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Canada's premiere political podcast; @carter_ab and Corey Hogan dish, discuss & dissect politics. @zainvelji writes the show, moderates & keeps them honest.
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Has Rogers tried unplugging it, waiting thirty seconds, and plugging it back in?
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Today we are announcing that none of us will be helping on Pierre Poilievre's campaign.
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Alberta, I know you're upset but please try to understand: it was a choice between maintaining free access to Kananaskis and funding half an Energy War Room.
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@PMourdoukoutas
You’re gonna be so upset when you learn what your annual bill for the military is.
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If you're surprised that the government might speed up reopening just for the Stampede, this might be your first rodeo.
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Alberta businesses: please enjoy your six hours and... eight minutes the government has given you to plan your smooth transition into a post-REP world.
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Your province sets up a kangaroo court to find itself as the targeted victim of a global movement to save the planet. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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"Would you look at that - my neighbours' houses are on fire and mine isn't" says man standing in front of his burned-down house.
Would you look at that... Alberta and Saskatchewan have the lowest COVID-19 rates among major provinces.
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Some people will literally drive to Ottawa instead of getting over a fear of needles.
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Congratulations Alberta on moving from "renewables wouldn't be successful in a free market" to "renewables are too successful in a free market".
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PSA ANNOUNCEMENT:
Dear Rest of Canada, this is not a mainstream Alberta view so don't even with us right now okay we have some stuff going on AS YOU CAN SEE we are so goddamn serious just stifle it
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Haha remember the Kaycee Madu situation? How many years ago was that?
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What is the "Velji Rule"?
1) An observation that a political career ends when your apology requires the line "I have always been a friend of the Jewish people"
2)
@zainvelji
wants you to know it's named after him because he observed it, not because of his behaviour.
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Hi there, this is what we call the border. Please keep your "patriotism" to your side of it. Kthx.
Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers’ worthy cause using GoFundMe. This BLM-backing company went woke, froze the funds, & failed to deliver Texans’ money. Today I assembled a team to investigate their potential fraud & deception. Texas donors will get Justice!
#GoFundMe
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What's truly remarkable about tonight's debate is this:
Across all primaries, across all general elections, across everything - we have never seen somebody successfully bully Donald Trump the way Harris did tonight.
He looked like a fucking loser.
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Buy a house in the suburbs and hate your life. It's the most Edmonton thing you can do.
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I, for one, am not worried because I trust the school-aged youth of Alberta to all immediately change their pronouns in protest to make any such notices meaningless and illustrate how fucking stupid and unworkable a policy that treats all such requests the same is.
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We'd like to be the first to wish you a Happy Alberta Day on this, Alberta's first Alberta Day.
We hope you celebrate it in the traditional way: congratulating yourself for good management in the boom times and blaming any available Trudeau government in the bust times.
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We propose that we define a new measure of time called the Alberta.
It is the length of time it took for Danielle Smith to go from "let's double the population to ten million" to "why did Trudeau increase our population so much?"
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Voting closed.
Jason Kenney in a super-positioned state of having both survived and failed the leadership review until the votes are observed on May 18.
Schrödinger's Premier.
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It's like the old adage goes: "If at first you don't succeed, mobilize an angry base to take over a political party that's already in power."
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It's clear what the NDP has to do. Take back Take Back Alberta so that when Take Back Alberta takes back the NDP the NDP will be able to direct Take Back Alberta that they want the NDP back.
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The fall from "Jobs Economy Pipelines" to "best toilet" was something else to experience.
Alberta’s Westview RV Park in Wetaskiwin won Canada’s Best Restroom last year.
This year, we have three nominees from Alberta. Can we do it again? Vote here:
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Only 25 hours, 42 minutes left in the Best Summer Ever.
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Alberta is Calling But Still Surprised You Came Over™️
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"It's unfortunate that I didn't understand the limitations," she said in the phone call. "I thought we had the same power of clemency we had in the U.S."
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I had no idea that horse was a finance minister.
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UPDATED ALBERTA SEAT PROJECTION
UCP: 🤷♂️
NDP: 🤷
"IND": 1
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Oh yeah didn't we mention
Welcome to the world, Sufyan Lakhani Velji. Thanks for making us a family of 4 🤍
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Shocked to find that people who name their pizza restaurant WOP would be insensitive, wrongheaded cads.
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Now do the Wildrose/PC merger.
In the 2021 election, 3,036,348 Canadians had the option of voting Liberal to re-elect Justin Trudeau and chose to vote NDP instead.
In an instant, Jagmeet Singh effectively deposited those votes into the Liberal column.
Shame on the NDP.
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BY THE NUMBERS
42,423 - Votes for Danielle Smith in UCP leadership
369,090 - Albertans of Ukrainian descent
1 - Opportunities missed by her leadership opponents
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We are announcing the creation of a new political party: The Party.
It's a new team without labels doing things differently.
Are we centrists? Far right? Radical left? Please. We just want SMART DECISIONS. We're NOT those other guys with their BAD decisions. We're here for YOU.
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"Welcome to Calgary. Every year we have a ten-day dress-up party. Participation is mandatory."
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Don't forget to roll back your clocks one hour tonight. Or, if you're Brett Wilson, one hour and forty years.
read this.
there is no climate crisis.
there is a crisis of leadership - and alarmism.
our planet has two core issues - population and pollution - which we ignore with eco-terrorism.
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Happy Alberta Groundhog Day!
It's like regular Groundhog Day except it happens a day earlier and if David Parker sees his shadow we get six more weeks of 1950.
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Albertans: Believe Quebec is poorly governed.
Same Albertans: Want to govern province exactly like Quebec.
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SCOOP: Leaked renderings of the province's green line redesign.
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We've heard enough. With the debate over, it's clear that your side's performance was masterful and the leader of the party you don't support absolutely embarrassed herself.
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I'm no Charles H. Finance but putting $2.3b in your savings account while incurring $4.6b of debt seems like maybe you're not really saving that much.
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Moving at the speed of business™, we have created the Soviet Bread Line of health information.
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Hey New York!
When you fuel up the cars you don't have, be sure to ask for Canadian gasoline - an option nobody provides. It's good for your energy-self-sufficient country!
The CEC's
#friendlyenergy
campaign has launched in Times Square & D.C. to give voice to many Canadians & Americans who want their governments to choose
#Canadianoil
imports 1st for
#energysecurity
& relief from rising gas prices. Learn more at
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That $334 billion Alberta Pension Plan number is starting to make a little more sense.
"Smith, speaking Saturday on her provincewide call-in radio show, said 300,000 or so people attended public information sessions in late 2019 and early 2020 for the Fair Deal panel"
"Her office confirmed Monday she misspoke and meant to say 3,000."
Lol.
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Stephen Carter's wife wants to spend less time with him so The Strategists is going to two times a week.
Each Monday and Thursday, learn what tens of thousands of Canadians already know: it's arguably better than silence, which will just force you to confront your own mortality.
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Hey America you know there's 333 million more of you to choose from right.
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We'd make an Animal Farm joke about how some are more equal than others, but the UCP took that book out of the curriculum.
Photos show Kenney, cabinet ministers defying outdoor gathering rules on Sky Palace patio
#COVID19AB
#abpoli
#ableg
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We're excited to soft launch Zain's campaign for leader.
- No more 15 minute cities. 14 minute cities, progressively improving to 12 minute cities by 2030
- nationalizing Saskatchewan
- privatizing Saskatchewan
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Remember, millennials: you could buy a social network too if you'd just stop ordering avocado toast.
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2000 years ago, a Roman could walk across the known world, cloaked only in the protection of the words 'Civis romanus' - 'I am a Roman citizen'. So great was the retribution of Rome, should harm befall even one of its citizens.
And then they updated their passport design.
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Dear
#ableg
,
It has been ONE WEEK. Pace yourselves. Stay hydrated. Think of the next seven months in terms of smaller, more manageable chunks.
