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!

/thread!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli The list of speakers is pretty...

Solid.

Brace yourselves ya'll.

There's some legit heavy hitters here as well.

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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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 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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There’s some stunning info in the new @ParklandInst report on surgeries in Alberta…

And it seems pretty clear that private for profit surgeries are choking out the public system.

(Link will be in last post)

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli To start with, procedures in privately owned, for profit but funded with taxpayer dollars have increased by 55%.

Sounds good right?

The payments of taxpayer dollars have gone up 179%!

179%!

And procedures are costing 79% more!

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So what’s the Cole’s notes of the corrupt care scandal?

Strap in!

Because there’s a lot!

/1 Back in the early days of the pandemic, hundreds of millions of dollars of PPE and masks from a company that previously had worked in oilfield.

Allegedly, some of those masks gave healthcare workers rashes and made them sick…

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As promised here is Day 1 of “A Document a Day!”

Or…

When is “fully paid up front”…

Not?

Here, we have a recently completed FOIP we did where we asked for a list of everything AHS has ever purchased from MHCare!

There’s a lot of stuff!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Did you know about the millions of COVID tests? 

(We didn’t)

Maybe that explains why some tests were branded so much like the Parol?

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There are good people still in government.

How do we know?

After our episode on the skybox network, we received a number of documents.

Today’s Globe & Mail report is prompting us to release one.

If authentic, they show direct govt intervention on behalf of ASG.

#abpoli

/1 If authentic, this is the first page of a ministerial order signed by Adriana Lagrange declaring that because of the disintegration of AHS, government would be mandating Chartered Surgical Facilities.

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So…

Since we’re all living in the end times now…

And we know that media “outlets” and content creators are getting money from the UCP and the provincial government…

It feels like maybe it’s time to talk about Mark from Toronto.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Because…

We have some questions.

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SPECIAL FOIP THREAD!

A few months ago on an unplanned visit to the Counter Signal, we noticed something weird and oddly familiar.

Banner ads advertising for the Government of Alberta.

Not dissimilar from the ones that the Western Standard runs...

/1 You might remember that we FOIP'ed the Western Standard ads and while we didn't get how much money the Alberta Government sent to the Western Standard, we did get a list of the campaigns.

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We’ve been trying to make sense of this for a couple of days now…

And with people outraged at Nenshi for saying 44 pounds of fentanyl isn’t that much…

How did this whole thing become a thing?

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli On December 16th, Nenshi posted this video wherein he claimed that 44 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the Alberta Montana border…

This is the video that the UCP were able to flip into the “Nenshi doesn’t care about fentanyl”.

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Smith is having a presser to announce a $29 million spend on a new unit for the Sheriff’s.

She’s getting new vehicles, drones and creating a 2 KM buffer on the border, invoking the critical infrastructure defense act, & putting the sheriff’s in charge.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli Mike Ellis - We’ve gotta get control the 298 km because drug traffickers and gun drealers are crossing the border!

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 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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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 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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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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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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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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?!?'

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

/1 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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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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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 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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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 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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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.

#abpoli

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

/2

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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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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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 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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