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Vote splitting has consequences.
A tiny portion of voters can have catastrophic effects in an election & easily empower a party they oppose. This is precisely how Trudeau has clung onto power & Canadians must consider this dynamic when voting
#AlbertaElection2023 #cdnpoli #UCP
A tiny portion of voters can have catastrophic effects in an election & easily empower a party they oppose. This is precisely how Trudeau has clung onto power & Canadians must consider this dynamic when voting
#AlbertaElection2023 #cdnpoli #UCP
While the UCP win was resounding, both from popular vote and seats here we see how 6714 voters decided the fate of 10 ridings.... which is less than the margin of rejected ballots.
Massive amount of power in very few hands
Over 1.7 million voters fought over the rest
Massive amount of power in very few hands
Over 1.7 million voters fought over the rest
Had NDP flipped 7 ridings...
Notley would have been premier.
Notley would have been premier.
Four years ago I launched this account with the intent to be a sh!t-posting satire account in the lead up to the 2019 election.
In that time, much has changed. Including me.
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In that time, much has changed. Including me.
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For one thing, I learned that good satire is reeealy hard to do.
Some people on here make it look easy. To those who can find humour in dark times, that is your gift, and I thank you.
I pretty much gave up on being a satire account.
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Some people on here make it look easy. To those who can find humour in dark times, that is your gift, and I thank you.
I pretty much gave up on being a satire account.
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Paying the closest attention to politics that I ever had placed horrific things front and centre.
There are too many to mention.
Just read @bailrs’ list. Follow him while you’re there.
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There are too many to mention.
Just read @bailrs’ list. Follow him while you’re there.
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Having a peak at right-wing media sources.
Here’s how the CTF is framing the NDP’s economic policy.
How much profit does a business have to be bringing in to pay $100k or even $500k in provincial taxes at current rates?
Here’s how the CTF is framing the NDP’s economic policy.
How much profit does a business have to be bringing in to pay $100k or even $500k in provincial taxes at current rates?
Rebel media implies that the #UCP is the healthcare party!
True North Centre says Rachel Notley & the NDP will get rid of math!
Also: colonialism is good; drag queens bad.
Also: colonialism is good; drag queens bad.
THREAD: Guess it's advanced voting day 1. Let me tell you when I was a Wildrose campaign worker. Youth campaign coordinator to be more precise. I was on Bruce McAllister's team. I looked up to him as a smart, funny Global News anchor every morning growing up. #ableg #abelxn
Got a few friends on board who wanted to increase youth voter turnout and instill real change in gov. We beat Ted Morton (who's now simping for Smith). I was elated. My first (real) campaign success. But only two years later, our success was in vain.. #abelxn #abpoli #abvotes
My colleagues and I felt so betrayed. Our hard work against the PC dynasty, momentum for the WR, all but vanished during that press conference. McAllister and Smith turned their backs on the party, their constituents, and all the volunteers like me who believed in them. #abelxn twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A cell phone video leaked to Alberta’s NDP reveals the true extent of Danielle Smith’s coordinated political interference in the justice system on behalf of those charged following the Coutts blockade. 🧵
#cdnpoli #alberta #ableg #ucp
#cdnpoli #alberta #ableg #ucp
The video appears to capture a January 2023 video call between Danielle Smith and street pastor Artur Pawlowski, who faces charges of breaching a release order and mischief for inciting people to block public property at the border crossing at Coutts in January 2022.
“For freedom to be preserved, people must be willing to sacrifice their lives,” Pawlowski told a crowd. “This is our time. If this is our Alamo then so be it.” Prosecutors called Pawlowski’s actions “an overt threat to violence.”
Environment Minister Sonya Savage has admitted the UCP’s $20-billion royalty giveaway is a bad idea that violates the polluter-pay principle. 🧵
#cdnpoli #ableg #ucp
#cdnpoli #ableg #ucp
On Monday, Savage was asked about a letter Danielle Smith wrote during her time as a corporate lobbyist advocating for the RStar program. In response, Savage said the program “didn’t align with Alberta’s polluter-pay principle and the royalty framework.”
