This result bothers me
After everything the UCP has done to healthcare & education, after all the payouts to rich corporations, after the junkets to see Trump

Most Albertans will still vote conservative

What's wrong with these people? 🤦🏼‍♂️
#ableg

A freak play appropriate for #Halloween. Freaky Friday for the #BlueJays. The #Dodgers strike back in Game 6.
The #WorldSeries is now a best-of-1.
Game 7 decides who gets all the chocolates on Saturday.

Argh. Figures this would end up going the distance.

Good for ratings though...

“The numbers this World Series is doing not only in Canada, but everywhere, is unbelievable. I even had to kind of take a step back and be like, dang, this is pretty cool.” — Bo Bichette
#BlueJays

If your solution doesn't include Medicare for All and universal basic income, get the fuck out.

If u watch “A House of Dynamite” on Netflix, you’ll get a chilling & stark reminder of why #FELON should not be president 🇺🇸

This is an extraordinary piece of film making. The Pentagon & White House are mighty pissed off about it. Brilliant stuff from Katherine Bigelow.

#MovieNight 🎬🍿📽️🎃

1/2🧵

"Sometimes we must realize that the best way to reach a basic income is to present it as a refundable tax credit rather than as a paycheck. As simply reducing the taxation of the rich and poor alike, with a cash transfer to those whose tax liability is less than the credit." Scott Santens The Netherlands May Become the First Country With a Universal Basic Income SCOTTSANTENS.SUBSTACK.COM

"Sometimes we must realize that the best way to reach a UBI is to present it as a refundable tax credit rather than as a paycheck. As simply reducing the taxation of the rich and poor alike with a cash transfer to those whose tax liability is less than the credit."

open.substack.com/pub/scottsan...

“For Major League Baseball, this Los Angeles #Dodgers -Toronto #BlueJays matchup has been a global smash, what with historic performances from the incomparable Shohei Ohtani & Yamamoto to the presence of the Blue Jays, who have captivated Toronto and all of Canada like never before.”

#GoJaysGo

Smith’s brazen use of the notwithstanding clause should raise alarm not only for workers but for everyone in Canada. Charter rights are OURS to protect.

Sign BCCLA’s People’s Pledge: ow.ly/fJaQ50XjYTC

#UCP - MAGA landed Alberta - yes our Alberta - censure from Amnesty International. #ableg #abed #abpoli #abfedlabour #ElbowsUp #humanrights #bargainingrights

I think I am still running on adrenaline. It has been a whirlwind of a 90 day campaign.
But it is you, Albertans, who shined.

Yes, we received nearly half a million signatures, but we also built a #ForeverCanadian movement, a community.

Thank you!
 
#ableg #cdnpoli

Kids protesting their teachers being forced back to work

Kids standing up for teachers who were denied their charter rights by the Alberta government. #red4ed #ata #ableg (proud to see my kid leading this march)

Anyone who trusts this government who can’t even do a proper copyright check give your head a shake. I wouldn’t trust the UCP to run a popsicle stand let alone our healthcare and public education etc. Just total incompetence on everything they touch! #abpoli #ableg

Danielle Smith's former Chief of staff demanded The Calgary Herald remove an article rebutting his position... And then it was removed.

Our new Substack article is live!

And it asks a very serious question...

Should media be intimidated by people using the tools of lawfare to suppress opinions they disagree with?

Because it looks like that might be what happened in Alberta!

#abpoli

open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

Anytime anyone claims that Smith used the Notwithstanding clause in a way that Peter Lougheed would have approved of…

Feel free to share this from his 1998 paper that makes it clear that absolutely isn’t the case.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Woman behind petition to recall Nicolaides said it's 'putting power in the hands of the people' Education is going in the wrong direction says Calgary woman who started petition to recall minister.

Nicolaides has said, "recall legislation was designed to address ethics violations, negligence or personal misconduct, not a difference of political opinion"

IMO everything the UCP MLA's do is unethical, incompetent & shows a lack of personal empathy

#ableg

calgaryherald.com/news/nicolai...

They know Alberta will never become a viable separate independent country.

What they really want is to be subsumed by the US and its current fascist regime, either as a territory or a state.

Most UCP supporters would go with that, as would most CPC supporters. So would both party's leaders.

Almost 15,000 supporters of Save the Charter in just a couple of days. Almost 15,000 letters sent to Premier Smith!

Add your name and send your letter now: savethecharter.ca

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Rachel Maddow Breaks Down Trump's Shocking DOJ Election Move

📽️VIDEO: The DOJ will send “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections. Marc Elias joined Rachel Maddow to explain why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.
https://bit.ly/3JbbcJX

Danielle Smith Faces Labour Revolt and Strike Threat

Press conference today with @gilmcgowan,
@ABFedLabour, @albertateachers, and other labour leaders re. @ABDanielleSmith
legislating teachers back to work.
#ableg
youtu.be/_TdPhjzQ5Xs

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors Read more here.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇

"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

We have had a lot of success fighting against Trump and election deniers in court. I am confident that won't change. What I worry about are the pillars of democracy that can't be fixed in court as well as the weaponization of DOJ against Trumps political opponents and free and fair elections.

Albertans want a government that works on things that make their lives better.

But Danielle Smith & her government seem more interested in turning conspiracy-driven UCP member proposals into law.

I asked if we can expect the UCP legislate on more crazy resolutions from their upcoming AGM. #ableg

As Scott Sinclair’s constituency is erased from the maps…

(After he was booted from the UCP for calling for greater supports for Northern Alberta)

It’s worth looking at who attended the redrawing meeting.

Because it wasn’t mayors or indigenous leaders.

#abpoli #ableg

Smith is utilizing school boards to send out this letter to parents…

But missing from it in all of the spin is the fact that she REVOKED teachers charter rights.

Almost as if she knows that what she did was an overreach and parents would be appalled.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

‘Broken, defeated, angry’: Teachers respond to Alberta’s back-to-work order While they are excited to see their students Wednesday morning, two Edmonton teachers say they are broken, defeated and angry after the province ordered them back to work using the notwithstanding cla...

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

‘Broken, defeated, angry’: Teachers respond to Alberta’s back-to-work order

#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Unions
#Strike #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
#UCPCorruption

And she has locked you into that garbage contract for 5 years. But wait, she will introduce private charter schools that will "save the day"! That will benefit the wealthy, not so much the marginalized. The end game is two tier education. To match two tier Healthcare.

MPs sign an OATH as "Public Servants" to uphold our Democratic platform, which includes our Charter Rights. We need laws to protect Canadians from MPs that do not uphold their OATH - We need "Forever Democracy"
@mark-carney.bsky.social @markgerretsen.bsky.social

www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/pr...

Pretty much ". . . everything the UCP MLA's do is unethical, incompetent & shows a lack of personal empathy"

Recall legislation WAS designed for 'Oh my GAWRD, I had no idea the person I'd voted for was a slough sucking heartless piece of trash, and I want them gone sooner than 4 yrs."

It’s hard not to keep reposting every day, several times a day. So thrilled that this definitively positive “Yes, we want to stay in Canada” petition reached its mark and then some. Happy that I was able to volunteer and do my small part to make this happen. #ABPoli #ABLeg #CdnPoli