Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
@mitchellab.bsky.social
Informed opinion columnist. Acerbic UofC Alum, Schrodinger’s politics, “bi-conceptual”; may piss everyone off at some point. WomenOfABpoli on Substack. Biased against false statements & equivalencies. Canadian-Albertan political commentator.
Just for you haha.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I got the t-shirt.
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Brar: minimum wage workers are struggling; when will govt stop throwing crumbs and start paying fair wages?
Neudorf: 95% of people in AB make more than minimum wage. In 2019, minimum wage earners were as high as 11%
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nenshi: that he had to decline.
Peter Lougheed. There are times when it should not be used. First: preemptively. A simple majority should not be enough, it should be 60%. It should only be used after the court examines its effects.
#ableg #abpoli
www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Nenshi: these full time, public servants, under this UCP govt, were making $28,000 a year.
One woman told me "I didn't stumble into this -- I went to school for this."

(It's true, you can get education to be an EA.)
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Also, I said I'd join a general strike. I'm self-employed and it is scary, but I don't want this government to turn into trump2.0 -- that's garbage.
#ableg #abpoli
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Bullshit.
October 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Right? I’m already miffed that I didn’t realize I had time to make real food!
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Freaking kid.
October 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Shot and chaser.
October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They had one job.
October 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A couple friends from AB are living in the US right now and they see the writing on the wall. Talked to them last night and they’re looking at selling their house to get back — not to AB though; and I can’t blame them.
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can confirm.
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The funniest thing about scammers is they think I have an extra $672.99 just hanging around in my bank account.
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
June 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Finance Minister Nate Horner took a slide show on his door-to-door debt sales trip to the EU.
TIL: "federal govt provides significant and predictable financial support to Alberta."
🤯
#ableg #abpoli
June 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Vibes be like:
#abpoli
May 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This 👇
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Exceptional speech by the member from Lesser Slave Lake today.
It shouldn’t be the case that MLAs seem to become so much better once they’re kicked out of the UCP, but it does seem to be a pattern that’s held since 2018.
#ableg #abpoli
h/t @asingleton17.bsky.social for clipping it!!
May 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ric McIver is officially Speaker in #ableg

Probably best that Nathan Cooper won’t have to watch the learning curve too long — you can hear him in the background “names!” 😏
May 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Jones: mischaracterizing by saying it's "paused"
Kasawski: costs of separation referendum far outweigh the benefits; how will pandering separation help Alberta in any way?
Jones: we are making the case (to separatists?) that Canada is stronger with Alberta.

"delayed" s23.q4cdn.com/981382065/fi...
May 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
JWright: people feel unsafe in rural how will bill 49 address this?
Ellis: they'll have the right to choose what police service meets their needs.
JWright: more officers isn't enough
Ellis: NDP didn't do enough
Me:
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-62...
May 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM