Lisa S @craftluvr

Alberta historically wasn't META's first choice for their data/surveillance centers—Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, and parts of Quebec and Ontario, and many other locations completely locked Meta and other hyperscalers out due to agricultural/environmental damage concerns and intense local backlashes —Meta reluctantly chose to land in Sturgeon County is the direct result of being pushed out elsewhere. Why did Meta choose Alberta? Facing fierce local revolts, strict water bans, and a wave of over 70+ project rejections across the U.S. in early 2026, the META reluctantly pivoted north to Alberta. #Meta #Alberta arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

'Flooding the zone' as a diversion and normalizing tactic is definitely working for Danielle Smith. There's the data breach, but also the corrupt care scandal being forgotten. We're starting to normalize the abnormal grifter behaviour in Alberta. Just like USA did with Trump.

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Alberta just approved a $13 billion Meta data centre in Sturgeon County. Here’s what they’re not telling you. It needs a dedicated 1.4 gigawatt gas plant just to run. That’s roughly the entire daily power demand of Edmonton, for one facility. Alberta’s grid is already 60% gas powered, nearly 5 times the national emissions intensity. Ottawa’s whole AI strategy assumed Canada’s clean grid would power this stuff. Alberta is the exception, and it’s where almost every planned data centre in the country is now landing. Meta says it’ll fund its own power infrastructure and match usage with clean energy eventually. Pembina’s Greenlight gas plant isn’t even online until second half of 2030. So new gas gets built now, promises get made for later. 300 permanent jobs for a $13 billion investment. Compare that to what else that capital could have built. Residents near similar projects in Olds have raised real concerns about water use, air quality and noise, with limited say before approvals move forward. This isn’t an anti-tech take. It’s a question of who actually benefits when a province hands out energy and land for a fraction of the long term jobs a $13B investment should create.

sue his ass sue the company destroy them

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No one. Zero people should be happy about this. Albertans need to fight this!! Fire the UCP!!

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You don't get to hold a separatist referendum and then identify with national symbolism lmao

Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith

2 weeks ago

With this incredible goal, in extra time, Canada 🇨🇦 is heading to the final 16 for the first time in World Cup history ⚽️ Huge congrats to the entire team @CANMNT_Official— you have made all of Canada proud!

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the fact that she's given so much and has not run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a wealth tax on billionaires are just bs

Pubity @pubity

2 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place.

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Funny how the loudest “Canada is broken” voices keep coming from the provinces with the worst premiers running the show. Here’s the part people skip: your daily life is run by your province, not Ottawa. Healthcare, schools, hospitals, highways, policing, housing approvals, electricity rates. All provincial jurisdiction. The premier you voted for controls almost everything that actually touches your day to day. Alberta’s economy gets mismanaged by Smith, healthcare gets gutted, and somehow it’s Ottawa’s fault. Saskatchewan posts some of the worst outcomes on healthcare wait times and education funding in the country, then blames “the Laurentian elite.” These are the same people who vote for cuts, then complain when the cuts hurt. Vote for underfunded hospitals, then post about ER wait times like it’s a national betrayal. Vote against federal transfers and equalization fixes, then act shocked when their own province can’t deliver services. If your premier controls your hospital wait time, your kid’s classroom size, and your power bill, and all three are getting worse, that’s not a “Canada is broken” problem. That’s a “you elected this” problem. The data is right there. Most of the “Canada is failing” energy isn’t coming from a place of national decline. It’s coming from provincial governance failures, dressed up as a federal crisis.

It would be a good time to remind ALL Albertans that this Premier and this government does NOT have a mandate for what they are doing to fair and equitable HC Access. They ran on a Public Health Guarantee. The Premier lied, and simply cannot be trusted.

Posts that didn’t age well. #ableg

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Such generosity! How can we ever repay her?

This guy… He pretends he doesn’t know who is in charge of upholding the Canada Health Act… the one his govt is actively violating…. It likely cuz he wants to separate from Canada But worse, the hypocrisy: did his govt run on private HC and destroying the Canada Health Act?!!

