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NEW EP: Sous les pavés: Student radicalism from the ’60s to today
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the trains love how it feels too. tickles their train tummies
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I do like the idea, look, feel and effects of having trams running through grass.
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@BertaAdvantage
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US ambassador to the UN, after vetoing a Gaza ceasefire resolution: “We will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a Final Solution.” 👍👍👍
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how it started: how it’s going:
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@BertaAdvantage
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watch until the end for a surprise 😊
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@BertaAdvantage
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Alberta now receives more revenue from students (tuition: $1.35B) than oil/gas royalties ($1.2B). 🤠 #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
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Alberta will phase out diploma exams, and in their place, graduating students will have to successfully sell one (1) used car. The test will be named "Shaping Alberta's Future." #ableg #abed
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@BertaAdvantage
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Jason Kenney should be forced to work off the $1.5 billion debt he just incurred by working a service job at the lower-than-minimum-wage youth wage. It’ll only take him 39,515 years. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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the elephant in the room: if we can force divestment from genocide, we can force divestment from fossil fuels
@LaurieAdkin
Laurie Adkin
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No one is asking why it is so hard for the executives of universities to do what students, staff, and faculty are demanding: transparently disclose the institutions' investments in companies with ties to Israel; commit to divesting from genocide; respect civil rights. 1/
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Loving the 2021 Calgary Stampede poster!!
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@BertaAdvantage
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3 years
Imagine a national Chinese paper running an opinion piece titled "Regime change in Canada is not only possible, it is imperative"
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Friends, please *DO NOT* post this image on your social media platforms. Tyler Shandro, Minister of Health, may show up on your lawn and yell at you through tears. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
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Dan Williams is now the Minister of Health and Addiction for the Government of Alberta. In March 2023 he chugged a beer in the Legislature. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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We are donating 100% of our Spotify revenue to Antifa.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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accept it? nay, we demand it
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Refugee of Venezuelan socialism that met Kenney in a food court: please reach out to us, we would love to talk. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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In 1999 and 2003, students at the University of Calgary set up a tent city to protest tuition increases and a lack of affordable student housing. Police did not intervene. #yyc #ableg @UCalgary
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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just one more cop bro. i promise bro just one more cop and it'll fix everything bro. bro. just one more cop. please just one more. one more cop and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one more cop i promise bro. bro bro please i just need one more cop thats i
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@BertaAdvantage
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living in Alberta like
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Emoji Mashup Bot 🫡
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😬 grimacing + 🤠 cowboy =
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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this will definitely be used for strikebreaking
@AshleyBurkeCBC
Ashley Burke
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Liberal Justin Trudeau, his wife & son met with a healthcare workers in a Vancouver. He announced if re-elected, he would make it a criminal offence for protestors to block access to healthcare buildings including hospitals, vaccine clinics, pharmacies, & abortion clinics.
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@BertaAdvantage
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Asking for time off from a retail job at the GAP will now be illegal. Also, a demonstration on how to do math! #ableg #abed
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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never expected this to happen again
@superkosar
Kosar
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fire in Fort McMurray as seen from abasand. we’re currently evacuating right now. never expected this to happen again, this is insane.
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@BertaAdvantage
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Danielle Smith: conservative voices are being silenced!
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
Canada Day should become a day of mourning until we figure out what to do with this cursed country.
@cspotweet
Courtney Theriault
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BREAKING: 751 unmarked graves at a former residential school in Saskatchewan.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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An Edmonton statue of Frank Oliver, a federal MP and Minister who was instrumental in the removal of Indigenous people from their land, appears to have received a fun new paint job. #yeg #ableg #cdnpoli
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
working on our Left Wexit campaign platform
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[narrator's voice] "It turned out that way more people died than they could even imagine."
