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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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)

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.

Hey Alberta...

Can we talk about this for a sec?

Cause, we're setting ourselves up for unbelievable catastrophe...

And yeah, this is a thread you'll want to full read.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli This is the Brazeau Dam.

It's a Dam that is owned/operated by Transalta & it's one of the (ever so rare) hydroelectric power producers in Alberta.

It was built to hold water & generate power, but one thing it wasn't built to do was withstand earthquakes.

Because Alberta.

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So...

We probably need to talk about this...

RJ Sigurdson just released this press release entitled "No farmers, no food".

And there's A LOT to unpack here...

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli No for most people, it probably seems like this is the UCP trying to co-opt the "No farmers, no food" movement out of India where government policy changes targeted small family farms and gave tremendous power to large corporations.

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Ok.

We’ll put them both together then.

There were two (2) major changes made to who can accept gifts & what the value of those gifts are.

The first was a legislative change affecting elected officials. It’s an amendment to the Conflict of Interest Act.

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#abpoli #cdnpoli



To be clear, this is the change that affects elected MLA’s and ministers.

It raises the value of gift that can be accepted from $200 to $500.

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Can we talk about the Alberta Pensio Report for a sec?

(Like 10 minutes actually)

Cause we got a FOIP back.

It gave us the official timeline for the report delivery.

And what the government has been saying for the last 2 years doesn't fit...

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli So while we asked for any correspondence from the launch of the RFP and the release of the report, we only recieved two items.

The RFP and the "kick off" power point.

But the difference between the goals of the RFP and the kick off are pretty striking.

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From the DM’s

This is allegedly the deck that was released by the NDP today.

It details Smith’s plan to decentralize health care and shatter AHS while apparently outsourcing significant components.

(Long thread)

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli





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From the DMs...

24 hours ago we asked teachers what their biggest concerns are.

If you're someone who cares about education in this province, you should read this thread.

Then you should write your school board and you MLA and tell them kids and teachers deserve better.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed #YYC

What does a former Prime Minister, a right wing activist group, from the early 2000's, a UCP Leadership race campaign manager, Rob Anderson's old boss & an overpriced marketing campaign to rip Alberta out of the CPP have in common?

Strap in for a WILD ride!

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#abpoli #cdnpoli So to start with, we were curious about the website that Smith and Co. have deployed for their whole Alberta pension plan marketing campaign.

You know the one, albertapensionplan dot .ca

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From the DM's...

After the UCP formed government in 2019, Travis Toews received an evaluation of the risks/benefits of an Alberta Pension Plan.

The report highlighted extensive risks.

It also projected assets and liabilities.

We've received a copy of that report.

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#abpoli





Even the Alberta Governments own report highlights the extensive risks, and the projected assets/liabilities are SIGNIFICANTLY less than what Smith has presented to Albertans.

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The UCP policy resolutions for their AGM are out, & if there was any question as to whether or not the UCP is now entirely the party of conspiracy theorists & science deniers...

The policies they will be voting should put that question to rest.

(Long thread)

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#abpoli Some of the policies the UCP will be voting on (and these are the ones chosen by the membership as being the most important) are just silly, like this one pushing back against digital currency...

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Danielle Smith claims that she implemented the moratorium on renewables because Rural Municipalities Asked for framework...

And she gave media all hell for not looking it up...

We're not journalists, but we figured why not?

(Thread)

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Here's the press release that Smith initially released on the day of the moratorium.

This major policy shift saw no presser and the minister responsible only put up a brief statement on social media the next day...

There are only two letters attached to that release.

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Soooo…

This clip is making the rounds and has prompted the attached statement.

We’re not going to link to what appears to be the source, because the context and comments are appalling.

That being said…

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed twitter.com/i/web/status/1… This is a deeply polarized and emotional issue for many, and while the nitpickers are out in full force, one thing that this teacher said is extremely important.

“It goes two ways. If you want to be respected for who you are, if you don’t want to suffer prejudice for your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

You have to wonder…

Given the sad trombone that was Artur’s press conference/sermon today, does Smith appreciate how much of a nothing burger the “optics” of Artur’s condemnation in January would have been if she had never made the call?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

/1 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… On a separate but somewhat related note, is anyone else struck by how sad it is for a person to be worried about the approval of someone like Artur?

For most, his condemnation would be a Medal of Honor…

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So...

We need to talk about Bonnie maybe.

Bonnie is allegedly the "volunteer" who posted this fun little statement about Jennifer "Trans kids are like feces" Johnson last night.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Now that post was very quickly deleted and this was posted after.

Which is, in all honesty, a pretty bold choice.

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Smith today resorting back to her "Look I was a radio host" defence of the outrageous things she said.

Here's the problem.

The vast majority of things she said that have gotten her into hot water took place after she left radio and during her leadership race...

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#abpoli Smith's comment about how "everything up to stage 4 cancer is under your control?

During her campaign for UCP Leadership. July 21, 2022.

(You can tell because of the "Danielle Smith For Premier" logo beside her head also)

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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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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 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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From the DM's..

These were posted in a teachers group today and are being shared with permission.

And you really should read them.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

This is Danielle Smith with Jordon Kosik.

Jordon has been campaigning relentlessly for Smith.

He runs multiple facebook sites ramping people up on conspiracy theories.

He calls it engagement.

But he does more than engagement.

Read to the end.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Jordon is one of the people who is dog whistling for people to be confrontational with door knockers and straight up telling them to record the conversations.

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On last nights episode, we played a video of an anti-vaxxer berating a door knocking team.

We also played a video of @PierrePoilievre sidestepping a conspiracy theory question.

We believe we clearly called out the misinformation and falsehoods.

/1 That being said, YouTube removed the video and episode.

We’re in the process of editing the word “vaccine” out of the episode and reposting it.

But just to be absolutely clear, we stand with the science of vaccination and we believe falsehoods need to be called out.

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