Michael Janz
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Edmonton isn’t asking for a special deal, just a fair deal. We need support from the province and federal government to take care of one another.
You can probably guess who has the most money, but how much more?
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Given Bill 20, at the risk of getting fired as an Edmonton Councillor…
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t retweet, share, like, this article calling out the UCP/Premier Smith for not paying her property taxes and owing Edmonton millions of dollars.
#ableg
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“We don’t need an audit. They need a mirror.”
The province has cut slashed infrastructure funding, downloaded bills and skipped paying their property tax.
Now they ask why Edmonton and other municipalities are hurting?
#ableg
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Just a reminder there are 165,000 children in poverty in Alberta, including 51,540 in Edmonton.
Meanwhile, our UCP MLAs have multiple homes around the world that they are jetting off to do 'maintenance'.
#ableg
#RealTalkRJ
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Resign Michael Cooper.
🧵As Mayors of the two cities that straddle Member of Parliament Michael Cooper’s riding, Mayor
@CathyHeron
and I are troubled by a photo of MP Cooper that is being circulated with an upside down Canadian flag with a hateful symbol of a swastika on it.
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Is this about the small group of peaceful parents stopping the honking convoy from heading downtown to disrupt businesses and families?
There are currently traffic delays on River Valley Road at Fortway Drive. Demonstrators on foot are asked to stay off the roadway to allow
#yegtraffic
flow.
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Budget: I moved an amendment to hold the police to 0% next year instead of a 0.7% tax increase.
If passed, this money will be reallocated to addressing houselessness, community safety, social services prevention and response programs as determined by Council.
#yegcc
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Wow the
@Edmontonsun
is publishing actual racism suggesting “perhaps you shouldn’t have left your home country”.
Please retract, apologize, implement better controls, and do better.
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Why are we using a multimillion dollar police helicopter to chase down petty bylaw infractions?
NEWS:
@ASIRT_AB
has found no wrongdoing on the part of EPS officers who pursued a man who drowned trying to escape police on some river ice earlier this month. Police tried to stop the man for riding a bike without lights.
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🧵 Just returned from the protest at
#ableg
. As your EPSB Trustee, I’ve received many letters from parents concerned about safe reentry to school, masking, testing, tracing, and isolation.
Here’s a few thoughts:
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UCP to abandoned well owners: $Billions
UCP to Edmonton: ~12 sheriffs.
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Resign.
This is what Red Deer Catholic School Board trustee (and frequent Take Back Alberta reposter) Monique LaGrange posted to her social media. Horrifying. She should resign immediately. Failing that she should be suspended and sanctioned by the board.
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Kenney adds that municipalities don't have the same data as provincial officials when councils make their decision.
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Remember, if premier smith paid her property taxes and bills, these taxes could be SEVEN PERCENT lower.
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Good news: If you were born after March 1st, 2005, you are eligible to help vote out the UCP in the 2023
#ableg
election.
Bad news: This post makes me feel old.
From coal mines to curriculum, an enormous amount of work is required over the next two years. Get active!
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New Post: The CEO of EPCOR made $2.2, $2.9 and $2.4 Million over the last three years. The EPCOR Board Chair received $237,900.
#yegcc
is the sole shareholder of EPCOR. We must curb excessive exec compensation and protect the public interest.
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Took the family on a walk to City Hall. Thrilled about the new office, new colleagues, and the opportunities to build great communities ahead. 🧡
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Bulk responding to mask mandates and
#epsb
questions: 🧵
EPSB exceeded CMOH last year and we would do so again on masks and safety.
Yet board and leaders were told and our senior leadership were told by Ministry we were not permitted to pass a mask mandate.
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Big news… would not have happened without the INCREDIBLE staff at Royal Alex.
Nurses, custodians, OBGs were compassionate, experienced, empathetic angels deserving raises not rollbacks.
Protect Public Health Care like our lives depend on it: because they do.
