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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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."
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#abed
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
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/
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
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
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
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.
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
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
If I were Alberta I would simply build passenger rail between my two major cities, instead of relying on outdated and dangerous automobile transportation 🚄
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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.
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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
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
“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
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.
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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
@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.
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
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
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:
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.
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
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.
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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
@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.
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!
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
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:
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!
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.
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
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.
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Here's Dr Hinshaw explaining why easing gathering restrictions in stage 3 might actually discourage people from having large gathering.
#yeg
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#ableg
#covid19ab
"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
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.