Jason Markusoff
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Writer, editor, TV & radio talker, still on this app in spite of it all.
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A Cree elder came to a museum one summer, asking to find where his brother was buried. Farmer showed up, too, with long-faded grave markers. Inside the long quest to remember the children of Red Deer residential school:
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Fun fact: no Canadian team has ever lost an NBA Finals home game.
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I’d love to hear
@PierrePoilievre
answer this question: “What is currently the freest country in the world, and what reforms would ensure Canada surpasses that country?"
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Since the 2004 election, there have been seven premiers of Alberta.
Only Rachel Notley served an entire elected term.
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BREAKING: Trudeau to purchase United States of America for $455 trillion, hopes to find new buyer
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61 Alberta Health Services staff resignations thus far due to the vaccine requirement. Out of 108,000 staff.
Let’s see how often that denominator gets highlighted.
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Bergen: "I've never seen it as divided as it is now under this PM whether it's regional lines, whether it's ethnic lines…."
OK. Did i miss something about how Canada is suddenly at an accute period of *ethnic* division, as per the CPC leader?
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Legendary vandalism in Calgary's Ward 6. This happened when Richard
@pootmans
first ran in 2010, and he says likely boosted his name recognition.
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Thoughts and prayers for everyone who filed “Where’s the Prime Minister” columns before he popped up tonight in the Commons
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I overlooked the point in yesterday's speech where
@ABDanielleSmith
, after giving many Albertans $600 direct payments that run out by spring election, accused Ottawa of using federal tax dollars for "vote-buying arrangements"
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"While controversial, Darth Vader achieved great heights in space construction & played a formative role in his son's life"
#trudeaueulogies
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From a former chief of staff to Alberta environment minister Jason Nixon.
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Kenney, on cash for vaccine holdouts: "I wish we didn’t have to do this!"
Narrator: They didn’t have to do this. Others have done vaccine passports.
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Alberta stops mask rule in schools Monday.
A Calgary teacher texts me: "Glad they sent me 900 masks for my class yesterday!"
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Danielle Smith affirms to reporters she plans to amend the Alberta Humans Rights Act to protect "medical choice" - to ensure unvaccinated Albertans can't lose jobs, be asked for proof.
More or less putting discrimination over gender, race, sexual orientation on par w/vaccination
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I understand that election timing is still a major grumble out there, but to me it's a weak-footed chief closing argument for O'Toole to make. Like, is that really your best reason for Canadians to vote you as PM?
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For my next adventure, I start in a few weeks at
@cbccalgary
. I'll be a writer, analyst and producer. Great team, cool new job. Fun!
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As of midnight: Conservatives have more votes in Alberta than they do in Quebec and Atlantic provinces combined.
If you're wondering why they're ahead in popular vote but losing the night, this is part of the answer.
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News yesterday: Jason Kenney yesterday scoffed at the idea developing countries like India would rush to electric vehicles.
News today: India to rush billions into EV battery programs. h/t
@DiploMattie
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It's so on-brand for Trump admin to categorically insist an aide's grandma didnt die from covid, then be presented with death certificate, then dispute the death certificate. by
@DavidCornDC
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I shudder to imagine 9:30am sunrises in Calgary & Edmonton throughout December and January. That’s the outcome of voting Yes on Alberta’s daylight saving referendum. So.
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one-way traffic at supermarkets: this should be permanent.
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Tomorrow: Alberta will upgrade its “recommendation" that unvaccinated people should cap gatherings at 10…
If you're unvaccinated and post a selfie of your under-10-person gathering with the hashtag
#safeenoughAB
, you'll get a $25 gift certificate to Bass Pro Shop
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Axe the carbon tax, and you surely axe the climate action incentive "rebate." This means most families will wind up being worse off.
Solid analysis by
@CBCFletch
:
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Danielle Smith is the first Canadian leader to look at Trump's coterie of anti-Fauci doctors and say: "What wisdom can we gain from them?"
