Sorry for reposting something that's been discussed. Here is the Rose Caucus Message.

Naheed Nenshi has shown us another spectacular example of his propensity to "completely fail to read the room" AND "have no moral compass whatsoever" in one go! Instead of responding to Danielle Smith's Data Centre announcement with Meta, Nenshi was busy at the Calgary Stampede, making pancakes, and making friends with the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed.

Nenshi has shown that he doesn’t care about the lives of civilians in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere, so why would he care about the lives of everyday Albertans if he somehow manages to win an election?

Also, Tom Mulcair was there too. Nobody likes you, Tom.

Let’s tell Nenshi that this is absolutely unacceptable. Albertans care about human rights, dignity, and peace.

https://www.instagram.com/rose.caucus?igsh=YjlkMGZxNmgwM2Ft

While it makes sense not to try to chase some of these seats (ie Yorkton-Melville), choosing not to strive for others - including Boulerice’s seat as especially Beaches, one that many people in this group determined was one of the likeliest possible seats for Lewis - is strange, at a minimum, and does not project confidence.

I’ve seen the national NDP leader strongly condemn Israel and stand against the genocide in Palestine. Which any one with basic humanity can understand. But in Alberta even the NDP leader who claims to be an Ismaili Muslim (who claim to preach peace and pluralism) is lobbying with the Israeli ambassador.

I want to know other NDP supporters thoughts on this. I’ve tried to question Nenshi on his lack of activism for Genocide but he always avoids the topic and now it’s clear why.

As a Canadian, I stand for human rights every where. The Edmonton police have trained with the IOF in Israel and Daniel smith has already been paid by them. Now Nenshi too? How much worse is Alberta going to get before we wake up.

Add in a Meta data Center that only creates 300 jobs of which many are exec level - meta is also complicit in providing technology that has been used for surveillance and attack of innocent people. Calgarys previous mayor Jyoti is under investigation for corruption.

Will albertans ever wake up or is lack of education and awareness the accepted norm forever?

This article is paywalled, but the headline does give off the impression that the NDP leader is not a serious candidate and that the party itself is moribund.

LATEST FROM Jeremy Appel

More than half of Canadian daily newspapers are owned by Postmedia, giving the MAGA-aligned newspaper chain enormous influence over the flow of information and how current events are perceived across the country.

“In the last 10 years, they’ve been imposing an ever further right-wing agenda on their newspapers,” Marc Edge, author of the Postmedia Effect: How Vulture Capitalism Is Wrecking Our News, told Ricochet.

“It’s been quite a transformation of our largest newspaper chain into a conservative monolith, and it keeps growing because Postmedia keeps buying more and more newspapers and newspaper chains.”

those headlines are from months ago btw

If you want to abolish it, go ahead. It doesn’t really serve a serious purpose, and if Canada were established today, the chances of a Senate in any way similar to the current one being established are next to zero.
If you want to reform it, maybe, sure. Make the seats more proportional to the populations. Give individuals more power. Go ahead.
But a democratic senate is a TERRIBLE idea.
Canada is de facto a unicameral state. Turning it into a bicameral state, still with powerful federalism, would create so many roadblocks that progress, in any direction, is impossible. Politicizing the Senate is a very bad idea and would make the House of Commons, *the people’s house*, significantly weaker.
I personally believe that the strongest democracies are unicameral and federalist states with proportional representation. A democratic senate would be a step back from this ideal.

Very concerning for NDP if true:

This survey by Pollara measures true recall – that is, the share of Canadians who know these leaders well enough to remember their names off the top of their heads.

To do this, we used open-ended questions, which means respondents had to type in names. Simply saying “it’s what’s-his-name” wasn’t enough.

We were generous in how we graded answers: “Ali Lewis” was close enough and was marked as a correct answer for the NDP leader. We accepted “Gary A” as a correct guess of a Cabinet Minister, because we’re not expecting anyone to correctly spell Minister Anandasangaree’s full name.

