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Oct 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This government's abuses of power accumulate by the day. Did they get a mandate from Albertans to eliminate 1000s of jobs, privatise health care, and defund post-secondary education? 1/n #abpoli nationalobserver.com/2020/07/10/opi…
Did the #UCP get a mandate from Albertans to privatise our parks and open the eastern slopes of the Rockies to expanded coal mining? 2/n
Did they consult Albertans before rejecting provincial participation in a national pharmacare program? 3/n
Who do they think they are? The Bourbon restoration monarchy?? Back by divine right to govern?! Unaccountable to anyone but a handful of CEOs? 4/n
Albertans should be outraged to be treated like feudal subjects instead of citizens. Our interests in universal public services, a sustainable environment, and an economy that can provide future generations with good lives are clearly of no concern to these autocrats. 5/5

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Mar 2, 2023
There is high-quality, independent scientific research establishing that the waters downstream and downwind of the oil sands have been contaminated by toxic chemicals produced by bitumen extraction & upgrading. 1/ #abpoli @abndpcaucus #Alberta @KeepersOfWater @APTNNews
Notably, it is not Alberta Govt agencies that have done this research. Events like the one described in this article are not one-offs; they happen continually. "Leaks" and "spills" are the industry's way of releasing pollutants. It's the same in the petro-chemicals sector. 2/
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David Olive of @TorontoStar does a great job in this column, explaining why the oil sands producers will not invest their own capital in CCS infrastructure. 1/
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Feb 10, 2023
Naturally, a guy who sells commercial and office real estate thinks this is great news: "According to businesscouncilab.com’s report Alberta’s Economy: An Overview, real estate has replaced manufacturing as the second largest . . . contributor to the province’s GDP." 1/ #abpoli
But should the rest of us be cheering this development as a form of diversification of Alberta's economy? What does it mean for the creation of good, sustainable livelihoods? How stable is this form of economic growth? 2/
Note how guy holds up Ontario as an example of a big success story for real estate investors (the "tsunami" of "savvy investors"). This doesn't translate into affordable housing or employment. 3/
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The UCP govt announces bursaries for nursing students. They are surely needed. But let's remember why these bursaries are needed. The UCP govt has hugely increased the cost of post-secondary education along with student debt loads. 1/ #abpse #abpoli @edmontonjournal @abndpcaucus
I have seen this time and again with conservative govts in AB, since 1991. They come at public services with machetes, wreak havoc, lay waste to programs that took years to build. 2/ @PIAlberta @FriendsMedicare @cafaab @calgaryherald @CBCNews
Their policies are not based on research; they don't listen to experts and professionals working in the field; they prefer the advice of their ideological gurus. They have deep antipathy to any service or good qualified by "public." 3/
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@AlbertaatNoon show today interviewed a doctor who works on the Blood Reserve in southern #Alberta. She reported that the deaths of Indigenous persons have increased substantially since the safe injection centre was closed in Lethbridge by the UCP govt. 1/ #abpoli @APTNNews
Users of addiction and other services are disproportionately Indigenous because of history of trauma and poverty--conditions created & perpetuated by colonialism. 2/
The young adults who die may leave behind children, who may end up in foster care. 3/
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The UCP has shown time and again that it is willing to strip away democratic rights and to criminalize or treat as "treasonous" / unAlbertan anyone supporting a just transition from fossil fuel extraction to a green economy. 1/
Smith's AB Sovereignty Act is also supposed to serve the purpose of protecting oil & gas corporations from federal environmental regulation. As the industry faces more pressure to decarbonize, its petro-politicians take more extreme actions to insulate it. 2/
Oil and democracy have never mixed. To keep squeezing revenue out of their investments, this industry is prepared to see both AB's economy and democratic institutions crumble. 3/
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