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Oct 29, 2021 17 tweets 16 min read Read on X
#Ableg News 🧵

Last week was a BAD week for the UCP. I really thought it couldn’t get worse. I was wrong 😑

Between a collapsing EMS system, attacks on new mayors and toxic UCP MLAs - this is one of the WORST weeks ever for the UCP

Here’s 19 BAD UCP stories from this week!
#Ableg News 🧵

1. 🤦🏻‍♂️ The UCP began the week attacking #YYC new mayor @JyotiGondek’s enviro stance!

2. 🤥 The UCP lied about the Allen report findings! Despite claiming BILLIONS were spent by enviro groups criticizing Alberta’s oil, evidence only supported $50M…OVER 17-years!
#Ableg News 🧵

3. During an interview. Hinshaw said COVID-19 deaths in Alberta were due to vaccination shortfalls, NOT UCP policy or Kenney’s “influenza” messaging

4. UCP curriculum consultant Chris Champion posted a racist pro-colonialist meme, showing us why Kenney picked him
#Anleg News 🧵

🚨 Bad UCP Poll Alert 🚨

5. OOOF! New polls shows the UCP’s support keeps floundering…the NDP are now up by OVER 23 points over the UCP!

6. @jkenney is so unpopular, he’s at SERIOUS risk of losing his own seat in #YYC Lougheed!
#Ableg News 🧵

7. Due to MASSIVE increases to commercial insurance rates, 500+ school buses could soon be off the road, leaving students without any means to access schools.

The UCP was asked to help regulate rates, but they chose to do nothing instead (see next story….)
#Ableg News 🧵

8. In response to skyrocketing rates and companies pulling out en masse, Toewea announced a new form of “capped insurance” - cheaper insurance rates, have potential tax benefits…focused on O&G companies!

School busses (and Albertans) get ZERO help for now!
#Ableg News 🧵

9. Due to extreme workforce shortages and the UCP refusing to provide additional funding to help, Alberta’s seeing a collapse in paramedic response times;

In the last 50-days: 135 occasions of 0 ambulances available: 22 times it exceeded 1-hr to respond!
#Ableg News 🧵

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10. During an online teachers convention event for chartered school teachers, UCP MLA and Education Minister LeGrange gave a speech

During her talk, many of the 300+ attendees changed their profile names to “Resign LeGrange” or “Drop the Draft Curriculum”
#Ableg News 🧵

11. 😳 Kenney’s VERY first order of this fall’s #Ableg sitting wasn’t thanking Heath Care Workers; it was attacking Heath care unions!

He forgot to mention his UCP government failed to deliver COVID wage top-ups for HCW’s promised in June 2020

(@gilmcgowan)
#AbLeg News 🧵

12. Despite apologizing for calling an Alberta academic a liar, Elections Alberta STILL said their website & Twitter posts on Equalization were correct

Several law experts found they were riddled with errors "you wouldn’t even expect from a 1st-yr law student."
#Ableg News 🧵

13. 🤔. Huh? During the Referendum presser, Kenney discussed Alberta saying “yes” on removing equalization from the constitution

Kenney admitted he doesn't ACTUALLY want to remove equalization from the constitution but have convos on other things. Promises made?
#Ableg News 🧵

This is the WORST this week:

14. Kenney and several staff are named in a lawsuit against their misconduct in #Ableg

Allegations include sexual harassment and heavy drinking in legislature offices. Accused in the toxic culture are UCP MLA’s Dreeshen & Nixon
#Ableg News 🧵

15. UCP MLA Leela Aheer calls out Kenney for his role in the toxic workplace and wants him to resign

16. Doug Schweitzer claims he had no clue why his own chief of staff was fired and never asked why. He said she was great and he’s a reference for her now 🤷🏻‍♂️
#Ableg News 🧵

17. AHS has now closed 16 acute care hospital beds in High Level due to of a lack of nurses.

18. In an INCREDIBLE article by @pressprogress; Kenney’s Anti-Alberta Inquiry redacted details of MILLIONS in foreign funding that secretly went to right-wing groups
#Ableg News 🧵

🤦🏻‍♂️

19. An “Alberta Provincial Police Force” will cost Albertans $759,000,000 annually PLUS $366,000,000 in transition costs ($1,125,000,000)!

That’s 151% OVER what Alberta currently pays, but with ZERO federal support. There’s no indication on how we’re paying.
#Ableg News 🧵

Other than DST falling flat, there really wasn’t good news that I’m aware of!

My friend and INCREDIBLE contributor in these threads, @AB_AgainstUCP, wanted to share a humorous video of Kenney’s “Hot Boy Summer” a well worth the watch!

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More from @JasonOnTheDrums

Feb 6
#Ableg

In the last 7-days #Abpoli called out 3 news stories with VERY suspicious origins, including:

🎤 A CTV interview about the anti-abortion poll…with a UCP organizer

💰 A daycare operator who is sabotaging $10/day care

📉 A non-existent polling firm

Let’s jump in!


