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@TomEngel18

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Lawyer (criminal defence, civil rights), President Canadian Prison Law Association, North River Ranger, Lead Vocals UC Law Gastroelectric Kazoo Band

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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@TomEngel18
Tom Engel
2 years
Danielle Smith says the "founders" (is that an American term?) never intended the provinces to be subordinate to the federal government. She should get government constitutional lawyers to give her a basic primer on the division of powers in Canada's constitution. #cdnpoli #abpoli
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1. This case is an excellent example of how our criminal justice system is corrupted by the double standard in how it treats people alleged to have harmed cops & cops alleged to have harmed people. Any objective person who followed this story knew ...
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1 year
Thank you for your service
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Saif Kaisar
1 year
A health-care worker showing frustration with #Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at today's UCP election-style press conference in Sherwood Park. Credit: Jason Franson/The Canadian Press. (Look closely at the health-care worker's hand). #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #shpk
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1. A travesty. He pled guilty to save the victims from having to endure a trial, despite having a defence to dangerous driving charges. He should not have done that. He got no mercy in response. I wonder what the community response would have been if...
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3 years
I'm thinking about the gross negligence of @YourAlberta @jkenney @tylershandro @CMOH_Alberta @AHS_media in managing #COVID19AB & wondering about a class action for survivors of the dead/ #LongCovid victims/ died/suffered due to restricted access to surgeries etc. @avnishnanda ?
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2 years
Just heard @jkenney on CBC radio say the fear of being in the presence of the unvaccinated is "irrational and a phobia" & the risk of transmission of #COVID19 by the vaccinated is the same as the unvaccinated. I'd like to hear from the experts on that. @PfParks @jvipondmd
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Tom Engel
3 years
Why hasn't "The pandemic is ending. Accept it" @MattWolfAB been fired by @jkenney ? #AbLeg #abpoli
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2 months
4. ... from the start till the end. Two judges told them that, but they carried on. TPS officers & the Crown should be held accountable, including by termination of their employment. There should be a public inquiry, a Police Act & criminal investigation, & a Law Society ...
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5. ... investigation. They should be sued. As for the politicians, police union & TPS Chiefs, who irresponsibly criticized the justice system for releasing the accused pending trial, & now criticize the jury verdict, they should be held accountable & retract & apologize.
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Tom Engel
2 years
UCP priority. Not AISH. Not homelessness. Not health care. Not legal aid. Guns. #AbLeg
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2. ... the inevitable result was an acquittal. It was a malicious prosecution. Let's look at the actions of those who were responsible for this travesty. - Toronto Police. They initiated a prosecution without reasonable grounds to believe offences were committed - The 3 cops...
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Tom Engel
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3. ... who lied under oath, stating Northrup was standing in front of the car, waving his arms & was run over - The Crown prosecution service. Prosecutors are ethically bound to refuse to prosecute if there is no reasonable likelihood of conviction. They knew there was none, ...
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6. People are prosecuted all the time for assaulting cops. Many of those cases have no reasonable likelihood of conviction. Cops who should be prosecuted evade it all the time. Again, the same actors are responsible. The bias in favour of cops threatens the integrity of our...
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Tom Engel
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Why aren't these @edmontonpolice cops wearing name tags? Normally, it's the last name and regimental number. #Police #transparency @YEG_Commission
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Tom Engel
5 years
Must read. Teaser: 8 Alberta-based environmental groups got $370,249 in foreign-fund donations. Whereas 101 Alberta-based Religious groups got $12,332,353 in foreign-fund donations. We need an inquiry into how these groups are damaging Alberta. #AbLeg
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7. ... criminal justice system & no one is held accountable. In fact some are promoted. I illustrate the #DoubleStandards with a recent Edmonton example (by the way, the Crown named in this is married to a former EPS cop):
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Tom Engel
4 years
1. As bad as this is described in this piece (criminal assault, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, obstruction of justice and malicious prosecution), I add this: My client, Josh Powell, was called "faggot", "a little bitch" and "a stupid fuck" providing...