Alberta’s move toward a “dual” health care system will impact u.s. all, and could fundamentally change access to care in this province—not for the better. The biggest concern is a two-tier system where those who can afford to pay get faster treatment, while everyone else faces longer waits in the public system. When doctors are allowed to work both privately and publicly, critics argue it creates a strong incentive to shift time and energy toward higher-paying private patients. That doesn’t create more doctors—it just redistributes them. Over time, this could mean: Longer wait times for surgeries and specialists in the public system Increased pressure on already strained ERs and hospitals A gradual decline in the quality and accessibility of universal care More reliance on private insurance through employers A widening gap between higher-income and lower-income Albertans Once private care expands, it becomes very difficult to reverse. What starts as “choice” can slowly become necessity, especially if the public system weakens. In 10 years, the fear isn’t just longer waits—it’s a system where timely care depends more on your income than your need. That’s a major shift from the core principle Canadians have relied on: equal access to care, regardless of ability to pay.💰 Same thing she is doing to education. I can't imagine why anyone would vote for destruction of a healthcare system that five years ago seem to be working quite well.

On May 29, thousands of Albertans made history by participating in the Province Wide Day of Protest. 21 protests in communities around the province. We’re going to do it again. Mark your calendars. Saturday, October 17. Say “NO” to separatism AND the status quo! #FightBackNow

Oh, Bruce. Premier Smith’s own chief of staff wants to talk about why First Nations communities face addiction, poverty, and kids in care — without once mentioning residential schools, stolen land, broken treaties, or the billions extracted from Treaty territory that provincial and federal governments never shared with the people it belonged to. You’re pointing at the wounds of 150 years of colonization like First Nations did this to themselves. What’s wild — you’re advising the Premier. This is the thinking inside that office. The chiefs haven’t heard from Smith in months. Your government isn’t calling them. It isn’t partnering with them. It’s ignoring them, steamrolling their rights, and then acting shocked when they fight back. Bold strategy — ignore them for months, then lecture them on priorities. #TreatyRights #FirstNations #Alberta #DanielleSmith #colonialism #BreakingNews

Bruce McAllister @McAllisterBruce

3 weeks ago

This is such a bad look for these Chiefs. People are sick and tired of hearing unrealistic demands from them. It might be tolerable if their communities were beacons of prosperity, safety, strong families and real accountability, but sadly, they’re anything but. On too many

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Premier Smith cites an Elections Alberta deadline for keeping Water Not Coal from a 2026 referendum. However, she seems poised to disregard an Elections Alberta deadline in order to redraw electoral boundaries for the next election. globalnews.ca/news/11806340/…

Courtney Theriault @cspotweet

3 weeks ago

Elections Alberta confirms that they were asked by the UCP about a referendum question deadline, and that it was June 1st for the reasons listed below.

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Oh, Dani is buying you half a tank of gas to distract you from the Corrupt Care scandal, theft of your voter data, the dismantling of public healthcare & education, the stripping of rights of teachers, the massive increase to property tax, and her pandering to separatists. 🙄🤡

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6. THE REFERENDUM MEANS NOTHING Here’s the part that should end the debate: Smith herself admitted there is NO LEGAL WAY to hold a binding separation referendum So this $130,000,000 doesn’t decide ANYTHING It can’t It’s the most EXPENSIVE opinion poll in Alberta history

Account based in the USA can buy a UCP membership? @rcmpgrcpolice ?

Joshua Ranger ✝️ @joshua_rangers

3 weeks ago

Just purchased a UCP membership! 🫡 It's time we have our say and vote for Alberta Independence on October 19th. If you have not bought a UCP membership yet and support Alberta Indepance please do so! Let's create a new nation together. In Jesus Christ We Trust. ✝️

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They're not booing the USA, they're booing our government. ...as they should! Would you not do the same if a country threatened your sovereignty repeatedly? Not sure why this is so hard to understand for some Americans. Be mad at your President for this, not Canadians!

Bradshaw @myabradshaw78

4 weeks ago

Absolutely disgusting behavior in Canada once again. It’s an embarrassment for the world to see Canadians booing The US.

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