north52.bsky.social
@north52.bsky.social
Tiller of stone and cleaver of wood.
Danielle Smith wastes $29 million dollars because she was clueless about the Alberta-US border. Political theatre to throw shade on the Federal Border Agents and the RCMP. Interview with the Alberta rancher who was glad to see money wasted, no doubt a UCP voter.

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December 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Some critical information for Danielle Smith; unfortunately she doesn’t value data based analysis or science.
Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great thread by Sean Carsten and very relevant to Canadian and Alberta at this time. Ignoring climate change and future declining fossil fuel production for current policies of unlimited growth is short term political expediency. BAU…no plan B.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trumps first truthful speech. To bad it is an Ai generated one.
December 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Racist, greedy climate change denier, bully demands apology for being called out. Danielle competing with Trump for victim of the year award.
1. If you have to invoke the notwithstanding clause because you’re afraid of losing court cases that challenge your law as unconstitutional, your law is in fact immoral.

2. Actions have consequences. Suck it up, Danielle.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called the organization’s refusal to hold events in the province “disgraceful” and said her government expects an apology.

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December 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Lawyer wearing a cowboy hat because everyone knows lawyers are the salt of the earth working men?

Danielle working to convince the indigenous leadership to just trust her after she just used a machine gun applications of the NWC to suppress constitutional rights!

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December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Alberta pushing ahead with dangerous higher speed highways based on the biased government survey. “Trial Plan” is just code word for how many more people get maimed and killed over current “acceptable” carnage. At least the trial road section is …

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
Alberta to test 120 km/h speed limit on some highways
The province says it will test a 120 km/h speed limit on some highways next year after a survey found most Albertans support the speed increase.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Charity Plan sens chills up my spine. We tried that experiment, hence we have governments as a social safety net. Charities can do small things but never serve full society needs. #AbLeg #Abpoli #CdnPoli
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trump and his criminal gang of misfits dismantling the human potential to mitigate the climate crisis. Everyone in the world will suffer the consequences.
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Alberta’s government goal to double fossil fuel production and promoting new coal mining…business as usual while scientists report catastrophic changes around the world.
December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Can we just park this? No. Our current government seems hell-bent on dumping the downsides of global warming on our children.
Playing around with this #cartoon sketch concept ...thoughts? #wip #environment #climatecrisis #nzpol #uspol
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Canada ex Alberta where the Premier Danielle Smith thinks the USA system looks great 🤪🤑🤑🤑
Every Fucking progressive Democracy in the World

Has universal or Single Payer Healthcare

Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Germany
France
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Spain
Japan
UK
Taiwan

And the Richest Nation in the World, the good old USA?

Shit

Why?

Republicans are shit people
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Optimistic? Nothing says the human species won’t be part of the current extinction event along with the Earth ecosystem civilization is destroying. But, look over here we are going to Mars.
December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Elon Musk is the P.T. Barnum of the 21st century
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P. T. Barnum - Wikipedia
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December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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When growth stops ..
What will happen if economic growth has come to an end?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Post about the USA but, applies to Danielle Smith and her push to run rough shod over the judiciary and laws that protect the public from exploitation by the wealthy elites.
“We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak”: exactly. This sums up exactly what makes our social tolerance of elite impunity so pernicious.
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Remarkable scientist and story especially at this time in history with the USA Government mandating a complete denial of decades of scientific research and analysis.
🙏 The film is now available for free on YouTube. Check it out here!

youtu.be/52IHWl2dHNU
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Smith finally said it out loud...

She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services.

Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Acting Chief Teri Vellibrun with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations made her position very clear today!

The AFCN stand with coastal First Nations and against everything in the pipeline MOU.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Danielle Smith dismantling public services as fast as she can. Public enquiry required into corruption in the UCP government.
Alberta has passed Bill 11, allowing doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics while working in the public system. This is American-style health care, and if Alberta succeeds, other provinces will follow. share.nwmd.social/s/bhNoLjY9
Urge Minister Michel: stop Alberta's two-tier health care law
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December 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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#cdnpoli #abpoli Maybe PM @mark-carney.bsky.social will take the NWC battle to Danielle. Info from the fed NDP "...Sections 55 to 57 of the Constitution Act, 1867 give the federal government the authority to disallow a provincial law after it has been enacted." You can't play nice with MAGA.
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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We should all be in open rebellion.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift?

Damn straight.

youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...
Alberta Small-c Conservatives Should be Appalled by Smith's Attacks on Judges
YouTube video by Energi Media
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December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM