Danielle Smith getting her hands on our CPP is not the end game here. Alberta separation is. Most pension analysis is moot if the assumption is that Alberta remains within confederation. I’m speculating but here me out…🧵
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#cdnpoli
Calgary NDP voters: There are NO close races in Calgary between your party and a conservative candidate. I urge you to vote Liberal in any riding where the Liberal can beat the conservative. Just imagine the world shift in AB if several Cons ridings fall!
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
I am so tired of Kenney claiming that mental health issues were the main reason not to have restrictions. What about the MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE WHO COMPLIED AND SUFFER BY LACK OF RESTRICTIONS?
#abpoli
Hi NDP in Edmonton Centre! The Liberal is slightly leading but needs a bit of a push from you NDP voters to go from ‘leaning Liberal’ to ‘safe’. We MUST beat the Conservative and we can’t risk those voting PPC swinging to vote Con for the win. Thanks 🙏
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
In Alberta, our conservative premier has been in hiding from media and from accountability for over a month (at behest of O’Toole we think). Before that, he was on vacation and completely absent for 3 weeks or more. We’re in the 4th wave w almost nothing to stop it. 1/4
Common sense: As much as it may suck to some die-hard NDP supporters, the ONLY way to beat Conservatives and avoid the minority rule of Conservative ‘values’ is to unite the progressive vote under the Liberals in all ridings where the Liberals are stronger than NDP (most). 1/12
Here are THREE Calgary ridings that can easily unseat the Conservative but only if 2 things happen:
1. SHOW UP (advance polls now thru Mon 9 - 9)
2. VOTE LIBERAL and NOT NDP!
For gawd sakes VOTE LIBERAL.
#cdnpoli
#Elxn44
#AbLeg
#abpoli
Calling on my NDP friends in Kanata-Carleton to help beat the Conservative in this riding for the sake of $10/day childcare, public health care, environment, women’s autonomy over their own bodies, pensions at 65 instead of 67 or 68 & see us thru this pandemic.
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
@exarkunaguero
@Z_Listed
@the_real_Lord
@benshapiro
No, that's bullshit. Everyone should have access to health care regardless of one's likeability, sexual orientation or having the misfortune of needing access to reproductive health if you're female. A doctor that refuses to treat is unethical.
Fellow Canadians: the corporate class owns almost all media, social media, pollsters and the Conservative party. It’s working hard to stop you from voting Liberal bc they can win and the wealthy do not want them to win. They want money. They want power. 1/5
Calling on my NDP friends in Kanata-Carleton to VOTE LIB to beat the Conservative in this riding for the sake of $10/day childcare, public hcare, environment, women’s autonomy over their own bodies, pensions at 65 instead of 67 & see us thru this pandemic.
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
To Edmonton Griesbach Liberals. Please vote NDP to defeat the Conservative! Do it for child care, health care, women’s bodily autonomy over her reproductive health, environment, pandemic response. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
#abpoli
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
1/2 Last night, while my family and I were sleeping someone came onto my property to vandalize my car.
This was clearly an attempt to intimidate me and my campaign.
I am disheartened to see this, but I know this isn’t who we are as a community.
Dear Canadians: This was the Lib budget passed in July. It is the most progressive budget from any government in Canada in many decades. THESE are the kinds of progressive investments that allowing Conservatives to win will destroy. 1/5
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
Canada: this Alberta doctor has been tirelessly pushing the Kenney conservatives to act on the 4th wave. Kenney’s been in hiding since start of
#Elxn44
while spread skyrocketing, HC collapsing. O’Toole wants to give health transfers w NO STRINGS so Kenney can privatize.
#cdnpoli
Jody Wilson Raybold’s anti-Liberal book will hit bookshelves 1 week before Election Day.
There will be nothing new or credible in it except her axe to grind but media will feast on this ad-nauseum to derail the Liberals.
A corporate takeover of democracy.
#cdnpoli
#Elxn44
When Conservatives say “balance the budget!” They mean austerity for us. When they say “cut spending!” They mean to gut social programs, services, Hcare, environment & worker protections. When they say “create jobs!” They mean tax cuts + subsidies for CEOs + the rich.
