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It's amazing to me that literally every alternative to
@jkenney
as leader of the UCP -
@BrianJeanAB
,
@ABDanielleSmith
,
@JasonNixonAB
- is clearly worse than Kenney ... and I believe that Kenney is worst Premier in Alberta history. Let that sink in.
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Dave, I'm a teacher and as I understand it you never got the benefit of a public education delivered by professionals. That's probably why you used a period after "bullshit" and, in doing so, created a sentence fragment. Make it a single sentence next time, dude.
Dear Public Educators:
You work for us, earning our tax dollars, and if you keep up this indoctrination bullshit. We will fire you.
-The People of Alberta-
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This is what Red Deer Catholic School Board trustee (and frequent Take Back Alberta reposter) Monique LaGrange posted to her social media. Horrifying. She should resign immediately. Failing that she should be suspended and sanctioned by the board.
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OMG what a dumpster fire
@shandro
is:
- calls a doctor a liar on Sunday
- finds out she's completely right
- announces a change in policy on Monday
- never apologizes, pretends there's nothing to see here
@AB_MD_WarRoom
@Albertadoctors
@UniteAlberta
@LiciaCorbella
#abpoli
#ableg
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@TO_Resident
"We come seeking asylum from single payer health care. We demand the right to be driven into bankruptcy by outrageous health care costs. It's in one of those amendments, I'm pretty sure."
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OMG, you're the MINISTER OF HEALTH. Our hospitals are overwhelmed, and THAT'S the quote from Dr. Park that you felt you needed to highlight today? Here, let me help you out:
#abpoli
#ableg
#CovidIsntOver
@AdrianaLaGrange
@Alberta_UCP
Alberta’s government is committed to securing primary care as the foundation of the entire healthcare system and family physicians are fundamental to our plan.
Today, we’ve dedicated $200 million over two years to improve access to family physicians and help ensure primary care
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
But
@jkenney
isn't like most of us. HE sees the POLITICAL cost of vaccine passports - the fracturing of the UCP coalition - as greater than their public health benefits because HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH AS MUCH AS HE CARES ABOUT HIS ELECTORAL PROSPECTS. 10/x
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
But that's not true of Kenney: he has no credentials, no job experience, no existence outside of politics, and POLITICS IS THE LENS THROUGH WHICH HE SEES EVERYTHING. 4/x
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@hemantmehta
Thanks for this. As horrible as Billy, his son, and the Graham legacy is and will be, I'll always be glad that they gave us this:
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@nwilliamsucp
LOL. Alberta has the lowest per capita spending on education IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, while we have the largest budget surplus. Don't try to defend the indefensible.
#abpoli
#ableg
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
So here we are. Good luck, Albertans, especially those who are unvaccinated (including kids under 12). Help is not on the way. 13/13
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@JeffBallingall
When you just make stuff up without regard for facts or truth or accuracy, notes really aren't that essential.
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@jkenney
Say what you will about
@JustinTrudeau
, he had a career outside of politics: he got an ed. degree and taught for a while.Ditto for
@RachelNotley
, who worked for years as a lawyer. Most politicians were SOMETHING before they got elected: union rep, business owner, etc 3/x
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OMG read this evisceration of
@jkenney
and the
@Alberta_UCP
's ridiculous inquiry from the
@nytimes
#abpoli
#AbLeg
Alberta Took on Environmental Groups, but Only Proved They Did Nothing Wrong
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An excellent question from
@MattWolfAB
, one that should be posed to the
@ABEnergyCenter
regarding their employees and their expenses. Can we get the $30 million/year war room on the sunshine list, please and thank you?
@jkenney
@RachelNotley
#abpoli
#AbLeg
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@jkenney
The Coutts blockade is still going, my dude. You are the Premier, not a twitter troll (well, theoretically; you seem to wear both hats). Do your job. Get this dealt with.
And you say they "disassociate[d] themselves from symbols of hatred" ... do you have a link for that?
