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#AbLeg News 🧵

What. The. Heck. Happened. Alberta?

This wasn’t just a ??BAD week for the @UCPCaucus - this was a HORRIBLE week for every Albertan. All of us.

Here are 20 (TWENTY!!!) AWFUL UCP news stories this week…

Buckle up - it’s a bumpy ride!

📸: @Isuckatpicking
#Ableg News 🧵

So it begins…

1.In typical fashion, the UCP bad news started with a DISASTROUS Shandro presser.

After telling Shandro to “do more” and “people are dying”, Shandro said “thanks” and he “appreciated the “feedback”

#Ableg News 🧵

BUSTED!

2. Leaked footage show Kenney spreading lies and misinformation re: Pandemic


3. The UCP were caught having a UCP luxury retreat during the middle of a pandemic!

Kenney canceled after it was leaked.
#Ableg News 🧵

4. Desire being MIA for 3-weeks, Kenney was STILL giving a private speech to the O&G conference and trade show.

Kenney pulled out 17-hours before the event so he could do his job and meet with cabinet to discuss the COVID-19 situation.
#Ableg News 🧵

5. The UCP released a “No To Vaccine Passports” survey.

The ONLY Question: “Do You Stand Against National Vax Passports”? They also attempted to get donations to fight national vaccine documents

This contradicted statements made by Kenney earlier that week
#Ableg News 🧵

🤫 SHHHHHH…

6. During the pandemic, the UCP quietly cut funding for collecting highly toxic materials - to save $2M.

Rural Albertans need to chose to see cancerous waste end up in nearby landfills or rise taxes on struggling citizens as costs skyrocket.
#Ableg News 🧵

Our health care crisis started last weekend when:

7. @AHS_SouthZone created 6 ICU spaces (total 23) Every bed was occupied: 87% were COVID patients

8. All day surgeries in #YEG zone were suddenly postponed to deal with Wave 4
#Ableg News 🧵

9. On Sept 13, over 60 months f Alberta’s Infectious Disease specialists released a letter begging Kenney to do something; stating the health care system will collapse in less than 1-month if things remain the same.

Kenney didn’t immediately respond
#Ableg News 🧵

😬 Bad UCP Takes:

10. During a candid interview. Hinshaw blamed Alberta's 4th wave on Kenney’s 'open for summer' plan Hinshaw said removing restrictions “sent the wrong message to Albertans that Covid was over”. Hinshaw also said “vaccine mandates work”
#Ableg News 🧵

11. UCP MLA Shane Getson said on Facebook that he’s not on board with “distractions” like vaccination passports and vaccines; said we “just need everyone to get Covid and let it run its course” - suggesting the goal is herd immunity
#Ableg News 🧵

12. A number of political scientists and law experts are adding their voices asking why Premier Kenney, Shandro and Dr. Hinshaw have not yet resigned?
#Ableg News 🧵

13. Kenney’s impossibly bad decision to delay implementing a proof of vaccination system forced tens of thousand of Albertans to access their e-health record at once, crashed the system. People who needed to confirm appointments, or lab tests were unable to.
#Ableg News 🧵

14. School boards began speaking out against Kenney:

One board said the UCP “abdicated what was rightfully within the purview of government …laying it on the feet of school boards. You have further caused and increased division and frustrations” 😳
#Ableg News 🧵

15. Alberta made international news AGAIN! The UK media outlet “The Guardian”, a paper who reaches 23,000,000 UK citizens every month, reported that Alberta has “been the site of North America’s highest caseloads”.
#Ableg News 🧵

16. Kenney had the WORST press conference of his political career when he was forced to invoke new restrictions

Kenney said he’d “never apologize” for opening up and that covid would run free until “there were.no more people to infect”
#Ableg News 🧵

KNIVES OUT!!

17. UCP MLA Richard Gotfried says his government lacked "any leadership at the helm" despite having 30 days notice that a crisis was looming in Alberta.

18. UCP MLA Aheer quoted Rick Bell’s attack’s on Kenney saying he needed to apologize
#Ableg News 🧵

19. UCP MLA Nathan Cooper’s Constituency is openly calling for leadership review

20. Conservatives and United Paritiers are FURIOUS with Jason Kenney, claiming he ruined O’Toole’s chances and that he’s set the conservative movement back a decade. 🤩
So #Ableg Good News!!

This isn’t “good news” but bitter-sweet

#ableg lost a friend in @JulieRohrYEG- but the love & support is INCREDIBLE!

Thank you to @iamhannah_h for her updates and @allisonjade, @brrittannyh, @Albert_Nobbs for sharing some stories

“Be Good To Each Other”

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More from @JasonOnTheDrums

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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