@notHarper
@notharper.bsky.social
A radical pragmatist from Calgary. Birder, cat and dog lover, retired Social Studies Jr High teacher and Danielle Smith/Pierre Poilievre nemesis. Formula 1 fanatic. He, him. Slava Ukraini 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
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I came of age in an era when people thought seriously and debated fiercely about what Canada meant to them.
Now, an angry minority are trying to bamboozle Albertans into quitting the country.
albertaviews.ca/subscribe
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
#ABpoli #ABleg #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
Now, an angry minority are trying to bamboozle Albertans into quitting the country.
albertaviews.ca/subscribe
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
#ABpoli #ABleg #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I came of age in an era when people thought seriously and debated fiercely about what Canada meant to them.
Now, an angry minority are trying to bamboozle Albertans into quitting the country.
albertaviews.ca/subscribe
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
#ABpoli #ABleg #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
Now, an angry minority are trying to bamboozle Albertans into quitting the country.
albertaviews.ca/subscribe
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
#ABpoli #ABleg #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
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For those of you following "Operation Total Recall" in Alberta, here's the latest.
The province's far right wing government lowered the threshold for recall to please their base...and have they ever "found out."
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
The province's far right wing government lowered the threshold for recall to please their base...and have they ever "found out."
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Recall petition paperwork approved for 9 new MLAs, says campaign group
The initial paperwork for nine new recall petitions against Alberta MLAs has been approved and is waiting for next steps before signature collection, according to organizers of a provincewide campaign...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
For those of you following "Operation Total Recall" in Alberta, here's the latest.
The province's far right wing government lowered the threshold for recall to please their base...and have they ever "found out."
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
The province's far right wing government lowered the threshold for recall to please their base...and have they ever "found out."
#ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Well of course, just flood the zone with utter nonsense, a page out of the great corrupter #SteveBannon, friend of #Epstein... great adviser for the #UCP ##FASCIST party. Leave THOSE KIDS ALONE. #BrickInTheWall #ButtOut #Abpoli #Ableg #DEIisCanada #NotYourBusiness
Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention
Alberta UCP to consider policy proposal banning Pride flags on public property | Xtra Magazine
Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention
xtramagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well of course, just flood the zone with utter nonsense, a page out of the great corrupter #SteveBannon, friend of #Epstein... great adviser for the #UCP ##FASCIST party. Leave THOSE KIDS ALONE. #BrickInTheWall #ButtOut #Abpoli #Ableg #DEIisCanada #NotYourBusiness
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Tiresome #O&G blather. Nearly 7 decades of it (booooring) and the dumbing down of oilpatch chat (HARD TO DO) curdles my tummy contents. Grow UP #REDNECKS. You are embarrassing. Plenty of us in #Alberta aren't rigpiggies. I loved #Carney doing his shtick.... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Mark Carney calls pipeline talk "so boring" in front of a Toronto audience, triggering most of Alberta. @supriya.bsky.social says there's a different (and positive) way to interpret the PM's comment. What do you make of it?
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111025Supriya
🎧: rtrj.info/111025 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111025Supriya
🎧: rtrj.info/111025 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I put #DanielleSmith and #DougFord at the centre of this toxic embarrassment. Underfunding healthcare, public health and education, while actively allowing anti-vax nonsense to impact policy decisions. #ONpoli #ableg #measles #cenpoli
Excuse my language, but fucking anti vaxxers who have no compassion or empathy for others caused this. Listen to Science not the keyboard warriors who think they know more than doctors.
#Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/c...
#Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/c...
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
TORONTO — The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country has officially lost its measles elimination status, which it had held since 1998. The federal agency says the Pan American Health Organiza...
halifax.citynews.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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How Canada can regain its measles elimination status (Business)
How Canada can regain its measles elimination status - Business News
Infectious disease experts say Canada's loss of measles elimination status shows how badly investment is needed in public health, rebuilding vaccine confidence and solving the primary care crisis.
www.castanet.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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They call it “sovereignty.”
It’s really a corporate coup.
Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act turns outrage into policy and control into “freedom.”
#Alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #DanielleSmith #UCP #AlbertaSovereigntyAct #BillionDollarBoondoggle
It’s really a corporate coup.
Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act turns outrage into policy and control into “freedom.”
#Alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #DanielleSmith #UCP #AlbertaSovereigntyAct #BillionDollarBoondoggle
The Billion-Dollar Boondoggle: Alberta’s Sovereignty Act
Danielle Smith’s “Sovereignty Act” isn’t about defending Alberta — it’s about deregulating it. Behind the rainbow bans, pronoun panics, and “freedom” slogans is a billion-dollar game of distraction wh...
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They call it “sovereignty.”
It’s really a corporate coup.
Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act turns outrage into policy and control into “freedom.”
#Alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #DanielleSmith #UCP #AlbertaSovereigntyAct #BillionDollarBoondoggle
It’s really a corporate coup.
Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act turns outrage into policy and control into “freedom.”
#Alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #DanielleSmith #UCP #AlbertaSovereigntyAct #BillionDollarBoondoggle
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#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #DanielleSmithIsLyingToYou #AdrianaLaGrangeIsIncompetent #EndUCPCorruption #CorruptCare #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
I spoke with the Edmonton Journal about Canada losing its measles elimination status — the only G7 country to do so.
