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Proud father of three. President of the Alberta Federation of Labour. My job is to stand up for Alberta workers. https://t.co/4947qWYT2G

Edmonton, Alberta
Joined August 2009
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Goodbye Alberta Advantage! A report released today shows that average wages in Alberta fell behind Quebec in 2024 after falling behind BC in 2023. This represents a shocking decline in Alberta wages, which used to be 17% higher than the Canadian average. #abpoli #abecon #ableg
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Gil McGowan
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My son had brain surgery that gave him his life back. In the US, the bill would have been at least $500,000. Here in Canada, we paid $0. We Canadians don’t want any part of your con-man games, Mr. Trump.
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Trump: "I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadians citizens, if that happened . they'd have much better health coverage."
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Gil McGowan
6 years
Raptors president Masai Ujiri was carded as he attempted to join his team on the floor after Toronto’s historic NBA victory. I’m pretty sure none of the white owners or executives were subjected to the same indignity.
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“The provinces with the lowest happiness scores — Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario — are all led by conservative premiers. Ask yourself why that is.”
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Gil McGowan
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I’m not sure who made this … but whoever they are, they nailed it. 🎯💯
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Gil McGowan
6 months
I’m sick of people trying to gaslight everyone by telling them “we’ve always had fires in Alberta.” Of course, we’ve always had fires. But the last few years are off the charts. I grew up here. The average used to be 12 HOURS of smoke cover in a summer. Now it’s days and weeks.
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1 year
I thought the rally in Edmonton was big, but look at Calgary! Holy crap! Take that, Danielle! #ycc #ProtectTransKids #abpoli #AbLeg #cdnpoli.
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CALGARY you make me proud today.🏳️‍⚧️💕🏳️‍🌈.#ProtectTransKids .#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead .#yyc
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Gil McGowan
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Smith was only ever going to get to sit outside with thousands of other “ticketed guests.” Now she doesn’t even get to do that. Instead, she’s left going cap-in-hand to the Canadian Embassy to watch the inauguration on TV. What an embarrassment.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Unvaccinated COVID-19 patients put a $61.3-million avoidable burden on the Alberta health-care system during the fourth COVID wave, says University of Alberta study. Their “freedom” is not actually free. They rest of us pay in so many ways. #COVID19AB
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Trump says “Canada doesn’t really exist,” while explaining why he thinks it should become a US state. It’s important to note that one of Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine was that it “doesn’t really exist” as a nation & should be part of Russia.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Big turnout for the Edmonton rally to oppose Danielle Smith’s anti-trans policies.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
@Travisdhanraj @cafreeland @melaniejoly @JustinTrudeau I’m pretty sure Canadians understand why Trudeau is in Europe, right now. Don’t you? I’m also sure most Canadians approve. In fact, if he wasn’t there, people would be saying “why aren’t you taking the situation in Ukraine more seriously?” What he’s doing is call statesmanship.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Hey, ⁦@PierrePoilievre⁩! Canada Pension Plan (CPP) deductions are NOT taxes — they’re contributions to only pension most Canadians will ever get (no, not everyone gets a huge MP’s pension). And EI is insurance against unemployment. Again, NOT a tax.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
I know haters are gonna hate …and that real Albertans like me are not supposed to say anything nice about the PM… but seriously …watch this whole interview… I mean ACTUALLY watch it …and then explain to me how Pierre Poilievre would be better for our province than this guy.
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1 year
Despite record low polling, Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau confirms he'll lead the Liberals into the next election in an exclusive interview on #RealTalkRJ. 📺 FULL: 🎧 FULL: #cdnpoli #PMJT
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Gil McGowan
2 years
So, I ruffled a few Conservatives feathers on Parliament Hill today. 🤷‍♂️ The phrase “they can dish it out, but they can’t take it” comes to mind. Wait until they see what I have to say tomorrow. Stay tuned! 😊.
