Writer/Researcher, Former journo (Torstar, Calgary Herald, FFWD)
Calgary, Alberta
Joined January 2009
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“I do actually believe as premier I should follow the law.” Indeed. And bookmarked. 😉
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
She could have done this six months ago and spared us the referendum, which taught us nothing that we didn’t know before.
Smith takes her stand - bans separatist candidates, UCP officials, ministers. Column.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/co… #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli #abreferendum #abgov
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
True leadership by Smith here in waiting until after the referendum results and then deciding she's on Team Canada.
Can't wait for her announcement in two weeks that she's a huge Brewers/Rays fan.
#BREAKING: Alberta's Danielle Smith tells UCP members to get on Team Canada or find new party ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/…
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
Pro-Alberta independence leader Mitch Sylvestre tells me:
“I won’t be the guy that splits the right. I will not come up with a new party. If the progressives want to leave the UCP, they’re very welcome to do it. We’re not going anywhere.”
politico.com/news/2026/10/21…
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
Rebel Media’s Alberta bureau chief, Sheila Gunn Reid, literally registered with Elections Alberta as a separatist-side third-party advertiser for the referendum. Let’s stop pretending that they’re anything other than right-wing propagandists dressed up as a legit news outlet.
In 2010, George Soros threatened to sue Ezra Levant for defamation. Levant and Sun Media subsequently published a retraction and apology.
Sixteen years later, Levant's Rebel News is asking Alberta's premier to investigate Soros. #abpoli #cdnpoli
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
Smith insisting the law forced her to put this separation q on the ballot.
No. The law required govt to consider the proposed question.
And Smith lowered the signature threshold to 177k from 600k.
The secessionist option garnered 496,890 votes w 94% of polls reporting.
Days after Albertans soundly rejected separatism, UCP president Rob Smith says his party needs separatists to maintain power and suggests the U.S. Tea Party as a model.
Because if there's one political success story worth importing from America, it's the Republican Party's descent into madness. #abpoli #cdnpoli
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
The gerrymandering is coming tomorrow, folks.
Be ready, it will be the most aggressive attempt to cheat in Canadian history.
Together we saved Canada! But there is another threat brewing, and again it's coming from within the UCP.
Danielle Smith wants to gerrymander our riding maps because she's terrified she will lose. She wants politicians to pick their voters. No way, premier. In Alberta, voters pick their politicians.
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
YES is falling on the nine as the count progresses. Two have dipped below 50%, and only one of the options is over 55% at this point.
So the end result is going to be a very underwhelming mandate to move on these.
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
As usual, with Danielle Smith, watch what she does and ignore what she says. She lies well, does it often, and right to your face. All while avoiding media questions and spending more of our tax dollars to do so. Albertans are not being represented by Alberta's UCP government.
"Smith welcomed the separatists, and today she’s still stuck with the party problem of her own devising. A performative referendum on her dilemma wasn’t worth $70 million. It isn’t worth 70 cents."
#ableg #abpoli
That referendum sure wasn't worth the money, the division, the political goal of holding the UCP together. It was a political hoax. Column.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid… #abreferendum #ableg #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli #abpoli
"Ms. Smith’s plan to storm the Palace of Ottawa looks to be suffering from a distinct shortage of pitchforks."
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Albertans just spent tens of millions on a referendum Danielle Smith didn't need to hold. Now she's delivering another televised address.
ATI records reveal her government authorized up to $160,000 for media buying associated with her last address in May. That's separate from a video-production contract worth up to $205,000.
So what's tonight's address costing Alberta taxpayers? #ableg #abpoli
Albertans picked up a pencil yesterday and answered ten hard questions about our future.
That is democracy at its finest and tonight we talk about what comes next.
Join me live on CTV, Global, CityNews, Facebook, X or YouTube at 6:45pm— as we go through the referendum results, what they mean for this province, and what comes next.
So separatism was never a threat, Nenshi was hysterical for warning about it, and Smith deserves credit for defeating it?
The same Smith who lowered the referendum threshold while worrying about separatists forming a rival party?
Apparently separatism was dangerous enough to threaten Smith's political interests, but harmless enough that Albertans should have ignored it. #abpoli #ableg
Trevor Scott Howell retweeted
Alberta separatists expected 40 - 60% support. They got 25%, exactly where the polls had them.
Rick Bell says they spent the entire campaign talking to themselves.
Jason Stephan’s two-page farewell thanks family, friends and supporters.
Apparently, the premier was cut for space. #abpoli #cdnpoli
