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paulorlowski.bsky.social
Canadá will be a much better place once Alberta voters toss Premier Smith and the UCP out of government. The #ClimateCrisis is real.

#Cdnpoli 🇨🇦 #Ableg #Abpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Danielle Smith wants climate laws scrapped before Grey Cup. What will she offer in return? | CBC News
Before the 112th Grey Cup gets underway next week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expecting a major chapter to unfold in the long-running federal-provincial battle over energy policy. But there are...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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hab3261.bsky.social
Why does no one look at population trends when planning? Demographic data is foundational for all public services. #ABleg #ABpoli
pfparks.bsky.social Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 21d
Hey Alberta, take a look at these trends...
This has been building for years, but this explains why more and more of our parents/grandparents are being stranded in Hospitals...
and why Access Block is growing.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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hab3261.bsky.social
The slow creep of destroying democratic guardrails isn't a single event; it's the sum of many strategic actions. #ABpoli #ABleg
givevoiceab.bsky.social Give Voice AB - Resistance, rooted in community. @givevoiceab.bsky.social · 23d
NEW SERIES: POWER OVER PRINCIPLE. Are democratic guardrails collapsing in Alberta? We break down 6 categories of UCP actions—from undermining the Rule of Law to silencing independent voices. #ABpoli #Alberta #UCP #GiveVoiceAB #ABleg #PowerOverPrinciple
Infographic titled “Power Over Principle: UCP Actions That Betray Core Conservative Values of Limited Government and Local Control.” The section header reads “1. Rule of Law,” in a navy-blue bar with a gold balance-scale icon. Six beige boxes with gold borders describe political actions undermining rule of law. Topics include: Notwithstanding Clause (teachers strike) – blocking court review of labor law for five years; Sovereignty Act – instructing provincial bodies to disregard federal laws; Citizenship Markers on IDs – mandatory marking of citizenship on government IDs; Two-track Rules for Cities – unequal laws for major cities; Pawlowski Interference – premier influence on a criminal case; and The Core Violation – text in a navy box reading, “No one is above the law, yet political power bypassed the courts.” Colors: navy blue, gold, cream background. Style: formal, educational, rectangular grid layout. Infographic with the same title format and cream background. The section header bar is deep navy-blue with a gold courthouse icon, labeled “2. Checks and Balances.” Six beige boxes with gold borders highlight failures of oversight. Top row: Closure votes normalized – legislation rushed without debate; Watchdogs de-funded, muzzled – attorney general denies funding and replaces an investigator mid-scandal. Middle row: Bill 20 lets cabinet quash bylaws – cabinet can cancel local laws; Election Commissioner dissolved – independent watchdog removed. Bottom row: Bill 18 centralizes federal deals – cabinet controls federal funding; Ethics Commissioner not renewed – official replaced after ruling against premier. Infographic with a cream background and dark red header bar, labeled “3. Electoral Integrity,” with a white ballot-box icon. Six bordered boxes explain actions undermining fair elections: Recall/referenda defunded – Elections Alberta denied funding for citizen reforms; Elections Alberta pressure-tested – CEO’s budget cut after funding request; Draconian voter-ID rules – harder voting for marginalized groups; Ban on vote tabulators – removal of modern equipment increasing error; Ended vote-anywhere polling – elimination of special ballots limiting participation; and Corporate & union donations return – reintroducing big-money influence. Infographic titled as part of the same series. The green header bar reads “4. No Seat at the Table: Excluding Experts and the Community,” with a white chair icon. Six beige boxes with gray-blue headers describe exclusionary governance: Teachers’ contract imposed – forced without negotiation; U.S. book-ban lists imported – foreign criteria used for book removals; Experts excluded on trans policy – major policy without professional input; Municipalities micromanaged – provincial overreach; No real consultation on Bill 20 – local voices ignored; and Police bypassed on photo radar – decisions made against police advice
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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jettthunders.bsky.social
Recall Them All #abpoli
operationtotalrecall.ca
The image is a screenshot of the website. It reads: Organize recall campaigns for the 44* MLAs who voted to use the Notwithstanding Clause against not just teachers, but all Alberta workers. Identify your MLA, connect with local organizers, track progress across ridings, and access templates for petitions, signage, and outreach. We’re building peaceful, lawful, community-led efforts.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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graeberfan.bsky.social
I wonder where #Alberta solar projects could have been by now if Dani hadn’t won… #ableg #abpoli
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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hab3261.bsky.social
I see you sharks 👀
We’re closing in. 🦈
Every day, think of yourself as one of the sharks.
Circling. Watching. Getting closer.
At some point — it’s all over.
Smith and her crew aren’t the brightest.
Just sloppy criminals.
Keep circling. 🦈
#ABLeg #ABPoli #DanielleSmith
shark island
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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seanonymousd.bsky.social
Sounds about right. #abpoli
perrinjan.bsky.social JP @perrinjan.bsky.social · Oct 23
We could have had renewable projects up the wazoo, more teachers, and more nurses, yet here we are.
nigelb.bsky.social NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · Oct 22
Another Australian coal company has announced that it has reached a settlement ($95 million)with the GoA over its compensation claims due to Alberta's coal policy flip flops.
Once again this info comes to AB taxpayers from the company website.
No disclosure from the GoA.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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nigelb.bsky.social
This is the narrative that needs to haunt Premier Smith and the UCP.
Mismanagement. Incompetence. Wasting taxpayer dollars. And zero benefit to Albertans.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
micropainter.bsky.social Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · Oct 23
No money for our kids & teachers, but millions in tax $$$ for hand-counting ballots, partisan license plates, Turkish Tylenol, useless masks, private surgical facilities, US prayer breakfast trips, and…coal lawsuits?

