Alberta

This will increase the bargaining power of employers. If the alternative is starving, they know employees will be more desperate.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56103411

Turns out Alberta’s blue lakes freeze into a canvas unlike any other this New York artist has ever seen or worked with.

Just past the sign that welcomes drivers to Olds, Alta., sits a parcel of farmland. It’s on the edge of town, across the street from homes and tucked behind the old municipal building, which was sold to the local Co-op two years ago.

It’s where a developer is proposing to build a $10-billion data centre, along with the second-largest power plant in Alberta, to satisfy the world’s seemingly voracious appetite for data.

The natural gas facility, proposed by Synapse Data Centre Inc., will produce 1.4 gigawatts of energy each day, solely to power what could become the largest artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in the county.

That’s equivalent to the daily demand for the entire city of Edmonton.

There are 9 referendum questions which is unusual. Normally referendums have 1 important question instead of flooding the zone.

I'll limit my focus to question 5:

5. Do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law requiring individuals to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport, birth certificate, or citizenship card, to vote in an Alberta provincial election?

The Alberta government is working on a solution to a non-problem. Following in MAGA's footsteps on this issue. There is very little voter fraud with our current system of voters lists and wide range of acceptable ID. Adding more hurdles is an attempt to tip the balance against voters who don't have one of the now limited list of accepted ID.

This is what happens when you create laws by scrawling them on a napkin, while drinking in Mar-a-Lago.

It's truly sad how much of an actual modern energy superpower we could be, but we refuse to do any of it because of our obsession with oil.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/54606213

WHEN DOES A SEPARATIST movement become a threat to Canada’s national security?

This is a question hanging in the air in Alberta. People are asking how it can possibly be that the very same individuals who are leading the separatist movement can also be three meetings deep into a relationship with senior officials of the Donald Trump administration in Washington, with a fourth scheduled for this month.

It is, as we know, entirely legal in Canada to advocate and campaign in support of a province or territory leaving Confederation. This is covered by the Clarity Act but also by the Charter, which protects the rights of citizens to free expression, assembly, and association.

Any organic political movement that is based in a genuine desire to achieve an outcome of their design is free to pursue that through whatever lawful means are available to them. Foreign interference in such movements, however, is where the line between lawful advocacy and dissent crosses into territory that constitutes a threat to Canada’s national security.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act is clear on this. CSIS itself does not have a mandate to investigate “lawful advocacy, protest or dissent” unless these forms of activity are carried on in conjunction with the range of activities which the act defines as threats to the security of Canada.

Those threats include espionage or sabotage harmful to Canada’s interests; covert or deceptive foreign-influenced activities that undermine Canada or threaten individuals; support for or direction of serious violence against people or property to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals; and covert, unlawful acts aimed at undermining, overthrowing, or destroying Canada’s constitutionally established system of government through violence. In short, the act draws a clear line between protected democratic activity and conduct that involves foreign interference, secrecy, violence, or efforts to subvert the state itself.

Justice Minister Mickey Amery is attacking the foundations upon which the Justice System is built upon with a series of power grabs on behalf of the same UCP members responsible for bringing Albertans CorruptCare.

Albertans will recall that Justice Minister Mickey Amery has close ties with the infamous Sam Mraiche, and the CorruptCare Scandal. I would note that the Scandal, and its subsequent damage to the Alberta Healthcare system, continues to rock Albertans to this very day. Worse, those implicated in the Scandal continue in key roles of government.

The Minister may now be seen grabbing for power from within the Alberta Law Foundation, an organization that notably handles the funding for many Justice system adjacent services that include Women's Shelters, Pro Bono legal advice, and other support systems that are intended to help the vulnerable seek further help.

What is troubling here is this statement:

Jenkins's statement said the Law Society of Alberta made its decision to replace their foundation board representatives "entirely independent of the government." She added that the ministry believes the foundation will provide an update in the coming days about the steps it's recently taken.

Now remember earlier in Nov 2025 when two senior Crown prosecutors were also suddenly sacked without notice. I suggest that Minister Amery carried out the same attack:

“The recent actions of the government highlight the need for our members to have employment protections that insulate them from losing their employment without articulated cause,” the statement says.

“Without this protection, Crown prosecutors are susceptible to being dismissed from their employment for improper reasons.”

At the legislature on Thursday, Justice Minister Mickey Amery said there was "no government involvement whatsoever" in the senior Crowns' departures. He said Dale McFee, the former Edmonton police chief who is now head of the Alberta Public Service, also "had absolutely nothing to do" with it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-crown-attorneys-association-edmonton-chief-crown-employment-9.6986908

Dale McFee, of course, was also tied to Sam Mraiche.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/14/AHS-Scandal-How-Tight-Dale-McFee-Sam-Mraiche/

After three deaths were reported in one day in the emergency room of Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, physicians are calling from action from the province.

In addition to the widely publicized death of 44-year-old Edmonton father Prashant Sreekumar after waiting in the ER for eight hours on Dec. 22, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday that two others also died while receiving active care in the same ER that day.

Since then, physicians across the province have been sounding the alarm about a crisis in Alberta hospitals.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58674266

TLDR: Zoo took bear to DQ to make safety video. Was later charged $500 for not notifying the gov't body about moving the bear.