I am so grossed out by the liberal signs from Candidate Chris Spearman being spray painted with the swastika in southern Alberta. Not only that, the comments online supporting it. What is wrong with the place? Is southern Alberta really this hateful? I am sick and tired of it. This province has a real problem on our hands, it is the MAGA pro-trump 51st state racist haters...and they are everywhere, not just a few men, it is their wives and families too.

Yesterday the federal government made Calgary and Edmonton ineligible for LMIAs.

Edit to explain LMIA which is an immigration program to fast-track foreign workers without forcing the employers to try an exhaustive search for domestic ones first:

For the few at this point who don’t know, LMIA is a fraud-infested immigration govt program where an employer

• ⁠makes an application to the govt saying there are absolutely no workers available at any wage;

• ⁠pays a SMALL application fee;

• ⁠advertises the job which does not actually exist;

• ⁠govt approves application to hire foreigner

Then

• ⁠employer sells job to a friend or the highest bidder in India, China, The Philippines, going rate for coffee shop: $30,000

• ⁠repeat

• ⁠profit

• ⁠repeat

• ⁠profit

Zero taxes paid on the bribe income (of course). In fact it costs the govt money to facilitate having the foreign employe come and live, employee gets

• ⁠full child tax credit

• ⁠freebie work permit for their spouse

• ⁠full healthcare for them, their spouse, and all their kids

• ⁠full unlimited special ed and ESL for any of their kids who are not at the level they should be at

• ⁠more

• ⁠more

• ⁠more

However it’s a great deal for the coffee and doughnut server.

I work with a guy that has made the claim multiple times that Alberta has the cleanest refineries in the world, and that our emissions are basically at net zero already. To me that doesn't sound right at all, he's also one of those guys that proudly gets his news from TikTok so I always take his word with a grain of salt.

Even looking through the Alberta and Canadian governments websites I don't see anything that we are that close to net zero. Idk maybe I'm looking at it wrong but if someone who has more knowledge about this than me, could lend an answer as to how close we actually are to net zero emissions, and how clean are our refineries compared to the rest of the world?

Smith’s goal is for our province to join the US, and I think all of her policies reflect this. She doesn’t want to join with Quebec to split, she wants their playbook and fracture all bonds with Ottawa. Quebec separating us based on a unified, homogeneous identity, religion, language and culture. What does Alberta have to unify around—not being liberal? How can you create based on nothing other than “not being like them”. Worship of oil and gas and anti-intellectualism does not a state make. Alberta would be a banana republic. But that’s what populist leaders are aiming for.

As of Friday, I’m waiting for a referral to an oncologist for rib cancer. Does anyone have recent knowledge of wait times?

I’m in Edmonton.

If anyone has been diagnosed with something similar I’d be interested to hear your experience. This is so new I’m very in the dark.

Alberta is supposedly the richest province in Canada, yet it has the highest interest rates on provincial student loans in the country. Meanwhile, provinces like British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island have eliminated interest on their student loans entirely. It’s frustrating and disheartening to see Alberta lag behind in supporting its students and new graduates. It’s high time the government stepped up, abolished interest on student loans, and provided real relief to those trying to build their futures. Enough is enough.

Non-Albertan here. While I gather most of this sub isn't in favor of separatism I want to ask people on the ground what they think of the factuality of Manning's editorial. Will Carney winning lead to the emergence of a significant Prairie separatist movement and, if yes, what are its odds of success?

From a non-Albertan POV its a bit of a hard spot to be in as national unity could have been a strong consideration in other circumstances and with another Conservative leader but voting for Polièvre right now is a big ask...

Just wondering how UCP supporters feel about how the UCPs are helping Albertans with job security and job creation.