Alberta, you tired of Danielle’s UCP?

#abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #ableg #Alberta #yeg
jvipondmd.bsky.social 🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · Oct 22
Might as well just burn money instead of coal www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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climatemamaclaire.bsky.social
Sam Mraiche - The Hidden Connections in the Skybox Photo

@drluannemetz.bsky.social @shoffmanab.bsky.social @naheednenshi.bsky.social #abpoli #ableg
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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smarvsmith.bsky.social
This.
We've had very smooth vaccination roll-outs for decades. We didn't forget how to do it just this year. This is 100% by design. They want you to get so exasperated you either give up or pay out of pocket. Then they make both their antiscience fuckwit and privatization bases happy. Ghouls.
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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solarab.bsky.social
It turns out, giving everyone free vaccines would save Alberta the most money. But restricting vaccines was never about saving money, was it Premier Smith? #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #yql #abhealth #cdnpoli
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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jamieb1000.bsky.social
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Free vaccines cheaper than dealing with ramifications of low vaccination rate: Alberta Medical Association

#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #vaccine
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #vaccines
#AMA #medical #FireLaGrange
#health #healthcare
Free vaccines cheaper than dealing with ramifications of low vaccination rate: Alberta Medical Association
If saving money is the Alberta government’s priority, the most cost-effective route is distributing the COVID-19 vaccine widely and freely – not charging $100 for it, says the Alberta Medical Associat...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
You can't book more than one person for a flu or covid vaccine. So if you have kids, how does this work? I hate this fucking province.

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
prompt that says you need to book separate appointments to get vaccines.
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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eco-soul.bsky.social
#Canada #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
micropainter.bsky.social Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · Oct 23
In addition to smooth vaccination rollouts for decades, we've also had smooth election voting processes for years.

Until Danielle Smith and the UCP deliberately mucked around to please their anti-science and anti-democracy base.

#Canada #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
smarvsmith.bsky.social Psarah Psmith 🇨🇦 @smarvsmith.bsky.social · Oct 23
This.
We've had very smooth vaccination roll-outs for decades. We didn't forget how to do it just this year. This is 100% by design. They want you to get so exasperated you either give up or pay out of pocket. Then they make both their antiscience fuckwit and privatization bases happy. Ghouls.
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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eco-soul.bsky.social
#FiretheUCP #abpoli #PolluterPays #AER #cdnpoli #bigoil #alberta
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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vote4trudeau.bsky.social
Alberta clusterfuck is thanks to Batshit's UCP. it didn't have to be this way.
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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qbee2024.bsky.social
The plan is cookie cutter. Break public healthcare. Pour the money into private facilities. Collect kickbacks from corporations and get your pat on the back from Trump. Smith is deliberately destroying universal healthcare in Alberta. She is hurting the people who elected her.
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
hitecsoftouch.bsky.social
#covid #ab i experienced similar frustration. Online booking was an abject failure. 811. could not even tell me where to check other than a half hour drive up to St. Albert. Last year my pharmacist was easy, fast and efficient, covid and influenza in one visit. This year we get a UCP cluster f$&k.
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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neddog.bsky.social
The ATA has presented many offers, while TEBA has not made a single counter-offer. The government refuses to address class size caps at the bargaining table, the major point of the negotiation. They instead threaten to legislate teachers back to work and strip them of their charter rights.

