Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton’s Top Cop | The Tyee The EPS chief and legal director obstructed justice and extorted, alleges new complaint to justice minister.

ICYMI - This is unprecedented in Alberta.

Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton's Top Cop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

I wonder how many UCP ministers and MLAs have nannies/housekeepers/employees who are immigrants?

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Pattern? Justice Minister Mickey Amery limited an Elections Alberta investigation related to Sam Mraiche. The UCP refused to extend the term of Auditor General Doug Wylie who is investigating Mraiche. UCP also refused to fully cooperate with Wylie, and the inquiry of former Judge Raymond Wyant.

Alberta Justice Minister curtailed election regulator when Sam Mraiche was under investigation Mickey Amery’s legislation shortened watchdog’s window of time to pursue sanctions for alleged political finance violations

SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation.
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I Iearned there have been at least three complaints to the Law Society of Alberta against Megan Hankewich

There have been at least two requests to Justice Minister Mickey Amery for a criminal investigation of EPS Chief Warren Driechel and chief legal counsel Megan Hankewich for obstruction of justice, intimidation of a justice official, extortion and conspiracy. 2

Fraser called the actions of the EPS “reprehensible” and made it clear that he also felt threatened and that the police may have crossed the line into criminality. “The veiled threat that they may release more information about this matter if they are not happy about the sentence I impose comes dangerously close, and may actually cross the line, into an attempt to wilfully obstruct, pervert, or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding,” Fraser said in his ruling.

A judge in this case said Edmonton Police may have crossed the line into criminality by attempting to bully him and the prosecutor on a plea deal. 1
Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton's Top Cop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Among the Separatists | The Tyee I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.

And @marcellodicintio.bsky.social reveals what the separatist movement Danielle Smith is attempting to appease is really all about. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Alberta’s Premier Claims Immigrants Are a Burden. Where’s the Proof? | The Tyee Danielle Smith’s referendum pitch ignores tax revenues and reliance on temporary foreign workers.

Here are two must-read stories for Albertans. @ximenaka.bsky.social shows Premier Danielle Smith's referendum on immigration isn't based on evidence. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... 1

Photo of the graffiti and art-covered walls of Bon's Off Broadway in East Vancouver.

If you haven't check out Bon's Off Broadway, the food is great and the ambience is....

Amery essentially says the UCP has not ruled out ramming through the minority riding boundary recommendation. It would eliminate any chance of the NDP forming government. It's the most anti-democratic threat since Aberhart. And the NDP are like, "Albertans deserve fair maps!"

This is absolutely fantastic.

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The UCP would win re-election today under the current existing boundaries that were drawn in 2017 and the majority report’s map, but the minority report’s map would make it basically impossible for the NDP to ever win in enough ridings to form a majority government — and that’s the point.

Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Obse...

Alberta government doesn't think an impact assessment is needed for Kevin O'Leary's monster data centre even though it will use about 24 million cubic meters of water annually — roughly 460,000 people's lifetime consumption. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...

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ANALYSIS | If a court halts separatists' referendum bid, they'll push Danielle Smith to approve it anyway | CBC News A First Nation's injunction request, to be heard April 7, claims the independence petition drive threatens treaty rights.

A judge may block the Alberta separation petition drive next week. But activists expect Danielle Smith will give them their referendum anyway — after all, she’s cleared their path before. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

They're not just your neighbours, they're your government. Danielle Smith's' Alberta Next panel engaged in the same targeted hate mongering as the Alberta Prosperity Project. The separatists are advancing the UCP's anti-immigration agenda, and the UCP are enabling them through legislation.

You're welcome. It's important journalism at this moment in Alberta's history. Premier Danielle Smith has enabled this movement and emboldened it beginning with the Alberta Next panel.

Among the Separatists | The Tyee I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.

This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest.

Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Guess which of Orwell's books this minister banned?

Unbelievable story of stunning police ineptness. The Fargo ND police are about to get sued silly.

Alberta Progressive Tory Minister Peter Guthrie using inside info from his time as a UCP minister to ask pointed questions in the legislature involving lobbyists, coal and big litigation payouts. www.facebook.com/reel/7543958...

The Pain-Racked Patients Alberta’s Orthopedic Surgery Centre Won’t Take | The Tyee Surgeons offered a $975,000 way to fix the public clinic’s backlog of 1,400 ‘complex’ cases. AHS said no.

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You're right. They don't post on X.

Audrey McLaughlin.

Pete Hegseth eliminated a program whose analysis reduced civilian casualties. A brave whistleblower explains how this will create more threats for America via @onthemedia.bsky.social . www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

+1 Incredible reporting and writing. The author maintains a dispassionate tone throughout, until the kicker at the end. Don't want to spoil the reveal, but the accretion of detail that leads the reader to an inescapable chilling conclusion - without stating it - is very shrewd.

Is Danielle Smith a Monster? “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci

Via @markhamhislop.bsky.social Is Danielle Smith a Monster? open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable With the Trump administration refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the case is a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.

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A Win For Mr. Nobody! | On the Media | WNYC Studios Brooke Gladstone talks with Pasha Talankin, star and co-creator of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin. 

A must-listen interview with an incredibly brave Russian teacher, Pavel Talankin, the hero in Mr. Nobody Against Putin, the Academy Award winning documentary via @onthemedia.bsky.social . www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...