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2 years
Today, @gilmcgowan, President @ABFedLabour called out @PierrePoilievre Conservatives on their destructive, self-serving politics while testifying at Industry & Technology committee. Conservatives are in it for themselves. #cndpoli Full Meeting:
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Gil McGowan
5 months
I listened to this clip. The guy didn’t acknowledge that the federal government is protecting his job from being lost to cheap Chinese steel. He didn’t acknowledge that his family has dental coverage because of his union contract. He talked about “40 percent tax,” ….
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CTV News
5 months
Trudeau's visit to Sault Ste. Marie wraps-up with a tense exhcange at Algoma Steel
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Message to other Canadians: If you’re listening to the Current on CBC this morning, Drew Barnes do NOT speak for the majority of Albertans. We are NOT all northern Trumpsters. And we most certainly do NOT support Smith’s authoritarian Alberta Sovereignty Act.
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Gil McGowan
4 months
Other Canadians are going to get access to Pharmacare, but the UCP is going to keep Albertans out. The UCP wants to deny us all the benefits of being Canadian. Just so they can “own the libs.” We suffer because of their spite. Worst Alberta govt ever.
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Gil McGowan
5 years
Let it be known — if and when a vaccine is developed, it will be a result of public-sector scientists working in public-sector health care and research facilities. I’m so done with right-wingers denigrating and cutting the public sector! #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli.
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Jeffrey Luscombe
5 years
Canadian Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus - Sunnybrook Research Institute
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Gil McGowan
9 months
They used police to clear the protest camp at the U of C in less than one day. Compare that to this … 👇👇👇.
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3 years
Coutts police honors, greets and hugs truckers who have blocked the US - Canada border for 18 consecutive days.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
The big wigs at the Calgary Stampede knew about the abuse of children for DECADES and they did nothing. In fact, they helped cover it up. This is the REAL “leave our kids alone” scandal in Alberta. Where are the outraged conservative protests?!
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Gil McGowan
2 years
There’s a good chance that Italy will be run by a fascist government after next week’s elections. This isn’t exaggeration or rhetorical overstatement: the party that’s heir to Mussolini’s political movement is literally poised to win. Dark days ahead.
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2 months
Trump threatens to crush the Canadian economy and Danielle Smith’s response is to … check notes … kiss his backside. She “stands up to Ottawa” but folds to Washington. So much for “Alberta strong and free.” 🙄
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Trudeau didn’t call Albertans fools. He said people like you are trying to fool working Albertans. You just proved his point.
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Danielle Smith
1 year
Today, Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau spoke with Alberta media during which he managed to call Albertans fools, claimed the carbon tax was saving Alberta families thousands of dollars, and condemned anyone supportive of parental involvement in their child’s education. We.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
More people I know personally have gotten Covid in the past week than in the entire rest of the pandemic, so far. This is hitting very close to home for me. Literally. How many other people have had a similar experience?.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
A UCP caucus member just called me to ask if there was anything the UCP could do to address the concerns of workers in Alberta. I told him the UCP has lost the moral authority to govern and that the best thing they could do for Albertans is to resign & call an election. #AbLeg.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
I’m not a Liberal, but it’s hard to disagree with these points. Do we really want a science-denying, convoy-loving, crypto-scamming, corporate-coddling, northern Trumpster as Prime Minister?.
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Justin Trudeau
2 years
Telling people they can opt out of inflation by investing in cryptocurrencies is not responsible leadership. Fighting against life-saving vaccines is not responsible leadership. Opposing the pandemic supports that saved jobs and helped families is not responsible leadership.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
This is significant. Charles was a high-profile conservative until Canadian conservative decided to follow the path of Trump Republicans towards authoritarianism.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Two years ago, I supported the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act … and, today, I support the decision to appeal this unfortunate ruling. We Canadians need to see the occupation of Ottawa (and Coutts) for what it was: our January 6th. #NorthernMAGA.
