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David Mitchell :CApride:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/tryangregory.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tryangregory.bsky.social</span></a></span> </p><p>Water rights for indigenous communities will “undermine competitiveness, and delay project development” according to the governments of Alberta and Ontario.</p><p>There are many basic - fundamental - legal rights and principles that “delay project development.”</p><p>Hey, we could just set them *all* aside - we have ignored them before: we could stop paying even lip-service to consultation; we could accept any amount of pollution and degradation of the land and water; we could allow companies to show up with buses and ship everyone hundreds of km away and bulldoze their homes and communities if they are in the way; really we could go back to just starving everyone out, or even save time and shoot, gas, or bomb everyone into mass graves; why not? It’s what all the other fascists are doing now, or will be soon.</p><p>Fascism-lite is still fascism.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ABPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABPoli</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>So knowing the Alberta Next panels are a clown show on purpose, why did these people sign on? Are they all true supporters of this nonsense? Misguided nice-guys hoping to get close and talk sense into this gov?</p><p><a href="https://www.albertanextpanel.ca/panel-membership" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">albertanextpanel.ca/panel-memb</span><span class="invisible">ership</span></a></p><p>I can only hope that after each session they come away realizing that the intentional stoking of hate and fear and distrust is 100% counter to any improvements they personally might hope for. And that education funding matters based on the confusion in some of those audience questions.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/unitedclownparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedclownparty</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>Deirdre does a great job describing the Alberta Next Panel clown roadshow so far. </p><p><a href="https://womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/alberta-next-panels-are-a-separatist" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/a</span><span class="invisible">lberta-next-panels-are-a-separatist</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/unitedclownparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedclownparty</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AbPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ConservativePedophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConservativePedophilia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/UCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UCP</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>A hitler disciple is at the UCP traitor rally tonight. Unsurprised.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AbPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Daniel Carkner🥀<p>Conservatives sure do hate bike lanes eh. To an absurd degree<br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bicycle-lane-transport-calgary-1.7583814" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bic</span><span class="invisible">ycle-lane-transport-calgary-1.7583814</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikeTooter</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a></p>
LM Little<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gerrymcgovern</span></a></span> In the colonial world where <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have been pushed into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a>, now the push is to take the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> and make marginalized people and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> complicit in their own demise. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-indigenous-data-centre-abandoned-power-plant-1.7586072" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fi</span><span class="invisible">rst-indigenous-data-centre-abandoned-power-plant-1.7586072</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waterisLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waterisLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a></p>
Bentley<p>"The media should always be vigorously defended from cynical politicians seeking to hide their bad actions or poor policies but it's also true they need a reckoning when they fail at their very core purpose of exposing the full facts of the day &amp; creating an informed electorate."</p><p><a href="https://www.podcastics.com/episode/370425/link/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">podcastics.com/episode/370425/</span><span class="invisible">link/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkCarney</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smoke</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/SmokeYYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmokeYYC</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pipelines</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/CostOfClimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOfClimate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/yyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yyc</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>A letter from "- Ag / Farm Dad. Separating the wheat from the chaff... Photo taken by me"</p><p>"I Voted Conservative. But This Ain’t It.</p><p>I’m a 6th-generation Albertan. My family’s been on this land longer than most folks around here can trace their roots. I’m a hockey dad, a proud farmer, and I’ve voted conservative my whole life — but what the UCP is doing lately? It ain’t conservative. It’s corrupt.</p><p>I showed up to the Alberta Next town hall expecting solutions. What I got was a warmed-over sales pitch for separation dressed up like it’s going to fix everything. I don’t buy it. At first, it sounded alright — take more control, stand up to Ottawa — but the more questions I ask, the more B.S. I smell. This idea of "independence" is being used like a shiny object to distract us from the absolute mess the UCP has made right here at home.