@UniteAlberta
Unite Alberta
6 years
A desperate, panicked NDP has hit a new low. The Premier herself is now claiming "people will die" if Albertans vote #UCP in 2019. #smh #ableg #abpoli #UCP #cdnpoli #CPC
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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hello @jkenney I know how important your Catholic faith is to you, so just wanted to give you the latest Pope update #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
2 years
Loblaws Q3 profits: $431M Empire [Safeway/Sobeys] Q3 profits: $176.3M
@globeandmail
The Globe and Mail
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Shoplifters more aggressive as grocery store theft increases: Experts
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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cool 😎
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
@JustinTrudeau great meme, now copy the policy
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@BertaAdvantage
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Right now would be a great time for a progressive political party to: - make the link between extreme weather (polar vortex, heat dome) and climate change, - accelerate the wind-down of the industry responsible: fossil fuels, - start planning very seriously for climate mitigation
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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you can’t spell libertarian without “berta” 🤠
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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If I were Alberta I would simply build passenger rail between my two major cities, instead of relying on outdated and dangerous automobile transportation 🚄 #ableg
@RCMPAlberta
RCMP Alberta
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Travel on QEII Highway is not recommended due to weather conditions. #ABRoads
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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@profamirattaran your inability to make a distinction between a government and people is frankly stunning
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
5 years
our economy cannot withstand the comments of a Swedish schoolgirl and Bill Nye. we 👏 need 👏 a 👏 war 👏 room 👏
@ABDanielleSmith
Danielle Smith
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My column today, in case you are wondering if we really need Premier @jkenney 's energy war room - we do: Alberta's Public Sector Unions Back Doomsday Anti-Oil Campaign. #ableg
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reminder to residents of Calgary-Shaw that Rebecca Schultz is the reason Albertans do not have $10-a-day childcare #ableg
@rebeccakschulz
Rebecca Schulz
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I'm deeply disappointed that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have failed to accept the terms of an agreement with Alberta on early learning and child care funding prior to an unnecessary election call.  1/4
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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we will produce and export our oil even if it's worthless. even if it has negative value. we will not be deterred. try and stop us. we will live in bitumen pits. we will wash in tailings ponds. we will lord over sulfur pyramids. we will breathe only hydrogen sulfide. #ableg
@PnPCBC
Power & Politics
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“To the Russians, the Saudis, the special interests who’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars campaigning against the responsible development of Cdn. energy, our message today is that you will not succeed,” said @jkenney as Alta. invests in Keystone XL
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shout-out to the Vegreville Egg. absolute unit.
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@BertaAdvantage
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LIVE with COVID 🤠 LAUGH with COVID 😷 LOVE with COVID 🥰
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@jkenney Jason it's literally signed by 14 CEOs 🙄
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A&W is doing socialist realism
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@BertaAdvantage
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@NoLore very pleased that Texas is protecting our future. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
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@BertaAdvantage
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A stunning outburst from Alberta's Minister of Justice (that was later deleted) attacking a private citizen. Does @KayceeMaduYEG write these himself, or does his staff do it for him? Either option is embarrassing. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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in solidarity with Ukraine, our podcast will henceforth be banning the letters R, U, S, I, and A. we hope th help brng pece to the world and pevent the cuent conflct fom ecltng
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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new rule: you can only use the term “Real Albertan” if you were born in a hospital that Ralph Klein blew up #ableg
@PeterA_Stewart
Peter Stewart 🇲🇩🇺🇦
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@SPhillipsAB I find it so ironic that there are so many conservative politicians that were not born or raised here calling themselves “real Albertans”. As if the know what it was like growing up here under their mismanagement of our province.
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@BertaAdvantage
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🇵🇸
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Canada needs to undergo a denazification.
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@BertaAdvantage
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Alberta Freedom Index 🤠
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@BertaAdvantage
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not to be hyperbolic but Jason Kenney wants to kill you and your family
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@BertaAdvantage
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idea: austerity, but only for police departments and oil companies 💡🤔
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@JustinTrudeau @jguaido good luck with this Justin, be careful or he might declare himself interim PM of Canada
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@BertaAdvantage
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The UCP aims to sell off “most” of the Alberta Social Housing Corporation’s three thousand properties — which accounts for about twenty-seven thousand units — to the private sector over the next ten years. #ableg
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Promise made, promise kept.
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@BertaAdvantage
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[draping myself in an Israeli flag] why are you associating me with Israel’s actions, you antisemite???
@JesseBrown
Jesse Brown
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Journalists make mistakes. Some are trivial. This one is dangerous. Jews in Canada are currently being blamed for Israel’s actions. It’s the worst wave of anti-Jew hatred in Canadian history… 1/2
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@BertaAdvantage
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convenient list of class enemies here
@CADInnovators
Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI)
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BREAKING: More than 150 CEOs and Canadian tech leaders have signed an open letter calling on the federal government to stop capital gains tax hikes announced in this week's budget. Read the letter and add your name here:
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💅👑
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@maxfawcett
Max Fawcett 🇨🇦
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Canada's first female finance minister delivers her first budget. History. #cdnpoli
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@BertaAdvantage
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Very sad to see the CRA targeting Rob Anders, @jkenney 's Chastity Buddy. #ableg #cdnpoli
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@BertaAdvantage
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“I’m not mad”
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@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
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A possible strike at one of Canada’s largest meat-processing plants will almost certainly increase beef prices for consumers on a product that is already prohibitively expensive for a growing number of Canadians.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
Cenovus got $658 million thanks to your corporate tax break. We could've built 13x the housing if they just paid their taxes. #ableg
@sonyasavage
Hon. Sonya Savage, KC
4 years
Once again Canadian oil and gas is stepping up for their local community. This is how we do energy in Alberta and this is why we’re the best in the world. Excellent leadership from @cenovus
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
tfw you just bought $1.3B worth of pipeline with public money and absolutely nothing could go wrong #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
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Jason Kenney is repeating Trump's conspiracy theory— that China continued intl flights out of Wuhan, while blocking domestic flights. It's not true. Kenney is spreading xenophobic misinformation. #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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are "human rights violations" an essential service?