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"We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary, however we do not agree with this decision," says Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland as she announces the government will appeal a Federal Court ruling that the February 2022 invocation of Emergencies Act was unreasonable. #cdnpoli
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2 years
“Anyone who doesn’t take seriously the risk of COVID infection is in denial about the risk of long COVID and its potentially disabling effects.” Renowned doctor and scientist ⁦@EricTopol⁩ pulls no punches in this must-read column. #CovidIsNotOver
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Gil McGowan
1 year
How, exactly, is it “free debate” when you have three dudes on stage who agree with each other (parroting the same extreme right MAGA lines ad nauseum)? What you’re doing is NOT debate. It’s handing a government-sponsored megaphone to some of the world’s biggest jerks.
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Danielle Smith
1 year
A packed house in Edmonton, Alberta to witness free debate, thought, and expression. We need more of this from all sides! . Thank you to @ConradMBlack, @jordanbpeterson, and @TuckerCarlson for coming.
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Gil McGowan
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Our health care system is collapsing. Doctors are leaving the province. Our classrooms are bursting at the seams. Working Albertans are being flattened by an affordability crisis. And, amidst all of this, our Premier’s priority is … plastic straws?! What an absolute failure. 🤦‍♂️.
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Danielle Smith
1 year
Calgary is one step closer to getting free napkins, cutlery, condiments, and bags back… next, plastic straws!
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1 year
For folks saying “Smith is right to stop gender reassignment surgery for kids under 18” the truth is this kind of surgery is NOT being done on kids under 18. The question people SHOULD be asking is: “why is Smith making such a big deal out of something that’s not happening?”.
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Is what "they're" saying on the internet true? Are little kids REALLY having gender reassignment surgery in Alberta? . Dr. Kate Greenaway brings 20+ years of experience to our #RealTalkRoundTable. 📺 FULL: 🎧 FULL: #abpoli #ableg
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Gil McGowan
5 years
I have a serious question for Alberta media: why did so many of you frame your stories like this (“protesters on both sides of the climate change debate descended on downtown”)? I was there. There were 100 Greta supporters for every one opponent. 🤷‍♂️
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Gil McGowan
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I know many people in my province have decided that they don’t like Trudeau. But, pitting personalities aside, the current government’s plan to lease federal land for housing is objectively better than the Conservative’s plan to simply sell it off to their developer friends.
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Justin Trudeau
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The federal government owns tons of public land that’s not being used anymore. The Conservative Party wants to sell it all off for a quick profit. We’ve got a better idea.
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Gil McGowan
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Never let big, profitable corporations tell you they can’t afford to pay their workers more. And never let them tell you workers just have to accept an ever-declining standard of living. Free collective bargaining works!
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Gil McGowan
6 months
Alberta calls in army to assist with wildfire situation. Just another example of the benefits of membership in the Canadian federation. The federal government is NOT the villain some politicians claim them to be.
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Gil McGowan
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Finally, someone in the federal government is fighting back & saying what many Albertans are thinking: Danielle Smith’s focus on to stoking fears and embracing MAGA-style conspiracy theories is “bonkers.” She is burning our province down. Boissonnault is right to call her out!.
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MP Boissonnault criticizing Premier Smith today:. “She is simply not doing her job and she's going off soaking fears about somehow the US putting chemtrails in the air? It's simply bonkers.”. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Gil McGowan
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NDP MP Charlie Angus calls for investigation into Elon Musk over potential election interference. Angus says Musk has the power to 'easily impact our electoral integrity.’ Charlie is right! Musk must not be allowed to manipulate our elections like he did in America.
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Jasper and Jasper National Park are treasures for the world … and they’re a special haven for those of us lucky enough to live close by. What’s happening tonight breaks my heart. Prayers for those displaced by the fire and heartfelt thanks to those fighting it. #JasperFire
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Loblaws sent layoff notices to nearly all of its unionized employees at a Calgary warehouse that is in the midst of contract negotiations. This is a blatant intimidation tactic from a company that is making record profits, but refusing to pay living wages.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Rachel is absolutely right: Danielle Smith should not be normalizing Tucker Carlson’s dangerous views by sharing a stage with him. He’s free to spew is authoritarian, Putin-aligned bile. But what does it say about a Premier gives him a platform for magnify these views? #UCPisMAGA.
