Alex Middleton
@alexyyc.bsky.social
I've never hated FIFA more. I was too young to understand what was happening in '78.
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I've never hated FIFA more. I was too young to understand what was happening in '78.
They're scared witless of Guthrie. Wonder how their base enjoys taking power out of the hands of the people.
The UCP are cartoon villains.
The UCP are cartoon villains.
So Alberta's latest proposed law would:
👉 Take power over citizen-led referendums from the chief electoral officer & give it to cabinet.
👉 Ban new political parties from using certain words in their names, including: 'conservative,' 'democratic,' 'liberal,' 'Republican,' and 'wild rose.'
👉 Take power over citizen-led referendums from the chief electoral officer & give it to cabinet.
👉 Ban new political parties from using certain words in their names, including: 'conservative,' 'democratic,' 'liberal,' 'Republican,' and 'wild rose.'
Alberta legislation would change citizen referendum rules, restrict political party names | CBC News
Bill 14, introduced Thursday by Justice Minister Mickey Amery, transfers powers from the chief electoral officer to the minister when deciding whether citizen petition initiatives should proceed. It a...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
They're scared witless of Guthrie. Wonder how their base enjoys taking power out of the hands of the people.
The UCP are cartoon villains.
The UCP are cartoon villains.
Are we ready to give our mountains to Australian coal billionaires to blow to smithereens and pollute our rivers, Alberta?
“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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BREAKING: Big Aussie Coal *is* Going to Strip Mine the Alberta Rockies After All
“When it comes to coal mining, people do not want to see mountaintop removal,” she said.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Are we ready to give our mountains to Australian coal billionaires to blow to smithereens and pollute our rivers, Alberta?
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Alberta’s health agency has cancelled negotiations with two companies owned in part by Sam Mraiche, the Edmonton businessman at the centre of the province’s procurement controversy. By @carrietait.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli
Alberta ends procurement talks with two firms tied to businessman at centre of health care controversy
The two companies owned in part by Sam Mraiche were in negotiations to build private surgical facilities
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Alberta’s health agency has cancelled negotiations with two companies owned in part by Sam Mraiche, the Edmonton businessman at the centre of the province’s procurement controversy. By @carrietait.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli
Council should absolutely fund more recreation/sports facilities in Calgary. We used to be known as a sports city but we have fallen very far behind most municipalities.
Just want to point out that there is ONE public rec. facility in Ward 8 currently. There are almost 100,000 people in Ward 8.
Just want to point out that there is ONE public rec. facility in Ward 8 currently. There are almost 100,000 people in Ward 8.
Ward 5 Coun. Raj Dhaliwal introduces an amendment that asks for $65M from reserves to help fund the Northeast Athletic Complex. It also asks for $28.7M from reserves for upgrades at a number of athletic fields and parks. There's also $3M from reserves to the YMCA.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Council should absolutely fund more recreation/sports facilities in Calgary. We used to be known as a sports city but we have fallen very far behind most municipalities.
Just want to point out that there is ONE public rec. facility in Ward 8 currently. There are almost 100,000 people in Ward 8.
Just want to point out that there is ONE public rec. facility in Ward 8 currently. There are almost 100,000 people in Ward 8.
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I agree with this.
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.”
..
Guilbeault said Smith “will never be satisfied” and trying to placate her is a mistake."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.”
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Guilbeault said Smith “will never be satisfied” and trying to placate her is a mistake."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I agree with this.
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.”
..
Guilbeault said Smith “will never be satisfied” and trying to placate her is a mistake."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.”
..
Guilbeault said Smith “will never be satisfied” and trying to placate her is a mistake."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It is becoming clear that City Hall will largely be inner city councillors vs. suburban councillors. Unfortunately, suburban councillors outnumber inner city councillors 3 to 1. Even though Calgary's downtown contributes to the tax base far more than 3 to 1 relative to the suburbs.
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It is becoming clear that City Hall will largely be inner city councillors vs. suburban councillors. Unfortunately, suburban councillors outnumber inner city councillors 3 to 1. Even though Calgary's downtown contributes to the tax base far more than 3 to 1 relative to the suburbs.
Chabot will then turn and give CPS all the money they ask for. And this motion will make the lives of CPS members, and obviously those who are struggling, much more difficult.
Council is now debating a motion from Ward 10 Coun. Andre Chabot that would take the city's mental health and addictions program out of the base operating budget, and move it into one-time funding.
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Chabot will then turn and give CPS all the money they ask for. And this motion will make the lives of CPS members, and obviously those who are struggling, much more difficult.
This will end up going very badly for Calgary down the road. 2M population projected by the end of the decade. Major infrastructure deficit. Expanding suburbs. Council will cut off their nose to spite their face here.
NEW: Mayor Farkas says there are currently 35 amendments coming from Calgary city council on this budget. One proposes using an additional $50M in city investment income to lower the overall property tax increase from 3.6% to 1.6%.
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This will end up going very badly for Calgary down the road. 2M population projected by the end of the decade. Major infrastructure deficit. Expanding suburbs. Council will cut off their nose to spite their face here.
Because we have 0 pace on the wing, Watkins has been dire, Sancho(looks like he'd rather be anywhere else) is a ball losing machine, and we struggle to beat teams playing a low block.
But... I would've accused anyone who said we'd be 3rd now after our start of being on hallucinogens.
But... I would've accused anyone who said we'd be 3rd now after our start of being on hallucinogens.
