“that’s the truest answer to “what went wrong.” She was never forced to choose between caring and power until the stakes got high enough. Now the separatist base she’s riding demands she treat First Nations as obstacles” Read this. The selling out of Danielle Smith by herself.

Thank you to my MP for his well-explained position on Alberta and our place in Canada.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

P.K. Subban has fulfilled his $10 million commitment to Montreal Children’s Hospital — the largest donation by an athlete in Canadian history ❤️ A decade-long promise kept, with approximately 100,000 children helped. Respect 🫡

The new government of Hungary after inauguration. Never been so cool to be Hungarian.

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

Brilliant #maga

NY’s Archbishop Hicks: “Just as Irish immigrants once came to this country seeking hope and opportunity, today many immigrants come to our nation…we are called to see them not as strangers, but as brothers and sisters.” thegoodnewsroom.org/full-tex…

🇨🇦 I love my country. I love being Canadian. No matter what’s happening in the world, I will always be proud to call Canada home. This country has given me opportunities, freedom, and a life I’m grateful for every single day. So today I want to say Happy Birthday to @MarkJCarney ✨🥂 Leading, serving, and representing a country is no small job, and I wish you the very best year ahead. Love from Alberta — your home province. 🇨🇦 — Cassandra

The Hegemon’s Mutation The Financial Times interview of March 9, 2026 will be studied for decades. Not for what it revealed about Iran, but for what it revealed about the United States. The structure is now visible. America decides unilaterally to bomb Iran. It consults no ally. It seeks no congressional authorization. Its decision closes the Strait of Hormuz, triggers the worst energy crisis since the 1970s, and sends oil to $106. Then it turns to every nation harmed by the consequences of its own decision and says: help me fix this or I will destroy the institutions that protect you. That is not an alliance. It is an extraction system. Europe is told to send minesweepers and commandos to clear a coastline in a war it did not choose, did not plan, and did not authorize. A French soldier is already dead. An Italian aircraft is already destroyed. And if Europe refuses, the President says it will be “very bad for the future of NATO.” The security guarantee is being weaponized by the actor who created the insecurity. Japan and South Korea face the same logic with a second layer of coercion. Both depend on Gulf oil. Both depend on the US security umbrella against China. Trump closed the source of their energy and now conditions their protection on participation in his war. That is not alliance. That is addiction managed by a single dealer. The mutation is complete. What was built after 1945 as a system of mutual obligation among democracies has been converted into a unilateral extraction mechanism: Washington decides, Washington acts, and the world pays in blood, treasure, and sovereignty for consequences it had no part in creating. But the unwritten law of international relations is absolute: where there is power, there is resistance. Every bully mistakes submission for loyalty. It never is. The allies who comply today will remember the coercion. The allies who refuse will build alternatives. And when the hegemon stumbles, and it will, neither group will come to its aid. They will watch. And some will celebrate. Empires that consume their allies do not fall to enemies. They fall to loneliness.

So glad to get this breakdown of Restore the North. I find it very troubling to know this movement is active in Canada. I believe it is a misguided step in the wrong direction. I keep thinking we are not far behind the US in terms of how scary the political right might become.

I have never claimed to be a theologian but I do have two degrees in theology and have been a priest for 17 years. NOWHERE in the bible or in any serious theology I have ever read are Christians told that we should start wars to hasten the return of Jesus. This is a perversion of our faith.

To support Tory - the PC alternative Alberta needs: albertatory.ca/donate #abpoli #ableg #alberta #Tory #Toryparty

It's not just me. Conservatives have been against Trudeau's reckless immigration policy for years. #abpoli #ableg

Asylum claimant's healthcare costs are $1645/year in 2024/25 (PBO). Canadians' healthcare costs are $6446/year in 2024 (CIHI). Mr. Poilievre states asylum claimants get "deluxe" medical care. He should check his "facts".

I’ve never had an ER shift where after seeing patients on EMS stretchers and in the hallway, and my admitted patients stay days in the ER - where felt it was due to temporary foreign workers or asylum seekers. If there is an ER doc who has I’d like to hear that.

The pontiff has called for "deep reflection" about the way migrants are being treated in the U.S. under Donald Trump's administration. huffpost.com/entry/pope-leo-…

Insanity in America. Who can young people look to for leadership?

You are absolutely allowed to leave Canada. You just can’t take a chunk of it with you. As for the constitution, it’s true: it’s very hard to change. Too hard. That needs to change — for everybody’s sake. The country needs a better amending formula — one that is based on the consent of the people, not the consent of the premiers. But whatever formula is chosen, it can never be the case that one part of the country can impose constitutional changes on the rest of the country merely by voting on it — or legislating it. It’s wrong, and unconstitutional, when the government of Quebec does it, or purports to. And it’s just as wrong when the government of Alberta does it. Or purports to. Constitutional change, of any kind, can only be the result of a broad consensus across the country. That’s especially true of the kind of constitutional change that would be required to break up the country. A final point, which has been made a thousand times, but it seems needs to be made a thousand more: equalization is not unfair to Alberta. It’s a screwed-up, dysfunctional, politicized program that doesn’t actually equalize. But it’s not paid for by Alberta, and it’s not an interprovincial revenue-sharing program. It’s a federal spending program paid for by federal taxpayers. Even as federal taxpayers, Albertan’s don’t pay into it disproportionately. They face exactly the same schedule of tax rates as taxpayers in the rest of the country. The people who pay disproportionately for it are richer people. They’re supposed to: that’s how a progressive income tax works. All these feverish calculations of how much more Albertans pay into the federal treasury than other Canadians are only a statement of how much richer Albertans are, on average, than other Canadians — a blessing, and a burden, they have in common with Canadians in, for example, midtown Toronto, who also pay “disproportionately” for equalization and other federal programs, only without the same vast industry devoted to showing how hard done by they are. The only way in which you could say that equalization treats Alberta “differently” than other provinces is that its government does not qualify, and has never qualified, for equalization payments. But that’s not discrimination either — there’s no law that says “Alberta shall not be eligible for equalization payments.” The reason it does not receive equalization is because it is, by far, the richest province in the country, with by far the highest per capita revenues — even without a provincial sales tax. Equalization is messed up enough, but an equalization program that paid out to the richest province in the federation would be completely insane. Maybe we shouldn’t have a progressive income tax. Maybe we shouldn’t have an equalization program. I happen to think we need both, albeit in substantially modified form, but those are legitimate questions for debate. What’s not legitimate is pretending that equalization is some kind of scam against Alberta. What’s even less legitimate is pretending you can abolish or reform a federal program by a referendum in one province. And what’s least legitimate of all is invoking the failure of that non-solution to a non-problem as justification for the constitutional nonsense of secession — which, to repeat, is the proposition that you can not only leave Canada, but take a piece of it with you.