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The Encana exit was Trudeau's first chance to show Alberta he'll try harder.
He blew it.
by me
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Dating profile pic vs. dude who’s sitting across the table from you
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Shout out to some invaluable chroniclers of the Ottawa siege. :
@Justin_Ling
@judyatrinh
@MariekeWalsh
@rachaiello
@AbigailBimman
@EvanLSolomon
@ChrisGNardi
@btaplatt
@atRachelGilmore
@AnnieClaireBO
@Gray_Mackenzie
@pdmcleod
@ConsumerSOS
@withfilesfrom
@cmaconthehill
...
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Hiya.
I'm leaving Maclean's. It's been a tremendous honour to write for an intelligent magazine that so many Canadians cherish as a vital institution. 1/
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"CBC knows the names of the sources, knows where they work, and has carefully assessed the credibility of the information they offered, but agreed not to use their names so as not to put their jobs at risk." On Coutts story and Danielle Smith
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I mean, maybe Kenney’s right and the reintroduction of vaccinated-unvaxxed bar flirting and no masks in schools will not change the current downward trajectory of covid.
Maybe this will be different than the last three Alberta waves that didn’t go the way Kenney idealized.
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The shattering, absolutely shattering decisions Alberta Health Services is making in the face of a surge in child hospital patients.
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PPC’s candidate in Edmonton-Centre is named Brock Crocker. I just wanted to share that with everybody.
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@660NEWS
@TheTyee
@Tommy_Slick
@maxfawcett
What’s particularly odious about
@jkenney
’s swipe is the inherent assumption that Calgary reporters ought to be petro-patriotic hometown industry defenders; like there’s something un-Albertan about even asking about a Green New Deal or sharp transition.
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I didn’t have “Jason Kenney proposes threatening US trade sanctions” on any of my bingo cards.
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Canada: about 10,000 new cases in the last month
Florida: 10k+ new cases today
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This su{fold here}upposed news about Mad closing is inevitable in an age where advertisers have so many other choices, and nobody's kids are rushing to the supermarket magazine rack. Which revered publication is next? It's as random as how a bingo machine pi{fold here}cks balls.
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Many of us wondered about Danielle Smith's claim of Indigenous roots. Smart
@DaniParadis
looked into it. Helluva fact check.
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Danielle Smith said she was "disappointed" in media for not highlighting two agencies' letters about the need for a 7month freeze on wind and solar.
OK, so we reread the letter ... they don't say what she believes:
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With Danielle Smith struggling, NDP has opened up a more than THIRTY-POINT lead among the big chunk of Albertans in the "moderate middle" — new poll analysis by
@BDeCillia
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Fun fact: no Canadian team has ever lost a road game in the NBA Finals.
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There are surely hundreds of thousands of middle-income adults with no kids or adult children who will soon realize: "hey, other Albertans get $100 in Smithbucks every month until the election, but I won't."
May make fiscal sense to target, but some will doubtless feel shafted.
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My youngest son turns 1 at month's end. Will finally get hugged by my parents in time for his birthday, because BUBBY AND ZEE GOT THEIR SECOND DOSE TODAY!!!
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Impeccable timing!
First potentially habitable Earth-size planet discovered by TESS mission
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Our
@hutchins_aaron
interviewed the trucker in the fatal Humboldt Broncos crash, for a powerful, thoughtful piece about forgiveness and grief. Please take the time to read.
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Whooping cough outbreak in southern Alberta communities with "significantly low childhood immunization rates."
16 cases identified, 3 hospitalized.
Vaccines. They matter.
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NEW: Kenney gov't was improper, "unreasonable" and breached Public Health Act in how they lifted school mask mandates this year, judge rules.
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Side effects may include happy tears, overwhelming sense of relief.
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I can't remember hearing a politician:
a) Acknowledge how much privilege they come from.
b) Acknowledge their massive blind spot because of privilege.
c) Acknowledge they are not completely sure how often they used blackface when younger.
