No they didn’t. Calgary has 25 seats, 14 of which are NDP. In 2023 there were 5 more that were lost by fewer than 1100 votes combined, which would have changed the outcome of the election. This was the best head-to-head showing by the NDP in Alberta ever.

And with high-visibility Calgary-centric Nenshi as leader, It’s entirely possible that that balance flips.

Calgary isn’t as conservative as you might want to believe.

Trudeau put some of the most critical environments on the planet at risk for Alberta’s pocketbook.

Well, Canada’s pocketbook. Let’s not pretend that that oil money doesn’t finance a whole lot of Canada’s economy.

I agree that the Liberals should absolutely be put in the penalty box, as any government should after being in office for 10 years.

And still the alternative is far worse. A rudderless, directionless group with no actual policy and no interest in accountability or transparency. Worse, with instincts that mimic the existential threat to Canada’s sovereignty.

Carney is a guy that seems singularly equipped for this moment. We’d be fools not to take advantage of that.

I’m repeating myself a lot in this thread, but everyone seems to be sleeping on Telesat Lightspeed.

All of that seems perfectly reasonable.

And it’s also perfectly wrong. Because Telsat Canada has been working on its LEO constellation for about 10 years now. And it goes live in about 2 years.

And yes, it will be superior to Starlink in multiple ways.

Saying cut starlink out is fine and all but there are lots of places and communities without any decent broadband options at all (in Canada and beyond).

You may be unaware, but Telstat will have their LEO constellation and subsequent high speed satellite internet up and running by 2027. A Canadian solution to a Canadian problem.