#FireKenney
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Calgary police said that NINETY PERCENT OF PROPERTY CRIME is committed by ONLY ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE with subsistence addictions.
It only costs $100/day to provide them safe medicine.
The Insurance industry alone should be screaming for safe supply!
Why allow Poilievre and Smith dominate conversations on drugs, crime and public safety when non-police, consent-based alternatives cost next to nothing and actually work?
Here's my pitch to
#yyccc
this week on
#SafeSupply
for crime prevention:
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BREAKING: City Council UNANIMOUSLY increases noise bylaw fine to $1000 and doubling per offense.
#yeg
#yegtraffic
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Ran into
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
in Garneau today. Walked a couple blocks with him to his next meeting. Folks on the street not only recognized him but were waving and honking and really positive. A good sign for
#yegvote
this far out.
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Sigh.
#ableg
“I would rather learn a thousand pronouns than listen to a dead child’s eulogy” - queer activist.
Attacks on queer youth / children's rights this week from Premier Smith/UCP will result in MORE homeless youth.
#ableg
I urge all media to talk to experts such as the YAC about how devestating attacks on the most vulnerable can be to our whole city.
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I’m very concerned about rebranding of public assets to private benefit-- esp when we paid 99.9% of the public asset.
Coming up at
#yegcc
, there’s a rec to rename Clareview Rec Centre the “Jumpstart Community Recreation Centre" (Canadian Tire).
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Beautiful mask from EPSB Elder Francis Whiskeyjack for the swearing-in.
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Not healthcare.
Not the economy.
Not the crisis of the unhoused.
Not the rocketing amputations on the street.
Not downtown recovery.
Not education.
Not our families. Not us.
Her focus was on getting criminal charges dropped for her supporters.
#ableg
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#ableg
math help please:
$330 million to the flames billionaire owners will be offset by how many Albertans having to pay to see their doctor?
Solve for X.
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Any
#ableg
commentators or media following the very regrettable departure of MLA Shannon Phillips must watch this statement.
She deserves much better. Our democracy deserves much better. We all deserve must better and we won’t get it until we fix police accountability.
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Rumor Danielle Smith & UCP/allies may announce temp Sheriffs this week for Transit in Calgary/Edm, likely to leave RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, just like their other temp Sheriffs in Chinatown.🤦♂️
Transit safety is really important to me, and I'm tired of pre-election gimmicks.
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This is the coolest little library in Edmonton, no, the world.
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First order of business? Breakfast with the GOAT and then off to pick up our signage!
Email michael
@michaeljanz
.ca if you can help us recover our signage!
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Preach,
@The_Gateway
:
"Money province owes Edmonton could make up budget shortfall: Edmontonians shouldn’t pay for the UCP’s decision not to pay its taxes and properly fund its services."
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Heart attack victims? Personal responsibility.
Cancer victims? Personal responsibility.
Orphan well owners?
WHERE DOES THE TAXPAYER SEND TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS? 💰 💵 💷
#ableg
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I’m confident
#epsb
will do our best to exceed public health measures permissible in legislation (masks etc).
However, the real needed measures (test, trace, isolate) and serious opportunity to beat
#COVID19AB
rests at the legislature.
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You may know me as your school trustee, but I'm putting forward my papers to serve as your city councillor this
#yegvote
. Over the next few months I’ll be sharing more on building a better city for everyone.
Learn more at
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NEW: school boards can unilaterally put questions on the muni ballot.
We don’t need approval from City Hall.
#epsb
will be debating adding two questions: fair deal for funding and
#DitchTheDraft
curriculum.
#yegvote
#ableg
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While we are talking about taxes for cities and towns across Alberta, just a reminder that if the premier paid her taxes and reversed cuts, your property taxes could be near 0%.
#ableg
austerity is simply balancing the books on the backs of community.
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One of the things that irks me the most about the UCPs sudden (E-39?) interest in "social disorder" and "Crime" is that they sat on their hands for the last 1200 days-- while providing the War Room $30Million year over year.
