Thread by @JasonOnTheDrums

#Ableg News 🧵 (1/15)

What a week Alberta!

Between Kenney disappearing (AGAIN), Shandro imploding (AGAIN) and Hinshaw tone policing us….it’s been another HORRIBLE week for the @UCPCaucus!!!

Let’s take a trip to 15 UGLY stories over the last 7-days in #Abpoli , shall we?

#Ableg News 🧵 (2/15)

1. Postmedia Journalists and Pundits review of Kenney’s $100 gift cards to hospital protesters are in; and it was a DISASTER! 😳

If you’re a conservative Leader in Alberta - and Corbella, Bell & Braid say you’re awful - you’ve screwed up big. Wow!

#Ableg News 🧵 (3/15)

2. SHOCKING!

@CMOH_Alberta data & modelling was HEAVILY flawed!

Sources were duplicated, NOT peer-reviewed. published AFTER the July 1st reopening decision, NOT from Alberta or Canada (despite being available) and DID NOT factor in the Delta Variant 🤦🏻‍♂️

#Ableg News 🧵 (4/15)

3. Experts are now using Alberta as a “warning” to other gov’ts thinking of abandoning public-health measures!

Singled out is Kenney urging Albertans to stop viewing COVID-19 as an emergency & opening up with 0 restrictions as a HUGE public health failure

#Ableg News 🧵 (4/15)

SURPRISE!

4. Several rodeos received a quiet exemption from Kenney’s “no booze past 10pm” rule allowing them to drink until 2AM

5. Kenney’s “masking & distancing rule” doesn’t include church service….where it’s VERY likely to spread

Priorities Matter

#Ableg News 🧵 (5/15)

6. AHS withdrew a labour board complaint about hiring non-union nurses AFTER they were caught hiring non-union nurses

Non-Alberta Nurses are paid up to $75/hour with free car, meals, and rent.

Alberta’s nurses are STILL being asked for a 2% rollback!

#Ableg News 🧵 (6/15)

KNIVES OUT 🔪

7. UCP MLA Peter Guthrie has issued a confusing angry letter criticizing Kenney.

He says Kenney criticizing anti-vaxxers was “a narrative of anger and division’, the “$100 created animosity” and he apologized for the mask mandate.

#Ableg News Thread (7/15)

8. UCP MLA Angela Pitt ALSO made anti-vaccination/anti-vaccine restriction posts!

On her Facebook Page, she posted pictures from an anti-vaccine rally held in B.C.

Earlier this week she also posted a letter asking Kenney not to issue vaccine passports

#Ableg News 🧵 (8/15)

9. The mayors of #YEG, Beaumont, St. Albert, Parkland County, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Devon, and Morinville are publicly calling on Kenney to implement vaccine passports.

10. Kenney’s $100 bonus resulted in a laughable increase of 1,564 doses.

#Ableg News 🧵 (9/15)

11. New report from Alberta ombudsmen out on the government’s Emergency Isolation Support. Report insufficient communication and transparency, failed to disclose why people were denied with no way to address errors. ombudsman.ab.ca/wp-content/up

#Ableg News 🧵 (10/15)

12. It was discovered Taxpayer Money from Alberta's Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund (now TIER) is secretly paying for pro-carbon ads of the Canadian Energy Centre (Alberta war room)

ablawg.ca/2021/09/08/alb…

#Ableg News 🧵 (11/15)

13. AHS canceled numerous scheduled elective surgeries and some outpatient procedures in Calgary this week due to COVID-19 pressures

14. Several times this week, Alberta experienced “Red Alerts” where no Ambulance service was available to Albertans

#Ableg News 🧵 (12/15)

15. Shandro’s disaster presser included a BIZZARE plan to send 💰 to private continuing care CEOs

Shandro FAILED to mention he was lobbied by Jeff Johnson for private care centres in July. Jeff donated ~$5,080 to the UCP since 2017

#Ableg News 🧵 (13/15)

We actually have GOOD NEWS!!!

1. BIG WIN FOR TEACHERS! The ATA said the new terms remove a clause giving AIMCo a veto over investments!

2. Small win for Nurses: The UCP dropped a bid to cut nurse wages by 3% (2% cuts still remain)

#Ableg News 🧵 (14/15)

3. Solidarity rally at #Ableg tomorrow for our Children’s future curriculum. More info from the @AB_CurriQlum_WR (curriculum war room) account

4. If you want a laugh - check out this HILARIOUS cartoon by @northsidechad gigcity.ca/2021/09/08/end…

#AbLeg News 🧵

Thanks this week: @SeanDunn10, @demandsbetter. @dani_susanna and @Lorian_H for the research!

Credit to @AB_AgainstUCP @firetheucp, @youseepeeYYC, @allisonjade @TheBlueGem3, @MichelletypoQ @brrittannyh @TheBreakdownAB @JasonPYYC @verynotmad

Thanks to you all!