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Here's a thread of true things that happened surrounding a luxury apartment which led to us being threatened with legal action today by a high ranking employee of a crown minister...

LONG thread, but totes worth it.

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So anyways, back in October we were wandering through the inter webs looking for headshots of a few UCP heavy hitters when we came across this particular image with a luxurious amount of hair...

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Of course, we were super curious about where the source of this photo was, and it turns out it was a somewhat derelict LinkedIn page...

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But we were super curious about this company that Brian is listed as the CEO of, the City Centre Group, so we popped by their website...

(Screencap from today)

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It looks like it's a collection of businesses, a car wash, a detailing company and something called "Amazing stays"...

We couldn't help but look, cause who doesn't love an amazing stay somewhere?

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Turns out, "Amazing Stays" is a collection of vacation home rentals. And in all fairness, they do all look quite amazing!

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Now of course, we're political nerds over here, so we just had to take a look at "The Parliament Executive Penthouse", cause it is in #YEG and "just steps away from the legislature"...

Here's the description!

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Now of course, we had to know how much a night at Brian Jeans Executive penthouse costs...

Turns out it really depends on the season.

But in looking at what dates were and weren't available, we noticed some dates that were unavailable that seemed familiar...

Nov 28th to Dec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Here's the full screen shot from that late October day...

You have to pick the dates to see the availability, so we just picked most of November for fun.

(The one tab is Twitter Analytics before anyone gets all excited...)

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But anyways, why do those dates seem familiar?

Oh right!

The first legislative session since the UCP leadership race was scheduled to run from Nov 29- Dec 22!

(They totes ended up cutting out a week early though)

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So Brian Jean's luxury condo was unavailable to rent starting the night before the legislative session and running all the way until the last scheduled day of the session.

What a wild coincidence!

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So then we were just curious if Brian had claimed his living allowance for the same period.

If you aren't familiar, MLA's get a certain amount of money every month to pay for accommodations. Some use it for hotel accommodations and some folks use it to pay for a mortgage on a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Turns out, yup. He sure did.

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Now here's where things take a bit of a twist...

Cause so far, we know that Brian owns a luxury penthouse, a sky palace if you will...

And according to the booking website that is linked off of their corporate website, it was booked for the entirety of the last legislative… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Well, a couple of days ago we heard from a high level staffer in Minister Jeans office...

He advised us that while Brian has claimed his living allowance, it's for a separate much smaller unit.

In the same building.

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He also advised us that neither he, nor Brian, nor anyone involved with the company had any idea why the condo was showing as booked for the entire session.

It's all just a super wild coincidence.

These things happen.

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We were also told that to explicitly state that no taxpayer money has gone to pay for the penthouse.

Which fits because it appears from Brians public disclosure there isn't any mortgage on it.

Might be a loan tho?

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Oh yeah, and there definitely was a clear threat of a lawsuit if we didn't say all of that.

So to sum it all up...

Brian Jean is the CEO of a company that owns a luxury penthouse steps away from the legislature. That condo was booked for an entire legislative session.

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Brian's senior staffer wants it made very clear that Brian did not use that suite during the legislative session, he utilized the small one bedroom condo that is the one that the living allowance is paying for.

In the same building.

We're told it was purchased in August, which… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
But to be clear, the senior staffer wants us to make it very clear that Brian did not use the penthouse when it was booked for the legislative session, no taxpayer money supports it.

Or else something something defamation suit.

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We did ask why the suite was booked as unavailable to rent for that legislative session and were clearly told our screencap could just be a fake and that the whole situation an absolute mystery, just a wild coincidence.

Can't help but think that would be a concerning business… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Let's go down that rabbit hole, shall we?

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So…

Remember how the Globe & Mail reported that the man in charge of the $80 million children’s medication procurement had an MhCare email address while working for AHS?

His name was Jitendra Prasad btw.

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Special FOIP Thread!

Remember how Free Market politician Danielle Smith promised that she would use the publicly funded ATB to make religious financial products available, even though they're already available through the free market?

Strap in!

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Given that the direction that was given to ATB means that a taxpayer funded crown corporation will be limiting return on investment to provide religious products, we wanted to know how this came to be!

So we filed a FOIP!

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There were 728 pages of responsive records!

How many of those pages had the little blacked out boxes?

None!

Sounds exciting right?

Wrong.

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And it looks like the rumors are true!

There's a grassroots group that is hosting a press conference right now speaking directly to the corrupt care scandal and the former AHS CEO's lawsuit!

Let's follow along!

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The list of speakers is pretty...

Solid.

Brace yourselves ya'll.

There's some legit heavy hitters here as well.
There's a grassroots group that just delightful holding up a sign that says "Transparency, Justice, Integrity & Accountability"

Looks like they'll be the first speakers today.

@TheRealDKGray is MC'ing the event.
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This is the second picture we recieved.

We have also confirmed it is from a Facebook post Sinclair posted today.

It appears to show Sinclair, his family…

(We redacted the kids faces)

And who is that in the middle?

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Why that appears to be…

- Becca Polak, then comms director for Danielle Smith,
- Marshall Smith, then Chief of Staff to Danielle Smith
- Mickey Amery, then and still Alberta Justice Minister!

That’s kinda wild, right?

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And what’s this in the right hand corner?

Seems to show that they’re on Florida Home Territory!

Which evidently shows Becca Polak, Marshall Smith and Mickey Amery at a hockey game of some kind!

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