{"id":32569,"date":"2026-02-21T01:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32569"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:28:08","slug":"there-once-was-a-gal-named-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32569","title":{"rendered":"There once was a gal named Pandora&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c58f660-0925-4ba9-956c-cbab88107b48_1926x1106-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c58f660-0925-4ba9-956c-cbab88107b48_1926x1106-1-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c58f660-0925-4ba9-956c-cbab88107b48_1926x1106-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c58f660-0925-4ba9-956c-cbab88107b48_1926x1106-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-50426f8d3dc6ed73d366a94d69080794\" style=\"color:#bd1108\"><strong>Premier Danielle Smith delivering nine referendum questions to Albertans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click link for Paul Wells article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/paulwells\/p\/danielle-smiths-nine-questions?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/paulwells\/p\/danielle-smiths-nine-questions?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Excerpted from the Paul Wells article:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-38cfba3a24e6473ad3f7838e88e736b7\" style=\"color:#0869a9\">I don\u2019t see how Smith\u2019s announcement yesterday fixes the problems she professes to be concerned about, more than ordinary politics would. I don\u2019t see how her <strong>nine frivolous referendums <\/strong>will much affect the one existential referendum she\u2019s done nothing to forestall. I don\u2019t think her government would implement a Yes vote in that <strong>secession referendum<\/strong>. I think the question is moot because I don\u2019t believe there\u2019ll be a Yes vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e62c754d128b0ef8410c2c9bc738a645\" style=\"color:#d01f16\">Pandora&#8217;s Box :a process that generates many complicated problems as the result of&nbsp;unwise interference in something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pandora-23jpg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pandora-23jpg-1.jpg 464w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pandora-23jpg-1-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 85vw, 464px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM.png 459w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 85vw, 459px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM-1.png 459w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-at-8.07.00-PM-1-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 85vw, 459px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-3.21.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-3.21.40-PM.png 465w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-3.21.40-PM-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 85vw, 465px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Original image source thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti\">Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/a>&#8216;s painting of Pandora holding the box, 1871<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Court-Painter-Premier-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Court-Painter-Premier-Smith.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Court-Painter-Premier-Smith-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Court-Painter-Premier-Smith-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Danielle Smith delivering nine referendum questions to Albertans. Click link for Paul Wells article https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/paulwells\/p\/danielle-smiths-nine-questions?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email Excerpted from the Paul Wells article: I don\u2019t see how Smith\u2019s announcement yesterday fixes the problems she professes to be concerned about, more than ordinary politics would. I don\u2019t see how her nine frivolous referendums will much affect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There once was a gal named Pandora&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32589,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions\/32589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}