Duane Bratt: Gerrymandering electoral map will erode Alberta democracy

[A990]

blackmail & bribery
( I can't get the quote function to work)

[jensend]

If you're looking to find out about floor crossings go run a legitimate poll in those ridings to see what those voters think about those moves. If the portion disapproving is less than the percentage who voted CPC it means the trend is favorable to Carney. Then the world knows the standing of Poilievre. He fixed the convention in Calgary to get his 87% endorsement by timing, location and limiting qualifying voters. He will stay to the right because that is his base. The center is gone; Carney snapped it up and those voters are the key to forming the government. As long as PP and Alfred E Scheer are front and center in Question Period, the CPC will have difficulty gaining back the preCarney popularity.

[blackpowder]

I predict Carney will be in a long time.

[shtferbrains]

He's about the only one that can screw it up?
The CPC rarely does any better than they did in the last election.
Carney has the center/ left locked.
More beholden immigrants vote all the time.
Urban votes locked.

Poilievre is basically a caretaker.
Nobody wants his job?

[blackpowder]

Just a feeling that the probability is moderate.
We (the East) voted JT for 10 years. What does that say?
Dumber than the Rep.

In 15 years, the information we are exposed to and how we absorb it has completely changed.
Parties have become powerful and sophisticated in all media manipulation, the largest party now very strong.

Trump has 2-1/2 years with no guarantee the Dems will win after. Free ride for Libs.
Canadians appear to have no understanding of how the US works or how we fit in the world. My gosh that's an essay alone. Don't ask anyone about actual trade numbers.
Patented responses regurgitated in an echo chamber is all you hear now. 50 years growing fat and stupid.

PP was tarred and feathered in the only game he knows how to play. And the game has become so addicted to power it's only focused on self interest.

The leader who is getting the FB et al coverage and praise of a successful wartime general is likely capable, but is part of a large power machine and his ego is growing.

I hope what's being said behind closed doors and what he's saying on mike are different. Right now it's all a huge advertisement for votes. And it's a damn good one.

Let's see how much LNG moving out of Churchill by 2030.
If he can pull that off at all maybe we should vote for him.

[chuckChuck]

Alberta needs to start planning for an economy not completely based on oil and gas.

We are going to be in transition for a long while! But economic growth is no longer tied to exclusively burning fossil fuels.

[blackpowder]

I'll agree with that. We need to start building nuclear.

[fjlip]

We just watched "The Days", Netflix series documenting all of Japan's Fukushima, Daichi nuclear disaster...

It's radio active still, 14 years later, slowly dealing with the mess!

Many died and DYING slowly...the city and 30Km around deserted for foreseeable future.

IMO, that evil shyt can stay in the ground till COLD FUSION is a thing! Massive sad tragedy!

[chuckChuck]

Trump’s attempt to crush clean energy progress not going to plan, experts say
US generated more power from renewables like solar and wind than gas last month in a first

"In March, the US generated more of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind than it did via gas, the first time clean energy has surpassed the planet-heating fossil fuel for a full month nationally, according to data from the Ember thinktank.

While this was just one month, it follows a record ([url]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67367[/url]) 2025 for renewable energy. The pipeline of new power coming online in the US is overwhelmingly green this year, too, with 93% of all electricity capacity added in 2026 set to come from solar, wind and batteries ([url]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67205[/url]). Just 7% will come from the fossil fuels that are dangerously overheating our world.

“There is no truth to the death of the clean energy industry in the United States – in fact, just the opposite,” said Peter Davidson, chief executive of Aligned Climate Capital ([url]https://alignedclimatecapital.com/[/url]), a clean energy investor. “That’s by essentially every metric you can look at,” he added, pointing to growing electric vehicle sales as well as the escalating deployment of renewables.

Wind, solar and batteries are now far cheaper and quicker to construct than gas and coal plants, causing a market “tipping point” that Trump cannot reverse, according to Davidson.

“They cannot change the trajectory,” he said. “They can try and delay it. But the battle for the generation of electricity is over and renewables and storage have won.”

[chuckChuck]

Recent poll on Separation shows no growth in support for Alberta separation. Still about 25%.

Yet we will have to put up with all the wanna be republican wind bags telling us how bad they have it in Canada's richest province?

Poor them! Its sucks to be over paid and sitting on massive oil reserves.