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Nov 1 9 tweets 4 min read
FOIP Preview!

Ok, remember when Smith's office claimed to the globe & mail that her Skybox Sojourn to Vancouver was on personal time and all people paid their own way?

We've already demonstrated that was a lie, but it turns out it was a bigger lie!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image As we've already demonstrated, the statement about the staff paying their own way was a lie.

The statement was issued on May 13.

The request to have Becca Polak and Marshall SMith pay didn't come until May 15.

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Nov 1 15 tweets 6 min read
Well damn.

Let’s start this absolute train wreck of a thread by saying that a government should be responsible about who it chooses to elevate to justify their policies.

Public scrutiny is an inevitable effect from public exposure.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image It is exploitive to put forward individuals and use their stories of trauma and abuse as shields when advancing polices that will cause trauma and are, by many interpretations abusive.

This didn’t have to happen this way.

But Danielle Smith has set her stage.

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Oct 11 17 tweets 7 min read
In the past 12 hours, @LukaszukAB has posted two emails sent out from 2 Islamic schools in #YEG.

Strap in!

(This thread is gonna get wild because it does have direct connections to the Skybox scandal by the way)

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One of the posts is from the Al Mustafa Acadamy.

Their secretary treasurer appeared with Demetrios Nicolaides on April 26th of this year endorsing the new UCP curriculum.

That secretary Treasurer is also the Vice President and COO of an organization called Hasco Development Corporation.

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Oct 11 23 tweets 7 min read
The official UCP policy proposals that membership will be voting on are out!

And yes!

They're exactly as bad as you might think!

Let's get started with a Mega thread of "Wait, what?!?'

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/1 Image First up we have in True MAGA fashion the banning of all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles in hiring for any public body!

So if a white man has a more extensive academic history, he could be the person to address the experiences of women and girls in residential schools!

Fun!

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Oct 11 5 tweets 2 min read
From the DM’s…

Danielle Smith has brought Jennifer “poop cookies” Johnson into the UCP caucus.

But that’s not the only thing that Smith has validated.

It’s also apparently conspiracy theories about cat litter, abortion & the belief there should be NO sex Ed in schools.

/1 The entire audio was recently made available to us.

We have not edited it in any way from what was sent to us.

It may also be worth highlighting that former TBA organizer Zane Novak can be heard speaking throughout the entire 1:11:06 file.

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Oct 7 7 tweets 3 min read
New episode & new FOIP!

We continue to unpack Smith's Skybox Scandal, and it keeps getting worse!

Back in July, the Globe & Mail referenced a statement from Smith's office saying the trip was personal, on personal time & everyone paid their own way...

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#abpoli #cdnpoli Image We filed a FOIP wanting to confirm that.

Especially given that accepting the tickets for Smith's staffers Rebecca Polak and Marshall Smith seemed to be a clear violation of ethics rules.

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Sep 17 5 tweets 2 min read
As Brian Jean is busy getting ready to give oil companies breaks on municipal taxes & apparently even go so far as having taxpayers cover cleanup costs on abandoned wells…

He seems to be ignoring a pretty big problem in his own back yard…

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image The workers, educational assistants, librarians, IT workers, custodians, maintenance workers & other support staff have been pleading for their wages to cover the cost of living.

The employer, under the direction of the government has said “ok, but what about wage cuts”

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Sep 5 8 tweets 3 min read
Included in the UCP policy proposals are a slough of anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ2S+ policies.

We didn't want them missed, or the willingness for some members of the UCP to violate charter rights and parental rights glossed over, so it's a separate thread.

And it's bad.

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/1 To start with, Calgary Lougheed (surprise surprise) steps up to the plate banning anyone other than "biological females at conception" from "female spaces.

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Sep 5 23 tweets 8 min read
Oh boy...

So the UCP policy proposals have launched.

And...

There's a LOT to unpack.

So as the UCP membership show us who they are, let's get started with a few highlights, shall we?

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Let's start with defunding abortion!

Because the folks in Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock want to put themselves in the doctors offices of women across the province!

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Sep 3 6 tweets 3 min read
From the DM’s…

A source inside the provincial government tells us that the UCP is about to go to war with Calgary!

Allegedly, in order to make sure a certain UCP donor gets his train to Banff, the UCP is taking over the entire Green Line project!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Apparently the UCP believe they can weaponize the green line against @nenshi and the NDP and make their Banff train happen and in order to do so are planning on withholding funding despite Calgary passing a drastically scaled back version.

