#albertaundersiege — Public Fediverse posts
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Smith insists Alberta recovery centres moving ahead amid tangle of legal action
The Globe’s Carrie Tait and Tom Cardoso bring us the latest from the CorruptCare scandals to explore Alberta UCP Premier Danielle Smith’s claim that the construction of recovery centres are on schedule and within budget. While three facilities were originally set to complete with a budget of $104 million, it seems that the subcontractors involved continue to report that their bills remain unpaid. Worse, there are reports that suggest that there is no scenario where any of the facilities can complete on time or within the original budget.
Albertans following this space will recall this story breaking in March 2026, where the contractors allege that they had no idea why their requests for payment were being ignored. But these same contractors understood what went wrong with the public as they read the news of the litigation containing bombshell allegations between AEHE, Melewka Homes, the Semashkewiches, Sam Mraiche, Mohamed Eldassouki, Jitendra Prasad, and Bryan Ward.
Reference links below.
Instead, Albertans learn that the litigation continues:
Meanwhile, Melewka and its subcontractors have filed liens exceeding $10-million against the Métis Nation project in hopes of recouping money for work on that recovery centre. Subcontractors also allege they are owed for work performed on Enoch and Tsuut’ina, but those facilities are shielded from liens because they are on reserves. In those cases, some subcontractors are suing Melewka for the money.
Mr. Dehari’s company, Inso-Energie Inc., was subcontracted to work on the recovery facilities for the Métis Nation and Enoch. He said his business completed roughly 60 per cent of its work at the Métis Nation’s recovery centre, and had yet to be paid for any of it. He estimates the bill amounts to roughly $180,000 after interest.
He also said he had not been paid for roughly 20 per cent of his company’s work on Enoch’s recovery centre.
Also, CorruptCare expands as Tsuut’ina allegedly raised additional accusations against the Intrepid Champion of Late Stage Capitalism, Sam Mraiche:
Tsuut’ina did not address questions about its timeline and budget, citing litigation. The First Nation is suing its former lawyer over alleged irregularities in the procurement process for its recovery centre. Tsuut’ina, in a lawsuit first reported by The Globe in July, alleged lawyer Terry Braun worked with Mr. Mraiche to sole-source the construction contract for its facility.
Tsuut’ina alleges its recovery centre project has been marred by “red flags,” including circumvented procurement processes, overpayments and duplicated invoices, according to its statement of claim.
Mr. Braun did not respond to a request seeking comment. Mr. Mraiche is not party to that lawsuit and his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. None of the allegations have been tested in court.
In the face of these conflicting versions of how these three recovery facilities are coming along, we have to take in the obvious: Alberta has literally risked $104 Million for three facilities, and potentially has nothing to show for it besides empty promises, partially completed buildings, and local businesses holding the bag. There are clear Conflicts of Interest that arise for some members of the UCP, and Premier Danielle Smith. And, while the articles make clear that these are allegations yet to be explored fully in court, Alberta remains trapped with UCP politicians who refuse to follow convention to offer their resignations.
Any UCP politician involved with the CorruptCare scandal must know that they will one day be asked for sworn statements. People will be studying this scandal with care. Where will you possibly go? Texas?
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/19/Accusations-Fly-Newly-Surfaced-Legal-Fight-Sam-Mraiche/
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Danielle Smith wants Canada to surrender
National Observer’s Max Fawcett brings us a renewed insight for how the UCP’s Danielle Smith has failed to reciprocate support given to Alberta by other provinces during a renewed trade dispute with the US. And, while some may consider this failure as a feature of a Federated government system, Fawcett rightly points out that the AB Separatists are clearly a very small minority. Worse, this small group has been given unusual access to the UCP, hijacked the privacy of Albertans with the theft of the Alberta Electors List, and has essentially acted in its own interest by meeting with US officials for handouts. None of this would be possible without assistance.
And, I agree that Premier Smith’s motivations, mixed as they are, probably include a scenario of what many can describe as betrayal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/david-eby-alberta-separatism-treason
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Corb Lund seeks court review after rejection of anti-coal petition
Michael Ranger brings us the latest of Corb Lund’s Citizen Initiative.
Country musician Corb Lund and his advocacy group Water Not Coal have launched a legal challenge against Elections Alberta, asking the courts to review the decision to reject a citizen-led initiative aimed at banning new coal mining projects on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
The court application follows Elections Alberta’s early July ruling that the petition failed to meet the threshold required under the province’s Citizen Initiative Act, despite organizers submitting more than 207,000 signatures in support of the proposal.
Water Not Coal is arguing the decision was unfair and runs counter to the intent of the legislation designed to encourage public participation in democracy. The group alleges Elections Alberta applied overly strict standards when validating signatures, required voters to accurately recall details months after signing, and relied on a flawed statistical sampling process to determine whether enough signatures were valid.
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.
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.
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.”
“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://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
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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Danielle Smith, in The Estranger.
Alberta remains under siege, presenting an unprecedented threat to Canada, and an attack pattern roadmap for countries around the world.
Alberta’s United Conservative Party introduced a Citizen Initiative Act in 2021, which claims to enable regular citizens to propose legislative and policy changes, and referendum questions. While this may appear to be a laudable motivation, the decades of Western democracy has revealed a severe flaw: the politician.
Specifically, Politicians who have been incentivized to seek re-election at the expense of all else - including the voters who they presumably should focus on. Politicians have increasingly become self-interested players with no meaningful regulation, and this self-interest allows them to focus entirely on changing the goal posts for their re-election. In the event of controversy or scandal, politicians have been expected to offer their resignations - immediately limiting any fallout damage from conflicts of interest. Such an action however, is a “convention”, or an expectation. There’s nothing that actually requires the Politician to take this action.
Danielle Smith
Such an event indeed unfolded before Canadians in the form of CorruptCare. Then AHS CEO, Athana Metzelopoulous, a whistleblower, turned the public spotlight to a cluster of healthcare related procurement contracts at a time when there was a brief shortage of children’s pain medication across Canada in and around 2021. During this time, the allegations suggest that political interference, from those in Premier Smith’s orbit, directed the AHS procurement process in favour of a local businessman, Sam Mraiche.
Such allegations were explosive, and normally should be career ending events. But Premier Danielle Smith has thrown the game, refusing to follow convention, and instead engaging in a campaign of lawfare against Canadians. She insists on the barest minimums in terms of accountability to run her term, and to impose a new set of policies that the UCP simply did not run an election for.
CorruptCare expanded to further revelations from the Melewka Homes litigation that Mraiche engaged in profiteering on building projects that are intended to one day become recovery centres. Recovery centres, by the way, that are part of the UCP’s Compassionate Intervention Act plans. I generally refer to these plans as Residential Schools 2.0.
