Alberta

J.D. Tuccille: Alberta has more economic freedom than any province, but lags behind 29 U.S. states

Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside interference — in particular, without government meddling. Freedom applies in different areas of life, and we know that economic freedom leads to better outcomes including higher income, lower unemployment, reduced poverty, and greater overall wellbeing. So, Albertans should be proud that their province was recently ranked as the economically freest in Canada. Unfortunately, that only puts it in 30th place among the provinces and states of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada

New poll suggests one in five Albertans would vote to separate

Although Alberta separatists are organizing for an independence referendum and say they’re gaining momentum, a new poll released Friday suggested that only one-fifth of Alberta respondents would vote to separate.

The Pollara Strategic Insights survey found that 19 per cent of the 1,000 Albertans surveyed say they would vote for separation, and 75 per cent would vote against it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

Alberta’s independence movement is a global rarity: right-wing separatists

OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

While the (mostly) centre-left Parti Québécois and democratic socialist Québec Solidaire have long fronted Quebec’s separatist movement, Alberta separatism is an almost entirely right-wing phenomenon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada

JEANES: Fearmongering from the propaganda wing of Canada’s federal government

Uh-oh… Someone from Ottawa must have had a word with National Post mucky mucks last April about the money they receive from the federal government.

It probably went something like this: “Hi guys! Did you get our check? Would you like to get next month’s too? Then how about publishing an editorial on what a bad idea Alberta independence is. You’re welcome. No need to thank us.”

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Eby’s anti-oil stance could force Washington State pipeline route

How’s this for a win-win deal? Alberta lets Premier David Eby, his B.C. NDP government and radical, anti-development First Nations group live in their little “green” bubble west of the Rockies while Alberta finds an investor or investors to build a pipeline to the West Coast through Montana, Idaho and Washington state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, BC, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to pass bill offering protections from so called “gender affirming care”

Alberta’s governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the fourth time in under two months they have used the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.

Members of Premier Danielle Smith’s caucus used their majority to pass on third and final reading a bill affecting transgender citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Big Tranny

Mark Carney and Danielle Smith may be in for more hassle than they bargained for

Danielle Smith was flying high last Thursday as she and Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Calgary. Interesting that it was called an MOU and not an agreement, although most of the news media, and Smith herself, talked about it in those terms.

So now Carney and Smith have an “understanding” that an oil pipeline may be built from Alberta to the northwest coast of B.C. despite the oil tanker ban and B.C. premier David Eby’s objections; the industrial carbon price may go up in Alberta; and Alberta may get its multibillion Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage facility. That’s an awful lot of uncertainty given all the hype and hoopla surrounding the announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MACLEOD: Pipeline promises, political games: Why Ottawa’s ‘lifeline’ to Alberta oil always ends in betrayal

This latest Canada-Alberta MOU is just another chapter in the same infuriating story we’ve lived through for fifty years: Ottawa dangles a lifeline to the oil patch when it needs votes or headlines, then quietly lets the rope go slack the moment BC coastal outrage or a Vancouver fundraiser kicks in.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta to Bar Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Buyback

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will table a motion next week under the Alberta Sovereignty Act that would instruct all provincial entities to refuse to enforce or prosecute matters under the federal gun buyback program.

Smith made the comments on Nov. 29 during a keynote address at her United Conservative Party’s annual convention, where she outlined her government’s priorities and next steps. She said the proposed motion would apply to all provincial entities, including municipalities and law-enforcement agencies, and would include provisions to prevent them from prosecuting Albertans “defending their homes and families from intruders.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Alberta vows to defy federal gun laws as Smith unveils sweeping pushback

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will move next week to block enforcement of Ottawa’s new firearm legislation, marking one of the strongest sovereignty-based challenges her United Conservative Party has launched against federal authority to date.

Speaking to supporters more than an hour late at the UCP AGM in Edmonton, Smith said her government will table a motion under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act ordering all provincial agencies — including municipalities and police services — to refuse to enforce or prosecute the federal gun grab program.

h/t SM (Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

The Carney-Smith agreement surely won’t make pipelines ‘boring again’

Shortly after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith formally signed their memorandum of understanding on Thursday, Smith joked to reporters in Calgary that she would love for “pipelines to be boring again.”

It’s not clear that pipelines have ever been boring — they have been associated with political tumult in Canada for at least 70 years. And given the great questions that are still tied up in both the idea and the reality of an interprovincial pipe — the unresolved work of reconciliation, the lack of a complete answer to the present and future threat of climate change, the fear for national unity — it is difficult to imagine that a pipeline could easily be made boring in this moment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Donald Trump’s fingerprints are all over Mark Carney’s Alberta deal

Basking in the glow of new-found friendship between Ottawa and Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith declared that this day would never have arrived if Justin Trudeau was still prime minister.

“I can tell you 100 per cent that the former prime minister would never have moved this far on these issues,” Smith said, after she and Mark Carney unveiled a whole new energy-and-environment deal between Canada and Alberta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?