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#Ableg Story #1.

The "Association of Alberta Childcare Entrepreneurs" shutdown several daycares protesting $10/day care and blaming the Fed’s

However, CEO Krystal Chucher lobby records showed she’s ONLY upset with the province’s bad funding model

She’s also a major Smith stan

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#Ableg Story #2

On Friday, Albertans received calls from an obscure polling firm regarding anti-abortion rights

CTV interviewed only one guy; Justin Vung

Strangely, they did NOT check Google and see his stance as a fervent anti-women's rights activist and key UCP organizer

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Oct 31, 2023
#Ableg

Yesterday, Alberta saw 2 of the most undemocratic, anti-Canadian bills in our history.

Bill 3 and 5 mark a new low.

Rock Bottom.

Let’s go through these gross abominations and see if you agree
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#Ableg.

Bill 3: Opioid Damages & Health Care Costs Recover

Vulnerable Albertan will be mandated to forced labour (to UCP employers) to “recover” costs of mandatory treatments

Marshall Smith, Danielle’s drug “expert” was BUSTED for a similar illegal operation when he was in BC Image
#Ableg

Bill 5: Public Sector Employer Amendment

Under the guise of a “single public payer”, this all but sets up an Alberta Revenue Agency, which collects federal taxes to circumvent the Canada Revenue Agency.

This is part of Danielle’s secretive “Free Alberta Strategy” Image
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Oct 4, 2023
MASSIVE #Ableg shoutout to @CorbLund

Corb is calling out SNEAKY UCP Minister of the Environment @rebeccakschulz and the Australian Benga Mines secretly applying to operate coal mines.

Let’s look at the timelines and what Rebecca is attempting to hide from Albertans….

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#Ableg

1. 2021-22 Benga Mines application to operate an open pit mines was REJECTED 2X over concerns of the massive environmental damage they’d cause

It was so bad that UCP Enviro Minister, Sonya Savage, put a moratorium on future applications

However…that was under Kenney
#Ableg

Enter Danielle Smith and Sneaky Rebecca Schulz…

2. On June 9, 2023, sneaky Shultz was sworn in as Minister of Environment and Protected Areas.

Rebecca promised to “protest our beautiful landscapes”…but let’s see what ACTUALLY happened…

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Oct 3, 2023
#Ableg

Sneaky UCP MLA @rebeccakschulz, Minister of the Environment and Protected Areas, has a MAJOR credibility problem.

Let’s look at 3 recent decisions made under her watch that raises MASSIVE questions about her suitability for this important role…

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#Ableg

1. Mountain Ash Ltd.

This private project has MAJOR concerns due to the HUGE impact to groundwater resources and threats to the Big Hill Provincial Park

Despite the MASSIVE red flags, Rebecca STILL approved it AFTER she was lobbied by a major UCP donor in July 2023 Image
#Ableg

2. Open Pit Coal Mines in Grassy Mtn

In 2021, Enviro Minister Sonya Savage issued an order blocking Benga Mines from applying for open pit coal mines

In 2023, despite this moratorium, Banga Mines secretly reapplied AFTER Rebecca Shultz dept was Lobbied by a UCP Donor Image
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Oct 2, 2023
#Ableg

It’s been 7-days.

@rebeccakschulz continues to hide from Albertans as her husband is paid by O&G to convince Rebecca to change 5 laws environmental laws and protected areas

Let’s explore Alberta’s Conflict of Interest act, simplified for Rebecca

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#Ableg

1. Are MLA’s allowed to personally benefit from legislative decisions?

- NOPE! 🚫

The Act says Members MUST NOT participate in decisions that MAY benefit themselves, their partners, their associates, or their children.

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#Ableg

2. What if a decision POTENTIALLY involves a private interest?

If a decision POTENTIALLY involves a private interest (such as Rebecca’s husband lobbying to make legislative changes) the MLA MUST:

✅ Declare it
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Sep 29, 2023
#Ableg

UCP Environment & Protected Area Minister @rebeccakschulz is pretending there’s no conflict of interest as her husband is lobbying to change environmental laws and regulations.

Let’s look at 5 policies he’s looking to change and YOU decide if there’s a conflict….

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#Ableg

1. Cole is lobbying to “cut administrative burdens” in Alberta’s “TEIR carbon pricing strategy” in order to help maximize O&G profits.

TIER (Regulation 133/2019) falls DIRECTLY under Rebecca’s portfolio as our Environmental and Protected Areas Minister
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#Ableg

2. Cole Schulz is lobbying to change “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)”

This involves promoting incentive and support for CCUS projects to develop underground storage models for “acid gas disposal” 😳

This program is under ASO Rebecca’s Enviro Ministry
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