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“Alberta’s government is considering spending $6 billion to redirect existing natural gas pipelines toward data centres and build a new transmission pipeline to serve them (data centers).”
This is the first I’ve heard about taxpayers paying to redirect and build LNG pipelines!!!
Alberta’s Data Centre Boom Could Triple Power Bills, Utilities Warn
The government says the risk is all private. Its own documents disagree
thewalrus.ca/alberta-data-ce… #ableg
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Canada just received its second consecutive Fossil award, outing our poor climate record. PM Carney now ID’d as a top 3 international climate danger. No wonder he’s skipping COP31.
Worst part? He knows better, but is clearly captured by the oil and gas lobby.
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“Despite oil wealth ranking Alberta the richest province, new numbers show it now ranks dead last among all provinces on total per capita spending on health care infrastructure”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Experts finally acknowledge what we at the AFL have been saying for years: the oil and gas industry is making massive profits and breaking production records, while at the same time shedding jobs for Albertans AND constantly playing the victim.
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No faction of the Democratic Party can declare victory after the midterms. The Republican implosion is so great that all Dem factions won, from democratic socialists to corporate centrists. Fascism is not defeated by one election (it can always be reconstituted into something even more dangerous…) but it can be, and we know how to do it. With left economic populism. Too radical? Wrong. One of Trump’s most significant legacies is that he exploded the Overton window. Anything is possible - for worse and for better. That means Democrats no longer have any excuse not to run on - and deliver - the policies that will actually meet people’s basic needs and address our most pressing crises, from systemic political corruption to climate breakdown. Bold, people-first policies is how we beat back fascism for real.
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Governments don't generally impose time limits on motions they are confident in defending. So for the UCP to have just 1 hour of debate on their new electoral map, it's an indication this whole thing is exactly what we think it is — cheating. #ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/pol…
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The NDP won just ONE election, interrupting decades of uninterrupted Conservative rule, and it spooked them so bad that they welcomed traitors, terrorists, and extremists under their banner
Now they're fixing elections
Those are all things that happen in one-party dictatorships
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In most established democracies, including over 80% of the OECD, proportional representation means a result like this would deny Ford’s PCs a majority, forcing cooperation.
Under first-past-the-post, it delivers Ford another majority to govern unchecked.
(Models Available To Subscribers)
Ontario Provincial Polling:
PCPO: 39% (-4)
OLP: 32% (+2)
ONDP: 22% (+3)
GPO: 3% (-2)
Others: 4%
Liaison / Oct 31, 2026 / n=960 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
(% Change with 2025 Election)
Check out more ON details on @338Canada at: 338canada.com/ontario/
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"The time has long since passed for principled conservatives to stand up to far-right politics in Alberta. This is no longer about ends over means. If we cannot win elections without cheating, we don’t deserve to win. No, now it is about whether conservatives are willing to conserve democracy itself. "
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The rich are wildly rich -- not because they’ve performed brilliantly, but because the rules are rigged in their favour. And now for some more rigging... #canlab
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Avi Lewis on Stelco: "The CEO has admitted on CBC that he bought this company in order to take out the competition for his U.S. steel mills. And now he's violating the law by by laying off hundreds of workers potentially right before Christmas. This is obscene."
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Canada already tested basic income. In the 1970s, Dauphin, Manitoba got a guaranteed income. People kept working, more teens finished high school, and hospital visits dropped. We have the evidence. What we need now is the political will.
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Don't forget first-past-the-post's role here.
Eby gambled on a snap election with ~40% polling, hoping to expand his majority.
Proportional representation would end this toxic incentive to gamble and encourage genuine cooperation instead.
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Under first-past-the-post, ruling parties can just redraw riding boundaries to carve out winnable seats.
With proportional representation, parties can’t rely on boundary tricks, they’d actually have to work for your vote everywhere. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…
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Gary Mason on election interference: "There's one set of rules for them, and another set of rules for everybody else. And people are fed up with it. The rest of the world is fed up with it. And that's why the U.S. has become a pariah country. People don't like them. Canadians don't like them."
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Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power.
fairvote.ca/25/10/2026/bc-co…
ALT BC election popular vote versus seats