#Ableg News 🧵
It was a stinker of a bad news week for the @UCPCaucus
👩🎓- LaGrange’s education cuts create chaos! (Story #3)
😔- The UCP kick 40,000 vulnerable Albertans off health care plans! (#5)
🎭 - 5 UCP DRAMA STORIES!(#7-11)
👀 Here’s 16 bad news UCP stories this week
#Ableg News 🧵
1. Kenney is accused of hiding a report showing how Alberta auto insurance providers collected over a $1,000,000,000 more than they paid out in 2020!
Despite this: Auto premiums went up significantly over the past 2 years- after @jkenney removed the rate cap.
#Ableg News 🧵
2. The Alberta Ombudsman is calling out the Kenney gov’t to make MAJOR changes to the AISH appeal system
He ruled that under the UCP, Disabled Albertans wanting to challenge their provincial disability benefits are facing a system that isn’t fair and troubling.
#Ableg News 🧵
3. #YEG’s public school division is projecting a MASSIVE funding shortfall for nearly 1,700 students (roughly 76 full classes) in the upcoming school year.
The blame falls on the UCP’s new education funding model. “we’re coming to a bit of a breaking point.”
#Ableg News 🧵
Uh oh 😳…
4. As mail-in ballots for the UCP “leadership” review were delivered this week, at least one voting package was sent to a non-party member's home in St. Albert
Critics suggest this “has the potential to be abused or to be managed incorrectly."
#Ableg News 🧵
💔 Heartbreaking…
5. A new report shows the UCP suddenly kicked 40,126 vulnerable Albertans off their provincial medical plans for drug coverage in 2019 after removing dependents of seniors from coverage
This unfairly targeted women & dependent grandchildren
#Ableg News 🧵
6. UCP MLA Jason Nixon is called a bully following a fiery exchange where he swore at the Speaker Nathan Cooper.
Ex-UCP MLA Loewen asked Cooper to sanction Nixon for “breaching the privilege of (Loewen)” and “committing contempt against the entire assembly.”
#Ableg News 🧵
UCP Drama 🎭!
7. Brian Jean says if he becomes UCP leader, he’ll reopen the UCP nomination process to allow disqualified candidate Tim Hoven a chance to seek the party nomination vs Jason Nixon
He called Nixon a bully and is unsuitable to be an MLA
#Ableg News 🧵
More UCP 🎭!
8. UCP MLA Jason Stephen BLASTED Kenney during #Ableg.
In a formal member’s statement he didn’t mention Kenney by name, he talked about unity, trust, cheating and leadership.
Stephen is one of several UCP MLA’s who demanded Kenney step down.
#Ableg News 🧵
9. UCP 🎭
In a new Rick Bell piece, 7 current UCP MLA’s speak out against Kenney, including Angela Pitt, Leela Aheer, Richard Gotfried and Dave Hanson.
Most claim Kenney’s team are “not engaged…not accountable. Their focus is not on what is best for Alberta.”
#Ableg News 🧵
🎭
10. In response to the Rick Bell piece, a key Kenney staffer tweeted “the criticism was from “the same old crew” and posted a GIF of dancing clowns
UCP Pitt fired back “This is exactly the kind of bullying & intimidation happening every day from Team Kenney”
#Anleg News 🧵
🎭
11. Kenney says Albertans are unimpressed with the UCP drama and he has been “too soft on dissenters”
Opponents say this is a Kenney made “situation exacerbated by low poll popularity…and he ditched the grassroots ethos for a top-down, centralized command”
#Ableg News 🧵
Liar Lair 🤥
12. A UCP’s “attempt” to protect caribou is overshadowed by Kenney claiming he received indigenous support
He “misrepresented our involvement & support…the UCP actions are a breach of confidence and unsupportable” said a Dene Tha' First Nation rep
#Ableg News 🧵
More Kenney Lies 🤥
13. Kenney is caught lying about a so called “Truck Tax”: after he tweeted about a “laurentian elite tax on trucks” - experts came back this week proving it is NOT a liberal proposal nor under consideration.
Why would he make this up? 🤔
#Ableg News 🧵
14. Despite 759 tickets filed against individuals & businesses who broke COVID-19 rules, only 104 (14%) were actually paid.
There remains about 70+ tickets outstanding, and the majority of them were thrown out
#Ableg News 🧵
15. It’s official: Alberta has the WORST vaccination rates in Canada with 46.8% of Alberta adults have had a booster
That’s compared to the Canadian average of close to 60%.
Alberta is the ONLY province in Canada under 50%
#Anleg News 🧵
16. Despite UCP MLA Copping telling reporters Alberta saw increases in virus circulation and hospitalizations and 49 deaths, he claimed it’s maybe “hit it’s peak”.
Alberta Wastewater levels are now about to surpass the worst numbers during Omicron’s peak.
#Ableg News 🧵
HUGE thanks to: @AB_AgainstUCP @youseepeeYYC @itsbrritt @MichelletypoQ @TheBlueGem3 @JasonPYYC @SeanDunn10 @kim_siever @Mitchell_AB @KikkiPlanet @StephWKBach @high_tequila @TheBreakdownAB @MondoAlberta @YYCCowboy
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