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Matthew Black

@matthewblack.ca

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📰 Postmedia Alberta legislature reporter (Edmonton Journal/Sun) | Works with 📊 data & 📃 documents | 🎓 UBC & UAlberta (2x) | Profile pic by my 3 y/o daughter MatthewBlack.ca

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 25/09/2026

Worth noting that Forever Canadian's first non-$0 disclosure spans from March 31 to yesterday efpublic.elections.ab.ca/efOFSRTPAWee... #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 18/09/2026

Weekly referendum advertiser round-up: *Federalist Alberta's Voice tops contribution for 2nd week in a row (+$59K) *Separatist $ lead cut to <$600K *Former Lib candidate from Red Deer leads latest new advertiser More 📊s here ⬇️ edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 21/08/2026

Keith Wilson's separatist Let Alberta Decide continues to lead all advertisers in fundraising and was again the top contributor-getter this week. Federalists Vote to Say, and, Alberta's Voice were the 2nd/3rd highest fundraisers in the past week #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 21/08/2026

Separatists advertisers have raised more than $550K than their federalist rivals to date, though the past week was also the first that the margin between the two sides shrank ( #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 21/08/2026

Both sides raised around $32K this week, with federalists receiving ~$700 more in contributions than separatist advertisers #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 31/07/2026

*Separatist contributions made up 70 per cent of all contributions this week See this week's roundup here: edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 31/07/2026

*Let Alberta Decide (sep) continue to have the most contributions of all 3PAs at $378K *Largest change this week was $21K to Alberta Land Consortium Inc *Alberta’s Voice and Vote to Stay had the two largest federalist contribution gains this week with each raising around $11K #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 31/07/2026

Elections Alberta has updated its referendum advertising contributions Some notes: *$80K in new contributions this week, 2nd highest on record, but also $136K less than last week *Separatist advertisers continue to lead and extended their margin for a 5th straight week, up to $537K #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 29/05/2026

Things weren't looking good on Monday

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 26/02/2026

Who is ready for some charts. *Debt to rise $17.9B (up to $128.7B) *Per capita inflation adju spending $15.9K in 24/25, $16.2K in 25/26 *WTI forecast US$60.50 (down US$10 from budget) *Expenses to rise 12% ($88.4B) in next 3 years *Revenue to rise 8% ($81.5B) over same time #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 09/10/2025

We reviewed 53K inspections reports from a 38-month period: -Fewer than 1 in 4 inspections found no food safety violations -Nearly 40% of inspections found a recurrent violations that had been identified in a prior visit. -In 2024, over 2K venues had at least one critical violation #yeg

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 08/10/2025

And these are all built on an investigation led by @charlesrusnell.bsky.social nearly two decades ago which prompted the results of food service venue inspections to be made public www.pressreader.com/canada/edmon... #yeg

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 16/04/2025

The UCP caucus has expelled MLA and former cabinet minister Peter Guthrie #ableg #abpoli

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Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 10/04/2025

Elections Canada issued its final, confirmed list of candidates, including 56 running across 9 Edmonton ridings in the Apr 28 federal election More here: edmontonjournal.com/news/nationa... inc a searchable, interactive Edmonton candidate map here: www.google.com/maps/d/viewe... #cdnpoli #elxn45

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