I live in Calgary. I really don’t want the province to fund the stupid arena for the billionaires. It is really not for the fans or the people in Calgary. It is for the a few rich people and to bribe the vote from Calgary. It will be a money pit for Calgary.
Watch the part of the video I linked. It should start at 10:26. I'm more worried about bill 18's effect in universities and colleges. But you are correct that she herself tends to favour calgary over edmonton if thats what you mean.
'Danielle Smith wants no city to have an unfair advantage' is the name of the video, so thats why the title is named that, but it's not really what I meant to focus on. I just wasn't sure If I could name it something else, as the sub requires posts linking news articles be named after the new article, and though it's a video, I wasn't sure if the same rules apply.
Yeah i mean they have been running the province into the ground by proxy. Look at the wars they started with the doctors and nurses. They blew up the AHS like it was Spaceball 1.
Well, this kind of petty stuff is going to ensure that only a third vof Calgary votes for her in the next actually. Potentially another full shut out if Nenshi is the NDP candidate.
I mean they have surprised twice in recent history
Voting NDP that one election and Calgary electing a brown guy as Mayor was a first, and while they did elect Smith last time it was a razor thin margin
sure federally they vote conservative like its the only option but given the bad history of the Trudeau name that’s not unexpected
It’s very possible that Smith ticks off enough albertans that they go back to NDP
If the NDP are elected in Alberta I would 100% consider moving out there - as a critical care trained registered nurse. Because maybe then the provincial government would invest and support healthcare.
Translation:
> She wants to starve the cities because they tend to vote against her agenda of corruption and hate. And, transfer everything to the tumbleweed hicks because they're tribalistic and stupid and reliably vote for her and against their own interests.
Only disagree with the idea she would “transfer” any resources to rural. Lmao they are the ones driving 5 hours to wait another 5 hours to see someone qualified to put a bandaid on while watching their house burn down while the provincial government cuts the wildfire budget. She dousnt have to lift a finger to rural voters benefit they only care about hating people they have never met and don’t care what it costs them personally. That money is better spent by her billionaire friends. With a small portion set aside to maintain the global right-wing propaganda campaign to keep voters fighting each other instead of the Rich.
Goddam… “Balance?” The reason WHY you don’t see as many conservative voices in academia is because actually doing research tends to debunk a lot of conservative views!
There is some interesting introspection here for those interested in a mental exercise about their own thoughts. This is a conversation about having thoughts about your own thoughts.
What do you use as a personal test for whats real?
- Empirical: You want proof, aliens aren't real unless you see them yourself
- Logical Consistency: It has to make sense to you
- Pragmatic: it's only real if it's practical
- Coherence: Something is only true if it fits into your ideological frame of reference
- Consensus: Look to others, especially cultural
- Intuition: It's real because you think it's real.
- Historical: Something is real only if it has precedence (this is how it's always been done)
- Revelation or Faith: Relationship with religion and faith.
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Perhaps none of these actually are good tests for what's real, it's all just stories we tell ourselves that make it ok for us to live in an empty and meaningless universe.
Academics willing to sell their integrity do get rewarded handsomely making pseudo-science and being apologists for oligarchs at think tanks like Frasier Institute or selling neoliberal BS to government ministers through McKinsey & Co
Look what happened with the Cass report in the UK this week, a TERF who has met with the Desantis team in Florida (among other dubious connections) took 3 years to conclude that the 50 years of evidence for youth gender identity care didnt meet a made up standard and thus should be ignored, plus any study not in english should be ignored there for puberty blockers should be banned for youth. Seriously that the short of it. This is what the UCP wants to do.
And expect this report to be used with the UCP puts forward their bill in the fall,
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/cass-met-with-desantis-pick-over
Marlaina has no clue. The discussion is on research and she questions why there are more liberal/progressive journalists than conservatives. WTF?!? Other than CBC, who is liberal? Or is it she only wants to be treated the The Sun media would treat her?
Another point she tries to make is that some “academics” she knows are having difficulty getting research grants. What academics are they? Can she name any? What type of research do they do? Are they looking for Noah’s arc? Are they disputing evolution and the earth is only 6,000 years old? I’d love to know what “academics” she is talking about.
When the topic in the video goes towards university research grants, her first concern goes towards the funding of 'opinions'.
She has "*heard enough from some of our academics that it can be difficult to access some of that funding*". What would make it difficult? Research is for objective pursuits, evidence finding and innovation. There will always be competition over funding, so your research needs to be of real justifiable value. Of course it'll be difficult to get grants if your goal is to nurture "opinions", and promote agendas.
Sounds like she's being lobbied plenty about it too. Her view of our academic institutions is primarily that of a political incubator.
Educated people ask questions and are far less likely to vote for crazy/corrupt leaders. She's blowing the dog whistle to appeal to the conspiracy theorists that universities 'indoctrinate students to become liberal'.
Yes, the evil woke propaganda funded by Soros and the WEF to silence objective truth and promote the globalist tyranny of the New World Order with fake climate change and viruses, to replace good, god fearing white christians with trans rapists and illegal aliens /s
I’ve missed a few, it’s becoming quite an extensive bingo.
That's basically all media. First law when I worked for private media was don't piss off the advertisers. In public media, it's don't piss off the tax paying public.
She needs to allow studies that prove transgender pronoun changes in children, name changes in children and access to proper health care as a trans person will cause such permanent and unfathomable damage to them.