40% of outbreaks are in Alberta, where the UCP blocked its top doctor from urging vaccines.
Politics should never come before public health.
40% of outbreaks are in Alberta, where the UCP blocked its top doctor from urging vaccines.
Politics should never come before public health.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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On a week that...
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
On a week that...
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
- There were multiple reports of worsening Red Alerts
- A major story broke about Paramedic burnout
- Stunning numbers came out about ambulances being staffed only because of overtime...
Smith claims EMS is fixed.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #EMSCrisis
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They called it “choice”
We call it a $1.2 billion education siphon.
Alberta’s public schools: fewer teachers, more trailers, and lobbyists everywhere.
#abed #ableg #UCP #Alberta #DanielleSmith #Education #cdnpolitics
We call it a $1.2 billion education siphon.
Alberta’s public schools: fewer teachers, more trailers, and lobbyists everywhere.
#abed #ableg #UCP #Alberta #DanielleSmith #Education #cdnpolitics
The Billion-Dollar Boondoggle: The The Case of the Missing Public Schools Funds
How Danielle Smith turned one of Canada’s best school systems into a billion-dollar playground for lobbyists — where “choice” means fewer teachers, more trailers, and private schools cashing public ch...
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
They called it “choice”
We call it a $1.2 billion education siphon.
Alberta’s public schools: fewer teachers, more trailers, and lobbyists everywhere.
#abed #ableg #UCP #Alberta #DanielleSmith #Education #cdnpolitics
We call it a $1.2 billion education siphon.
Alberta’s public schools: fewer teachers, more trailers, and lobbyists everywhere.
#abed #ableg #UCP #Alberta #DanielleSmith #Education #cdnpolitics
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Preston Manning invented the Reform Party concept. It was used by Ross Perot (unsuccessfully) and then by Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party to brand a top down Fascist movement as grassroots. The Alberta far right has a lot to answer for. There were literal NAZIs there when I lived there.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Preston Manning invented the Reform Party concept. It was used by Ross Perot (unsuccessfully) and then by Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party to brand a top down Fascist movement as grassroots. The Alberta far right has a lot to answer for. There were literal NAZIs there when I lived there.
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Former PC Education Minister Dave King was at the cabinet table when notwithstanding was devised. His devastating view of what the UCP has done. Don't miss this piece.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abed #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abed #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
Dave King was was there when clause was born in Alberta cabinet. It was never meant to be used for the benefit of the government itself.
calgaryherald.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Here's Rob Anderson, Premier Smith's Chief of Staff, in 2013 (before the 2015 Supreme Court decision):
"That to me impinges upon their freedom of assembly, I would think, and their right to organize & so forth, which is a protected right under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
#ableg #abpoli
"That to me impinges upon their freedom of assembly, I would think, and their right to organize & so forth, which is a protected right under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
#ableg #abpoli
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruptiobn #Canada
#TheUCPMustGo
#NotWithstanding #clause
#constitution
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruptiobn #Canada
#TheUCPMustGo
#NotWithstanding #clause
#constitution
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
Dave King was was there when clause was born in Alberta cabinet. It was never meant to be used for the benefit of the government itself.
calgaryherald.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruptiobn #Canada
#TheUCPMustGo
#NotWithstanding #clause
#constitution
Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruptiobn #Canada
#TheUCPMustGo
#NotWithstanding #clause
#constitution
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November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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No matter what happens today with the budget, the choices for PM are still the same as they were last April
Carney or Poilievre
I know Carney is really a small "C" conservative
But I'll take that over a fascist-Trump wanna-be any day
#cdnpoli
Carney or Poilievre
I know Carney is really a small "C" conservative
But I'll take that over a fascist-Trump wanna-be any day
#cdnpoli
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
No matter what happens today with the budget, the choices for PM are still the same as they were last April
Carney or Poilievre
I know Carney is really a small "C" conservative
But I'll take that over a fascist-Trump wanna-be any day
#cdnpoli
Carney or Poilievre
I know Carney is really a small "C" conservative
But I'll take that over a fascist-Trump wanna-be any day
#cdnpoli
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Mark my words- Poilievre is going to lose 3-5 MPs within weeks if he gaslights hard on this budget.
He will bitch his way to handing the Liberal party a majority.
#cdnpoli
He will bitch his way to handing the Liberal party a majority.
#cdnpoli
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Mark my words- Poilievre is going to lose 3-5 MPs within weeks if he gaslights hard on this budget.
He will bitch his way to handing the Liberal party a majority.
#cdnpoli
He will bitch his way to handing the Liberal party a majority.
#cdnpoli
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Alberta conservative voters: “Floor crossers are SCUM!”
Also Alberta conservative voters: *elect a Premier who crossed the floor when she was leader of the official opposition, & has a Chief of Staff who - as an MLA - crossed the floor so many times we named him “Roomba Rob”.
#ableg #cdnpoli
Also Alberta conservative voters: *elect a Premier who crossed the floor when she was leader of the official opposition, & has a Chief of Staff who - as an MLA - crossed the floor so many times we named him “Roomba Rob”.
#ableg #cdnpoli
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM