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It’s as delusional as Quebec wanting the same thing.  Except that we coddle Quebec and vilify Alberta.  I wonder why? 🤔

such empathy shown (in a now deleted tweet) from Alberta UCP Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Nicholas Milliken:

such empathy shown (in a now deleted tweet) from Alberta UCP Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Nicholas Milliken:

It's deeply concerning that the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions would post something like this.  Here in Edmonton, the  homeless population has increased substantially since the UCP took over in 2019.  If one were to go to certain areas near downtown, they will see hundreds of tents along streets, parks, and businesses.  It's beginning to resemble a shanty town in some areas. There have also been outbreaks of disease, that caused the health department to put up advisories and warnings.

The UCP has always maintained a complete disregard and indifference to the poor.

while campaigning for the UCP leadership, Danielle Smith promised to, "seek pardons for COVID-19 health violators". In yet another profiled walk-back, Alberta Premier Smith now says she is no longer pursuing amnesty for COVID-19 health-rule violators because Canadian law doesn’t work that way... that Canada isn't like the U.S. where a Canadian provincial Premier doesn't have the same power as a U.S. State Governor in granting clemency or offering pardons.

do tell waldo, do tell! The waldo tells ya... Alberta Premier Smith is a dingbat!

let us not forget the media/political opposition brouhaha that resulted when on her very first day as Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith stated, "the COVID-19 unvaccinated were the most discriminated group she has seen in her lifetime."

You forgot the update on the Crown prosecutor's she said she contacted before walking it back when she found out she isn't allowed to do that. People in the Crown prosecutor's office say she totally did that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-premier-office-emails-prosecutors-coutts-1.6719743

Very cool to live in a province where the government is so beholden to the antivaxx/convoy freaks that they're spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a fake probe led by a conservative kook to look into stuff that happened two years ago.

Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning picked to chair review of Alberta’s COVID-19 response

Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to chair it.

Smith said Thursday that Manning and the panel are to take feedback virtually from experts and the public, then issue a final report and recommendations by Nov. 15.

Manning is to pick the other panel members subject to approval by Smith.

The budget is $2 million, and Manning is to be paid $253,000.

A quarter million bucks to write a pile of bullshit, wingnut welfare at its worst.

I mean: 'Bizarre' fictional COVID-19 report, penned by Preston Manning, resurfaces on social media

The man Alberta is paying $253,000 to find out what went right – and wrong – with the province's pandemic response has already come to his own conclusions in a report published online last spring.

The report, posted online by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a think tank that has been tied to controversies involving Canada's residential school system and climate change denial, contains a fictional account of a review of the federal government's COVID-19 response.

It's written by Preston Manning, 80-year-old retired politician who served as Calgary MP and leader of the Reform Party of Canada for 13 years.
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Critics of Manning's fictional report are calling it mostly absurd, filled with Manning's own views on topics like the Freedom Convoy, vaccine mandates and masking.

Some say excerpts of his documents suggest Manning's belief that treatments for COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin – are effective.

"Why did the federal government initially engage in what appeared to be a deliberate smear campaign to discredit the use of pharmaceutical interventions (i.e. drugs) to treat COVID-19 and its mutation, even prohibiting physicians from using them, when scientific evidence as to the safety and efficacy of such treatments was already available?" the report reads.

Danielle Smith was the game changer of the 2015 Alberta Election, destroying the two right wing parties in Alberta and paving the way for the NDP to win the election.

Who would have thought that less than a decade later, history would repeat itself.

We live in hope.

She is going to win the election.  It’s Alberta.

Again it depends on if Calgary voters are dumb enough to vote for someone who is clearly an idiot and out of her depth and oh god we're so screwed.