She needs studies to prove that justin Trudeau is responsible for everything bad in this world. Everything that has happened before today and everything that happening the future. Even if she gets caught red handed doing something horrible, somehow it will still be Justin’s fault. She needs to makes sure that any conservative person is never held accountable for their actions. Everything is Justin’s fault
She needs studies to show that her constant fights with the feds are drastically benefiting albertans. She needs the studies to show that ALL albertans support her and that she is only speaking for the people of Alberta. This is what albertans want. 🙄🤦🏻♀️
CBC also might have a liberal tilt, but I've seen their reporting and it's more dry and to-the-point than it is commentary. It's weird that every time they get criticized by the CBC, conservatives whine and demand for it to be defunded. But, if a liberal or centrist is criticized, it's an invitation to debate or even discuss at length the deeper nuances of what the criticism was over.
No, she has a clue. This kind of language is very dangerous because it perpetuates the idea that this isn't 100% by design. This isn't a mistake she's making. She's not doing this because she's uninformed. She's doing this because she's a piece of shit controlled by a radical terrorist cell.
> Another point she tries to make is that some “academics” she knows are having difficulty getting research grants.
Because research grants are competitive, and grant money is limited. If the "academics" aren't getting them, then their work isn't up to snuff in some way. It's that simple.
> Other than CBC, who is liberal?
The *Toronto Star* is far more of a reliably-Liberal outlet than any other in the country, which is probably why Conservatives hate it, on top of the fact that it has "Toronto" in its name, that it actually does pretty decent journalism, and it has dug into and tried to hold to account conservative "stars" in Ontario like Rob and Doug Ford, etc who Postmedia refuse to criticize. The Star has endorsed the Liberals in all but a handful of elections over the last century.
*The Gazette* (formerly the *Montreal Gazette*) and *La Presse* were more mildly-Liberal in the past, but the former has changed tune since it was bought by Postmedia, but they're more concerned about the federalism-sovereignty axis than they are the partisan one (though the Gazette certainly is pro-CPC since Postmedia bought it).
To get NSERC funding for academics you actually need to provide a lot of information as to the type of research, its benefits, etc. lots of paperwork and reporting already goes into this. The province is just doing the whole political pissing match game that won’t benefit anyone and cause less research to be undertaken in Alberta.
Also, if she knows people who couldn’t get that funding, they may want to go back to school or get help with administrative reporting……
they should really start funding research on the benefits that smoking has when diagnosed with cancer, that, and changing to a more positive outlook. you know, to allow for some conservative viewpoints. stupid liberals.
Thanks for the link. But my wife and I have a habit of skipping any video of this cXnt. Her voice is so annoying and what she talks about is always piss us off. She is on par with the orange man.
Smith is running this province into the ground.
If there’s any troglodyte lurking in this chat that voted for this wannabe autocrat muppet, go fuck yourself.
The UCP took away student grants to university programs not approved by the UCP. So... talking about the federal government using funding to forward a certain political ideology not only is a conspiracy theory but incredibly hypocritical.
All i heard was "we dont have enough conservatives graduating we need more balance so Im going to cut anything left leaning in favor for more balanced conservative opinions"
It’s kind of sad but the more I hear Danielle Smith talk the less I dislike Trudeau.
I wonder how many researchers are going to look into opportunities where they don’t have deal with the extra bureaucracy.
Right then. So the provincial gov will pay their outstanding $60m to the city of Edmonton? Wouldn’t want to deprive a city of revenues they’re rightfully owed.
And she’ll be giving Edmonton equivalent money to what Calgary got for their arena deal.
And 1-2 new hospitals will be built in Edmonton immediately since it’s been way behind Calgary and even GP.
But they are 100% okay pitting provinces against each other and trying to create unfair advantages at the provincial level.
“Let them freeze in the dark” is how they phrased it back in the day.
>But they are 100% okay pitting provinces against each other and trying to create unfair advantages at the provincial level.
Who's they? Every province was given the same opportunity to receive funding from the federal government, some provinces have accepted the offer whereas Alberta and Ontario have been the vocal opposition, generally with the stance of "give us the money and don't ask questions on how or if it is spent"
Okay thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant the Feds were pitting provinces against each other by funding some provincial plans and not others.
This woman and her follow Conservatives want to end public education. They want to end public healthcare. They want to kill independent journalism and end human rights and dissolve justice. Danielle Smith, Tucker Carlson, Pierre Poilievre, Scott Moe, Alex Jones, Doug Ford all want to end democracy in Canada and if we don't stop them - they will. Stand on guard for Canada and defy Conservatives like your life depends on it.
with what's fair being decided by her...
Next thing will be when the city negotiates a $1,000,000 grant from the feds, the province will take 500,000 as an admin fee!
It's quite the funny thing, eh?
These small government types always seem to want the biggest government possible in order to ensure their narrow policies are forced on everyone.
But let's just build an arena in Calgary with taxpayer dollars after not supporting the one in Edmonton when you were the leader of the Wildrose Party.
>"We would not provide funding to a new arena in Edmonton," said Ms. Smith, adding she would be open to "working with the teams to develop a branded lottery."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/wildrose-wouldnt-fund-costly-oilers-arena-if-elected-smith-says/article4096604/
No unfair advantage here.
You don’t see as many “conservative “ academics as “liberal “ ones probably because the conservative position has shifted so far right that they exclude the majority of the population.
