#daniellesmith — Public Fediverse posts
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Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.
#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta
Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
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Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.
#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta
Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
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Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.
#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta
Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
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Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.
#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta
Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
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Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.
#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta
Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
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Braid: Carney steps up as pro-Canada champion in face of Smith’s muddled federalism
The best campaigner for Canada in the Oct. 19 referendum won’t be a premier who claims to be…
#Canada #MarkCarney #Banff #DanielleSmith #MinisterDevenDreeshen #ThomasLukaszuk #UnitedCanada
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https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/my-drivers-license-is-one-of-153-million-for-sale-on-a-new-dark-website/
Well, well. Alberta’s UCP wanted to drop privacy standards surrounding health and health cards by tying Alberta health cards to Driver’s Licenses.
Besides the crush of people jamming the local Registrar’s for their license, some of whom face multiple unexpected hurdles before getting theirs, Albertans are learning that their Health coverage expires.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-health-cards-expiry-9.7314841
Worse, now the simple act of handing out one’s Driver’s License to, say, rent out a vehicle, means you’re also handing out your credentials for your health and your citizenship status. Do you think that local private businesses have raised their standard of care concerning your private information? Do you think that these local private businesses will accept greater liability for any misuse or mishandling of your very important personal credentials? I don’t think so.
Do you think the publicly disarmed Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta is even remotely equipped or consulted for this real world scenario of privacy violations?
Do you think your local car rental company should have your Health Card information so you can rent a car?
Rent a pressure washer?
Rent a U-Haul?
Take that test drive at your local car dealer?
What might you feel if your Driver’s License/Proof of Citizenship/Health Care Card is now automatically stolen and sold in bulk online? Do you think you can cancel it and get a new one? How many times do you think you might have to do this? How many times do you think you can actually do this?
How do you feel when you learn that this new regime for Alberta Driver’s Licenses was to…address fraud?
It’s almost like the UCP forgot what compartmentalization means…or why it was once considered a safety feature to separate parts of your work life and personal life to avoid being hacked.
#CdnPoli #AbPoli #AbLeg
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
Well, well. Alberta’s UCP wanted to drop privacy standards surrounding health and health cards by tying Alberta health cards to Driver’s Licenses.
Besides the crush of people jamming the local Registrar’s for their license, some of whom face multiple unexpected hurdles before getting theirs, Albertans are learning that their Health coverage expires.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-health-cards-expiry-9.7314841
Worse, now the simple act of handing out one’s Driver’s License to, say, rent out a vehicle, means you’re also handing out your credentials for your health and your citizenship status. Do you think that local private businesses have raised their standard of care concerning your private information? Do you think that these local private businesses will accept greater liability for any misuse or mishandling of your very important personal credentials? I don’t think so.
Do you think your local car rental company should have your Health Card information so you can rent a car?
Rent a pressure washer?
Rent a U-Haul?
What might you feel if your Driver’s License/Proof of Citizenship/Health Care Card is now automatically stolen and sold in bulk online? Do you think you can cancel it and get a new one? How many times do you think you might have to do this? How many times do you think you can actually do this?
How do you feel when you learn that this new regime for Alberta Driver’s Licenses was to…address fraud?
It’s almost like the UCP forgot what compartmentalization means…or why it was once considered a safety feature to separate parts of your work life and personal life to avoid being hacked.
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Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day!
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Next up we have Jitendra Prasad.
These are allegations surrounding a cluster of procurement contracts that involve a number of different parties. Information gathered here may still be developing. Please keep this in mind.
Jitendra Prasad is alleged as the Chief Procurement Officer for Alberta Health Services, and is a central figure who oversaw a number of procurement contracts that fell to disrepute. In summary, Prasad may have had additional involvement over the course of over $600 M worth of business between AHS and Sam Mraiche. Prasad is a prominent character for the procurement of [1] COVID test kits, who then returned to AHS from retirement to oversee the [2] Tylenot procurement, was involved with the [3] Chartered Surgical Facility contracts, and is referred to during the [4] Melewka Homes Arc.
Remarkably, Prasad’s procurement procedures do not appear to provide any reasoning behind why Sam Mraiche’s family of businesses or associates should be the primary go-between or beneficiary to any of the contracts entered on behalf of AHS. There’s no explanation for this during the COVID Test Kits Arc, nor the Tylenot Arc. Canadians should also be alarmed with the knowledge provided by Peter Guthrie that the original maker of Tylenol, Johnson and Johnson, made a bid at a discount to provide children’s pain medication to meet a severe need. Why Turkish Tylenol?
While Prasad may argue that he did his job, he also may have allowed himself to become a rubber stamp in favour of a very specific set of characters, and at the expense of Canadians.