#Elxn44
My question is why The Calgary Stampede, a non-for-profit that is in no way part of the Kenney government, is withholding daily attendance numbers? Do they take orders from Kenney now? The
@calgarystampede
has now permanently lost me as a patron. Just another old boys club.🤮
Hi Edmonton Manning. We need Liberals to vote for NDP in this riding to defeat the Conservative. Despite what you think of Singh, voting Lib here will give another seat to O’Toole. You have a chance to shift the bedrock of conservatism here!
#Elxn44
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
Seems the UCP AGM was a bigger disaster for Alberta than thought. Kenney mocking media to applause. Kenney trying to take AB out of Canada Health Act. Kenney ‘studying’ an AB revenue agency. Kenney ‘studying’ its own provincial police force... Appalling. Thread.
#abpoli
#ableg
I always place my progressive vote where I think it could do the most good, regardless of party. I’ll back the progressive that can win and stop Conservative governments. I’ll always fight to retain progress we can build on and block Cons from destroying what’s built.
#Elxn44
@KarlMalecek
@JustinTrudeau
Ummm. Conservatives, their leadership candidates, pro-life organizations, churches and big money push continuously to remove women’s bodily self-determination. It worries me when men refuse to notice this.
My take on the seditionist, irrational hatred for Trudeau by the Right: the F Trudeau flags, the feminizing of his name & image, accusations of racism, the ridiculous treason and despot accusations is cuz he’s a threat to white male power.
It’s all about racism + misogyny.
Dear. Canada,
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of our Constitution, is on the precipice of destruction as we know it. >
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
#onpoli
I’m appalled by the nefarious media takeover in this country as it advances in the shadows (and more and more covertly as it becomes normalized) without any serious analysis of it because media will not hold itself to account. 1/5
Jason Kenney calculates that there is a greater political cost to him to lockdown non-essential businesses and activities and enforce a province-wide mask policy than allowing hundreds or even thousands of people to die or suffer permanent damage to health.
#abpoli
@CMOH_Alberta
Kenney, today, “The federal government attacking the largest sector of Canada’s economy…”.
Of course the federal gov is doing no such thing.
More importantly: Kenney keeps claiming that AB’s O&G is largest industry in Canada and also AB is Cda’s “economic engine”. Wrong
@MercedesGlobal
OMG! When do you report that these are dangerous threats and assaults on our nation’s PM? When do you start asking the organizers of these mobs questions as to who is involved? When do you ask the police what they’re doing about this to keep the PM safe?
@exarkunaguero
@Z_Listed
@the_real_Lord
@benshapiro
Single payor doesn't work that way. The patient doesn't pay the doctor at all. The patient's financial ability doesn't come into it at all. Docs orgs negotiate the fee structure with the gov for services on a scale that includes overhead. The gov pays them.
My hunch is the real reason Jason Kenney will not cut the $30,000,000/yr wholly tax funded war room is because he is taking care of his cronies Savage, Schweitzer, Nixon and Tom Olsen. No doubt Stephen Harper is collecting a paycheque from this secret corporation.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
Why do men overwhelmingly vote for hard Right parties? And especially white men?? Why are they virtually immovable?
41% support UCP vs. 29% women.
How can any woman vote for Cons?
#abpoli
Poilievre screams he will cut taxes, fire the gatekeepers, make powerful paycheques. Those who think this will help them get ahead are the same people that do not understand LIFE WILL COST MORE!
#cdnpoli
They don’t ask these questions…1/10
Where do Conservatives get the idea that wealth is proof of hard work and that poverty is proof of laziness when very often the opposite is true?
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#abpoli
#onpoli
A bad look for O’Toole right now would be the reality that there’s no more morgue space for the bodies in Edmonton but Kenney refusing the arrival of any reefer trucks until after the election in order to protect Erin’s campaign.
#elxn44vote
#cdnpoli
@CPC_HQ
You’re preying on people who understand little of federal debt - peddling fear and disinformation. Our debt load is nowhere near unsustainable and what’s important is debt servicing to GDP. Cost of carrying debt against GDP declining for 15+ yrs to among lowest + AAA debt rating.
Calgary. Let’s talk municipal politics. Jeromy Farkas is who the UCP is working overtime to make mayor.
Why would you think Kenney wants AB’s 2 largest cities to be in lockstep with the UCP agenda?
And how do you feel about UCP-backed school board trustee elections?
#abpoli
@TorontoStar
The lie that capitalism will make public health care better is utter bullshit. It is not “competition” to privatize health care. It’s handing over a public asset owned by all of us to private owners who will charge us so they can extract profit.