In the wake of CorruptCare, the Auditor General, then Doug Wylie, was appointed in 2018 for an 8 year term. The UCP declined to extend Mr Wylie’s term to permit him to conclude his investigation into the CorruptCare cluster of contracts. But, perhaps alarmingly, the UCP were highlighted to essentially control all facets of any accountability that they could be subject to.
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.
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.
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
Alberta’s main offices to hold the Politician accountable are essentially all disarmed on their face, leaving the administration of any kind of public justice in a state of disrepute. With an active RCMP investigation, a disrupted Auditor General investigation, a half-measured investigation carried out by the Wyant Investigation, and dubious intimidation tactics upon a journalist and other involved parties, one may imagine that the Justice Minister may have some concern.
But, as it turns out, Justice Minister Amery may have some conflicts of his own. By closing ranks, and refusing to follow the political convention of resigning in the face of scandal, the UCP has elevated the Politician to become more powerful than anyone in Canadian society ever intended.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11069826/rcmp-probe-alberta-health-services-allegations/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-danielle-smith-ucp-government-rcmp-searches-ahs/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/athana-mentzelopoulos-ahs-lawsuit-9.7166738
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
Indeed, there are indirect indications the UCP acknowledge the conflict of interest is real. From Global News’ Phil Heidenreich, “Well-known conservative operative quits Alberta’s UCP, says party is ‘allergic to transparency’”,
“Let me be clear: this is no longer the party I helped build.”
Davies had also been a key player in the Wildrose Party before its members merged with members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta (PC) to form the UCP. He also spent time as co-campaign manager for Jeff Callaway in the 2017 UCP leadership race.
“(The party) is addicted to power and allergic to transparency,” Davies wrote on Thursday. “We are not witnessing leadership — we are witnessing damage control.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11149912/alberta-ucp-letter-cameron-davies/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/marshall-smith-defamation-lawsuit-ahs-globe-1.7537552
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/16/UCP-Tried-Kill-Health-Story/
Danielle Smith - The Estranger
The Edmonton Journal’s Rob Breakenridge, who rightly raises the alarm that Premier Smith’s UCP, heavily conflicted with the above career ending scandals, has mothered and steered a petition for Alberta separation.
It would be quite a lurch for Danielle Smith to go from celebrating a major win-win for Alberta and Canada to then unleashing a referendum on breaking up the country.
It would be problematic, too, given the necessary consultations with First Nations if this new pipeline project is to proceed. Disregarding a court ruling aimed at protecting treaty rights could complicate those efforts, to say the least.
The premier previously said she did not intend to be the one to put separation on the ballot, since, as she put it, “My position is we should remain in Canada. That’s the position of our government.” And, in fairness, her pursuit of an energy agreement with Ottawa has helped to bolster that position.
Smith hasn’t necessarily changed her mind here, but she seems less unequivocal in the face of last week’s court ruling, which halts the separatist petition effort.
If the petition can’t be the spark for a referendum, it’s clear the separatists see the premier as their backup plan. And, so far, she’s not closing the door on that option.
That’s the wrong response. Whatever pressure Smith is facing to ensure a referendum proceeds, and whatever one thinks of this court ruling, she should not be the one to call such a vote. It undermines what she’s trying to accomplish, and she arguably lacks a mandate.
Smith, facing a scandal of enormous public and personal consequence in CorruptCare, has become the family estranger. She’s gone to the Canadian family, instigated emotional abuse, personality clashes, neglect, trauma, and selectively favours some over others.
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.
https://www.stl.news/experts-caution-that-alberta-is-highly-susceptible-to-foreign-interference/
https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/29/eu-now-fears-us-interference-in-european-elections/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320
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Alberta launches dual practice, public-private health-care model
The Alberta government introduced its dual practice health-care model on Thursday, which is slated to begin in September.
Physicians will, in effect, charge for surgeries in both the private and public systems by working in both. However, family physicians are not eligible, except for those with anesthesia or surgical assistance experience.
The surgeries allowed are accredited by Alberta’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Those include hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, select ear, nose and throat procedures, gynecology, dermatology, plastic surgery, and invasive surgeries like hernia repair.
Soon, Albertans will know what life is like for responsible pet owners: wondering if that new vet you’re walking into is a safe person, an average vet, or a nightmare psychopath.
And I’m sure anyone can accept that there are outliers in any field of work, and some times what is accepted as culturally average is just toxic coverup for terrifying behaviour carried out on beloved pets who cannot speak for themselves for profit.
I’d suggest that this latest move by Smith’s UCP for healthcare in Alberta is simply downloading costs to patients, and privatizing the profits. Patients will have to make judgment calls on the spot as far as who is carrying out their surgical procedures. And, for the most part, no one will have a problem when health procedures result in expected, positive outcomes.
How about when things go wrong? Patients will have to make their own claims and will be stranded. And, the health providers, to cover their asses, will just say that the procedures conducted met the highest professional standards, and the patient’s outcomes are within an accepted standard - whether it’s true or not. Albertans…you think you’ve got the next 2-5 years to litigate that on your own?
You probably won’t, just like the pet owners. You’ll move on to the next provider trying to actually get a real solution to a real quality of life problem. You won’t get justice. You’ll just pray that whoever did you wrong will get theirs. And the Ignatio’s of the private healthcare world will just keep smiling at your expense.
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Enter Danielle Smith. A middling Alberta premier who has continued the glorious multi-generational march of draining provincial coffers to keep the province from building itself into something decent. American companies and investors have deeply integrated themselves into the Alberta Oil and Gas sector - many of whom are in/directly responsible for dumping unwanted oil wells while taking the profits.
What makes Smith exceptional, would be her near titanic capacity for corruption. From the Corrupt Care scandals, the disarming of the Office of the Ethics Commissioner and Elections Alberta, to an open ended effort to gerrymander electoral boundaries to a province already skewed in favour for arguably 20-25% minority rural voters, Smith continues to push forward shamelessly.
What amazing destination does Smith have left to sell for her best customers? A referendum about referendum, and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government. She is literally selling Bridges for griefers in Alberta who still somehow imagine that the National Energy Program was some kind of foul play, and are haunted by the images of Trudeau and Carney chasing them through Terabithia.
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https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/488684/danielle-smith-s-bridges-to-terabithia
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#CorruptCare #Corruption #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #davos #DanielleSmith #MitchSylvestre #markcarney #EthicsCommissioner #Separatism #Gerrymander
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Danielle Smith's Bridges to Terabithia
Enter Danielle Smith. A middling Alberta premier who has continued the glorious multi-generational march of draining provincial coffers to keep the province from building itself into something decent. American companies and investors have deeply integrated themselves into the Alberta Oil and Gas sector - many of whom are in/directly responsible for dumping unwanted oil wells while taking the profits.
