u/Feisty-olde-7707

>Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper cautioned against the prospect of Alberta separation in a column Friday, writing that even voting just to "send a message" would represent a fraught approach.

>"No one will be surprised to learn that I am against separation. That would involve much risk and be extremely difficult to bring about," Harper wrote in the Calgary Herald. 

>"Besides, there is nothing resembling the credible leadership necessary to establish a new country."

Unless, of course, you admire Donald Trump….

>Just 17 days after Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Government of Canada awarded Draganfly a five-year, $24.25M CAD contract to supply up to 5,000 tactical reconnaissance drones to the Canadian Armed Forces (and support Ukraine’s front lines alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy), Draganfly walked out the back door and sold a $5M stake to Unusual Machines ($UMAC)—the Florida drone-parts company where Donald Trump Jr. sits on the advisory board and holds over 330,000 shares.

We pulled the SEC Form F-10 filings, the Department of National Defence procurement timeline, and the Canadian SEDI insider trading logs. What they reveal is a cross-border supply-chain shakedown:

• THE CANADIAN LOCKOUT: Draganfly used retired Canadian generals, taxpayer-funded Ottawa testing grounds (Area X.O), and sovereign defense contracts to pump its credibility—then legally barred Canadians from buying into the $5.35 USD stock offering so Don Jr.’s company could buy in cheap.

• THE $132M CASH LIE: Draganfly told the press it needed the money for "working capital," despite Q2 filings showing nearly $132M CAD in cash and $144M CAD in working capital already sitting in the vault.

• THE INSIDER DUMP: Before diluting retail investors at $5.35 USD, Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell dumped 245,000 of his own shares on June 1, 2026 at $10.33 CAD (~$7.47 USD)—cashing out $2.5M CAD (51% of his personal direct stake) near the peak.

• THE MAGA BOARDROOM TROJAN HORSE: While parading Canadian military brass through Parliament Hill and the Senate, Draganfly’s corporate board was stacked with Trump’s former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller and former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas B. Modly.

• THE SUPPLY-CHAIN SIPHON: Unusual Machines CEO Allan Evans openly admitted the deal is to "deepen our supplier relationships"—meaning Canadian tax dollars meant to build a tariff-proof, made-in-Canada drone industry and arm Ukraine are being routed to a Florida factory tied to the Trump family.

This is ten times worse than the Kristi Noem and NovaRed Mining scandal in British Columbia. Only the first 100 drones of Draganfly’s Canadian military contract are locked in—the remaining 4,900 drones are unexercised government options.

It takes courage to change parties but maybe at this point it’s self preservation.

If I was a UCP MLA in Calgary I’d be playing the long game here and realize non separatist Calgary voters are angry with their pandering to minority separatists and being forced into this divisive, offensive and costly ($150 million) referendum.

Trying to 2 sides this crap is not working and if they want to do down with this separatist ship they will be punished in 2027.

Switch to Tories - cancel the referendum, rebuild.

>During an investment summit in Toronto, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted the time when US President Donald Trump gifted him a gold key to the White House. Carney said the president told him he could bring the key and he would be let into the building, but that "maybe they'll shoot you", an exchange Carney said "sort of sums up" the Canada-US relationship.

Spicy Carney, I like it. And it was really funnny…

The video is less than a minute long…

We simply can not absorb anymore costs to run the province, smh, if only if we had a real Premier.

>The head of the Forever Canadian group campaigning for Alberta to remain in the federation said Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney has been a “calm” and “reassuring” presence for Albertans.

>Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy premier of Alberta, said Carney is showing “there is someone at the helm” by standing up for Canadians in trade negotiations with the White House.

>Carney shook hands with volunteers from the Forever Canadian campaign on Friday in Banff, Alta. They were invited to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity on the final day of the federal cabinet retreat.

Surprise, surprise…

>As Canada’s dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs officially go live, American cable news networks are learning the hard way that Canada does not fold.
Watch what happens when an American anchor tries to corner veteran Canadian trade strategist Chrystia Freeland—the woman who outmaneuvered Donald Trump’s team during NAFTA/CUSMA negotiations and eliminated the notorious energy proportionality clause. Instead of apologizing or pleading for relief, Freeland delivers a calm, devastating forensic breakdown of America's internal decay, warning the host on live television that U.S. democracy is actively on "life support."
From flexing Canada’s high-standard trade integration with the European Union to exposing the utter strategic malpractice of Trump’s anti-ally trade wars, Freeland audits U.S. foreign policy to the anchor's face.

ORIGINAL SOURCE VIDEO FOR INTERVIEW ONLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSOIDgamZoY

Continuing with her plan to deepen ties with the US Smith took ANOTHER trip south this week. smh.

>What Canadian politician would vacation in the U.S right now, just as we are locked into an ugly trade war with our southern neighbour?

>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, of course.

>Last week she travelled to Tennessee, Nashville in particular, for a vacation and to glean tips on how Calgary can become Nashville North, a country music hub that attracts people from around the world, just like the Calgary Stampede.

>Mixing business and pleasure, she met with some officials in the tourism department as well as the head of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. It seems like an odd choice of issues to focus on with less than two months until the Alberta separation referendum.with our southern neighbour?

>The Calgary-based public policy think-tank puts a $200 billion price tag on setup costs for an independent Alberta, with a warning at the same time that the province’s economy could shrink. 

>The report, Alberta in Confederation, breaks down a number of potential separation-related issues, including constitutional negotiations, Indigenous rights, market access and labour supply. 

>In its report, ASIRT said while the unnamed officer’s “conduct is serious” and “will have lasting impacts on his female co-workers and their ability to feel safe in the workplace,” no criminal offence was committed. 

>The report notes that in Canada, it is illegal to publish, distribute, transmit, sell, make available or advertise an intimate image of a person knowing that they did not give their consent to that conduct.

Danielle’s Smiths police force, top notch officers..…wow, she really is the worst.

>Canadian and provincial health-care groups are calling on the federal government to stop Alberta from allowing physicians to practise in both the public and private system. 

>The change is enabled by the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2), commonly called  Bill 11, which takes effect on Tuesday. 

>“[Bill 11 is] the biggest threat against health care since the Canada Health Act was passed in 1984,” Jason MacLean, chair of the Canadian Health Coalition, said at a news conference in Ottawa Monday.