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
If he thought that vaccine passports would improve his now much-diminished chances for re-election he'd embrace them. But since his caucus is stuffed with MLAs who are vaccine-reluctant (or, if you prefer, Ivermectin-curious) Kenney can't do the right thing for public health 11/x
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Exactly this. While
@jkenney
vacationed - or, more accurately, disappeared (Albertans had no notice that he was gone, no idea when he was to return) - our health workers were pulling double and triple shifts and facing potential mandatory recall.
#abpoli
#ableg
#ResignKenney
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If someone tells you that Alberta teachers need to "share the pain" with oil patch workers, tell them to slow their roll.
@albertateachers
#abpoli
#ABleg
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@pjtaillon
Your government just cut my mom's Seniors Financial Assistance funding for a personal response system - in case she falls or needs help - because "these changes will ensure our programs are financially sustainable." You'll borrow from pipelines but not for people. CPP for me.
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Yay! I get my name back!
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@PremierScottMoe
Dude, it was clearly NOT the Federal Minister who raised the issue. It was First Nations representatives, and they raised the issue in the context of Treaty rights - treaties which were signed between First Nations and the crown (which, in this case, would be the federal gov.).
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@BrianJeanAB
Dude, Trudeau literally bought it so it could be twinned? And before you go all "the free market should have been able to build it like used to happen," THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUILT THE ORIGINAL PIPELINE TOO!
So don't been that way: say "thank you" to Trudeau and Notley!
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@jkenney
He's a university dropout who went into politics at a young age and has stayed in politics ever since. And that's actually pretty rare for a politician.
Y'know how conservatives LOVE to mock Trudeau as "the drama teacher"? 2/x
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@jkenney
Dude! You spent $3.5 million dollars of taxpayer money on this nothingburger and you didn't even read it???
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Can we all just acknowledge that the UCP got a heckuva head start in this election? If we had anything resembling representation by population the NDP should've gotten 4 more seats the other night ...
#abpoli
#ableg
@TheBreakdownAB
@RachelNotley
@bmasonNDP2
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How DARE they quote her - accurately - in this manner?
Politics is becoming disgusting in Alberta…the NDP have no shame.
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@sunrickbell
'You have defamed me by accurately quoting what I said on video!'
Good luck with that.
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@GlobalEdmonton
Wait ... wouldn't the
@CMOH_Alberta
have needed to ensure that the information was "synthesized" and "put together" in order to present the decision to cabinet in the first place? Didn't cabinet insist on seeing the evidence before deciding?
This IS a cabinet decision, remember.
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David Parker and Take Back Alberta are coming for school board trustee elections in 2025. Anyone who values education needs to get involved.
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
without having a bunch of MLAs walk out and start a new party. And in Kenney's "all politics all the time" mind THAT is a worse outcome than having the delta variant run buck-wild through Alberta's unvaccinated population. 12/x
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
So while most of us see vaccine passports as a no-brainer because we are thinking of the issue in terms of public health and defeating the pandemic, Kenney's internal dialogue on the matter goes something like this:
5/x
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@DonBraid
Don, please remember to mention that Smith straight up lied during the election campaign.
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Discovery math isn't a thing and has never been mandated in Alberta schools. Alberta Education debunked this nonsense all the way back in 2015. As Premier you really should know better.
#abed
#abpoli
#AbLeg
Alberta’s government enhanced the protections for parents to choose the best education for their kids. We’re also ending the recent obsession with teaching fads like discovery math to provide a strong curriculum for all.
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All it took was a) saying that he was making things up, b) providing links to show that AB's math scores are A-OK, c) providing a link to show that discovery math isn't and never was a thing in AB, and c) replying to his accusation that I was gaslighting by saying "no, you are!"
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I used to be able to book bloodwork appointments on the same day or a day in advance at most. Since Dynalife took over it's 5 days minimum.
Everything the UCP touches turns to crap.
Minister
@JasonCoppingAB
it’s getting almost impossible to get timely bloodwork done in yyc. Prior to
@dynaLIFE
taking over you could usually book an appointment 5 - 7 days out. Since
@dynaLIFE
you’re looking at 4 - 6 weeks out or more. Is the next move 1/2
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
2. "BUT ... I promised my caucus that we would never do that. And if I break that promise I just know that it'll fracture the "united" conservative coalition and this party will shatter again and the right will be split going into the next election. And we can't have that!" 8/x
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@patdubois
Whoa. Alberta feels your pain. Check out this "Moose at School" poster from the Alberta Government from several years ago. (yes, it's legit)
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@UCPCaucus
You’re calling a corporate tax rate change from 8% to 12% a 50% increase.
