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May 13 21 tweets 17 min read
#Ableg News 🧵

2022 is the year of “Really Bad News” for the @UCPCaucus:

🤦🏻‍♂️- Elections Alberta is investigating Kenney (AGAIN!) (Story #1)

🤫- UCP hide documents during FOIP Requests (#7)

👩‍⚖️- A judge warns Kenney about divisive language (#16)

Here’s 17 UCP Bad News Stories
#Ableg News 🧵

So It Begins…

1. Elections Alberta is OFFICIALLY investigating allegations of bulk UCP membership purchases made by Kenney’s camp right before this year’s leadership review

The investigation involves 4,000 new UCP memberships purchased by only 6 credit cards.
#Ableg News 🧵

2. 13 motions to improve accountability & transparency in Alberta’s Lobby Act, including several made by Alberta's Ethics Commissioner, were rejected by the UCP!

It’s noted Kenney has close, secretive “relationships with firms who regularly lobby his government”
#Ableg News 🧵

3. Shocking allegations of a call a lawyer, dissatisfied with UCP changes to Legal Aid Alberta, received from a “Person in Power”

The person said if the lawyer stopped criticizing the UCP, they’d receive “a letter of support to be nominated as a Queen's Counsel”
#Ableg News 🧵

4. Kenney is using taxpayer money to challenge Ottawa for invoking the Emergency Measures Act.

This comes into play after begging Ottawa for help with the Coutts blockade,

Critics say Kenney failed to act, and suing is another expensive political game
#Ableg News 🧵

5. The body representing 1,500 school councils & 50,000 volunteer parents was just defunded, threatening it’s critical advocacy in supporting parent voices

@AdrianaLaGrange is now using a “Minister’s Parent Advisory Council,” with 40 hand-picked UCP appointees
#Ableg News 🧵

6. A new case study reveals the impact of Kenney’s devastating 2021 “plan to transform postsecondary education” which resulted in:

✅ Skyrocketing student tuition
✅ Growing labor unrest
✅ Funding cuts exceeding 30% per student
✅ Plunging Global Ranking
#Ableg News 🧵

7.In a BRUTALLY revealing expose

UCP staffers describe how they’re being pressured by Kenney’s team to avoid FOIP requests, including deleting important emails, and using private apps & personal phones for govt business
#Ableg News 🧵

8. Kenney’s good pal and major UCP organizer, Jonathan Denis, was denied to stay contempt of court proceedings.

Denis was found in contempt of court last month for threatening to sue a plaintiff in the middle of her testimony in a civil trial.
#Ableg News 🧵

9.Alberta’s paramedic shortage has pushed the emergency response system past its tipping point, according to thousands of Alberta’s paramedics and health-care workers

On Monday, 40 people waited for an help as there was zero ambulances available.
#Ableg News 🧵

10. A decision by Kenney’s gov’t to suddenly lay off on-site paramedics at the #YEG Remand Centre, Canada’s largest jail, is “dangerous”.

Not only will this result in an influx of potentially preventable deaths, but will put additional stress on the EMS System.
#Ableg News 🧵

11. Alberta had a “massive increase” in deaths from causes other than COVID-19 among youth.

Over 17-months, 4,214 excess deaths were recorded, inc

- 2,226 COVID-19 (54%)
- 1,180 limited access to primary care (28%)

Experts blame Kenney’s pandemic response
#Ableg News 🧵

12. Kenney’s new $700,000/year “Alberta Parole Board” ONLY reviewed 96 applications since it was created 15 months ago.

By comparison, the Parole Board of Canada reviewed 2,657 applications from Alberta (28X the cases handled by Kenney’s hand-picked donor board)
#Ableg News 🧵

13. A Justice warned the UCP in a Bill C-69 ruling

Don’t use the “'Trojan Horse' metaphor advanced by Alberta, likening Canada to a foreign invading army deceptively breaching our protective walls only fuels suspicion and pits 1 level of gov’t against each other”
#Ableg News 🧵

YIKES!

14. Scotiabank is not renewing its long-running membership in the Alberta-based Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a move that comes at a time when financial institutions face growing scrutiny for their role in contributing to climate change
#Ableg News 🧵

15. Despite promises from the UCP, Alberta has the highest day care rates in Canada, with #YYC more expensive than Toronto!

UCP MLA Rebecca Schultz said “We are on track with reducing parents' fees”, she did not say how they will help reduce rates in the future
#Ableg News 🧵

SURPRISE!!!!!!

16. The UCP list of 59,409 members eligible to vote in the leadership review contains a number of people who didn't purchase a membership

This follows allegations from Brian Jean, who claims thousands of memberships were fraudulently created
#Ableg News 🧵

17. The Alberta Disability Workers Association says the industry is collapsing as it faces a staffing crisis, and it has launched a campaign calling on the UCP to take action.

Low wages and a lack of support from the UCP are stated to be major reasons.
#ableg News 🧵

A special thanks to @high_tequila!

A passionate, dedicated and progressive human who cares about Alberta!

I can’t tell you what to do but please give him a shot.

Follow him!
Also: thanks to @AB_AgainstUCP for pointing out that @ABParentsUnion is a shell for @AdrianaLaGrange and @jkenney: These people represent the worst of the worst!

Please block them!!!?

