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🧵The other day @pressprogress published an article (pressprogress.ca/ontario-educat… ) exposing @Sflecce’s private audience with right wing religious lobbying organization & “think tank”, #Cardus. #OntEd #FireLecce #cdnpoli 
#Cardus, a registered “charity”, wants taxpayers to fund private for-profit religious schools & a voucher system that has gutted public education in 🇺🇸.
This model would siphon needed funds from public schools & funnel them instead to schools with RW religious ideology #ONpoli
This model would siphon needed funds from public schools & funnel them instead to schools with RW religious ideology #ONpoli
#Cardus revenues = nearly $5M/yr.
Cardus’ donations from other charities increased 17.4 X from 2008-2020. A nearly 2,000% increase in just over a decade. Yet they pay zero in taxes, because “charity”…like lobbying to gut public education in favour of for-profit religious schools
Cardus’ donations from other charities increased 17.4 X from 2008-2020. A nearly 2,000% increase in just over a decade. Yet they pay zero in taxes, because “charity”…like lobbying to gut public education in favour of for-profit religious schools
A question everyone should be asking: WHY has #cdnmedia failed to report on one of the biggest political scandals in decades. O’Toole & #CPC colluded w/ #Conservative premiers to delay implementing covid measures until after #elxn44vote. People died as a result #CovidInquiryNow
The very next day after #elxn44vote, #JasonKenney shuffles Shandro, #ScottMoe flies under the radar & the UCP sends an official request to the Trudeau gov’t for help. (Because of jurisdiction the feds must be invited). Something UCP could’ve done weeks ago. #CovidInquiryNow
I’m adding to this thread, a word or 2 about front groups exploiting charitable status. 1st, Candace Malcolm, head of #TrueNorthCentre is an alumnus of other propaganda operations that serve wealthy private interests: #KochNetwork #FraserInstitute #CanadianTaxPayersFederation….
…Sun Media (now #Postmedia), #JasonKenney’s team, & among others, the #AtlasNetwork: a web of far right “think tanks” with ties to #KochNetwork: sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atla…
Malacolm has spent her entire career serving some of the most malignant players on the planet. #cdnmedia
Malacolm has spent her entire career serving some of the most malignant players on the planet. #cdnmedia
#KochNetwork & its spawn like #FraserInstitute #AtlasNetwork (both receive funding from the Koch Network) use “public policy” “advocacy”, “charity” & “non-profit”as means to launder propaganda, hide #DarkMoney while reaping tax deductions. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #TrueNorthCentre
“I actually left a message at the premier’s office. I got our MLA [@DevinDVote] and they just said Alberta Health Services had to deal with it and amazingly enough it went ahead. I just don’t understand,”
—Bowden Mayor, Robb Stuart
#ableg #FiretheUCP
edmonton.citynews.ca/2021/05/03/i-j…
—Bowden Mayor, Robb Stuart
#ableg #FiretheUCP
edmonton.citynews.ca/2021/05/03/i-j…
“There are no excuses, and if you’re flouting the law you should be held accountable.”
—Bowden Mayor, Robb Stuart, on the rodeo held outside his town this past weekend.
#BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #ableg
—Bowden Mayor, Robb Stuart, on the rodeo held outside his town this past weekend.
#BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #ableg
“AHS says it is exploring its legal options after hundreds attended a #rodeo near Bowden, about 30km south of #RedDeer, to protest #COVID19 restrictions. It took place on private land after the town's agricultural society revoked its permit.” #ableg
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➊ 🍁 If TODAY you live in #Ontario or #Alberta and have NOT asked for #DougFord nor #JasonKenney to step down as Premier of your province
🅐 Why not?
🅑 What are you waiting for?
🅐 Why not?
🅑 What are you waiting for?
➋ 🍁 #IfNotNowWhen?
They need to step down, for the good of their province, this nightmare can't go on
#onpoli #abpoli
#Canada
They need to step down, for the good of their province, this nightmare can't go on
#onpoli #abpoli
#Canada
WHAT THE ACTUAL F. The political right is as deadly as any pandemic. The environmental destruction, the hate, the ignorance the right promotes & embraces, has fascistic transnational fossil fuel billionaires at the helm. #JasonKenney is a sycophantic handmaiden. #ABleg #cdnpoli
& speaking of grotesque sycophantic handmaidens of toxic destructive fascistic billionaires, here’s #PierrePoilivre doing exactly their bidding, like he’s reading a script. A slithering little troll spreading disinformation & propaganda for profit globalnews.ca/news/7473149/t… #cdnpoli
And would you look at that. What a shocker. #ManningCentre now calls itself the outrageously Orwellian “Canada Strong & Free Network”, I mean seriously, could these people be any more transparent in their con job bullshit? Preston Manning requested his name be removed in 2020 🤔.
