“If you think the harm reduction obsession is really successful when it comes to preserving human lives, than I invite you to take a stroll down East Hastings on the downtown east side of Vancouver."
As Brian Jean is busy getting ready to give oil companies breaks on municipal taxes & apparently even go so far as having taxpayers cover cleanup costs on abandoned wells…
He seems to be ignoring a pretty big problem in his own back yard…
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The workers, educational assistants, librarians, IT workers, custodians, maintenance workers & other support staff have been pleading for their wages to cover the cost of living.
The employer, under the direction of the government has said “ok, but what about wage cuts”
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Included in the UCP policy proposals are a slough of anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ2S+ policies.
We didn't want them missed, or the willingness for some members of the UCP to violate charter rights and parental rights glossed over, so it's a separate thread.
And it's bad.
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To start with, Calgary Lougheed (surprise surprise) steps up to the plate banning anyone other than "biological females at conception" from "female spaces.
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Cardston Siksika evidently believes that there's rampant nudity and sexually explicit material being funded by taxpayers that kids are exposed to...
Unless of course, this is coded language for drag shows and pride parades...
So as the UCP membership show us who they are, let's get started with a few highlights, shall we?
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Let's start with defunding abortion!
Because the folks in Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock want to put themselves in the doctors offices of women across the province!
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Next up is a team effort from Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock and Red Deer South to ensure that CO2 is no longer designated as a pollutant and Netzero is abandoned!
A source inside the provincial government tells us that the UCP is about to go to war with Calgary!
Allegedly, in order to make sure a certain UCP donor gets his train to Banff, the UCP is taking over the entire Green Line project!
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Apparently the UCP believe they can weaponize the green line against @nenshi and the NDP and make their Banff train happen and in order to do so are planning on withholding funding despite Calgary passing a drastically scaled back version.
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It’s worth remembering that this project is one that has been delayed by the UCP already, and that’s the primary reason that the project costs have increased as much as they have.
Apparently some of the people who consulted with Smith earlier this week are now claiming that because we reposted a publicly shared post of the anti-trans policies round table that we were “doxxing” them.
First of all, that’s not doxxing.
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Secondly, reposting a publicly posted picture that very clearly had no privacy protections in place is literally how social media works.
Platforms have a variety of privacy protections that anyone can avail themselves of.
Chosing to post for clout or whatever is a choice.
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But instead of taking responsibility for their role in providing political cover and legitimizing Smiths policies that literally every medical body in the province and many across Canada, some in that picture are now throwing the victim card around.
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