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More from @JasonOnTheDrums

May 6
#Ableg News 🧵

This was the WORST bad news week for the @UCPCaucus in 2022:

🤬- The UCP suddenly defund critical diabetic care (Story #1)

🤫 - Jason Nixon secretly removes park protections (#2)

🤐- Kenney’s silent on Women’s Rights (#7)

Here’s 22 (YUP!) Bad News UCP Stories!
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Thousands of Albertans were SHOCKED after the UCP announced a plan to “improve” diabetes care…by partially defunding insulin pumps for diabetics

Sick Albertans may see expensive premiums, co-payments or they’ll be forced to abandon their treatments altogether
#Ableg News 🧵

2. 🤫 Shhhh….pro-coal UCP MLA Jason Nixon is AGAIN silently changing legislation to weaken protections of our provincial parks!

Critics say he is attempting to now allow activities in provincial ncisl parks and public lands that are currently prohibited ⛏
Read 26 tweets
Apr 29
#Ableg News 🧵

I told @AB_AgainstUCP it’d be a “quiet” week for the @UCPCaucus

I was wrong: it’s AWFUL:

🥊 UCP MLA Nixon Gets Away With Bullying (Story #1)

😨 Another UCP MLA Calls Kenney Out! (#5)

🏥 4 Major Health Care Crisis’s! (#7-10)

Here’s 16 bad news UCP stories!
#Ableg News 🧵

1. UCP MLA Jason Nixon will not be sanctioned for comments he made during an angry exchange that included him swearing at Speaker Nathan Cooper in the leg.

It is noted Nixon didn’t ACTUALLY apologize…rather an “I’m sorry” letter was read by another UCP MLA.
#Ableg News 🧵

2. UCP MLA Fir announced private schools, which receive 70% of funding from taxpayers, won’t need report how much they charge for tuition under a new bill. 

Critics suggest the UCP is hiding how much wealthy private schools make in tuition payments from parents
Read 19 tweets
Apr 22
#Ableg News 🧵

It was a stinker of a bad news week for the @UCPCaucus

👩‍🎓- LaGrange’s education cuts create chaos! (Story #3)

😔- The UCP kick 40,000 vulnerable Albertans off health care plans! (#5)

🎭 - 5 UCP DRAMA STORIES!(#7-11)

👀 Here’s 16 bad news UCP stories this week
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Kenney is accused of hiding a report showing how Alberta auto insurance providers collected over a $1,000,000,000 more than they paid out in 2020!

Despite this: Auto premiums went up significantly over the past 2 years- after @jkenney removed the rate cap.
#Ableg News 🧵

2. The Alberta Ombudsman is calling out the Kenney gov’t to make MAJOR changes to the AISH appeal system

He ruled that under the UCP, Disabled Albertans wanting to challenge their provincial disability benefits are facing a system that isn’t fair and troubling.
Read 18 tweets
Apr 15
#Ableg News 🧵

Despite it being “Good Friday”, it’s been a BAD News Week for the @UCPCaucus:

🧳- Alberta has the WORST job growth in Canada (Story #1)

🤦🏻‍♂️- LaGrange’s BRUTAL Presser (#8)

📈 - Alberta Insurance Profits Skyrocket (#13)

Here’s 13 Bad News UCP Stories
(@OrrsArt)
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Despite record job growth all across Canada - Alberta is being left behind under Kenney!

#YEG saw the unemployment rate jump to 7.1% (from 6.9%); #YYC saw a tiny drop at 7.7% (8%) — these are some of the HIGHEST unemployment rates among major Canadian cities
#Ableg News 🧵

2. In just 3-months in 2022, Alberta Health Services has posted 52 news releases alerting the public that Alberta emergency rooms and urgent care centres were closed or relying only on nursing staff because there wasn't a doctor available.

This is a crisis 😬
Read 17 tweets
Apr 9
#Ableg News 🧵

There’s no “Good News Weeks” in Alberta; only slightly less awful weeks under the @UCPCaucus:

🤦🏻‍♂️- Kenney’s expensive referendum was useless (Story #1)

👨‍⚖️- Provincial Lawyers Threaten To Strike (#5)

📉- More Bad UCP Polls! (#X)

Here’s XX Bad News UCP Stories!
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Despite spending $10,000,000 in taxpayer 💰, Kenney’s “Equalization Referendum” had 0 influence on Canadians' support for the program, revealed a new national survey

This 100% goes against Kenney’s claim his referendum sent a “powerful message” to Canadians🤦🏻‍♂️
#Ableg News 🧵

2. Dr. Verna Yiu was fired by Kenney’s AHS Board, shocking health workers who admired her calm, compassionate leadership

Critics say she stood in the way of Kenney privatizing health care + supported COVID-19 mandates. Multiple UCP MLA’s publicly attacked her
Read 12 tweets
Apr 1
#Ableg News🧵

It’s ALWAYS April Fools in Alberta under the UCP; the comically “Bad News” never stops:

👮‍♂️ RCMP finally interview Kenney (Story #1)

😔 A final report from the Child Advocate blasts the UCP (#5)

📉2 Bad Polls for Kenney (#11-12)

Here’s 12 Bad News UCP stories!
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Kenney admits he was interviewed by the RCMP regarding his role facilitating illegal donations in the 2017 leadership race.

This falls days after transcripts from interviews with co-operating witnesses reveal how Kenney’s Team covertly snuck in illegal 💰
#Ableg News 🧵

2. An incredible piece by @TS_Lambert reveals the TRUE Jason Nixon: a man charged with several criminal offences, multiple financial scandals and corruption

It comes on the revelation he’s using is position to allow foreign companies to open Alberta coal mines
Read 17 tweets

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