#CorruptCare #Corruption #AHS #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #UCP #BryanWard #RCMP #RaymondWyant #AthanaMentzelopoulos #MarshallSmith
#EthicalFading
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Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance
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Much like a Greek Epic, the Corrupt Care scandal has grown, with new characters and all kinds of details. So before the summer winds down (sadly!) I want to go over some highlights in a way that helps me keep track of things.
Please keep in mind that I just started this little exercise. But, I think I just finished with Marshall Smith, so I'm happy to start there. I'll leave a blurb here:
These are allegations surrounding a cluster of procurement contracts that involve a number of different parties. Information gathered here may still be developing. Please keep this in mind.
An American with a reputation for being a party boy, Marshall Smith made his way to Vancouver where he eventually entered the political scene. He pled guilty to Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking Methamphetamine and Cocaine, suggesting that he may have been a supplier to a very specific clientele. As part of the fallout from that incident, he was tucked away to Prince George to oversee the Baldy Hughes Facility. But, there are allegations that Marshall Smith ran the facility like a personal mom and pop, effectively cheaping out on everything and everyone to the point of disfunction.
Baldy Hughes apparently remains, and continues to struggle with all the same issues Marshall Smith left them with. Marshall Smith was then selected by the UCP to bring this Recovery Model, along with its dubious history, province-wide across Alberta. As noted below from the Tyee, Marshall Smith moved on from Baldy Hughes, stating that he essentially wanted to leave in good times. And, while the Corrupt Care Arcs have yet to fully play out, Marshall Smith almost has the appearance of a mythical “economic hit man”. A character who goes into another jurisdiction with the objective to destroy the economy and value of a target industry, and then exfiltrates himself.
#CorruptCare #Corruption #AHS #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #UCP #BryanWard #RCMP #RaymondWyant #AthanaMentzelopoulos #MarshallSmith
#EthicalFading
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Danielle Smith, of all people, should have seen UCP problems with AI data centres coming
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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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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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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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UCP apologists clutch their pearls about premier’s ‘fascist pancakes’
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$&#% your fascist pancakes! An Alberta moment
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/your-fascist-pancakes-an-alberta-moment/
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There’s no need to worry about plans to build a huge electricity plant and AI data centre near Edmonton, Danielle Smith insists
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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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'I love this country: Alberta NDP, other national groups launch efforts to keep province in Canada
#Alberta #Canada #NaheedNenshi #Politics #Referendum #Separation #Federalism #NDP #Elections #Constitution #DanielleSmith #Vote #WesternCanada #Unity
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Conservative politicians in #Alberta, from #DanielleSmith and #JasonKenney on down to #PierrePoilievre and #PrestonManning, have used the rage of Albertans as the fissile material powering their own political ambitions. In the process, they have created a generation of #grievance #junkies, people who are absolutely addicted to the idea of their own #victimhood at the hands of a corrupt federal government.
@NatObserver @maxfawcett
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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
#comment
#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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The Beaverton interviews an Alberta Separatist
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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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Here, the allegations take us to Melewka Homes Ltd, owned by Lewis Semashkewich and John Semashkewich. The pair did business with a Mohamed Eldassouki. Plot twist: Eldassouki apparently is the brother-in-law of the perpetual protagonist of capitalism, Sam Mraiche. The Semashkewiches go on to allege that Mraiche introduced himself as Fred, and suggested that he had connections with high ranked officials, and he could pull contracts awarded to Melweka at any time. Fred went on to make demands for large sums of money.
Unfortunately, some of these contracts appear to involve the Addiction Recovery Centres that were once handled by AHS. But, since AHS may have been shattered into pieces for allegedly investigating the CorruptCare cluster of contracts, it has since been replaced by Recovery Alberta in 2024. At this point, it beggars belief that the UCP, Danielle Smith, and her caucus do not either resign or at least take steps to mitigate what is clearly an out-of-control conflicts of interest.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #JitendraPrasad #BryanWard #MohamedEldassouki #Melewka #RecoveryAlberta
#EthicalFading
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https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/328242/alberta-construction-company-alleges-sam-mraiche-played-hidden-role-in-building-of-addic
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I openly opposed #TMX on #Twitter a decade ago. As a result, I received constant online harassment, death threats and regular late night phone calls from machines that just said “goodbye” then hung up.
For all those saying “This pipeline will never happen”, there are many more right wing Canadian #MAGA bullies who are ready to push the point.
Sadly, as of my recent anti #NorthernGateway posts, the late night calls have resumed. Last night’s came at 4AM to my cellphone.