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Rachel Notley
1 year
Smith has restated her intent to meet with extremist Tucker Carlson. By appearing on stage beside a person with such hateful, harmful views, Smith shows a total disregard for the negative consequences this will have on Alberta’s reputation, and casts severe doubt on her own.
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Our Premier is weird. Albertans are worried about the cost of living; a failing health care system; overcrowded schools; climate change, wildfires & droughts; and wages that don’t keep up with inflation. But she wants to talk about pronouns. Completely out of touch!.
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Global Edmonton
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will introduce legislation on pronouns in schools after classes begin in September. READ MORE:
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Child care. Dental care. Now Pharmacare. In the wings: anti-scab legislation (that will support workers in bargaining) and sustainable jobs legislation (that will give workers a seat at the table for economic policy). I’m so sick of hearing that “Canada is broken.” It’s not.
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CBC News
1 year
BREAKING: The Liberal government and the NDP have come to an agreement on pharmacare, clearing the way for the two parties to continue operating under the confidence-and-supply agreement that has helped keep the government in power over the past 2 years.
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3 years
Question for conservatives. You’ve spent the past two decades extolling the virtues of uniting the right, but when the left unites around a shared agenda, you lose your minds. Why is what’s good for the goose not good for the gander? #CognitiveDissonance #NeverVoteConservative.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
It has become clear that anti-vax protesters have a very peculiar definition of freedom. They want restaurants & bars to be forced to serve them. They want people who are concerned about Covid to be forced to socialize with them or work with them. 1/2.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
In court today, the UCP’s lawyer claimed that the February letter from Education Minister LaGrange telling school boards they couldn’t maintain their own mask mandates was merely “guidance.” Judge Dunlop then said: so you’d be okay if I made a declaration to that effect. 1/2.
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Gil McGowan
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There are many things that are weird about Pierre Poilievre, but one of the weirdest is that he seems to be on the list of politicians getting support from a right-wing bot army. Russians? Authoritarian billionaires? In either case, it should raise red flags for Canadian voters.
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Gil McGowan
5 years
The Supreme Court ruled that oil companies can’t use bankruptcy to shed their responsibility to clean up abandoned wells. But now Kenney is pledging to find a way around this decision. Who does this guy work for: citizens or oil companies? #ableg #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Today, I made it clear to Danielle Smith that if she wins the UCP leadership and tries to pull Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), she’ll have a big fight on her hands. That money belongs to Albertans, not the UCP! #HandsOffOurCPP #AbLeg #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
“We believe in choice,” says Danielle Smith. How about the choice to drive on the wrong side of the road? Or to dump toxic waste in our water supply? Ruling out sensible public health measures when they’re needed isn’t “freedom”; it’s negligence. #AbLeg
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Gil McGowan
2 years
You can’t make this stuff up. One of the guys who orchestrated the Coutts border blockade that disrupted the lives of thousands of Albertans for three weeks is complaining that the long wait for his court date is disrupting his life. Oh, the irony. #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Today, it’s demoralizing to be an Albertan. Tomorrow may be worse. But, as the leader of a large, province-wide organization, I know there are millions of us who don’t agree with the direction Danielle Smith and the UCP are taking our province.
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Gil McGowan
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Remember when Poilievre and his federal Conservatives held up Canadian aid to Ukraine? It was a head scratcher at the time, but after today’s revelations about Russia interference in western democracies, it’s starting to make more sense.
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Gil McGowan
4 years
So, it’s official: Jason Kenney squandered $7 billion of our collective money on a pipe dream. I’m done with people saying how smart Kenney is or how good conservatives are with the economy. This is gross irresponsibility and negligence of the highest order. #AbLeg #cdnpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Recent events make it clear we have a serious problem here in Alberta. Trumpy extremists are feeling emboldened. They’re also in charge of the governing party. No one is going to fix this for us. It’s up to the rest of us to stand up & push back. #BetterIsPossible for Alberta.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
A year ago, Tucker Carlson was calling on Americans to invade and “liberate” Canada. Now, he’s getting the red carpet treatment in Alberta.This is all part of the ongoing campaign to MAGAify Alberta and Canada. Danielle Smith is a chief enabler.