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Aug 23 11 tweets 3 min read
Fun fact…

Remember back in October when Smith made her “everyone’s for sale” changes to the Conflict of Interest Act?

There’s potentially a fascinating and critical loophole in there…

Let’s take a look!

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image Now, most people are aware that she made some pretty sweeping changes to what elected officials can accept.

(It’s pretty much the sky is the limit)

But she also made some big changes to what the rules are for staff and what they can accept!

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Aug 5 14 tweets 3 min read
Ok then.

Apparently some of the people who consulted with Smith earlier this week are now claiming that because we reposted a publicly shared post of the anti-trans policies round table that we were “doxxing” them.

First of all, that’s not doxxing.

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/1 Image Secondly, reposting a publicly posted picture that very clearly had no privacy protections in place is literally how social media works.

Platforms have a variety of privacy protections that anyone can avail themselves of.

Chosing to post for clout or whatever is a choice.

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Jul 20 9 tweets 2 min read
Hey tweeps!

So…

This Tylenot™️, UCP Travel, Vanche Masks, Ministers, Invest Alberta, Chiefs of Staff and staffers travel thing is so so much worse than we’re prepared to handle at our little pod.

Like, this is so unbelievably corrupt and bad.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli This is well beyond our capabilities as a webseries.

Today has been absolutely off the hook.

We want to thank everyone who has reached out to us with tips (please keep them coming!)

But we know our limitations, and as always, we’re not journalists.

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Jul 15 11 tweets 4 min read
Today Smith claimed that conservatives have been the targets of dangerous rhetoric and that she’s never engaged in that sort of thing…

So yeah, thread…

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli As Smith tries to make the argument that dangerous rhetoric pushes people to action and she would never ever engage in that kind of language…

Let’s turn back the clock just a few months ago.

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Jul 1 9 tweets 2 min read
We’re not journalists or astroturf.

We don’t know most of the actual journalists who cover Alberta politics, but we’re sure they’re really, really nice.

We have a Prime Minister and a premier (god help us), not a president or a governor.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli We have two official languages, and we have a few folks on the team who can speak both!

And you can say it “About” or “aboot” because we believe in tolerance!

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May 17 12 tweets 4 min read
A short thread on Billy Makis, the “keynote” member of the all star “cast” of the UCP’s anti-vax festival…

/1 Image Makis posted this to his own social media, where he claims to be a physician based in Edmonton and provides his registration number in response to an inquiry by CBC.

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May 9 10 tweets 3 min read
So…

Unifor local 4001 has come out condemning Nenshi’s 2019 letter to the UCP.

“Independent” of any campaign tho… right?

Cause that would be kinda…

Questionable, right?

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image So the president of local 4001 is Ricky Brar. We double checked the unifor website and everything!

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Apr 30 10 tweets 4 min read
So about that "Contrarian" doc heading up Danielle Smith's other $2 million dollar COVID panel...

(Not the Preston Manning one)

The potential conflict goes a LOT deeper than just...

"He's contrarian"

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Image The good doctor got himself into hot water in the early days of COVID when he made some blatantly false claims at an event caught on video that the govt was timing "lockdowns" (we never had lockdowns) for they knew admissions were dropping to make it looked like they worked.

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Apr 11 7 tweets 3 min read
From the DM’s…

It appears the UCP have sent out an email and a survey to their membership…

On Bill 18?

Nope.

On disintegrating healthcare?

Nope.

Why it’s on the NDP Leadership race!

Thread!

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Question #1!

Fun with subtext!

“Look, all the NDP candidates represent a threat to your rights and freedoms, but which one is the worst! It doesn’t matter what you answer as long as you get the message!”

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Apr 10 42 tweets 6 min read
Danielle Smith Declares War on the feds Super thread!

Live tweeting the Smith Presser!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Smith is declaring that Alberta will be prohibiting the federal government providing funding to municipalities via ne legislation.

Smith says it's because Alberta pays more in taxes than we get back from the feds and federal programs are super bad, "like Pharmacare and dental care" (actual quote)
Mar 8 32 tweets 5 min read
So...

We're gonna call this the start of the RCMP "We announced a presser yesterday but forgot to set it up until well after it was supposed to start" Presser thread.

Strap in, because this will be wild!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli If you're looking now, this is the current link.

They deleted the first one they sent out after they broadcast an RCMP computer desktop.

Now the tech guy is sighing loudly again and says "well this is just my life".

You can't make this up.