1. Conservative policy is to frame the economy, no matter how well it’s doing under a non-Con gov, as ‘failing’, in recession, being ‘destroyed’ in order to erode confidence, cause the economy to falter so they can position themselves as white knights.
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#onpoli
#abpoli
@exarkunaguero
@Z_Listed
@the_real_Lord
@benshapiro
Hasn't happened in 50 years or more. For 50 years our health care system is better than yours by many measures, costs far, far less than yours, doesn't bankrupt anyone, has better health outcomes.
It’s a growing catastrophe in Alberta and we have ZERO leadership with a government that has pandered to the anti-vex, anti-mask people all along! AND O’TOOLE BACKS KENNEY’S APPROACH. Do not vote for the Conservatives!
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
4/4
The most important thing is to VOTE! Conservatives always run to the polls as they’re always riled up by negative, smear campaigns designed to get them to the polls and also to discourage progressives from bothering to show up. DON’T LET THEM DETER US!
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
How in the HELL did Albertans vote for the Albertan tin pot dictator, Kenney and his flying monkeys such as Shandro, LaGrange, Schweitzer, et al - a government hell bent on implementing CUTS TO
#abhealth
IN A HEALTH CARE CRISIS!? Kenney is a cruel, power-drunk MONSTER.
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Health care - thread. 1/18
#Elxn44
: our health care system is vulnerable as
#COVID19
has exposed its limits and significantly so in some provinces due to decisions made or not made by provinces to reduce spread.
#cdnpoli
#healthcare
Fellow Albertans: A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for coal. O’Toole will allow his “good friend” Kenney to destroy our waterways and drinking water headwaters and kill critical fish habitat by green-lighting coal projects.
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
Attention Liberals in Edmonton - Griesbach: Please do not vote Liberal! You cannot win but the NDP sure could use your help to unseat the Conservative. Please do your part to keep $10/day childcare, prevent privatization of health care, reasonable gun control.
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E. Solomon asking Trudeau about balancing the budget and as soon as Trudeau started speaking to the reality that servicing the debt (which is what matters) is declining against GDP, Evan interrupts him.“Balancing the budget” is a meaningless Conservative talking point = austerity
To Edmonton Mill Woods NDP. Please vote Liberal to defeat the Conservative! Do it for child care, health care, women’s bodily autonomy over her reproductive health, environment, pandemic response. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
#abpoli
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
@i_guneet
@JustinTrudeau
@jasmith_yorku
You used your FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. Literally no one has forced you to be vaccinated and no one has interfered with your Charter rights. This is not about you, dude.
The morgues are completely full in Edmonton and hospital care is unavailable for all except the most dire cases as long as you’re not too old or sick to save. You can bet that Kenney has held off all reefer trucks until after the election but the bodies are piling.
#elxn44vote
@PoliticalCupid
@davenewworld_2
No don’t demand to see the medical exemption. That’s irrelevant. The accommodation for those who can’t wear a mask is curb side pick up or delivery or having someone else buy your stuff. Period.
@PierrePoilievre
It’s not a coalition. NDP has no seats at the cabinet table. It’s a supply and confidence agreement. This is democratic bipartisan unity on matters of importance to most Canadians. Coalition too is how democracy works. Harper had one w the Bloc. 🤣
Nov, 2020, in the pandemic, Kenney made it far more difficult for health care workers and first responders to claim for PTSD. These are the workers that are already suffering the effects of this in a COVID war zone created by Kenney.
What Conservatives do!
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
Jason Kenney is rolling back WCB for injured workers, taking away presumptive PTSD coverage for workers who experience violence and trauma, and restricting Albertans' right to refuse unsafe work.
This doesn't create jobs.
It just hurts Albertans.
#ableg
@PierrePoilievre
PP on disinformation overdrive. Bipartisan agreements in a minority gov and even actual coalitions (which this is not) are completely normal in a healthy democracy. This is democracy in action and there is everything wrong with the Conservatives and PP’s malign intent.
#cdnpoli
It is imperative we put egos aside & stand together to defeat Conservative power. Such power is only won by manipulation, cheating, smear campaigns and sophisticated, globally funded micro targeting through social media and monopoly ownership of our media landscape + airwaves. /3
The Conservatives don’t just want to win, they want to destroy progressive values. Harper’s aim was always to ‘re-wire’ the brains of Canadians to favour more capitalist, individualistic, patriarchal, right wing republicanism. He chairs the IDU. /4
@IvisonJ
85% of Canadians are out putting up sandbags against C19. 15% are tearing them down but want the 85% to tolerate that and give them a hero’s welcome for “fighting for all our freedoms”.
