This is disturbing. I just heard the full speech given by Artur Pawlowski at the Coutts blockade.

Are UCP MLAs really going to stand by and say nothing about @ABDanielleSmith getting on the phone with this man?

Here are some highlights from the speech. 🧵 1/4 #ableg #abpoli The video is from February 2022. In it, Artur Pawlowski:

👉🏼 Tells the crowds there aren't enough RCMP officers or military to stop them
👉🏼 Brags that he has lost count of the criminal charges he has faced
👉🏼Tells the crowd that some might "pay the price"
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We know that many people in Calgary and Edmonton are concerned about increasing crime, but let's be clear about what's going on with the UCP's public safety announcements.

🧵 1/4 #ableg #abpoli First, the UCP have made steep cuts to affordable housing, rental supplements and other supports that provide safety and security, and that help to address the root causes of crime.

After four years of the UCP, homelessness in Edmonton has doubled. 🧵 2/

We are calling for the Ethics Commissioner to investigate whether Danielle Smith violated the Conflict of Interest Act during her protracted conversation with a man awaiting trial for inciting violence during the Coutts blockade.

Here is @MLAIrfanSabir's letter. 🧵1/8 #ableg The conversation between Danielle Smith and Artur Pawlowski showed the Premier using her office inappropriately to further an individual's private interests contrary to the provisions of the Conflicts of Interest Act. That is what we asking the Commissioner to investigate. 🧵2/

Wow. A leaked cell phone video has just revealed the true extent of Danielle Smith’s coordinated political interference in the justice system on behalf of those charged following the Coutts blockade.

🧵 1/9 #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg The video appears to capture a Jan 2023 call between Danielle Smith and street pastor Artur Pawlowski, who faces charges of breaching a release order and mischief for inciting people to block public property at the Coutts border crossing in Jan 2022. 🧵 2/

Shocking. Danielle Smith is spending six times what the Kenney government spent on advertising.

She spent $4M in January and February alone! (An entire provincial election campaign has a spending cap of $3.2M.)

She's using Albertans’ money to prop up her campaign. 🧵1/4 #ableg Figures released to the Alberta NDP on Tuesday afternoon show the Government of Alberta spent more than $4 million on advertising in January and February alone, a roughly six-fold increase — 614 per cent to be exact — over the $658,000 spent during the same months in 2022. 🧵 2/4

Wow. @ABDanielleSmith has been caught lying to Albertans again.

She claims that all of her advocacy for her $20 billion handout has been in public. Lobbyist records prove that was a lie.

🧵 1/6 #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg On Monday, Smith was asked if her time as a lobbyist for her $20 billion handout is a conflict of interest now that she is pushing for this plan as premier.

Smith responded that “All of the advocacy that I ever did was always in public.” 🧵 2/6

No one is talking about the most underhand part of Danielle Smith's plot to land you with your Most Expensive Summer Ever.

It involves her electricity payment deferral scheme—a plan to pile costs onto bills after the election.

And it's even worse than you think 👇🏼

🧵 1/ #ableg After the UCP lifted the Alberta NDP rate cap, electricity rates shot up.

Recently, the UCP brought in a program where any charges over 13.5c/KWh go into a debt repayment program to be paid back by Albertans on the Regulated Rate Option (RRO) between Apr 2023 and Dec 2024. 🧵2/

A short history of Danielle Smith on healthcare. 🧵 1/ #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg In 2019, when Jason Kenney's UCP were gutting public services, Smith complained that they were "not going far enough fast enough" and that they did too much to spare "health and education from the knife". 🧵 2/

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In June, @ABDanielleSmith promised to scrap the UCP's unprecedented fee to access Kananaskis if she became Premier.

Is she going to live up to her words and repeal this levy, which piles costs onto Albertans who are already facing an affordability crisis? 🧵 1/5 #ableg #abparks After nearly a half century of being open for Albertans, the UCP imposed the Kananaskis Conservation Pass in 2021, which has taken around $15 million dollars from Albertans accessing their own backyards. 2/ 🧵

Wow. An @albertaNDP freedom of information request shows that the UCP spent millions of dollars advertising to Albertans about affordability programs, some of which do not even exist.

They're spending your money to lie about how they're saving you money. 🧵 1/7 #ableg #yyc #yeg Albertans are struggling through a cost of living crisis, the with costs of food, utilities, fuel and more going through the roof. 🧵 2/

It's one month since Danielle Smith was sworn in as Premier.