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Gil McGowan
4 years
Wildcat strikes have apparently begun at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and the Foothills Hospital in Calgary. When Kenney and the UCP decided to attack health care during a pandemic did he really think workers wouldn’t fight back? #Solidarity #AbLeg #canlab #cdnpoli.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Danielle Smith suggests a lower minimum wage for “no-skill” workers. My response: “It’s clear the only freedom she’s concerned about is the freedom of employers to exploit low-wage workers.” If there was ever any doubt, Smith is NOT a friend of workers.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
I’m troubled by Kenney’s argument that we shouldn’t have rules because people won’t follow them. Does that mean we shouldn’t have rules about speeding, consumer protection, workplace safety? This is dangerous libertarian nonsense. #AbLeg #abpoli #COVID19AB.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
I think the families of the people who have died from Covid and the people who have died as a result of the cancellation of surgeries over the past month should sue Kenney, Shandro and Hinshaw for criminal negligence causing death. #SocialMurder #intentionallycruelwave #COVID19AB.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
I can personally attest to the toll that high-stress, public-facing careers can take on relationships. Being PM during Covid and having to deal with the never ending venom of the Trumpified right, would take it to a whole other level. My heart goes out to both Justin & Sophie.
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CTV Edmonton
2 years
BREAKING: PM Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau are separating
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Gil McGowan
3 years
Spare me your phoney sentiments. Just days ago, you literally told the angry anti-vax/anti-democracy crowd to target me and my staff at our offices (because we stood up for disabled kids & workplace health & safety). You have ZERO credibility on this issue. #AbLeg #cdnpoli.
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Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
Very sorry to see this, @R_Boissonnault. This kind of behaviour undermines democracy, making it more difficult for elected representatives & their staff to be accessible. We have seen a growing volume of threats & intimidation against elected officials recently. It must stop.
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Gil McGowan
6 years
Dear, John. On behalf of the Alberta labour movement, I’d like to formally ask you to take your Dad’s place as a speaker at our convention in Calgary. We want to make sure Harry’s message is heard by as many people as possible. We’ll help you carry the torch. @Harryslaststand.
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Thinking of the iconic Jasper Park Lodge tonight. The only fully unionized resort in the Canadian Rockies. Home to so much Alberta history. My prayers go out to all the displaced Jasper residents & workers. Deepest thanks to all those brave souls fighting the fires. 🙏 🙏🙏
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Media: PLEASE start calling Smith out on her BS! The health care staff shortage was NOT caused by vaccine mandates. 98% of Alberta health care workers got their shots. Our hospitals are filling up because our leaders aren’t taking Covid seriously enough!
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Danielle Smith continues to repeat her claim that Albertans “over contribute” to CPP. But this is a blatant lie. All Canadians pay exactly the same rate. We have a younger workforce, so we have fewer folks collecting pensions RIGHT NOW. But they will later. Smith is a huckster.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Powerful and important column: “The blockades were never about COVID. These protests were laced with extremism, white nationalism, populism and racism. The blockaders, privileged and entitled, were nourished, nurtured and coddled in Canada.”
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Gil McGowan
1 year
COVID didn’t destroy faith in provincial governments: right-wing extremists and anti-vax grifters used COVID to turn people against science, public health and any kind of collective action to defend the public good. Smith isn’t a firefighter; she’s one of the arsonists.
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Don Braid
1 year
Covid has destroyed faith in provincial governments. The only leader who bucks the trend - somewhat - is Danielle Smith. Column. #ableg #yyc #abhealth #abgov #abpoli #cdnpoli.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
“You just can’t put 4 1/2 million people under a permanent lockdown,” whines Kenney. No one was calling for a lockdown over the summer. They were asking for masking, contact tracing, air filtration etc. Those are NOT lockdowns. In fact they would’ve helped AVOID lockdowns! #AbLeg.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
The UCP’s lawyer turned a little green at this point, asked for a moment to consult with his client, then returned to say ‘no.’ In other words, the UCP’s lawyer got caught talking out of both sides of his mouth. I’m pretty sure that didn’t impress the judge. 2/2.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Wow! This is the definitive rebuttal to @ABDanielleSmith’s whitewashing of Canadian history. Every Canadian should watch this powerful video. Bravo @Songstress28! #AbLeg #abpoli #cdnpoli.
