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#Ablrg News 🧵

It feels like this week ended as bad as it started.

Between Madu changing legislation to allow illegal donations, Alberta making international news (again)…and Devin Dreeshen, it’s been a REALLY bad week for the UCP!

Let’s look at 19 (YUP!!) stories this week: Image
#Ableg News 🧵

1. 💰 #Abpoli Party Donations are out; and Kenney was AGAIN out-funded by the NDP for the 4th quarter in a row!

The NDP have now raised 156% more donations than the UCP for Q1-Q3 2021.

Remember this for story #15 when Kenney changes the rules for HIS donors… Image
#Ableg News 🧵

2. Treaty 6 Chief formally responds to Alberta’s Provincial Police report, saying Madu completed ZERO consultations with First Nations! Madu lied to Albertans!🤥

3. More allegations of sexual harassment by Kenney’s lawyer pal and Devin’s booze pal Ivan Bernardo! ImageImage
#Anleg News 🧵

4 Without ANY consultation, the UCP is selling off gov-owned affordable housing units to “for-profits” corporations - claiming it’s not “privatization” 🙄

5. 😂 In a giant ad to support the UCP’s new “advanced” curriculum. UCP MLA Savage can’t spell “cirricilum” ImageImage
#Anleg News 🧵

6. The $3,500,000 Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaign website is gone!. A sign of being proud of your work.

7. Speaking of: Vivian Krause accused the UCP of making ‘incorrect’ and ‘exaggerated’ claims about foreign funding of environmental groups! ImageImage
#Ableg News 🧵

8. Beep Beep 🚌! Kenney goes on CBC Radio to say Hinshaw failed to give him ANY advice in August 2021 which is what caused Wave 4

9. A FOIP request shows Kenney lied when he claimed he was in “daily" contact with staff & Heath officials during his vacation! ImageImage
#Ableg News 🧵

10. After hiding the data, the UCP finally admitted their inaction on covid caused 15,000 canceled surgeries!

11. The UCP reneged on a promise to charge OHV drivers in Kananaskis a small user fee to help restore & create new OHV trails & hire enforcement officers ImageImage
#Ableg News 🧵

12. Alberta made international news (again) after Kenney said there was “0 value” in attending a global climate summit 🤷🏻‍♂️

13 Political scientists say Kenney missed a crucial chance to gather info, make contacts and tell Alberta's story to the rest of the world ImageImage
#Anleg News 🧵

14. The leader of the Bloc Quebecois mocked Kenney’s “equalization referendum” suggesting Canada should totally reopen the constitution and renegotiate the equalization formula to a “green formula”.

The more green a province, the more they get back. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Image
#Ableg News 🧵

15. In response to the NDP leading donations, the UCP quietly snuck in new legislation to allow hundreds of thousands of 💰 from big donors to SNEAK into UCP coffers through nomination contests, and multiple, illegal donations to UCP constituency associations! Image
#Ableg News 🧵

16. In a scathing essay, Donna Glans, a former PC MLA, described how the UCP infiltrated public boards with crony appointments and created a “ top-down, authoritarian culture” that it turned the workplace to “toxic” workplace…

Why does that sound familiar 🤔
#Ableg News 🧵

17. In an attempt to troll Albertans’ concerned with his drinking and bullying, UCP MLA Dreeshen posted a photo of him propping a laptop on a beer cooler and coasters with booze in the background

18. Dreeshen reigned from Cabinet (not as an MLA) 3-days later. ImageImage
#Ableg News 🧵

19. Brian Jean is back (again) and wants to grab a UCP seat in Fort McMurray saying he’s here to run against Kenney and only he can beat Notley.

This is NOT a real story now…but something to watch at the UCP Convention Nov 19-21 (YES…you win @McIvorben) Image
#Ableg News 🧵

So good news? I’ll repeat this one: the @Grindstoneyeg is putting together a HILARIOUS show called “Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer”, featuring the incredible @Stephwolfe101!

I fully encourage those to go Nov 10-21 (Nov 10 is sold out!)

edmonton.ctvnews.ca/hot-boy-summer…

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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….

…/2 Image
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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