Here are a few things she's done IN ONE MONTH. #ableg 🧵 1/15 She began by calling people who refused vaccination "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."

From day one, she had no understanding of the province she wants to lead, or the struggles of the diverse people who call Alberta home. 🧵 2/

This morning, @RachelNotley spoke to the Rural Municipalities of Alberta, outlining the @albertaNDP's key commitments to rural Alberta.

Here are some of them. 👇🏼 🧵 1/

#ableg #abpoli #medhat #ruralma @RuralMA First, and I can't believe I have to say this, we won't require any municipal councillors to register as lobbyists.

It is incomprehensible to us that the UCP think this is the way to treat local leaders. 🧵 2/ #ableg

A brief history of the UCP government so far.🧵 #ableg They came roaring out of the gates with a $4.7 billion corporate handout, followed by decisions to raise the cost of your income taxes, electricity, education property taxes, parks, insurance and more.

Corporations over people from day one. 🧵 #ableg calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…

I was shocked by the UCP's scandalous decision to fire Dr. Verna Yiu, but the truth is this is just the latest battle in their war on public healthcare.

Here's a brief summary (and buckle up, this gets wild) 👇🏼🧵 1/25 #ableg #abhealth calgary.ctvnews.ca/dr-verna-yiu-f… First, know that @jkenney has supported two-tier healthcare for decades. This is from 2000: "A Canadian Alliance government would support the development of a two-tier health-care system... Alliance campaign co-chairman Jason Kenney says." 2/ theglobeandmail.com/news/national/…

As the Provincial representative for the Beltline, I’ve been hearing from constituents on the impacts of the long-running Saturday rallies in our community.

Here's some of what I've heard (identities removed for safety)👇🏼

🧵 1/20 #ableg #yyc #yycbeltline globalnews.ca/news/8661504/c… First, a warning: this thread contains some highly disturbing content. 2/

Alberta’s NDP fully supports the right to protest. However, as MLA for Calgary-Buffalo I feel a duty to speak out against the challenges that my constituents have been facing in recent months.

Watch my video and read my full statement below 🧵 1/7 #yyc @4thStreetYYC @yycbeltline We have seen large demonstrations occupying whole streets in the Beltline neighbourhood. Traffic has been unable to pass and many businesses have been forced to close, costing them much-needed revenue. 2/ #yyc

Alberta’s NDP is calling on the UCP government to reverse its decision to drive up property taxes for Albertans by increasing municipal borrowing costs.

Here's my statement 👇🏼

🧵 #ableg 1/9 Albertans are already struggling to make ends meet as they pay more for income tax, more property tax, more school fees, more tuition, more interest on student debt, more camping fees, more for auto insurance and more for utilities. #ableg 2/

I'm appalled by @jkenney's latest baseless attack on teachers. The truth is, this is a calculated move from a Premier who has been out to destroy public education from the start. #ableg #abed

Here's a brief history 👇🏼 🧵 1/21 calgary.ctvnews.ca/public-educati… He began by forcing school boards to remove the word “public” from their name.

The smile in this picture is the smile of a man who thinks he can tear down public education. 🧵 2/ #ableg #abed cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Here's a short history of #COVID19AB in quotes from @jkenney, UCP MLAs and staff.

Spoiler: from consistently undermining the threat, to spreading vaccine misinformation, to declaring "Best Summer Ever,"™️ they have got this wrong at every. single. stage.

🧵 THREAD 1/19 #ableg 1. On 27 May 2020, @jkenney called COVID-19 “an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly.”

#ableg 🧵 2/ calgary.ctvnews.ca/concern-arises…

In advance of @jkenney's 6 p.m. press conference about his botched pandemic response, let's take stock of his disastrous record.

Spoiler: from the start, his entire approach to #COVID19AB has been defined by cruelty and incompetence. #ableg THREAD 🧵 1/24 macleans.ca/opinion/what-j… He began by laying off 20,000+ education workers.

Seriously. One of his first actions was ensuring that an additional 20,000+ Albertans had to worry about paying rent, putting food on the table, buying clothes for their kids, etc., etc.

Cruel #ableg 2/24 calgaryherald.com/opinion/braid-…

If you're wondering why Alberta teachers overwhelmingly have no confidence in the Education Minister, here is a brief history of @AdrianaLaGrange's tenure.

Spoiler: she has been out to destroy public education from the start.

🧵 THREAD 1/14 #ableg #abed cbc.ca/news/canada/ed… She began by forcing school boards to remove the word “public” from their name. 2/ #ableg #abed cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…