UCP and CMOH made decisions based on convenience instead of health and safety. - #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli 74 https://t.co/AOGXN2LFoV
RT @vincemcdermott I thought it was weird the Arctic Winter Games would ask the Alberta government for $1.2 million this late (they start in January). It turns out they didnât and the province gave them $1.8 million two years ago. https://twitter.com/fortmactoday/status/1597806585597804544
An in-depth investigation that examines how the oil and gas lobby used the pandemic to push through half of the 132 long-standing requests to peel back regulatory requirements. https://thenarwhal.ca/capp-oil-lobbying-alberta-government/ #ABleg #ABpoli
Some behind the scenes from our recent investigation into CAPP and the Alberta government from @mikedesouza, who started it all. #ableg #cdnpoli https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-energy-capp-lobbying-foi/
"A staffer in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office sent a series of emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, challenging prosecutors' assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts border blockades and protests, CBC News has learned. ... 'This is so improper on so many levels â it's pure interference with Crown independence,' said one source with knowledge of the correspondence." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-premier-office-emails-prosecutors-coutts-1.6719743 #ableg #abpoli #alberta #cdnpoli
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Ottawa is one of the reasons why her government has placed a moratorium on approving new wind and solar power projects, arguing the feds are preventing development of backup generation for renewable energy like natural gas.
Albertans still facing charges for breaking Covid-related laws are off the hook after a court decision ruled the province's health orders were invalid because they breached the Public Health Act.
The chair of a panel that produced a taxpayer-funded $2-million report on COVID-19 responses for the Alberta government suggested Conservative MPs use his findings as a political cudgel in the next federal election.
As noted in the article, the UCP's $2 million dollar report to review Alberta's Pandemic Response was panned by the Alberta Medical Association.
Calling it "anti-science" and "anti-evidence," the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) claims the document advances misinformation."It speaks against the broadest and most diligent international scientific collaboration and consensus in history.⊠Science and evidence brought us through [the pandemic] and saved millions of lives," AMA president Dr. Shelley Duggan said in a statement.This is such a missed opportunity for Alberta to document the impact of COVID upon our communities, and an embarrassment on the part of those involved in this report.
A task force created by the UCP government to review the provinceâs pandemic response has issued its final report and, while it is currently being reviewed by the province, Alberta doctors are pushing back, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health.
Incidentally, I'm just getting over a covid infection. At least, I am sure it is because I had covid once when we still tested for it, and nothing else has ever felt like it.
All the teachers are saying that the flu is going around like crazy. Yet nobody can test for covid or report on it anymore, because our province took away those tools.
Maybe I got it from elsewhere, but my daughter had a high fever for a full day before I got hit. Sounds more like an outbreak to me.
Seems I have fallen into some kind of rabbit hole to find what effectively looks like Premier Smith proposing a clear the streets initiative.
Smith said in Alberta, a police officer may approach someone committing a minor offence and issue them a ticket â almost like a court summons â which would require them to show up to an âintervention commission.ââWhere they will go and get an assessment from a psychologist, and go before three commissioners, and if theyâre Indigenous, they go before three Elder commissioners, and those commissions are really there to talk to them about what is going on with them,â Smith said.If I read this correctly, police can approach vulnerable people on the street. Since these people donât look quite right by the judgment of the police, they can issue a court summons upon these undesirable looking people based on no suspicion, or reasonable grounds of any actual offence.Building off post 95, looks like the police already got the memo that they get to define what vulnerable looks like.
Lethbridge police has defined a vulnerable person as âanyone, who, due to medical or mental health, or physical condition, may exhibit patterns of behaviour that may pose a risk to themselves or others.âGood times.
Alberta Health Services â which the province is dismantling as it forges ahead with its full-scale and controversial overhaul of the health system â is facing even more uncertainty as yet another leader departs.
Four days it took her to say anything. And then she says ⊠she will do nothing. Not good enough. Her own office is implicated. The investigation canât be delivered to the people being investigated. How dumb does she think Albertans are? So again: at a bare minimum we need an RCMP investigation and a full public inquiry. All those implicated must step aside during the inquiry. Former AHS staff and Board members must be freed from any gag orders. Albertans expect no less. Premier, itâs time to face the music.
âMs. Smith came into office on a campaign to overhaul the health care system and has since made significant changes to AHS. Her government has twice removed the entire board of AHS, and installed three different leaders.â
âtwice removed the entire board of AHS, and installed three different leaders.â
When you need to shop that hard to find people willing to do it your way⊠the problem you, Ms. Smith and the UCP.
âMs. Smith has asked the Auditor-General to expedite his reviewâ
Ah, but will she allow the AG to meet with the former AHS head Ms. Mentzelopoulos, AND waive any confidentiality or non-disclosure provisions that would have kicked in as soon as Mentzelopoulos was fired?
âThe Department will be assuming responsibility [âŠ] AHS shall cease any due diligence underway with respect to the CSF Procurements or any selected proponent unless and until further notified.â - Chris Nickerson, Alberta Healthâs assistant deputy minister.
Remember this when the AGs findings come in: the Health Ministry explicitly said, stop working - WE assume responsibility.
@runsmooth @ginnoi Here's my apparently daily post of:
'You know we could fire her and other unwanted/disliked MLA's?'
Yes, would be hard.
But, is a target/goal and could be done if people rally up and get citizen focus/communities engaged..
See here: https://www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initiative/recall/recall-process/
And say, brooks - medicine hat MLA here...
https://www.assembly.ab.ca/members/members-of-the-legislative-assembly/member-information?mid=0814&legl=31&from=mla_home
p.s. Notice how nothing seems to talk of solutions, but endless problems? No wonder everyone feels so helpless and disengaged... Lets talk solutions.
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Memberâs electoral division. Who can apply for a petition to recall an MLA? To apply for a recall petition, an individual must be an eligible elector who has lived in the electoral division for at least three months prior to the date of the application. An eligible elector is a Canadian...
It has been quite clear - for a long time - that Edmonton Police Commission is *not* an oversight body to the EPS, but has been captured (as so many oversight and regulatory bodies in Alberta are) and functions as a shield and shill for the police.
Meanwhile both EPS *and* EPC have been combative and obstructive with Council when they have tried to step up to the plate and fill the accountability void.
A judge has ordered an Alberta political web series to temporarily turn off its lights following complaints by a medical supplier embroiled in controversy. MHCare and its Edmonton-based CEO, Sam Mriache, took aim at The Breakdown once again on Friday.
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