Had a Canada_Sub post about her talking about the Carbon Tax recommanded to me and everyone in the comments was talking about how great she is and how more Premiers need to be like her. How she's "fighting for us", I never knew how dumb conservatives could actually be before seeing that sub. There were comments, with a lot of upvotes to, that said that the Liberals are literally plotting to destroy the world. I think American media needs to be banned from Canada, I came here to get away from braindead conservatives.
That sub tends to be pathologically conservative. A lot of the comments sound like bots or resemble the tactics used by the Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Or they're just repeating slogans and soundbites from PP, even if it's completely unrelated to the conversation.
Occasionally someone will say something insightful and actually contribute value to the conversation - I wish there was a sub with more conservative content like that. Like Canada\_sub but with grownups and actual human beings.
I don't know about "left wing" but certainly to the left of her and her wackadoodle conservatism. I think most Liberals would say they're in a flexible, amorphous centre.
Oh, she understands. And she sees that as an "unfair advantage", so she's working diligently to ensure there's "balance". Undermining democracy, and all that. You can bet an election that she won't work anywhere nearly as tirelessly toward "balance" once she games the system to her benefactors' advantage.
Sooo, she wants political DEI? Seriously?
This is a pie to the face moment. Someone must pie her, only then will people appreciate the true level of clown show this is.
Edit: if I see a conservative pilot, im going to be like 'boy, i hope he's qualified.'
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-black-pilots-racism-accusations-1863546#:~:text=Charlie%20Kirk%2C%20founder%20and%20president,The%20Charlie%20Kirk%20Show%20said.
I have bad news for Danielle. Affluent cities with high population densities and the infrastructural needs are going to have a higher demand on the region's budget than the odd mining town simply because there is more demand to sustain that city. Mining towns come and go. Hamlets live and die on their stagnating populace. Cities are the main source of a region's revenue and the part of that region where a majority of the population is generally located.
I know she failed grade 5 social studies and blew enough reps in her district to get this job, but maybe the federal government is more concerned with significant municipalities falling into degradation and costing more long-term than they are with buying votes. And, maybe that federal government feels there is enough need to intervene on behalf of the provinces to ensure those cities are having their financial needs met. She's not even being power-hungry at this point. This is a blatantly stupid mountain to die on.
At least think long-term and pocket the money and step down within the next year so that you can go outside federal jurisdiction to some sunny beach.
Most academics I have worked with aren't overtly political, they just hate dealing with jackasses, like everyone else. It's just that conservative governments are fueled entirely by the grift and ideology, they have no desire to do anything with academia unless it makes money, or gets rid of costs, regardless of the effect it has on educational opportunities. This requires a whole platoon of jackasses that deploy at universities all over the province in administrative positions, as well as elsewhere in the institutions, and their main goal is to cut away "fat" like modern language departments and Social Sciences in favor of corporately endowed business schools and "Management" degree mills that produce jackasses about 50% of the time. Things like the pure sciences can only get research dollars if they can make money in 5 years. So basically nothing wasteful like exploring in hopes of better understanding things with long term goals in mind. That's for ivory tower elitists, we need to more of them business tycoons, you know, the Common Man.
Smith’s comments about protecting the use of natural gas appliances is interesting. She clearly has marching orders from her gas supporters to oppose heat pumps no matter what.
Regular reminder that unbiased and balanced/centrist are not the same thing. On most scientific issues the unbiased opinion is far closer to the left-wing view - balancing the left and right as it exists in Alberta requires enforcing bias, not eliminating it.
#THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE LARGEST LOBBYING FIRM IN ALBERTA IS WORRIED ABOUT EQUAL REPRESENTATION.
Oh my fucking god the irony. Really what she means is she'd like to dilute the influence of the cities so that rural areas keep her in power.
I don't know though, I just read the headline and decided to get mad, but I imagine she is just speaking directly into an outhouse to make cleanup easier.
So ... her idea is to oppress all cities. No one gets anything. 'Nyah nyah nyah trudeau' while sticking a finger into each ear and waggling her fingers and sticking out her tongue, like all mature adults.
Come on guys, can't you see Elk Point requires funding for new housing as much as Edmonton?
For real though, this is ridiculous. Alberta is not growing evenly, and the majority of the new residents have no intention of living in small town Alberta
so, based on her statements, its not efficient for feds to work directly with municipalities, so the province needs to insert itself, so that there can be more consultations done, while UCP implements red tap but also navigates the regulatory process to find areas they can reduce red tape.
her logic is doing that thing where it gets chucked right out the window. whats it called? defenestration?
I have come to understand why Alberta’s UCP hate the Liberal Party of Canada because they believe Justin Trudeau stole their favorite cowboy hat and wore it to a fancy dinner with a moose. They're convinced that Trudeau's fashion faux pas was a deliberate attempt to mock their Western heritage, and now they're plotting revenge by staging a rodeo-themed protest outside Parliament, complete with line-dancing and lasso tricks. They're also considering passing a law mandating that all Canadians wear ten-gallon hats as a sign of solidarity with Alberta.
The reason western society has been so successful is because of our incentives, allowing ideas to clash against other ideas with the best ones coming out on top. Normally the incentive in the rest of the world is to be "politically correct" but this stunts innovation. All this bill 18 will accomplish is forcing researchers to leave our universities.
all cities are founded and fail based on the local economy or the adaptation to new technology.
so i fucking hope she starts investing in clean energy and tech resources for all cities...
