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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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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.
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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
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Phone: 403.431.0759
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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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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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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.
#EthicalFading #UCP #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering #AuditorGeneral #EthicsCommissioner
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-electoral-boundary-new-maps-danielle-smith-naheed-nenshi-9.7175296
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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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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.
#EthicalFading #Corruption #UCP #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering
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#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature
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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…
#EthicalFading #Corruption #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #Gerrymandering
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces/
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Alberta government rejects commission’s proposed changes to province’s electoral map
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:
The commission is the latest iteration of an electoral-boundaries-setting body that Alberta is required under provincial law to convene every eight to 10 years. It reviews the province’s electoral boundaries and proposes changes. The government mandates the number of constituencies the commissioners must incorporate into their map.
It’s a process designed to foster compromise and limit political influence over the placement of electoral boundaries.
The public dispute over the committee’s latest work began last month when it submitted, for the first time in its history, two very different maps.
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One was supported by a majority of its members: the chair, tapped by the governing UCP, and two panelists selected by the NDP. It was produced after a year of work and public hearings.
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The commission’s other two members, both tapped by the UCP, put forward a competing map and report. They proposed more than a dozen merged urban and rural ridings, diluting the power of the urban vote.
They defended it as “necessary to respond to demographic change, reduce polarization and reflect Alberta’s increasingly interconnected urban-rural landscape.”
The majority called this vision unconstitutional and illogical.
They said the minority members had proposed ridings in Calgary with sharp population differences, and they questioned whether the dissenters may have drawn boundaries in a way that would boost the UCP’s electoral prospects, a process known as gerrymandering.
“What might be the minority’s true motivation for this? Our friends south of the border may have a term for this type of redistricting,” the majority’s report says. Legislators in the United States have long warred over electoral maps, with gerrymandering emerging as a common political tool.
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Prof. Young said the boundaries commission itself broke with tradition when two members produced their own work.
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Former AHS CEO wants podcasters held in contempt for ‘harassment’ campaign | CBC News
CBC’s Jason Markusoff and Joel Dryden follow up on the Alberta CorruptCare scandal. Here, CorruptCare continues to broil as two podcasters return to court for allegations that they carried out a campaign of harassment and intimidation of former AHS CEO, Athana Mentzelopoulos, and former AHS board member, Sandy Edmonstone. The article discusses how Edmonstone noted the similarities between the harassment he experienced, and the allegations of harassment that Globe and Mail reporter, Carrie Tait, experienced.
Edmonstone learned that “the phone number that had been associated with the photos taken of him also was associated with an anonymous X account that had posted the photos of Tait.”
CorruptCare watchers will find interesting that Bryan Ward, a lawyer associated with Quixotic capitalist, Sam Mraiche, is the subject of a contempt application. Bryan Ward being another person of interest in the other court case involving the UCP Recovery Centres, the Semashkewiches, Sam Mraiche, Sam Jaber, Jitendra Prasad, Mike Eldassouki, and others.
Edmonstone has also applied to cite lawyer Ward for contempt alongside Wallace and DiFiore. When the Anton Piller order was executed at the homes of both podcasters, each said that Ward was representing them, according to court records.
Ward told authorities executing the Piller order that “his firm had retained Wallace and DiFiore on behalf of a ‘third party’ client,” court records state, but that client is not identified.
It appears that Ward and Park Law are involved with “directing or facilitating the campaign directed at Mr. Edmonstone,” the contempt application against Ward alleges.
The application argues that intimidating a prospective witness, “whether carried out personally or through the direction, instruction, or facilitation of others,” amounts to contempt of court.
Ward did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.
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The Tyee's Brett Mckay brings us “The UCP Tried to Kill a Health Story with Claims That Didn’t Stand Up”
The UCP and the AB GOV clearly captured the healthcare system, and have politicized the administration of healthcare in Alberta. If the Alberta Premier’s office or the UCP have a problem with a news story, they now write from multiple letterheads. If there’s fall out, they can hide behind multiple offices. When Albertans cannot trust the data about how healthcare is delivered, it’s called Propaganda.
Healthcare is a public good, and should not be subject to oppression or suppression from the government. Otherwise Canadians will have no reliable measure of how healthcare is delivered, the effectiveness of projects or initiatives, or whether we are in fact in the midst of a crisis. Rather than an emphasis on service, the UCP healthcare system seems to focus on obedience.
#CorruptCare #Corruption #AHS #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #UCP
#EthicalFading
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The UCP Tried to Kill a Health Story with Claims That Didn’t Stand Up | The Tyee
The Alberta government was quick to react when an Investigative Journalism Foundation investigation revealed that the amount of overtime worked by paramedics in Edmonton had increased by 81 per cent between 2021 and 2024.
