I dislike the "Take Canada Back" rhetoric.
It suggests that if enough people join a gang they can take Canada away from other Canadians that don't agree with them.
It's divisive, not inclusive.
It's negative, not positive.
And "Take" is a word of force.
All politicians, stop it.
Why is it the same people that demand the freedom to decorate their trucks with large "Fuck Trudeau" decals are the same people that dont think a hockey player should have the freedom to choose the colour or pattern of their hockey tape?
#Pridetape
Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney & Doug Ford who can barely claim an education certificate or any real-world job history between them say Carbon Tax doesn't work.
Yale Prof W. Nordhaus & NYU Prof P. Romer studied Economics for decades, won Nobel Prize saying it does.
Choose.
#elxn43
Watching Valbella learning in realtime that 'cancel culture' and 'fuck around and find out' are really just the same thing is glorious.
Tip of the hat to all the businesses out there making a stand for inclusiveness and against hate.
Well
#Alberta
, if you thought we were alone & had no voice in gov before - looked at what we did!
Congrats!
Kenney gets his bogeyman. We all get fucked.
Canada is going on without us because we couldn't get our ass out of the past, and our heads out of our ass.
#elxn43
#cdnpoli
The lockdown has demonstrated 3 things;
1/ Our economy collapses as soon as it stops selling useless stuff to over indebted people.
2/ It is perfectly possible to reduce pollution.
3/ The lowest paid people in the country are most essential to its functioning.
-
@Charlie_Hebdo_
The kids that grew up leaving on bicycles at sunrise to places unknown, returning as it got dark, hungry, dirtier and tired - how did they grow up to be parents that want to control and know every single detail of their children's lives?
Rewatching Jaws as an adult you realize the scenes with the shark aren't the scariest part, but rather the ones with the town council keeping the beaches open despite the imminent danger.
This tweet from a
@CPC_HQ
Conservative MP while her community is burning & under evacuation has to be one of the sickest & stupidest tweets ever.
#canpoli
#kelowna
The Christmas season is a time to spend with family and friends and reflect on what is truly important in our lives.
Merry Christmas to all the residents of St. Albert – Edmonton.
Premier Danielle Smith gave 2 out of 3 UCP MLAs a 50% payrise to $180,000 in the biggest cabinet in a long time.
How's that for smaller government & financial prudence? Because it looks suspiciously like cash for support...
#ableg
#abpoli
Albertans don't want separate Police.
UCP pushing it.
Albertans don't want to leave Canada Pensions.
UCP pushing it.
Albertans don't want municipal political parties.
UCP pushing it.
Mountain top coalmines?
Danielle Smith & the UCP don't care what YOU want.
Just what THEY want.
You're not marching for children. You're marching for yourselves.
If it was about children you'd be listening, learning, educating yourselves and finding solutions to concerns both real and imagined.
But this isn't about that. It never was.
#1MillionMarch4Children
Again with the "take back" rhetoric. Stop it.
Who are you taking Canada back from exactly? Other Canadians? Your neighbors that you have a difference of opinion on some policy with?
Enough with this divisive & inflammatory BS. Be better.
@erinotoole
#canpoli
You're not marching for children. You're marching for yourselves.
If it was about children you'd be listening, learning, educating yourselves and finding solutions to concerns both real and imagined.
But this isn't about that. It never was.
#1MillionMarch4Chidren
The anti-trans / anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has gone too far- as has the emboldenment of aggressive and confrontational behaviour as acceptable.
Many on the Right as well as many religious communities need to reflect, and reject this narrative and growing norm.
.
A 12 year old child critically needs a blood transfusion.
The parents have a strong religious belief that prevents blood transfusions.
Now tell me about 'parents rights'...
How is it that people that are so vocal about their "Freedoms" & "Rights" support the use of the magic NotWithstanding Clause to literally deny other people their freedoms & their rights?
Because it's not really about Freedom or Rights. It's just about them getting their own way.
I am stunned, although perhaps I shouldn't be, that Conservative
@CPC_HQ
MPs would chant, "You guys love Paul Bernardo!" in the House.
That the leader
@PierrePoilievre
allowed this without rebuke says much about what is wrong with the state of politics & society.
#cdnpoli
A peer-reviewed study found
@nationalpost
was the least accurate of 17 newspapers across 5 countries over a 15 year period on the subject of Climate Change.
The 5 least accurate were all right-leaning publications.
I keep hearing claims that
@JustinTrudeau
has "destroyed"
#Canada
, or is "laying waste" to
#Alberta
, but when I ask for 5 simple bullet examples for each of these claims, the accusers don't provide any.
I'm ready & willing to hear these claims.
Anyone?
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
#ableg
The main issue is NOT whether wildfires were started intentionally by humans, accidentally by humans or through natural causes such as lightening strikes - the issue is ALL of these fires are worse because of climate change.
Stop with the dangerous & dishonest obfuscation.
What if we stopped viewing masks as a sign of government control and simply wore them to protect retail workers and older people doing their shopping as a simple act of kindness?
You can have 500 people in a church the size of a sports arena, but can't have even 20 people in an *actual* sports arena if they're exercising.
I can't have a family of 5 friends to my home, but we can sit in a restaurant with 50 strangers?
COVID rules need logic & consistency.
Merging the Catholic school system into a single Public system is the right, fair & appropriate thing to do for the future of Alberta.
