🚨 Trustees must have the best interests of kids, not the best interests of their party! 📚 Education should be the top priority. Tell your MLA to keep political parties out of school board elections. 🛑 #KidsOverPolitics #Bill20 #ableg #abed

Will party politics in municipal government help increase civility? We see example after example of poor behaviour in the Legislature and Parliament (and yes, it comes from all parties). So what makes anyone think that won’t transfer over to local government? #ableg #abpoli

Even if it was true that department staff, without the minister’s approval and sign off, cut a significant social program, any honourable minister would accept the responsibility, not throw staff under the bus. Now, has the minister lost control over his department? #ableg

Alberta's big cities voted overwhelmingly against Danielle Smith's UCP in the last election. Now, she's decided to take revenge by undermining their democratically elected municipal governments and poisoning their politics with partisanship. #abpoli nationalobserver.com/2024/05/02/opi…

Power giant scraps wind project due to Alberta's no-go zones for renewable power. Add to Capital Power scrapping carbon capture on their Genessee natgas plant, and this is a grim week for a low-carbon electricity future in Alberta. calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…

Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦 We now know that AUC and AESO - supposedly arms-length institutions - did not request a renewables pause (as the UCP claimed), but were told to did it.

At this point it’s safe to say everything Smith said about the renewables pause was a flat out lie. Which begs an important question… How can Albertans believe anything Smith or the UCP say about coal mining? Are you angry yet? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Danielle Smith has been caught in a lie. Again. This one is a whopper. Smith’s reckless and irresponsible renewables moratorium wasn’t requested by the system operator, after all. Instead, Smith was playing politics…at the expense of thousands of jobs and billions in investment.

How can there not be engagement before the creation of a bill that overhauls local democracy? To not engage Albertans, Alberta Municipalities | Strength in Members, and Rural Municipalities of Alberta at the start is a clear signal that the provincial government doesn’t actually care what anyone has to say about Bill 20. #ableg #abpoli

Danielle Smith lied. She applied political pressure to a regulator whose purpose it is to serve the public. Sound familiar? Of course it does. Because this is who Danielle Smith is.

Premier Danielle Smith: The suggestion that Calgary is “attempting to alter election laws” is misleading. In case you and your team haven’t read the motion, I’ve included it here so you can see the actual wording. The way you have framed is it not correct. #ableg #abpoli #yyccc

“Alberta Health officials were warned that the province’s $80-million purchase of children’s pain medication from Turkey could run into delays that would erode demand for the imported supply” 2 weeks before Smith pulled the trigger. #abpoli #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…

This is called cherry picking. It will make private clinics look more efficient because they don’t manage their complications.

Meanwhile our provincial government is disposing of billions with carbon capture scams and hydrocarbon hydrogen, while blocking renewables. It’s like they don’t intend to be around when the paradigm shifts.

.Danielle Smith will introduce today Bill 21, extending UCP government’s mandate beyond set by law election date. Danielle Smith will try to convince you that there will be wildfires in the spring of 2027, preventing elections. Putin & Orban extended their term limits. #ableg

The Pension War Room™️ notes how similar this is to the pension file. Travis was "too busy" to be interviewed about AIMCo Invests. But when a news article comes out that he didn't like he would get his staff to spend a week haranguing the editors. #AbLeg

amanda paine Alberta Teachers' Association Actually the strike is not about the salary at this point. The teachers was a guarantee on class size and complexity resources and the government will not do this. It’s about making school better for all kids. Including yours.

The anti-vaccine stuff will get the attention. But this story also shows that the UCP's Board of Directors wants to set government policy. Typically a party's BOD is focused on the internal working of the party organization, but not the current UCP BOD.

This is your daily pension announcement. Again The Pension War Room™️ notes that the AIMCo Invests Board STILL does not have a Chair. (Instead we have an Acting Chair.) Really hard to understand why this is. Poor governance is, well, poor practice. #AbLeg

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