“Alberta’s system has always been based on a core principle: when you make a mess, you clean it up. Danielle Smith wants to violate this basic principle to give away billions of dollars to her friends that helped get her elected.” NDP Energy Critic @KathleenGanley
The #AlbertaModel at work. 🧵
“A Medicine Hat-based recovery organization, which has to date received six-figures in government funding, has endorsed an anti-supervised consumption site ad campaign in the U.S.”
First, a must read from @JeremyAppel1025
open.substack.com/pub/theorchard…
“A Medicine Hat-based recovery organization, which has to date received six-figures in government funding, has endorsed an anti-supervised consumption site ad campaign in the U.S.”
First, a must read from @JeremyAppel1025
open.substack.com/pub/theorchard…
This attack on supervised consumption services is not a one-off. It’s a pattern of misinformation.
From @ehyshka:
“It is unfortunate to see an Alberta-based organization lobbying the United States government against supporting this intervention,”
#ableg
From @ehyshka:
“It is unfortunate to see an Alberta-based organization lobbying the United States government against supporting this intervention,”
#ableg
Unfortunate, but not surprising. There is a coordinated movement underway to shift public opinion away from #HarmReduction. A movement heavily influenced by the misinformation machine in #Alberta.
Anti-democratic forces like the #KochNetwork were used as a template for the same sort of corruption in Canada. Similar groups in Canada have incubated the careers of both #UCP premiers of Alberta.
Here’s a list of Canadian Atlas Partners in Canada. Pay attention to the names of these organizations. You’ll see them come up again and again.
CPC leader, “Poilievre, is receiving criticism for delivering a speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a [Conservative] think tank associated with efforts to downplay the effects of Canada's residential school system.”
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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I still report anti-vaxx accounts for encouraging self-harm. Typically the people behind these accounts will let their veil slip. The “PureBlood” label they apply to themselves evokes white supremacist and fascist undertones.
“The phrase (pure-blood) was popularized by J.K. Rowling’s villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series as a way to distinguish between those with “pure” wizard ancestry and everyone else,”drawing parallels with the Nazi doctrine of the “master race.”
vice.com/en/article/7kv…
vice.com/en/article/7kv…
The term, “pureblood” “opens a direct line to the Christofascist movement represented by the QAnon community and similar far-right groups.“
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/pu…
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/pu…
A tale of two headlines, months apart.
To deal with *labour shortages* “The Alberta government invested $8 million earlier this fall to create 69 “micro-credential programs” over two years.” After “$690 million worth of cuts they have imposed on post-secondary schools.” #abed
To deal with *labour shortages* “The Alberta government invested $8 million earlier this fall to create 69 “micro-credential programs” over two years.” After “$690 million worth of cuts they have imposed on post-secondary schools.” #abed
“The @albertaNDP supports micro-credential programs, but the program is a tiny fraction of the $690 million worth of cuts they have imposed on #abpse schools. The #UCP’s] policies leave Albertans behind.”—@davideggenAB
calgary.citynews.ca/2022/12/02/alb…
calgary.citynews.ca/2022/12/02/alb…
“For @UCalgary students, funding cuts have contributed to an increase in annual tuition of 25% over the cost 4 years ago.”
“If word gets out that the government’s not funding universities, colleges properly, then people just won’t come,”—@davideggenAB
theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…
“If word gets out that the government’s not funding universities, colleges properly, then people just won’t come,”—@davideggenAB
theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…
Please ignore & block accounts that are clearly trolling me & my story. Certain individuals are well known for having multiple sock puppet accounts. Sean Chu’s one time lawyer former Justice Minister Jonathan Denis seemingly had many sock supporters.🚩🧦 cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
Several of these sock puppet accounts / operators not only troll me, they also troll @DruhFarrell @gccarra @kourtpenner @CWalcottYYC @albertaNDP @liberal_party etc. They also happen to praise many connected w/Sean Chu such as @DanWMcLean who is friends with many of my harassers.
