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trevorrobb.bsky.social @trevorrobb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Alberta NDP Leader @naheednenshi.bsky.social criticized the government's actions over the past six weeks, saying none of the 14 bills introduced addressed the needs of Albertans. #ableg #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Recall petitions, notwithstanding clause, omnibus legislation: Alberta's turbulent fall sitting comes to a close
A turbulent 2025 fall sitting in Alberta has concluded with 14 bills passed and recall petitions plaguing MLAs.
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Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Can we trust government numbers on health wait times? Not entirely. Fascinating info in auditor general's latest report. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abhealth #abpoli #abgov #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg
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Braid: Claims about shorter wait times sometimes overblown and wrong, report suggests
The auditor general report shows many claims about reduced wait times didn't match internal numbers and were simply wrong.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
1/7 🇨🇦 🚨 ALBERTA FAILS TO MEASURE STUDENT ACCESS 🚨 🇨🇦 The promise is education for all. But the Auditor General finds the province is running blind, unable to prove if barriers for rural and disabled students are actually breaking down. The Auditor General reports #AbLeg #Education #CdnPoli
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Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
edmontonjournal.com/news/alberta... AG calls on UCP government to improve healthcare performance reporting #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #UCPCorruption #Canada #RecallAllUCP #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPFacists #health #healthcare #medical #doctors #nurses
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AG calls on UCP government to improve healthcare performance reporting
Alberta's auditor general says better structures and standards are needed to assess the province's changing healthcare system.
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AB Resistance @abresistance.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Alberta Surgical Group is in the news again. #abpoli #ableg #alberta #ABresistance
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/12/2025
NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...
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The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause
I was reading about yet another round of Trump pardons and it is blazingly apparent the extent to which Trump has exercised this presidential power in a way that fundamentally strips away the importan...
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
You can get into politics to improve lives or you can go after vulnerable children and pick fights with the federal government.
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"Government needs to stop blaming the folks making use of voter recall and take some accountability for designing and implementing the system that has unleashed this chaos" My UCP doesn't take accountability! Period! Read: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abpoli #UCPCorruption #ableg
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Breakenridge: Government created recall mess, now they have to live with it
While the embarrassment of these campaigns may rankle the premier, surely she doesn’t want the more lasting ignominy of a flip-flop.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/12/2025
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died at the age of 60.
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Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, dies at age 60
Malo died Monday night, his wife posted on his Facebook page. He disclosed last year that he had cancer.
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Imaginary Stories @imaginarystories.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
#alberta #abpoli
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Christina Gray @christinandp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New details continue to emerge as to the extent of UCP corruption. The carefully constrained Wyant Report left more questions than answers. Albertans need & deserve a full public inquiry into CorruptCare. #abpoli #ableg #CorruptCare #CallAPublicInquiry
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Alberta has had justice ministers since 1905 yet the “political activism” Mickey Amery is seeking to shield himself from seems to have only been an issue since the UCP formed government six years ago. 🤔
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 09/12/2025
@jaredwesley.ca: Did the premier of Alberta attack the constitutional role of the courts in Canada’s democracy? Yes, she did, and in no uncertain terms. #abpoli
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Danielle Smith’s Dangerous Attack on the Courts | The Tyee
Conservatives helped build Canada’s judicial system, which preserves values true conservatives hold dear.
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Judy C @53swimmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
What an excellent opinion piece on how UCP dismantling public healthcare has long term impacts on children who don’t receive necessary services. UCP absolutely failing in their fiduciary duty to Albertans, and getting away with it as they fail Albertans 😡 #ableg
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Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.westernstandard.news/alberta/rath... Rath threatens Smith with leadership review Jeff Rath says that Alberta UCP constituency associations may want a leadership review of Danielle Smith over the introduction of Bill 14. #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #UCPCorruption #Canada #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
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Rath threatens Smith with leadership review
Alberta independence advocate, Jeff Rath, threatens that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith may face a leadership review, as UCP constituency associations speak out against Bill 14.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Corb Lunds petition for the government to outright ban coal mining in the eastern slopes has been approved! Now the CFO is selected and then signature collection can begin! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Sharif Haji @sharifhajimla.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Measles cases in Alberta hit a high of nearly 2,500 cases, the highest in Canada. We have learned that the minister was urged to update reporting standards months ago. That advice was ignored. I asked the Minister why. . . . #Alberta #MeaslesOutbreak #PublicHealth #VaccinationAwareness #ableg
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is compelling. The UCP is manipulating procedural rules in the Legislature to shut down legitimate inquiries. This time it was about settlement expenses in the health area. Next time it could be about settlement expenses in relation to coal. #ableg #abpoli
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Kris Morris @krismorris.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
She has to go. #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli
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Judy C @53swimmer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Exactly! Dani’s claim to be protecting democracy is anything but!!! #ableg
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/albe... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land - Alberta Politics
VANCOUVER – No sooner were Alberta separatists celebrating provincial Justice Minister Mickey Amerey’s secession-friendly Bill 14 for ending the court challenge that sought to block the Alberta Prospe...
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Ron Lyons @rjl56.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Where did the “Real Conservatives” go ? open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw... #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg
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Real conservatives respect and defend courts
Danielle Smith does not, and that's democratically dangerous.
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This 👇 #ABleg #ABpoli Real conservatives respect and defend courts open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
 The UCP approach — delegitimizing courts as “undemocratic” — doesn’t conserve anything. It weakens faith in institutions, trains citizens to trust only “the people” as embodied in the premier of the day, and clears the way for unchecked executive power.

