If the UCP can’t even run a four person committee meeting properly, how the hell could they even start to run a new country? It would be pure chaos and literally a riot.
Yes, they plan to hand us over to America while the other master of chaos is still in power.
remind you of anyone?....add a pink tie and lose the silly hat. loi. i mean, the radiating waves of trust worthiness and honesty are simply palpable. without a doubt, this purple faced lawyer is only concerned about helping the rest of alberta. no chance he screws you all over 🤣🤣🤣
So Danielle Smith’s UCP issued a media release of a planned referendum on Separation today - before the committee has even announced a decision. (This following an abbreviated presentation from Forever Canada principal author Thomas Lukaszuk who was not given the opportunity to present comprehensively)
So now we’re announcing conclusions before the requisite evaluation is even completed? Have they given up even the appearance of following due process?
CBC transposed the existing, majority and minority election boundary commission reports - and makes it even more starkly clear for those not sure what to make of all of this
Look at the last six years as one thing, not a series of news cycles.
2019.
UCP forms government.
AISH gets de-indexed from inflation.
Lethbridge supervised consumption site closes.
A guy named Marshall Smith — recovery-movement strategist, formerly executive director of a controversial therapeutic community in BC — gets brought in as chief of staff to the Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addiction.
Same year, the province creates a Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Council. One of the co-chairs is Pat Nixon, founder of The Mustard Seed.
2022.
Danielle Smith becomes Premier.
Marshall Smith becomes her Chief of Staff.
Pat Nixon's son Jeremy becomes Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services — the ministry that funds homeless shelters and addiction services.
2023.
Jeremy Nixon loses his seat. His older brother Jason replaces him in the same ministry.
Same family, same father, same charity.
The Mustard Seed funding keeps climbing.
Closed, invitation-only procurement opens for the province's new Recovery Communities. First Calgary contract: single bidder.
2024.
AHS gets carved into four agencies. Recovery Alberta becomes a standalone Crown corp on July 1 with ~10,000 staff transferred over. Marshall Smith resigns, exits to private consulting.
Bill 53 — the Compassionate Intervention Act — passes in six weeks. Royal assent May 15. Adults can now be apprehended by police on a family member's application and locked in treatment for up to three months without consent.
AISH-to-ADAP transition rolls out July 1. $200/month cut, phased in but coming. Five city councils ask Jason Nixon to pause. He refuses.
Now the part that should make you stop scrolling.
The Mustard Seed received about $8 million/year in government funding from 2017 to 2020. After the Nixon brothers entered cabinet, that climbed to an average of $23 million/year from 2021 to 2024. In fiscal 2024 alone it was $27.1 million — 45% of the charity's entire revenue.
Source: Charity Intelligence's report on the Mustard Seed, drawing on the charity's own audited financials, which are publicly posted at theseed.ca.
So you have one Alberta ministry, run by two brothers in succession, whose father founded a charity that now gets nearly half its revenue from that same ministry. Jeremy Nixon also worked at the Mustard Seed before politics. Jason Nixon was its executive director from 2006 to 2011.
On October 16, 2023, Jason Nixon stood at a Mustard Seed facility in downtown Calgary and personally announced $762,702 for 40 new women's shelter beds, to be operated by — you guessed it — the Mustard Seed. (CBC: "40 emergency shelter spaces for women open in Calgary," Oct 16 2023.)
The mechanism is what people are missing.
Cut AISH by $200/month for tens of thousands of disabled Albertans. Some of those people lose housing. They don't disappear — they move into shelters. Those shelters are operated by the same network that just got expanded funding. The same ministry that cut their income now funds the shelter beds catching them. The same brothers, the same charity, the same pipeline.
Then layer Bill 53 on top. Now you have legal authority to detain people for addiction or mental health without their consent. The system that detains you and the system that "treats" you are funded by the same hand, run by aligned operators, with closed-bid procurement. Locked beds.
Now ask the question that matters: if the UCP loses the next election, what disappears?
Not Recovery Alberta. Not Bill 53. Not the contracts already awarded. Not the 10,000 staff already transitioned. Not Marshall Smith's consulting practice. Not the Mustard Seed's expanded capacity. Not the Nixon family's grip on the recovery sector.
The system stays. The government doesn't have to.
This is the part where you stop reading it as a series of separate stories — disability cuts, recovery centres, involuntary treatment, procurement scandals — and start reading it as one architecture. Six years of pouring concrete. You can vote out the people who poured it. You can't vote out the concrete.
The moral panics, the trans bills, the sovereignty act, the pension fight — those are noise. Mobilization for a base that's already shrinking. The actual work is happening behind the noise. Captured service delivery, legal coercion, income compression, post-political destinations at firms like Navigator Ltd. where ministers go to keep shaping policy without having to win votes.
If this sounds like a conspiracy theory, check the links. None of it is hidden. All of it is in CBC reporting, Hansard, audited financials, government press releases, and the
Bill 53 legislation itself.
The Auditor General has already announced a review of Recovery Alberta's procurement. Bill 53 will be challenged under sections 7 and 9 of the Charter. The ADAP transition will be challenged. Every one of those challenges weakens the architecture even if the government doesn't change.
But the strongest thing anyone can do right now is name the pattern out loud, in plain language, with citations. The system depends on being read as a bunch of unrelated stories.
