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Jul 22, 2020 6 tweets 8 min read Read on X
1 - The AUMA has issued a statement because of their concerns that the @Alberta_UCP didn’t listen re: Election changes.

The @Albertadoctors are holding a non-confidence vote in @shandro.

Alberta has seen some of the largest protests in its history.

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2 - Teachers and parents across Alberta are worried for their students and kids safety.

@jkenney “travels” the province in misleading photo ops.

Issues managers present misleading info without context daily.

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3 - Residents of NE Calgary struggle to get the attention and supports they need following one of the largest natural disasters in Canadian History.

Addictions experts are raising the alarm on the #UCP’s march to close #scs.

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4 - #AISH and #PDD recipients continue to be neglected and brushed aside.

A speechwriter with a history of racism, homophobia and misogyny continues to collect a taxpayer funded salary.

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5 - The UCP War room guided by three ministers of the crown appears to be using taxpayers dollars to prop up conservative PAC’s and data mine Canadians for them.

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6 - At some point, one would think that the @UCPCaucus might recognize that one of the things that this government needs to rebuild most is simply Albertans trust in them.

Instead, they belittle them.

This is where we are.

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More from @TheBreakdownAB

Apr 11
From the DM’s…

It appears the UCP have sent out an email and a survey to their membership…

On Bill 18?

Nope.

On disintegrating healthcare?

Nope.

Why it’s on the NDP Leadership race!

Thread!

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Question #1!

Fun with subtext!

“Look, all the NDP candidates represent a threat to your rights and freedoms, but which one is the worst! It doesn’t matter what you answer as long as you get the message!”

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Question #2!

“Hey look, we followed up our hyperbolic subtexty question with a straightforward one, that means this survey is totally legitimate, see!”

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Read 7 tweets
Apr 10
Danielle Smith Declares War on the feds Super thread!

Live tweeting the Smith Presser!

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Smith is declaring that Alberta will be prohibiting the federal government providing funding to municipalities via ne legislation.

Smith says it's because Alberta pays more in taxes than we get back from the feds and federal programs are super bad, "like Pharmacare and dental care" (actual quote)
Smith says Trudeau doesn't know what his job is...

Smith says he should get rid of the carbon tax, fund reserve services better, provide per capita funding, he should develop economic corridors, support hydrogen, address the bail system and more.

She's got a lot of grievances.
Read 42 tweets
Mar 8
So...

We're gonna call this the start of the RCMP "We announced a presser yesterday but forgot to set it up until well after it was supposed to start" Presser thread.

Strap in, because this will be wild!

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If you're looking now, this is the current link.

They deleted the first one they sent out after they broadcast an RCMP computer desktop.

Now the tech guy is sighing loudly again and says "well this is just my life".

You can't make this up.
Current link.

Till it gets deleted and they start a new one.

youtube.com/live/tYUKjpn_t…
Read 32 tweets
Jan 9
Hey Alberta...

Can we talk about this for a sec?

Cause, we're setting ourselves up for unbelievable catastrophe...

And yeah, this is a thread you'll want to full read.

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This is the Brazeau Dam.

It's a Dam that is owned/operated by Transalta & it's one of the (ever so rare) hydroelectric power producers in Alberta.

It was built to hold water & generate power, but one thing it wasn't built to do was withstand earthquakes.

Because Alberta.

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Because of the not-earthquake proof nature of the dam, there's a 5 km exclusion zone around the dam through something called order No. 6.

Because the AER has established that fracking to get at oil or gas can cause earthquakes.

Which would be bad for the dam.

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Read 9 tweets
Dec 29, 2023
So...

We probably need to talk about this...

RJ Sigurdson just released this press release entitled "No farmers, no food".

And there's A LOT to unpack here...

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No for most people, it probably seems like this is the UCP trying to co-opt the "No farmers, no food" movement out of India where government policy changes targeted small family farms and gave tremendous power to large corporations.

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Now that in & of itself would be pretty gross.

Because the situation in Alberta, and the consequences of the policy changes in Alberta simply aren't comparable.

So for the UCP government to try & appropriate that would be pretty ignorant.

But they seem happy to invoke it.

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Read 12 tweets
Dec 23, 2023
Ok.

We’ll put them both together then.

There were two (2) major changes made to who can accept gifts & what the value of those gifts are.

The first was a legislative change affecting elected officials. It’s an amendment to the Conflict of Interest Act.

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To be clear, this is the change that affects elected MLA’s and ministers.

It raises the value of gift that can be accepted from $200 to $500.

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It also changes the rules for how an elected officials family member can attend and enjoy gifts of events as well.

Anything under $250 and there’s no paper trail.

Between $250 & 1000 gotta keep a record.

Above $1000 & you have to keep a record and tell the ethics commish.

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