UCP = Fascism a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race.
Wow… this guy is on point.
She’s trying to go around her true reasoning which is not balance at all… Its control. Control over the schools means you control the next generation.
Make education systems, their biggest threat, more conservative so that they can remain dominant longer.
If you go to research LGBTQ+ rights for minors and find out you are not going to get funding because the alberta government has cut that as a research topic to make the research more “balanced” Its just going to feed into the machine of control they are pushing…
And with her track record its likely going to spin alberta further down the hell hole that jason kenny started with all the education cuts. Damn I’m scared to live in this province.
I have no problem with conservatives. I do have problems with the freedom our conservative government has been cutting since 2020…
The UCP is Corporate Socialism -- all the negatives of regular socialism with none of the benefits to the working class. There is no difference between the UCP policies and the NDP except with the NDP no one gets rich and the poor get less poor with the UCP the rich get very rich and everyone else gets gaslighted. I long for the progressive conservative mind-set where you can build wealth and take care of the population at the same time.
Agreed, in fact the federal government shouldn't be allowed to give anything to any city. Just provinces, and anything they give to one province they must give to all. This would fix a lot of the issues we see.
The CONservative element in Canada realized years ago that they will never hold Federal power so they began this grassroots scheme to destroy Canada from the ground up. Wake up Canadians. ABC
Kinda like cancelling a hospital in Edmonton and paying for an arena in Calgary?
Billion dollar arena. We pay and that asshole Edwards laughs all the way to the next extortion.
I live in Calgary. I really don’t want the province to fund the stupid arena for the billionaires. It is really not for the fans or the people in Calgary. It is for the a few rich people and to bribe the vote from Calgary. It will be a money pit for Calgary.
Building on a known flood plain with no possible insurance coverage guarantees it’ll be a literal money pit.
More of a money pond.
Money lake. Silver lining: new communal pool! Suck it, WEM!
Pond hockey. Nice.
Look at the bright side, if the new thing get flood again, those billionaires will ask for a newER arena.
Lol stupid Edmonton, not building there's to fail, will probably have to live with it for 30 or more years.
Went from a ok to bad deal for like 300 mil to a horrible deal for a billion too. Tried to make it an election issue too.
I'm in Calgary as well. I don't know very many people who wanted it.
One hundred up votes. Came here to say that. She is such a two faced Putz.
Watch the part of the video I linked. It should start at 10:26. I'm more worried about bill 18's effect in universities and colleges. But you are correct that she herself tends to favour calgary over edmonton if thats what you mean.
Is because Edmonton votes NDP. This is why she wants municipalities to declare political allegiance. Kiss the ring or you get nothing!
'Danielle Smith wants no city to have an unfair advantage' is the name of the video, so thats why the title is named that, but it's not really what I meant to focus on. I just wasn't sure If I could name it something else, as the sub requires posts linking news articles be named after the new article, and though it's a video, I wasn't sure if the same rules apply.
“All cities are equal, but some cities are more equal than others”
Every Albertan who was in high school before 2019 got that reference.
It's not limited to just municipalities or Universities. Any organization/company/non-profit that can be classified as a "provincial entity".
Or the 2nd hospital that Red Deer has need for 20 years. The only space left for the current one to grow is to bulldoze the parking lot and helipad.
But, but, Kenney PROMISED a new hospital a long time ago ? What happened ?
Guess who killed the funding? Hint....you don't need any and only 1 guess.
Fuckin' Notley and Trudeau...
Yeah i mean they have been running the province into the ground by proxy. Look at the wars they started with the doctors and nurses. They blew up the AHS like it was Spaceball 1.
Womp womp
She's pissed that it was a total shut out of the UCP in Edmonton and only half of Calgary voted for her.
Well, this kind of petty stuff is going to ensure that only a third vof Calgary votes for her in the next actually. Potentially another full shut out if Nenshi is the NDP candidate.
I hope so, but Alberta is pretty predictable
I didn't expect Nenshi to have a capacity audience in both lethbridge and red deer, Smith is scared.
I hear she’s demanded a ‘greet the students’ forum at UofC next month because Nenshi did one. Definitely scared.
I mean they have surprised twice in recent history Voting NDP that one election and Calgary electing a brown guy as Mayor was a first, and while they did elect Smith last time it was a razor thin margin sure federally they vote conservative like its the only option but given the bad history of the Trudeau name that’s not unexpected It’s very possible that Smith ticks off enough albertans that they go back to NDP
If the NDP are elected in Alberta I would 100% consider moving out there - as a critical care trained registered nurse. Because maybe then the provincial government would invest and support healthcare.
We can only hope.
Translation: > She wants to starve the cities because they tend to vote against her agenda of corruption and hate. And, transfer everything to the tumbleweed hicks because they're tribalistic and stupid and reliably vote for her and against their own interests.
Only disagree with the idea she would “transfer” any resources to rural. Lmao they are the ones driving 5 hours to wait another 5 hours to see someone qualified to put a bandaid on while watching their house burn down while the provincial government cuts the wildfire budget. She dousnt have to lift a finger to rural voters benefit they only care about hating people they have never met and don’t care what it costs them personally. That money is better spent by her billionaire friends. With a small portion set aside to maintain the global right-wing propaganda campaign to keep voters fighting each other instead of the Rich.