Okay. AB’s unemployment rate was 6.6% in September 2019. It jumped to 11.7% in September 2020. By your UCP gorilla math that’s a MASSIVE 77% unemployment increase on
@jkenney
’s watch. Oy.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
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@rebeccakschulz
Soooo ... why was Saskatchewan able to say yes? BC? Manitoba?
This seems like an Alberta problem, not an Ottawa problem. Do your job. Albertans need support for child care.
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@peteremcc
Doxxed, LOL. Posting where a person RUNNING FOR PREMIER OF THE PROVINCE is DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN seems like fair game, my dude.
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
1. "Oh boy ... this fourth wave is out of control. We were wrong in July. 70% vaccination isn't getting it done; ICUs are filling up and people are DYING. We need to boost vaccination rates to 85 or 90%. We've tried the lottery. We've even tried gift cards ... 6/x
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@jkenney
Yo sparky,
@RicMcIver
sent a letter to the feds on February 5 "requesting federal assistance that includes the provision of equipment and personnel to move approximately 70 semi-tractor trailers and approximately 75 personal and recreational vehicles from the area.” Pick a lane.
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
... I guess the carrot didn't work ... time for the stick. Vaccine passports here we come!" 7/x
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@jkenney
@JustinTrudeau
@RachelNotley
Most of us would, upon reading that little dialogue, would come down squarely on the side of
#1
: of course you have to choose the path that most effectively addresses the pandemic and finally puts this thing to bed. 9/x
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@PremierScottMoe
I hope you remembered to consult neglectful, abusive, and transphobic parents, because those folks exist (although they are a small minority), and their responses will be VERY enlightening.
It's not schools or gov vs. parents. It's STUDENT SAFETY vs the parents' right to know.
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@ABDanielleSmith
@JustinTrudeau
Speaking of misogynists, did you ever comment on Elliot McDavid's intimidation of Chrystia Freeland and her staff? Because if not, you really should.
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@AdrianaLaGrange
The UCP is cutting education funding, a move that'll lead to mass layoffs of Educational Assistants and others. They're doing this to pass those costs on to federal programs like EI.
In a few months the UCP will criticize the feds for running deficits.
Never forget.
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@lamphieryeg
He can't delay the election past 5 years, per the constitution. If the next election doesn't result in a majority and the Libs and the NDP have enough seats to form government either as a minority (with agreement) or a formal coalition, that's called "winning the election."
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@jengerson
It also includes "Supporting Israel" and "Israel Bonds Raffle." Those seem significant, do they not? It's clearly politicized, "children's program" aside. Based on what's being said it wasn't so political in years past. You can disagree with Gondek, but she's not all wrong.
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@AdrianaLaGrange
Just to clarify: pro-oil only in Alberta classes? Because that’s a political decision too.
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Could someone PLEASE address the David Parker problem in education?
@ABDanielleSmith
@Alberta_UCP
@ABSchoolBoards
@CASSalberta
@demetriosnAB
#abed
#ableg
#abpoli
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Minister LaGrange, where did you get these numbers? Education spending was 5.3 billion in 2004/2005; your government has frozen Education department spending at 8.2 billion today and for the next several years. That's a 54% increase, not 80%. 1/2
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@DuaneBratt
@JenniferYeremiy
LOL. "Your Honour, the CBC wrote a news story claiming that I and my staff did what I had repeated promised to do during the UCP leadership campaign. It's an outrage!"
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Danielle Smith is gonna "break the back of crime" ... except for criminals that she agrees with. For those folks she's going to call prosecutors "almost weekly" and put pressure on them to drop the cases.
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Okay, is Monique LaGrange trying to become the Tamara Lich of anti-trans bigots? "Come out and learn how to get involved in your community and your province?" For real? And what the heck is "Voice of the West"? Is that a TBA post embarrassment rebrand?
