Looks like Pete Guthrie wants to know if Smith hasn’t learned her lesson and if the sole sourced contracts practices have continued! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

WOW! Pete Guthrie has filed legislative FOIP requests and one of them seems to suggest… Dani’s former Chief of Staff, Marshall Smith is making bank of his government connections? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

So… Former UCP Minister Pete Guthrie has asked Smith to answer some questions… These are basically legislative FOIP requests. And uh… What’s going on in Brazil now? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

An open letter to the Herald on the sudden removal of a column apparently in response to lawfare threats by Danielle Smith’s former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith... It includes 252 signatures from the fields of recovery, harm reduction, medicine & media. #abpoli #cdnpoli #YYC

Party defections are seldom isolated events. In many instances, one departure sets off a chain of events resulting in rumours, more exits, expulsions, and turmoil surrounding the leader. Read more: partyloyalty.ca. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

What is the "Corrupt Care" scandal? Pete Guthrie, who left the UCP over their refusal to call a public inquiry, summed it up impressively today. And he called out the UCP MLA's and ministers who remain silent on it. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta's Auditor General is racing to finish his investigation into healthcare procurement after the UCP govt rejected his proposed contract extension. He's done in April, 2026, and wants his probe wrapped then, too. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Smith is silencing the investigators. Fired the AHS CEO & the entire board for looking into corruption. Now firing the Auditor General for exposing corruption. When you fire the watchdogs, it's not about efficiency—it's about avoiding accountability.

Today Elections Alberta requested $13.5 million to be able to administer recalls and referendum. The UCP committee in charge revised their request to just over $1 million. And then voted it through. The UCP just defunded recall/referendum. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

NDP MLA David Shepherd held very little back as the UCP effectively fired the Auditor General in committee today… Including highlighting that for a government under suspicion of covering up massive scandals, this only makes things look worse. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I don't know about you all, but I am getting tired of the UCP importing MAGA tactics to stifle democracy. They know they are unpopular and so they would rather cheat than compete. Cowards and scoundrels all.

Was one of the guests on West of Centre this week - the CBC’s Alberta Politics podcast - with @jaredwesley.ca and @colinaitchison.bsky.social Check it out on Apple or Spotify…and subscribe. The gang at CBC Calgary are doing good work over there. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

To all the tories and progressive conservatives denouncing Bill 2, I see you. This is an important moment for conservatism in Alberta.

It’s go time Art Hunters. The sculpture is hidden in a location with a nice view. One that @drdagly.bsky.social would have enjoyed often. Good luck. #yegarthunt #arthuntyeg

Pay very close attention… Danielle Smith is using extreme examples to normalize the use of the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is fucking amazing

Meanwhile in #YYC, just off the Deerfoot… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat… Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

As seen on Threads tonight www.threads.com/@merileebroc... #Alberta #abpoli

Today I paid tribute to someone who was a friend & inspiration to many of us, Darren Markland. One of the best humans I’ve ever known. In the shadow of the challenges our world faces today, we need more people like Darren. Perhaps the best tribute we can pay is to be more like him. #abpoli

McGowan also adds that unions are organizing to bring down the UCP government and to make Danielle Smith a radio host again.

McGowan adds that they will work to recall UCP MLAs and to potentially launch a campaign calling for the defunding of private schools in Alberta

Vassy Kapelos nails all the issues (and brings receipts) for the Education Minister. His responses were all canned talking points about Alberta teachers being the highest paid in western Canada.

Tomorrow, from 9 AM to noon, St. Albert students are organizing a walk-out and a march in support of Teachers. As a dad, former Teacher and education minister, I support this. Missing school is warranted in support of social justice and civil right. I’ll join them. #ableg #abed

The Premier has lost the confidence of her caucus, and she's lost the confidence of every single Albertan. This is far from over. For Danielle Smith and the UCP, it's the beginning of the end. youtube.com/shorts/gLVzs...

Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.

I slept on it and miraculously produced a letter with no swears. Please consider doing the same if you haven't already. We need to raise our voices. The future of our province depends on it.

The ATA has released a statement in the early hours of October 28th… “The fight has just begun” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

A story in two pictures… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I hope that the Premier reconsiders her desire to invoke the “notwithstanding clause” in dealing with Teachers. This very rarely used clause, stripping Canadians of civil rights, has no place in collective bargaining. General strike would be a commensurate response. #ableg

Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian

I'm the next few days, it would be a mistake to: ❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education ❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.

A pattern emerging.

🏆 to the person who took this picture and passed it on.

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights? An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote. I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

After invoking the notwithstanding clause to bust the teachers’ strike, Danielle Smith appears to have fucked off to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Hoping for a domino effect after the teachers say no till the momentum hits the UCP’s house of cards. Go teachers and unions! 🤞♥️ ✊

Danielle Smith is the least freedom-loving politician in Canada. She has used the notwithstanding clause against workers for the first time in our history. This is horrifying evidence of the UCP’s willingness to suppress Albertans’ fundamental Charter rights. It’s unconscionable and it’s dangerous.

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

Speaking to @energimedia.bsky.social today, GilMcGowan made it clear… Danielle Smith has just touched off an economic firestorm. And union leaders will be responding “province wide”. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #generalstrike

This is the sort of thing that Smith would have leaked, just to cause outrage among the "lefties" for an hour, before details of the actual bill are released and it turns out the Notwithstanding Clause is not invoked at all. Because that's the level of adulting that we're dealing with in Alberta.

Dear Albertans. Today we face the prospect that Ms Smith will legislate teachers back to work 'cos it says we can't afford to settle. Meanwhile the GoA is paying $$ (so far $237M - likely as much as $650M) to Aussie coal companies to settle claims created by the UCP's own incompetence #abpoli #ableg

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

When he says “record education funding” he means in nominal terms — and forgets to mention that nominal funding is almost always at record highs. On a per-student basis, and after adjusting for inflation? It isn’t even close.

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