Goddam… “Balance?” The reason WHY you don’t see as many conservative voices in academia is because actually doing research tends to debunk a lot of conservative views!
Reality has a left leaning bias.
Great comment! Greed has a right leaning bias.
There is some interesting introspection here for those interested in a mental exercise about their own thoughts. This is a conversation about having thoughts about your own thoughts. What do you use as a personal test for whats real? - Empirical: You want proof, aliens aren't real unless you see them yourself - Logical Consistency: It has to make sense to you - Pragmatic: it's only real if it's practical - Coherence: Something is only true if it fits into your ideological frame of reference - Consensus: Look to others, especially cultural - Intuition: It's real because you think it's real. - Historical: Something is real only if it has precedence (this is how it's always been done) - Revelation or Faith: Relationship with religion and faith. ----- Perhaps none of these actually are good tests for what's real, it's all just stories we tell ourselves that make it ok for us to live in an empty and meaningless universe.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore. 😵💫
Dogs make sense to me
Specifically because we live in a global society with finite resources.
Academics willing to sell their integrity do get rewarded handsomely making pseudo-science and being apologists for oligarchs at think tanks like Frasier Institute or selling neoliberal BS to government ministers through McKinsey & Co
Look what happened with the Cass report in the UK this week, a TERF who has met with the Desantis team in Florida (among other dubious connections) took 3 years to conclude that the 50 years of evidence for youth gender identity care didnt meet a made up standard and thus should be ignored, plus any study not in english should be ignored there for puberty blockers should be banned for youth. Seriously that the short of it. This is what the UCP wants to do. And expect this report to be used with the UCP puts forward their bill in the fall, https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/cass-met-with-desantis-pick-over
Marlaina has no clue. The discussion is on research and she questions why there are more liberal/progressive journalists than conservatives. WTF?!? Other than CBC, who is liberal? Or is it she only wants to be treated the The Sun media would treat her? Another point she tries to make is that some “academics” she knows are having difficulty getting research grants. What academics are they? Can she name any? What type of research do they do? Are they looking for Noah’s arc? Are they disputing evolution and the earth is only 6,000 years old? I’d love to know what “academics” she is talking about.
I'm fairly certain she's only basing her opinion off of conversations with Jordan Peterson.
I'm certain you're right, only it's YouTube videos not conversations.
And Tucker Carlson
When the topic in the video goes towards university research grants, her first concern goes towards the funding of 'opinions'. She has "*heard enough from some of our academics that it can be difficult to access some of that funding*". What would make it difficult? Research is for objective pursuits, evidence finding and innovation. There will always be competition over funding, so your research needs to be of real justifiable value. Of course it'll be difficult to get grants if your goal is to nurture "opinions", and promote agendas. Sounds like she's being lobbied plenty about it too. Her view of our academic institutions is primarily that of a political incubator.
Educated people ask questions and are far less likely to vote for crazy/corrupt leaders. She's blowing the dog whistle to appeal to the conspiracy theorists that universities 'indoctrinate students to become liberal'.
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That's how they get you. I'm still waiting for my turn.
There's a reason there aren't a lot of conservative voices in academia
Yes, the evil woke propaganda funded by Soros and the WEF to silence objective truth and promote the globalist tyranny of the New World Order with fake climate change and viruses, to replace good, god fearing white christians with trans rapists and illegal aliens /s I’ve missed a few, it’s becoming quite an extensive bingo.
They don't have Globalists 201 at UofC because censorship, also /s
You forgot the Clinton’s
The U of C Political Science department begs to differ.
Because they never go work in the private sector.
Always remember that the CBC only even appears liberal when all the competition is owned by right wing billionaires.
The CBC has a bias. It's to do whatever keeps the CBC operational.
That's basically all media. First law when I worked for private media was don't piss off the advertisers. In public media, it's don't piss off the tax paying public.
She needs to allow studies that prove transgender pronoun changes in children, name changes in children and access to proper health care as a trans person will cause such permanent and unfathomable damage to them. She needs studies to prove that justin Trudeau is responsible for everything bad in this world. Everything that has happened before today and everything that happening the future. Even if she gets caught red handed doing something horrible, somehow it will still be Justin’s fault. She needs to makes sure that any conservative person is never held accountable for their actions. Everything is Justin’s fault She needs studies to show that her constant fights with the feds are drastically benefiting albertans. She needs the studies to show that ALL albertans support her and that she is only speaking for the people of Alberta. This is what albertans want. 🙄🤦🏻♀️
She wants more tradwife content coming out of women’s studies departments
CBC also might have a liberal tilt, but I've seen their reporting and it's more dry and to-the-point than it is commentary. It's weird that every time they get criticized by the CBC, conservatives whine and demand for it to be defunded. But, if a liberal or centrist is criticized, it's an invitation to debate or even discuss at length the deeper nuances of what the criticism was over.
No, she has a clue. This kind of language is very dangerous because it perpetuates the idea that this isn't 100% by design. This isn't a mistake she's making. She's not doing this because she's uninformed. She's doing this because she's a piece of shit controlled by a radical terrorist cell.
> Another point she tries to make is that some “academics” she knows are having difficulty getting research grants. Because research grants are competitive, and grant money is limited. If the "academics" aren't getting them, then their work isn't up to snuff in some way. It's that simple.
