Lmaclmac
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Judge calls Alberta bill on referendum drives undemocratic, disrespect to rule of law
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Judge calls Alberta bill on referendum drives undemocratic, disrespect to rule of law
An Alberta judge says a bill introduced this week by Premier Danielle Smith’s government is undemocratic.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Judge calls Alberta bill on referendum drives undemocratic, disrespect to rule of law
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With a massive legal shakeup, Alberta’s government is paving the way for a separatist referendum.
"It’s the most draconian, totalitarian piece of legislation I’ve ever seen," says a former deputy premier.
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"It’s the most draconian, totalitarian piece of legislation I’ve ever seen," says a former deputy premier.
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With Massive Legal Shakeup, Alberta’s Government Paves the Way for a Separatist Referendum
'It’s the most draconian, totalitarian piece of legislation I’ve ever seen,' says former deputy premier
pressprogress.ca
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
With a massive legal shakeup, Alberta’s government is paving the way for a separatist referendum.
"It’s the most draconian, totalitarian piece of legislation I’ve ever seen," says a former deputy premier.
pressprogress.ca/alberta-pave...
"It’s the most draconian, totalitarian piece of legislation I’ve ever seen," says a former deputy premier.
pressprogress.ca/alberta-pave...
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Quite the scathing 'epilogue' that Justice Feasby added to his decision, in response to legislation tabled by Alberta's UCP government just yesterday:
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Quite the scathing 'epilogue' that Justice Feasby added to his decision, in response to legislation tabled by Alberta's UCP government just yesterday:
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Bill 14 is immensely complex. The amendments to the Citizen Initiative Act & its financial rules are esp complex. This is a deliberate strategy.
In other areas of the law we call this libel or regulatory chill.
This is a government that only pretends to believe in direct democracy. #ableg #abpoli
In other areas of the law we call this libel or regulatory chill.
This is a government that only pretends to believe in direct democracy. #ableg #abpoli
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
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"With $6 of every $10 in profits crossing the border, never to return, Canadian oil sands majors produced $12.3 billion worth of capital flight per year."
#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
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#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"With $6 of every $10 in profits crossing the border, never to return, Canadian oil sands majors produced $12.3 billion worth of capital flight per year."
#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
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#cdnpoli #ableg #ElbowsUp
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Hey AB, while the govt promises to push more anesthesiologists and OR nurses from our hospitals with Dual Billing, and do more care in private surgical facilities, take a look at this graph!
These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey AB, while the govt promises to push more anesthesiologists and OR nurses from our hospitals with Dual Billing, and do more care in private surgical facilities, take a look at this graph!
These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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These are wait times in AB for SURGERIES FOR KIDS.
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The Alberta Advantage - DYING EARLIER
for-profit private hospitals are even more strongly associated with worse mortality outcomes and lower life expectancy.
#Alberta BACKWARDS #DanielleSmith
#abpoli #ableg
Danielle Smith's Health Care System
for-profit private hospitals are even more strongly associated with worse mortality outcomes and lower life expectancy.
#Alberta BACKWARDS #DanielleSmith
#abpoli #ableg
Danielle Smith's Health Care System
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The Alberta Advantage - DYING EARLIER
for-profit private hospitals are even more strongly associated with worse mortality outcomes and lower life expectancy.
#Alberta BACKWARDS #DanielleSmith
#abpoli #ableg
Danielle Smith's Health Care System
for-profit private hospitals are even more strongly associated with worse mortality outcomes and lower life expectancy.
#Alberta BACKWARDS #DanielleSmith
#abpoli #ableg
Danielle Smith's Health Care System
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We are being governed by the guy you went to high school with who slept through Social 20 and knows the cheapest place to buy ivermectin.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We are being governed by the guy you went to high school with who slept through Social 20 and knows the cheapest place to buy ivermectin.
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With respect to the govt’s announcement to allow “DUAL Billing”, here’s an excellent thread that outlines the real current AB surgical data:
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Thread by @JMeddings on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
@JMeddings: Everyone here seems to be arguing various ideological positions on using private facilities to ease AB's health woes. Lets look at some data and try to have an evidence based view of some of this. In...…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
With respect to the govt’s announcement to allow “DUAL Billing”, here’s an excellent thread that outlines the real current AB surgical data:
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Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Dani going to blame AHS?
"The provincial government said the DynaLife contract would save millions of dollars a year, but instead cancelled it less than a year later after numerous issues with service delivery and DynaLife’s own financial problems."
