Remember when the #UCP cut the justice department by $65M?

(And postmedia made excuses for them?)

edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…
“While Alberta's justice system will see significant cuts. Over the next 4 years, operating expenses will drop nearly $100m.
Alberta Justice will lose 198 positions in the next year, about 1/4 of all public sector jobs being cut.”

via @CBCMeg in 2019.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
Compare the anti-mask tickets to this pro-Palestine rally (which tried to adhere to masking and social distancing guidance.)

#ableg #cdnpoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
“Are Calgary Police Favouring Some Protests Over Others?”

@JeremyAppel1025 asks.

#ableg #cdnpoli

sprawlalberta.com/calgary-police…
What are laws for?

Remember last year when Bill 1 came into effect?

“Bill 1 makes it illegal for anyone to protest on essential infrastructure”

via @TS_Lambert

#ableg #cdnpoli

sprawlalberta.com/ucp-bill1-indi…
.@kim_siever also examined #Bill1 when it came into effect.

“Section 4 basically says that people can be arrested without a warrant,”

“Bill 1 has the potential to infringe on some people’s constitutional freedoms.”

#ableg #cdnpoli

kimsiever.ca/2020/05/30/the…
Were these laws used when a white nationalist rally erupted in #Edmonton?

Calgary racist and bigot Artur Pawalski helped to organize the tiki torch rally.

“I condemn these voices of bigotry in the strongest possible terms," wagged @jkenney’s finger…

edmonton.ctvnews.ca/edmonton-polic…
When a group of people comes to understand that laws don’t affect them, then how do they behave?

“…instead of admitting they made a mistake (…) the Premier’s political staff aggressively attack anyone who criticized their leader,”

@davecournoyer
daveberta.ca/2021/06/kenney…🔗 https://daveberta.ca/2021/0...
When a group of people come to understand that laws don’t affect them, how to they behave?

They commit fraud and attack democracy.

from @mr_ericdyck via @sprawlalberta

#ableg #cdnpoli
sprawlalberta.com/the-kenney-cal…
When a group of people believe that laws don’t affect them, how do they behave?

“Soon, we will find out if breaking the law is illegal.”

via @djclimenhaga #ableg #cdnpoli

albertapolitics.ca/2020/01/rcmp-i…
As fines mounted in relation to the #UCP’s overspending and fraud in connection to their 2019 election they did what any honest politician would do, and fired the people investigating their criminal behaviour.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Marguerite Trussler, Alberta’s ethics commissioner, would later say that firing of Election Commissioner Lorne Gibson was not a beach of ethics.

Francis Price, Trussler’s spouse had donated almost $10k to Conservatives from 2007-2015.

via @kim_siever

kimsiever.ca/2020/07/08/eth…

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28 Jul
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The #UCP are talking about messing with privacy laws.

Some of the questions in this survey sound like ambiguously asking if it's okay to sell private data to corporations.

👀alberta.ca/privacy-protec…👀

h/t to @Crackmacs & @aaronhoyland for talking about this. #ableg
In case it wasn't clear, from my tweet above, here's the link to the survey again.

alberta.ca/privacy-protec…
Read 4 tweets
26 Jul
Median household income in #Calgary is about $100/k.

This is literally designed to exclude more than 50% of of families.
“but @youseepeeYYC, the families who earn much more than median income don’t need subsidized childcare as badly, they can afford to pay out of pocket, and therefore should”

Someone, probably.

Let’s briefly examine why this is the wrong way to look at a social program.
When a service is universal and benefits *everyone* it is more difficult for politicians to play identity politics and wedge issues to divide people over cutting it.

That’s why *universal* programs are so much more powerful than boutique programs.
Read 24 tweets
26 Jul
"The first debate of Edmonton’s mayoral election was a spirited affair, featuring a current of combativeness, a no-show candidate and plenty of ideas on how to invigorate the city’s beleaguered economy. "

& it was a secret.

#yeg #yegcc #yegvotes

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…
The secret event was presented by @kv_capital, and sponsored by @lloydsadd + @NavacordInc, and moderated by @EdmontonChamber president, @JeffreySundquis.

How very business....

archive of the event page here:
web.archive.org/web/2021072608…

#yeg #yegcc
"To their credit, the company did eventually provide Postmedia a link to a video recording of the debate...."

I wonder if the link to the video will be made available to the general public?

An article about the video is here:

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
Read 12 tweets
18 Jul
A blanket of smoke is covering #Alberta today.

Climate change events like this are becoming more frequent. So here is a short thread on air quality.

#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Right now there are air quality advisories across the province.

Health Canada uses a 1-10 scale where 1 is nice clean air and 10 is a like a #Conservative government in your lungs.

Alberta uses the same scale.

airquality.alberta.ca/map/🔗

#ableg #cdnpoli #absmoke ImageImageImage
A 1-10 scale is beautiful in it’s simplicity, but it also fails to communicate what’s really going ok with air pollution.

canada.ca/en/environment…🔗

@environmentca does offer explanations for these numbers, but you have to go looking for them. Image
Read 24 tweets
10 Jul
Now I want to see a sort of buddy-cop show with @aaronpaquette and @AndrewKnack going around #yeg helping people, & generally making the world a better place.

Every episode some Dark Money “Dr. Claw” type figure tries some evil scheme that gets thwarted…

Maybe call it #yegcc?
In one scene @aaronpaquette needs to look “tough” for some weird reason. He pulls it off, but prefers smiling.

In another, @AndrewKnack’s blue tie is missing, so he ends up wearing a pink one. Everyone he meets loves the pink tie!

@RyanParkers photographs them both.📸
In a crossover episode, The Littlest Hobo shows up to help @AndrewKnack & @aaronpaquette solve a problem.

@RyanParkers gets the photo!

Dark Money Dr. Claw is thwarted again!

Everyone cheers.

Littlest Hobo heads out to help another town. Maybe #yyc or #reddeer. Roll credits.
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