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The NDP could do a lot worse than sending every Albertan a copy of the UCP AGM policy book with the percent the policies passed by in the margins.
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Weird. Wonder if anythings happened in 2015 to account for this.
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Hear me out.
We create a sports savings account for the Flames to cover arena costs not already insured by the municipal government. And if they use more than $300 it's not covered.
So, to clarify - the province will be spending $330M to several elements of the area around Calgary's new arena, including roads, bridges, etc as well as a new community rink next door.
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When you consider the number of living former MLAs, getting the endorsement of 19 of them seems like declaring you're the equivalent of being the toothpaste the one out of five dentists recommends.
Honoured to have the support of these 19 former PC and Wildrose MLAs in our campaign to keep Alberta united!
Read their open letter to
@Alberta_UCP
members: ⬇⬇⬇
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Bad idea executed poorly
NDP intercepts early draft of Biden-Trudeau meeting agenda - you won't BELIEVE what we found!
🤭🤣
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On one hand, the quote is out of context.
On the other hand, the context is worse.
Politics is becoming disgusting in Alberta…the NDP have no shame.
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How many people will try to "plead the 5th" over the next six weeks at the Emergencies Act inquiry?
Closest wins an autographed picture of Zain Velji riding a horse.
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Happy 6 month anniversary of Pierre Poilievre telling us to opt out of inflation by investing in cryptocurrencies.
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Nothing says freedom like forcing people to do things
It is time to get Govt Workers back to the office!
That is why I am calling for all provincial gov't workers to return to the office in Oct.
I am also calling on the province to pressure all municipal govts & provincially mandated agencies, boards & commissions to do the same.
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"I am offering my full apology for past comments" is the new rejecting the premise of the question.
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"Hi. I'm a university graduate under the age of 35 that supports Jason Kenney. I don't exist."
Kenney doesn't do better than 30% approval with a single demographic group.
—Not men, not women
—Not young, not old.
—Not Calgary, not Edmonton, not rural/elsewhere
—Not low income, not wealthy
—Not without university/college, not university grads.
Nobody.
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New municipal councils, new sitting of the Alberta Legislature and tomorrow a new cabinet. So probably our next episode we'll talk about freezer bread.
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Join Jason Kenney next week, as he visits one of the world's largest malls in East Edmonton.
This hurts the NE in me so much. I don’t think there is anything more iconically Northeast than the Village Square Leisure Centre. Damn Jason, why you gotta play us like that?
Also, vax clinic. All day! Remember, NORTHEAST Calgary, the NW ain’t taking credit for this one! 😂😂
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So much going on. Do we need to declare a podcast under the War Measures Act?
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Let he among us who hasn't refused to disavow something four times in nine days that we have no intention of doing cast the first stone.
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From Lake of Fire to Lake of Feces.
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It's amazing how many obvious and necessary laws you can logic yourself out of if you follow this pattern of thought.
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It's like we always say: if you're explaining (you're not a Nazi), you're losing.
Also, bad job on the unclear antecedent in the last sentence pal.
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Willing to sell The Strategists for low seven figures. DM us.
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The year is 2044.
Premier AI-Based-On-Danielle Smith addresses a restless province, explaining significant investments by the Alberta Pension in R*Star, F🍁CK TRUDEAU flags, & strip malls on Hwy 2 have not had the desired returns.
The retirement age is now 112 if you own an EV.
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Over the next several hundred tweets, we will explain - irrefutably and using both natural and social sciences - why Alberta is indeed the most Canadian of the ten provinces and also why we shouldn't have to pay federal taxes. (1/x)
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To put this amount of money in context, $1.3 billion is enough to buy a KXL pipeline that won't get built.
Auto insurance brought in $1.3 billion more than they paid out in 2020: Superintendent report
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Update from OUTDOORS: ski conditions great, road conditions less so.
@carter_AB
is delayed returning from BC due to avalanches or whatever - we weren't really listening.
As a result no
@strategistspod
tonight but we record tomorrow. This one might rival Episode 934 for length.
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