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Brandi Morin
2 years
@ABDanielleSmith whitewashed version of how so-called Canada was founded left out truths which “might help shape the future of where we are going” & as she’s the leader of my home province, it’s time for her to face the facts instead of perpetuating an inaccurate, harmful fantasy
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Gil McGowan
2 years
I told the Western Standard to F-off because they’re propagandists for the extreme right, which they are. The UCP is now “alarmed” by my lack of “civility.” You know what’s REALLY alarming and uncivil? A government that ignores sick and dying kids, that’s what. #AbLeg #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Calls for Trudeau to step down during ‘Freedom Convoy’ traced back to Russian proxy sites. Can we now finally dispense with the fiction that the convoy actually reflected the views of a majority of Canadians? #cdnpoli #AbLeg #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
A new study shows that during just four months in 2020, mask mandates in Canada averted 290,000 Covid cases; avoided more than 3,000 deaths; and saved $610 million. It’s time to call out the anti-maskers on the BS, revisionist history. #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
2 years
“The company you keep tells others who you really are.” Danielle Smith’s decision to cozy up to Jordan Peterson is telling, indeed.
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Gil McGowan
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Pharmacare is now established in Canada! This is a tremendous victory for the generations of Canadians who campaigned to extend the Medicare umbrella to cover prescription drugs. Now the job is to expand the program … and protect it from being eliminated by Pierre Poilievre.
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Moments ago, Canada made history! @SenateCA passed Bill C-64, the Pharmacare Act. Congratulations @markhollandlib @MPJulian @jyduclos @DonDavies @KPateontheHill Thanks to the many thousands of ppl who called for #pharmacarenow & our amazing ldrs @jmacl3an @PaulineWorsfold <3
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Gil McGowan
3 years
Kenney says organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” should disassociate themselves from racist and extremist elements. He didn’t explain how they could disassociate themselves from themselves.
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Gil McGowan
2 years
A tale of two Premiers. Notley and Smith both sat down for separate chats with Calgary Mayor Gondek in front of crowd of 2,000 Calgary business people. In a nutshell: Notley shone; Smith flopped. I almost felt sorry for Smith. Almost. #AbLeg #abvotes #abpoli
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Gil McGowan
3 years
I don’t know who made this meme, but I think most Albertans will admit it hits pretty close to the mark. The only thing that I would add is that oil companies are NOT reinvesting their record profits in jobs, so what used to be a win-lose situation has become purely lose-lose.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
Some people say Hinshaw deserved her $230K bonus (on top of her $360K salary) because she “worked hard” during the pandemic. Excuse me? NONE of our nurses, doctors or other health care workers got bonuses. In fact, the UCP threatened them with pay CUTS!
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Gil McGowan
2 years
Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi: urban progressive conservative voters should “lend” their votes to the NDP. If they don’t, and Danielle Smith wins, the UCP will complete its transformation into a northern version of Trump’s Republican Party. #abvotes
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Gil McGowan
1 year
@ABDanielleSmith @JustinTrudeau Trudeau didn’t call Albertans fools. He said people like you are trying to fool working Albertans. You just proved his point.
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Gil McGowan
5 months
It’s Labour Day, you disrespectful asshats. Jason Kenney passed a stupid law to take this holiday away from Alberta workers, but we’re reclaiming it. Ignore this pathetic UCP rebranding. Happy Labour Day, everyone!
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Gil McGowan
3 months
COVID19 is “just the flu.” No it’s not! Covid has killed 98 Albertans over the past two months. Only one has died from the flu. Yet, only 3.4 percent of Albertans have gotten their COVID boosters. The UCP’s handling of the situation amounts to negligence.
