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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 6h

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fuck the Vichy regime of Danielle Smith
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'Forever Canadian' petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 5h

Danielle Smith is using the notwithstanding clause to protect herself while crushing individuals' Charter rights.

That’s not freedom, that’s cowardice.

And Albertans won’t stand for it.

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 8h

I really hope the ATA defies this illegal, undemocratic, and authoritarian order. It is an attack on the charter rights of all Albertans by a premier who fancies herself a queen #ableg #abpoli

Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 9h

At 2 a.m., the Alberta legislature passed a bill that will force 51,000 teachers back to work, impose a four-year contract and use the notwithstanding clause to stave off a legal challenge and suspend teacher bargaining at the local level. It includes fines for Ts and the ATA if they defy it. #AbLeg

Striking Alberta teachers forced back to work by fast-tracked legislation, notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Bill 2 passed early Tuesday morning after a long night for lawmakers in the provincial legislature. Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced the legislation the day before.

www.cbc.ca

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 15h

I truly hope that the union rejects this illegal order and refuses to return to work, for the sake of the rights of all Albertans. This lawless assault on our rights cannot be allowed to stand #abpoli #ableg

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16h

The ATA has released a statement in the early hours of October 28th…

“The fight has just begun”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 21h

Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?

An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.

I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 23h

The UCP government has invoked time allocation and on a bill removing Albertans' Charter rights.

And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.

Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.

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Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding

The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 20h

This is an attack on the citizens of Alberta. An attack on democracy, on the rule of law, on the rights of labour, and on the very people we trust to educate our next generation. danielle smith should resign and stay in the middle eastern dictatorships she so wishes to emulate. #ableg #abpoli

Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 22h

Bill 2 is tabled. MLAs will debate it tonight with the aim of passing it tonight. We’ll be watching. #AbLeg #AbEd

Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to send striking teachers back to work | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced a bill on Monday to force striking teachers back to work as early as Wednesday.

www.cbc.ca

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 22h

It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 21h

Danielle Smith and the UCP must resign or be forced from office. Today they have spat in the face of every single Albertan, blatantly violating our rights to cover for her own incompetence. This is an attack on the charter and an attack on the democratic and legal rights of every Canadian. #ableg

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 21h

Authoritarians support fellow authoritarians.

Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 22h

After invoking the notwithstanding clause to bust the teachers’ strike, Danielle Smith appears to have fucked off to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Showcasing Alberta in the Middle East

Premier Smith will promote Alberta’s investment opportunities, energy expertise and agricultural products during meetings in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

www.alberta.ca

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 4d

We live in a joke province governed by unserious, corrupt, terminally online conspiracy theorists who disdain their own citizens. Smith needs to be removed from office before she irrevocably damages things. This is a distraction from the UCPs record of abject failure #ableg

CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 4d

Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest
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Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest

Alberta’s United Conservative government has made provincial sovereignty its top legislative priority, tabling Bill 1, the International Agreements Act.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 5d

Also, why does public transportation in many major cities suck and high speed rail does not exist?

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 6d

Coal royalties in 2024/25 were $15.5 million. The government has now paid out more than $200 million in claims to Australian mining companies for bungling this file.

NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 6d

Another Australian coal company has announced that it has reached a settlement ($95 million)with the GoA over its compensation claims due to Alberta's coal policy flip flops.
Once again this info comes to AB taxpayers from the company website.
No disclosure from the GoA.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 7d

The UCP is a threat to democracy and has nothing but contempt and disdain for the citizens of Alberta. Smith is a would be tyrant queen. #ableg

Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 8d

Get ready - UCP is about to pass a law saying who's allowed to run in elections next time. Only the "serious" need apply. Is this partisan? No answer to that. Column.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abpol #cdnpoli #ableg #ableg #yycvote #yyc #yyccc

Braid: UCP will decide who can run for office next time; only the "serious" allowed

UCP plans new rules to limit who can run in provincial and civic elections. There's a bill coming soon.

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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 7d

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 32 YEARS, THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND! THEY DEFEAT THE SEATTLE MARINERS 4-3 IN GAME 7!

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 7d

I hope the unions refuse this blatantly illegal order and refuse to return to work. The government has caused this problem and has refused to negotiate in good faith from the very beginning. The public supports the teachers, not this authoritarian, corrupt, and unaccountable government.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 7d

Alberta set to order striking teachers back to work next week

The teachers have been on strike since Oct. 6 over issues including salaries, class sizes and resources for students with complex needs

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 8d

Those of you standing in long lines for municipal elections in Alberta today:

1) stay in line; your voice matters
2) the long lines are a direct consequence of the conspiracy-driven policy changes brought forward by the UCP government (and not your beleaguered election workers); be kind

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 11d

Not interviewed by Judge Wyant in a report that’s supposed to probe political interference into AHS
-Health Minister Lagrange
-her chief of staff
-anyone on political side other than Marshall Smith, who left premier’s office last fall

Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 11d

The report commissioned by the Alberta government into allegations of corruption in the health system is out and everyone should read the caveats spelled out by the retired judge at the outset to understand what's in there, and more importantly, what's not. #ableg

open.alberta.ca/dataset/35ee...

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck Danielle Smith and the UCP’s authoritarian power grab. This abuse of the Charter must be stopped. They need to be reminded of who is really in charge in a democracy. #abpoli

Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective) @arccollective.bsky.social · 9d

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 13d

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 21d

Utterly embarrassing shit and not what he ran on. As we’ve seen hundreds of times by now, flattery and ass kissing this fascist loser only leads to double the humiliation later. If the CPC or NDP put forward a leader who is even semi-competent Carney will lose the next election by a lot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective) @arccollective.bsky.social · 22d

Guthrie is a former UCP MLA. Worth a read.

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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @codyanstead.bsky.social · 24d

If we believe in democratic order, let us put science & knowledge back at the heart of things…let us put culture, education & learning…let us protect our…young people from these social networks, let us give these social networks rules so that they have…the same rules as those of the democratic space

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 24d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 26d

“you’d have to be wilfully oblivious to buy into the claim that the current provincial government is more trustworthy or capable. From spending, to dysfunction, allegations of corruption & mismanagement, where is Smith’s government coming up green, here?”

www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...

Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!

Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.

www.readtheline.ca

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