#Albertan Politics

[canadachronicles]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The group behind an insurgency taking over the United Conservative Party and working to get Danielle Smith elected is alarming many Albertans with their aggressive tactics, and raising questions about their political agenda – including from conservatives. Take Back Alberta grew out of last year’s convoy blockade in Coutts when hundreds of vehicles blocked the Canada-US border. The Coutts blockade later hardened into an organized movement made up of Christian nationalists, separatists, sovereigntists and other disgruntled rural Albertans bent on ousting Jason Kenney and taking control of the United Conservative Party.

Danielle Smith now enjoys the full support of the group which credits itself for bringing down Kenney during his 2022 leadership review and installing Smith as Premier of Alberta. Take Back Alberta has also taken over nine seats on the party’s board and a number of regional boards to get like-minded members in the nomination races.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

March 11, 2024

Mrs. Petrovic: Madam Speaker, Trudeau and his continued mission to further encroach into the lives of Albertans is ignoring the voices of us in this matter. That is why Bill 204 is a necessary piece of legislation to make sure Albertans will be heard loud and clear. This is not just a hypothetical concern, either. Last August the city of Edmonton council voted 10 to 3 in favour of moving forward with a plan to potentially establish a national urban park in Edmonton’s river valley. This is not what Albertans want. From my experience leading a municipality as a former mayor, I can attest that this is not the approach Albertans want.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

'Scuse me, Bert, did you name yourself after the Canadian province?

this is the worst slander I've ever had to deal with on this webbed site

[kazhanko-art]

so my province has two bills in the works (I believe, I don’t think they’ve passed yet). One makes it so that all federal academic and research grants given to universities must be pre approved by the provincial government, so as to “ensure it lines up with provincial interests” (incidentally, I live in one of if not the most conservative provinces in Canada, which is also clinging to a dying oil economy)

the second bill would allow the provincial government to intervene into municipal affairs, such as bylaws, and remove anyone from municipal council (I think also maybe mayors but I’m unsure). Their reassurance for those concerned about the amount of power this gives them was that they probably wouldn’t use it that much

so that’s all kinda scary, and a reminder to Canadians that: the shit that is going on in the states can and will reach here. So please participate in the politics here.

If things go bad in the states, there’s gonna be a lot of people who need to come here, and we’re gonna have to step up on the world stage. But to do that we have to stop ourselves from sliding down that slope that the US has.

I know Canadian politics can seem small and boring compared to others, especially the US. I know a lot of people here feel apathetic towards our country. I know Canadian politics and news gets swallowed up by our neighbours a lot. But apathy is the democracy killer, and there are people in this country trying to make shit so much worse.

So if you have any elections coming up, vote in them. If you have a chance to make an impact, whether it be mailing your MP, volunteering, or whatever else, take it. We cannot afford to let our country and democracy deteriorate

[skiddo-xy]

Alberta you never fail to disappoint me

[osmanthusoolong]

https://tj.news/saint-john-south/carriers-suspended-for-refusing-to-deliver-sex-change-ban-flyer-union-rep

“Saint John-area carrier Shannon Aitchison says she was suspended for five days without pay for taking a stand against the latest material from Campaign Life Coalition, a registered national lobbyist who has sent out three postcards across New Brunswick ahead of the province’s Oct. 21 election.

These postcards have accused teachers of “pushing transgenderism” and described gender-affirming medical care as “chemical and surgical mutilation.” The third and latest postcard states that “no child is ‘born in the wrong body,’” and that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”

“The third flyer was straight-up nonsense,” said Aitchison, who is the mother of a transgender child. “‘God doesn’t make mistakes,’ so you’re telling me my child is a mistake? “

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“Canada Post has maintained the content of the postcards doesn’t meet the criteria to be “non-mailable matter.” As a result, the Crown corporation has said it’s required to deliver the postcards even if their contents are objectionable to the organization itself, its employees or its other customers.

Five Saint John-area Canada Post carriers decided not to deliver the coalition’s latest postcard over the last week, according to Aitchison, who is the recording secretary for the local postal workers’ union.

Two of the carriers – one of those was Aitchison – were suspended, she said, while the status of another carrier remains in limbo. She told Brunswick News another two carriers used paid personal days, as recommended by management, to avoid working the window where the postcards were to be delivered.”

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“In August, Campaign Life Coalition threatened legal action against Canada Post after the national postal workers’ union claimed some of its New Brunswick carriers had been given the “option” to not deliver the first postcard.

Canada Post never confirmed nor denied it gave that option to workers, while the union maintained that it didn’t give workers that “direction.””

