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📰🎙📺Alberta Provincial Affairs Reporter @GlobalEdmonton/@GlobalCalgary/@GlobalLeth. Send tips to me...better Saif than sorry. Views=Mine. RT/like≠Endorsement.
Dec 22, 2021 7 tweets 8 min read
BREAKING: Hours after Premier Kenney, HM Copping & CMOH Hinshaw requested Albertans limit Holiday gatherings, the UCP held a Christmas party w/ over 200ppl at the Parlour Italian Kitchen & Bar in #Edmonton. Copping & Kenney were NOT In attendance. (1/4) #abpoli #ableg #COVID19AB According to my sources Minister Kaycee Madu & Assc Minister Dale Nally were at the party w/ around 200 other UCP members. Restaurant staff confirm the entire venue was bought out. I'm told that COVID-19 protocols & restrictions weren't broken. (2/4) #abpoli #ableg #COVID19AB
Sep 14, 2021 8 tweets 8 min read
Speaking to docs, nurses & health experts, #Alberta's CMOH Deena Hinshaw admits she lulled the province into a false sense of security, saying she shouldn't have claimed COVID was over in July... Apologizing. #COVID19AB #yyc #yeg #abpoli #ableg Full vid: "I feel very responsible for the narrative that has made it more complicated to put additional health measures in place," Hinshaw says. "Whether or not it was my intention, what was heard at the end of July was COVID is over, we can walk away and ignore it."
#COVID19AB #yyc #yeg
Aug 8, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
As a reporter, I never share my opinion especially online, but CPS dispatch is an absolute joke. Walking the dog & drunk guy approached me, screaming, threatening me. He was drunk, upset over my race & that I didn't offer my cigar. Called 911, no unit ever came. 1/5 #Calgary #yyc Speaking to dispatch for 15min while it happened and no units enroute. 3 inactive police units (no cherries on) drove by me during & after the incident, nobody stopped. It's been 51min after the incident started & still no units showed up. #yyc #Calgary 2/5.
Aug 6, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
⚽️🥇 Last time Canada took on Sweden they lost 1-nil, but Canadians heading out to pubs this morning hope that won't be the case this time around. A lot of people waking up early to watch this gold medal football match. #Tokyo2020 #canadasoccer #Sweden vs #Canada Image The mood among the 75 fans and some Olympians at this pub going from happy and excited to sour after Sweden scores its first goal. Canada nil - 1 Sweden. They're still hopeful Canada will win.
Aug 5, 2021 4 tweets 4 min read
Documents obtained show #Calgary Metro (1.5m+ ppl) had 3,324 red alerts & 36,570 orange alerts in 2020. Averages about 9 red alerts & 100 orange alerts per day. Red alert means 0 ambulances are available to respond, orange means only 1-3 are available. #yyc — Full info from FOIP: Image Another FOIP shows in 2020 #Airdrie paramedics were sent out to more calls in Calgary & other areas than responding to emergencies in Airdrie. In 2014, about 35% of their calls were outside Airdrie. In 2020 it rose to 53%, and so far in 2021 (YTD) it's 61%. #Calgary #yyc — FOIP: Image
Feb 27, 2020 6 tweets 6 min read
A picture showing an #Alberta #energy sector company's logo & depicting 17yo climate activist @GretaThunberg in a sexual act is causing an uproar. X-Site Energy Services, whose logo is on the decal, says it is not involved at all, denying it made the decal. #yyc #abpoli @660NEWS "It's not from X-Site or any (of its) employees," says Doug Sparrow, company GM. He adds, "it's just not right and they're calling me a rapist and all this stuff, it's all defamation of character coming out. It's not me." Restating neither X-Site nor its employees made the decal.