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@BertaAdvantage
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4 years
more of this please
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@BertaAdvantage
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@jkenney ask Devin Dreeshen, your Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, to help
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
damn sounds like they should quit
@ctvwinnipeg
CTV News Winnipeg
3 years
WATCH: Police feel burn out, bullied and stressed: survey via @jeffkeelectv
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@BertaAdvantage
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it’s dead! just let it die!!
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@BertaAdvantage
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3 years
is this equalization?
@cspotweet
Courtney Theriault
3 years
BREAKING: Alberta will be reaching out to other provinces to see if they will take our ICU patients.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
9,700 jobs in laboratories, housekeeping, food services, and laundry will be outsourced- for lower pay and conditions, all so a middleman somewhere can make a profit. #ableg #abhealth
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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@JewishEdmonton @AmarjeetSohiYEG We are disturbed and concerned by your apparent bloodlust and desire for war which fails to call for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territories to the 1967 boundaries immediately.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
I wonder if @CalgaryPolice will ever police anti-mask rallies with the same zeal 🙄
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
On one hand, you could enable a livable future. On the other hand, you could bail out one of the most powerful and environmentally damaging industries on the planet. So hard to choose!
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Steve Allan handed a $905,000 sole-source contract to law firm Dentons (where his son Toby is a partner) and has delayed his "Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns" several times while "working remotely" from Palm Springs🤠 #ableg
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
Jason Kenney laid off 11,000 health care workers during a pandemic. That's not how you treat friends or allies. 🤠
@jkenney
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
The United States is our most important ally & trading partner. As friends & allies, we are deeply disturbed that one of @POTUS first actions was to rescind the Presidential permit for Keystone XL Pipeline border crossing. That’s not how you treat a friend & ally. My statement:
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@BertaAdvantage
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Alberta, where your first drunk driving incident is free 🍻 🤠 #ableg
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
Murderers don't follow murder bans. By definition, they're involved in unlawful use of murder. So banning murder isn't really an effective step to fight murder crimes!
@jkenney
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
4 years
Criminals don't follow gun bans. By definition, they're involved in unlawful use of firearms. So banning firearms for law-abiding gun owners isn't really an effective step to fight gun crime, when it’s predominantly tied to gangs and drugs.
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Talking about "centrism" is ultimately about normalizing one's views and passing it off as commonplace and common-sense. It's an empty container, a weasel word meant to broadcast the writer's views as "normal." 1/6
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@ryanjespersen
Ryan Jespersen
3 years
Both extremes are toxic, exhausting, and best ignored. #RealTalkRJ
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
5 years
The City of Calgary should cancel the $275 giveaway to the Calgary Flames (co-owned by N. Murray Edwards who just got a huge tax break for CNRL) until they can guarantee funding for essential services. #yyccc #yyc
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
5 years
do industry leaders know they can just stop firing people while they make record profits? #ableg #elxn43
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
“If we loosen the rules those that were breaking the rules will suddenly follow the rules.” Science!
@cspotweet
Courtney Theriault
3 years
Here's Dr Hinshaw explaining why easing gathering restrictions in stage 3 might actually discourage people from having large gathering. #yeg #yyc #ableg #covid19ab
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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sad news for the people of New Brunswick... their CEO has died
@EmmaLGraney
Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦
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Arthur Irving has died, aged 93 #cdnecon
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
3 years
the glory of the unfettered free market 😌
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
2 years
Too many people have jobs, says Bank of Canada governor
@globeandmail
The Globe and Mail
2 years
Canada’s low unemployment rate is unsustainable, contributing to high inflation: Macklem
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
Conservative politics is a grift designed to rob your parents and grandparents of their retirement savings- all to make the world a worse place
@DonBraid
Don Braid
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My fave graphic so far from the UCP convention. #ableg #yyc #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli #abhealth
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
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"The average age of death from COVID in Alberta is 83, and I’ll remind the house that the average life expectancy in the province is 82,” said Kenney. Over 82 years old? Feel free to drop dead! #ableg
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
5 months
Jesse Brown in the Montreal Gazette, Dec 21 2001
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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are all the local Jewish federations posting stuff like this, or are we just lucky in Calgary
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
Anonymous wheatpaster in central Calgary... hello 🌾
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
good thing @JustinTrudeau bought a pipeline 🤠
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@BertaAdvantage
Alberta Advantage 🌾
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Who needs water when we have one of the lowest corporate tax rates in North America? 🤠 #ableg
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Alberta Advantage 🌾
4 years
by "volunteers" do you mean "minimum wage workers," some of which you gave a pay cut of $2/hr thanks to the Youth Wage? #ableg #abhealth
@shandro
Tyler Shandro 🇺🇦
4 years
Thank you to our restaurant partners, @TimHortons , @McDonaldsCanada & @awrestaurants , our franchise owners & staff members, who are distributing these masks. I ask all Albertans to be kind and respectful to these volunteers when picking up masks.
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