First Nations groups organize Alberta referendum get-out-the-vote effort
The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations is organizing workshops and voting teams ahead of Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum. The referendum asks Albertans whether the province should remain in Canada or hold a binding referendum on separation. First Nations organizers are translating the questions and helping voters meet identification and polling requirements. The campaign follows a court challenge over the petition that led to the separation vote. Elections Alberta has dispatched more than 652,000 mail-in ballots and estimates turnout could reach 85 per cent.
Parliament resumes debate on economic and labour bill
The bill would create a one-year timeline for federal project decisions and zones of national interest where some projects are pre-approved. First Nations and labour groups have raised concerns about consultation and the right to strike. The government also plans legislation on production, procurement and investment related to national defence and security.
Smith office says premier knew nothing of separatist D.C. meetings
The Alberta Prosperity Project leaders reportedly offered access to fresh water and crude-oil royalties in exchange for help transitioning to independence. Smith’s press secretary previously said her Top Secret clearance would allow her to receive briefings on national-security issues.
Survivors’ Flag raised on Parliament Hill to honour children
Residential-school Survivors gathered on Parliament Hill to raise the Survivors’ Flag in honour of Survivors and the children who never returned home. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation said the flag was created to honour all Survivors, families and communities affected by the residential-school system in Canada. The flag was first raised on Parliament Hill in August 2022.
Alberta mode is a guy from Edmonton commenting on the news, and
the guy is a machine. One or two lines an item — what somebody
who has lived here his whole life would say reading it out to his mates.
It is not the story. The headline above each comment is
the real one, the source link below it goes to the real reporting, and the
plain edition is one click away. He is not summarising anything and he is
not a reporter; he is the guy at the shop with an opinion about it.
He swears when a sentence wants it. He is rude about council, developers,
the province, the weather, the roads and the Oilers, and never about the
people in the story. He holds about a dozen opinions that contradict each
other and he is fine with that.
Some of it will sit wrong anyway. When it does, that is on us and we
would rather hear it than not:
[email protected], and we will pull
the line.
Two things get no comment at all, and they are not
negotiable: anyone charged or before a court, who has a trial coming and is
entitled to have us stay out of it, and a suicide. Anything you need to ACT
on — a tip line, an advisory, an evacuation — keeps its full
text underneath the comment, because a phone number does not go behind a
joke.
The plain edition is the record, and it is
the default. It is one click away and it is where you should check
anything before you act on it.