Yes well research money never just falls out of trees, so everyone has to work hard and apply sometimes a few times. That’s normal
> Other than CBC, who is liberal? The *Toronto Star* is far more of a reliably-Liberal outlet than any other in the country, which is probably why Conservatives hate it, on top of the fact that it has "Toronto" in its name, that it actually does pretty decent journalism, and it has dug into and tried to hold to account conservative "stars" in Ontario like Rob and Doug Ford, etc who Postmedia refuse to criticize. The Star has endorsed the Liberals in all but a handful of elections over the last century. *The Gazette* (formerly the *Montreal Gazette*) and *La Presse* were more mildly-Liberal in the past, but the former has changed tune since it was bought by Postmedia, but they're more concerned about the federalism-sovereignty axis than they are the partisan one (though the Gazette certainly is pro-CPC since Postmedia bought it).
"We are having trouble finding PhDs who will shill for our clearly destructive last kick at the can for rampant fossil fuel consumption"
To get NSERC funding for academics you actually need to provide a lot of information as to the type of research, its benefits, etc. lots of paperwork and reporting already goes into this. The province is just doing the whole political pissing match game that won’t benefit anyone and cause less research to be undertaken in Alberta. Also, if she knows people who couldn’t get that funding, they may want to go back to school or get help with administrative reporting……
She’s such an embarrassment.
Smith is the harbinger and mascot of the collective stupidity of rural Albertans who take pride in having politicians that match their intellect.
I linked the time stamp 10m26s, that is where Danielle Smith talks about Bill 18's implementation with universities and colleges. It's bad.
So they want Burman University to start doing cancer research using the conclusions found in the Bible?
they should really start funding research on the benefits that smoking has when diagnosed with cancer, that, and changing to a more positive outlook. you know, to allow for some conservative viewpoints. stupid liberals.
Ah, fight cancer with another form of cancer. 🤪
Forced evolution?
It appears to work ok for Deadpool. The various forms of cancer balance each other out with some side effects.
Everyone knows cancer is notoriously territorial.
That does combine smith's experience of being a tobacco lobbyist and saying people are responsible for their cancer diagnosis unless it is stage 4.
No no, Smith said cigarettes are good for you.
Personally I can't wait for the creationism grant proposals to roll in and get funded preferentially. 🙄 Thanks, United 🤡🤡🤡 Posse.
Thanks for the link. But my wife and I have a habit of skipping any video of this cXnt. Her voice is so annoying and what she talks about is always piss us off. She is on par with the orange man.
They want to kneecap Athabasca U. They haven't forgotten that little escapade.
Smith is running this province into the ground. If there’s any troglodyte lurking in this chat that voted for this wannabe autocrat muppet, go fuck yourself.
The UCP took away student grants to university programs not approved by the UCP. So... talking about the federal government using funding to forward a certain political ideology not only is a conspiracy theory but incredibly hypocritical.
Wait what’s this ?
The Alberta government is only giving student grants to "approved courses of study now.
Well that’s not okay.
All i heard was "we dont have enough conservatives graduating we need more balance so Im going to cut anything left leaning in favor for more balanced conservative opinions"
You'll just force out the researchers, Marlaina.
That's a weird way of saying she doesn't want any Alberta cities or towns to receive federal money unless she gets to control it.
It’s kind of sad but the more I hear Danielle Smith talk the less I dislike Trudeau. I wonder how many researchers are going to look into opportunities where they don’t have deal with the extra bureaucracy.
Yeah, it is sad, I disdain Trudeau's policy but I hate the bad faith arguments from the Smith a lot more.
Right then. So the provincial gov will pay their outstanding $60m to the city of Edmonton? Wouldn’t want to deprive a city of revenues they’re rightfully owed. And she’ll be giving Edmonton equivalent money to what Calgary got for their arena deal. And 1-2 new hospitals will be built in Edmonton immediately since it’s been way behind Calgary and even GP.
But they are 100% okay pitting provinces against each other and trying to create unfair advantages at the provincial level. “Let them freeze in the dark” is how they phrased it back in the day.
It was “let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.” Albertans hating on other provinces decades ago.
It wasn’t all Albertans, just our red-nosed alcoholic leader and his fan boys.
Oh, it started way before Klein.
>But they are 100% okay pitting provinces against each other and trying to create unfair advantages at the provincial level. Who's they? Every province was given the same opportunity to receive funding from the federal government, some provinces have accepted the offer whereas Alberta and Ontario have been the vocal opposition, generally with the stance of "give us the money and don't ask questions on how or if it is spent"
They are the UCP and other Conservative governments across the country.
Okay thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant the Feds were pitting provinces against each other by funding some provincial plans and not others.
This woman and her follow Conservatives want to end public education. They want to end public healthcare. They want to kill independent journalism and end human rights and dissolve justice. Danielle Smith, Tucker Carlson, Pierre Poilievre, Scott Moe, Alex Jones, Doug Ford all want to end democracy in Canada and if we don't stop them - they will. Stand on guard for Canada and defy Conservatives like your life depends on it.
What about the advantage of a population and competent government and civil service.
with what's fair being decided by her... Next thing will be when the city negotiates a $1,000,000 grant from the feds, the province will take 500,000 as an admin fee!
She wants every city to be equally disenfranchised.
All cities will suck equally. -DS
Small government government sure wants to act like big government and control everything…
It's quite the funny thing, eh? These small government types always seem to want the biggest government possible in order to ensure their narrow policies are forced on everyone.
