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#Ableg News 🧵 (1/15)

What a week Alberta!

Between Kenney disappearing (AGAIN), Shandro imploding (AGAIN) and Hinshaw tone policing us….it’s been another HORRIBLE week for the @UCPCaucus!!!

Let’s take a trip to 15 UGLY stories over the last 7-days in #Abpoli , shall we?
#Ableg News 🧵 (2/15)

1. Postmedia Journalists and Pundits review of Kenney’s $100 gift cards to hospital protesters are in; and it was a DISASTER! 😳

If you’re a conservative Leader in Alberta - and Corbella, Bell & Braid say you’re awful - you’ve screwed up big. Wow!
#Ableg News 🧵 (3/15)

2. SHOCKING!

@CMOH_Alberta data & modelling was HEAVILY flawed!

Sources were duplicated, NOT peer-reviewed. published AFTER the July 1st reopening decision, NOT from Alberta or Canada (despite being available) and DID NOT factor in the Delta Variant 🤦🏻‍♂️
#Ableg News 🧵 (4/15)

3. Experts are now using Alberta as a “warning” to other gov’ts thinking of abandoning public-health measures!

Singled out is Kenney urging Albertans to stop viewing COVID-19 as an emergency & opening up with 0 restrictions as a HUGE public health failure
#Ableg News 🧵 (4/15)

SURPRISE!

4. Several rodeos received a quiet exemption from Kenney’s “no booze past 10pm” rule allowing them to drink until 2AM

5. Kenney’s “masking & distancing rule” doesn’t include church service….where it’s VERY likely to spread

Priorities Matter
#Ableg News 🧵 (5/15)

6. AHS withdrew a labour board complaint about hiring non-union nurses AFTER they were caught hiring non-union nurses

Non-Alberta Nurses are paid up to $75/hour with free car, meals, and rent.

Alberta’s nurses are STILL being asked for a 2% rollback!
#Ableg News 🧵 (6/15)

KNIVES OUT 🔪

7. UCP MLA Peter Guthrie has issued a confusing angry letter criticizing Kenney.

He says Kenney criticizing anti-vaxxers was “a narrative of anger and division’, the “$100 created animosity” and he apologized for the mask mandate.
#Ableg News Thread (7/15)

8. UCP MLA Angela Pitt ALSO made anti-vaccination/anti-vaccine restriction posts!

On her Facebook Page, she posted pictures from an anti-vaccine rally held in B.C.

Earlier this week she also posted a letter asking Kenney not to issue vaccine passports
#Ableg News 🧵 (8/15)

9. The mayors of #YEG, Beaumont, St. Albert, Parkland County, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Devon, and Morinville are publicly calling on Kenney to implement vaccine passports.

10. Kenney’s $100 bonus resulted in a laughable increase of 1,564 doses.
#Ableg News 🧵 (9/15)

11. New report from Alberta ombudsmen out on the government’s Emergency Isolation Support. Report insufficient communication and transparency, failed to disclose why people were denied with no way to address errors. ombudsman.ab.ca/wp-content/up
#Ableg News 🧵 (10/15)

12. It was discovered Taxpayer Money from Alberta's Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund (now TIER) is secretly paying for pro-carbon ads of the Canadian Energy Centre (Alberta war room)

ablawg.ca/2021/09/08/alb…
#Ableg News 🧵 (11/15)

13. AHS canceled numerous scheduled elective surgeries and some outpatient procedures in Calgary this week due to COVID-19 pressures

14. Several times this week, Alberta experienced “Red Alerts” where no Ambulance service was available to Albertans
#Ableg News 🧵 (12/15)

15. Shandro’s disaster presser included a BIZZARE plan to send 💰 to private continuing care CEOs

Shandro FAILED to mention he was lobbied by Jeff Johnson for private care centres in July. Jeff donated ~$5,080 to the UCP since 2017
#Ableg News 🧵 (13/15)

We actually have GOOD NEWS!!!

1. BIG WIN FOR TEACHERS! The ATA said the new terms remove a clause giving AIMCo a veto over investments!

2. Small win for Nurses: The UCP dropped a bid to cut nurse wages by 3% (2% cuts still remain)
#Ableg News 🧵 (14/15)

3. Solidarity rally at #Ableg tomorrow for our Children’s future curriculum. More info from the @AB_CurriQlum_WR (curriculum war room) account

4. If you want a laugh - check out this HILARIOUS cartoon by @northsidechad gigcity.ca/2021/09/08/end…

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Jun 17
#ableg

THE $130,000,000 REFERENDUM

Alberta’s former Chief Electoral Officer, Lorne Gibson, estimates Smith’s fall referendum will cost $120–130 million

For a vote that’s non-binding…it changes NOTHING in law!

Here’s what $130M could have built instead

Priorities matter. 🧵
1. DOCTORS, NURSES, HEALTH AIDES

$130,000,000 is 464 family doctors.

700,000 Albertans don’t have one.