What makes Smith exceptional, would be her near titanic capacity for corruption. From the Corrupt Care scandals, the disarming of the Office of the Ethics Commissioner and Elections Alberta, to an open ended effort to gerrymander electoral boundaries to a province already skewed in favour for arguably 20-25% minority rural voters, Smith continues to push forward shamelessly.
What amazing destination does Smith have left to sell for her best customers? A referendum about referendum, and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government. She is literally selling Bridges for griefers in Alberta who still somehow imagine that the National Energy Program was some kind of foul play, and are haunted by the images of Trudeau and Carney chasing them through Terabithia.
In order to understand how we got to this con, we have to appreciate the challenges confronting Canada and the world. PM Carney’s Davos speech, the end of the old order speech, was an explicit expression of the understanding that the strategy for doing business in the world had changed. Countries once relied on a global set of rules for trade. There’s less need to diversify an economy broadly for self-reliance when the global system via the US and US currency can open up products and services.
We the world were happy to fall into this symbiotic arrangement because the US market was expected to remain open, and individual countries could pursue competitive advantages by focusing on certain sectors.
What no one expected in Trump, was the US destroying the very symbiotic arrangement that pulled in the world’s best products, services, and minds. The US imposed tariffs against countries around the world, became antagonistic towards international institutions like the UN and the ICC, and basically destroyed energy and chemical production out of the Strait of Hormuz.
The US has successfully broken the very system that supports its own superpower capabilities and capacity. In the face of such a suicidal, and probably now fascist neighbour, Canada must literally rebuild itself with a war like posture for reliable supply chains. We are talking about re-establishing ties around the US, and repositioning Canada to fill a production void left by the US-Israel-Iran conflict.
We are now in a race. Every deke, and every tactic is to climb at each other to fill this void. Our primary competitors are Russia and the Middle East, and our ball and chain - as it always has been - is the US.
Danielle Smith’s been selling Canadians Bridges to Terabithia, and we’re seeing all of its madness into no where. Depending on who has done the polling, there may be up to 27% of Albertans who claim support for separation. But there’s also a portion of this group that wishes to move towards some kind of fascist monolithic state, tacitly and expressly stated by one of its leaders, Mitch Sylvestre. Even if we give some of the separatist movement the benefit of the doubt, and we remove the racist and fascist portion, we’re still left with a dangerous group that is responsible for the Electoral List Data Leak - one of the worst data leaks in the history of Canada. So whether Alberta remains or leaves Canada, the separatists have done real harm to Albertans. We cannot tell the extent of this harm for probably years to come.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separatism-janet-brown-mitch-sylvestre-9.7178496
At what point will the rural Albertan voter realize that their power is probably at its maximum in Canada - that this minority group of 20-25% of Albertans are literally holding the other 75% and the Alberta and Canadian economy hostage. This vocal, overpowered Albertan minority is carrying out a violence to the majority of Albertans who don’t want anything to do with separation. When will these rural voters realize that everyone’s been watching them speak to a fence post for the last 6 months.
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PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.
Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.
Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/477915/alberta-separatist-groups-controversial-voter-id-app-has-links-to-us-ambassador-maga-inf
#privacy #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #RCMP #DarkMoney #DavidParker #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #PeteHoekstra #Voteatron #Project2025 #DarkPattern
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PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.
Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.
Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.
Neither Parker nor his lawyer, Chad Williamson, answered questions from PressProgress about the nature of the Centurion Project’s collaboration with 10xVotes. Parker, however, discussed the subject at length on a recent podcast.
“In my travels in the United States, I’ve met a lot of political organizers and I’ve talked to a lot of people, and I stumbled across this group out of Michigan called 10xVotes,” Parker told a podcast last month.
“I was massively impressed with what they’d done, and I wanted to bring that idea and that methodology to Alberta,” Parker explained. “For almost two years — it’ll be two years this fall — I’ve been working with them, talking with them, trying to build this out.”
“And the result is the Centurion Project.”
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Drew Born, a Grand Rapids commercial real estate broker and the director of Voteatron, is a well-connected Republican activist who runs a group called Michigan Family Action and previously ran for chair of the Michigan GOP.
On social media, Born has promoted the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” plan, posted photos of himself at Turning Point USA galas at Mar-a-Lago and advocated the annexation of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Huizenga and Hoekstra have a personal history, as well: Huizenga is an old donor to Hoekstra’s past congressional campaigns, and the two served as campaign chairs for Mitt Romney’s 2012 West Michigan leadership team. They also served as board members for the Netherland-America Foundation (Hoekstra was later appointed US ambassador to the Netherlands, where he was accused of foreign interference after hosting an event for a Dutch far-right political party).
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10xVotes’ business model is somewhat murky. The app describes itself as a service provided for free in support of Michigan Republicans and does not charge its users subscription fees, yet it does not publicly solicit donations through its website or indicate who funds it.
“We raise our own money,” Lance Griffin, 10xVotes’ head of public affairs, explained in a presentation to one state GOP group last year. “We don’t ask for any donations, we’ve made this free and available to all of you, all the local county parties and the Michigan Republican party [to] access our website and our data.”
However it funds itself, the group appears to have significant funds at its disposal.
10xVotes was a corporate sponsor at the 2025 Michigan GOP convention (Hoekstra’s final event as party chair) and Parker claims the group spent another $50,000 sponsoring a VIP suite at a 2024 Tucker Carlson Live event in Grand Rapids.
According to Parker’s story, he was also personally responsible for persuading Tucker Carlson to endorse the 10xVotes app that night — and, in turn, perhaps also responsible for Trump’s election victory in Michigan.
“I used all of my political capital with Tucker to get them to endorse it on stage that night,” Parker told a podcast. “We tracked the results of that endorsement, that endorsement resulted in 86,000 people who were historically non-voters voting in that election … that’s almost the victory margin for Trump.”
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EVIDENCE SUGGESTS UCP JOINED APRIL 16 CENTURION PROJECT MEETING; FORMER PREMIER’S DATA SHARED
https://www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/evidence-suggests-ucp-joined-april-16-centurion-project-meeting-former-premier-s-data-shared
A connection is alleged between the UCP and the Centurion Project’s Elections Alberta Data Leak.
>EDMONTON — Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.
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>The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.
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>Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation.
#EthicalFading #CorruptCare #UCP #democracy #ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #MickeyAmery #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #GordonMcClure #CameronDavies #ArundeepSandhu #RobSmith
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EVIDENCE SUGGESTS UCP JOINED APRIL 16 CENTURION PROJECT MEETING; FORMER PREMIER’S DATA SHARED
A connection is alleged between the UCP and the Centurion Project’s Elections Alberta Data Leak.
EDMONTON — Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.
The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.
Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation.
