#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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24 Sep
#Ableg News 🧵

Let’s admit it Alberta: This was NOT the ‘best summer ever’

We’ve witnessed one of the WORST weeks in #Abpoli history; not just for the @UCPCaucus but for EVERY Albertan

Here’s 23 Stories (TWENTY THREE!) UCP Bad News stories this week! 😱

📸: @Isuckatpicking
#Ableg News 🧵

The first sign of a mutiny?

1. The week started with the @UCPCaucus website suddenly going down 🤷🏻‍♂️

When it came online EVERYTHING was scrubbed!

Every UCP policy, platform & content GONE! Also gone: “Best Summer Ever” hats and “Anti-Passport” fundraisers

Why?
#Ableg News 🧵

2. 😡 UCP MLA @KayceeMaduYEG angrily calls former US President Obama a “socialist” for not supporting Erin O’Toole

3. Another MAJOR Alberta School Board posts a scathing letter to the Kenney & LeGrange expressing 'grave concern' with their pandemic response
Read 19 tweets
17 Sep
#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.
Read 19 tweets
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

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