The report was republished by several media outlets across Canada last summer through the Local Journalism Initiative.
Staff from Premier Danielle Smith’s office and the Ministry of Hospital and Surgical Health Services immediately began messaging reporters and editors, claiming that data had been omitted and asking that the story be rewritten or deleted. At least one news outlet complied with the government’s request.
But after filing multiple access to information requests, the IJF found that information cited in emails from the premier’s staff doesn’t line up with data from the province’s own health agencies.
That’s a serious problem, said Lorian Hardcastle, a professor in the faculties of law and medicine at the University of Calgary.
“In many cases, government is the only one with access to particular data,” she said. “And so it’s essential to government accountability to democracy for them to be honest and open and transparent with that data.”
“Where that data is false, or where that data is misleading or is manipulated in a way to make it seem more favourable, all of that is really problematic,” Hardcastle said. “And it takes away the ability of the public to hold the government’s feet to the fire to make improvements.” Inaccurate data also makes it harder for those working in the system to make needed changes, she said.
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Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton’s Top Cop
Tyee’s Charles Rusnell follows up on the fall out from Edmonton Police Service’s Chief Warren Driechel, and his office’s notorious attempt to publicly pressure the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Justice System.
Certainly, the article deserves a read because the Chief’s actions in the Rattlesnake case are characterized as “institutional combat”. I’d highlight that the Americans are very familiar with this, because some of their states elect District Attorneys, Sheriffs, and Judges. The US invites this “public brinksmanship” to pit institutions and the public against one another for fame and votes. And, if this is what Chief Driechel wishes to introduce to Alberta, he can always resign now and seek work in the US.
Driechel’s actions have damaged the Criminal Justice system’s core principles, and institutions. Albertans should remember that two senior Crown Prosecutors were terminated, and Justice Minister Mickey Amery denied any involvement in that decision. Also, Premier Danielle Smith publicly supported Driechel, and it’s unclear what her involvement was in yet another assault on Alberta’s institutions.
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The Globe’s Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait bring the latest in the CorruptCare scandal, further confirming that Elections Alberta was disarmed from its role to protect the integrity of the electoral system of Alberta. But, with even more concern, Alberta’s Justice Minister appears unable to identify the conflicts of interest that arise where he is alleged to have an existing relationship with the central figure of the Corrupt Care contracts, Sam Mraiche.
Justice Minister Amery, a lawyer himself, claims he had no knowledge that Elections Alberta was investigating his “old friend”, Sam Mraiche. And, perhaps some grace can be afforded the Minister that no one from Elections Alberta sat with him to say there was such an investigation. But, given the Minister’s position, his networks within the UCP, his alleged relationship with Sam Mraiche, and Sam Mraiche’s own ties to other agents of government, Canadians are left wondering why credibility is so thin here.
The article goes on to share a time line of events for when the Elections Alberta investigation began, to when Justice Minister Amery introduced his amendments to further disarm Elections Alberta, and how these amendments coincidentally worked in Sam Mraiche’s favour.
#CorruptCare #Corruption #AHS #AlbertaUnderSiege #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #MickeyAmery #UCP
#EthicalFading
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
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Alberta Justice Minister curtailed election regulator when Sam Mraiche was under investigation
The Globe’s Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait bring the latest in the CorruptCare scandal, further confirming that Elections Alberta was disarmed from its role to protect the integrity of the electoral system of Alberta. But, with even more concern, Alberta’s Justice Minister appears unable to identify the conflicts of interest that arise where he is alleged to have an existing relationship with the central figure of the Corrupt Care contracts, Sam Mraiche.
Justice Minister Amery, a lawyer himself, claims he had no knowledge that Elections Alberta was investigating his “old friend”, Sam Mraiche. And, perhaps some grace can be afforded the Minister that no one from Elections Alberta sat with him to say there was such an investigation. But, given the Minister’s position, his networks within the UCP, his alleged relationship with Sam Mraiche, and Sam Mraiche’s own ties to other agents of government, Canadians are left wondering why credibility is so thin here.
The article goes on to share a time line of events for when the Elections Alberta investigation began, to when Justice Minister Amery introduced his amendments to further disarm Elections Alberta, and how these amendments coincidentally worked in Sam Mraiche’s favour.
Of interest, there are 6 names that stood out for Elections Alberta due to their lack of cooperation. Elections Alberta then applied for these individuals, and Mraiche, to be held in contempt. The day after Justice Minister Mickey Amery’s amendments were introduced, their lawyer wrote to Elections Alberta that they considered the issue concluded. Canadians have to start wondering if these individuals were waiting the clock, and what exactly informed them of the time left?
