Kenney proved that was no obstacle - remember his "signed guarantees"? Smith has demonstrated that she will take it even further - and Alberta voters don't seem to be picking up the message there either.

Psychopaths don't care if they are lying to your face or in writing.

Someone needs to remind Smith that the Constitution and Charter are also the result of democracy … democracy as done by people far wiser than she is.

What you're hearing are the factional lines organizing over the upcoming leadership review ...

That's the definition of a "captured regulator" - the company's plan was to save itself with the revenues from the newly acquired wells ... kind of like a gambler spending a pile of money on one last bet after losing their shirt all day.

Yet another example of "I have a PhD, therefore I can opine on any subject at all" ... we see this all the time with so-called "experts" trotted out by anti-trans activists.

Ah - pure, unadulterated DARVO … coming from exactly the person I would expect.

Apparently we're so devastatingly good at chess that we can't be allowed anywhere near it ... or so they tell us.

Ezra's only _JUST_ acknowledging the anti-semitism (and other racism) in the political right?

Wow - talk about (25 years) late, and a pound (or 10) short ...

The bigotry was blatantly obvious back when Ezra had designs on becoming an MP

I cannot disagree with you.

The pattern of the anti-fluoride bunch is the template for chemtrails, flat earth, and any number of other conspiracy theories out there.

Of course. Right after tobacco, fluoridation is the original "mass medication conspiracy theory".

It's stunning to me how many people believe the utter bollocks spewed by the anti-fluoride crowd.

GeNdEr IdEoLoGy

... every single one of those numpties seems to have forgotten that whatever intellectual content the term may have had at one time has been gutted from it, and it has been filled with a rebranded "Gay Agenda".

*sigh* - it's great to see people finally seeing this. Why weren't newspaper editorialists saying this about trans people's rights last year?

Yeah - they start with a small group, get you used to the idea of stripping rights away, and then they come after everybody.

"incorrectly claiming" -> No, they are LYING

Let's quit coming up with cute euphemisms for what they are doing. Fascists lie all the time. Their followers regurgitate their lies for them. That isn't "incorrectly claiming", it's lying. Full stop.

I won’t argue with you on that - it’s just one of those things that seems to be ongoing. A number of years ago, a fringe “self-diagnosis“ label of “Harry Benjamin Syndrome” was adopted by some … and the war that triggered was 😬

These arguments have been ongoing ever since the days of Gopher and USENET. I long ago decided those arguments are about as meaningful to me as "rules lawyer" arguments in a D&D game.

The political party has been far too slow to acknowledge that the GOP has shredded the rules of "fair play" in politics.

Perhaps that seems a bit harsh, but in my opinion, that's a bare minimum assessment. They thought they could negotiate with the GOP when the GOP said "nope" repeatedly.