Thread by @JasonOnTheDrums

#Ableg News 🧵

This was the WORST 🧵 I’ve done:

- Shultz sabotaging the $10/day child care (Story #5)
- The UCP undermining Children vaccination efforts (#11-14)
- Kenney & pals subverting democracy & the UCP AGM (#16-25)

Here’s 27 (a record) Bad UCP News Stories this week!!!

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1. Kenney’s former pal & Kamikaze organizer Blaise Boehmer unleashing a series of NASTY tweets towards him!

2. UCP co-founder and leader hopeful Brian Jean forced to apologize after he released a racist post about a potential UCP candidate from Nigeria.

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3. High-profile UCP MLA’s are now supporting 22-constituency associations who are demanding a UCP leadership review, including Tany Yao and Jeremy Nixon

Kenney is STILL trying to rig the rules at this weekends UCP AGM so they require 28.

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4. During the $10/Day Child Care presser, Kenney got caught lying, requiring Trudeau to correct him about the program’s design

5. UCP Schulz admitted the program WON’T help with low ECW wages, is ONLY based on current enrolment (not growth) & limits care hours

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6. Before Kenney’s announcement of a deal to help ALL Métis groups with “their economic interests”, the Métis Nation of Alberta released a statement saying the deal “only involves 2-groups who do not represent Alberta’s Métis” and “is a bad decision” and a waste

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7. Kenney’s much maligned project “Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corp” faces a crisis after their CEO is forced to step down and a director was involved in a $25,000,000 sexual harassment lawsuit

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8. Alberta scientists and environmentalists say proposed legislation governing trails on public lands will thwart efforts to restore nature and add more stress to an already overtaxed landscape

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9. 96 Hours after one of the worst disasters in Canada’s history, only ONE UCP MLA Spoke about BC: Cooper offered his “thoughts and prayers”

10. Kenney decided to tweet about trucks, soccer and nuclear power. He has offered ZERO help to BC

#Anleg News 🧵

Covid Updates (11-14)

11. Okotoks’ Covid cases doubled in 5-days, suggesting an EXPLOSION of the Alberta variant (thank you @yesssi)

12. Hinshaw admits there might be a 5th wave (but refuses to answer what she recommends to stop it)

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13. In a BIZARRE tweet, LaGrange panders to anti-vaxers saying Kids don’t need to vaccinate, even if approved by Health Canada. Kenney further says Alberta School Boards would be punished for separating students.

They refused to encourage vaccinations for kids

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14. Kenney later came out with another statement, saying he still thinks the flu poses a greater risk to kids than Covid-19, ignoring the last 20-months and recent trends.

15. Alberta’s Coal Policy Panel Is accused of bias and influence from US special interests

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The next 17 bad news stories are Kenney’s illegal funding and the AGM!

16. On Monday, MLA Madu said the NDP were the most corrupt and “Undemocratic party in the world” after they questioned Kenney’s questionable donation bill.

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17. In an unheard of move, an NDP motion to debate whether Kenney should be censured over his lies and mishandling over the recent 4th Covid-19 was suddenly moved from the front to the end of the #Ableg agenda, so it wouldn’t be heard

Kenney hid from the vote

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18. On Tuesday, UCP MLA Guthrie UNLOADS on Kenney in a scathing article.

Not only did he suggest the party “can’t be salvaged” but that Kenney is illegally funnelling money from a PAC to try and rig the upcoming UCP Annual General Meeting!

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19. On Wednesday, in response to Guthrie’s allegations, former UCP MLA filed an official complaint to the Alberta Elections Commissioner.

20. The @abndpcaucus ALSO filed a letter of complaint regarding Kenney’s illegal use of dark money to stack the UCP AGM.

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21. Kenney claimed he wasn’t involved with any PAC, but claimed it was all legal

22. Post Media’s Don Braid confirmed he spoke with a O&G CEO who confirmed Kenney had promised IN WRITING to leverage favours with the UCP gov’t…if he voted for Kenney at the AGM

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23. On Thursday, a leaked document from Kenney’s office convinced his staffers to downvote certain policy ideas ahead of the annual meeting and to actively block anti-Kenney people from speaking at the AGM!

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24. During a BRUTAL presser Thursday, a sick Kenney laid into Rick Bell after he asked about illegal PAC donations.

25. BELl responded Friday saying the AGM is a chance to “watch the least popular premier in Canada try to apply lipstick on an unruly UCP Pig” 🐖

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26. The RCMP has confirmed that Jason Kenney is still under investigation by the UCP for election fraud!

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27. This is a mixed story.

On Wednesday, #Ableg came together in an INCREDIBLE way to help @TheBreakdownAB appear at the UCP AGM!

After buying a ticket and receiving confirmation, the UCP wrote 24-hours later and said he missed a deadline?

I just wanted to thank each person in #Ableg for helping @NatePike try and appear at the UCP AGM.

It truly was an inspiring story of what we can do together as a single fantastic community.

Special thanks to @alisoncassis1 for spearheading it, and to every single donor!

#Ableg News Thread:

Thanks to some incredible people this week: @brrittannyh @youseepeeYYC @AB_AgainstUCP (@MichelletypoQ @RKSAlberta @reachingrooted @c1aireify @KikkiPlanet @JasonPYYC @kim_siever @SeanDunn10 @high_tequila @SkipIsChris @TheBlueGem3 @StephWKBach @ActivistAlberta