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“Aitchison claims the latest flyer violates Canada Post’s own Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Charter. All Canada Post employees and customers are required to adhere to the zero-tolerance policy.

“Whoever vet this (postcard) did not do a good job,” said Aitchison, who has since returned to work and has been told she’ll be paid for her days off but is still grieving her suspension. “

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“Campaign Life Coalition has already registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections New Brunswick ahead of the Oct. 21 race, previously telling Brunswick News it plans to issue a voters’ guide and other materials.

Under third-party advertising rules, individuals and groups are entitled to each spend up to $17,600 province-wide on election advertising during the official campaign period.

However, Elections New Brunswick has acknowledged it doesn’t have the power to investigate complaints of collusion between groups, political parties and candidates to get around spending-limit rules. It also doesn’t have the power to levy administrative fines if parties are found to be in violation of the rules.”

So the Albertan astroturf christofascists can freely interfere with the election, very cool

I really hope CUPW stand up for the workers with a conscience. I was visiting family in New Brunswick when we got one of their propaganda mailers, and it was so vile

@allthecanadianpolitics

[sga-owns-my-soul]

anyways i'm thinking about rodney mckay again and how he's literally the great character on tv to ever exist. the complexities. the contradictions. the way his character growth is so incredible but it's not linear. the way he's soooooooooo fuckable. like there's literally nothing about rodney's character that i don't love. he's albertan canadian. he's an asshole. he's the smartest man in two galaxies. he's an absolute moron. he knows more than anyone. he doesn't understand the reasons behind polite greetings. he strives to learn more. he's hates biology/medical sciences. he's a hypochondriac. he's the strongest character in the show. he has tons of health issues and weaknesses. he hates people. he cares more about the people in his city than he does about himself. he's a selfish bastard. he will risk his life over and over again for other people, even if they don't deserve it. he's also so fucking hot have you seen his fucking arms and his HANDS UGH HES LITERALLY THE. CHARACTER. WHY ARE YALL SLEEPING ON HIM HES SO INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! the internet does not deserve him and yet we are blessed with him anyways and y'all need to give him the respect he deserves!!!!!!!!!!

[anduinwrynngaysex]

Stormwind is like keeping his spine as decor and what does Westfall get. Nothing. Fuck all. Literally less than nothing as there is now just a swirling void of negative space.

We need to start #wexit

Deathwing doing his cataclysm shit to the alliance, carefully planning his attacks and making sure that everything he does to stormwind, darnassus, silvermoon etc is 100% fixable and not permanent, then flying to a totally empty patch of grass in the middle of Westfall and going FUCK this place and making sure it's physically impossible for them to ever recover

Like no amount of lore explanation would ever be able to change my mind on this; That man just hated wheat or something.

[agnarid]

PSA- Please Read

If you are in Alberta, PLEASE don't vote for Danielle Smith in the next election.

Danielle Smith has introduced new laws that put trans youth in danger by outing them to their families if they come out at school, banning them from getting gender affirming care and banning all trans people from sports and washrooms. She has also cut funding to schools to put it toward oil and gas, and plans to make guns legal, introduce an Ablerta Pension Plan which takes peoples retirement money to use for oil and gas and cut funding to healthcare (which is very bad for me since I need regular checkups on my physical and mental health to make sure I don't die, and my mom has MS and we wouldn't be able to pay for any of our treatment if it weren't paid for by the government.)

If you're one of those people who votes conservative only because it's what you've done your whole life, please grow up and just vote NPD. The UCP has become more fascist in recent years and the NPD has become more centric. The NPD likely supports your political views more than the UCP now.

Even if you aren't Albertan or Canadian please share this post, it would mean a lot to me and many other people.

And if you have the money please consider donating to Skipping Stone, they're an orginization that helps trans people and they plan to due the government for their anti trans laws.

Thank you for reading.

-Raven

[ceasarslegion]

The albertan political sphere is just that video of Gary Johnson getting booed for saying that people should get licensed before they drive a giant metal car capable of going 200km/h

[thelooniemoonie]

Hi there, Alberta Public Health worker here! During the period she's been in power a bunch of our funding for healthcare workers and part-time employees has ceased and all contacts we've made to her government in regards to that funding has been ghosted. I hope she explodes

Alberta United Conservative Party leader Danielle Smith says reaching out to public sector workers is part of her election strategy, but on a right-wing podcast last year, Smith said public sector workers need to accept “austerity” and “pain.”