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https://thewalrus.ca/how-did-an-alberta-separatist-group-get-its-hands-on-the-voter-list/
At this point, Canadians are witnessing one of the worst crashes on the public stage in history. A UCP embroiled in allegations of corruption with CorruptCare now sees separatist organizations responsible for one of the greatest data leak in Canadian history. Even more concerning is how the separatist organizations are all led by individuals affiliated with the UCP, and in some ways either travel in the same circles as Danielle Smith or have relationships with the Alberta Premier.
Justice Minister Mickey Amery looks to stand nearly at the eye of the hurricane, with allegations of conflicts of interest arising from the Corrupt Care scandals mixing with his role in these legislative amendments leading up to the Elections Alberta Data Leak.
The Walrus’ Patrick Lennox brings a review of events leading up to the Elections Alberta Data Leak, and an opinion of the seriousness of this breach. I’ll share a highlight below. I would add that these amendments to how Elections Alberta operated came at a time when Justice Minister Mickey Amery may have been seen interfering with the active EA investigations upon Sam Mraiche and others in the Corrupt Care scandals.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
https://archive.ph/bXXb9
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/381433/alberta-justice-minister-curtailed-election-regulator-when-sam-mraiche-was-under-investi
#EthicalFading #CorruptCare #democracy #ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #MickeyAmery #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #GordonMcClure #CameronDavies
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/438166/how-did-an-alberta-separatist-group-get-its-hands-on-the-voter-list-the-walrus
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How Did an Alberta Separatist Group Get Its Hands on the Voter List? | The Walrus
At this point, Canadians are witnessing one of the worst crashes on the public stage in history. A UCP embroiled in allegations of corruption with CorruptCare now sees separatist organizations responsible for one of the greatest data leak in Canadian history. Even more concerning is how the separatist organizations are all led by individuals affiliated with the UCP, and in some ways either travel in the same circles as Danielle Smith or have relationships with the Alberta Premier.
Justice Minister Mickey Amery looks to stand nearly at the eye of the hurricane, with allegations of conflicts of interest arising from the Corrupt Care scandals mixing with his role in these legislative amendments leading up to the Elections Alberta Data Leak.
The Walrus’ Patrick Lennox brings a review of events leading up to the Elections Alberta Data Leak, and an opinion of the seriousness of this breach. I’ll share a highlight below. I would add that these amendments to how Elections Alberta operated came at a time when Justice Minister Mickey Amery may have been seen interfering with the active EA investigations upon Sam Mraiche and others in the Corrupt Care scandals.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
But outrage and disbelief at the civil servants who staff Elections Alberta is misplaced. In May of 2025, after the Liberal Party secured a minority Parliament, the UCP switched into full MAGA mode and started passing legislation that seemed geared to bring on a secession referendum. It also started tinkering in anti-democratic ways with the rules around elections. One example of this—amongst many—was Bill 54, which became the Election Statutes Amendment Act, 2025. It did three things of relevance to this discussion. The first was it set Elections Alberta’s investigative bar beyond that which common citizens’ complaints could reasonably expect to reach.
The response to Gerson is exhibit A. But it could very well be exhibit ZZZ. We know about Gerson’s complaint, because, well, she’s Jen Gerson. We don’t know how many other complaints have been concluded in the same way without investigation because Elections Alberta was unauthorized to investigate.
The second was to make it mandatory for Elections Alberta to inform anyone they were investigating that they were, in fact, investigating them. Combined with the first change, the effect was to cripple the agency by stripping investigators of the ability to conduct discreet inquiries, thus giving targets time to coordinate stories, pressure witnesses, or destroy evidence. A third change limited the length of time Elections Alberta had to investigate a complaint to a single year, down from three.
Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure warned at the time that this would make things difficult for the regulator. He argued that none of the significant investigations Elections Alberta had conducted over the previous five years would have concluded under the new authorities. He noted in documents sent to Justice Minister Mickey Amery that “we are not aware of any other jurisdiction in Canada that has imposed a similar standard to initiate investigations.” …
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Netizen Report: Highlights From Centurion Projects Engagement
https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1t38h2d/highlights_from_centurion_projects_engagement/
Canadian Netizens have identified videos of Centurion meetings that are now being taken down. I’ll include a screenshot from Reddit of user “kapowless” who has saved some of these published meetings. There is a highlight reel that took place on April 13, 2026.
kapowless has already done an excellent job of providing the relevant highlights, I’ll only share some here. [1] Of concern is a suggestion in the clip that the database was presented to the White House, and plans to use the Elections Alberta Data Leak to manipulate voters. [2] Centurion’s database of leaked data was intended to be used further and “not a tool to be thrown away”. [3] A question was also asked of whether there’s a choice to opt out of the Centurion database, the response was no because there’s no commensurate choice to opt out of have a postal code with Canada Post.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/437820/netizen-report-highlights-from-centurion-projects-engagement
#EthicalFading #democracy #ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak
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Online Chatter Draws An Alleged Connection Between Alberta Prosperty Project's Jeffrey Rath to Centurion
As Canadians will recall, Rath is noted to be a leader to the Alberta Prosperity Project. From The Tyee’s Charles Rusnell, “The Wild Claims of Jeff Rath, Separatist Firebrand”, provided an in-depth dive into Rath. From this article, Rath is mentioned giving an interview for Rachel Parker’s podcast:
On Dec. 24, Rath appeared on the Rachel Parker podcast to discuss a recent meeting — allegedly their third — between APP leaders and U.S. State Department officials in Washington, D.C.
“The meeting we had was very strange; we actually met in a SCIF of all things,” Rath told Parker, the wife of far-right influencer and Take Back Alberta leader David Parker, another secessionist.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/26/Wild-Claims-Jeff-Rath-Separatist-Firebrand/
I’ll point out that the recent news of the Elections Alberta data leak involves the Republican Party of Alberta, led by Cameron Davies, and Centurion, led by David Parker.
From Annie Dufour’s X post, keen eyed observers on X spotted Jeffrey Rath’s account publishing promotional material encouraging the Alberta Prosperity Project members to sign up for The Centurion Project as “super canvassers”.
https://x.com/anniedufour99/status/2050698630382670000?s=46&t=ioB_Y6LnyOXAq2Km8y-wkQ
I’ll include screenshots below to spare anyone the need to visit X.
If these separatist cluster of societies and/or companies are involved with the recent data leak, Canadians have a vested interest in recovering what data is out there, and to lock down this vector. Albertans have suffered immeasurable damage. We have to be able to mitigate or end the losses as soon as possible.
This cluster of entities are operating against Canadian democracy, and they no longer should enjoy the original functions that being societies or corporations offer. Their veils should be pierced immediately, and all their finances and operations should be traced.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/436072/online-chatter-draws-an-alleged-connection-between-alberta-prosperty-project-s-jeffrey-r
#ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #JeffreyRath #RachelParker #AlbertaProsperityProject
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Online Chatter Draws An Alleged Connection Between Alberta Prosperty Project's Jeffrey Rath to Centurion
As Canadians will recall, Rath is noted to be a leader to the Alberta Prosperity Project. From The Tyee’s Charles Rusnell, “The Wild Claims of Jeff Rath, Separatist Firebrand”, provided an in-depth dive into Rath. From this article, Rath is mentioned giving an interview for Rachel Parker’s podcast:
On Dec. 24, Rath appeared on the Rachel Parker podcast to discuss a recent meeting — allegedly their third — between APP leaders and U.S. State Department officials in Washington, D.C.