It is the most financially prudent, returning most education bang for our buck.
And it is a politically viable mainstream position TODAY.
#abpoli
1 Danielle Smith lied. Again. Her Facebook account was not suspended.
2 She used this lie to rail against censorship. Censorship that had not happened.
3 Doing so inadvertently disclosed that JUST ONE of her SM account managers controlled over 300 Facebook groups.
#ableg
#abpoli
Wow. Going to have avoid Alberta talk radio for a while. The absolutely rabid hate for Trudeau is off the charts craycray.
Especially when ost is clearly based on untruths, inacurracies & accusations that called be applied to all sides.
Poorly informed angry humans are scary.
@SenPolehanki
America, when your idea of "Freedom" is virtually indistinguishable from "Terrorism" you may wish to reconsider what you really hold dear.
Don't call it "poop-cookie" or similar. It makes it sound silly or funny. It isn't. She likened vulnerable children to pieces of shit.
How she is still a candidate for the
#UCP
says everything you need to know about Danielle Smith and the
#UCP
.
.
#abvote
#abpoli
#AbElection2023
I'm fed up with hearing, "People must be respectful of other people's religious beliefs".
NO - it's the other way around.
"People's religious beliefs need to be more respectful of other people."
People using the term "Dominion Day" are really dog-whistling "Dominionism".
Harking back to a time of white Christian supremacy, when FNIM, POC, LGBTQ, p.w.disabilities, women & non-Christians were all 2nd class, & they want that time back again.
Not in my Canada <3
#CanadaDay
NEVER have I seen so many members of an opposing party endorse opposition.
NEVER.
Lifelong conservatives cannot ignore this unprecedented action by their colleagues in warning against voting for Danielle Smith & her dangerously unpredictable
#UCP
populist party.
#abelxn
#abpoli
.
@ShayeGanam
No one is saying Pharmacare is "free". It's insurance. We spread the cost and the risk amongst everybody, and those unlucky enough to need it then get it.
It's how we look after each other.
Hey
@ryanjespersen
- I became a
@sarahkendzior
fan almost exactly 2 years ago when I bumped into *THIS* tour de force, where Dr. K obliterates
@BreitbartNews
et al.
Not one single wasted word. Not one.
What a great guest & truthspeaker.
#RealTalkRJ
Catholic Premier
@jkenney
& Catholic Education Min
@AdrianaLaGrange
announce two publicly funded schools for Edmonton
#YEG
where the vast majoritty of students go to Public schools.
Both schools will be Catholic, that can & do turn away non-Catholic students.
Enough.
#abed
#ableg
You want to protest Covid rules?
Protest at the Legislature.
Protest at City Hall.
Protest at a downtown space or street.
But why the #*$% would you choose to protest at a hospital, where staff are already stressed, & people are sick, dying & their families struggling?
#Selfish
Fuck "parental rights".
What about Ezekiel's rights?
So you can rub horse-raddish on your kids forehead or deny them blood transfusion because you believe in your own special bullshit?
No. Kids have rights too. And those include being protected from having stupid fucking parents.
Being against Covid restrictions AND being against masks and vaccines is like taking the batteries out of the carbon monoxide alarm because the loud beeping was giving you a headache and making you feel nauseous.
15 people can go to a church if the dead guy you're going for is Jesus - but only 10 people can go if the dead guy you're going for is your dad.
.
#ableg
#abpoli
"Christian preacher wants to sue the NFL: ‘Watching J-Lo and Shakira put me in danger of hellfire’."
Perhaps he would be better off suing his church for putting him in danger of stupid?
UCP & Conservative messaging of "Forget politics", "don't be divisive" & "we're all in this together" is really sticking in my throat this morning.
The peak hypocrisy & duplicity is sickening.
Where was this during WEXIT or public cuts or any of the "Turdeau" & "Nutley" attacks?
The question for conservatives in Alberta right now isn't, 'can you hold your nose & vote for the NDP?' - it's 'can you hold your nose and support Danielle Smith & the
#UCP
's racist, homophobic, anti trans, anti-child, Nazi calling, anti-science, pro-law breaking party?'
#abvote
I have 14 & 15 yr old daughters & I DESPISE this aspect of religion. It reduces women & girls to being property of men. Their value comes from men. Their completeness & validity comes from men. And they must be PURE.
Because ANY act of love or lust makes you DIRTY & WORTH LESS.
Funny how the same people that DEMAND their FREEDOM, then try to stop others having theirs.
If you don't want to take your kids to drag queen reading hour then don't.
Otherwise, stay the fuck away. You don't see people coming to your church disrupting the harmful crazy do you?
Seriously - Fuck. Right. Off.
Catholic church is worth a TRILLION dollars.
Little ol' Mormon church is worth a HUNDRED BILLION.
Individual churches & diocese are poor by design. That's how they HIDE THE MONEY (& keep it from abuse victims).
#TaxChurches
Relentlessly gay yards are all part of the gay agenda.
If you see a relentlessly gay yard in your neighborhood call the police immediately, so they can note that you are a moronic bigot with a serious capitalization problem :)
Our 12 year old son just accidently discovered & opened our, ahem, 'toy box'.
I can't stop laughing. He can't look his mom in the eye.
And listening to him try to describe the things he saw is just putting me over the edge🤣
Therapy just went from a "want" to a "need".
OMFG...