No MAGA! 🍁🇨🇦

Despite being a conservative leaning province, Alberta decided that Ottawa is not a threat to their lives. Mark Carney defeats a Trump backed plan to break the dominion.

October Surprise, eh 🍁

Yearly wrap up.

The Make America (I meant Alberta) Great Again plan derails in the Canadian province.

Despite a push from far right agitators in Canada and the United States, the province of Alberta voted to stay tied to the dominion. Had they broken off, they lose citizenship, the right to economic funds and military defense. They would have provide their own defense and infrastructure funding. The power grid that is provided by neighboring provinces and territories would be shut off.

Besides Edmonton is a progressive city. The largest city and provincial capital is not going to lose that revenue from films. Trust me, the U.S. filmmakers loves getting tax breaks when filming in Edmonton.

Calgary, the city that leans more towards conservatives would barely make a dent in the movement to separate.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is aggressively putting forth a border wall between President Donald J. Trump. Since Trump self sabotaged the USMCA, the Republic of Mexico and the Dominion of Canada have all but walked away from trade with the U.S.

Had Alberta voted to align with the U.S. as a self autonomous region, the economic impacts would affect the film, beef, grain, oil, solar, and wind industries.

The United States is facing karma. The recent decision by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch to not charge the Sentobia officer Hunter Foster for killing Kohen Wiley is bubbling anger. The recent political attacks on James Talarico, Amy Acton, Angie Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed are showing deperation from the Republicans. 

More Americans are rejecting middle ground. 

They are taking one corner and sticking to it.

More Americans are fed up with Christian and Jewish extremism.

Oil prices reached a new high this week with totals over $115 per barrel. 

Diesel is drying up in the U.S.

Despite the Congress passing the Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act and Trump signing that shit into law, he is bypassing Congress in working out a deal with the Russian Federation.

Trump privately talked to Russian president Vladimir Putin about diesel exchanges and proposals to end the Russian-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ignored the U.S. president and has continued attacking Russian energy grids. Russia is doing the same. Both are committing war crimes.

Trump endorsed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his faces an election this month. The Israelis are debating on whether they continue allowing this despot to carry out genocide in five regions.

Iran sees all of this chaos in the U.S., Canada, France, Portugal, Albania, Brazil, Argentina, Chad, Sudan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Niger, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Great Britain, Germany, Chad, Mali, Ukraine, Russia and China as byproducts of hierarchy. 

The U.S. dictating world order is coming to an end as we speak.

Trump has officially made white men toxic as world leaders. The Global South and Asia look at white men as the cause of chaos in the world. So it's no surprise that African nations are ending their association with European trade and American influnce.

Alberta is the latest example of how far phony populism leads to backlash.

Voters in oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Carney’s push for national unity amid Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.

With more than 1.8 million votes counted so far in 81% of areas and locations, 75% of voters supported remaining in Canada, while 25% backed beginning a process toward separation, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta.

The referendum wasn’t a direct vote on independence, but approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on separation from Canada.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday before a Cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Carney noted that the roughly one-quarter of Albertans who backed beginning the separation process voted for another referendum, not independence itself.

“Approximately one quarter voted in favor of a process,” Carney said.

“The result is absolutely clear. It’s a vast majority in favor of staying in Canada. And now is the time to work together for all Albertans and all Canadians,” he said.

Carney said he spoke with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Tuesday morning about the referendum’s results and greater federal-provincial cooperation, including immigration. He said their first priority was supporting victims and families affected by the deadly military training fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

Alberta’s separatists, however, saw a silver lining.

“It is fair to say that at least a quarter of Albertans feel that Alberta needs to be treated better,” said Keith Wilson, a leader of the separatist movement.

Smith welcomed the early results, saying they showed widespread support for remaining in Canada.

“Albertans have voted for a stronger Alberta in a united Canada,” Smith posted on social media.

Smith, who called the referendum amid pressure from separatists within her governing United Conservative Party, or UCP, despite opposing independence, said that she would address the province Tuesday evening about the results and Alberta’s future.

“We are a solid country that’s united from coast to coast to coast,” Thomas Lukaszuk, a former Alberta deputy premier who led the Forever Canadian campaign against separation, told supporters.

Results were delayed after late openings forced more than 100 polling stations to extend voting hours Monday.

Alberta, home to the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, is cowboy country and a conservative stronghold whose political culture has long had more in common with the American West than much of Canada. Resentment toward Canada’s federal government in Ottawa runs deep, but hasn’t traditionally translated into widespread support for independence.

Despite the overwhelming rejection, separatist leaders have said they turned a fringe cause into a movement that won’t disappear.

Separatist parties traditionally attracted only 1% or 2% of the vote, former Premier Jason Kenney said. Anger over COVID-19 restrictions helped mobilize activists who later embraced the separatist movement, he said.

Trump’s trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state have helped Carney rally support in Alberta, where Liberal prime ministers have historically been unpopular.

At a separatist referendum night gathering at an Edmonton restaurant, the crowd fell quiet as results rolled in.

“It sends a message to Ottawa that Albertans are not happy,” he said.

Dustin Degenhardt, a voter in the town of Wainwright, said that Albertans have long been mistreated by Canada’s federal government.

“Alberta has essentially been treated as, you know, a colony,” he said after voting Monday. “They want to take and take and take from us, and not return anything.”

Dave Malka, 59, of Edmonton, criticized spending money on a “referendum on a referendum” rather than healthcare.

With Trump threatening Canada, Malka said, “It seems to be happening at the absolute worst time when we should be united; instead we’re fighting among ourselves.”

China has openly boasted that they are seeking grain, soybeans and pork from Canada.

That certainly hurts Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. Each race has a senate candidate aligned to the president and his stupid tariffs and war with Iran.

Make it make sense.