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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 7h

The Alberta UCP never campaigned on denying health care for trans youth. Doctors warn these laws will drive up depression and suicide. Now they’re hiding behind the notwithstanding clause.

No mandate.

Predictable harm.

Extraordinary abuse of power.

#cdnpoli #ableg

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a blue white and pink flag with the words human rights written on it

Alt: a blue white and pink flag with the words trans rights are human rights

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 11h

source:

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UCP Platform 2023 - United Conservative Party of Alberta

Moving Alberta Forward Search Results See all results UCP on the Issues In addition to our major platform points, we have been working hard to move Alberta forward on all the key issues. Search below ...

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 11h

Nope. Canadians don’t want provincial politicians denying human rights on a whim or to please MAGA.

For example, withholding healthcare for AB trans youth was not in the 2023 UCP campaign platform.

Thank you @mark-carney.bsky.social and @seanfraser.bsky.social and

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5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Edmonton, at a rally in support of teachers and public education.

Happy #WorldTeachersDay

The Alberta Legislature on a clear fall day surrounded by thousands of citizens in support of teachers and public education

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 3d

Please support your local teachers.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 3d

When I was a kid, the dedicated teachers at St. Rose School in Edmonton showed up every day to set my peers and I up for success.

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to go back and thank the teachers doing the same for the next generation #WorldTeachersDay.

Prime Minister Carney sits down for a photograph with teachers at St. Rose School in Edmonton.

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Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory @giflab.bsky.social · 9d

Every Child Matters.

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 12d

Not important enough to include in the 2023 UCP platform, but let’s cancel human rights anyway?

Withholding health care would predictably result in preventable deaths among transgender youth. Whether or not that is the stated goal, it would be the outcome.

unitedconservative.ca/ucp-platform...

UCP Platform 2023 - United Conservative Party of Alberta

Moving Alberta Forward Search Results See all results UCP on the Issues In addition to our major platform points, we have been working hard to move Alberta forward on all the key issues. Search below ...

unitedconservative.ca

pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 12d

And not only this, the Alberta premier justifies Bill 26 limiting healthcare as “protecting” trans kids, even as publicly available evidence shows the opposite. Is transgender population reduction the goal? Because it is the very predictable result.

Charts illustrating evidence that gender affirming care reduces suicide. (Tordoff 2022, Green 2022, Turban 2020)

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 15d

The purported justification for using the notwithstanding clause to pass Alberta’s Bill 26 is to protect trans kids, not to reduce their population, although that is what would actually happen.

Chart showing that gender affirming care substantially reduces suicide rates, with studies from Tordoff (2022), Green (2022) and Turban (2020) cited.

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 16d

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 18d

Screen capture of a Disney+ cancellation

pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 23d

I’m glad they never show that

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 28d

Hello. Just to clarify, TMX is currently running at 84% capacity, and is expected to be maxed out in the next couple of years. The company is looking at increasing capacity 5-10% with a friction-reducing agent (DRA) but non-U.S. exports will soon be constrained.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canada's Trans Mountain eyes open season later this year for pipeline capacity growth

The operator of Canada's Trans Mountain oil pipeline may launch a process this year to formally gauge commercial interest in the first of a series of potential projects to increase the system's capacity, CEO Mark Maki said on Wednesday.

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · 28d

Hello. If you’re referring to TMX, it is currently running at 84% capacity, expected to be maxed out in the next couple of years, so the company is looking at increasing capacity 5-10% with a friction-reducing agent (DRA).

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canada's Trans Mountain eyes open season later this year for pipeline capacity growth

The operator of Canada's Trans Mountain oil pipeline may launch a process this year to formally gauge commercial interest in the first of a series of potential projects to increase the system's capacity, CEO Mark Maki said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · Aug 9

TMX is currently running at 84% capacity, expected to be maxed out in the next couple of years, so the company is looking at increasing capacity 5-10% with a friction-reducing agent (DRA).

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canada's Trans Mountain eyes open season later this year for pipeline capacity growth

The operator of Canada's Trans Mountain oil pipeline may launch a process this year to formally gauge commercial interest in the first of a series of potential projects to increase the system's capacity, CEO Mark Maki said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sorry, no, exactly wrong, once again, U.S. citizens and businesses will “just pay tariffs” imposed by the U.S.

youtu.be/3yP9xEc02gg?...

Trump says US hasn’t had "a lot of luck" with Canada: “They’ll just pay tariffs”

YouTube video by Global News

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · Jul 21

Dude, please, disgraced “financier” is the preferred nomenclature

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · Jul 16

No worries, I hear he’s writing a book about this, coming out in 2029, but it will be banned immediately.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Danielle Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta…

“We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world”

No really.

She said that.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · May 31

Tim Hortons - no longer Canadian owned - has pulled out of the Toronto annual PRIDE parade due to the United States' anti-woke movement.Disgraceful.Email headquarters and let them know this will not stand in Canada and BOYCOTT

BTW: Blenz Coffee much better anyway and they are truly Canadian
#canada

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · May 30

*Thielemans

pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · May 30

Bluesette, Toots Thielmans

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · May 15

“I would ask for the slander and innuendo to stop” Danielle Smith, May 13, responding to questions about Railgate

- it’s not slander if it’s true
- it’s not innuendo if there’s evidence
- it’s not going to stop

On whose behalf is the Premier’s spouse attending secret government meetings?

#abpoli

Danielle Smith with an expression of anger in the Alberta Legislarure

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pardon me but 🇨🇦📎 @pardonmebut.bsky.social · May 15

Like a duck to water.

She’s going to absolutely crush this. Thankfully.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · May 14

#NEW: Former Alberta UCP infrastructure minister Peter Guthrie has accused the husband of Premier Danielle Smith of working as an unregistered lobbyist, which allegedly included an attempt to meet with Guthrie about a major rail link between Calgary and Banff.

@charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

Ousted UCP MLA Accuses Premier’s Husband of Secret Lobbying | The Tyee

A fiery exchange in the legislature raises questions about David Moretta’s role in rail project discussions.

thetyee.ca

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