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"The provincial government said the DynaLife contract would save millions of dollars a year, but instead cancelled it less than a year later after numerous issues with service delivery and DynaLife’s own financial problems."
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Alberta's bid to privatize lab services wasted more than $100M: auditor general | CBC News
Alberta's auditor general has released a report detailing numerous failures in process and lack of due diligence by the province in its attempt to privatize community lab services.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dani going to blame AHS?
"The provincial government said the DynaLife contract would save millions of dollars a year, but instead cancelled it less than a year later after numerous issues with service delivery and DynaLife’s own financial problems."
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"The provincial government said the DynaLife contract would save millions of dollars a year, but instead cancelled it less than a year later after numerous issues with service delivery and DynaLife’s own financial problems."
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I think the hubris of Premier Smith is showing. The general entitlement. She will continue to blame the recall movement on unions (it’s not) and seems surprised Albertans are speaking up against limiting the Rights of multiple groups. She truly thinks her base is the majority. It is not.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think the hubris of Premier Smith is showing. The general entitlement. She will continue to blame the recall movement on unions (it’s not) and seems surprised Albertans are speaking up against limiting the Rights of multiple groups. She truly thinks her base is the majority. It is not.
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SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
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Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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I’m sure there isn’t anyone behind this who stands to gain from it.
Fix public healthcare, you ghouls. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/baddabc...
Fix public healthcare, you ghouls. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/baddabc...
Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’m sure there isn’t anyone behind this who stands to gain from it.
Fix public healthcare, you ghouls. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/baddabc...
Fix public healthcare, you ghouls. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/baddabc...
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Another underappreciated way to lower electricity bills? Stop taxing electricity, which in many places is subject to both state and local taxes at rates of 10% or higher. To keep tax revenues intact, state and local governments could shift these taxes onto natural gas, encouraging electrification.
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Another underappreciated way to lower electricity bills? Stop taxing electricity, which in many places is subject to both state and local taxes at rates of 10% or higher. To keep tax revenues intact, state and local governments could shift these taxes onto natural gas, encouraging electrification.
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I think 3000 new teachers works out to about 1 teacher per school
So yeah, not fixing the problem
#ableg
So yeah, not fixing the problem
#ableg
I’ve been saying this from the onset: the 3,000 teachers were only going to cover the cost of growth in the new school builds (if that) and not actually address the current needs. Math is, apparently, hard. #ABleg #Alberta #Education www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Alberta government promised 3,000 more teachers. Some say that's misleading | CBC News
When the Alberta government legislated a swift end to October’s provincial teachers’ strike, it pledged to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years. But what wasn't mad...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I think 3000 new teachers works out to about 1 teacher per school
So yeah, not fixing the problem
#ableg
So yeah, not fixing the problem
#ableg
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Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
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Part of a general UCP policy of gutting or defunding (or in some cases both) accountability mechanisms. We see the same thing in access to information where inadequate funding leads to delays & dysfunction as demonstrated by @drewyewchuk.bsky.social in many @ablawg.bsky.social posts.
#abpoli #ableg
#abpoli #ableg
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Part of a general UCP policy of gutting or defunding (or in some cases both) accountability mechanisms. We see the same thing in access to information where inadequate funding leads to delays & dysfunction as demonstrated by @drewyewchuk.bsky.social in many @ablawg.bsky.social posts.
#abpoli #ableg
#abpoli #ableg
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This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...
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An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teacher are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights
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October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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After invoking the notwithstanding clause to bust the teachers’ strike, Danielle Smith appears to have fucked off to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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Showcasing Alberta in the Middle East
Premier Smith will promote Alberta’s investment opportunities, energy expertise and agricultural products during meetings in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
After invoking the notwithstanding clause to bust the teachers’ strike, Danielle Smith appears to have fucked off to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
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This cannot stand.
Contact your MLAs.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Official Opposition NDP, said Smith's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause makes her "the most authoritarian premier in the history of Canada."
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Contact your MLAs.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Official Opposition NDP, said Smith's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause makes her "the most authoritarian premier in the history of Canada."
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Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to send striking teachers back to work | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced a bill on Monday to force striking teachers back to work as early as Wednesday.
www.cbc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This cannot stand.
Contact your MLAs.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Official Opposition NDP, said Smith's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause makes her "the most authoritarian premier in the history of Canada."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Contact your MLAs.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Official Opposition NDP, said Smith's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause makes her "the most authoritarian premier in the history of Canada."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...