alberta
Wowza… Great deep dive by CBC investigative unit.
Looks like a bunch of the #Alberta separatists YT channels are using US voice actors for the accent but are run by 20-something Dutch dudes for the ad clicks !
They don’t give a damn about #Canada’s politics. It’s just a money game!
Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S. | CBC.ca
"If there was any doubt remaining that Alberta's nearly seven-month moratorium on renewable-energy projects was a political decision — made in the halls of power rather than in the offices of expertise — it was erased by internal documents released to the public last week."
My latest analysis for CBC, based on original reporting by @drewanderson for @thenarwhal
🔗 : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943
#alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #canada #renewables #renewableenergy #energystorage
The UCP say they're about freedom, then illegally and indefinitely strip Canadians of their Charter Rights and Freedoms
The UCP bleat they're about democracy, then after elected turn into law every policy they campaigned AGAINST
The UCP say #Alberta needs their publicly funded, privately directed police to uphold the law as they behave lawlessly themselves, and delegitimize the courts
The #UCP say they support the free market, but bring big gov't policies in order to manipulate it
#Aurora ribbons seen from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #Alberta from Calgary as the major solar storm hits earth. Taken by my brother.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ChronicIllnessHumor/115718979139390745
Get ready Alberta.
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb
![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division](/proxy/post_attachment/958760/4c3f9d6273.png "The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division")
Dedicated School For Autistic Students Scrapped By Edmonton Public School Board
https://autisticgoblin.ca/2026/04/17/dedicated-school-for-autistic-students-scrapped-by-edmonton-public-school-board/
'Floor crossings' are not unheard of in Canada. Dani her own self dances with that devil, apparently whichever way the wind blows on any given day.
Anyway
currently there are a scant 6 required for a
~no confidence motion~
to pass, and force an election.
If stealing every voting Albertans' privacy is really a 'big deal' to the ucp,
then why is Davy Parker still waltzing about a free man?
Oh:
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/02/Parker-Vows-Take-Back-Alberta-Escape-Punishment/
#Alberta is holding a referendum in October presenting a whole bunch of separatist leaning, country destroying questions. As a dutiful citizen I will carefully consider each question, the consequences of adopting it, and then vote according to my conscience and for the best interests my community and society, for my country and *all* its people.
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The treasonous Alberta separatist group that had
signing stations
set up for 'Canadians' in the hughess has just been served an injunction by Elections Alberta for leaking Albertans' addresses, phone numbers, and DOB
Have you 'signed' their petition without your consent?
Better call Elections Alberta and find out.
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is a brilliant, poignant queer coming-of-age story, a literary classic that was later turned into a Tony-Award-winning musical. It's a graphic - only in the sense that it's a graphic novel, or rather, a memoir. But it's not porn. It's not titillating. Moral panics like this make us look absurd. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/extremely-graphic-sexual-content-found-in-books-at-k-9-schools-province-says #abed #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #yeg #yyc
🔥 🇨🇦 🗺️ With Canada warming twice as fast as the global average (Government of Canada 2019), and home to more than a quarter of the world’s boreal forests, the country is experiencing this consequence of global heating firsthand.
#ClimateEmergency
#Canada #Wildfire #Nature
#Environment #FossilFuels
#Alberta #Energy
#Cdnpoli #Cdnpoli
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sheet-wildfires/
Canvassers for Lukaszuk's Forever Canadian campaign didn't have to sign a Nondisclosure Agreement, and that petition has already met all the criteria for the citizens' initiative legislation, 100% in Alberta
This new one requires canvassers sign a NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT, and sets up signing events in other countries... they better not be forging Albertans' signatures
https://prairiesexposed.substack.com/p/alberta-separatist-canvassers-and
Danielle Smith is about to answer questions at a presser. I hope someone thinks to ask if she is considering reinstating the Charter Rights and Freedoms the UCP have illegally taken from Canadians living in the province of alberta.
Wow, UCP freedom sure requires them to have a lot of control over peeps' private lives, control over their privates, UCP control of the free market, control over what folk read, control over what folk can find out.... who knew freedom required so much UCP control over Albertans
/sarc
Despite all the untaxed russian church crypto thrown at their campaigns the ucp's candidates couldn't win the school board seats democratically, so now they are going to legislate them into the positions of authority
Does Danni even have kids? Does her bf Dave Parker?
All they care about is power and control, and they know how much Albertans care about their kids and are using it against them.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/12/4/2139979/-Canadian-Democracy-Under-Attack
UCP memberships in 2022 were going for ~15 CAD a piece, so it would have cost < than a million (CAD) to buy 65k of them, & the premiership of Alberta.
Marciano told the CBC that about 4k memberships were purchased in March with just 6 credit cards.
(bulk-buying memberships) encourages well-funded candidates to buy memberships in the names of Albertans who might never know their ID's had been stolen to vote in a campaign
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/05/09/Bulk-Buying-Memberships-Kenney-UCP/
#Canada
#alberta
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that access to MAID, medical assistance in dying, is a constitutional right. Federal law has enshrined that right. Yet here in Alberta, Danielle Smitj has passed legislation that effectively annuls that right, and with very little public attention or push back. It’s outrageous. And I am outraged. https://albertaviews.ca/stealing-freedom-maid/ #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #cdnpoli #MAID
“The evidence of foreign interference in the attempt to break up our country is becoming too obvious to ignore. We are witnessing a repetition of patterns that were used in Donbas and Brexit.
And yet there seems to be no sense of urgency from government officials over the emerging evidence of offshore bad actors and direct interference coming from the United States regarding the Alberta referendum.
Earlier this month, I made a public call for Anton Boegman, the new Commissioner of Foreign Influence and Transparency, to investigate the allegations.
Specifically, I asked him to look into the meetings held by White House officials and a group of Alberta separatists. According to media reports, there was discussion of a $500 million fund to help the separatist cause.“
Reminder to Albertans and other concerned Canadians that there's a current ourcommons.ca petition regarding AI data centres in Alberta. The petition was started before the Sturgeon County one was announced and doesn't close until September, but I don't know wtf else to do.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7427