Also, with how sophisticated some of the targets of investigation are for Elections Alberta, I ask why should they be restricted to 1 year? Here in Canada, people can be charged for crime with no time limit. When the Justice System itself acknowledges its racism, and actively tries to mitigate it, why then should White Collar criminals be treated with such privilege?
Six people whose names are listed – Ali Haymour, Houssam Ismail, Kamal Mansour, Khawla Al-Tamimi, Majida Kiki and Salim Kherbatly – were found in contempt by an Alberta court in July after Elections Alberta said they had not made themselves available for an interview related to an investigation. Court records for their and Mr. Mraiche’s contempt cases show that both matters concerned a straw-donor investigation launched on April 30, 2024, and shared the same internal Elections Alberta case file number.
Documents filed in the six individuals’ cases show that on May 16 – the day after Mr. Amery’s changes passed in the legislature – their lawyer, George Samia, wrote to Elections Alberta to point out the new time limit.
“Given that the events under investigation occurred more than one year ago, and considering the legislative intent to enforce a one-year limitation period, we submit that the window for investigation into this matter has closed and the investigation has been rendered moot,” he said. “Therefore, our Clients will not be submitting to any further questioning or investigations related to this case.” Mr. Samia did not respond to a request for comment.
The six individuals each agreed to pay the elections authority $1,445 in early January as part of their contempt cases, court records show. They have received no penalty related to the alleged illegal donations, according to Elections Alberta’s website. -
WestJet told passengers flights were cancelled for safety. Records suggest otherwise
Canada’s regulations for airlines are weak. Politicians are simultaneously the most flexible and the weakest link of any system of governance. Politicians are always incentivized to focus on the maintenance of power, creating or seeking gate keepers and keeping these keepers paid in exchange.
Why Canada does not have default fines and compensation menus in favour of airline riders for a crucial public service like air flight?
There was just one problem: Neufeld — a licensed small plane pilot — said the plane was not de-iced while he was on it.
Meanwhile, using publicly available flight info, Neufeld and Lukács uncovered a different sequence of events.
Just eight minutes before Neufeld’s flight was cancelled, WestJet had reassigned the aircraft, which instead flew from Edmonton to Kelowna, B.C., and back that day. For Neufeld’s trip, the airline brought in a different plane — one with mechanical issues.
It was a game of “musical chairs” that the company did not disclose in court documents, said Lukács.
“It’s very serious misconduct, because WestJet had all the knowledge to tell the court, ‘We swapped the aircraft.’ They did not do that.”
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Mehta checked the flight records and learned the plane previously assigned to his flight was still flying that day, completing multiple routes.
“I could definitely see that the aircraft was not grounded for maintenance,” he said. “It was kind of heartbreaking for me to have these findings.”
Mehta wrote to WestJet with the new information. Hearing nothing, he wrote again two weeks later, but the denial held.
Flight records reviewed by Go Public shows that Mehta’s case was similar to Neufeld’s: WestJet swapped out the assigned aircraft for a different plane, then cancelled the flight about an hour later, claiming it was for unplanned maintenance.
“This is surprising,” said Mehta, who was unaware of the last-minute aircraft change. “This is definitely a big development.”
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The Tyee’s Charles Rusnell follows up on the fallout from CorruptCare’s expansion into the Recovery Centres.
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Unpaid Subcontractors for Recovery Centres Say UCP Abandoned Them
The Tyee’s Charles Rusnell follows up on the fallout from CorruptCare’s expansion into the Recovery Centres.
Subcontractors, who have not been paid for months, are blaming the government of Premier Danielle Smith for first failing to provide oversight on more than $100 million of taxpayers’ money and then failing to help resolve the impasse as they struggle to survive.
“This will probably bankrupt us if I don’t get paid,” said one Edmonton subcontractor who hasn’t been paid in more than two months. “I’m about a million dollars out so that is a pretty heavy hit.”
Another Edmonton subcontractor told The Tyee she has been owed more than $500,000 since July 2025.
“This shows to me that the government doesn’t have our back, that we can’t trust the government.
“We can’t trust them with our taxpayers’ money. We can’t trust them on a government-funded project.”
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“Nobody told us anything, and we were just told, ‘Don’t worry, you will get paid,’” said the Métis Nation subcontractor.
“So we kept working. The only reason we finally went off site is because we weren’t believing the bullshit anymore.”
She said it wasn’t until she read The Tyee story that she understood what was going on.
“When I read it, then it became crystal clear to me what the problems were. I was like, ‘OK that is why we haven’t been paid.’ And I was thinking, ‘That is why everyone has been stonewalling me and not telling the truth.’
“None of us subtrades would have known any of this unless we had read your article.”