Their pennies now can't fix their inaction.
#ableg
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“I would rather learn a thousand pronouns than listen to a youngsters eulogy.”
Can’t stop thinking about that^^. Anti-queer hate has real life and death consequences.
Social-conservative groups gear up for stealth takeover of Alberta school boards in coming elections.
#ableg
#abpoli
#education
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Encampment removal is very expensive.
Edmonton has spent ~$2.7 million to clean ~2,221 encampments for an average of ~$1,217 per encampment.
We need
#ableg
to invest in quality prevention opportunities that meet their own approved shelter standards for the most vulnerable.
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#Epsb
has ~600 known*** cases of covid - 70% in elementary schools.
Last year, we had 58 in Sept and 1900 cases TOTAL.
I’ve Never had or heard of a Minister with such callous disregard for the well-being of our little children.
Minister
@AdrianaLaGrange
: you must resign.
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It is absolutely wild that Edmonton may spend almost $400 Million on a new Recreation centre almost outside of the city. (In this economy?)
I get that this was the vision decades ago... but we need a course correction. A smaller neighbourhood recreation model is in order.
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Happy to share
@EPSBNews
will join
@ElkIslandLocal
@EdmCathSchools
and others to NOT pilot the new curriculum!
#abed
#ableg
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Fun (not fun)
#yegcc
fact;
1/5 of ALL roads in Edmonton were built in the last five years.
21%.
Now cost the maintenance, renewal, and you have the answer why we can’t have more nice things.
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Wow. Police chief goes to UCP fundraiser (!!!) as guest of president of ankle tracking bracelets company (!!!)
#depoliticizethepolice
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36% of Edmontonians rent, supporting both their landlords family as well as their own.
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Strange framing for the article. The EPS have never actually had a budget reduction in at least thirty years, if ever.
Also no mention of The UCP taking $5mil last year.
#yegcc
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Reminder about Transit Safety: 👏 problems on the platform are problems from the province. 👏
Edmontonians are doing everything we can, but the real "fix" is needed at the
#ableg
.
These stories are the result of 4 years of UCP ideology against housing and harm reduction.
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The mailbag has been rough this week.
If you asked my fellow Trustees to support masks and vaccines, maybe send them love to balance out the misinfo we’ve received. It helps.
Of course please still shame
@AdrianaLaGrange
for failing to show leadership yet again.
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Once again, if
#ableg
funded us fairly with calgary and reversed cutbacks, your taxes would be ~7% lower. Alberta is calling for help!
Keith Gerein: Edmonton council forced into game of 'pick your poison' to address financial distress
Read More:
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Leaving Telus World of Science today I wondered if… given this weekend with truckers, the racism, the unrest, and maybe out of empathy or solidarity with
#BlackHistoryMonth
the Police Association would have taken down the Thin Blue Line flag.
They had not.
#yegcc
#yeg
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This Saturday, community members are coming together to demand
#justiceforpacey
from Minister Tyler Shandro and Alberta Justice.
Follow
@JusticeFor22498
for more information.
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1429 beds (mats?)
3051 unhoused people.
This math from
@kccindytran
shows
#ableg
has been misleading the public about shelter capacity.
Imagine if they were misrepresenting health care wait times, surgeries or jobs created or emissions.
Do these lives count for less?
CORRECTION: there are 1,429 available shelter beds. Elizabeth Fry Society has confirmed they have not opened the 96 promised shelter spaces.
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Masks are the bare minimum. They are not a “give” for the Ministry and must not be conflated with action on COVID.
We need test, trace, isolate, ventilation, class size reduction and so much more. Some high schools are barely half vaccinated.
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Sneak preview- New family photo! You love to see it…❤️
#yegcc
#yeg
Now someone just needs to ‘shop in
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
!
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The police leadership need to have some tough conversations about what being unsafe is or is not.
Being criticized does not make you unsafe.