It is not. It is one project.
Sources:
Mustard Seed funding: charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/103-the-mustard-seed
Women's shelter announcement: CBC News, Oct 16 2023
Bill 53 full text: docs.assembly.ab.ca
ADAP details: inclusionalberta.org/adap-facts-and-take-action
Recovery Alberta procurement: The Tyee, March 25 2026 (search "Unpaid Subcontractors Recovery Centres")
Marshall Smith background: The Tyee, Aug 10 2023; Alberta Politics, Oct 8 2024
This week on Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, I examine a series of stories highlighting how modern intelligence threats are increasingly focused on exploiting political division, public distrust, technology, and human vulnerabilities inside democratic societies.
This week’s episode covers:
CSIS warnings that any future Alberta separation referendum could become a target for foreign interference and online disinformation campaigns
Canada’s renewed lawful access debate involving encryption, surveillance powers, and oversight concerns
Claims by the Parti Québécois involving alleged federal surveillance and the broader issue of public trust in intelligence institutions
Poland’s warning that Russia is evolving its hybrid warfare strategy by relying on more professional sabotage and covert networks
The renewed debate surrounding Tahawwur Rana, terrorism, and Canadian citizenship
The FBI reward for former U.S. counterintelligence specialist Monica Witt, accused of defecting to Iran
One of the key themes throughout this episode is how foreign adversaries increasingly weaponize:
Social division
Political polarization
Online ecosystems
Hybrid warfare
Insider access
Disinformation campaigns
Modern espionage is no longer simply about stealing classified documents.
It is increasingly about shaping perception, exploiting vulnerabilities, and weakening democratic cohesion from within.
The episode is available here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/19188292
Stay curious, stay informed and stay safe.
Jason Nixon, Alberta's Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services, oversees two programs that now exist in direct financial relationship to each other.
The first: AISH (Assured Income for Severely Handicapped). As of July 1, 2026, most AISH recipients will be moved to ADAP — Alberta Disability Assistance Program. Maximum benefit drops from $1,901/month to $1,740/month. That is a $200-per-month reduction for roughly 70,000 disabled Albertans. The government's projected savings: approximately $96 million annually. As a percentage of Alberta's $79-billion budget, that is 0.12 per cent. One-tenth of one per cent.
The second: shelter funding and contracted recovery services. The Mustard Seed — the Calgary-based homeless and addiction-services charity founded by Jason Nixon's father, Pat Nixon, in 1984 — received approximately $8 million per year in government funding from 2017 to 2020. Under the UCP, after Jason Nixon and his brother Jeremy (who held the same ministerial portfolio until May 2023) entered cabinet, that funding rose to an average of $23 million per year from 2021 to 2024. In fiscal 2024 alone, The Mustard Seed received $27.1 million in government funding — 45 per cent of the charity's total revenue. That increase happened in real time, as AISH recipients began reporting increased housing instability.
Here is the mechanical logic: when you cut income support by $200/month for 70,000 disabled people, some portion of those people become unable to afford housing. They move into shelters or crisis accommodation. Those shelters are operated by organizations like The Mustard Seed. The Mustard Seed's beds fill. The Mustard Seed applies for more government funding. Jason Nixon's ministry — the same ministry that cut AISH — approves expanded funding to The Mustard Seed.
On October 16, 2023, Jason Nixon stood at a Mustard Seed facility in Calgary and personally announced $762,702 in government funding to expand the charity's women's shelter by 40 beds. His ministry stated that it already provided "$32 million annually to operate about 1,800 emergency shelter spaces in Calgary." The gap between "we need more shelter beds" and "we are cutting income support" is not accidental. It is structural.
The Mustard Seed is not responsible for this dynamic. The charity does essential work. But Jason Nixon is administering both ends of a system that generates instability (AISH cuts) and then funds the institutions that manage that instability (shelter expansion). His father founded The Mustard Seed. He worked there as an Executive Director from 2006 to 2011. He holds a pension through the organization. His brother held his exact job until two years ago.
This is not allegation. These are audited charity financials, government press releases, and policy timelines all on the public record.
The moral calculation is identical to the one laid out in the AISH-to-ADAP debate: the province is willing to generate profound instability for savings so small they barely register inside the overall budget. But here is the secondary calculation: some of that instability flows directly into organizations managed by the families of the ministers making the cuts. The disabled Albertans lose $200/month of stability. The Mustard Seed gains $27 million in annual government funding. The province saves 0.12 per cent of its budget. And the cycle that generates crisis also generates the contracts that pay for managing crisis.
When peer workers ask why AISH is being cut despite the obvious human cost, they should also ask: who benefits when disabled Albertans lose housing stability? The answer is documented. It is your government, and the organizations it funds, working in concert — whether intentionally or through the sheer mechanics of structural conflict of interest.
The question for Jason Nixon is simple: how can you cut income support to disabled Albertans while simultaneously overseeing the expansion of shelter funding to an organization your father founded and you once led? That is not a hidden conspiracy. That is an open conflict of interest, playing out in real time, in audited financials and government announcements.
Disabled Albertans deserve better than a system designed to generate their own crisis.
Jason Nixon, Alberta's Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services, oversees two programs that now exist in direct financial relationship to each other.