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Feb 24 18 tweets 16 min read
Budget address time!

Mostly so far a bragging list of companies that have come to Alberta and projects that have started.

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Toews invokes Ukraine and pivots to ethical oil.

We’re staying classy is seems.
From the health budget, everything stays the same or gets a bump except for Support services and Physician Compensation and development.

That should attract and retain docs to Alberta…

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Oop! Time for a story!

Larry the pipe fitter. Downturn hurt him. He suffered from mental health issues.

Toews wants to help Larry.

No idea if Larry was once from Venezuela tho…

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Here’s eduction.

An increase of just over $100 million.

Not sure how much that addresses burgeoning class sizes or the additional resources needed for a new “curriculum”.

School facilities dropped though.

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Childrens services.

A decrease to early intervention services to children and youth.

A decrease to the Alberta Child and family benefit as well.

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Community and social services..

Modest increases across the board except for…

Homeless and Outreach Support Services. They get a $7 million cut.

Good thing houselessness isn’t on the rise.

Oh…

Wait…

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Ministry of justice.

Minor increases, no big line item for a provincial police force yet.

Oh!

But we did cut funding to the Victims of Crime Fund!

So that’s super gross.

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Toews is going on about how Alberta is the economic engine of Canada.

Takes the victory lap on a balanced budget.

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TIER isn’t doing great in this budget…

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And theres the pay cuts…

Health and education are both getting major compensation changes.

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Toews goes back to Larry.

Larry was called back to work.

No mention of the field or if there was any retraining. Sounds like Larry went back to pipe fitting?

The UCP saved Larry! Not oil prices, the UCP!

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And things are adjourned until March 7th!

Kenney needs to get on that victory tour!

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Almost $1 Billion cut from Municipal Sustainability Initiative too.

Yikes.

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As much as the UCP are taking a victory lap on their financial acumen, this table tells us a lot.

Almost A BILLION in increases in transfers from the feds.

But fair deal, right?

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Here’s the balance sheet.

If anyone can explain why Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic development was 4X its budgeted amount and then cut in this years budget, we’re super curious…

@andrew_leach? @trevortombe?

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The revenue is wild.

They gained 10 BILLION in resource revenue over 2020-21.

Also, Berta, we might need to talk about how much revenue we’re generating through gambling.

Plus, looks like tuition is going up…?

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In case you were wondering where a big chunk of that gaming revenue is going…

$40 million to Horse Racing and Breeding.

And $300,000 to Airport Entertainment Centers.

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Jan 24
Live tweeting todays EMS presser?

Sounds good!

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Copping - EMS is busy yo. No people, no trucks, call volume is up.

References the 4 Airdrie calls that saw CFD transport a child because there were no ambulances available…

/2


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Copping - We increased paramedics and the EMS budget, but that wasn’t enough.

So we’re running an EMS advisory committee that’s run by MLA’s Allard and Sigurdson.

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There’s been a lot of debate surrounding these two tweets, one from Copping & one from his Comms advisor…

So we tried to make some sense of it.

And fell down an extremely confusing rabbit hole.

A thread you’re going to want to read…

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The first question was why, as per the ministers own tweet, he was only isolating after he rapid tested positive despite symptoms.

His Comms advisor corrected that by saying Copping was isolating immediately, implication being Coppings tweet was just poorly written.

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To be clear, the current restrictions on ONE of the government websites is that anyone with symptoms must isolate.

As you can clearly see here…

/3
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Jan 7
From the DM’s…

Lagrange - “We gave schools an extra week! They’re super prepared and ready!”

Teachers -

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Nov 22, 2021
From the DM’s…

This is education in Alberta.

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We’re going to have to do this as a thread…

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The next two tweet are all together.

You should read every one.

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Nov 20, 2021
Huh.

Jason Kenney is live-streaming on Facebook.

We’re a bit behind, but let’s time delay tweet!

Thread!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Kenney starts by recognizing he’s on treaty 7 land in the briefest land acknowledgment ever and quickly pivots to a feel good story about a FN veteran, then pivoting to the “Notley/Trudeau alliance”
Kenney - Albertans we’re further victimized by economy, Covid and more.

No one could have seen any of those things coming he says.

(Except for everyone who did).
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Nov 18, 2021
*Thread*

Bad news.

Bought a ticket last night, but in a fascinating coincidence, the UCP claim they closed their registration for observers at almost the exact minute that the crowdfunding was successful.

They won’t accept in person registration.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Guess they aren’t fans?

That’s cool though. We’ve already heard from a few of the protestors who will be attending the AGM outside, and if the UCP won’t take $999 to let us inside, we’re totes happy to do the outside and chat with folks.

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As stated in the fundraiser by the organizers (who are super amazing awesome people and an absolute inspiration) the funds will instead be donated to charity.

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