The UCPayToPlay scandal now involves six different kinds of investigation:

1) AHS internal (goes to Smith)
2) Auditor General (to Leg)
3) UCP third party (to Smith)
4) Mentzelopoulos lawsuit (court)
5) Ethics Commissioner (to Leg)
6) RCMP

A full public inquiry would go even further. #ableg

Weird, I also just noticed in NBA2K that Rudy Gay mysteriously disappeared from the roster of the All-Time Memphis Grizzlies…

Trump unable to keep tariffs up, blames alcohol

Red Deer friends - I have copies of a petition to the Alberta Legislature opposing coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies. Let me know if you would like a copy.

This is not unrelated, either. Immigrants -- including irregular/"illegal" immigrants -- have lower crime rates than the overall population. So increasing their numbers will lower the crime rate. A study in Canada proved this -- for every x number of immigrants there was a y decrease in crime rate.

This Minister repeatedly dismisses his government’s responsibilities to municipalities. With his cuts to ‘Grants in Place of Taxes’, municipalities are having to find funds elsewhere. The resulting increase in property taxes and decline in services lands squarely at the feet of the UCP.

Some countries might go as far as mobilizing their troops over a statement like this

Canada’s political, business and media discourse will no doubt revolve around how we need to do more to appease Trump

Big deal, we still have an Alberta UCP cabinet minister with 2/3 of these on their public record!

I guarantee that guy has never worked a minute in his life at a job where an apron is required as part of the dress code. Fitting that he had the event at a bar - but is inviting cameras and reporters in line with the “Shields Up” code?

This morning I was reminded that every that day the #ableg is is session a prayer is spoken at the beginning. Now I’m all for pluralism but:

1) religion has no place in politics and

2) could there be any more hypocritical words uttered by the UCP government?

Danielle Smith wants Alberta border patrol?
FACTS!
Along Montana border (with Alberta and Sask):
3 lb fentanyl last year, 1 lb meth.
Fewer than dozen individual (including migrants) "encounters" per month.
"urgent" provincial sheriff patrols, for this?
(US Customs/Border Protection stats)

Never let a good crisis go to waste - might as well raid the City’s coffers for taxpayer dollars to pump up corporate profits, and drive down worker wages while you’re at it. All in the holy name of “efficiency”, right?

I wrote this essay to help folks make sense of how something as seemingly virtuous as populism can lead to the democratic backsliding we see throughout the world today.

drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...

Gotta keep approximately 20% of the workforce in poverty so that businesses can turn a profit, eh? 🤷‍♂️

This shows just how desperate the UCP is to mercilessly break the Alberta public service, and especially our world-class public education system. Wage suppression is just one front in their scorched-earth war against teachers and students.

Image from the Parkland Institute conference this weekend.

Feels a bit like climbing another mountain to start over on a new platform, but here goes!