I was appalled at the percentage of eligible voter turnout. The UCP dropped the ball when it came to getting people engaged and out to vote, I believe they could have turned both ridings if they had just gotten people out.
June 23, 2025 Alberta byelection results:
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
Voter turnout 39%
UCP 61%
NDP 20%
RPA 17.5%
WRC 1.2%
Edmonton-Strathcona Voter turnout 32.7%
NDP 82%
UCP 13.6%
LIB 2%
AP 1.2%
RPA 0.7%
Edmonton-Ellerslie Voter turnout 18.3%
NDP 50.8%
UCP 38%
LIB 4.5%
RPA 3.6%
AP 2.7%
WLC 0.5%
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https://open.substack.com/pub/blendrnews/p/the-death-of-democracy-in-canada?
“From the outside, Canada still looks like a functioning democracy. Elections are held on schedule, Parliament convenes, and parties campaign against one another. The trouble is that almost none of it functions as advertised.
Today, Canada’s “democracy” operates as a procedural husk — a system that retains every formal structure of democratic governance being repurposed to serve the political class rather than the public it claims to represent.
Over the past five years, the governing party has called elections to bury active investigations into national security breaches and financial corruption. Parliament sat for just sixteen percent of the available days while MPs collected full salaries and per diems for the other eighty-four.
More than 121,000 ballots went uncounted in a single federal election. A riding was decided by one vote after an Elections Canada employee printed the wrong postal code on dozens...
With 5 floor crosser's who were traitorous to those that elected them, this is what we will have in Canada
Bruce @bruce_barrett
Hey @grok
what do you call a unelected majority government in control of a country?
https://x.com/bruce_barrett/status/2042617908249903596