1/ Hey, @ElectionsAB: It seems Albertans are getting messages from a Stephen Harper regarding the Alberta election. Mr. Harper is not a candidate. He is currently Chair of IDU, an international body that seeks to influence elections around the world.
That current position puts
2/ his activity firmly in the realm of foreign influence. Yes, he's a former PM but NOW he's an international political operative and he has no business trying to influence an Alberta election.
I encourage anyone who receives such messages to report it to @ElectionsAB and the
3/ appropriate federal authorities. Also report it to your MP, since Ottawa is trying to figure out how to orevent foreign influence on our elections. Let them know the IDU Chair has contacted you.
Don't forget: this man used Albertans to get to power, then did nothing for them.
4/ It's HIS equalization formula Albertans gripe about; his party failed to get a pipeline to tidewater in 9 years. He alienated Alberta, refused to attend meetings of Premiers.
And his son was key in the premature declaration of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic -
5/ - when they KNEW it wasn't over. His lies cost lives. He was paid handsomely and returned to the USA.
This family has taken enough away from Albertans. Don't let them send us unwanted political messages from a suspected war criminal with a foreign agenda.
6/ PS I am getting some pushback from people who don't understand why Harper shouldn't be doing this.
So let's see if I can explain it.
Let's say Trudeau quits as PM. Goes to work as head of World Economic Forum. Then a provincial election is called in BC and the head of WEF
7/ starts sending messages to fellow BC residents to vote a specific way that the WEF wants.
Cons would be outraged.
Well, that's what Harper is doing.
If he weren't Chair of IDU, if he were just another Alberta suspected-war-criminal with a history of election fraud, that
8/ would be fine. But as the head of an organization peddling international influence on elections, he must realize his mass phone messages are no longer from a regular corrupt Albertan.
Sure, he can do it - if he steps down from the job.
8/ But I sure don't want this supporter of mass murder and totalitarianism calling ME during an election.
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1/ I remember dreaming/dreams maybe once every 2 years. I awake from this one that has the hallmarks of an anxiety dream, but it's comfortably within my own waking realm, although noone I know is in it. (typical of my dreams). So I am taking a covid test, in case that's the root.
2/ In the dream I am performing in a musical. I realize this could be triggered by the latest episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which I have not finished watching. Or from any actual musical I have performed in or directed. Or next week's public reading of Physics for Poets.
3/ And it's classic, this dream. My script has disappeared, I don't remember ever knowing it, and something important has come up and the show starts while I am dealing with it in the lobby. Suddenly they're paging me over the intercom. I am not in costume, no sign of the script
1/ A note about the @CPC_HQ and @Alberta_UCP mouthpieces pronouncing on "authoritarian" China's COVID-19 policies.
China has low capacity for intensive care beds. 3.43 beds per 100k. Alberta has about 5 beds per 100k.
China has a population density of 153/km²; AB's is 5.7/km²
2/ In 2020, AB had 252 physicians per 100k pop. China had 290.
So China has much higher density, more physicians and fewer ICU beds. Give that some thought.
30x higher density means more chance for viruses to spread in China than Alberta. There aren't 30x more doctors/100k.
3/ So despite the better # of docs per 100k, the demand on them during a pandemic will be greater unless the spread of the virus is curbed. The spread of the virus in that population density could be truly catastrophic - in cost of human lives and in disruption of the economy.
1/ When I was a minor, my parents were neglectful in a couple of ways that no parent should be.
I survived, but the decades of coping with the physical and emotional damage were mine to bear, not theirs.
We talked about in later life. They felt some guilt then, because they
2/ had seen the consequences of their lack of action. And while I understood the situation, I did not forgive. If I had to carry the damage, the least they could do is carry the guilt.
Seem harsh? Maybe. I loved them, but all those years of pain were in their power to prevent.
3/ So when I see parents online bragging about not taking measures to protect their kids from debilitating disease, I wonder what the future holds. If their kids will endure pain that could have been prevented. If the kids will grow up, grow up with so many challenges caused by
1/ The Conservative media propaganda campaign against the government of 🇨🇦 intensifies as they try to make the white supremacist-led protests seem justified by throwing everything behind a manufactured fake scandal.
With CPC in freefall, who is pulling these strings? Cui bono?
2/ What has the current govt done that makes it so urgent to undermine it even when the Opposition is practically leaderless and fractured?
If I were a conspiracy theorist - and I don't think I am, but I am on the intuitive side - I would have three suspects.
3/ • First would be what people are referring to variably as the Dominionists or christofascists, whose influence has been part of the fracturing of Conservatism and has been bubbling under the surface for a century. Emboldened by their success in the USA, they could be making
1/ This evening around 9:30 I was on the phone with a friend in Toronto. I was getting ready to go get a few groceries, and observing the rules: go to the bathroom before you get in the car.
I was interrupted in my task by an odd rustling sound from the #yegdt#NotAngryAB
2/ livingroom. So, still with ghe phone in one hand and pulling my pants up with the other, I turned the corner into the livingroom...
...where a stranger, wearing my winter coat, was stuffing things into a gym bag. A box of 3 votive candles. A boxed New Testament. A paperback
3/ of Isherwood's Down There on a Visit. A boxed set of Sherlock Holmes books. A fancy programmable power bar. And my gym bag already had the swimsuit, workout gloves, athetic shoes etc.
I bellowed at the man to put my things down and I rushed toward him - my right hand with the
Been a tough week in North America as millions woke up to the realization that corruption and misinformation are winning the battle for control over us.
Too many people didn't take it seriously enough early enough.
2/ Now the challenge is to stave off despair, to continue to find joy in our daily lives while we fight for a better world.
One where the word "freedom" isn't used to enslave people. Where death merchants can't buy from politicians the right to terrorize and kill women, children
3/ whether by violence or neglect, or by forced exposure to life-altering viruses.
Every day look for something good, something beautiful. Hold those things close and share them. Take strength from them.
Look at the people around you. Help the vulnerable in what ways you can.