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Alberta government changes expense disclosure policy, removes eight years of records | CBC News Key changes to Alberta’s expense disclosure policy mean that the receipts of senior government officials, including the premier, will no longer be public.

Danielle Smith & the UCP have decided you don’t deserve to know how they’re spending your $.

The Friday before a long weekend, they removed the requirement for the Premier, Ministers & senior staff to publicly post their receipts.

They say it’s too much “red tape.”

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'We think PP is a dick'

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I have a long argued that it might be necessary to professionally excavate a small representative random sample of some of the gravesites to verify the GPR findings. Not because I doubt the tragedy, but simply to help alleviate the remaining doubts of the wider public. Think forensic anthropology.

The response will be “that isn’t evidence of abuse; they were just buried there because it was too far to send the bodies home.”

And they won’t recognize how horrible it is that the children died so far from their families.

The search is just in it initial phase, with much more work to be done, but what is clear is this: denialists sought to question the legitimacy of ground-search work as part of a strategy of undermining public confidence in truth and reconciliation work generally.

Deninu Kųę́ First Nation says it has finally found the burial sites of 5 children | CBC News Deninu Kųę́ First Nation in Fort Resolution, N.W.T., says it has finally found the places where five children and two adults were buried, after years of searching for unmarked graves linked to the for...

For years, residential school denialists have demanded "proof," despite church and state records already confirming 4000+ residential school deaths. Disrespectfully, they say: "show me the bodies!" Well, Deninu Kųę́ First Nation have now exhumed remains: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

🇨🇦 Canada’s Girl Guides Just Nixed All U.S. Trips — As America’s Tourism Economy Continues To Bleed Out When even the Girl Guides won’t cross your border, it’s not “woke politics.” It’s a warning flare that your country has become a no-go zon

The Girl Guides Of Canada 🇨🇦 are banning all trips to the US effective Sept. 1st! There’s too big a risk every girl in a troop will not be allowed through the border without harassment or outright denial. It’s just too dangerous!

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Wait a god-damned minute:

“This year the province has ordered only 485,000 doses, a 30% reduction. That means a quarter of the population, again mostly the elderly, that wants the vaccine will not find it available.”

Great system, guys.

Jenni Byrne says she will not lead next Conservative campaign, fires back at critics

No, please do Jenni - you seem to have hit the winning strategy for the Liberals 😆😂😂😂 #cdnpoli

Province refuses to release early results of its Alberta Next surveys Postmedia sought early replies to surveys around an Alberta pension plan and immigration but the province has refused to release the results

Feels like we’ve seen this movie before.
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B.C. residents reduce trips to U.S. for sixth straight month - BC News New data from multiple sources show that the trend of British Columbians travelling less across the border to the U.S. is continuing–by land and by air.

B.C. residents reduce trips to U.S. for sixth straight month (BC)

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#ableg
I'm so sick of fighting the UCP
They were created solely to defeat the ABNDP, not to serve Albertans
& it shows
I'm tired of fighting for-
Healthcare
Education
Clean water
To keep our CPP
To continue being Canadian
Albertans have got to stop voting conservative no matter who

When Danielle Smith surveyed #Albertans about leaving #CPP:

63% voted to stay.

ONLY 10% voted to leave.

The UCP hid the results for 2 years until Alberta's Privacy Commissioner forced the disclosure.

@albertandp.ca will protect your #pension.

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Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

Can't blame them for leaving. So sad for the women there though.

Alberta cities face higher election costs this fall after province bans electronic vote counters | CBC News When the province passed Bill 20 last year, it banned the use of electronic vote tabulators. Now some cities are reporting election costs double or triple what they spent in 2021.

Seriously. Many municipalities have used machines since 1990s with increased efficiency, reduced cost, and greater reliability for elections. There are no real communities that distrust the vote counting machines. Just a few fringe, right-wing conspiracy theorists at work.
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When Michelle Obama wanted to make school lunches healthier, the right screamed about “freedom”.

When RFK Jr says poor people shouldn’t be allowed to spend tax dollars on soda, they cheer.

It was never about health. It’s about control, punishment and discrimination.

STOP
was shown they are only 18% of alberta and legally they can vote to leave but due to supreme court ruling all native treaty lands stay if natives vote to stay
thats 98% of alberta
OH the other 2% is owned by feds so vote to fuck off
GO ON DO IT

Using taxpayer funds to push separatism down Albertans throats !!!

DanielleSmith made it clear that she’s on the side of the separatists. Today, Smith and Minister Amery instructed government lawyers to oppose Elections Alberta’s reference of the separatist’s ballot to the Court. #ForeverCanadian lawyers and I will be in court tomorrow. 1/2

All Smith has done has tipped the scales in favour of the separatists. First, she lowered the threshold for a referendum, while forcing #ForeverCanadian to sign up almost double of signatories. Now, she’s supporting them in Court at taxpayers expense. 2/2

#ableg

That's one big swamp donkey. Poke em' in the eye. See what happens. You'll get to write a chapter in the book called "Fuck Around and Find Out".

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

For all that LBJ was laid low by Vietnam, he also left a legacy of civil rights in the US that he should have been proud of. #uspoli

I’m thinking of my friend John Lewis today on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

John was severely beaten by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for marching for the right to vote. Those harrowing images shocked the nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

I am saddened to hear about the passing of former Alberta NDP MLA, Alex McEachern.

Not only did Alex represent the residents of Edmonton-Kingsway for two terms, his dedication to the party and advocating for the well-being of all Albertans remained strong his entire life.

Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.

“Alberta already made headlines for leading every other jurisdiction in North America in terms of measles.

The deliberate undermining of the province’s COVID immunization program will have predictable consequences for hundreds of thousands of Albertans.”
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