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@DuaneBratt
@ABDanielleSmith
Smith promised to do EXACTLY what the CBC story says that she did (through her staff): put her finger on the prosecutorial scale. She made that promise repeatedly, and on camera.
She's in no position to be all "how dare you suggest I'd do this thing?" that she vowed to do.
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@DuaneBratt
@ABDanielleSmith
I have a LOT more confidence in
@elisevonscheel
,
@CBCmeg
, and
@Jantafrench
- each having a proven track record of honesty, integrity, and stellar reporting - than I do in Smith or anyone in this government.
When the choice is believing proven truth-tellers or known liars ...
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@SnarkkTank
Canadians leave their weed at home when they cross the border. For Americans it's guns.
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AB could raise tax rates and get BILLIONS more for schools and hospitals and STILL have the lowest tax rates in the nation, but this government continues to rely on resource revenues. Those resource bucks DON'T rise with population, and our pop. growth is outstripping resource $.
What did Alberta do? Commodity prices adjusted for inflation haven’t recovered to the highs of the Stelmach/Redford era and we have added population so are diluting a less valuable pot of resource $ through more people.
Alberta’s gross GDP went up 1.5% last year, but population
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Honestly, Albertans owe
@Jantafrench
an enormous debt for her relentless pursuit of the facts. We are so lucky to have her doing journalism in this province.
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@TheBreakdownAB
Also, post-secondary education - which trains doctors, including oncologists - is a PROVINCIAL responsibility. Meaning that this government can simply invest the dollars and create more spots to train oncologists if they want to. There is nothing to stop them. But they won't.
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@JesseBrown
Which rights? I was exercising rights as per usual while the EA was in effect with no problems whatsoever. If my rights were suspended, what were the things I couldn't do?
NOTE: I was NOT illegally occupying a city, nor was I funding any illegal occupations.
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If you haven’t been worried about public education in Alberta you haven’t been paying attention. Things are bad and they’re getting worse. It’s time to get involved and get LOUD!
#abed
#ableg
@albertateachers
@demetriosnAB
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Please keep this in mind when you vote, and keep in mind that Alberta has the largest budget surplus in Canada BY FAR.
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@MattWolfAB
An excellent question from
@MattWolfAB
, one that should be posed to the
@ABEnergyCenter
regarding their employees and their expenses. Can we get the $30 million/year war room on the sunshine list, please and thank you?
@jkenney
@RachelNotley
#abpoli
#AbLeg
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@jkenney
Don't forget to tell them how savagely you've cut funding for the U of A. Don't leave that part out!
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@GarrettKAlberta
Dude, the Klan doesn't get invited to Martin Luther King Day events either, and for much the same reason. Don't lecture the tiny, vulnerable trans community that your government is bullying about how they need to be more inclusive and welcoming. It's grotesque gaslighting.
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UCP: "Our finances are bad."
Public: "How bad?"
UCP: "I'd tell you but I'd have to fire a bunch of public sector workers."
Public: "Aren't you going to do that anyway?"
UCP: "Yes, but not until after the federal election."
#AbLeg
@UniteAlberta
@jkenney
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If you're wondering why the UCP government has been blowing their western separatist dogwhistle and picking a curriculum fight with teachers, this might explain things.
@jkenney
and company (
@UniteAlberta
) don't want to discuss the AB economy right now.
#ableg
@albertateachers
The
@ConfBoardofCda
lowers its forecast for Alberta's economic growth. They project -0.8% in 2019 +2% in 2020. Both years are worse than their prior Spring forecast, which were -0.1% and +2.7% respectively.
#cdnecon
#ableg
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@JyotiGondek
If Premier Kenney took truth serum before addressing the press today it would look something like this.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
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Am I the only one who is DYING to hear what current Status of Women Minister
@RonOrrMLA
has to say?
#abpoli
#ableg
Ariella Kimmel is an incredible and courageous women. Premier Kenney-you knew! Step down! Sean Chu-you were sexually inappropriate with a minor!! Step down! Enough is enough. To say I have lost confidence is an understatement.
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@ToewsforAlberta
And yet, as someone who lives in Grande Prairie, it comes as no surprise. Why do you suppose that is?
