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#Ableg News 🧵

If you’re anything like me, you’re feeling a bit lost. 348 Albertans (22 Humboldt buses) died of Covid in September.

It’s been a HORRIBLE week not just for the UCP but for EVERY SINGLE ALBERTAN

Let’s take a look at 19 bad news stories for Kenney and the UCP
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Extra Extra: Alberta makes MAJOR International News: Reuters, New York Times & Forbes for the worst reasons possible

2. As schools across Alberta have numerous outbreaks of COVID-19, the UCP is unwilling to release the actual figures for no good reason.
#Ableg News 🧵

3. UCP MLA Shane Getson blamed AHS Execs for not having enough ICU beds in Wave 4, rather than looking in the mirror at the UCP’s pandemic response.

He deleted his Facebook profile, reactivated it, immediately accused someone of having HIV, then apologized
#Ableg News 🧵

4. Brooks-Medicine Hat UCP MLA Michaela Glasgo is facing jarring criticism from her own constituency board regarding her silence on vaccinations

5. Speaking on the Roy Green show, Kenney said imposing new restrictions to prevent outbreaks "makes no sense."
#Ableg News 🧵

6. The UCP’s $30,000,000 War Room decided that this week would be a great time to spend $225,000 on “pro Alberta Oil” billboards

7. Several political experts and strategists, including Harper’s former senior campaign advisor agree: Kenney hurt O’Tooles chances
#Ableg News 🧵

8.Alberta Medical Association are now calling for “fire breaker” measures to combat COVID crisis in the province

9.The Canadian Medical Association is also demanding the UCP step up to prevent the collapse of the health care system
#Ableg News 🧵

10. Kenney initially rejected Newfoundland and Labrador help, saying it wasn’t needed…and then accepted the help 4-days later as 34 people died in one day.

@jkenney then lied to the press saying he never turned down the help.
#Ableg News 🧵

11. A number of UCP MLAs, including “independent” speaker Nathan Cooper, attended a press conference announcing a “Free Alberta” strategy to denounce federalism.

12. During the same presser, UCP MLA Angela Pitt says she no longer has confidence in Kenney
#Ableg News 🧵

13. The UCP official who called for a leadership review of Kenney has been fired for publicly criticizing Kenney

14. Quebec’s biggest pension fund will divest all of its Alberta oil investments by next year, including $700,000,000 in Suncor and CNRL
#Ableg News 🧵

15. Jason Kenney has nearly hit rock bottom in public support for his handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the province, at an abysmal 11%.

16. Kenney is undergoing a mandatory leadership review 6-months earlier that scheduled (now in April 2022)
#Ableg News 🧵

17. Alberta’s seeing the most consecutive quarters of mass emigration (people leaving) in years

18. UCP Benefactor Jack Mintz’s company was paid $4,000,000 to complete 440,000 rapid Covid-19 tests in Alberta schools. They ONLY completed 7.8% of this (34,699)
#Ableg News 🧵

19. During an abysmal press conference.Kenney kept comparing Alberta's current COVID-19 crisis to the worst peaks in other provinces, ignoring the peaks came when vaccines were unavailable or not as widely available

Today, AB has the 2nd-lowest vax uptake rate
#Ableg News 🧵

So what are some good news stories? I’m not sure I have any this week: but please feel free to share any good stories you have - or better yet, please feel free to send pics of your pets!

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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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