“The meeting we had was very strange; we actually met in a SCIF of all things,” Rath told Parker, the wife of far-right influencer and Take Back Alberta leader David Parker, another secessionist.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/26/Wild-Claims-Jeff-Rath-Separatist-Firebrand/
I’ll point out that the recent news of the Elections Alberta data leak involves the Republican Party of Alberta, led by Cameron Davies, and Centurion, led by David Parker.
From Annie Dufour’s X post, keen eyed observers on X spotted Jeffrey Rath’s account publishing promotional material encouraging the Alberta Prosperity Project members to sign up for The Centurion Project as “super canvassers”.
https://x.com/anniedufour99/status/2050698630382670000?s=46&t=ioB_Y6LnyOXAq2Km8y-wkQ
I’ll include screenshots below to spare anyone the need to visit X.
If these separatist cluster of societies and/or companies are involved with the recent data leak, Canadians have a vested interest in recovering what data is out there, and to lock down this vector. Albertans have suffered immeasurable damage. We have to be able to mitigate or end the losses as soon as possible.
This cluster of entities are operating against Canadian democracy, and they no longer should enjoy the original functions that being societies or corporations offer. Their veils should be pierced immediately, and all their finances and operations should be traced.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/1t1h20z/an_update_on_the_alberta_electoral_list_scandal/
Mr Aaron Paquette, Edmonton City Councillor, has issued some remarks concerning the Alberta Electoral Data Leak. I include his remarks here from Reddit to spare anyone a visit.
But, the Councillor rightly points out that the Data Leak by the separatists expose a serious flaw in the Separatist Petition. Essentially, he identifies that the leaked data can lead to fraudulent entries, and that the current rules surrounding the UCP Petition system enables this potential fraud without recourse.
Paquette, and others, rightly point out that the Data Leak is extensive, exposing vulnerable persons or Persons of Interest.
For Elections Alberta’s part, their statement is also included below. EA suggests that they issued a warning to the government that changes in the legal standards of proof that EA was held to were increased to match those of the police as they investigate crimes committed to under the Criminal Code. EA would also rightly point out this change in standards did not come with a commensurate increase in funding for enforcement. As I’ve already noted on prior occasions, this only further confirms my opinion that the EA has been disarmed and unable to carry out its mission to protect Albertans from clear attacks upon Alberta’s electoral system, and Albertans in general.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/433470/an-update-on-the-alberta-electoral-list-scandal-and-how-you-are-affected
#ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #AaronPaquette
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An update on the Alberta Electoral List Scandal - and how you are affected
Mr Aaron Paquette, Edmonton City Councillor, has issued some remarks concerning the Alberta Electoral Data Leak. I include his remarks here from Reddit to spare anyone a visit.
But, the Councillor rightly points out that the Data Leak by the separatists expose a serious flaw in the Separatist Petition. Essentially, he identifies that the leaked data can lead to fraudulent entries, and that the current rules surrounding the UCP Petition system enables this potential fraud without recourse.
Paquette, and others, rightly point out that the Data Leak is extensive, exposing vulnerable persons or Persons of Interest.
For Elections Alberta’s part, their statement is also included below. EA suggests that they issued a warning to the government that changes in the legal standards of proof that EA was held to were increased to match those of the police as they investigate crimes committed to under the Criminal Code. EA would also rightly point out this change in standards did not come with a commensurate increase in funding for enforcement. As I’ve already noted on prior occasions, this only further confirms my opinion that the EA has been disarmed and unable to carry out its mission to protect Albertans from clear attacks upon Alberta’s electoral system, and Albertans in general.
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“WE WARNED YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN”
Folks, We have never seen anything like this in Canadian history.
This is an absolutely wild update on the Elections Alberta / Centurion Project /Alberta Republican Party scandal.
I’m sharing this very important information as it directly affects the residents of Ward Dene and the good people of the City of Edmonton.
First, the highlights - or table of contents - of what Elections Alberta are saying. I will expand on what it means right after:
The Government Gagged Elections Alberta, the “watchdog”
The “Fake Name” Trap
Your Name is NOT Protected from Forged Petitions
4-Day Court Ultimatum
Real People Are in Real Danger
Elections Alberta is Demanding Better Laws
Now for what this actually means for you:
The Government Gagged Elections Alberta, the “watchdog”
People have been asking why Elections Alberta seemed to sit in this and why they didn’t act faster. They say the current Alberta government passed a recent law (Bill 54) that essentially tied their hands.
Elections Alberta actually wrote to MLAs about a year ago, EXPLICITLY warning them that this new law would make it near impossible to investigate complaints.
To look into a breach, the law now requires YOU, the citizen, to basically hand them a fully solved investigation first. How is that even possible?
- The “Fake Name” Trap
In order to o catch people leaking data, Elections Alberta hides fake, trackable “decoy” names inside the voter lists they hand out. Clever.
They are now heavily checking current petitions SPECIFICALLY the ones for Alberta Independence and for Coal Mining. If one of the fake names they planted is on the petition, it proves the stolen voter data was actively used to forge signatures. However, there is no guarantee any of the fake names were used.
- Your Name is NOT Protected From Forged Petitions
This is EXTREMELY shocking. If your data was stolen and someone forged your signature on a petition, the current law makes it ILLEGAL for Elections Alberta to tell you. Even worse, the law AS CURRENTLY WRITTEN stops them from taking your name off that petition, even if you find out and explicitly demand to be removed.
- 4-Day Court Ultimatum
The courts have issued a deadline. The groups that have been named responsible for this mess (The Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta) have exactly four days to hand over the names and contact information of every single person who was given a copy of your data or was even allowed to look at it. So we will all be watching to see if they comply, but we will not know if they have handed over a full or complete or truthful list. I don’t recommend holding your breath on that, and I don’t know how that list will be verified for compete compliance.
- Real People Are in Real Danger
As we have seen in the past, govt agencies tend to use fairly calm and bureaucratic language to downplay leaks.
My friends…not today.
Elections Alberta has flat-out admitted that exposing home addresses PUTS REAL LIVES AT RISK.
They are specifically calling out the danger this poses to domestic violence survivors, police officers, and marginalized folks.
As a side note, I have already been in touch with someone who has to move out of their currently home immediately due to this very real danger.- Elections Alberta is Demanding Better Laws
The Chief Electoral Officer is quite obviously fed up.