City Councillor @DanWMcLean watched #UCP AH drunkenly & viciously verblly attack me in the middle of a restaurant regarding Sean Chu sexually assaulting me as a minor. Dan & his (former Jono Denis) staffer Chad Barber did nothing to intervene. Dan told ME not to fight w/AH. 🚩
What Conservatives want for Canada:
“For more than 14% of people who use insulin in the U.S., insulin costs consume at least 40% of their available income, a new study finds.”
news.yale.edu/2022/07/05/ins…
“For more than 14% of people who use insulin in the U.S., insulin costs consume at least 40% of their available income, a new study finds.”
news.yale.edu/2022/07/05/ins…
In the news this week:
Predatory capitalism is exploiting people based on a medical condition that they were probably born with. Extracting profits & making people terminally indentured. “Make us profits, or die.”
Not too different from how capitalism treats workers.
meme via @xghostnotesx
Not too different from how capitalism treats workers.
meme via @xghostnotesx
If anyone wants a preview of the strategy the #UCP will use to win the next election, it’s the “firehose of falsehood”
As long as the #UCP controls the conversation they will have an advantage.
DS will have Shaw/Corus/Global news in her court to help maintain that control, and funding from Alberta Enterprise Group partners to win her campaigns.
archive.ph/2020.12.05-171…
DS will have Shaw/Corus/Global news in her court to help maintain that control, and funding from Alberta Enterprise Group partners to win her campaigns.
archive.ph/2020.12.05-171…
If you look back on DS’s CV, she’s made a lot of allies with very powerful, and very bad people.
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New face, same murderous policy.
As @ABDanielleSmith shuffles the cabinet and dispenses her favours, let’s take a quick look at the storied history of being a #UCP “Minister of Mental Health and Addictions”.
@NACMilliken is your next prohibition peddler for #ABLeg.
#abpoli
As @ABDanielleSmith shuffles the cabinet and dispenses her favours, let’s take a quick look at the storied history of being a #UCP “Minister of Mental Health and Addictions”.
@NACMilliken is your next prohibition peddler for #ABLeg.
#abpoli
First up is @jasonluan88.
Jason came out strong with his tin foil hat and big pharma conspiracies.
He immediately displayed his incompetence with this gem below.
Jason came out strong with his tin foil hat and big pharma conspiracies.
He immediately displayed his incompetence with this gem below.
Then one time Jason suggested naloxone, the life saving antidote to opioid poisonings, was enabling opioid use.
Because Alberta diverts almost $300 MILLION per year FROM public education to subsidize elite private schools—to subsidize the rich—there is less funding to support your child. (See linked thread below.)
Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
The diversion of tax money to from public education to subsidize the rich is why Alberta public schools have some of the highest school fees and highest bus fees in the country. 🧵👇
When funding was given out for covid supports, elite for-profit private schools like Webber Academy received hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in subsidies.
.@dtloewen has teachers in the family and has kids and grandkids in the public system.....but also believes in "school choice"
.@LeelaAheer up next.......
@jkenney’s CoS recd. 2021 bonus of $27, 303.98 on top of >$182K salary. Pretty sweet, for someone who was seconded part of that year.😡👿 Who can defend these extravagant bonuses?? @ToewsforAlberta #UCPfail #Sunshinelist
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
Pam Livingston, current Chief of Staff for the premier was the beneficiary of this gross 2021 largesse. What say you @ToewsforAlberta, @jkenney, @rebeccakschulz, @BrianJeanAB???
Treasury funds being dispensed with abandon to UCPers
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
Treasury funds being dispensed with abandon to UCPers
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
@BrockWHarrison recd a bonus of almost $24K, plus salary of >$181K. Brick provides nonsense tweets & not much else.Who can justify this largesse?? #UCPfail
@jkenney, @ToewsforAlberta, @rebeccakschulz, @BrianJeanAB
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
@jkenney, @ToewsforAlberta, @rebeccakschulz, @BrianJeanAB
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
From @LeelaAheer "My heart sinks when I hear statements that COVID is not real. Families have lost dear ones, parents have welcomed little ones and taken care of their children alone, our seniors sacrificed their time with their families to make sure that we could contain COVID"
"and support our healthcare system. Long COVID can be devastating. Protective measures were put into place to keep our province safe and prevent our healthcare system from collapsing. What we have learned over the past few years will serve us in the future,"
"and guide us to make the right decisions for ALL Albertans. I will always stand and make decisions based on science and advice from our experts. Our province is still healing from the hurt and damage that COVID has caused and"
1. Most of you know I have been a vocal + consistent supporter of an Independent Alberta. After 115 years of trying to improve our position within Canada, without any measure of success, I remain so committed.
