Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
🤠 🇨🇦 Writing about Alberta politics, elections and history.
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- 🇨🇦 Who’s going to stand up for Canada in Alberta’s separation referendum? Alberta is barrelling toward a referendum on the province’s separation from Canada. The time to stand up for a Strong Alberta within a Strong Canada is now. daveberta.substack.com/p/whos-going...
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦"Mr. Carney’s speech went beyond diagnosis, though. It also gestured toward a way out. The U.S. president left Greenland alone in part because Denmark and its allies put more troops there... "The lesson: America might be pointing a gun at you, but it can be made to behave if you point a gun back."
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.
- Oil production in Alberta is higher than ever been, but that hasn’t resulted in a job booms like we’ve experienced before. The UCP has been effective at deflecting criticism toward Ottawa, and the flippant and tone-deaf responses by some Trudeau-era ministers strengthened their argument IMHO.
- Sorry, Conservatives: as much as you love pretending otherwise, Justin Trudeau never killed the oil and gas industry. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/06/o...
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦ICYMI - my speech yesterday evening on Bill C-12, and the dangers of trying to placate xenophobes. #SenateofCanada #SenCa #Alberta #immigration
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦As America weaponizes its post-9/11 security state to terrorize migrants and target dissidents, her (former) allies need to unplug from it ASAP. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Canadian Unemployment by Province: Newfoundland & Labrador: 9.2% Prince Edward Island: 7.6% Ontario: 7.3% Nova Scotia: 6.9% New Brunswick: 6.7% Alberta: 6.4% Manitoba: 6.3% British Columbia: 6.1% Saskatchewan: 5.3% Quebec: 5.2%
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: -25k Unemployment Rate: 6.5% (-0.4%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.3% (-0.1%) Employment Level: 21.1M
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- 🤠🇨🇦 Writing about federalism, separatism, grievance and complacency in Alberta in my next column, which I hope to publish in a day or two.
- It was always going to be really hard. Two of the 26 recall campaigns launched against United Conservative Party and New Democratic Party MLAs have been submitted to Elections Alberta and have fallen short of the number of signatures needed to force a recall vote in those ridings.
- 🤠 Recall has ended up becoming a major annoyance for some MLAs and a harder task than some of the petition organizers might have expected, but it’s hard to fault frustrated Albertans for getting engaged and using this new democratic tool their MLAs have made available to them.
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦This is who the separatists are. Huge thanks to my colleague @arnokopecky.bsky.social for getting that on the record. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Liberal Leader Mark Carney, viewed more positively than negatively in ALBERTA. Yes, the province consumed with a petition to leave Canada largely because of the Liberals. Abacus poll:
- The leader of the separatist citizen initiative campaign is a UCP constituency president and a large number UCP members support Alberta separatism. This is a big part of Smith’s political base.
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦SCOOP: I obtained the lists of books banned at the Edmonton and Calgary public school boards. Click to find out which ones were removed. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Exciting news. Next week, Alberta Unbound will be live! We’re recording a panel in the Tory Breezeway as part of International Week at the University of Alberta - our first live event in 5 years. Free admission. #yeg #Edmonton #ualberta #AlbertaUnbound #Alberta #cdnpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦The front page of Alberta Courts website is now joint statement by chief justices of all three court levels, proclaiming the importance of judicial independence. albertacourts.ca
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Naheed Nenshi challenges UCP MLAs to sign a pledge to Canada and make their opposition to separatism clear. albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦At this meeting, Dennis Modry claimed that Premier Danielle Smith said she prefers the title 'Prime Minister' over 'President,' in a discussion about her possible leadership in an independent Alberta. 1/5 #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence
- I'm at Heritage Park, a petition signing location in Stony Plain for Alberta Independence. Folks are lined up waiting to sign, with speakers set to begin at 7:00 pm. Will live tweet below 🧵 #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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- 👀🇨🇦🇺🇸 We should expect that Alberta separatist groups are also being treated as an eagerly open conduit for those in and close to the Trump administration who want to influence and destabilize Canada in 2026. daveberta.substack.com/p/will-danie...
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦This week on White Coat, Black Art: Registered nurses Valerie Evanishen and Jayme Hack share what they see on shift at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital. Jayme describes the # of people and the constant motion as “an anthill.” Their interview w/ @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social here: bit.ly/45sNvok
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- Get used to this, folks. There’s going to be a lot of US interference in the Alberta separation debate over the next 12 months.
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦I'm at Heritage Park, a petition signing location in Stony Plain for Alberta Independence. Folks are lined up waiting to sign, with speakers set to begin at 7:00 pm. Will live tweet below 🧵 #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence
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- If the US were any other western democratic country, their broken two main parties would have split up into 4-6 separate parties by now.
- NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
- Hahaha. From me on April 1, 2021: daveberta.ca/2021/04/meet...
- 👀 Will Danielle Smith call an early election in Alberta? Today I share 10 big things I’m watching in Alberta politics in 2026. 🤠 Read all about it: daveberta.substack.com/p/will-danie...
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
- Today marks 21 years since I first launched Daveberta. Thank you to everyone who continues to join me on this journey by reading, subscribing, sharing, and sending feedback about my columns and newsletters about Alberta politics.
- Will Danielle Smith call an early election in Alberta? Today I share 10 big things I’m watching in Alberta politics in 2026. 🤠 Read all about it: daveberta.substack.com/p/will-danie...
- Will Danielle Smith call an early election in Alberta? Today I share 10 big things I’m watching in Alberta politics in 2026. 🤠 Read all about it: daveberta.substack.com/p/will-danie...
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- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦This is vital because our current reliance on US Homeland Security leads to discrimination against trans, non-binary and two spirit Canadians, unequal service for francophones, and undermines Canadian sovereignty and security. If $$ is not a barrier - why depend on Trump’s security apparatus?
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- It’s shocking how hard the mainstream media is trying on a hourly basis to sane-wash its reporting about someone who is clearly either a megalomaniac or in severe mental decline (or probably both). They are completely ill-equipped to respond to this.
- Reposted by Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦Doctors working in Edmonton’s major hospitals are calling on the Alberta government to declare a state of emergency because there is no more room to safely accept patients. #ableg @theglobeandmail.com