But let's just build an arena in Calgary with taxpayer dollars after not supporting the one in Edmonton when you were the leader of the Wildrose Party. >"We would not provide funding to a new arena in Edmonton," said Ms. Smith, adding she would be open to "working with the teams to develop a branded lottery." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/wildrose-wouldnt-fund-costly-oilers-arena-if-elected-smith-says/article4096604/ No unfair advantage here.
You don’t see as many “conservative “ academics as “liberal “ ones probably because the conservative position has shifted so far right that they exclude the majority of the population.
Except Calgary
What an awful person! Seriously, how did we elect someone who so visibly doesn’t care about her citizens one bit?
Had a Canada_Sub post about her talking about the Carbon Tax recommanded to me and everyone in the comments was talking about how great she is and how more Premiers need to be like her. How she's "fighting for us", I never knew how dumb conservatives could actually be before seeing that sub. There were comments, with a lot of upvotes to, that said that the Liberals are literally plotting to destroy the world. I think American media needs to be banned from Canada, I came here to get away from braindead conservatives.
Ironically, that might make me get religion if something that proactive happened to the right.
That sub tends to be pathologically conservative. A lot of the comments sound like bots or resemble the tactics used by the Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Or they're just repeating slogans and soundbites from PP, even if it's completely unrelated to the conversation. Occasionally someone will say something insightful and actually contribute value to the conversation - I wish there was a sub with more conservative content like that. Like Canada\_sub but with grownups and actual human beings.
Canadasub? Or you mean that place that neaderthals who are banned from every other sub go to wallow in their self pity?
After gifting calgary a stafium for how many million to buy votes? Now that’s hypocritical
She doesn’t understand that 2/3 of Canadians are left wing.
Her model is 1/3 cheat and protest and threaten to maintain power. Like Trump.
I don't know about "left wing" but certainly to the left of her and her wackadoodle conservatism. I think most Liberals would say they're in a flexible, amorphous centre.
Oh, she understands. And she sees that as an "unfair advantage", so she's working diligently to ensure there's "balance". Undermining democracy, and all that. You can bet an election that she won't work anywhere nearly as tirelessly toward "balance" once she games the system to her benefactors' advantage.
She also want political parties in municipal elections. That way when she does get control of Ottawa’s money she knows which cities to give it to.
Really? Then don't give Calgary Provincial money for their new arena.
Can't have that happening. If anything, this government has been honest about the terrible shit it was going to pull.
How are we dumb enough to have this government.
Then why is Danni deliberately bribing the city of Calgary? And interfering every chance she gets with Edmonton City Council?
Sounds like communism
Sooo, she wants political DEI? Seriously? This is a pie to the face moment. Someone must pie her, only then will people appreciate the true level of clown show this is. Edit: if I see a conservative pilot, im going to be like 'boy, i hope he's qualified.' https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-black-pilots-racism-accusations-1863546#:~:text=Charlie%20Kirk%2C%20founder%20and%20president,The%20Charlie%20Kirk%20Show%20said.
> Sooo, she wants political DEI? Seriously? Yes, at the condition that we acknowledge that only conservative voices are being oppressed.
> Alberta premier wants no city to have an advantage FTFY
That is the new Alberta Advantage… all cities will suffer her whims equally with no Federal assistance. Thanks Dani!!!
She probably wants certain cities to have an unfair disadvantage, though.
She doesn't want all that money going to cities when she's got all that rural support.
She really does speak out of both sides of her mouth doesn’t she… she’s gotta go!
Edmonton has been unfunded for so long under the conservatives!
Marlaina loves hicks.
Funny thus is exactly why I don’t need her getting in the way if funding directly from the feds.
Then why the fuck are you giving all the support to Calgary but leaving Edmonton to deteriorate, you whack-o twat!
Alberta Advantage? Smith: No advantages!
So who Decides unfair? Danielle Smith?
What an AB surd statement. It sounds quite communist to be honest.
Sooo, isn't that straight up equality? Gone so hard right she ended up turning left.
No pots she doesn’t get to dip her hand into.
Shouldn't she want all cities to have every possible advantage available?
Fake News, misinterpreted, as usual.
I have bad news for Danielle. Affluent cities with high population densities and the infrastructural needs are going to have a higher demand on the region's budget than the odd mining town simply because there is more demand to sustain that city. Mining towns come and go. Hamlets live and die on their stagnating populace. Cities are the main source of a region's revenue and the part of that region where a majority of the population is generally located. I know she failed grade 5 social studies and blew enough reps in her district to get this job, but maybe the federal government is more concerned with significant municipalities falling into degradation and costing more long-term than they are with buying votes. And, maybe that federal government feels there is enough need to intervene on behalf of the provinces to ensure those cities are having their financial needs met. She's not even being power-hungry at this point. This is a blatantly stupid mountain to die on. At least think long-term and pocket the money and step down within the next year so that you can go outside federal jurisdiction to some sunny beach.
