Alberta

Strathmore Town Council Bans “Fetus” Images To Block Pro-Life Advertising

Back on July 26th, the Alberta town of Strathmore’s council recently passed a bylaw (No. 23-27) banning advertising within the boundaries of the town that includes an image of a fetus. Violation of this bylaw can result in a fine of up to $3,000. 

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Barnes: Alberta’s Election Is Over. Now What?

Speaking from experience, I can tell you that doing so won’t always be celebrated by party brass, and that’s ok. Appeasing them might make your life easier, but that’s not your job. Your duty is to put your constituents’ thoughts and concerns first.

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Claypool: It Was Never About The Fireworks

You could smell the absolute desperation from woke Calgary councilor Kourtney Penner who tried to preemptively head off attempts from the council to restrict the actions of the bureaucrats at city hall. Penner claimed that if Calgary city council voted to reverse the decision of city hall bureaucrats it would be “colonialism and racism.”

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Alberta’s NDP Is Playing Coy About Their Plan To Provide Free Drugs To Addicts

“Safe supply” is a program that effectively entails giving addicts on the streets access to free opioids deemed to be safer than other street drugs. In practice, this just floods the streets with more powerful drugs that can be consumed or traded for stronger drugs. 

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NDP Peace River Candidate Hates Capitalism And Endorses “Owning Fewer Things”

Liana Paiva also tries to claim that any publicly provided good is “socialism” not seeming to realize that the high-quality services that government proves in the Western capitalistic country are only possible off the backs of activity generated by the free market. In actual socialist countries, the government controls everything and resource shortages are common. 

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Alberta NDP Candidate Indirectly Supports The UCP’s New Addictions Program

Liana Piava, Alberta NDP candidate in Peace River, in spite of criticizing the UCP government’s addictions policy like the other members of her party, actually has indirectly endorsed much of what the UCP is doing and newly proposing.

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The Alberta NDP Has An Oddly High Number Of Pro-Communist Candidates

The Alberta NDP seems to be trying to prove that assumption wrong that they aren’t socialists by fielding several candidates in the 2023 Alberta provincial election who are, are linked to, or praise, communists/communism. 

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Alberta NDP States Its Goal Is To “Establish And Maintain A Democratic Socialism Government In Alberta”

The idea that the NDP is right in the centre of political ideologies is ridiculous. Like the NDP says themselves they are a democratic socialist party whose goal is to “establish and maintain a democratic socialist government in Alberta”.

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The CBC’s Alberta Political Compass Quiz Is Pure NDP Propaganda

The CBC seems to be trying to assist the NDP in presenting it as a centrist party with its Alberta Political Compass online quiz. In ridiculous fashion, the CBC places the NDP as being slightly right-of-centre on economics and slightly more progressive than conservative on social issues. 

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Rosman Valencia, Calgary-East NDP Candidate Supports Illegal Anti-Pipeline Protests

Now it was discovered that Valencia, on his own Twitter, account retweeted content accusing the police of wrongdoing for blocking food/medicine from entering an illegal anti-pipeline protest zone in British Columbia. This was part of protests against the pipeline being built on Wet’suwet’en reserve land, which the tweet Valencia retweeted called a “climate-changing pipeline” implying things like the pipeline were responsible for the flooding in 2021. 

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