Important reminder to everyone that @bostonpizza is a member of the Conservative anti-labour lobby group, Restaurants Canada, which opposes living wages for workers and supports the #UCP and their anti-2SLGBTQ+ social policies.

Jordon Holm is listed as a board member.

https://twitter.com/bostonpizza/status/1761814922139193739

Receipts. In this thread 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1374459101380444160?s=46&t=MjbX4eyLh1WbV5xfjJKc5w

If you want to find a list of vilains in the province—and their sponsors—just pay attention to the companies who advertise on the boards.

Many will have ties to Conservatives. An obvious connection is Jason Kenney, former lobbyist for the so called Canadian Taxpayer Federation, who is now on the board of the Alberta Trailer Company.

Somehow ATCO has become a behemoth in overcharging you to get heat.

This is the future that people like Murray Edwards, The Irvings, Exon, and other oil companies made for us. This is the future that Conservatives and other neoliberals enabled through capitalism. Only the future is now.

Drill, baby. Drill. https://t.co/qbOC4wmW4J

https://twitter.com/postcarbonsteve/status/1671588606375522304

Have you ever watched a pot boil? A bubble of steam forms at the bottom of a pot and erupts outward to the surface of the water.

Now we’ve got a sort of slow moving “bubble” of heat getting “stuck.”

Look at it.

https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1671275494229065731?s=20

Canada is experiencing it’s worst wildfire season. There are tremendous issues with unaffordable housing and homelessness. Drug poisoning is now the leading cause of death in BC.

And this is what Conservatives do with their time in Parliament.

https://twitter.com/jeneroux/status/1671548859221155844

Let’s look at some of the ghouls jumping on this complete-waste-of-government-time bandwagon.

Here’s usual suspect “I don’t know how this works” Lantsman wasting time.

Few Canadians have caused more harm to the world than Murray Edwards. The Irving dynasty is one of them. For generations they have ruled New Brunswick with an iron fist. Irving considering exiting the oil business is a big deal.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ne… The Irving family is one of the largest land owners in the world. For generations they have robbed the citizens of New Brunswick and of Canada.

mondediplo.com/2019/04/13cana…

Four years ago I launched this account with the intent to be a sh!t-posting satire account in the lead up to the 2019 election.

In that time, much has changed. Including me.

1/x For one thing, I learned that good satire is reeealy hard to do.

Some people on here make it look easy. To those who can find humour in dark times, that is your gift, and I thank you.

I pretty much gave up on being a satire account.

2/x

Having a peak at right-wing media sources.

Here’s how the CTF is framing the NDP’s economic policy.

How much profit does a business have to be bringing in to pay $100k or even $500k in provincial taxes at current rates? Rebel media implies that the #UCP is the healthcare party!

A letter from doctors to the province:

“Despite our best efforts to provide comprehensive and accessible care 24-hours a day, 7-days a week, we are increasingly unable to do so.”

Things are bad. Screen shots incoming. 1/ “650,000 Albertans are without a family doctor. This is due, in no small part, to the destabilisation of primary care through government policy.”

🚨 albertadoctors.org/services/physi… 👀

In 2016 I predicted the results of the American election by scrolling some active social media places and counting how many times the candidates were named. Trump was mentioned at a ratio of more than 4:1 over Hillary. We know how that went.

https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1586931149892616192

It didn’t matter that almost every article posted about Trump was negative. It didn’t matter that people we calling out that he was bad. Republicans had dominated the ever-important attention economy to gain an edge at the polls.

rand.org/pubs/perspecti…

In January 2000, Darrell Night was abandoned outside Saskatoon by two police officers. He is remembered for speaking out against this practice of "Starlight Tours."

Night passed away earlier this month at age 56. Two officers were convicted in Night's case. Investigations into the deaths of Naistus and Wegner were inconclusive.

Night was essentially kidnapped, taken away and left to die on an extremely cold winter night on the outskirts of Saskatoon.

cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

The “order” part of “law and order” has always been about keeping the “lesser” classes in line.

Policing in Canada grew out of gangs that were hired to beat Indigenous people and break worker’s strikes.