They are openly siding with the Privacy Commissioner and publicly demanding that the government create new laws immediately.
They want to close the glaring loophole that lets something like this happen. They want more oversight so they can protect your information.
They don’t seem to be willing to take the fall here for anybody.
Here is the full text of the press release from Elections Alberta:
Message to Albertans from the Chief Electoral Officer re: Unauthorized Use of List of Electors
May 01, 2026
EDMONTON, AB – “We are hearing from hundreds of Albertans concerned about the impacts of the unauthorized use of the List of Electors by the Centurion Group Ltd.,” said Gordon McClure, Chief Electoral Officer. “People are unhappy, scared, and anxious about the situation. We have heard countless stories about the risks people face having their information made public, including stories from domestic violence survivors, law enforcement, marginalized communities, and more. We at Elections Alberta hear you, and share your concerns in a very real way. Our staff are among the 2.9 million Albertans who are on the List of Electors. We agree this is an extremely serious situation.
“We have been asked why Elections Alberta did not act sooner; who has the information and how it is being used; how to find out if you are on the list; what can be done to prevent a similar situation in the future, and the impact on citizen initiative petitions. This message contains the answers we are able to share at this time.”
Why did Elections Alberta not start an investigation sooner?
Elections Alberta is held to a very high standard on what we can and cannot investigate. The legislation requires that we must have “reasonable grounds to believe an offence has occurred” to start investigations. “Reasonable grounds” is a much higher standard than “grounds to warrant” (the previous standard in the legislation), or “what might seem obvious” based on a complainant’s suspicions or beliefs. This is similar to the amount of evidence that, in a criminal matter, police would need to arrest someone. Elections Alberta takes all complaints seriously, whether or not it is able to start an investigation.
Keep in mind, Elections Alberta is prohibited by law from commenting on any complaint or investigation that may or may not be happening.
A typical complaint progression looks like this:
A complaint or information is received.
A complaint or information may not provide the evidence needed. If it does not, we are not able to initiate an investigation.
We will seek clarification from the complainant where possible.
Where an investigation is not started, we hold the information and monitor the situation.
As time progresses, if enough information to establish reasonable grounds is received, we start an investigation.
In the case of the unauthorized use of the List of Electors, as soon as we were able to share information on the injunction, and the data breach, we made two public statements, in the interests of the public, sharing as much information as we could.
I issued a cease and desist letter on April 28, 2026, sent representatives to ensure the database was not being accessed at a Centurion Group event on April 29, and had an emergency injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench on the morning of April 30, 2026.We are now working closely with law enforcement and other agencies on this matter, and are doing everything we can within the limits of the legislation.
Who has the information and how is it being used?
The Court Order directs the Centurion Project Ltd. and the Republican Party of Alberta to, within four days of the Order:
- Identify every person or entity the Centurion Project Ltd. and the Republican Party of Alberta have provided a copy of the List of Electors, or a portion of the List of Electors, and
- Identify every person or entity the Centurion Project Ltd. and the Republican Party of Alberta have permitted to access the information from the List of Electors or portion of the List of Electors, and
- Provide to the Chief Electoral Officer all contact information the Centurion Project Ltd. and the Republican Party of Alberta have for these people or entities.
In our news release yesterday, we highlighted details of the injunction obtained and served.
What steps can be taken to prevent a similar situation in the future?
As the legislation is currently written, Elections Alberta cannot prevent an unauthorized distribution or use of a List of Electors provided to a registered political party or other authorized entity. Elections Alberta may only ensure compliance with and enforcement of the legislation. Elections Alberta administers provincial electoral legislation in Alberta that is passed by the Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta does not write legislation.
On May 9, 2025, the Chief Electoral Officer wrote to all members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta outlining several concerns with Bill 54: Justice Statutes Amendment Act before it was passed. The Chief Electoral Officer’s letter included a specific section on “Changing the Threshold for Investigation to the Criminal Law Standard of “Reasonable Grounds””.
The letter warned that:
“[u]nder Bill 54, for an investigation to begin, the Election Commissioner will need to be satisfied that a breach of the Legislation has occurred, before they can speak to anyone about the allegation, or gather and review any records. Practically this means that the onus will fall on a complainant to provide a substantively completed investigation in order for the Election Commissioner to look into a matter.”
The letter went on to describe the potential impact on Albertans:
“The proposed changes will eliminate the majority of the compliance activities undertaken by the Election Commissioner and impact Albertans’ trust that the rules… are being followed.”
Elections Alberta can confirm that requiring “reasonable grounds” in Legislation has indeed impacted Albertans in this and other matters, as predicted in that letter.
In addition to the recommendations provided in its May 9, 2025, letter to the Legislative Assembly, Elections Alberta is preparing further recommendations for legislative changes that will strengthen our democratic system.
What is the impact on Citizen Initiative Petitions?
The Legislation prevents Elections Alberta from confirming or denying whether the name of a person who inquires is on a signature sheet for a Citizen Initiative petition. The Legislation also prevents Elections Alberta from removing the name of person at their request from a signature sheet for a Citizen Initiative petition.
Elections Alberta’s role is to validate and verify the petition signature sheets as they are delivered by the proponent or petition applicant.
Consequential amendments to the signature verification processes
The Chief Electoral Officer has directed that the Citizen Initiative petition verification process be amended. Verification after today’s date will include determining if any of the seeded names from the Republican Party of Alberta’s List of Electors are contained in any incoming petition. If any of the seeded names are included, further scrutiny will result.
This updated process will apply to “A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence” petition, the “No New Coal Mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains” petition, and the two current recall petitions. The updated process will also apply to all petitions in the future.
The amendment is in addition to the existing steps that Elections Alberta takes to verify the petition signature sheets. Elections Alberta staff currently contacts a statistically valid random sample of electors whose signatures are on the petition to verify their information and signatures, using the contact information recorded on the petition signature sheets.
Final comments
Elections Alberta supports the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta’s April 30th statementregarding the need for legislation that protects the personal information of Albertans that is in the hands of registered political parties.
Elections Alberta is an independent, non-partisan office of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta responsible for administering provincial elections, by-elections, and referenda.For media inquiries, please contact:
Michelle Gurney
Media Relations�
Phone: 403.431.0759
Email: [email protected]
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SCOOP: Jen Gerson: Elections Alberta's massive failure could have put people in danger. I tried to warn them.
www.readtheline.ca/p/scoop-jen-gerson-elections…
https://archive.ph/f7aCK
From Jen Gerson, Canadians learn more from the Alberta Electoral List data leak. Essentially, Elections Alberta was notified by Gerson of a potential leak of sensitive data as early as March 31, 2026. But, according to a response from Elections Alberta dated April 10, 2026, the complaint was not pursued.