FT: #AVFC 1-0 Wolves
So sluggish until Kamara's hit. The win was an illustration of two things: Emery's Villa just find a way at home, even when they're bad. Secondly, worldies and other long-range strikes keep defying underlying metrics and the lack of regular chance creation.
So sluggish until Kamara's hit. The win was an illustration of two things: Emery's Villa just find a way at home, even when they're bad. Secondly, worldies and other long-range strikes keep defying underlying metrics and the lack of regular chance creation.
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Because we have 0 pace on the wing, Watkins has been dire, Sancho(looks like he'd rather be anywhere else) is a ball losing machine, and we struggle to beat teams playing a low block.
But... I would've accused anyone who said we'd be 3rd now after our start of being on hallucinogens.
But... I would've accused anyone who said we'd be 3rd now after our start of being on hallucinogens.
How much do we think that the managing director of BMO Capital Markets makes a year? And how much do we think this flippant comment will end up costing BMO?
Direct quote from BMO Capital Markets managing director. So he's okay with plowing through the habitat of endangered species and digging up graveyards?
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
How much do we think that the managing director of BMO Capital Markets makes a year? And how much do we think this flippant comment will end up costing BMO?
Long after Danielle Smith is gone... future generations of Albertans will pay for her slavish relationship with O&G companies.
Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
Alberta faces $6.4-billion deficit as falling oil prices and trade troubles take toll
This year’s budget represents a massive multibillion-dollar swing from an $8.3-billion surplus last year
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Long after Danielle Smith is gone... future generations of Albertans will pay for her slavish relationship with O&G companies.
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Whoa. It’s called “zoom” - quite a way to respond to the Coastal First Nations request for a meeting especially when he refused to meet them before the MOU that directly affects them was announced - while doing over 50 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists.
HODGSON: It's called Zoom. I think that's what we're using.
COCHRANE: I understand. But I'm also not a Coastal First Nation Chief.
COCHRANE: I understand. But I'm also not a Coastal First Nation Chief.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Whoa. It’s called “zoom” - quite a way to respond to the Coastal First Nations request for a meeting especially when he refused to meet them before the MOU that directly affects them was announced - while doing over 50 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists.
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If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
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MOU reactions hot take:
So about that 2050 net zero claim from the Pathways website (courtesy of the wayback machine)?
So about that 2050 net zero claim from the Pathways website (courtesy of the wayback machine)?
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
MOU reactions hot take:
So about that 2050 net zero claim from the Pathways website (courtesy of the wayback machine)?
So about that 2050 net zero claim from the Pathways website (courtesy of the wayback machine)?
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Abertans have had their say — and every time, we've said no to coal.
Demand answers, and demand action.
Send a letter to your MLA telling them you oppose coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of Alberta's #RockyMountains.
And ask them: What are you doing, or going to do, about it?
#MountainsNotMines
Demand answers, and demand action.
Send a letter to your MLA telling them you oppose coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of Alberta's #RockyMountains.
And ask them: What are you doing, or going to do, about it?
#MountainsNotMines
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Abertans have had their say — and every time, we've said no to coal.
Demand answers, and demand action.
Send a letter to your MLA telling them you oppose coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of Alberta's #RockyMountains.
And ask them: What are you doing, or going to do, about it?
#MountainsNotMines
Demand answers, and demand action.
Send a letter to your MLA telling them you oppose coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of Alberta's #RockyMountains.
And ask them: What are you doing, or going to do, about it?
#MountainsNotMines
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We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
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1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline:
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline:
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
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Spain has become the Western world's economic-growth leader -- with the lowest deficits in Europe to boot -- by using the same toolkit Ottawa has before it (immigration plus investment in big capital projects), but doing it right. We should learn from them
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Spain has become an economic leader by using Ottawa’s toolkit the right way
The once-flagging Spanish economy has been turbocharged by big infrastructure investments, the green-energy transition and immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Spain has become the Western world's economic-growth leader -- with the lowest deficits in Europe to boot -- by using the same toolkit Ottawa has before it (immigration plus investment in big capital projects), but doing it right. We should learn from them
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
A more accurate headline would be...
'Some suburban councillors take aim at downtown office conversion incentives'
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
'Some suburban councillors take aim at downtown office conversion incentives'
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
As budget talks continue, some councillors take aim at downtown office conversion incentives
As councillors prepare amendments for next year's budget, a cohort is criticizing downtown office-to-residential conversion incentives.
calgaryherald.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A more accurate headline would be...
'Some suburban councillors take aim at downtown office conversion incentives'
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
'Some suburban councillors take aim at downtown office conversion incentives'
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
A new pipeline will fix everything!
Alberta's 2025/26 fiscal year started April 1 and its next fiscal update is due later this week.
I don't have a crystal ball but if I had to guess the tone in a single emoji, I'd go with 😬
I don't have a crystal ball but if I had to guess the tone in a single emoji, I'd go with 😬
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A new pipeline will fix everything!
Imagine your legacy on Calgary City Council is championing funding cuts to a program that allows folks that can't afford it to take the train to their job or to take their children to school.
While also voting to pay for a new hockey arena.
Is this why people go into politics?
While also voting to pay for a new hockey arena.
Is this why people go into politics?
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Imagine your legacy on Calgary City Council is championing funding cuts to a program that allows folks that can't afford it to take the train to their job or to take their children to school.
While also voting to pay for a new hockey arena.
Is this why people go into politics?
While also voting to pay for a new hockey arena.
Is this why people go into politics?