Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.
Premier says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804
Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.
24 Comments
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 198d
She's a Trump-loving fascist, and a separatist traitor.
It'sntime for the federal government to get a judge to rule on the legality of her actions.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 198d
They already have a case about the NWC cooking. Maybe they can sue her for the money to fulfill Alberta's court system obligations next.
tleb@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 198d
We are so fucked if we don't dethrone this bitch next election
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 198d
The polls are looking better and better, fortunately.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 198d
Context:
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 198d
Yup. Last poll on Dec. 20th, too. Presumably the trend has continued.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 198d
Here's to hoping it continues! 🍺
tleb@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 198d
It's improving but NDP is still polling 5 points behind in Calgary, which is concerning
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 197d
Where are you getting that number? The 5% lead shown here is for the whole province, including rural areas. Although I guess Edmonton is in there too.
tleb@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 197d
https://press.liaisonstrategies.ca/alberta-ucp-ndp-locked-in-tight-race/
CanadaPlus@futurology.today · 2 pts · 196d
Huh, thanks. That's actually more recent than the polls in the graph, I wonder when they're going to get it put up.
Calgary is definitely going to be the battleground. Having a prominent former Calgary mayor as candidate should help at least a bit. I can't say it's impossible we'll elect her again, but I can say all her ideas are unpopular, and that her messaging isn't strong.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 196d
And none of that matters. Because here in Alberta we vote by color and not policies. And yes I used American spelling on purpose.
CanadaPlus@futurology.today · 1 pts · 196d
That pretty much is the issue, yep. If she wins, it's because she isn't so totally unacceptable that she breaks the pattern.
tleb@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 196d
The graph is a projection based on an aggregation of polls, it already accounts for it. For context, it's from https://338canada.com/alberta
CanadaPlus@futurology.today · 1 pts · 196d
No, it ends on Dec. 20th. It looks like your link is from 2026. They haven't added it yet.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 198d
Following the Trump playbook.
krunchyiestklown@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 198d
I really hate the americanization of politics that is happening - from PP's slogans and refusal to engage on any meaningful topic, to this garbage in Alberta.
I wish there was a way of stamping this out for good, rather than having these voices amplified in our media, etc...
ageedizzle@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 197d
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 198d
She's engineering a backlash against the justice system. By finding way to defund the justice system, she's amplifying the already revolving door nature of the courts to justify brutal police crackdowns. By manufacturing a crisis she can engineer public consent for independence.
Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 196d
Postmedia will help her out by bringing attention to each scary sounding criminal who ends up falling through the cracks thanks to this lack of funding, and they'll try to misrepresent the situation as current judges being soft on crime.
It's depressing that it will work on a good portion of Albertans, just like when UCP cut municipal funding to Calgary and Edmonton, then Postmedia ran a campaign smearing the councils for not being good fiscal managers, leaving out the important detail of the UCP withholding funding and interfering in city projects costing cities millions of dollars.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 196d
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 196d
This is probably more about separatism, and Alberta potentially being forced to respect Charter/human rights they don't like. The O&G crowd is just fine with things as they are.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 196d
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 196d
Absolutely not true. We're talking about polar opposite ends of the class spectrum, and the UCP is itself unstable because of the populist vs. establishment tension that has resulted.
I see this dichotomy at play in my everyday life, living here.