At a campaign photo-op Thursday, Smith suggested the UCP plans to grow its votes by appealing to “workers,” including workers in the public sector such as a “front-line nurse or other health professional.”

Yet in a wide-ranging April 2022 interview on an obscure Canadian libertarian podcast called “Rose Bros,” Smith advocated cuts to public services and suggested workers in the public sector need to accept “austerity” and “pain.”

“We do have to have some austerity,” Smith told the podcaster.

“The kind of pain that private sector workers have gone through in the last seven or eight years, having to go down to part-time, having to downshift, having to do work-sharing, having to take time off.” [...]

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[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

May 8, 2024

Mr. Getson: Mr. Speaker, let me share with you and the members on this side of the House and socialist members over there what I’ve heard from Albertans.

[jiminiminycrickerrttt]

The UCP is destroying a beautiful province with beautiful people. Danielle Smith’s rhetoric has been consistently discredited and debunked by experts and educators in almost every field imaginable, saying that her policies will actively cause harm to Albertans, but she does not care.

I hope selling out and tabling all those bills that significantly restrict our rights and freedoms was worth it for that 91.5% approval rating from her party.

But premiers don’t only make policies for their parties. Or even for the people that voted for them. They make decisions for every single person in Alberta, whether they voted, whether they couldn’t vote, literally everybody. Why can’t anyone seem to grasp that?

anyways I’m sad at the direction this province is going in. There are lovely people here, people who don’t spew hateful rhetoric, people just trying to take care of their friends and families. Division is a poison, don’t let politics make you forgo your humanity.

AND PROTECT TRANS KIDS

[felidaefatigue]

debating making a death first to vultures and scavengers political poster about danielle smith trying to pawn off albertan hospitals to catholic providers tbh

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive (Daily updates!)

Vax and relax with no access to the vax. I'm sure that will work out just fine.

By Teri Fikowski

(Follow the link to watch the news segment)

Alberta rolled out its fall immunization campaign on Tuesday, but people hoping to get both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at the same time might have to wait, with many pharmacies yet to receive a shipment of the new COVID shots.

"We were expecting to get flu and COVID shots together, so that was the plan initially, but just prior to the launch, we were told the vaccines would be a little delayed for COVID," said Nisma Shaukat, the pharmacist at Copperfield Pharmasave.

In September, Alberta Health announced both vaccines would be available on Oct. 15(opens in a new tab).

While many pharmacies are unable to open bookings until delivery of the shots, others were forced to cancel bookings on Tuesday.

"It's certainly inconvenient for people, especially when a lot of them heard through radio commercials and things like that that everything would be available together on the 15th," Shaukat said.

"So, many are coming in together, expecting to do both and we have to tell them, 'No, we only have one available at the moment.'"

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says a "glitch" involving a distributor, McKesson, has led to the delay in shipments.

"I'm assured they are rolling out the vaccine products and vaccine themselves to pharmacies and AHS clinics and will have everyone full-supplied by the end of the week."

Previously, the province blamed distribution problems(opens in a new tab) for family doctors not getting access to flu shots to administer.

Now, it's pharmacists who worry the delay may make it difficult to get people back through the doors for another appointment, citing a slowdown in vaccine uptake in Alberta.

During the 2023-24 flu season, 1.1 million Albertans received a flu shot, the majority through pharmacies and clinics.

That's about 140,000 people fewer than the previous year.

"It slowed down some, no question there. Last year, I think the flu numbers were half the peak and that's also why we had a really bad flu year," said David Brewerton with Lukes Drug Mart.

He describes the delay as a minor inconvenience but said Albertans shouldn't hesitate to get the shot as soon as they can, with a new strain of COVID-19 circulating.

"They should get it soon," he said.

"The fellow I just gave it to now has a person at work already and they've got other people with it. There is certainly COVID going around, there is no question there."

Health experts worry about what kind of impact a delay in vaccines will have on the upcoming respiratory virus season.

"The problem is low uptake today is going to a lead to a problem not tomorrow, not three weeks from now, but Christmastime when we're going to have all the hospitals overflowing," said microbiologist Jason Tetro.

He accuses the province of doing little to encourage Albertans to get vaccinated, citing what he describes as a lack of a fall immunization campaign, due to ideological reasons.

"Politicization of the vaccine has made a huge impact, so now we have right versus left but at the end of the day, getting a jab in your arm shouldn't be political," he said.

LaGrange said the province invested $500,000 to immunization campaigns, the same as the previous year.

A delivery date for the COVID-19 vaccine is dependent on pharmacies, so Albertans are encouraged to check in or check online for appointments.