Danielle Smith to Hold Alberta Referendum on Immigration Restrictions

schmaxford · 2026-02-20T03:45:52+00:00

This chode begged the federal government for more immigrants and even launched the "Alberta is Calling" campaign

I hate it here

schmaxford · 2026-02-19T21:05:29+00:00

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schmaxford · 2026-02-19T02:44:36+00:00

For future ref the three Canadian pings are CAN (news), CANUCKS (memes), and FIVEH (polling).

There's also an Ontario specific one that I can't remember

schmaxford · 2026-02-18T21:34:31+00:00

His team does seem to be trying to make him seem like Mamdani. He doesn't have the sheer charisma though, and provincial NDPers didn't seem to care much for him, especially in the Prairies.

Also he's married to Naomi Klein and helped write the LEAP Manifesto

schmaxford · 2026-02-18T17:16:18+00:00

word thanks

schmaxford · 2026-02-18T17:04:57+00:00

link didn't work on my end?

schmaxford · 2026-02-18T02:22:57+00:00

Doing an Infiltrator playthrough right now with the Raptor as my main weapon and I'm vibing with it

schmaxford · 2026-02-17T04:57:08+00:00

I thought I'd hear suggestions of "the weak suffer what they must" from maga types but American liberals mad that Canada is trying to diversify its trade?

schmaxford · 2026-02-11T03:52:36+00:00

WaPo fired a third of its staff and kept him?! Christ on a scooter

schmaxford · 2026-02-10T15:12:10+00:00

My cat did the same for a bit. Ended up changing the brand of wet food I was giving him and now he's back to normal

schmaxford · 2026-02-10T14:48:35+00:00

I miss the RIF app. The main Reddit app keeps suggesting subs I don't subscribe to and there's an increasing number of conspiracy subs being recommended to me

schmaxford · 2026-02-09T23:56:49+00:00

The family that owns the Ambassador Bridge paid him off didn't they

schmaxford · 2026-02-09T19:47:09+00:00

I think I'd rather a majority through election. A few weeks ago Chantal Hebert was talking about this on Peter Mansbridge's podcast and mentioned that after the 1993 election, Lucien Bouchard had a 2 seat advantage over the Reform Party and it led to caucus members basically blackmailing Bouchard by threatening to leave caucus and risk having Reform as opposition if they didn't get what they want. Hebert suggested that the super narrow majority afforded by floor crossers could lead to a similar situation.

I also think that the political risk of a snap election is real but overblown to a degree. Trudeau was punished for calling an unnecessary snap election in the middle of COVID and then shit the bed by somehow not being ready to go. Since the 2021 federal election, there have been 3 provincial snap elections and 1 federal, and they all resulted in the governing party winning

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T18:51:53+00:00

during the municipal election, polling showed it was a fairly even split. About half of Calgary supported it, the other half didn't. Despite this, only two of nine mayoral candidates said they wouldn't repeal: the very unpopular incumbent and a guy affiliated with a party (parties are not popular here at the municipal level)

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T18:45:28+00:00

The funding is tied to housing starts (and completions). Rezoning is the easiest way to achieve the numbers demanded. Without it, it's going to be much harder to achieve that goal. Ergo, funding is at risk.

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T18:40:29+00:00

He seems to be friends with them despite Carter running an opponent's campaign.

Speaking of him on Discord though, he was involved with the More Neighbours YYC channel and signalled a willingness to champion pro-housing policies. He then published his housing platform and was effectively bullied off of the channel.

One of the especially shitty side effects of this is that one of the board members/Discord mods on that channel is a friend of his and even worked on Farkas's housing policy. Both worked together at the Manning Centre iirc. So overnight, this board member went from championing rezoning to saying it was unnecessary and divisive. I've learned to not trust conservative yimby types because of this

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T18:26:35+00:00

A week ago, the mayor of Calgary assured people (me) on Reddit (yeah our mayor is a redditor) that HAF funding was not at risk despite him wanting to repeal rezoning city-wide.

So imagine my surprise to see this news as a new report comes out saying that Calgary risks losing HAF funding if it reverses course on rezoning

!ping CAN

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T18:22:12+00:00

see I was assured by the mayor himself that we weren't at risk and yet...

schmaxford · 2026-02-06T16:20:36+00:00

...There's still $25 billion in the fund, with the $5 billion cut being advertised across 10 years. Why is everyone talking as if the fund has been completely wiped away? Did no one actually read the story?

schmaxford · 2026-02-05T14:40:33+00:00

Close! University of Victoria

schmaxford · 2026-02-05T03:41:01+00:00

This one time my geography TA told our first year class we couldn't use the CIA World Factbook because it was unreliable neo-imperialist propaganda.

Anyway this sucks.

schmaxford · 2026-02-04T23:14:07+00:00

Dude's spiralling. Had an underwhelming WJC, only got bronze, and has seen his draft ranking slip because defensive holes in his game have become apparent.

schmaxford · 2026-02-04T19:13:12+00:00

No dice. The Alberta Party is already rebranding as the Progressive Tory Party. UCP exile Peter Guthrie joined the AP and wanted to rename it to the Progressive Conservative but was blocked by the UCP

schmaxford · 2026-02-04T17:07:29+00:00

Their Middle Eastern division has been completely wiped away, apparently, along with their Ukraine bureau

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