Don’t fucking let “us” touch the courts, Canada.
She’s a Trump-loving fascist, and a separatist traitor.
It’sntime for the federal government to get a judge to rule on the legality of her actions.
They already have a case about the NWC cooking. Maybe they can sue her for the money to fulfill Alberta’s court system obligations next.
We are so fucked if we don’t dethrone this bitch next election
The polls are looking better and better, fortunately.
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Yup. Last poll on Dec. 20th, too. Presumably the trend has continued.
Here’s to hoping it continues! 🍺
It’s improving but NDP is still polling 5 points behind in Calgary, which is concerning
Where are you getting that number? The 5% lead shown here is for the whole province, including rural areas. Although I guess Edmonton is in there too.
https://press.liaisonstrategies.ca/alberta-ucp-ndp-locked-in-tight-race/
The critical battleground of Calgary shows a competitive landscape, with the UCP leading at 48% and the NDP trailing at 43%.
Huh, thanks. That’s actually more recent than the polls in the graph, I wonder when they’re going to get it put up.
Calgary is definitely going to be the battleground. Having a prominent former Calgary mayor as candidate should help at least a bit. I can’t say it’s impossible we’ll elect her again, but I can say all her ideas are unpopular, and that her messaging isn’t strong.
The graph is a projection based on an aggregation of polls, it already accounts for it. For context, it’s from https://338canada.com/alberta
No, it ends on Dec. 20th. It looks like your link is from 2026. They haven’t added it yet.
And none of that matters. Because here in Alberta we vote by color and not policies. And yes I used American spelling on purpose.
That pretty much is the issue, yep. If she wins, it’s because she isn’t so totally unacceptable that she breaks the pattern.
Following the Trump playbook.
I really hate the americanization of politics that is happening - from PP’s slogans and refusal to engage on any meaningful topic, to this garbage in Alberta.
I wish there was a way of stamping this out for good, rather than having these voices amplified in our media, etc…
I know I’m preaching to the choir here but, in general Canada (with the exception of Quebec) consumes way too much American media. The whole world consumes a lot of American media, of course, but with our proximity and prior cultural similarities this is an especially insidious problem for us. Because the end result is the spreading of American culture and values at the expense of our own. For example it’s not uncommon to come across someone who knows more about American politics than Canadian politics, or who knows more about the NYC mayoral run (or something trendy like that) than the local elections happening in their own city. In this kind of information environment it’s not surprising that our politics would gradually become Americanized.
Fixing this problem is tricky, and any full solution will need to attack it from multiple angles. But part of the solution is having more Canadian spaces where we can talk about distinctly Canadian issues and share distinctly Canadian media (even if it’s something as trivial as Heated Rivalry or The Trailer Park Boys). And the fediverse is of course great for that. Lemmy.ca, mstdn.ca, piefed.ca, etc, these are all distinctly Canadian spaces. So let’s help these places grow by participating in them and sharing them with others. Let’s get more of our fellow Canadians in these Canadian spaces. The more popular these spaces are the less we will need to rely on American alternatives, and the less we rely on American alternatives the less influence America will have on our politics and culture more generally.
She’s engineering a backlash against the justice system. By finding way to defund the justice system, she’s amplifying the already revolving door nature of the courts to justify brutal police crackdowns. By manufacturing a crisis she can engineer public consent for independence.
Postmedia will help her out by bringing attention to each scary sounding criminal who ends up falling through the cracks thanks to this lack of funding, and they’ll try to misrepresent the situation as current judges being soft on crime.
It’s depressing that it will work on a good portion of Albertans, just like when UCP cut municipal funding to Calgary and Edmonton, then Postmedia ran a campaign smearing the councils for not being good fiscal managers, leaving out the important detail of the UCP withholding funding and interfering in city projects costing cities millions of dollars.
O&G trying to bias the courts in their favour. 🙄
This is probably more about separatism, and Alberta potentially being forced to respect Charter/human rights they don’t like. The O&G crowd is just fine with things as they are.
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Absolutely not true. We’re talking about polar opposite ends of the class spectrum, and the UCP is itself unstable because of the populist vs. establishment tension that has resulted.
I see this dichotomy at play in my everyday life, living here.