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Does Danielle Smith saying that she's not a media person anymore somehow innoculate her from being held accountable for past beliefs or ideas she's espoused?
It's quite the theory on political immunization.
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"UCP disqualifies candidate who equated vaccine rules to Nazi regime" — a headline from last November
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On Jason Kenney’s third abject failure in four covid waves, and what it has meant for Alberta. New by me:
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In which the chair of a non-partisan Alberta government report boasts he sent it to Conservative party's election platform team in hopes it can be useful for "attacking the record" of Liberals and NDP.
Last week, I received a very candid email from Preston Manning about his Alberta taxpayer-funded COVID-19 review panel.
Take a look.
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You damn wretched anti-vaxxers. And I say that sincerely, as the dad of an infant.
BREAKING: Alberta Health Services has put out an alert for potential measles exposure.
People at several locations in Cochrane and Calgary (list attached) may have been exposed to measles.
#yyc
@CTVCalgary
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Anne Kingston (
@anne_kingston
) wrote with passion, clear-eyed sense of justice, of right and of wrong.
A tremendous colleague who led by example how our craft can be its best.
So sad that cancer has deprived Canada and the world of Anne’s powerful voice. She died yesterday.
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Faced w/ tough question by Herald's
@SammyHudes
about taking responsibility for recent deaths while many demanded he act, Kenney calls it an NDP question and "drive-by smear," and then takes victory lap around Alberta's better actions in spring.
on his heels, Kenney gets huffy.
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Not the first time Smith has misled about who urged her to pause wind and solar development.
She also claimed 2 weeks ago that two provincial utilities agencies requested the freeze in letters. This was easily disproven by those letters.
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Huge cheers from UCP crowd when Premier Danielle Smith mentioned new Forestry, Parks and Tourism Minister Todd Loewen. He might be Canada's only cabinet minister to have not just supported but participated in the Ottawa convoy.
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Albertans who are fully vaccinated outnumuber the eligible unvaxxed more than 3:1. Kenney has given 100 fresh reasons for the safe and considerate Albertans to be spiteful of the holdout minority.
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Political writers: PLEASE retire the phrase “hand-picked” to describe aides or cabinet ministers. They’re ALL hand-picked; it doesn’t distinguish anybody. If the minister/staffer was “machine-sorted,” now that’s a detail I’d like to know about.
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After the E coli outbreak, AHS investigators found (stomach fitness warning) live cockroaches, cold foods out of temperature control for 90min, critical utensil sanitaton problem.
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For every 1,000 people justifiably repulsed by the Freeland accosted video making its rounds, there are maybe a few dozen who will celebrate it and find community around it on Facebook, Telegram and some Internet forums you don't know about. That's the tough place we're at now.
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I asked if Dr Hinshaw would feel as comfortable dining somewhere without vaccination checks as with. Alberta's CMOH said she hasn't dined in at all, in the last two years.
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There's so much to unpack in our story about the Smith-Pawlowski call.
Among them, the fact it was facilitated by the then-leader of an Alberta pro-separatist movement.
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Associate Minister of Clarifications is one of the busiest jobs in Alberta today.
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Most journalists I know would be ashen-faced if a partisan leader bashed most media and singled out their organization. But most journalists I know didn't come up through a party's comms shop.
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Danielle Smith likes to say that if we'd only have listened to this decertified Texas doctor, we could have prevented more than 80% of covid deaths.
Dr. Peter McCullough has just been stripped of his Board Certifications in cardiology and internal medicine after spending the last two years on right-wing podcasts and social media stating that covid was planned by global elites, along with other medical conspiracies.
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This is remarkable.
A premier threatening to withhold government grants for a group that wanted to require all staff or participants were vaccinated against COVID-19.
!!!! Smith suggests her government refused a ~$1.2M grant to the Arctic Winter Games unless they dropped their vaccine mandate
--- in lieu of a human rights amendment for unvaxxed, she wants to call and criticize any employer or group that still require people get covid shots
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Another old Tory endorses Alberta NDP: Jim Foster, Peter Lougheed's attorney general from 1975-1979.