I would note that given the severity of the leak, and my previous comments of how Elections Alberta has been disarmed by Danielle Smith’s UCP, news of Elections Alberta declining to act on a credible complaint and leaving sensitive data exposed for a month should raise alarms across the country.
As noted from the initial reporting, the Elections Alberta data was processed by third party. How much more data was gleaned about Albertans, and the products of research and analysis that resulted may never be fully known.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/431201/alberta-separatist-group-ordered-to-pull-down-list-with-millions-of-voters-personal-info
#UCP #ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #DataLeak #DavidParker #DaleNally #Centurion #JenGerson
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From Jen Gerson, Canadians learn more from the Alberta Electoral List data leak. Essentially, Elections Alberta was notified by Gerson of a potential leak of sensitive data as early as March 31, 2026. But, according to a response from Elections Alberta dated April 10, 2026, the complaint was not pursued.
I would note that given the severity of the leak, and my previous comments of how Elections Alberta has been disarmed by Danielle Smith’s UCP, news of Elections Alberta declining to act on a credible complaint and leaving sensitive data exposed for a month should raise alarms across the country.
As noted from the initial reporting, the Elections Alberta data was processed by third party. How much more data was gleaned about Albertans, and the products of research and analysis that resulted may never be fully known.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/elections-alberta-electors-list-9.7182971
Alberta separatist group ordered to pull down list with millions of voters' personal information
Alberta has experienced a devastating data breach, resulting in the publication of personal information belonging to millions of Albertans. From the CBC, updated with latest developments, and deserves a thorough read. I include some highlights below: Alberta’s leaked data involves full names, addresses, phone numbers, and electoral divisions of nearly 3 million Alberta voters, rendered into a searchable database.
As noted, Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally abused this very same list when responding to a recall petition, and was found by Elections Alberta to have violated the Election Act. Now, Elections Alberta learned that the data was provided to the Republican Party of Alberta in June 2025, and was somehow turned over to a “Centurian Project” operated by David Parker, a political operator.
This Centurian Project, apparently registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections Alberta on Apr 24, is an Alberta separatist group. Their website contained instructions on how to access the leaked data for the purpose of targeting and seeking supporters. CBC received a statement from Centurion Project, which suggest that the data has been further processed by third party.
>“The Centurion Project Ltd is a company that was established to help train volunteers on how to be better citizens and to impact the political process. To be clear, the Centurion App is strictly used by volunteers to find people they personally know in a database. They are not given access to any phone numbers or emails and are encouraged only to contact and claim people they already know. We have relied on a third party to provide us with datasets for this tool. We are aware of recent allegations regarding the app’s data. We have taken action to shut down the app until we can ensure that the dataset is compliant with Alberta and federal privacy laws. We plan to fully comply with Elections Alberta’s investigation.”
Canadians are aware that leaks of this nature are severe because they can be cross-referenced with other data for further state or private surveillance and/or criminal activity. Recently, Telus reported the loss of a petabyte of data, including personally identifiable information and call-centre recordings.
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/telus-digital-cyberattack-shinyhunters/814817/
With the Americans extending FISA 702, and how separatists are associated with this data leak, there’s a real danger that this exposure can and will result in lasting consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/fisa-warrantless-spying-renewal-congress
#ElectionsAlberta #surveillance #AlbertaUnderSiege #DataLeak #Centurian #DaleNally #DavidParker
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Alberta separatist group ordered to pull down list with millions of voters' personal information
Alberta has experienced a devastating data breach, resulting in the publication of personal information belonging to millions of Albertans. From the CBC, updated with latest developments, and deserves a thorough read. I include some highlights below: Alberta’s leaked data involves full names, addresses, phone numbers, and electoral divisions of nearly 3 million Alberta voters, rendered into a searchable database.
As noted, Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally abused this very same list when responding to a recall petition, and was found by Elections Alberta to have violated the Election Act. Now, Elections Alberta learned that the data was provided to the Republican Party of Alberta in June 2025, and was somehow turned over to a “Centurian Project” operated by David Parker, a political operator.
This Centurian Project, apparently registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections Alberta on Apr 24, is an Alberta separatist group. Their website contained instructions on how to access the leaked data for the purpose of targeting and seeking supporters. CBC received a statement from Centurion Project, which suggest that the data has been further processed by third party.
“The Centurion Project Ltd is a company that was established to help train volunteers on how to be better citizens and to impact the political process. To be clear, the Centurion App is strictly used by volunteers to find people they personally know in a database. They are not given access to any phone numbers or emails and are encouraged only to contact and claim people they already know. We have relied on a third party to provide us with datasets for this tool. We are aware of recent allegations regarding the app’s data. We have taken action to shut down the app until we can ensure that the dataset is compliant with Alberta and federal privacy laws. We plan to fully comply with Elections Alberta’s investigation.”
Canadians are aware that leaks of this nature are severe because they can be cross-referenced with other data for further state or private surveillance and/or criminal activity. Recently, Telus reported the loss of a petabyte of data, including personally identifiable information and call-centre recordings.
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/telus-digital-cyberattack-shinyhunters/814817/
With the Americans extending FISA 702, and how separatists are associated with this data leak, there’s a real danger that this exposure can and will result in lasting consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/fisa-warrantless-spying-renewal-congress
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Alberta Referendum 2026 | Referendum Reality Check
Albertans aren’t dumb. But this government thinks we are. Independent political commentary and analysis of Alberta’s 2026 referendum, Alberta Next, and the politics behind the questions.
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Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views
Albertans end up bombarded with targeted messaging that amounts to Propaganda or Slopaganda, funded by dark money.
This week, a report by the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), a joint project between the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal looking into Canadian media, identified 20 YouTube channels as part of a co-ordinated network focused on separatism in western Canadian provinces, and other political issues.
The report noted they use near-identical scripts and dubbed them “slopaganda.”
Altogether, the accounts have garnered roughly 40 million views.
The report says many of the videos contain “frequent and obvious lies, drawing on real news stories to reach exaggerated conclusions designed to exploit political divisions.” The report did not identify the individuals behind the apparent network, citing a lack of “identifying information to real humans or organizations nor ties to the secession movement in Alberta.”
“I think it’s disturbing that these voices are able to insert themselves in the conversation, and their interest is not to further the democratic discourse or … have a healthy, authentic conversation,” said Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory.
“They’re putting themselves in the middle of that, misleading Albertans, Canadians, and they’re just doing it to make money.”
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Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
CBC’s Jason Markusoff follows up with the UCP Gerrymandering campaign, bringing us the details behind the majority and minority reports, and how the UCP are setting the stage for politicians to redraw the ridings.
If anything, I disagree with the headline, and I say that the road map is absolutely in full colour with legends attached. Canadians understand that politicians are always motivated to change goal posts in their favour. Even a layperson will understand that an absolute priority is to reduce the effort it takes for a politician’s voters to get them re-elected, and to ensure the process repeats in their favour over and over again.