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Gil McGowan
4 years
Like Harper’s son, Ben, I also got a job at the Alberta Legislature when I was a university student. But there were a few differences. I had to compete with dozens of others for the job. I didn’t have the benefit of a well-connected parent. And, oh, I got paid $4.50/hour. #AbLeg.
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Gil McGowan
2 months
Finally! A mainstream news article that tells the workers’ side of the story in the postal strike. CUPW members are fighting efforts to replace stable, permanent jobs with precarious, temporary jobs. They’re drawing a line in the sand for all of us! ✊
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Gil McGowan
2 years
That red dot in the sky? That’s the sun. And the air isn’t just smoky; it’s filled with ash from the unprecedented number of wildfires. Just another summer morning in Alberta. Can we really afford a government that doesn’t believe in #climatechange? #abfires #abwildfires #abvotes
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Gil McGowan
17 days
This! 👇🎯💯
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Gil McGowan
3 years
The economist who thoroughly debunked the right-wing argument that raising the minimum wage would kill jobs has won the Nobel prize for economics. We’ll deserved!
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Gil McGowan
1 year
I’m so jealous of my friends in Manitoba. Their Premier loves to read books to kids. Here in Alberta, our Premier … well … you know. 🤦‍♂️.
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Wab Kinew
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Happy I ❤️ to Read Month! . Now's the perfect time to finally dive into that book you bought months ago or make progress on your Goodreads shelf. Let me know what’s on your reading list!
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Gil McGowan
29 days
The real issue facing Canadians today is how to avoid getting taken to the cleaners by Trump. We need negotiators and hard bargainers, not sycophants and lap dogs. Say what you want about Trudeau and Freeland, but they proved they could go toe-to-toe with Trump and win.
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Gil McGowan
4 years
In Question Period, UCP health minister @shandro unequivocally said Alberta’s contact tracing system has NOT been overwhelmed. Half an hour later, in her daily news conference, @CMOH_Alberta said unequivocally that it has, indeed, been overwhelmed. 🤯 #AbLeg #abpoli #COVID19AB.
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Gil McGowan
1 year
Finally! The federal government is challenging the Alberta government’s dangerous and unjustified scheme to pull Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan. Welcome to the fray Prime Minister. #HandsOffOurCPP.
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Lisa Johnson
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Letter today from PM Justin Trudeau to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on the province's proposal to exit the CPP: "The harm it would cause is undeniable," he writes. "We will not stand by as anyone seeks to weaken pensions and reduce the retirement income of Canadians." #ableg
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Gil McGowan
5 months
Premier Danielle Smith seems to be on very friendly terms with a US Senator who clearly has ties to Russia’s foreign interference operations. Does she have any comment?
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Gil McGowan
5 years
Ventilators destined for Barbados seized by U.S. - Barbados Today
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Gil McGowan
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Gil McGowan
2 months
I know everyone’s attention is focused elsewhere, but this is significant. Carbon pricing (aka the carbon tax) seems to be working. Canada's carbon emissions declined in 2023 even as economy, population grew.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
As a representative of hundreds of thousands of Alberta workers who will be affected by the new 5-day isolation policy, I DEMAND to see the evidence showing that a shorter isolation period is safe. If keeping people safe means temporarily slowing down the economy, so be it!.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
So, Jason Kenney (who is being investigated by the RCMP for possible election fraud) and the UCP cabinet (which is filled with folks with sketchy records) want to replace the RCMP with a police force more directly under AB govt control. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️ #CopsOfTheirOwn.
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Gil McGowan
3 years
Someone flew Tamara Lich’s husband to Ottawa on a private jet? I thought this was supposed to be about “ordinary Canadians”? Last time I checked, most ordinary Canadians don’t have private jets. Weird. #FluTruckKlan #ottawaoccupiers #OttawaOccupation #ottawaseige #cdnpoli.
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James Bowie
3 years
Mr. Lich is now testifying that he flew to Ottawa on a private jet.
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