Father, Husband, High School Special Needs Teacher, Coach,& Ally. Alberta Inclusion Society Teaching Award & Alberta Excellence in Teaching Award.Views R My Own
Edmonton, Alberta
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It is impossible to dream small when the sky is that big! My closing comments from yesterday's debate are a welcome to all Albertans to join this incredible movement. Please share this with your friends, and invite them to sign up at Nenshi.ca.
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The anti-vaccine stuff will get the attention. But this story also shows that the UCP's Board of Directors wants to set government policy. Typically a party's BOD is focused on the internal working of the party organization, but not the current UCP BOD.
NEW: Senior UCP organizers are pushing Danielle Smith to change COVID vaccine policy, and party group is hosting speaker event to promote claim vaccines are unsafe, kill children.
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This is your daily pension announcement. Again The Pension War Room™️ notes that the @aimcoinvests Board STILL does not have a Chair. (Instead we have an Acting Chair.) Really hard to understand why this is. Poor governance is, well, poor practice. #AbLeg
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Meanwhile our provincial government is disposing of billions with carbon capture scams and hydrocarbon hydrogen, while blocking renewables. It’s like they don’t intend to be around when the paradigm shifts.
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.@ABDanielleSmith will introduce today Bill 21, extending UCP government’s mandate beyond set by law election date. Danielle Smith will try to convince you that there will be wildfires in the spring of 2027, preventing elections.
Putin & Orban extended their term limits.
#ableg
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Actually the strike is not about the salary at this point. The teachers was a guarantee on class size and complexity resources and the government will not do this. It’s about making school better for all kids. Including yours.
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The Pension War Room™️ notes how similar this is to the pension file. Travis was "too busy" to be interviewed about @aimcoinvests. But when a news article comes out that he didn't like he would get his staff to spend a week haranguing the editors. #AbLeg
Premier Smith is upset with my column that ran last Saturday in The Star. She asked for a correction. The Star's Public Editor investigated - and published this response. #ableg #abpoli thestar.com/opinion/public-e…
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This is called cherry picking. It will make private clinics look more efficient because they don’t manage their complications.
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“Alberta Health officials were warned that the province’s $80-million purchase of children’s pain medication from Turkey could run into delays that would erode demand for the imported supply”
2 weeks before Smith pulled the trigger.
#abpoli #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/pol…
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Premier @ABDanielleSmith: The suggestion that Calgary is “attempting to alter election laws” is misleading. In case you and your team haven’t read the motion, I’ve included it here so you can see the actual wording. The way you have framed is it not correct. #ableg #abpoli #yyccc
In rare circumstances, the province does need to take a second look at certain city decisions that are unconstitutional or fall outside their responsibility.
One example is the City of Calgary attempting to alter election laws to allow non-citizens to vote. That is simply not appropriate nor within their authority. Bill 20 will provide the province with a tool to deal with these rare but serious examples of municipal overreach.
Read Rick Bell’s article: calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…
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Power giant scraps wind project due to Alberta's no-go zones for renewable power.
Add to Capital Power scrapping carbon capture on their Genessee natgas plant, and this is a grim week for a low-carbon electricity future in Alberta. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…
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Danielle Smith has been caught in a lie. Again. This one is a whopper. Smith’s reckless and irresponsible renewables moratorium wasn’t requested by the system operator, after all. Instead, Smith was playing politics…at the expense of thousands of jobs and billions in investment.
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We now know that AUC and AESO - supposedly arms-length institutions - did not request a renewables pause (as the UCP claimed), but were told to did it.
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At this point it’s safe to say everything Smith said about the renewables pause was a flat out lie.
Which begs an important question…
How can Albertans believe anything Smith or the UCP say about coal mining?
Are you angry yet?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
SCOOP: The Alberta gov said its renewables pause came after a request from the Alberta Electric System Operator, but emails show the operator’s top official found the plan ‘very troubling’ and was ‘not comfortable’ supporting it. @drewpanderson reports
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Danielle Smith lied.
She applied political pressure to a regulator whose purpose it is to serve the public.
Sound familiar? Of course it does.
Because this is who Danielle Smith is.
Again, Smith insisted multiple times that regulators - including AESO - asked for the pause. Here is proof that, in fact, the head of AESO found the pause “very troubling.” If you believe his org asked for the pause, I’ve got a unicorn to sell ya thenarwhal.ca/alberta-renewa… #ableg
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Even if it was true that department staff, without the minister’s approval and sign off, cut a significant social program, any honourable minister would accept the responsibility, not throw staff under the bus.
Now, has the minister lost control over his department?
#ableg
Alberta minister responsible for social services says he was unaware his dept cut funding for low-income transit passes in Calgary and Edmonton, despite his office justifying the decision one day earlier
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… By @alanna_smithh #ableg #yyc #yeg #abpoli
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How can there not be engagement before the creation of a bill that overhauls local democracy? To not engage Albertans, @ABmunis, and @RuralMA at the start is a clear signal that the provincial government doesn’t actually care what anyone has to say about Bill 20. #ableg #abpoli
The turnaround time on this appears to be a wee bit tight for McIver's ministry. Alberta Municipalities said this afternoon they haven't been contacted to consult days ahead of amendments that could be introduced in #ableg next week theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Will party politics in municipal government help increase civility? We see example after example of poor behaviour in the Legislature and Parliament (and yes, it comes from all parties). So what makes anyone think that won’t transfer over to local government? #ableg #abpoli
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre kicked out of the House of Commons after calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a "wacko" and "extremist" and refusing to withdraw his comments.
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🚨 Trustees must have the best interests of kids, not the best interests of their party! 📚 Education should be the top priority.
Tell your MLA to keep political parties out of school board elections. 🛑
#KidsOverPolitics #Bill20 #ableg #abed