That’s not Canadian conservatism. It's radical populism.
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hopelaughlove.bsky.social @hopelaughlove.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Exactly…
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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
And when the news of this dies down. Later on down the road, Dani, after moving the goalposts, can complain the Feds made the goalposts to hard to reach. Ya. I've seen this movie before too. #ableg #cdnpoli
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Alberta's Smith government erased hundreds of probable measles cases. "The new data show Alberta, not Ontario as previously understood, has the highest case count of any province, despite having a much smaller population" #GiftLink 🧵 #abpoli #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
The Alberta government rejected expert advice to expand public reporting of measles to include probable cases, despite the measure being supported by local and provincial public health officials, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show.

Since the outbreak began in Alberta last spring, only confirmed cases of measles have been publicly reported. New data provided through a Freedom of Information request show at least 450 probable cases of measles have also been identified in the province, bringing the total to nearly 2,500.

These numbers provide a more accurate portrayal of a crisis that has gripped Alberta, one of the two provinces at the centre of a countrywide outbreak that lost Canada its long-held measles elimination status last month. The new data show Alberta, not Ontario as previously understood, has the highest case count of any province, despite having a much smaller population. Ontario publicly reports probable cases.
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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Why Danielle Smith's governmen... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli UCP trying to restrict Alberta citizens of their Charter Rights again. #ableg
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ANALYSIS | UCP government keeps blocking or nixing Alberta court challenges. Why? | CBC News
From transgender policies to referendums to "conservative" party names, the Alberta UCP has stepped in where others have feared to tread.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
SCOOP: Elections Alberta investigated Sam Mraiche over allegations he made illegal political donations in 2023 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
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Sam Mraiche was investigated by Elections Alberta over alleged illegal political donations
Regulator says Mraiche was being investigated this year in connection to an alleged straw donor scheme
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Jason Kenney: Complaining about the mess he made. The call is coming from inside the house, sir. 📞🔥 #UCPChaos #ableg #ABpoli #IrrelevantFormerPremier #RecallThemAll
Jason Kenney, my bad I created the Franken-UCP
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
WOW!!! Not only have the courts ruled that the separatists referendum is unconstitutional and that separatism would require the consent of First Nations... A SCATHING epilogue directly called out Alberta trying to legislate away the courts ability to issue a decision! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Andrew Ng @andrewngyyc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This line sums up Danielle Smith and the UCP quite neatly: “The judge called the move to change the legislation antithetical to the rule of law and democracy.” #abpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News
An Alberta judge has determined a proposed referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada is unconstitutional, less than 24 hours after the provincial government introduced legislation that wou...
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Shaun O 🇨🇦 @gohd21.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Like, wtf?! Is this even legal to change the rules? Immunity? Seriously? Maybe strive for legal, above board, ethical behavior instead? #ableg
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Bill 14 will also stop any other political party in Alberta using the word "conservative" in their name Because that's how the UCP gained their power, IMO They're the fascist separatist party pretending to be conservatives Bill 14 is sweeping (A must read) and gives Amery too much power #ableg
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
#ableg Once again the UCP are using their boots to stomp on Albertans Bill 14 will see powers transfered from the independent chief electoral officer to Mickey Amery So the UCP can once again tip the scales in favor of their friends, the separatist And... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta legislation would change citizen referendum rules, restrict political party names | CBC News
Bill 14, introduced Thursday by Justice Minister Mickey Amery, transfers powers from the chief electoral officer to the minister when deciding whether citizen petition initiatives should proceed. It a...
