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Official trips are for official business, not plus-ones.
FOIP records suggest a failed UCP candidate, married to a ministerial chief of staff, rode along on Minister Nally's bourbon country tour and taxpayers covered his share.
Pay it back. And tell us how often this happens.
#abpoli #ableg
Man travels internationally without understanding how health insurance works. Pays $114. Immediately concludes he’s uncovered a massive Canadian immigration scandal.
Apparently, the blockage extends well beyond his ear.
With Albertans struggling with rising grocery bills, housing costs and the cost of everyday essentials, Naheed Nenshi says it's time to take stock of seven years of UCP government.
"Are you better off than you were seven years ago? I think very few Albertans, except for the very wealthy, would say Yes."
#abpoli #ableg
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The UCP spent $1.4 million investigating Calgary's water crisis.
Goldie's finding, page 54: "The evidence does not establish that Mayor Nenshi directed or knowingly approved that decision."
Rob Anderson's response? Pretend the report says the exact opposite. Somewhere, a government lawyer just developed a migraine.
#ableg #abpoli #yyc
The Western Standard might want to read page 55 of the report it's covering.
David Goldie explicitly states the 2015 review did NOT identify the condition of the Bearspaw feeder main.
"Raftelis did not identify the condition of the Bearspaw South Feeder Main or prescribe the inspection, asset integrity and risk-escalation measures later recommended."
It concerned utility governance and finances.
And Goldie found no evidence Nenshi directed or knowingly approved withholding its recommendations.
#abpoli #ableg #yyc
Nenshi denies knowingly withholding critical Bearspaw water main recommendations in 2015 westernstandard.news/alberta…
Many call Danielle Smith a communications wizard. Others simply call it pandering.
Saturday, she told Ezra Levant at an event she was actively discussing repealing hate-speech protections.
Tuesday, her own justice ministry said no such changes were being contemplated.
Apparently, government policy now comes with an audience-specific disclaimer.
#abpoli #ableg
News: Danielle Smith told Ezra Levant she and her justice minister were discussing a repeal of the Alberta Human Rights Act's hate speech provisions.
The justice ministry, however, says it is "not contemplating any changes" to the act. edmontonjournal.com/news/pol…
Smith’s approval is underwater. Nenshi leads her by 16 points in Calgary. And the UCP just lost a supposedly safe Calgary seat after a 17-point swing.
While Albertans grapple with affordability, health care and education, Smith has devoted political attention to separatism, right-wing culture-war battles, and gerrymandering crucial ridings.
Rick Bell lays out the numbers behind Alberta’s suddenly competitive political landscape.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
NEW. Is that Nenshi's face I see? THE POLL SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co… via @calgaryherald #ableg #cdnpoli #Alberta #yyc
Apparently Jeff Rath was an NDP agent provocateur all along, rallying thousands of NDP plants at last year’s UCP AGM to cheer for Alberta independence and boo Danielle Smith.
Quite the elaborate operation.
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Some pretty wild takeaways from today's electoral boundaries committee meeting:
Lethbridge would be split into FOUR ridings instead of its current two urban ones. Three would combine city neighbourhoods with surrounding rural areas.
Three urban-rural hybrid ridings are proposed along Calgary's northwest and western edges. Springbank gets split up. Kathleen Ganley questioned why the panel was citing GOLF COURSES to justify its boundaries.
Okotoks and Diamond Valley would be split apart, with Diamond Valley paired with Banff. The panel's dissenting members say public submissions overwhelmingly favoured keeping them together.
Ganley says Calgary and Edmonton ridings would average 7,000 more residents per MLA than ridings outside those cities. That's a 14 percent difference.
The NDP wanted to put its concerns about the maps on the record. UCP MLAs voted 3–2 to end the committee's review before those motions could even be considered.
The NDP also wanted taxpayers to know how much the panel and its outside consultants were paid. UCP MLAs voted that down too. Ganley says the panel chair gets an extra $5,000/month on top of regular pay.
The UCP says the maps should be debated in the Legislature once they're public. The NDP wanted the committee to scrutinize them now.
Meanwhile, Albertans still haven't seen the maps. The report is due November 2.
#ableg #abpoli
Good lord. UCP MLAs just voted down an NDP motion to disclose how much taxpayers paid members of the electoral boundaries panel and its outside consultants and advisors.
According to Kathleen Ganley, the panel chair receives an extra $5,000 a month on top of regular remuneration.
The motion simply asked for transparency about how public money was spent.
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NDP MLA @KathleenGanley revealed the electoral boundary panel argued for the "need to draw three hybrids... on the northwest edge of Calgary: in Calgary Northwest, Calgary Bow, and Calgary West. They insist that they need to split Springbank into two so that they can gerrymander two different ridings."
Hmmm... in 2023, the UCP won Calgary NW and Calgary Bow by just 143 and 623 votes, respectively. Coincidence, I'm sure. #ableg #abpoli
Recommend tuning into the electoral boundary committee meeting right now.
The new report has not been made public and committee members are still restricted talking about the contents, but it was revealed Lethbridge may be split into FOUR ridings and Calgary ridings will be impacted.
Unrelated, the UCP has lost significant ground in battleground Calgary, according to several recent polls.
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The hypocrisy of rage-bait patriotism is something to behold.
Conservatives are attacking NDP MLAs over poppies that weren't visible on camera, while defending a premier who publicly declared she refused to wear one.
Roll the tape.
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“Save Canada.” Where are the poppies?
Ten days after CAF members died in Alberta, so many NDP caucus members appear without poppies in today’s video.
Big patriotic campaign. Where’s the gesture of remembrance?
#Alberta #CAF #LestWeForget
Ummmmm.....
ALBERTA MEDIA ALERT 🚨
What none of the Media are understanding is how involved Danielle Smith was behind the scenes in manipulating the petition and referendum process.
Prior to the November 2025 AGM Danielle Smith Would text Jeff Rath on a relatively regular basis.
On June 30, 2025 Smith sent a text to Jeff Rath by mistake that was obviously meant for Thomas Lukaszuk.
The text said
“Told you not to submit until the new rules came in. This has to be conducted under the old thresholds”
This text was sent AFTER Lukaszuk had submitted his petition under the old rules and Lukaszuk was already Lobbying to have his petition be permitted to meet the lower signature threshold under the new rules.
Rath responded to Smith by saying that Smith had obviously intended that text for Thomas Lukaszuk.
Smith, obviously flustered tried to lie her way out of it claiming :
“No I meant to send it to you. I told you and Mitch to wait until the new rules came in and it sounds like you did”
The problem with that explanation is that Smith never told Rath anything about waiting until the new rules came in. We were doing it in any event.
The obvious context of this text and the timing of it that Smith was colluding with Lukaszuk to rig the petition process and subsequent referendum against her base in favour of the Forever Canadians.
Of course if what Smith was saying about NOT accidentally sending a text meant for Lukaszuk to Rath (which is less likely) this gives support to what people were saying at the time about Smith being a secret separatist. (which looks even less likely)
The simple fact is that on either formulation - manipulative secret federalist or manipulative secret separatist, SMITH is unelectable.
Understanding who she is as a person, who in their right mind would ever vote for her ever again, on either side of this debate.
A month ago, Mitch Sylvestre, president of the Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul constituency association, said board members warned Scott Cyr he could be replaced if he didn't provide answers about issues like Pathways. #abpoli #ableg
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