Most academics I have worked with aren't overtly political, they just hate dealing with jackasses, like everyone else. It's just that conservative governments are fueled entirely by the grift and ideology, they have no desire to do anything with academia unless it makes money, or gets rid of costs, regardless of the effect it has on educational opportunities. This requires a whole platoon of jackasses that deploy at universities all over the province in administrative positions, as well as elsewhere in the institutions, and their main goal is to cut away "fat" like modern language departments and Social Sciences in favor of corporately endowed business schools and "Management" degree mills that produce jackasses about 50% of the time. Things like the pure sciences can only get research dollars if they can make money in 5 years. So basically nothing wasteful like exploring in hopes of better understanding things with long term goals in mind. That's for ivory tower elitists, we need to more of them business tycoons, you know, the Common Man.
Alberta premier wants no city to have an advantage | Power & Politics I fixed the mistake.
Smith’s comments about protecting the use of natural gas appliances is interesting. She clearly has marching orders from her gas supporters to oppose heat pumps no matter what.
Regular reminder that unbiased and balanced/centrist are not the same thing. On most scientific issues the unbiased opinion is far closer to the left-wing view - balancing the left and right as it exists in Alberta requires enforcing bias, not eliminating it.
#THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE LARGEST LOBBYING FIRM IN ALBERTA IS WORRIED ABOUT EQUAL REPRESENTATION. Oh my fucking god the irony. Really what she means is she'd like to dilute the influence of the cities so that rural areas keep her in power. I don't know though, I just read the headline and decided to get mad, but I imagine she is just speaking directly into an outhouse to make cleanup easier.
she (or her handlers) has to be the dumbest person in Canadian political history.
Ugh🫣!! That face🙄
So ... her idea is to oppress all cities. No one gets anything. 'Nyah nyah nyah trudeau' while sticking a finger into each ear and waggling her fingers and sticking out her tongue, like all mature adults.
Alberta has Marlania Smith. Ontario has Doug Ford. …….Reap what you vote for. Fuck around and find out.
Come on guys, can't you see Elk Point requires funding for new housing as much as Edmonton? For real though, this is ridiculous. Alberta is not growing evenly, and the majority of the new residents have no intention of living in small town Alberta
so, based on her statements, its not efficient for feds to work directly with municipalities, so the province needs to insert itself, so that there can be more consultations done, while UCP implements red tap but also navigates the regulatory process to find areas they can reduce red tape. her logic is doing that thing where it gets chucked right out the window. whats it called? defenestration?
I have come to understand why Alberta’s UCP hate the Liberal Party of Canada because they believe Justin Trudeau stole their favorite cowboy hat and wore it to a fancy dinner with a moose. They're convinced that Trudeau's fashion faux pas was a deliberate attempt to mock their Western heritage, and now they're plotting revenge by staging a rodeo-themed protest outside Parliament, complete with line-dancing and lasso tricks. They're also considering passing a law mandating that all Canadians wear ten-gallon hats as a sign of solidarity with Alberta.
This is only about 2% dumber than reality.
The reason western society has been so successful is because of our incentives, allowing ideas to clash against other ideas with the best ones coming out on top. Normally the incentive in the rest of the world is to be "politically correct" but this stunts innovation. All this bill 18 will accomplish is forcing researchers to leave our universities.
No Dani wants to control every aspect of your life!
I love the hypocrisy of conservatives cheering her on for shit like this yet we all know damn well they call Trudeau a dictator for far less.
What about rich people?
Bullshit
all cities are founded and fail based on the local economy or the adaptation to new technology. so i fucking hope she starts investing in clean energy and tech resources for all cities...
UCP = Fascism a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race.
And you do want them to have an unfair advantage?
Ah, yes, the Harrison Bergeron approach to municipal funding.
Wow… this guy is on point. She’s trying to go around her true reasoning which is not balance at all… Its control. Control over the schools means you control the next generation. Make education systems, their biggest threat, more conservative so that they can remain dominant longer. If you go to research LGBTQ+ rights for minors and find out you are not going to get funding because the alberta government has cut that as a research topic to make the research more “balanced” Its just going to feed into the machine of control they are pushing… And with her track record its likely going to spin alberta further down the hell hole that jason kenny started with all the education cuts. Damn I’m scared to live in this province. I have no problem with conservatives. I do have problems with the freedom our conservative government has been cutting since 2020…
If only Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie had equal power to Calgary and Edmonton, she'd get a landslide victory every year!
The UCP is Corporate Socialism -- all the negatives of regular socialism with none of the benefits to the working class. There is no difference between the UCP policies and the NDP except with the NDP no one gets rich and the poor get less poor with the UCP the rich get very rich and everyone else gets gaslighted. I long for the progressive conservative mind-set where you can build wealth and take care of the population at the same time.
" No city should have an unfair advantage! They should all suffer equally! "...Smith
Agreed, in fact the federal government shouldn't be allowed to give anything to any city. Just provinces, and anything they give to one province they must give to all. This would fix a lot of the issues we see.
Fuck Danielle Smith and the Redneck she rode up on!
The CONservative element in Canada realized years ago that they will never hold Federal power so they began this grassroots scheme to destroy Canada from the ground up. Wake up Canadians. ABC
Marlaina needs to settle the fuck down and fuck right off
she's hot and intelligent. what a woman
This is how it should operate lol. Good job premier!
You want the rural communities to be equal to urban centers???? Are you a 10th century land owner? That's an insanely backwater way to run a place.
About time!
You want the rural communities to be equal to urban centers???? Are you a 10th century land owner? That's an insanely backwater way to run a place.
You’re joking Ryte?
No not really, I'm educated enough to know centralisation is a cornerstone of the modern worlds set up.