Jeff Milner

.@elections.ab.ca .@ElectionsAB Why are Elections Alberta accredited canvassers for the separatists’ petition required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with the separatists?

What are their canvassers not to disclose? What are they hiding? Is this not a transparent democratic process? #ableg

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— Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk (@lukaszukab.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM

Among the myriad of reasons to oppose the separatist movement in Albeta, the opacity the operation is another red flag.

January 4, 2026January 5, 2026

Thoughts

It’s a bit embarrassing to admit it, but the thought of the US attacking Canada is something that’s been on my mind for the first time in my life.

Not that I think we are in any immediate threat, there will be a lot of other significant moves to make one truly frightened nevertheless the 51st state rhetoric echoes in my mind as the USA kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife yesterday, killing dozens, or perhaps hundreds, in this special military operation which the legal implications under US and international law are not immediately clear.

There’s no denying Maduro is a bad actor and the Venezuelan people deserve better, but how this is shaking out has me worried.

I also wonder what my Canadian born US citizen cousins make of it.¹ If nothing else, the lack of congressional oversight is certainly worrisome.

I haven’t asked them.[↩]

January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

Three Seconds Everyday 2025

The 2025 edition of our Three Seconds Everyday video is up. This year I didn’t render out a one second version, but it’s surprisingly watchable at double speed, if you don’t mind the audio.

I have to thank Andrea for picking up a few of the days that I happened to miss.

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

Editorial on Neudorf’s Recall

Though I missed this last week, Darcy Logan has some good questions for Nathan Neudorf in his editorial on the fake recall.

If this is a fake process, they have now been denied their democratic agency by duplicitous and dishonest individuals. Nathan Neudorf publicly stated that “I’m not actively involved in my own recall.” This seems like a feeble equivocation. Were you passively involved, or were you aware it was going to happen before stepping back for plausible deniability?

Nathan Neudorf needs to answer two questions: Were you aware that someone was going to launch a spurious recall? Were any of your staff involved, and if so, how?

December 23, 2025January 3, 2026

The Great Recall Caper

I’ve been working on this video for the past few days.

From my video description:

On November 25, 2025, Lethbridge-East got an active recall petition campaign for Nathan Neudorf, but not everything is as it appears. Follow the unraveling of a real life conspiracy in this short explainer video.

As far as how I feel about the whole thing, it’s disappointing but I think that a fake recall might be more politically poisonous to Neudorf than our actual recall would have been.

I know this isn’t much of a consolation to folks that wanted to help but if you’re one of those people, consider signing up to help with the Alberta Funds Public Schools or the coal mining petition¹.

put forth by Corb Lund.[↩]

December 20, 2025December 22, 2025

Genny Steed and the Fake Recall

I played a part in handing out the pieces, but this guy put them together:

https://recallfan44.substack.com/p/867-53oh-my

[I]f you’re going to do shifty things, don’t brag about it to friends, because eventually someone is going to say something in passing, and there’s no way to put that toothpaste back in the tube.

Yesterday, I was emailing back and forth with another person who has also been investigating this situation, and received some very interesting information:

The rumour is (and this is just a rumour — I have no idea the reputation of the people spreading it) that she approached Ryan Tanner because she is friends with him and he doesn’t have a Facebook account. I’m looking into the rumour more asking around to try and find the person that said it.

Needless to say, we found what we were looking for.

Update: It turns out that Ryan Tanner has a Facebook account–it’s just one that is dormant/private. It has only one public facing post since it was started in 2007.

December 20, 2025December 20, 2025

CTV on the Recall Caper

The Raging Grannies held a rally yesterday outside Neudorf’s office. This morning CTV posted this report, Frustrations Grow as Nathan Neudorf Recall Petitioner Seemingly Disappears, by Quinn Keenan.

Video archived after the jump:
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December 19, 2025December 20, 2025

All I want for Christmas

I’ve been hearing some concerning rumours about a former politician, someone the media hasn’t mentioned in this context yet, who might be behind the phony recall, but I’m waiting for some more evidence before I post about it here.

In the meantime, this editorial by Scott Sakatch in the Lethbridge Herald declares that he believes there is no way it’s a legitimate petition.