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Jun 20 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
On Saturday alone, our party ran a ranked ballot contest in a riding with more than 1,000 members, and a second contested nomination with 300 members…

… on a weekend when we’re also holding our Provincial Council…
 
#ableg #abpoli
...topping off a week when we also organized 57 different outreach opportunities.

This kind of momentum is made possible by teamwork...

#ableg #abpoli
To our staff: thank you for growing our party and I promise you will be respected as working people, one of our core values as New Democrats.

To our volunteers: there is no party without you and we will make sure you feel empowered to build this movement together...

#ableg
To our nomination contestants and candidates, thank you for stepping forward to make your community and your province a better place.

#ableg #abpoli
We’re all here because we share a common set of values:

Compassion for others.
Defending workers’ rights.
Economic security and the need for diversification.
The protection of our air, land and water.
Supporting the most vulnerable...

#ableg #abpoli
...Fighting hatred and promoting diversity and inclusion and the pursuit of social justice.

We raise each other up so we can ALL live our best lives.

So that all Albertans can live their best lives.

#ableg #abpoli
Friends, at some point in the next year, we will stage the greatest campaign in the history of our party and WE. WILL. WIN!

#ableg #abpoli

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Jun 20
In 1974, when the Lougheed Conservatives were debating a budget that was flush with cash from high commodity prices, my Dad — the lone NDPer in the House — rose to speak. 

He said, and I QUOTE:

#ableg #abpoli
“The test will not be on the huge sums of money coming in, but rather how we use it to improve quality of life.

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“Not only to provide opportunities for the haves but for the have nots, because ALL PEOPLE should be able to share in the great prospects that lie ahead for the province of Alberta.”

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Feb 17
Cold Lake business owner and homeowner Ed Machtmes says that despite putting $50,000 into his house over the past five years to make it as energy efficient as possible, his utilities amount to 25 per cent of his cost of living right now.

#ableg #yeg
“I’m in a more impoverished shape now than when I was in my 20s,” he said. “With the economic downturn, the pandemic and now th doubling of my utilities for my business and my house, I have had to take out a second mortgage just to stay afloat.

#ableg #yyc
“Now we work twice as many hours for half the income. My wife has had to take a second job on top of working at our business. I'm 55 years old. We should not be working 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week just to make ends meet, let alone try to save for a retirement fund.

#ableg
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Feb 17
The following is a portion of my comments concerning the future of energy in Alberta to the Calgary Chamber:

Our economy is going through fundamental and permanent changes.

There is no denying that we are now in the middle of an energy transformation. #ableg #yyc #abfuture
In fact, how we power our economy is changing too.

Our renewable energy industry is taking off. We now have more wind power than coal.

Hydrogen development is becoming more prominent and poses an exciting prospect for our future.

#ableg #yyc
Global spending on the pursuit of low-carbon energy rose by over 25 per cent last year alone. $755 billion dollars worldwide, according to Bloomberg.

#ableg #yyc
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Feb 16
Late Monday, UCP MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland Shane Getson wrote a disturbing post encouraging members of law enforcement to disobey orders and stand with those engaged in these illegal blockades at Coutts and elsewhere in Canada. #ableg #yyc
“He wrote, ‘I’ll ask those in position of law enforcement, as well as military person(nel) to remember your oaths that you have taken, the country that you represent, and the citizens that you are to protect.

#ableg #yycroads
Getson added: "I want you to consider that when the orders are delivered to you in the coming days."
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Feb 3
The group that has illegally taken Alberta’s primary U.S. border crossing — and our broader economy for that matter — hostage for the past five days now believes they are pushing the government to remove public health orders that have reduced the spread of COVID-19.

#ableg
These orders have saved countless lives during the worst public health crisis we have ever faced.

The people conducting this illegal action claim they are in direct contact with members of the UCP Government Caucus...
...and are being offered the removal of public health orders in exchange for reopening the border.

The potential precedent being set here is deeply troubling and must be immediately disavowed by every elected member of the UCP Government.

#ableg
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Dec 9, 2021
More than 43,000 Lethbridge residents do not have a primary care physician and none in Alberta’s fourth-largest city are accepting new patients.

Among those without healthcare is Branden Sant. 1/5 #ableg #abhealth #yql Image
Branden fell in the summer and fractured a vertebrae in his spine affecting his ability to work.

“It has been 151 days, almost 22 weeks, since my injury. The pain and the injury have both worsened,” said Sant.

2/5 #ableg #abhealth #yql
“I’ve been reduced to having to use a FaceTime-like app for any type of follow up because in my city there are literally no doctors available.”

Sant worked as a hairstylist in Lethbridge, but is unable to be on his feet all day due to the injury. 3/5 #ableg #abhealth #yql
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