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Roxanne Dautremont @roxannedautremont.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trump in a skirt.
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Tania Mysak @mysakt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The UCP government is winning so much right now they are changing the rules mid-game…. #ableg
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New Alberta bill would end court case on APP sovereignty question, limit new party names and end longest ballot. ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-bill...
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Alberta bill aims to clear further obstacles to citizen-driven referendum questions
EDMONTON — The Alberta government is clearing more legal hurdles faced by citizens aiming to put referendum questions on a ballot, including the prospect of leaving Confederation.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 04/12/2025
Nenshi: govt had no problem maligning the former AHS CEO in this House. What changed your minds on the contracts you'd been ready to give out? Smith: recommendations; do more, paid more. Nenshi: why is the govt setting up yet another fall guy rather than dealing with the procurement scandal?
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
lol... they do these public consultation things so they can pretend they're listening to Albertans and then refuse to share the results. #abpoli #ableg
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
She’s so damn consistent, too. Every presser she leads, every question she asks. Gray is PREPARED. And she’s asking the right questions about this scandal.
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Christina Gray is an absolute POWERHOUSE in QP, each time she rises. I appreciate so very much that she consistently comes equipped to demand answers from this government about how they are blowing thru OUR money on contracts for their friends and family. #ableg
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Western Hemlox @westernhemlox.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The UCP was worried that a reasonable, fair deal—in the eyes of an impartial arbitrator—would cost too much money. I see. #abed #ableg #abpoli
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Since the AHS Board was fired in 2022, the organization has cycled through 7 executives in just over 3 years. Very few companies experience this level of collapse, let alone a critical organization responsible for the health of everyone in the province. #ABpoli #ABleg
AHS Leadership: A Decade of Executive Turnover (2016-2025) Timeline.

The timeline shows rapid succession in executive leadership from 2016 to 2025.

Timeline Data:

    Dr. Verna Yiu: May 2016 start.

    Mauro Chies: April 2022 start (Interim CEO).

    Dr. James Cowell: November 2022 start (Official Administrator, replacing the board).

    Mauro Chies: March 2023 start (Permanent CEO).

    Sean Chilton: November 2023 start (Acting CEO).

    Athana Mentzelopoulos: December 2023 start (CEO).

    Andre Tremblay: January 2025 start (Interim CEO and Official Administrator).

    Erin O'Neill: December 3, 2025 start (Interim CEO and Temporary Board Chair).

Context Note: Turnover has been high in both leadership and governance. Dr. Cowell was appointed Official Administrator in November 2022, assuming board-level authority and serving concurrently with appointed CEOs. Mauro Chies was promoted from Interim CEO (April 2022) to Permanent CEO (March 2023) before his termination in November 2023.
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Shaun O 🇨🇦 @gohd21.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I wonder...are the 14+ recall petitions going to cost more than they saved by using the notwithstanding clause on teachers? Also this seems like a terrible reason and a court of law should use this to disqualify the use of the NWC in this instance #ableg
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igm1200.bsky.social @igm1200.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If Alberta can declare,“independence” from Confederation, so too can British Columbia. I would suggest British Columbia table something along the lines of a “B.C. Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act”. Smith would eat the rest of her crayons. Does she eat the red ones last? #abpoli #ableg
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta...and trying to break the very idea of Canada Just like Donald Trump is "ungoverning" the US. If you've noticed similarities between Smith/UCP and Trump/MAGA, there's a reason. #abpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
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Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta
And trying to break the very idea of Canada
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In yet another consolidation of power... Today Mickey Amery announced that using the fear of home invasions as cover, he was giving himself control over what criminal prosecutions go ahead. The elected politician with no prosecution experience... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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