Marginalizing members of the public as "protesters" and dismissing their criticisms as a threat is systemic racism when not applied =ly.
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Pretty much our entire city deficit would be wiped clean if the province paid their property taxes as they did for the last 100+ years
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Police spending per person:
1st: Windsor $505
2nd: Edmonton $465
25th: Quebec City $230
WILD that
#yegcc
pays more than double QC.
Taxpayers deserve an audit, answers and transparency.
Where's the money going?
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We are all thrilled to have a mayor who has already moved a motion towards anti-racism and building a welcoming city for everyone.
(Also really impressed Baby Marcus didn’t freak out with the bagpipes today.)
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The Chief needs to show up for work, whether it is a city council meeting or to speak to journalists.
Alberta is still a democracy. Who else is going to guard the guards?
#ableg
Huh.
@edmontonpolice
says they will NOT be making the chief or anyone else available to answer questions from journalists following the
@YEG_Commission
meeting. This is a break from custom, even for virtual meetings.
Will instead speak tomorrow in their studio.
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This person definitely made the nice list!🎄 🧑🎄 🚴
#yegbike
There is still great hope for reasoned debate in 2023. Bring on the big ideas for a better Edmonton in 2023! 🍻
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Context matters. The cost of the bike plan is the difference between a 3.9% and a 4.0% tax increase next year.
#yegbudget
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If the police had routed the convoy, and enforced the rule of law snd the new court injunction on honking, these citizens would not have likely felt the urge to stand up.
#yeg
#yegcc
Was told by the police today that we could be charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act.
Interesting how they refer to it when peaceful protestors are holding up the convoy, but not when the convoy is holding up the border for days. 🧐
#yeg
#FluTruxKlanGoHome
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Ward papastew Coun. Michael Janz said if the province was serious about helping, it would reinstate funding to municipalities that has been scaled back over the past five years.
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“The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, Alberta’s toothless police watchdog, found that the officers acted in violation of the provincial Police Act, yet Alberta Crown Prosecution Service refused to lay charges.
The Speaker of the Alberta Legislature was silent.”
#ableg
Shannon Phillips to quit as MLA, citing the disinformation and viciousness women are subjected to in public life.
#ableg
#abpoli
@SPhillipsAB
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Edmonton property taxes provide for the best resourced police force in Alberta and 2nd in Canada.
No one spends more on police per person than Edmonton and it's almost a quarter of your tax bill.
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Pastor Sherry Adams is not running for Trustee again, but her pastor colleague Dawn Hancock is in Ward E.
Watch out, West Edmonton.
#yegvote
Edmonton Public School board trustee Sherry Adams pleads her case for using Ivermectin over the COVID vaccine- before board chair Trisha Estabrooks steps in to call it misinformation.
#yeg
#yyc
#ableg
#covid19ab
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Just a regular Edmonton evening. Everyone is so friendly and kind! I love this town!
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Parents ask me what to do. They are tired. They are frustrated. Turn that anger into action! Drive out and threaten to flip seats!
The UCP has backed down on coal mines, Rutherford scholarship, and they will do so again. We have to put the pressure on area MLAs.
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Nervous? You aren’t alone. Visit
@SOSAlberta
for advocacy toolkits, advice, and key messages. DM me anytime.
Let’s go!
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Nate Glubish is the UCP MLA for Sherwood park. His office opens at 9AM tomorrow.
If you can show up at the
#ableg
, show up at his office! Show up in the community. Meet them at public events.
It’s a 25min drive from the legislature.
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Edmonton has the best paid police officers in Alberta (Via
@ProgressAlberta
).
The Edmonton Police Service have NEVER seen a budget cut and NEVER seen a layoff.
Never. Chief himself said so.
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Bus carrying 30 sitting behind many cars carrying ~one person each.
This is unjust, expensive and inefficient for the taxpayer, costing more fuel and wear&tear.
Council will be receiving a report on transit priority measures (ex. Lights and lanes) March 19th.
#yegcc
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