What @sunrickbell outlines is promises of violence.

https://twitter.com/sunrickbell/status/1625863585758068742

Here’s a thread that I wrote a while ago about the history of “order” in Calgary and Canada.

The other term for “order” is police brutality.

Making streets feel “safe” means getting police off them, @sunrickbell. 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1384690643809669121

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Because the wealthy own the largest channels that most people use to inform themselves, the narratives that challenge their dominance will never reach as wide an audience as they deserve.

#KlondikePapers

https://twitter.com/Pick61989/status/1619048624708816896

Those with wealth will use their power to suppress criticism and dissent. When criticism and dissent slips past their mass media conglomerates, there is always the courts—which have been built to protect the wealthy.

https://twitter.com/klondikepapers/status/1617220819070885888

I’ve seen estimates suggesting that as many as 1 in 48 people in Alberta have a covid infection right now.

https://twitter.com/tryangregory/status/1618623000311660546

This is a pretty big deal when you consider that such a large % of people experience long-term symptoms after covid.

https://twitter.com/moriartylab/status/1617207708138229762?s=46&t=ahhhmS1H-YeHcSKV3a1kzQ

Anti-democratic forces like the #KochNetwork were used as a template for the same sort of corruption in Canada. Similar groups in Canada have incubated the careers of both #UCP premiers of Alberta.

https://twitter.com/Tentoads4truth/status/1614102396740980736

Here’s a list of Canadian Atlas Partners in Canada. Pay attention to the names of these organizations. You’ll see them come up again and again.

Conservative twitter is a wild place with wild beliefs… Where do these “Conservative” ideas come from?

Some of these paranoid conspiracies originate from hate farms like Rebel Media, or the so called “True North Centre.”

@HeatherMoAndCo put together a thread on TNC some time ago. 👇

https://twitter.com/heathermoandco/status/1366519261523562500?s=46&t=ACiYwXgvqGz6Z5jXu8Pd-A

I still report anti-vaxx accounts for encouraging self-harm. Typically the people behind these accounts will let their veil slip. The “PureBlood” label they apply to themselves evokes white supremacist and fascist undertones. “The phrase (pure-blood) was popularized by J.K. Rowling’s villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series as a way to distinguish between those with “pure” wizard ancestry and everyone else,”drawing parallels with the Nazi doctrine of the “master race.”
vice.com/en/article/7kv…

A tale of two headlines, months apart.

To deal with *labour shortages* “The Alberta government invested $8 million earlier this fall to create 69 “micro-credential programs” over two years.” After “$690 million worth of cuts they have imposed on post-secondary schools.” #abed “The @albertaNDP supports micro-credential programs, but the program is a tiny fraction of the $690 million worth of cuts they have imposed on #abpse schools. The #UCP’s] policies leave Albertans behind.”—@davideggenAB

calgary.citynews.ca/2022/12/02/alb…

What Conservatives want for Canada:

“For more than 14% of people who use insulin in the U.S., insulin costs consume at least 40% of their available income, a new study finds.”

news.yale.edu/2022/07/05/ins… In the news this week:

https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1591167058917478400?s=46&t=txcl7QiYyOHuR-vQPRRj8w

Because Alberta diverts almost $300 MILLION per year FROM public education to subsidize elite private schools—to subsidize the rich—there is less funding to support your child. (See linked thread below.)

Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged

https://twitter.com/risdonshawna/status/1574066520241901568

The diversion of tax money to from public education to subsidize the rich is why Alberta public schools have some of the highest school fees and highest bus fees in the country. 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301268159165472768?s=21&t=QrRtXyFMQJzpuwynFP-cnQ

Pollution remains unhealthy around #Calgary due to ongoing wildfires in the mountains.

Climate change is real. The fact that events like this happen almost every. single. year. is frightening. What kind of future are we leaving for today’s children?

aqicn.org/station/canada…😬

https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1566069316327723009

It is widely understood that wildfires are worsened by climate change.

cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/…

The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton. Alberta and British Columbia passed laws that created eugenics programs, in 1928 and 1933 respectively.

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1540706115909931008

2,822 Albertans and over 200 British Columbians were sterilized through these programs. In 1937 Alberta amended its Sexual Sterilization Act to remove the need for informed consent for sterilization.

eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/world