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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Doerksen's messaging makes it abundantly clear that he's happy to welcome them back.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

until conservative parties realize that pandering to the warckaloon social con wing, this will be the go-to strategy: Follow Preston Manning's advice to hide what they really believe and try to get elected. The other parties need to hammer this home with voters.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That alone should make any Canadian very worried about this project, and rightly utterly furious with Danielle Smith and her fellow separatist travellers. *and yes, Smith is very much a separatist even when she claims otherwise. /5 ~fin~

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Together, these articles paint a picture of a "movement" that is in fact a political manipulation by a foreign power. This is an organized attempt to undermine Canada and destroy it from within. This is treachery on a scale new to Canada. /4

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The second article comes from The Tyee: thetyee.ca/News/2026/09... It chronicles the shady inter-connections between think tanks and other organizations and US financing. /3

thetyee.ca

How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee

A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first to read comes from the Globe and Mail, and talks about connections between US GOP organizers and the Alberta separatists: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... If you don't have access to the G&M, here's the archive link: archive.ph/rhGUj. /2

theglobeandmail.com

The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some mandatory reading for anybody trying to understand the Alberta separatist movement. It's not pretty, it's really ugly and they are engaging in treachery on a scale that should anger all Canadians. Last week, 2 major articles came out investigating their activities. #abpoli #cdnpoli /1

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A policy which misses the issue entirely - the issue is much more about supplier pricing to the store, not the markup at the store shelf.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah - the first bozo eruption of the election. … and apparently Doerksen is borrowing from Smith’s response to the ”lake of fire” incident when she led the Wildrose Party - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for her party.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's a priorities issue - and I can understand where you're coming from. I'd like to see a different approach from Carney on the environment, but I think he sees it through a much different lens than you or I might expect.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It isn't as consistent as you might first think. My take on the current situation is that Carney is playing along with Smith's demands right now to keep her quiescent while he deals with other, more pressing threats.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trust me - threatening separation isn't the flex you think it is. All it really does is make a hellish mess.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cue the usual legal eagles tut-tutting us for calling this treason. ... because it is treason, and it deserves to be called what it is - regardless of whatever semantic games you want to play with how you read the law.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🛎️🛎️🛎️ The advice of Preston Manning to Reform in the 90s continues to echo around a radicalized conservative sphere: Don’t tell voters what you believe, get yourself elected first. Albertans are living the consequences of that in Alberta under Smith, don’t let that befall B.C.!

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Clark was ideologically corrupt - Vanderbilt Zalm and Campbell were more conventi bent politicians. Clark called herself a liberal, but was clearly aligned with Harper’s CPC. To my eye that was deceitful.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Funny how that works - transphobic AF, turns out to also be racist ... let me guess, they're also angry/scared because there's a whole pile of Asian immigration into the lower mainland? Small minds make for smaller ideas.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They're bickering over the _how_, not the "should"? That's just messed up.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suspect "voter" should be replaced with "active UCP members" to make the math do the mathing.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

High speed rail is something we need in Canada ... but it will take a serious government willing to treat it as more than a bauble for their wealthiest buddies - the UCP isn't that government. (come to that, expanding our freight rail networks would help too). Rail can be electrified ... flight?

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Give them a couple of abandoned oil rigs in newly renamed Gulf of America ... let them live out their oil soaked fever dreams there - it'll do less damage.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It became a separatist party some time ago

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and while there could be jobs in the transition to renewable energy sources, the same capitalism you endorse so strongly has successfully squelched competition in Alberta. Turns out big money doesn't like competition. /6

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh - and about "all those jobs" - automation has been eating oil patch jobs up for decades now ... /5

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The result: property taxes and access lease costs unpaid (harming landowners and municipalities across Alberta); billions in orphan well cleanup left to the public to deal with; and lakes full of tailings that industry has no idea how to clean up after 50+ years since Syncrude first started ops. /4

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As for regulation, let's look at Alberta for a moment and examine the emerging situation there - where decades of governments have taken a hands-off approach to industry ... /3

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Instead it has much more to do with our neighbour to the south deciding to start a war in the Persian Gulf in which it seems singularly unable to successfully keep certain straits open for civilian shipping. /2

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tell me you have no understanding of what's happening with hydrocarbon pricing right now without saying it. I have news for you: current hydrocarbon price spikes in Canada have nothing to do with pipelines, refineries in Canada or government regulation. /1

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's the difference between a trans woman and the Cornell 7? The Cornell 7 are presumed innocent, the trans woman is presumed to be worse than the Cornell 7 for existing.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well … I suppose the AI stands a decent chance of being both smarter than Hegseth and more sycophantic at the same time.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Matter, anti-matter, and doesn't matter ...

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're assuming that Smith has any interest whatsoever in "what she can get away with" - she's an authoritarian - she's going to ram it through and dare someone to come after her for it.

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 30/09/2026

The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.

cbaalberta-referendum-analysis.com

CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We already know who Smith is, Mr. Mason. She is somewhere between a political magpie and a jellyfish - all the spine of a jellyfish, and all the political consistency of a magpie caught in glitter storm. #abpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The man is completely unable to adapt to current circumstances - no matter what he says, he can't help himself but to dive into the realm of hyper partisanship.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible story of how it appears Moroccan intelligence created a fake journalist who successfully duped numerous Canadian media outlets and in particular, The Western Standard and The Hub.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope not - Doerksen's recent comments about SOGI are telling as well - and not in a good way.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"principled conservative" is a lot of syllables for "bigot" - especially when the endorsement is coming from OneBC #bcpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So standard populist fare - create social division, but have no real plan for serious issues ... brilliant.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my opinion, until conservatism wakes up and realizes that "social conservatism" isn't compatible with "fiscal conservatism", you just have 3 angry, wet badgers in a trench coat.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ugh - when are these people going to be honest and call themselves the BC Regressive party? Doerksen is just a less mouthy version of the previous leadership - both KLF and her predecessor. #bcpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not going to be surprised by that revelation - these questions were written to confuse people.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of course it is - when the separatists were getting welcomed with open arms by the Trump Administration, you had to know that the entire scheme is designed to break up Canada. The biggest source of foreign interference is the US.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No - he's Christian alright - trust me there's plenty out there who think like he does, and I've met enough to be quite sure that they firmly believe they're Christian ...

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

... and as per the last time I interacted with him, he's just as out of touch with reality as always.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely - same strategies, same rhetoric, etc. So many people vote "team blue", without knowing what that actually means.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The why is obvious: to make it impossible for scrutineers to do their job, and thus creating another excuse for the government to ignore the results and do as they wish.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My question is how does Smith continue to poll as high as she does given the propensity for lying and the absolute tire fire her government is creating on all fronts? In a just world, she'd be polling somewhere south of The Grinch.

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