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14 Dec, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Advanced Education minister, Demetrios Nicolaides, contracted a Calgary firm that specializes in the management of oil & gas companies to produce recommendations for the overhaul of the post-secondary education system. 1/n
@CAUS @cafaab @CAUT_ACPPU #UAlberta @NoUofA42morrow
If the @jkenney government intended to treat the universities like fossil fuel corporations, why did it cut our budgets instead of handing out billions in subsidies? 2/2 @ccpa @globeandmail @HuffPostEdu #abpse #abpoli #ableg @660NEWS @ryanjespersen @UnionNASA @_AUPE_ @RyersonCFE
McKinsey is a US-based multinational, with an office in Calgary. The "winning vendor" for the RfP was reported as McKinsey & Co. Canada at the address of the Calgary office. vendor.purchasingconnection.ca/OpportunityAwa…
That's all we know, unless the Minister would like to release details as to who is overseeing the Alberta 2030 consultancy work.
albertapolitics.ca/2020/06/post-s…

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OK, let me see if I've got this straight. Some #UAlberta BoG members passed a motion today that includes a poorly written paragraph empowering themselves to create “metrics” by which the performance of the UofA’s (yet to be formed) colleges will be evaluated. 1/n @NoUofA42morrow
The President is supposed to report monthly on these performance metrics, which don’t yet exist, but will cover everything from 'clinical outcomes' to financial outcomes to ‘excellence in education’. 2/n
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Essentially, the #UCP govt is going to liquidate our parks, watersheds, forests, and other public goods and transfer the proceeds to private interests. Then they'll all leave town. 1/n #abpoli #ableg
Those who are opposing this looting and pillaging of our province--which will leave future generations impoverished in every sense--are labelled "extremist agitators and malcontents" by #UCP flacks 2/n
like the MLA who roused well enough to read a speech in the #ableg today. Mr. "there is no climate crisis" calls for expanding the use of fossil fuels and petrochemicals. Oddly, he stopped short of demanding that #Alberta schools 3/n
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3 Oct
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
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28 Sep
The MacKinnon Report of 2019, commissioned by the UCP govt to provide a veneer of academic credibility to the policies it already planned to implement, takes the view that it is the govt's job to decide what the priorities of post-secondary education should be. 1/n #abpoli
The report recommends (p. 42) that "the future [PSEI] funding model ensure a link between provincial macro goals and outcomes to be achieved by post-secondary institutions." 2/n @cafaab @TheAASUA #UAlberta
It is certainly not unreasonable to expect our PSEIs to serve the public interest--a goal that is to be found in their existing mission statements (which the report's authors to not appear to have read). 3/n @UAlberta @ArtsSquared @davidkahane #ableg
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4 Sep
This story by @EmmaLGraney exemplifies some of the problems with Cdn environmental regulation. @JonathanWNV @GreenPartyAB @ElizabethMay @ccpa

theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Note that there was no routine monitoring by Env Canada for oil sands tailings ponds seepage or leakage for a five-year period. We know from past experience that this job must not be left to the AB govt or industry associations.
Failing to exercise close oversight of this industry's pollution amounts to deciding that the health and lives of the Indigenous communities downstream and the ecosystems they depend on are just the price to be paid for bitumen revenue.
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Minister Toews contradicts himself in almost the same sentence, when asked if trickle-down economics works. cochranetimes.com/news/local-new… #abpoli #ableg @uabpols @630CHED @djclimenhaga @calgaryherald
He says: “A very competitive business model means that businesses can come in and invest and work hard, […] and ultimately receive rewards from that effort and taking those risks. And that’s why we really need to create the most competitive business environment possible.”
He's talking about creating an attractive environment for investment, not a competitive one, and the way govts do that is by reducing risks for investors. For example: allowing them not to pay royalties until their investment costs have been covered;
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