For those of you with smartphone or desktop photoshop skills, here’s the blank version #JasonKenney conveniently posed with. #SignsOfJasonKenney
https://t.co/GCMLa1tfDM
https://t.co/GCMLa1tfDM
With #ResignKenney continuing to trend, I want to talk a bit about what realistic options Albertans have for holding this govt accountable.
Let's be clear about one thing - there is no way Kenney will choose to resign. There are, however, other ways to take down a leader [1/8]
Let's be clear about one thing - there is no way Kenney will choose to resign. There are, however, other ways to take down a leader [1/8]
that has lost the moral authority to govern.
The typical process is to simply vote their party out in the next election. Unfortunately, the next #abvote is not until spring 2023, so w/ their legislative majority, we are likely stuck with the UCP for another 2 full years [2/8]
The typical process is to simply vote their party out in the next election. Unfortunately, the next #abvote is not until spring 2023, so w/ their legislative majority, we are likely stuck with the UCP for another 2 full years [2/8]
BUT WAIT!
That doesn't mean it isn't possible to force an election sooner or remove Kenney as Premier! Let's talk about how this could work.
There are 2 feasible scenarios, both of which involve UCP MLA's breaking ranks with their party.
To force an early election, we [3/8]
That doesn't mean it isn't possible to force an election sooner or remove Kenney as Premier! Let's talk about how this could work.
There are 2 feasible scenarios, both of which involve UCP MLA's breaking ranks with their party.
To force an early election, we [3/8]
From Facebook: Mary Lou
Yesterday I found out that I’m losing my dream job 💔
By the end of this school year, my team no longer exists under the new UCP education budget. I am a Mental Health Therapist (Peace Collaborative Services - PCS) for kindergarten to grade 12 students.
Yesterday I found out that I’m losing my dream job 💔
By the end of this school year, my team no longer exists under the new UCP education budget. I am a Mental Health Therapist (Peace Collaborative Services - PCS) for kindergarten to grade 12 students.
I’ve never felt this strongly connected to a job before. My heart is so invested and I come home every day feeling so blessed and fulfilled ... ask my husband who puts up with the chronic mushiness when he asks about my day!
It’s an incredible role and so many students rely on these services. Parents often have difficulty taking time out of their work day to take their child to a mental health appointment.
On Election night, October 21, 2019 @FarahNasser asked me about my come to the centre moment.Despite feeling asphyxiated from the grapefruit growing in my throat, I managed to offer a long suppressed personal truth. It was in the dying days of the 2015 #StephenHarper campaign.
#Conservatives announced the creation of the "Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline" I am not a Muslim. But when I saw the government I voted for launching this assault on Canada's Muslim community, it felt personal.These were my neighbors, my Canadian brothers & sisters.
7 decades earlier the JEWS of Hungary, the land of my birth were on the receiving end of gov't generated racial venom. So I did not have to be a Muslim in the fall of 2015 to smell stench & feel fear. I also felt betrayed by political family, the Conservative Party of Canada.
No matter the outcome Monday I will never forgive #Scheer, #HamishMarshall & their cadre who have acted like pondscum, knowing they had nothing of substance - ir they couldn't hit the #Libs on economic record - they opted for a very American campaign of unrelenting lies
knowing that the sheer volume would overwhelm & create suspicion, sneak under the cognitive brain & stick in subconscious. They appealed to the very worst instincts & fears of Cdns & slyly courted votes from racists, homophobes, anti-abortion nuts & more dangerous types.
They did this consciously, a shamelessly hypocritical & pandering deathbed conversion to caring about womens rights, Indigenous people, people of colour - as long as they could weaponize it against #Trudeau w/warheads of bullshit.
Some #Albertans who have been riding with me for decades are still asking why I interrupted @JKenney as often as I did Tuesday night. Will tell you exactly what I told Andrea Montgomery today on the #AlbertaMorningNews @770CHQR and @630CHED
Whether you're a Flames or Oilers fan You want your guy to rag that puck for as long as possible on the penalty kill. @JKenney insisted on ragging the puck with generic meaningless political rhetoric when the public wanted answers on serious moral questions. Have hosted Kenney
on many shows when i have given him 3 - 5 minutes for an answer. But that's because he's an eloquent speaker when there is moral principle, purpose & power in his language. There was none coming from him as he kept ragging that puck. I interrupted him to force him to focus on
