Mandarin orange slices.

Jagmeet Singh has lost all authority to talk about political matters.

He’s now on the same level as Ford, Poilievre, and Smith.

That’s hardly fair. An extremely determined and well-organized psychopath - who happens to manipulate the premier’s office - has been working on this for a decade. Albertans are pretty fucking wishy-washy and wayyyyyy too right-wing, but the hardcore extremist hatred is being carefully stoked by Nazis. Nazis named Take Back Alberta.

You are falling exactly into their snare.

It’s a “mostly reasonable” petition that will get “mostly reasonable” people to support it. In fact, it is a direct, deliberate, methodical attack on the LGBTQ2+ community, and aimed at making them feel unsafe.

If we were going to call this reasonable and ban all religious iconography from the government, then we shouldn’t be allowed to sing God Save the King or O Canada on government property. (“God keep our land/Glorious and Free” since 1980).

This is absolutely hate-based, make no mistake.

First off, 851 people (20%) signed the petition.

“Those individuals” who raised this are undoubtedly tied back to Take Back Alberta - or at least, the organizers are.

They will do the same thing that Westlock did: Present this as a neutral “no special interests” policy, and then advertise the shit out of their rational opinion, attacking the woke extremists for forcing their issue on what should be neutral territory.

Then they’ll get about a 51% vote - not representative of the entire town, but enough to ban pride symbolism in the town.

Then they’ll move onto the next town - maybe Rocky Mountain House or Didsbury or Sexsmith or Brooks. Actually, scratch that - they won’t touch a town in Smith’s riding for now.

But over time, they’ll get the same bylaw passed in another town and another and another, until they can claim most of the rural electoral districts. Then - maybe after getting a few larger towns or even cities (Lethbridge), they’ll petition the government. “Clearly the majority of Albertans support this neutrality, so let’s make it a provincial law.”

And David Parker will sit back, chuckling in his white robe and hat, as he destroys the lives of LGBTQ2+ people, and finishes his second front - banning abortion in the province.

There are more people who need transplants than there are organs, so the medical profession has to make decisions about who to deny. This was a reasonable decision, in my opinion.

Well, there was certainly interest in it…

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That is EXACTLY the point - to deny (either deliberately or through omission) basic sex ed to as many students as possible; to block understanding and acceptance of everything other than the straight, white, conservative christian patriarchy.

Either on the phone, or asleep at the wheel after pulling a double shift by travelling with a nonexistent second driver.

Way too common.

Alberta and Ontario are on the last panel.

Seriously?

Phone the cops. Now.

Don’t count on it. She’s got a few years left to gerrymander the rural ridings and get herself back in.

The fact that ANYONE in this fucking province supports her is heartbreaking.

So he can get in on the ground level of crime and graft that Taliban Dan’s government is going to instigate.

I see a few reasons for this bullshit.

• The conservative masturbatory fantasy of privatizing all government services, leaving the risk and cost to the government and collecting the profits for themselves and their friends
• The desire to punish people for being sick and “poor” (Really, just not extremely wealthy.) Being sick and being poor are both symptoms of being a Bad Person who made Bad Choices in their fascist eyes.
• Most urgently right now, this is a huge step towards banning abortion, gender care, birth control, and fertility treatments. In other words, subjugating women.

That’s why I call Marlaina “Taliban Dan.” It’s not just the same playbook as the conservative US states, it’s straight out of Iran.

I hereby propose that Marlaina Smith, who is working ferociously to strip basic human rights and healthcare from women and LGBTQ2+ people be referred to as 'Taliban Dan" Smith.

October, eh? Almost as if there’s something happening in early November that would hurt his popularity.

Maybe sometime around the 5th.

He didn’t ‘ask’ Singh to pull out, he goaded him like a schoolyard bully, taunting and calling names.

If you’re seeking sterilization and doctors are being a fuck, get any guy friend to come in with you and just say you’re engaged. File a human rights complaint and also go to the media.

Fucking paternalistic doctors.

Why can we not describe our politicians on their own terms?

Why does every discussion about Poilievre (or Smith in Alberta) centre around American personalities and policies?

Oh, it’s grounded in reality all right. However, his reality doesn’t involve fixing the housing crisis - it will be more about prolonging it to hurt the vulnerable and continue his grift.