In white text on black boards, messages that were both visually and rhetorically stark flanked Premier Danielle Smith last fall as she launched a big advertising campaign against Ottawa’s clean electricity regulations.
“No one wants blackouts in –30°C.”
“No one wants to freeze in the dark.”
Both statements are universal truths, no doubt.
Last weekend, these sentiments were widely felt across Alberta as phones flashed with the emergency grid alert and Alberta Emergency Management Agency’s plea to switch off lights and unplug appliances.
Smith’s government had intended their grim black-and-white messages to be warnings about a theoretical 2035 under new federal rules, but here was