#abpoli
💔 Taken from the page of a heartbroken Alberta teacher… There’s so much misinformation right now — and it hurts to see teachers being torn apart in ads paid for with our own tax dollars. Here’s what I see really happening 👇 We were offered a bad contract. We voted NO. The same offer came back (plus a “free COVID vaccine”). We voted NO again — 90% of us. We gave the government lots of time to come back with something better. They didn’t. When the strike began, they refused to meet for six days. When they finally did, we brought a fair proposal — they offered nothing back. Teachers had nothing to vote on. They told us to “go back to work” (after locking us out). They still refuse to talk about the two biggest issues: 👉 Class size caps 👉 Classroom complexity 📊 Let’s fact check Dani: Statement: “The ATA rejected their offer.” ❌ FALSE – The government didn’t put an offer forward. Statement: “The ATA hasn’t sent an offer.” ❌ FALSE – The ATA has sent many offers — all rejected outright. TEBA has not put forward a single counteroffer. Statement: “The ATA needs to come back to the table.” ❌ FALSE – The ATA has been at the table. The government/TEBA is stalling. They spent over a week “reviewing” the last proposal and still didn’t respond with anything. I know everyone — myself included — wants nothing more than to be back in the classroom. Many have said their child’s learning is being deeply impacted by missing these days of instruction. I understand that. But the truth is, the learning environment the Alberta government has created in classrooms impacts children’s education every single day of the school year. If these days of disruption can help correct the conditions our students are learning in, the learning gains ahead will be exponential — for months and years to come. Something has to change. We’re fighting for kids, schools, and the future of public education in Alberta. Before you outright believe the ads — ask a teacher. We’re not the enemy.
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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brewsd.bsky.social
Introducing legislation to force an agreement with teachers would mean invoking the not withstanding clause to suspend constitutionally protected rights of workers to free assembly. The clause has never been used this way before and would set a dangerous precedent.

#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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susanincanada.bsky.social
Fight for #PublicEducation

Oct. 23, 2 PM - 4 PM

North steps. See you there!

#AbPoli
#AbLeg
#UCPfail
#ForOurStudents
#ForOurTeachers
#ForOurFuture
Image of a crowd at the Legislature FIGHT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION EDMONTON TEACHERS OCT. 23, 2 PM - 4 PM LEGISLATURE OF ALBERTA MAKE SOME NOISE ON THE NORTH STEPS DURING THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE!
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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dshepyeg.bsky.social
A friend spotted these messages of support for teachers on the fence at Riverdale School.

Teachers are fighting for a fair deal, smaller class sizes & safer classrooms - for better for their students & our public education system as a whole.

We stand with them. ❤️#abpoli
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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jweder.bsky.social
#ableg #abpoli #Alberta. Who needs evidence? Meh!
druhfarrell.bsky.social Druh Farrell @druhfarrell.bsky.social · Oct 21
One thing you could count on was a seamless municipal voting process. Smith and her UCP love to break things. Voting was a clusterfuck. That was intentional. thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
‘This Isn’t about Evidence.’ Alberta’s Costly, Confusing Voting Changes | The Tyee
The UCP’s local elections requirements will delay results and may suppress turnout.
thetyee.ca
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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mitchellab.bsky.social
“Someone” walked away with $70 million from AHS — and the only thing the Premier said is “wasn’t me!”
#ableg #abpoli
Judge Wyant's report on the AHS scandal reads like a 'bad spy' novel
It's comically bad, and it's really bad, and so far, no one is accountable, either.
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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charliegolf.ca
This is Calgary-East, the riding UCP MLA Peter Singh represents in the Legislature. Notice something interesting? He only won by 698 votes.

You don't think the UCP is scared of back-to-work legislation for teachers? Think again.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #abed
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM