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#Ableg News 🧵

Hey #Abpoli: Remember when Alberta was the “go to” place for young professionals in Canada? We’re officially not (see story #3)

HORRIBLE press conferences, MAJOR lies and 2 failed UCP apps are just part of 16 REALLY Bad News UCP stories this week

Buckle up!
#Ableg News 🧵

Whoopsie! 🤦🏻‍♂️

1. Kenney’s promise of a “QR Code” app allowing Albertans to quickly confirm Covid-19 vaccinations with businesses was FINALLY launched….without ANY ability to scan QR codes to verify the info - making the app completely useless!

It gets worse…
#Ableg News 🧵

2. For 3-weeks in a row @jkenney made national & international news for his pandemic response 📰

3. Alberta’s now seen its WEAKEST population growth in 4 decades! For the 1st time since 1971, Alberta’s no longer has the youngest median age among the provinces
#Ableg News 🧵

4. Kenney’s COVID-19 plan helped one industry in Alberta: Funeral homes in Alberta are seeing an increase in demand ⚰️

5. Not a single quarantine fine was levied in Alberta, despite thousands of people who violated Alberta’s Contravention Act. I wonder why 🤔
#Ableg News 🧵

NEW POLLS! 📉

6. New Leger poll shows 80% of Albertans are totally dissatisfied with Kenney’s Covid response; only 4% fully support him

7. Another new poll this week shows 77% of Alberta disapprove of Kenney’s leadership, while 61% STRONGLY disapprove. 😳
#Ableg News 🧵

8. Kenney’s polling is so bad, local UCP Consistency Associations are DESPERATE to move up a leadership review from April 2022 to December 2021.

A motion to move the dates also shows MAJOR concern over the last leadership race (ie: illegal voting!!)
#Anleg News 🧵

This one is BAD!

9. In April 2020, Kenney PROMISED an increase to ICU beds to 1,081. They never did!

One reason cited; the UCP failed to account for staffing shortages due to mass resignations and illnesses, many noting Kenney’s threats to HCW’s hurt staffing
#Ableg News 🧵

10. Due to a lack of ICU Beds, 8,500 surgeries were delayed since September 13, including 805 kid surgeries

11.Alberta’s ER Med president sent a letter to Kenney and Health Minister Coppling to tour a #YEG ER to see first-hand how overstretched the system is.
#Ableg News 🧵

ANOTHER brutal presser:

12. In response to asking if he’d tour the ER room, Kenney said he NEVER had a hospital photo op, forgetting several times he and his UCP MLA’s used hospitals for photo ops. 🤥

13. LaGrange was caught faking putting on a mask. 🤦🏻‍♂️
#Ableg News 🧵

14. The UCP is still forcing Albertans to pay $4,300,000 for a covid app that tracked 158 cases ($27,215/ case). The federal app is still free). 😡

15. @tony_clark discovered the UCP LOST $473,000,000 in corporate income tax due to “accounting adjustments” 🤦‍♀️
#Ableg News 🧵

🚨BUSTED🚨

16: Despite UCP’MLA Savage promising ALL Category 2 lands were halted, she SECRETLY approved existing land & exploratory mining leases to be purchased /moved between companies. This signals the ministry intends to keep moving forward with coal projects
As always #Ableg,

My thanks goes out to incredible humans of this community; @AB_AgainstUCP, @youseepeeYYC, @KikkiPlanet, @JasonPYYC, @allisonjade, @TheBlueGem3, @MichelletypoQ, @SeanDunn10, @DuaneBratt, @verynotmad, @reachingrooted, @high_tequila and you all for reading!

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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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