#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”

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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.
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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.
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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
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🤫 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.
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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
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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
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😬 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”
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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
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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?
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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.
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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” 😳
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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”.
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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”
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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
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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

10 Sep
#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 🤦🏻‍♂️
Read 16 tweets
3 Sep
#Ableg News 🧵 (1/14)

Well Alberta….what the heck happened?? It’s been a HORRIBLE week for the @UCPCaucus!

Albertans went from anger towards Kenney abandoning Alberta to even more anger and confusion when he returned….it’s bad

Grab a glass of Jamieson’s and let’s review 🥃
#Ableg News 🧵(2/14)

YIKES!

1. Our week started with UCP MLA Nathan Neudorf admitting Kenney’s plan is to let the Delta variant sweep through our unvaccinated populations, causing more serious illness and death…perhaps explaining why he’s not in Alberta right now. 😳
#Ableg News 🧵(3/14)

2. Kenney’s Executive Council l, which is responsible for guiding the province during Covid-19, released their schedule for this week.

As Covid-19 cases surges, schools are back in session, and we needed direction….they were nowhere to be found…
Read 15 tweets
28 Aug
#Ableg News Thread (1/13)

Happy Friday #Abpoli!

The week was another TERRIBLE week for the @UCPCaucus; Covid is spreading, cronyism is running WILD and Kenney is NOWHERE when we need him a leader!

Ready for a wild series of stories this week? Me too! Let’s go!
@n_droo_yu_el
#Ableg News 🧵 (2/13)

1. UCP MLA Tracy “Honolulu” Allard calls out LaGrange’s aggressive and racist curriculum telling her to ACTUALLY do consultation with Albertans 🏝

2. Trudeau is OFFICIALLY using examples of Kenney as his warning for Canada voting in Conservatives. 😬
#Ableg News 🧵 (3/13)

3. Kenney’s spending $11,000,000 so rural Albertans can vote in his fake Senate referendum - but spending $0 to make sure its on indigenous Reserves.

Indigenous leaders say it’s “a slap in the face” to the First Peoples living in Alberta. Do you agree?
Read 14 tweets
20 Aug
#Ableg News 🧵 (1/12)

Happy Friday #Abpoli!

It’s been another HORRIBLE week. Covid is up exponentially. Syphilis is out of control and Kenney is NOWHERE to be found.

Want to see what made the week so bad? Let’s jump in team!
#Ableg News 🧵 (2/12)

1) Despite saying they can’t afford AB nurses, a job ad shows the UCP tapped an agency to hire contract nurses to replace them at $75/hr (@Patricia_Ann_S)

2) UCP blames Trudeau for not wanting to sign $10/day care deal ignoring 8-other provinces signed off
#Ableg News 🧵 (3/12)

YIKES!

3). The War Room is under investigation for proving personal information to a third party ran by Kenney’s good friend Hamish Marshall - a co-founder of One Persuasion and campaign manager (with Brock Harrison) for the Conservatives' 2019 election!
Read 12 tweets
13 Aug
#Ableg News 🧵(1/12)

Alberta - it was ANOTHER week of UCP blunders, Kenney lies, and Hinshaw’s COVID-19 failures.

We have 15 stories this week (a 87.5% increase over last week’s 8).

Ready to hop in? Let’s bounce Alberta: 🦘
#Abpoli
#Ableg News 🧵 (2/12)

1. The UCP FINALLY released the KPMG review of the COVID-19 first wave response on a Friday evening.

It revealed that:
🤦🏻‍♂️ Shandro failed to properly communicate with municipalities
😬 Kenney failed to make ANY adjustments for Wave 2 / 3
#Ableg News 🧵 (3/12)

2. Despite Kenney’s attempts to sell off our eastern slopes to Australian miners - Trudeau stepped in and rejected it (Thank you Trudeau)

3. While Alberta’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% #YYC grew to 9.8%

Kenney’s STILL down -53,000 jobs in Alberta!
Read 13 tweets
6 Aug
#Ableg Weekly News 🧵 (1/8)

Alberta….this was a AWFUL week of bad polls, Shantrums, lies and throwing people under the bus.

It wasn’t AS bad as last week…but my goodness - it was UGLY

Ready for a ride??? Let’s go!!!
#Ableg News 🧵 (2/8)

1. UCP’s Brock Harrison justified 0 restrictions saying Alberta is “above the national average” in vaxes

100% lie!

We’re 2nd worst in Canada in 1st doses and closer to Florida than Canada’s average!

Canada: 71.1%
Alberta: 65.9%
Florida: 58.4%

Yikes…
#Ableg News 🧵 (3/8)

2. Kenney said he reinstated UCP MLA Pat “Texas” Rehn several municipalities supported him.

SURPRISE!!! Nobody supported him!

3. Shandro backtracked after saying he wasn’t going to release the review of the UCP’s handling of Covid. Where is it?
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