A Look Back in History with New Eyes.
The Alberta that I Know and love and adopted as my new home over five decades ago is not like the rest of Canada.
When I came to Calgary, and when I went to the Calgary Stampede the local aboriginal population were featured in the parade and highly respected. Calgary has named major thoroughfares after native leaders.
But that's not all. John Ware (Black for you who discriminate by skin) was highly respected in Alberta Legacy. Like so many Albertans he had escaped tyranny and made a life for himself and his family. There was Alberta.
And, that was the Calgary and the Alberta that I came here to know and love.
I'm not a city boy so I lived far out in the country and my neighbors were European immigrants and refugees, making good here in Alberta, after running away from the same kind of deadly silliness we're seeing now coming to our shores.
The 88 Olympics was exceptional in the community involvement, and everyone gave without any thought of profit.
Is that Calgary still alive?
Danielle is our new Louis Riel and I don't think they can hang her now in 2025 but they're doing their best to bury her.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/looking-back-over-history-from-LoEWA2YWSJq1BkADCaMBrA
Game the system
I’ve been working on the front lines of Canadian immigration for 12+ years. Thousands of cases. Thousands of people. And in all that time, I’ve probably met a few dozen real, true refugees. People fleeing serious persecution. People with no internal flight alternative. People who couldn’t rely on their own governments for protection. People who had no choice but to escape.
The rest are bogus. People gaming the system. People coached by consultants, lawyers, ghost agents. People using the refugee claim process to buy time. People using it to get work permits. That’s how the system is built now.
There’s a whole process to move through. The RPD, the Refugee Appeal Division, judicial reviews, humanitarian applications, pre-removal risk assessments. Up and down. Back and forth. One refusal leads to another lifeline. One loss becomes the trigger for another delay. Eventually something lands. Or people just sit and wait.
The system has been softened over the past 10 ...
NDP's Jagmeet Singh has a bus.
Jagmeet Singh unable to afford campaign plane forced to travel by bus
“Our campaign bus will be making its way across the country, connecting with everyday people on the issues that matter most: health care, housing and affordability,” said the NDP via an X post on Saturday.
Since Singh took over the party in 2018, the balance sheet of the NDP has been on a steep and concerning decline.
In its latest audited financial statement, Jagmeet Singh’s NDP reported having only $289,808 in free cash
To put this into context: between RRSPs, TFSAs and non-registered accounts, the average 65-year-old individual has a savings of around $319,000.
In the 2019 election, the party was required to put up assets as collateral—such as the Jack Layton Building in Ottawa—to maintain liquidity and simply stay afloat.
As of its most recent annual financial statement, the NDP still hadn’t fully repaid a loan it took out to find its 2021 election, which involved...
