Danielle Smith quietly renovated her office with a lavish red carpet, to the tune of $250,000.
Where have we seen that red before? Oh yeah, the Senate of Canada.
Who does Daniellezebub think she is?
She's well overdue for a reality check.
The office previously had green carpet, matching with the carpet in the Assembly. (As it symbolically should)
This is really gross. Speaker Cooper offered comments about tablings the day after MLA Guthrie tabled his notes from a Cabinet meeting.
It's not lost on me the coincidence of this warning and this in of itself is a demonstration of bias by the Speaker.
I respect Cooper, the only UCP member I do, this is not okay. This is a clear intervention by the government where the Speaker should be non-partisan.
Danielle Smith and the UCP press ahead with their Compassionate Intervention Act - otherwise known as the controversial involuntary treatment program. I’d like to set aside the issue of the merits of such a program to highlight that this is the same UCP dream team implicated in allegations of corruption - the Corrupt Care cluster of contracts.
Further, as Post 110 revealed, Marshall Smith may have had some involvements with this involuntary treatment planning, and potential conflicts of interest as this program was being laid out.
As a quick reminder, Mentzelopoulos’ Wrongful Dismissal Claim suggests that Dan Williams knows something about the alleged conflicts of interests that flow out of the Corrupt Care contracts.
Whether Netizens can even believe such a UCP group can administer this Act safely, look just at what’s being proposed here. As Climenhaga and others already pointed out, these facilities will be jails.
I’d suggest Netizens consider that this group of UCP insiders, vulnerable to group-think, and are still very much human. This group has cut social safety nets, reduced funding to outreach programs, and have eroded the effectiveness of how healthcare is provided in the province. Now, this same crack team proposes to roll out an untested, potentially Charter non-compliant piece of legislation targeting the vulnerable.
We should clarify that the vulnerable will inevitably be the coloured people, First Nations people, Metis, the women, the young, the children.
And, we also accept that police are human, and they make mistakes like any other.
Now, Netizens have to stomach the idea that those who end up targeted mistakenly will be subject to treatment they cannot refuse. Police and people some times allege that others are intoxicated - or they have the appearance of being intoxicated. But in a Criminal Justice setting these are allegations that still must eventually be proven.
What’s the burden of proof here? What if this is simply false? What if the person in question is just “different”, and not even intoxicated? Their bodies are flooded with medications that may have intended effects, and unintended outcomes. Where’s the line? What if someone’s found to have abused this Act for their own designs? Surely the reporters are coming from a position of strength relative to the actual target.
But, the targeted one can still somehow “ask” for legal counsel. Their bodies, filled with drugs they don’t ask for, they can “ask” for an advocate?
This Act is designed to turn people away from the Healthcare system - to potentially put Healthcare Workers, Police, Lawyers, and the public in impossible situations. When people die as a result of these treatments, who speaks for them?
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A snippet of the letter I sent to our Transportation Minister via https://win.newmode.net/pathsforpeople/standforsafestreets
I'm way too generous with the little twerp, but still manage to throw a lot of shade (some extremely subtle).
"Premier Smith introduced these controversial reforms the day after the federal election hoping to catch the media off guard and hoping few of us would notice given the attention on Ottawa."
Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook | Jared Wesley
https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/danielle-smiths-electoral-reforms
No one should be gloating this electoral season.
Except, maybe, save for noted pollster Frank Graves.
I took a look at the other place (Twitter) and glanced at the vitriol by the political types on that platform. #ableg #cdnpoli #elxn45
See, this is what caused 310,000 Calgarians to vote for the Prime Minister. The drama, the rage, and the bitterness... it's all too much, and all empty calories. It's without substance.
We should soothe the hurt, but ignore the haters. May the days that are ahead be brighter, and have the work done well.
On to the next thing.
In case you (probably) missed it, here's my choir @chronosvocalensemble singing our anthem for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on Monday.
I've never seen the house so vocal about the anthem in all of my Legislative watching.
MLA @ShoffmanAB looked up to me after and put her hand on her heart after the anthem, which was everything to me.
Months in the making, I'm proud we could make this finally happen.
Tune into the Alberta Assembly TV at 1:30 PM MDT to see my choir, @chronosvocalensemble and me sing our anthem!
It's a new arrangement by local composer Stuart Beatch and he calls it "saucy".
“In a 20-hour stretch spanning parts of March 8 and 9, Smith’s office received 159 emails on the trip, or about one every 7 1/2 minutes on average, which were unanimously opposed to the appearance”
Alberta premier's office receives unanimous negative feedback on Danielle Smith's PragerU visit | Edmonton Journal
From “Well-known conservative operative quits Alberta’s UCP, says party is ‘allergic to transparency’”, by Phil Heidenreich, Cameron Davies, notorious for his involvement in the Kenney Leadership scandal, resigns his membership with the UCP
>“(The party) is addicted to power and allergic to transparency,” Davies wrote on Thursday. “We are not witnessing leadership — we are witnessing damage control.
>“Backroom deals, gag orders and purges of internal dissent have replaced open dialogue and democratic decision-making. MLAs are muzzled, caucus is sidelined, staff are silenced and the grassroots members who built this movement have been abandoned.”
This is of course in the greater context of “Auditor general denies that Alberta government using lawyer for investigation is normal”, by Nicolas Frew. Here, “some health ministry staff members received an email — which CBC News obtained — that told them to direct members of the office of the auditor general to the government's legal counsel if they are contacted as part of the investigation into the government's health-care procurement practices.”
Basically, AB GOV itself is playing damage control for stripping public funds out of the healthcare system in favour of a select few private parties - and is now potentially protecting these few (and each other) with the use of public funds. Instead of clearing the air, and avoiding conflicts of interest, like Mr Guthrie, Danielle Smith’s UCP is mired in a corruption scandal that may be unprecedented in Alberta.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-auditor-general-investigation-ahs-mentzelopoulos-1.7509049
MLA Sarah Hoffman has invited Chronos to open the Legislature on Monday!
Chronos will sing a brand new acapella arrangement of O Canada by Edmonton's own Stuart Beatch.
We are honoured to be recognized by the province in this invitation. Here’s a clip of the choir in rehearsal today...
Re-upping this post. Just as relevant as ever y’all.
Vote Carney for the win. There’s no doubt he’s the best choice at this seminal moment in Canada’s existence as a country.
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