#MarkCarney has no idea of the hate storm he’s released on #BC due to his partnership with #DanielleSmith on this bullshit #MOU.
Intimidation and harassment in #Canada is a very real thing. Many Canadians unaffected and unconcerned with this pipeline have no idea what would happen if they openly opposed it.
This is the reality for #climatedefenders under #Liberals who have once again emboldened the worst people n Canada.
I hesitated to speak out against this new pipeline, knowing the harassment would continue. But that’s their intention, to intimidate me into silence.
So late night phone calls again it is. Last time this triggered me so much I spent way more time openly opposing the pipeline to spite the hate.
This pipeline will probably get built, despite all those minimizing by saying it won’t. I know this because of the constant misinformation in the #MSM and on #Facebook, skewed polls in favor of the pipeline meant to nudge public opinion, and the start of a new harassment and intimidation campaign by right wing lunatics.
The machine has once again awoken and anti Climate Liberals are at the wheel, steering Canada away from clean options while letting #Conservative goons do their dirty work.
Northern Gateway is a Nation Burning Project not “Nation Building” as Mark Carney would have you believe.
We will resist this pipeline and we will continue to fight, despite biased Canadian Media and #MapleMAGA threats and harassment.
This will be the most costly pipeline ever built in Canada, both financially and politically. If built, Liberals will carry this oil-soaked albatross for a generation.
Carney’s betrayal will cost them dearly, as dearly as opposing another dirty oil pipeline will cost all of us in #BC.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #nopipelines #elbowsdown #dirtyoil #dirtypolitics
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#Alberta #DanielleSmith #UCP #CoalMines #NorthBack #Selenium #Contamination #Poison #Fisheries #CrossNestRiver #OldManRiver #ToxicContamination #NoCoalMines #EasternSlopes #Rockies #SaveOurWater #SaveOurMountains
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Government assurances aside, people who receive AISH fear loss of supports
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1867-b771-84ca-897198226112
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Say bye-bye to your crappy piece of shit Teslas.
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1067-b2f6-a0d4-fbd547118760
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"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1967-b2f4-201f-8d4710455054
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Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk's companies
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-3867-b2f2-d2e6-efd979563203
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Trevor Lee, Utah MAGA Republican, aka douche-canoe
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-7867-b2f2-7b97-8a1883050794
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#resisttrump #elonmusk #markzuckerberg #jeffbezos #sundarpichai #resistvance #nazi #neveragain #NoToFascism #notesla #nostarlink #nometa #noamazon #nogoogle #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #womensrights #humanrights #disabledrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #abortion #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith
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Disgusting
#elonmusk #nazi #neveragain #ResistTrump #resistjdvance #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #zuckerberg #bezos #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #abortion #womensrights #humanrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith
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#elonmusk #nazi #neveragain #ResistTrump #resistjdvance #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #zuckerberg #bezos #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #abortion #womensrights #humanrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith #NoDetentionCamps #Guantanamo #NoToFascism
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#elonmusk #nazi #neveragain #ResistTrump #resistjdvance #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #zuckerberg #bezos #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #abortion #womensrights #humanrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith #NoDetentionCamps #Guantanamo #NoToFascism #disabilityrights #disabled #chronicpain
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Trump, Canada is not for sale! We want nothing to do with you or your fascism!
#elonmusk #nazi #neveragain #ResistTrump #resistjdvance #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #zuckerberg #bezos #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #abortion #womensrights #humanrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith
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‘#Communities are #terrified’: #trans #advocate #FaeJohnstone #blasts #feds for allowing #hate, #disinformation to rise while #Conservative #premiers enforce #restrictions on #LGBTQ+ #kids.
#Alberta #Premier #DanielleSmith's new #policies restricting #healthcare for #trans #children is 'just the #polite #political #expression' of #antiqueer and #antitrans #hate, says Johnstone.
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#GlobeAndMail - "Morning Update: Alberta’s Danielle Smith to ask Ottawa for help as wildfires rage through the province, forcing 29,000 to evacuate"
"As wildfires rage through #Alberta forcing 29,000 people from their homes and burning dozens of homes and buildings, Premier #DanielleSmith has a call scheduled with Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau on Monday and plans to ask Ottawa for help."
#Alberta #AlbertaWildfire #AlbertaWildfires #AlbertaFires #ClimateCHange
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Volker Perthes weist Vorwürfe einer Schuld des Westens am Sudan-Konflikt zurück. Im DW-Interview spricht der UN-Sonderbeauftragte auch über die russische Wagner-Gruppe - und die Gefahr durch "Glückssucher".
Waldbrände: Alberta ruft den Notstand aus | DW | 07.05.2023