In a farcical universe, if a politician could choose to have 1 vote count as 5000, provided they had absolute understanding of how to manipulate that 1 vote, and the world accepted this arrangement, they would choose this universe. Hence there are norms in place - voluntary by design - in the assumption that the politician would not willingly destroy personal credibility to interfere with the Process designed to build and maintain Legitimacy.
Here the UCP are indeed attacking that Process, and in turn reveal that Legitimacy does not matter to them. Danielle Smith’s UCP are engaged in Institutional Combat. They are prepared to maintain and defend any system to hold power. On the other hand, the UCP will attack and destroy any system that is perceived to be a hurdle to power.
> Smith has blown by political norms elsewhere, becoming the first Alberta premier to repeatedly use the notwithstanding clause, using legislation to nullify a court challenge to the referendum that separatists are pursuing, and even passing a law to make sure a former minister couldn’t name his fledgling party “Progressive Conservative.”
I would add to this list how the UCP have disarmed the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Elections Alberta, and interfered with the Office of the Auditor General.
As hard as it may be to hear, the map charts a course to fascism.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-electoral-boundary-new-maps-danielle-smith-naheed-nenshi-9.7175296
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/423251/analysis-there-s-no-road-map-for-where-alberta-s-riding-boundary-controversy-is-headed-n -
Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
CBC’s Jason Markusoff follows up with the UCP Gerrymandering campaign, bringing us the details behind the majority and minority reports, and how the UCP are setting the stage for politicians to redraw the ridings.
If anything, I disagree with the headline, and I say that the road map is absolutely in full colour with legends attached. Canadians understand that politicians are always motivated to change goal posts in their favour. Even a layperson will understand that an absolute priority is to reduce the effort it takes for a politician’s voters to get them re-elected, and to ensure the process repeats in their favour over and over again.
In a farcical universe, if a politician could choose to have 1 vote count as 5000, provided they had absolute understanding of how to manipulate that 1 vote, and the world accepted this arrangement, they would choose this universe. Hence there are norms in place - voluntary by design - in the assumption that the politician would not willingly destroy personal credibility to interfere with the Process designed to build and maintain Legitimacy.
Here the UCP are indeed attacking that Process, and in turn reveal that Legitimacy does not matter to them. Danielle Smith’s UCP are engaged in Institutional Combat. They are prepared to maintain and defend any system to hold power. On the other hand, the UCP will attack and destroy any system that is perceived to be a hurdle to power.
Smith has blown by political norms elsewhere, becoming the first Alberta premier to repeatedly use the notwithstanding clause, using legislation to nullify a court challenge to the referendum that separatists are pursuing, and even passing a law to make sure a former minister couldn’t name his fledgling party “Progressive Conservative.”
I would add to this list how the UCP have disarmed the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Elections Alberta, and interfered with the Office of the Auditor General.
As hard as it may be to hear, the map charts a course to fascism.
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Readers will recall that the commission’s work is normally non-partisan, and generates a unanimous report. But, the UCP introduced their own “minority” report without notice and likely with UCP involvement. The UCP continue to shift the goal posts in their favour, padding the roster with their own party members, and proposing to try again on the run up to the next 2027 Alberta Provincial election.
Canadians have seen this sort of Institutional Combat play out in the US to collapse branches of government. When the politicians propose selecting themselves to redraw the ridings, this is part of the strategy of “Move Fast, Break Things”. But, more importantly, the chaos is designed to facilitate UCP corruption.
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/417204/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature -
Alberta legislature votes to redraw electoral map to make a 91-seat legislature
The motion would also establish an expedited special committee to oversee the electoral boundaries without the need for public hearings. The committee would be led by UCP MLA Brandon Lunty and will include three additional UCP MLAs and two members of the Alberta NDP.
“We’re not throwing out the commission’s work. We’re building on it,” Lunty said.
“I would hope that the members opposite can agree that when an independent commission tells us there may be a better way to ensure fair representation, we should at least take the time to examine that problem.”
Readers will recall that the commission’s work is normally non-partisan, and generates a unanimous report. But, the UCP introduced their own “minority” report without notice and likely with UCP involvement. The UCP continue to shift the goal posts in their favour, padding the roster with their own party members, and proposing to try again on the run up to the next 2027 Alberta Provincial election.
Canadians have seen this sort of Institutional Combat play out in the US to collapse branches of government. When the politicians propose selecting themselves to redraw the ridings, this is part of the strategy of “Move Fast, Break Things”. But, more importantly, the chaos is designed to facilitate UCP corruption.
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Alberta premier denies claims of UCP interference on electoral boundaries
Move quickly, break things : The US experienced collapse of their famed system of checks and balances, and their country has fallen to fascism. One motto that stands apart from how a global strategic ally and former super power could decline so rapidly is to move so fast and to break so many democratic processes and norms at once to capitalize and seize power.
Danielle Smith’s UCP, facing unprecedented allegations of corruption, refuses to surrender. She signals strongly that she will engage in “institutional combat” to the complete expense of Albertans, for power.
Susan Samson, one of the NDP’s appointees on the first commission, said in an interview Monday that the government getting elected officials involved in redrawing the maps was the opposite of how the process should play out.
“It’s very, very important work that’s being manipulated right now,” said Samson, a former mayor of the town of Sylvan Lake.
She said the commission’s process is supposed to be, and has historically been, independent and based on compromise.
“When we start rigging maps and gerrymandering, it can only end badly,” she said. “Unless the government chooses the majority report, this is not going to be a good outcome for Albertans.”
In their report last month, the majority wrote that the split on the commission came out of nowhere. They said the commission had been unified up until January, about two months before the final reports came out and close to nine months after the work got underway.
Samson said she didn’t see the break coming, but that she had no doubts that “something or someone” had pressured the UCP-appointed members to come up with a minority report.
Samson said she’s been questioning how the minority group had produced their own report so quickly, noting it had taken the commission as a whole six months to produce the unanimous interim report, plus another month to make the final version.
“Within two to three weeks they can produce an entire set of maps for the province?” she said.
“You tell me where it came from.”
The government’s motion provides the panel and committee with a fall deadline to produce the new set of maps.
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Globe and Mail’s Carrie Tait and Matthew Scace bring the latest efforts of Danielle Smith’s UCP to hold power in the face of expanding CorruptCare corruption allegations: gerrymandering. Essentially, Smith proposes an all out assault on democracy in Alberta by redrawing the ridings to mix urban ridings, normally represented by the NDP, with rural ridings that are normally represented by the UCP. In so doing, the UCP intend to improve their own voter efficiency, ensure their continued strangle hold on power, and push off any justice for corruption that could implicate their high profile party members and supporters.
As always, the article deserves a read, and I follow with some highlights…
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces/
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/404457/alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces-electoral-map