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@demetriosnAB
Dude, you are the EDUCATION MINISTER. You are in charge of educating our kids and you're doing a TERRIBLE job of advocating for funding for our students: we sit LAST in the nation in per student funding and that funding will drop 7% against inflation & population in this budget:
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@jkenney
@R_Boissonnault
Dude, you literally just told people to go protest at
@gilmcgowan
's office.
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My dude, we have a public education system that could help with this, IF you stop using curriculum as a wedge issue to score cheap political points. We need a MODERN, educated workforce. That'll require a MODERN, PROFESSIONAL curriculum.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
#abed
@albertateachers
Skill and labour shortages will become a serious challenge in Alberta’s booming economy.
To help Albertans develop new skills for jobs, we are investing more than $600 million in the Alberta at Work initiative.
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I believe that the Choice in Education survey needs a much closer look. Of the 71,236 responses over 23% were excluded from the results! That's almost 1 in 4! Can we see the raw data, please?
#Ableg
#abpoli
@albertateachers
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@jkenney
Why, at this point, would you choose large font to say that the vaccine will not be mandatory and small font to encourage people to get vaccinated? WHY?
Honestly, which part of the message is more important from a public health perspective?
Unless this choice was political ...
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Can we just stop with the charade that the anti-Trudeau-convoy/occupation was anything other than a partisan stunt? This was conservatives aiming loons at their political opponents, and they weren't subtle about it.
Former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall was in contact with a key organizer of the
#FreedomConvoy
anti-mandate protest, providing strategic advice before and after the Ottawa occupation began.
#Cdnpoli
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One day after his budget hijacked ATRF's pension funds Jason Kenney tweets his concern that the Heritage Savings Trust Fund could have been similarly targeted by Ottawa. You'd think he'd understand the
#irony
@albertateachers
#ABbudget
#ableg
#abed
#abteachers
Peter Lougheed expressed understandable concern that if the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund grew too large, it would become a big fiscal target for Ottawa. Who doubts that the NDP would demand that Alberta “share the wealth” if we were sitting on a trillion dollar fund?
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@NACMilliken
@UCPCaucus
Yo sparky,
@RicMcIver
sent a letter to the feds on February 5 "requesting federal assistance that includes the provision of equipment and personnel to move approximately 70 semi-tractor trailers and approximately 75 personal and recreational vehicles from the area.” Pick a lane.
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@FreeAlbertaRob
Dude, you are GIVING THEM TAXPAYER MONEY to pay for the mess that THEY MADE. And you're doing it while they are
a. rolling in dough
b. not cleaning their wells up
c. not hiring the way that they used to
d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
The answer is "d"
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@rebeccakschulz
They capped insurance rates. You let them run wild.
They kept school fees under control. You let them run wild.
They had a homegrown carbon tax, the revenues from which we controlled. You're letting the feds take all those dollars.
Stand by that.
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@nwilliamsucp
As long as there is a single public school student who can't have an EA because there is not enough money, or can't get testing because there is not enough money, private schools shouldn't get a dime.
And those reserves have ballooned on the UCP's watch. That's on you too.
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@jkenney
@AdrianaLaGrange
Your communications on this are a disaster:
Jan 21:
@AdrianaLaGrange
says 65 million masks coming to schools within weeks
Jan 27:
@jkenney
says restrictions gone by end of March
**CONVOYS!**
Feb 2: restrictions will end "within days"
Feb 8: restrictions gone by midnight
#AbLeg
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This may be the ultimate test of a question long-asked: how stupid are Albertans, really? Because the government's argument - that we are going to walk away with 53% of the CPP's assets - could only be swallowed by gullible idiots.
An Alberta Pension Plan could save Albertans billions of dollars each year—with lower contribution rates, better benefits and stronger security for Albertans now and in the future. Learn more and have your say about a potential APP. It’s your pension, it’s your choice.
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@Ballislife
He also averaged over 48.5 minutes per game for an entire season. He played every minute of every game he appeared in, including overtimes.
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@jkenney
Your Minister
@RicMcIver
literally asked for Federal help 2 weeks ago: “I am requesting federal assistance that includes the provision of equipment and personnel to move approximately 70 semi-tractor trailers and approximately 75 personal and recreational vehicles from the area.”
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