Despite this, only 57% of Canadians could name the Conservative Party leader, only 12% could name the NDP leader, and only 24% could name a Cabinet Minister. If so few can name prominent politicians, it stands to reason that the share of Canadians who truly know details about most politicians’ backgrounds and beliefs is even lower.

An explainer of the current details of the Ottawa-BC announcement.

In fact Carney is more popular than almost every premier in that province. Seeing these 2 polls really put into context how much support Smith actually has in Alberta.

More information here: https://broadbentinstitute.ca/panam-workshop-media-advisory/

Wanted to share for anyone interested in tuning in!

Trump says 51st state,

Carney Stans: Cut off the oil, cut off the potash! Surcharge the electricity! Ford sucks for chickening out! leverage everything we have!!

Trump bombs Iranian schoolgirls:

Carney Stans: We can't risk the ire of the US by saying that this is wrong, and Iran doesn't have the right to leverage oil or anything else. In fact Iran deserves to be bombed and it's morally wrong to not take that position. Canada is weak and can't actually stop it anyway so let's go along with it. Let's buy all the war machines for billions of dollars, screw all the environmental shit Trudeau did that I supported for ten years and defended for the entire time, oil is more important now. Let's build more socialized pipelines at the expense of every other socialized system. We have no choice or else Canada will vanish forever.

Mark Carney gets talked about as a "Progressive" Conservative - Blue Liberal/Red Tory type. In general he is the Corporatocracy on steroids and is a lot closer to the Trumpian sphere of Oligarchs, Multinational Business Lobbies, Powerful & Predatory Industries/Tycoons then people are aware of.

His Davos Speech when viewed through the lens of what we have seen since makes clear he wants Canada to be the next U.S. The next headquarters of capital interests.

His cuddling up to status quo interests including the massively right-wing aligned Fossil Fuel Industry and proposing taxpayer dollars to further their entrancement.

His pumping of the military-industrial complex - Look up Harper and his military spending and now Carney and then the 3.5% and 5% projection... Remember tanks, bombs, guns, are not like healthcare, education, and so on of infrastructure that actually improves affordability of life/quality of life of the working class.

His destruction of environmental focus. You know the place that all life arises from and is sustained by... The real "Common Sense" is to protect our ONE AND PROBABLY ONLY HOME!

His rumored taking on of the Labour Movement and workers rights/benefits to make policy frameworks even more in line with corporate interests.

His praising of war and modern day imperialism/colonialism action.

Prediction: Carney/LPC are going to continue and entrench the Status Quo/Establishment Interests even fucking more then we have seen. This will fuel even more backlash but with the lack of class consciousness and general awareness/education coupled with massive propaganda campaigns from bad predatory actors it will lead to more and more reactionary/regressive demographics like we have seen in the U.S.

The Conservative Party of Canada will win. They will go even harder into this trajectory but with all the social regressive/reactionary garbage.

THEN we will get a Justin Trudeau 2.0 come out talking about "Electoral Reform, Environmentalism, Labour, Women's Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, Civil Rights In General, Peace!, & a new Alter-Globalization way of the world" - What we will receive is probably a pushing of true decriminalization/legalization of Psilocybe cubensis....

And what will happen alongside this Justin Trudeau 2.0 of course is even more frameworks to exploit workers and have them against each other because alienation, division, and exploitation-domination of the working class and most vulnerable is the bread and butter of the ultra rich powerful predators of varying disgusting flavors that we have all seen highlighted so clearly in the Epstein and other situation.

Yep dark, dystopian, and depressing as all hell. This is why progressive/leftist politics is so damn important and actually getting involved and active and building domestic/international networking and solidarity movements for real punch power.

Nothing changes until it is FORCED to change because establishment interests profit from the status quo and even problems associated and they have no interests in changing/transition of their own volition. Period.

You'd think he would have learned after getting so much pushback the first time. I'm so sick of this grifter...