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#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 🧵

😅
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

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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