</p><p>Let’s talk about that "Corrupt Care" scandal — over a billion dollars allegedly handed to politically connected companies during the pandemic. No-bid contracts. Mismanaged PPE. Friends of insiders making millions while real Albertans struggled to keep their businesses alive. Where’s the accountability? We’ve got lawsuits piling up in AHS, staff walking off the job, and rural health care on the brink — and you want to blame Trudeau for this? Get real.</p><p>I didn't blame Trudeau when my tractor's oil line blew out.<br>I got a clamp, and fixed it, my hands got dirty. I'm proud of my work.</p><p>Danielle Smith likes to puff her chest about “Alberta First,” but she's led us off the rails. This isn't about Ottawa anymore. It’s about the UCP refusing to govern responsibly. They’ve turned our politics into a bad oilfield campfire story — all spin, no substance.</p><p>So much spin, if you're not dizzy yet, you might be unconscious already - it's a campfire next to a tailings pond. It stinks.</p><p>And don’t even get me started on this coal mine nonsense. Digging up the Eastern Slopes so some billionaire from Australia can make a buck? We’re going to risk our watersheds and tourism just to sell thermal coal the world’s moving away from? That’s not economic development — that’s desperation.</p><p>Yes, I believe in developing our resources. But the plans I’m seeing lately? They don’t make sense. No long-term vision. No common sense. Just backroom deals and vanity projects.</p><p>We’re not being led — we’re being played. We called everyone else "sheep" and now we are being herded.</p><p>And worst of all, the right is splitting. We’ve got people getting swept up in separatist distractions instead of holding the UCP to account. If you're truly conservative, you believe in fiscal responsibility, clean government, personal accountability — none of which I’m seeing from Smith’s crew.</p><p>Enough is enough. This province is worth fighting for — but not like this. We need leadership that puts Albertans first, not their donors, not their lobbyists, and not their fantasy politics.</p><p>Let’s clean house, not burn it down."</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>So dumb, the United Clown Party echo chamber hard at work "protesters weren’t allowed in because of the vetting process"</p><p>"The town hall was also an opportunity for some to air grudges that weren’t on the agenda, including concerns about carbon dioxide being labelled a pollutant, the World Health Organization, and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the workplace.</p><p>Smith said her government is working on presenting legislation on those workplace initiatives in the fall, but did not provide details."</p><p><a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/smith-alberta-next-panel-town-hall-red-deer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edmontonjournal.com/news/smith</span><span class="invisible">-alberta-next-panel-town-hall-red-deer</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/unitedclownparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedclownparty</span></a></p>
David Mayhood<p>"fyi coal mines are fascism now and climate change is class warfare. There I said it."</p><p>First Dog On The Moon has some words for my fellow Albertans.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jul/16/i-am-prone-to-fatalist-climate-doomerism-but-is-it-really-too-late" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">picture/2025/jul/16/i-am-prone-to-fatalist-climate-doomerism-but-is-it-really-too-late</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/NotFunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotFunny</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ABpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABpoli</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>Postmedia is undeniably a hostile espionage operation by MAGA republican fascists. Any wise nation would've shut down the attack long ago. Canadians have their heads in the sand and may soon lose their freedoms for it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Postmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Postmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Espionage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CanadaWeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaWeak</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AbPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbPoli</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>"When Rachel was Premier, despite my having two decades of professional experience in labour relations, I was not allowed within 10 light years of setting labour policy. I was not actually allowed to lobby any minister on ANY subject whatsoever. </p><p>And that wasn’t just good ethics, that was the law. Enforced by the ethics commissioner.</p><p>Danielle Smith is full of it."</p><p>"Today in the Alberta Legislature, MLA Peter Guthrie claimed that when he was in cabinet, he was pressured by Premier Smith's husband to take meetings with rail lobbyists.</p><p>As the husband of a former Premier, this interests me.</p><p>When Rachel was Premier, I was instructed very clearly by the Ethics Commissioner that I was forbidden from lobbying. I couldn't so much as write a letter to a minister asking for a meeting. CUPE even went so far as to restructure my responsibilities so that I couldn't break the rules.</p><p>I don't know if the rules have changed since then, but there is no way in hell I'd have been able to ask Ministers to meet with the local girl guide troop, let alone a group of businessmen trying to build a railroad."</p><p>- Lou Arab, CUPE Communications Representative and husband of former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley</p><p>"WOW!</p><p>Today in the Alberta Legislature, Pete Guthrie seemed to imply that Premier Smith's husband has been using his relationship with her to advance the rail line between Calgary and Banff!<br>What is even happening in this province?"</p><p>- The Breakdown</p><p>"My husband's an adviser to me, and that's allowed because he's married to me, so I can ask for his advice on anything I choose, and he happens to have 25 years in media, much of it covering issues of rail."</p><p>- Current Alberta Premier Danielle Smith</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ableg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ableg</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>As a long-time resident and restaurant owner in High River:<br>1. have the police asked Dani if she knows this nazi perp?<br>2. Woulf dani tell if she does know him?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AbPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>Changes from the UCP’s Bill 20 will significantly delay the release of results and potentially disenfranchise some voters and reduce voter turnout, which is generally weak in Alberta, reports Charles Rusnell. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/16/Alberta-Costly-Confusing-Voting-Changes/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/16/Alb</span><span class="invisible">erta-Costly-Confusing-Voting-Changes/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
