Premier says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

She's a Trump-loving fascist, and a separatist traitor.

It'sntime for the federal government to get a judge to rule on the legality of her actions.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago

They already have a case about the NWC cooking. Maybe they can sue her for the money to fulfill Alberta's court system obligations next.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

We are so fucked if we don't dethrone this bitch next election

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

The polls are looking better and better, fortunately.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Context:

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yup. Last poll on Dec. 20th, too. Presumably the trend has continued.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Here's to hoping it continues! 🍺

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

It's improving but NDP is still polling 5 points behind in Calgary, which is concerning

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where are you getting that number? The 5% lead shown here is for the whole province, including rural areas. Although I guess Edmonton is in there too.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

https://press.liaisonstrategies.ca/alberta-ucp-ndp-locked-in-tight-race/

The critical battleground of Calgary shows a competitive landscape, with the UCP leading at 48% and the NDP trailing at 43%.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Huh, thanks. That's actually more recent than the polls in the graph, I wonder when they're going to get it put up.

Calgary is definitely going to be the battleground. Having a prominent former Calgary mayor as candidate should help at least a bit. I can't say it's impossible we'll elect her again, but I can say all her ideas are unpopular, and that her messaging isn't strong.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The graph is a projection based on an aggregation of polls, it already accounts for it. For context, it's from https://338canada.com/alberta

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, it ends on Dec. 20th. It looks like your link is from 2026. They haven't added it yet.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Read about his methodology - this is not a graph of every poll, it's a projection on the aggregate.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh you're right! My bad, sorry.

Huh, so I wonder why the graph lags behind the input data, then. The methodology page explains how they weight it, mostly.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

He manually updates the projections, though I'm not sure why he doesn't update the Alberta one very often, could just be that the data is not very good with so few polls being done.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

And none of that matters. Because here in Alberta we vote by color and not policies. And yes I used American spelling on purpose.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That pretty much is the issue, yep. If she wins, it's because she isn't so totally unacceptable that she breaks the pattern.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Following the Trump playbook.

[-] krunchyiestklown@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago

I really hate the americanization of politics that is happening - from PP's slogans and refusal to engage on any meaningful topic, to this garbage in Alberta.

I wish there was a way of stamping this out for good, rather than having these voices amplified in our media, etc...

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

She's engineering a backlash against the justice system. By finding way to defund the justice system, she's amplifying the already revolving door nature of the courts to justify brutal police crackdowns. By manufacturing a crisis she can engineer public consent for independence.

[-] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Postmedia will help her out by bringing attention to each scary sounding criminal who ends up falling through the cracks thanks to this lack of funding, and they'll try to misrepresent the situation as current judges being soft on crime.

It's depressing that it will work on a good portion of Albertans, just like when UCP cut municipal funding to Calgary and Edmonton, then Postmedia ran a campaign smearing the councils for not being good fiscal managers, leaving out the important detail of the UCP withholding funding and interfering in city projects costing cities millions of dollars.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

O&G trying to bias the courts in their favour. 🙄

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is probably more about separatism, and Alberta potentially being forced to respect Charter/human rights they don't like. The O&G crowd is just fine with things as they are.