What an incredible waste of time this article is! A citizen who disagrees w/ the current government has donated money to the opposition party! OMIGAWD! I think, if CTV and the UCP thought this through, they would realize it is a simple logic to donate to the party you prefer. 1/6
I used to donate to the NDP every time the UCP pissed me off too. That got expensive. Now I just do a monthly donation and a bit extra when the UCP get a bit extra. 2/6
I don't think I am alone in this. But CTV seems to think it's a Big Deal. Hmmm... Where is that coming from?
Are Kenney and the UCP thinking about making donating to any other party an "un-Albertan activity"? 3/6
Will his police force be hauling people in for thought-crime?
I am being hyperbolic, perhaps. But CTV, at the urging of UCP members, has tried to make this some sort of scandal. Whereas, last I checked, we have the right to support any political party we choose. 4/6
As Shawna pointed out earlier today, this government is demonstrating some very concerning behaviours. 5/6
Is this what you signed on for, Albertans? Reckless disregard for personal and public safety, tangled up with suppression of critical voices? Think carefully how you vote, even municipally. And especially in 2023. 6/6 #FiretheUCP#NeverVoteConservative
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In case you haven't been paying attention through the pandemic, if you live in Alberta, you are completely on your own to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from COVID. Yes, we have the opportunity to get vaccinated. No, there has been no real leadership on this. 1/11
There has been an offering of frivolous prizes you could win if you got vaccinated. No, the government is not going to give us any sort of proof that we have been vaccinated, other than sheets of paper which may or may not be recognized in other jurisdictions. 2/11
Kenney is so wound up with trying to please his backwards-thinking, anti-science, anti-vax base, and his corporate donors, that he has no time for, or interest in, public health. Now it seems than AHS has been fudging the numbers. There is no significant contact tracing. 3/11
We are having a moment in history. A Pandemic. Economies are crashing. People are rethinking what their life means to them. What work means to them.
Our planet is burning and we have yet to come to terms with the sacrifices required to abate it. 1/14
Violence erupts in streets all over the world. The colour of your skin can mean the difference between life and death. Totalitarian governments are rising. People who, given their history, should eschew tyranny, are dealers in tyranny. 2/14
The ghosts of past injustices arrive and a lot of people are having trouble dealing.
A growing "land mass" of plastic waste is floating in the ocean. A testament to human arrogance. 3/14
Our neighbours keep bees. Yet, they do not have a single flower in their yard. They chemically kill the dandelions and clover. They mow their lawn every day. I have no idea WTF they think they are doing. 1/
They mow their lawn, daily, in this dry heat and you can see their topsoil rising in a plume behind the mower. 2/
Lucky for them, we have multitudes of dandelions in the spring, and an abundance of clover through the summer. Also flowers and flowering shrubs and fruit trees. 3/
A financial incentive may be the key to this bizarre request from the UCP. That would be common garden-variety corruption. But, it could be more... 1/10
You know the conservatives are wooing the gun crowd, right? So what is the next logical step after a woman in a hijab gets badly beaten or killed by someone she sprayed with pepper spray? 2/10
Someone in the UCP is going to announce that obviously, pepper spray isn't sufficient. Maybe the public needs access to tasers, or guns, to protect themselves. This is upping the commercial value of the product being promoted significantly... 3/10
I was sorting some papers this morning and I came across some typed copies of letters that were sent between family members back in the 1870s and 1880s. A member of the family had left home in Ontario, determined he was going to make his fortune in California, and vanished.
1/22
Finding stuff like this always inspires me to do genealogy, and what happened to this guy has always been a family mystery. So I dug in again on the "What Happened to William?" file. 2/22
One of the letters was from one of the brothers who had stayed home in Ontario, to one of his sisters, my great-great grandmother, who had moved with her husband and children to farm in Manitoba. There was the following passage: 3/22
It's a difficult thing to understand for normal, rational people who expect things to be a certain way. Let's take newspapers as an example. We expect newspapers to be devoted to giving the public an unbalanced account of the events of the day. 1/20
Newspapers used to be local, and usually small. Now 100s of newspapers are owned by a very few large corporate interests...And to the people owning the newspapers, they are an asset. They could be any asset. They could be making sleeping bags instead of newspapers. 2/20
The news isn't even the point. Newspapers make their money on advertising. They are not selling information to the public...They are selling your eyeballs to advertisers. So, the actual news, the quality of reporting, the accuracy, is of very limited interest to the owners. 3/20