Bentley<p><a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/yyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yyc</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a></p>
Bentley<p><a href="https://www.podcastics.com/episode/370425/link/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">podcastics.com/episode/370425/</span><span class="invisible">link/</span></a><br><a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkCarney</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smoke</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/SmokeYYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmokeYYC</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pipelines</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/CostOfClimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOfClimate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/yyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yyc</span></a></p>
senanthic<p>can't find this video outside Instagram (sorry), but Nenshi's response is excellent. it IS performative and it IS useless, two enduring hallmarks of the UCP's governance.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMGhZ60BcFn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/reel/DMGhZ60BcFn/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ABPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABPoli</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>"Between October 2022 and October 2023, 12.5 per cent of rental units in Canada saw a change of tenant. At the turnover from the old to the new tenant, landlords increased rents by an average of 24 per cent. In Vancouver, the average increase was 34 per cent; in Calgary, 20 per cent; in Toronto, 40 per cent; and in Halifax, 23 per cent. Similar increases happened the year before, and there is no reason to believe similar increases won’t happen next year. Rents are out of control across Canada—and have been for quite some time.</p><p>The negative impacts of exorbitant housing costs go beyond housing insecurity. High rents make it hard for businesses to attract and retain workers in certain cities. They also impact how much disposable income families spend on other goods and services. The impact of skyrocketing rents on the overall economy deserves more attention."</p><p><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/out-of-control-rents/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">policyalternatives.ca/news-res</span><span class="invisible">earch/out-of-control-rents/</span></a></p><p>Our centralist and right-wing governments only ever talk about building houses. That does not address the housing crisis, which is cemented in a lack of affordability. Why are our tax dollars being put to subsidizing capital exploitation, instead of controlling and regulating the exploitation of our most basic human needs for greed and profit?</p><p>Even during our most desperate pandemic times, most of the government subsidies went to corporations to provide relief from paying wages and rent, and deferment went to mortgage holders instead of renters who needed it the most.</p><p>What we need is rent control, not more building and development. This is the job of the government, to regulate capitalists not to pay them more public funds.</p><p><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/what-is-rent-control-anyway/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">policyalternatives.ca/news-res</span><span class="invisible">earch/what-is-rent-control-anyway/</span></a></p><p>Don't get me wrong... I'm not against building houses. I just want people building houses to stop claiming that they're doing it to tackle the housing crisis or a manufactured housing shortage.</p><p>This kind of misdirection has fueled a lot of divisive politics in my local community, feeding off a strong misunderstanding of the difference between densification (for building a sustainable and inclusive city which can take on population growth without urban sprawl) and affordability of housing.</p><p>When we're talking about the housing and affordability crisis, we're talking about rent controls, government regulation, and ending exploitive practices like blind bidding.</p><p>Arguing over how many houses and what kind of houses that wealthy developers can build, is not in the same realm of discussion. We need less talk about building, and more talk about affordability.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/yeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeg</span></a></p>
LM Little<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> is grabbing up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freshwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freshwater</span></a> in broad daylight and it seems that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UCP</span></a> are just fine with that. <a href="https://www.keepersofthewater.ca/news/albertas-push-to-merge-major-river-basins-is-unacceptable-for-first-nations-and-mtis-settlements" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">keepersofthewater.ca/news/albe</span><span class="invisible">rtas-push-to-merge-major-river-basins-is-unacceptable-for-first-nations-and-mtis-settlements</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nwtpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nwtpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waterisLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waterisLife</span></a></p>