#cdnpoli
#freedomconvoy22
@alexgrenier
@AnnaSova17
She is correct. This is a huge problem with Conservatives. There is no need for her to say not all Conservatives as there likely are a few. But where are those?? It is obvious the good ones are cowards if they refuse to speak out.
@ItsDeanBlundell
The other guys around I guess think it’s normal for another man to assault women and then try to help the man once they get her out of the way. The whole scene is disturbing.
@PoliticalCupid
@TehseenLadha
I have no idea why people automatically think private sector is better at everything, or anything. I’ve spent my career in both at senior management levels and you just don’t hear about the waste in private sector because it’s private. Waste happens everywhere.
I think Kenney’s resignation is not enough for UCP supporters to stop voting for them. They will sigh relief and declare that their party did the brave thing, reinforcing their egotistical belief that it’s still the best party to vote for.
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#AbLeg
@IvisonJ
When you’re so allied w the righter edge of the spectrum, you tend to think half of Canadians are in your camp. Only a tiny number sit there. Canada is not divided. You just believe the Conservative false narrative pretending there’s mainstream support for white nationalism.
@onedarwinian
@liberal_party
@CPC_HQ
ALL the divisiveness is coming from the right. It’s not coming from the Libs or NDP. ALL the prosperity is coming from the federal government. Childcare, pharmacare, CERB, CEWS, increased funds for HC, lowest unemployment EVER, great fiscal spot among G7, top country to live in.
@privacylawyer
@RCMPNS
Andrew Joyce is public information officer of
@RCMPNS
. He refers to First Nation treaty right upheld by Supreme Court of Canada as the FNs “feel” they have a right. NO! They have that right!! Then he said he respects BOTH SIDES! Only 1 side has a legal right! UNACCEPTABLE!
@andrewaperez
@JustinTrudeau
Yes and today we have the lowest unemployment rate since the ‘70s, have successfully buoyed workers and businesses thru pandemic, $10 child care, pharmacare on the way to help Cdns, among freest countries in world with least corruption. Libs provide stable, sensible gov.
To Edmonton Centre NDP voters. Please vote Liberal to defeat the Conservative! Do it for child care, health care, women’s bodily autonomy over their reproductive health, environment, pandemic response. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
#abpoli
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
Canadians are more progressive than today’s Conservative (Reform) party that is in service to corporate donors. Don’t give Conservatives your bank card and keys to your house. If elected, they already have enough Conservative premiers to rewrite the Charter.
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#Elxn44
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Our healthcare system is collapsing and all surgeries are cancelled except the most dire. Even cancer and transplant surgeries are cancelled indefinitely. Our UCP conservative gov IS NOT EVEN TRYING TO STOP THIS! 2/4
This is a photo of my brain tumour. My surgery was originally scheduled for today, but I received a call yesterday afternoon that the surgery has been cancelled indefinitely. Please call, email, or share this post with our government officials. Thank you!
Jason Kenney in Alberta is working hand in glove w Harper. Kenney represents the Conservative vision of Canada: no union protections for workers, business before people, private schools, private health care, Jude-Christian dominance... Alberta is the dry run for Harper’s Canada.
@PnPCBC
@AndrewScheer
@jkenney
He’s using the exact same “not waiting for Health Canada to play catch up” language as Kenney. It’s a script to undermine Health Canada, Dr. Tam. This is depraved. The cons are undermining Canadians’ confidence in HC. No doubt Harper is in the background here.
#cdnpoli
#cdnmedia
Kenney recently said his government’s goal was always and remains to have the lowest restrictions in Canada.
It has NEVER been to protect as many Albertans as possible, has never been to bend the curve.
His goal has only ever been to keep businesses open.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
We are unwittingly tricked into destroying the greatness of our own country as our anger has been expertly redirected at the wrong enemy: our neighbours, whilst the corporate overlords gain authoritarian control over our govs & wallets. 5/5
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#CdnMediaFailed
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@CBCNews
Harper pulled Canada out and we had no further military presence in Afghanistan after March 15, 2014. You are misinforming Canadians. You have not reported on this for years so why now during an election? Why?
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