Poilievre screams he will cut taxes, fire the gatekeepers, make powerful paycheques. Those who think this will help them get ahead are the same people that do not understand LIFE WILL COST MORE! #cdnpoli They don’t ask these questions…1/10 What SERVICES will he cut? What will he PRIVATIZE? 2/

I’m appalled by the nefarious media takeover in this country as it advances in the shadows (and more and more covertly as it becomes normalized) without any serious analysis of it because media will not hold itself to account. 1/5 It’s manipulation and Cambridge Analytics on an explosive scale. It’s a digital war on all progressive power around the globe and it works to turn populations in on themselves to assure continued exploitation by the wealthiest. 2/5

In Alberta, our conservative premier has been in hiding from media and from accountability for over a month (at behest of O’Toole we think). Before that, he was on vacation and completely absent for 3 weeks or more. We’re in the 4th wave w almost nothing to stop it. 1/4 Our healthcare system is collapsing and all surgeries are cancelled except the most dire. Even cancer and transplant surgeries are cancelled indefinitely. Our UCP conservative gov IS NOT EVEN TRYING TO STOP THIS! 2/4

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Dear Canadians: This was the Lib budget passed in July. It is the most progressive budget from any government in Canada in many decades. THESE are the kinds of progressive investments that allowing Conservatives to win will destroy. 1/5 #Elxn44 #cdnpoli budget.gc.ca/2021/report-ra… Attacks on Trudeau will pile on in last election week. JWR’s vendetta book is coming and is already being heavily promoted by the Conservatives. It’s another smear campaign designed to destroy Trudeau’s campaign. That’s the sole purpose. /2

ANY progress that improves the financial well-being of and gives a louder voice to workers, families, women, Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. will be fought against - HARD by extremely powerful, global, autocratic wealth interests. 1/4 Trudeau has become the target because he dared to prioritize the needs of citizens with CERB, CEWS, $10/day childcare that increases labour participation of women and improves lives of families, pharmacare and he stands for public health care. 2/4

Common sense: As much as it may suck to some die-hard NDP supporters, the ONLY way to beat Conservatives and avoid the minority rule of Conservative ‘values’ is to unite the progressive vote under the Liberals in all ridings where the Liberals are stronger than NDP (most). 1/12 In ridings where NDP is strongest, Liberals must unite under NDP and vote for the NDP candidate. /2

Fellow Canadians: the corporate class owns almost all media, social media, pollsters and the Conservative party. It’s working hard to stop you from voting Liberal bc they can win and the wealthy do not want them to win. They want money. They want power. 1/5 They want privatization, they want relaxation of environmental regs so they can extract profits from coal, from producing carbon. They do not want $$ helping families for childcare or pharmacare bc there are more opportunities to extract bigger tax credits from Conservatives. /2

Health care - thread. 1/18
#Elxn44: our health care system is vulnerable as #COVID19 has exposed its limits and significantly so in some provinces due to decisions made or not made by provinces to reduce spread. #cdnpoli #healthcare 2. I am no expert but I have worked for 10 years in senior leadership in outsourcing in the public sector and I know how things work that the public does not see. There are reasons in privacy legislation the public is denied access to failures of outsourcing and escalating costs

Dear. Canada,
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of our Constitution, is on the precipice of destruction as we know it. > #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli For the first time since enactment of the 1984 Charter, Conservatives see a path to remake Canada in their image. There are enough conservative premiers in place right now that if CPC win the next election, they will have the votes to enshrine their power, remake judiciary.

Outsourcing is a shift of wealth from a big reduction in workers’ pay and benefits, a reduction of training and employee development and skinnying of services and into the profits of a corporation. #abpoli #RecallKenney This is bad for the economy as it creates more unstable work for employees and less money in their hands to spend in the economy. Every dollar in workers’ hands gets spent, almost all locally. $$ shifted to corporate balance sheets do not get spent to same degree.

1. Conservative policy is to frame the economy, no matter how well it’s doing under a non-Con gov, as ‘failing’, in recession, being ‘destroyed’ in order to erode confidence, cause the economy to falter so they can position themselves as white knights. #cdnpoli #onpoli #abpoli 2. Cons will flog the recession talk in unison everywhere to get people to believe it. They’ll cite myths and anecdotes about families barely making it (some aren’t doing well as is true in any economy).

My long thread on patriarchal power, the monster that has awakened with a particular vengeance since a black man has dared to become the president of the United States and a white woman was popular enough to be the next. /Thread #cdnpoli #Patriarchy #USA #Brexit White patriarchs can only cling to absolute power by excising democracy and installing autocracy and Fascism. We are seeing the rise of a real nationalism movement today - a backlash against human progress that exposes the corrupt power propping white men.

Seems the UCP AGM was a bigger disaster for Alberta than thought. Kenney mocking media to applause. Kenney trying to take AB out of Canada Health Act. Kenney ‘studying’ an AB revenue agency. Kenney ‘studying’ its own provincial police force... Appalling. Thread. #abpoli #ableg #UCPAGM2019 hate everything democracy stands for. They see equality as their enemy which makes women their target (and I think their #1 target since they are 50% of population), people of colour, LGBTQ+,

Canada’s talking heads NEVER ask the right questions about Alberta. They are woefully incurious about what’s driving the bizarre hatred for Trudeau & one-party rule. There’s no daylight between RW politicians & the oil lobby. #cdnpoli #abpoli #WEXITALBERTA #cdnmedia There’s been a decades long steady diet of disinformation about Equalization emanating from RW media (and in AB, it’s almost all RW media), oil lobbyists, talk radio and politicians.