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To begin, here are some pretty unfortunate events.
First, Alberta separatists have just shown us all that their basic nature is deceit and underhandedness.
The response from the Alberta Separatists was…well, unfortunate.
In an article in the National Observer, Jeremy Appel writes
…On Thursday, [Centurion Project founder David Parker] again insisted he had done nothing wrong.
“Look everyone! I found names and addresses in a nefarious document called a phone book! Call the cops,” he posted on Twitter.
Phone books, which were last distributed in Edmonton in 2010, didn’t contain voter information for “the entire population of Alberta,” [Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt] noted. People could also exempt themselves from being listed in them.
Bratt said Parker’s flippant attitude toward the election authorities is emblematic of the right-wing populist mentality that “you can’t believe anybody.”
“The only people you can trust are the ones who go to separatist rallies,” he explained.
In a Thursday afternoon statement to the CBC, the Centurion Project said that it has “shut down the app until we can ensure that the dataset is compliant with Alberta and federal privacy laws,” and intends to co-operate with Elections Alberta…
In The Line, Jen Gerson writes “I Tried To Warn Them”
Her article describes how a source leaked the stolen Voters List story to her in March, she checked it out and found that yes, indeed, they had a copy of the Alberta voters list. So she alerted Elections Alberta, which did an apparently-cursory investigation -“nothing to see here, move along move along”. So now, today, the news of the breach is finally out.
….I’m glad that the injunction was granted. With the list taken down, I feel comfortable reporting on the topic. But boy-o, does Elections Alberta have some explaining to do. I probably wouldn’t have written about my involvement in any of this at all except that the, shall we say, truncated timeline of events they offered today really pissed me right off.
Because it seems to me that if they had simply taken this complaint seriously enough to investigate properly a month ago, they could have received that very same court injunction before the breach came out in the media. And that’s before we begin to ask how many additional people gained access to all that personal data over the last 30 days.
The Centurion Project is an exponential exercise. Once that data is in the wild, it’s not possible to re-home it. The injunction demanded that both the Centurion Project and the Republic Party identify every single person and entity who had access to that information, along with contact information. And all I can say is — good luck, guys. If my source was able to gain access to the partial file with a burner account, I highly doubt these guys even have that information to turn over.
We simply have to operate under the assumption that basically anyone in the province, no matter how unhinged, may now have nearly universal access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and that there’s not a damn thing any of us can do about it.
Next, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani went to Washington again, to “help” Canada negotiate with the Americans.
They’re not.
Why is Jamil Jivani in Washington during active CUSMA talks?
Last time he tried to “help negotiate,” even Pierre Poilievre said he speaks for himself.
So who’s he speaking for now? And why?
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— Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ (@savethecbc.bsky.social) April 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Next, it sounds like Avi doesn’t want to give Canadians a chance to vote against him.
Just monumentally dumb. And apparently didn’t learn a single gods damned lesson from Singh’s failures, and the fact that he was rendered irrelevant for his first year as leader when he didn’t have a seat.
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— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) April 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
In American news, Putin has apparently issued new marching orders to Trump.
And I expect Trump would be happy to follow along with everything Putin says, if he could only remember which war Putin was talking about — after he finished with Putin, he did a press conference where he confuse Ukraine with Iran.
I Fucking Love Australia writes:
….Picture the scene. Putin rings up. They have a chat. Trump emerges from the call, walks straight to a press scrum, and proceeds to describe Iran’s military destruction at length while insisting he’s talking about Ukraine. Jared is there. Jared just nods. Nobody in that room has the cognitive function or moral spine to lean over and say “Donald mate, that’s the wrong war.”
Ukraine is the one who has cards
Russia’s about out and Trump can’t save them
much as he will try
Trump no longer has the cards to threaten Ukraine
Republicans stopped weapons, Europe stepped up, and Ukraine built their ownPutin and Netanyahu will both be replaced soon
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— JustmeAnybody (@justmeanybody.bsky.social) April 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Trump has lost his mind. For reals!
Now for the fortunate events.
I was today years old when I found out there is a Canadian Cross of Sacrifice at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s for the Americans who joined Canadian units in WW 1, WW 2 and Korea.
Here are two photos of the cross that I found in BlueSky posts:
Queen Camilla brought along a special gift for the New York Public Library:
On Threads, Sandral Graham writes
Winnie-the-Pooh was inspired by a real-life black bear named Winnie, purchased in 1914 by Canadian veterinarian Lt. Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, while en route to WWI training. Named after his hometown of Winnipeg, the bear became the mascot for the Fort Garry Horse regiment before being donated to the London Zoo, where she inspired A.A. Milne’s stories.
Another fortunate event is that Canada is hosting the new multinational Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB):
Hey, Carney is wearing his Edmonton Oilers tie! Sad that the Oilers lost tonight and they’re out of the playoffs for this year. But we still have hope for Montreal!
On a side note, this isn’t new but isn’t this great?
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