It’s also would cover:
🧑‍⚕️ 1,000 Nurse Practitioners
👩‍⚕️ 1,300 Registered Nurses
👨‍⚕️ 2,400 Health Care Aides

We get nothing but excuses….

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2. RURAL ER’s

$130,000,000 is 22 rural medical centres

Last year, rural ERs across Alberta went dark for 34,000 hours!

That’s 1,416 days

The money to keep the lights on exists…It’s being spent on a vote that binds no one (but helps out Smith’s separatists ambitions)

#ableg Image
Read 8 tweets
Jun 6
#ableg

Separatism is polling at 9%

Alberta DOES NOT have a separatist problem

It has a Rick Bell problem

Bell is Postmedia’s most-read Alberta columnist

Smith gives him exclusive access

He uses it not to challenge her…but to make separatism seem inevitable

A breakdown 🧵 Image
1. Bell is a participant…not a reporter

Bell doesn’t just quote Smith

He narrates her politics like she’s a hero

He injects his own voice….not quoting anyone…when he wrote that Canadians who voted Liberal had ‘lost their minds.’

This is what we call UCP Partisan advocacy Image
2. Bell blames Liberal voters for separatism

His most revealing line is Bell’s own quote.

He writes Canadians ‘fanned the flames of Alberta separatism’ specifically those who voted Liberal or NDP

Blaming 65% of Canadian voters for separatism

In a major newspaper
ZERO evidence Image
Read 11 tweets
Jun 5
#ableg

Your weekly Alberta damage report!

In 7 days, the separation project didn’t stall….it completely cratered.

This week included

- Bad UCP polls!
- First Nations fight Smith!
- Smith’s own math!
- Warning from our privacy watchdog!

One brutal week, in one place. 🧵 Image
1. SEPARATIST SUPPORT IMPLODES
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New Ipsos poll: just 18% of Albertans back leaving Canada….DOWN 10 POINTS since January.

Half aren’t even committed once they see the costs

A new Leger poll adds the kicker “fewer than half would even stay in an independent Alberta”

😬 Image
#ableg

2. FIRST NATIONS CALL DANIELLE SMITH OUT!!!

Treaty 8 DEMANDED Smith terminate the referendum.

Chief Allan Adam called on her to resign as she has ‘no credibility left.’

47 Nations have said they stay in Canada

A court already ruled the duty to consult was ignored Image
Read 8 tweets
Jun 3
#ableg

THE LARGEST DATA BREACH IN CANADIAN HISTORY….

Is sitting in the middle of Alberta’s separatist movement

And the trail runs to Michigan and brushes up against the US Ambassador to Canada.

Here’s what the reporting actually shows….

Credit: nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/inv… x.com/reil76/status/…Image
#ableg

1. Separatist David Parker

His Centurion app was built with a US firm, 10XVotes & 2 Michigan operatives

His words: ‘for almost 2 years I’ve been working with them. The result is the Centurion Project’

THOUSANDS of Albertans’ data later surfaced on that US firm’s site… Image
#ableg

3. Pete Hoekstra

10XVotes’ leadership is connected to US Ambassador Hoekstra.

He endorsed the app and sits on a Michigan board with its founder

Hoekstra says he has “0 involvement” 😉

But that SAME ambassador just amplified Trump’s ‘51st State’ post

We have eyes Image
Read 8 tweets
May 13
#ableg

WTAF???

The Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) actually released a “fully costed” independence plan!

I read all 43 pages so you don’t have to**

It is one of the most dishonest, disastrous, and delusional documents in Canadian political history.

Let’s jump in…. 🧵
1. CPP

They claim Alberta is owed $334 BILLION from CPP

FALSE!

That number comes from ONE poorly sourced report… paid for by tDanielle Smith’s UCP!!

The CPP Investment Board’s independent estimate? $100 billion!!

The APP overinflated their number 3.3X to make the math work Image
2. DOUBLE COUNT!

They count CPP contributions TWICE

Once as $15-17B in “retained federal revenue.” Then again as $5B flowing into the new Alberta Pension Plan

Same dollars
Same paycheques
Counted 2X

This is the fiscal plan they’re asking Albertans to stake their future on 😬 Image
Read 14 tweets
Sep 27, 2024
#Ableg

Garnett Genuis is among the most SECRETIVE MPs in Canada.

🤫 He has a LENGTHY track record of being a discreetly funded opponent of LGBTQ+ & women's rights

Here are FIVE incidents EXPOSING how @GarnettGenuis is a problematic MP and a threat to Canada’s democracy:
#Ableg

1. 🤐 Secret Trips ✈️

Genuis has participated in 10 foreign-funded trips to conferences with undisclosed funding sources, more than ANY MP in 🇨🇦

When asked, he REFUSED to provide an explanation

It has since emerged MANY of these trips are tied to anti-LGBTQ+ groups Image
#Ableg

2. Anti-LGQBT Videos

Genuis used taxpayer money & resources from his MP office to produce a HORRIFIC video defending abusive conversion therapies!

He claimed conversion therapy bans discriminated against LGBTQ people

He REFUSED to answer q’s about the money/resources🤫 Image
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