He's also a retired judge. Here's his statement about the Ethics Commissioner finding that Danielle Smith inappropriately pressured her AG for Art Pawlowski's benefit"
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In the same hour, Calgary decided to resume fluoridating its water, and Alberta accepted truckloads of daycare subsidy $$.
Sure, journalist me likes good policy sense and science prevailing but parent-of-two me says F YEAH this is good for families like mine.
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And lo, did God punish the Edmontonites, for they worshipped the golden 50/50 calf as though it was a Gretzky unto itself.
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Hoo boy.
The Turkish child pain meds, with the brand name Parol, 25% weaker than typical Canadian liquid acetaminophen.
And because of that, it pharmacists will keep it behind the counter. nice story,
@ByMatthewBlack
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Alberta: the first province to have 3 woman premiers in its history.
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Wednesday evening: Flames-Oilers Game 1 — AND — results in Premier Jason Kenney’s party leadership review. Battles of Alberta.
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Coffee chain that has never served burgers tries to sell veggie burgers, and you’ll never guess what happened next.
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Trying to think of other cases where an elected leader recommends a target for a crowd of protesters, like Kenney does here for the labour group (then throwing in a "peacefully")
Premier Kenney says protesters shouldn't be angry with the Government of Alberta, pointing to PM Justin Trudeau as well as the Alberta Federation of Labour.
#yeg
#yyc
#ableg
#covid19ab
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When wanting to understand the wishes and needs of Edmonton, is it wisest to consult a "council" of unsuccessful candidates, nearly all of which failed to get more than 40% of votes in their ridings?
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@660NEWS
@TheTyee
@Tommy_Slick
@maxfawcett
@jkenney
I’m a Calgary journo who isn’t a big believer in Green New Deal or swift energy transition as Alberta’s economic saviour; I’m more incrementalist. But considering such ideas unseemly for a Calgarian is a crappy look for a political leader.
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NEW: Danielle Smith's government has erased Kenney plans to deposit $1.7B of surplus into Heritage Savings fund. Instead, money's going into the pre-election affordability payments & other short-term measures.
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Deleted tweet. Peter MacKay got into a lot less trouble when his tweets were silly, trite tautologies about Canada being strong because strong is Canada be.
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New Janet Brown poll: Alberta NDP has solid lead over UCP, which seems to have replaced Kenney with someone less popular.
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Danielle Smith to reporters: I thought he could take the carbon tax back to Supreme Court but it turns out they don't like hearing the same cases for 10 years after they ruled. So maybe if it's still around in 10 years.
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The reporter who asked about Alberta, renewables and Green New deal is
@660NEWS
’s Tom Ross.
Kenney did not field the question professionally, and wielded his version of a smear: that maybe journo worked for a Vancouver indie outlet with a green focus.
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Jason Kenney’s various plans to sue the federal government and green groups will create an estimated 45,000 legal and paralegal jobs!!
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At this Kenney news conference about new ICU beds with this bed-riddled backdrop: A good reminder how easy it is to secure a physical bed, costly for all the rest of needs and staff to serve critical care patients.
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Smith was born in 1971.
Residential schools operated in Canada until her 20s.
Same sex marriage wasn't allowed in Alberta until she was 34.
Neither were temporary liberty impairments during a global public health emergency.
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Artur Pawlowski pulled the Danielle Smith call video from his website.
We still have the full 11 minutes of audio of the extraordinary conversation between a premier and criminal defendant.
It's here:
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Alberta NDP have raised more in small-dollar* donations ($1.38M) in first half of this year than Kenney’s UCP raised among all donors ($1.36M).
Overall, NDP has brought in $2.7M, nearly doubling the governing party’s haul.
*Contributions under $250
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Michelle Rempel Garner has been rumoured to or herself mused about running in every Calgary mayoral, provincial and federal conservative leadership contest in the last decade or more.
She has stepped forward in zero of them.
Something to remember for next speculation season.
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