of Alberta Separation, the UCP arguably have conflicts of interest that can lead to "issue fixing" surrounding the Act due to how much power it holds over Elections Alberta. The UCP controls the selection for the very same offices that manage the Citizen Initiative Act, and other critical pieces of legislation intended to regulate the Politician. The UCP controls the resources available to Elections Alberta to investigate offences.
As noted by the CBC’s Michelle Bellefontaine, in “Alberta government ignores AG’s offer to stay on 2 more years, starts search for replacement”,
>The motion to begin a search for an auditor general was passed by the five UCP MLAs who make up the majority on the standing committee on legislative offices that overseas the office of the auditor general, the chief electoral officer, the ombudsman and public interest commissioner, the ethics commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.
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Committee member Scott Cyr, who is the MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, introduced the motion to set up an auditor general search committee near the end of a contentious meeting.
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>Cyr, and four of his UCP MLA colleagues — Nolan Dyck from Grande Prairie, Chelsae Petrovic from Livingstone-Macleod, Jackie Lovely from Camrose and Chantelle de Jonge from Chestermere-Strathmore — voted in favour of the motion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-wylie-alberta-9.6965562
The UCP has also moved goal posts concerning Elections Alberta's ability to investigate offences and the time limits. According to the Globe's "A watchdog curtailed", by Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait:
>Marc Mayrand, a retired public servant and Elections Canada’s chief electoral officer from 2007 to 2016, said the timelines established by the Alberta government are “not realistic.”
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>“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence,” he said. “It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”
The article also includes a table of other provinces and their time limits on Election offences, some of whom have no time limit.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/381433/alberta-justice-minister-curtailed-election-regulator-when-sam-mraiche-was-under-investi
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
https://archive.ph/bXXb9
When Canadians recall that the UCP also tightly controls the funding to this very same Watchdog, there's a real fear that foxes are in the henhouse.
Global's Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, in "Province denies Elections Alberta’s request for $13.5 million to handle recall petitions", explored the issue of Elections Alberta requesting additional funding to properly carry out recall petitions and Citizen Initiatives. The UCP issued a chilling reminder to Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, who controls the purse strings, and who he answers to. I would suggest this does raise questions about the Chief Electoral Officer's independence, and why would such an Officer not consider resigning from the appearance of political interference.
>“To say this is straining our organization from both a staffing and space perspective is an understatement,” said McClure.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11511194/elections-albertas-recall-petition-funding/
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#EthicalFading #Corruption #UCP #ClimateDefense #CorbLund #ElectionsAlberta #water #AlbertaUnderSiege #WaterNotCoal #GordonMcClure #conflictofinterest #CitizenInitiativeAct
https://kopitalk.net/c/[email protected]/p/931126/corb-lund-seeks-court-review-after-rejection-of-anti-coal-petition
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2026/07/30/corb-lund-court-review-coal-petition/ -
@NMBA @dyckron
families divided.5. Immigrants to Alberta. Often in Canada immigrants are more patriotic than the native-born, but sometimes they're less likely to vote. Appeal in the newspapers they read and the shows they watch to stand up for the Maple Leaf.
I write mostly in terms of advertising, but big speeches, door-knocking and GOTV have an important role to play as well. Federalists should always be respectful.
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@NMBA @dyckron
families divided.5. Immigrants to Alberta. Often in Canada immigrants are more patriotic than the native-born, but sometimes they're less likely to vote. Appeal in the newspapers they read and the shows they watch to stand up for the Maple Leaf.
I write mostly in terms of advertising, but big speeches, door-knocking and GOTV have an important role to play as well. Federalists should always be respectful.
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@NMBA @dyckron
You know that I'm fully opposed to separatist movements, in Québec, Alberta and elsewhere. That said, I'm no expert in persuasion or #abpoli; free advice is normally worth what you pay for it.1. You don't persuade people of things by arguing with them; instead, you get them feeling a certain way, then provide them with arguments as a rationale for doing what they'd now like to do.
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@NMBA @dyckron
You know that I'm fully opposed to separatist movements, in Québec, Alberta and elsewhere. That said, I'm no expert in persuasion or #abpoli; free advice is normally worth what you pay for it.1. You don't persuade people of things by arguing with them; instead, you get them feeling a certain way, then provide them with arguments as a rationale for doing what they'd now like to do.
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@dyckron Uh huh. "Read on paper, his remarks sound conciliatory, balanced, even statesmanlike. They are also almost total bunk." Surprise, surprise, the Star's angle is that Conservatives are bad, rather than asking what is the right way to convince Albertans who might vote "yes" to choose "no". Would it really benefit the "no" side to say that the referendum is nonsense based on conspiracy theories, or to pick a fight with Premier Smith?
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@dyckron Uh huh. "Read on paper, his remarks sound conciliatory, balanced, even statesmanlike. They are also almost total bunk." Surprise, surprise, the Star's angle is that Conservatives are bad, rather than asking what is the right way to convince Albertans who might vote "yes" to choose "no". Would it really benefit the "no" side to say that the referendum is nonsense based on conspiracy theories, or to pick a fight with Premier Smith?
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A Warning For the West
The separatist petition is a farce, babied and nurtured every step of the way by the UCP. Now, the Europeans express concern that the US may interfere with their own elections. As Alberta endures its siege, let the world bear witness to how the US can indeed interfere with its allies.
#EthicalFading #CorruptCare #Corruption #UCP #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #CarrieTait #RCMP #RaymondWyant #AthanaMentzelopoulos #MickeyAmery #MelewkaHomes #DougWylie #AuditorGeneral #comment
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https://kopitalk.net/c/[email protected]/p/920512/danielle-smith-in-the-estranger -
Why Albertans should vote Option 1 to Stay in Canada and No to the other 9 referendum questions: knowthenine.ca
#abpoli #yyc #referendumb
Stay in Canada. No to the Nine... -
You can request a mail-in ballot for the Alberta referendum. Avoid long lines, avoid the inevitable intentional delays. Make sure your voice is heard.
specialballot.elections.ab.ca #abpoli #yyc
Special Ballot Request · Vo... -
Is Mark Carney going to do nothing to protect Canadian Healthcare? Or will he keep doing the bidding of Danielle Smith while she Americanizes Alberta?
#canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #healthcare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pay-preventative-diagnostic-tests-alberta-9.7286559?cmp=rss -
Is Mark Carney going to do nothing to protect Canadian Healthcare? Or will he keep doing the bidding of Danielle Smith while she Americanizes Alberta?
#canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #healthcare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pay-preventative-diagnostic-tests-alberta-9.7286559?cmp=rss
