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It was a VERY interesting week for #Abpoli

🏗- 11,500 Full Time Jobs Lost (Story #1)

🤥 - As Jean Returns: Kenney Spreads Rumours (#7-9)

🥸- Team Kenney “leaks” private poll: strips data out of context (#12)

Here’s 15 Bad @UCPCaucus News Stories from this Week

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1. New Job numbers are in:

Canada gained a HUGE 337,000 new jobs…and Alberta contributed a net loss -9,600 jobs - the WORST job loss rate in Canada!

Despite a booming economy: Alberta’s lost 13,500 jobs in 2022 and 5 straight months of full time job losses!

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2.Kenney filed his defence in a defamation lawsuit. He’s being sued by environmental groups for falsely claiming they’re to blame for Alberta’s struggling oil sector

In his defence, Kenney actually blamed the groups for forcing countries to rely on Russian oil 🤦🏻‍♂️

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3. Kenney said he’s now exploring Alberta buying the now dead KXL…or put BILLIONS into “a son, a successor, to KXL could be some kind of joint public participation” 🤦

This means more of Alberta’s money on a pipeline not currently supported by Canada or the USA

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4. At a recent gathering of local leaders, Alberta Municipalities voted in opposition to the UCP’s “Provincial Police” proposal; a change that will cost $200,000,000 more per year and 6+ year’s to complete.

Kenney has never indicated how it would be funded.

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EXTRA EXTRA!

5.Investor Executive, a national magazine for 120,000 financial advisors, sent a warning!

Despite Alberta’s balanced budget and ok economy, Kenney’s still under attack, unpopular, and creating a politically unstable environment for investors! 😅

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6. After 2-years of helping Albertan’s through Covid-19, the UCP is demanding health care workers take a 10% wage cut, reducing benefits,and changing work rules.

Thousands of respiratory therapists, social workers and pharmacists are impacted.

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7. Brian Jean is Baaaaaacccck!

With over 63% of the vote, the sworn enemy of Kenney will take his seat in the Alberta legislature.

This is just in time for an April 9 leadership review of Kenney in Red Deer.

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8. Newly elected UCP MLA and anti-Kenney proponent Brian Jean received a loud applause from all sides of the house when introduced in #Abpoli on Thursday

Kenney and his good pal deputy premier Jason Nixon were notably absent when Jean was introduced.

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9. In a bizarre series of attacks from Kenney, his dark-money PAC Unite Alberta, and UCP MLAs Nixon & Madu - claim Notley is now secretly working with Brian Jean

Notley said this was the “most tortured attack lines” and suggests “Premier Jason needs more sleep”

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10. In advance of the leadership vote, Alberta’s taxpayer-paid political staffers received emails directing them to time off work and volunteer to call Kenney supporters!

Critics suggest Kenney pressuring employees to do this steps into an “ethical grey area”.

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11. Kenney’s Executive Director of Communications, Brock Harrison, is now temporary leaving government to help Kenney’s campaign.

Brock’s two previous campaigns include Andrew Scheer’s 2019 federal election and Danielle Smith’s provincial election campaign.

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12. WTAF!!!

Respected Alberta Pollster Janet Brown says Kenney’s team is so “desperate for some good news," they secretly acquired and leaked her confidential polls after she refused to release it.

Brown says the data has been “stripped out the context”!

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13.Heartbreaking

Alberta recorded its deadliest year for drug overdoses with 1,700 deaths in 2021, a 126% jump since 2019.

Critics question Kenney’s 1- sided approach, and judge his choice to clos3 safe injection sides td not fund a safe supply.

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😳 YIKES!

14. The incredibly accurate @GosiaGasperoPhD is raising the red flag on Kenney removing restrictions as the BA.2 variant spreads.

"At this rate of growth, around May 24 or earlier, we could have 2,000 daily cases, and then June 16 around 4,000 cases”

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🚨 NEW POLL ALERTS 🚨

15.Right before the leadership review:

✅ In a recent provincial update: The NDP are outpolling the UCP by 15 Points: 45% to 30%

✅ 71% of Albertans think Kenney is doing “a bad or VERY bad job” with covid-19!

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Here’s your weekly #Abpoli moment of zen, courtesy of @ChadOhman!

A beautiful Freudian Slip from @jkenney

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🙏 HUGE thanks for this week: @AB_AgainstUCP @youseepeeYYC @MondoAlberta @TheBlueGem3 @MichelletypoQ @JasonPYYC @SeanDunn10 @Mitchell_AB @KikkiPlanet @kim_siever @TheBreakdownAB @itsbrritt @StephWKBach @high_tequila @YYCCowboy @SkipIsChris @c1aireify @mchykerda!