2. But I would like to explain my pivot from supporting #WIPA to supporting @ABdaniellesmith with the #UCP. This is important and every person desirous of more autonomy for Alberta, up to and including complete Independence, should seriously consider all of these factors.
3. #WIPA’s original stake was for gradually moving towards a referendum under the Clarity Act. Starting with our own Police Force, our own Revenue Agency, and our own Pension + Unemployment fund. This was a good strategy, all doable under the existing Constitution.
Who will be the next leader of the #UCP?
Maybe I should have put Madu on the poll?
I think Shandro is out. 😂
Expect a “strong” majority to show “confidence” in Kenney’s “leadership” when the results of the #UCP “vote” are revealed later today. #ableg
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
The religious right haven’t been this close to power in decades. Don’t expect them to give that power up easily.
They worked hard for their 2019 victory. #ableg
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
They worked hard for their 2019 victory. #ableg
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
And don’t expect things to go well for education soon…
“As President of Red Deer Pro-Life, LaGrange wrote that she “enjoyed listening” to a presentation about the “Back Porch,” one such misleading clinic that is operated by anti-abortion activists”
pressprogress.ca/jason-kenney-a…
“As President of Red Deer Pro-Life, LaGrange wrote that she “enjoyed listening” to a presentation about the “Back Porch,” one such misleading clinic that is operated by anti-abortion activists”
pressprogress.ca/jason-kenney-a…
This is a Conservatism fundraiser.
Proceeds will be collected by Oilers franchise owner, Daryl Katz, who will then distribute funds to “think tanks” that aim to elect politicians who will rob these very fans of social services, like transit, education, and access to abortions…
Proceeds will be collected by Oilers franchise owner, Daryl Katz, who will then distribute funds to “think tanks” that aim to elect politicians who will rob these very fans of social services, like transit, education, and access to abortions…
With their membership in groups like Alberta Enterprise, the Oilers Entertainment Group is fighting to delay action on mitigating the catastrophic effects climate change, and gain tax advantages for the ultra-rich.
I know people who live in Edmonton who want things like expanded transit networks, reliable healthcare, and climate action. They vote progressively. They are confused how Conservatives always seem to win elections. They are huge Oilers fans…
Reminder that privatization was always the plan:
“Alberta Health Services intends to privatize all community labs across Alberta, despite new figures that suggest outsourcing could save far less money than originally estimated.”
—June, 2020
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
“Alberta Health Services intends to privatize all community labs across Alberta, despite new figures that suggest outsourcing could save far less money than originally estimated.”
—June, 2020
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
“Alberta Health Services and Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) have reached an agreement on terms of a contract for DynaLIFE Medical Labs to deliver community laboratory services across the province.”
—January, 2022. #abhealth
globalnews.ca/news/8544133/d…
—January, 2022. #abhealth
globalnews.ca/news/8544133/d…
DynaLife is a member of the Alberta Enterprise Group.
Through AEG and Wellington Advocacy, it has been lobbying the #UCP government for quite a while to embed itself further into the delivery of healthcare.
Through AEG and Wellington Advocacy, it has been lobbying the #UCP government for quite a while to embed itself further into the delivery of healthcare.
Worker who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is now suing #CNRL for wrongful dismissal.
We should be suing the #UCP for not doing enough to protect workers. Instead anti-vaxxers are clogging courts, and @CTVNews is taking the anti-vaxx side.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/vaccine-backla…
We should be suing the #UCP for not doing enough to protect workers. Instead anti-vaxxers are clogging courts, and @CTVNews is taking the anti-vaxx side.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/vaccine-backla…
#CNRL oversaw multiple outbreaks in previous #Covid19 waves. Because of how many of their workers do fly-in-fly-out contracts, they facilitated the spread of covid to other provinces when their workers returned home.
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📞@Bell-owned @CTVNews regularly produces media that seeks to uphold the status quo or nudge society further right. So it’s unsurprising to see them boost the story of this anti-vaxxer.
See this thread on their (sometimes subtle) editorial bias.
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👇#cdnmediafailed
See this thread on their (sometimes subtle) editorial bias.
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