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Tom Engel
1 year
Hey, @RCMPAlberta , any news on your investigation into suspected criminal activity by UCP members in 2017? It's been at least 4 years since you started. Waiting until after the election to tell Albertans? When will it conclude? #AbElection2023 #ableg
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Tom Engel
5 years
Who let @jkenney on the field at the #GreyCup107 wearing that? Does he have any sense of what this national event is about? It's a unifying event not a time for politicking. Embarassing. #ableg #abpoli
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5 years
Just saw an #LRT construction worker who had a "Fuck Trudeau" sticker on his hardhat. His employer, contracted to @CityofEdmonton , must condone it. Do these types know the funding sources for projects like these and what the #UCP is doing to cities? #AbLeg #abpoli #Deplorables
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Tom Engel
3 years
Just heard that Westglen K-6 School in Edmonton shut down because there were 70 known cases of students who tested positive for #COVID19 . 350 kids attend there so 20% positivity rate. Is that true @CMOH_Alberta @AHS_media @JasonCoppingAB ?
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Tom Engel
4 months
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't want Matt Larose's Stinger Electric and Contracting truck parked at my home doing work. Could be it's good advertising in parts of 'Berta.
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Tom Engel
2 months
When he said "don't put up witnesses who commit perjury", he was referring to the Crown prosecutors, who put up 3 lying cops to testify. He means they knew they were lying.
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Catherine McDonald
2 months
@mrsmeaghangray @TPSMyronDemkiw @TPAReid Nadar Hasan is now taking a few questions. Says this case should have never gone to trial.
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Tom Engel
4 years
2. ... an insight into the mentality of these #cops and a sub-culture in the @edmontonpolice . I want to emphasize this part too: "If you can amass 15 or so officers to deal with what was allegedly a stolen licence plate, there's obviously too much money in the EPS budget." ...
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Tom Engel
1 year
Shocking. After announcing it one day, she's backing off it the next. How uncharacteristic of her. #ableg #abpoli
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Tom Engel
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About 2 weeks on the job with little or no criminal law experience and @KayceeMaduYEG is an expert in policing, buys the bad apple theory and a #SystemicRacism denier. Is he his own man or just a puppet spouting the #UCP party line? #Police #abpoli
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Tom Engel
3 years
@YEGPA proudly and provocatively flying their divisive, us-versus-them #ThinBlueLine flag on their new HQ building. #police #PoliceReform #police #police #policeunions @AFPAElliott
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Tom Engel
2 months
Northrup "was already on the ground in the laneway of the car when he was run over, the experts said.  However, 3 police officers testified that Northrup was standing in the laneway with his hands up when he was run over." Perjury. #testilying #police
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Tom Engel
1 year
"Justice Minister Mickey Amery has said he considers the matter closed." It's not closed. The Ethics Commissioner reserved the right to recommend sanctions against Smith when the legislature is back in session. Amery knows that. #ableg
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2 years
@troypavlek @AFPAElliott @michaeljanz I'm on the list, to no one's surprise. I'll be following up with a demand to the union for particulars of misrepresentations I've made. #police #policeaccountability #lawtwitter
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Tom Engel
1 year
Where is the outpouring of public grief for the tragic death of this worker on the job? It's not just cops who face danger in their work. In fact, theirs is not even close to the top riskiest jobs. #workplacedeaths
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1 year
This prolonged, excessive mourning & thirst for vengeance is unhealthy, almost cult-like. Truth is, if he had maintained a not guilty plea, he should have been acquitted. The sentence was grossly disproportionate. Don't compound it by deportation.
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Tom Engel
5 months
3 @Alberta_UCP cabinet ministers on the stage & one unofficial one - @DMMcFee . No one from City Council. It's time for Council to decide how encampments will be handled & then inform McFee of the decision intead of the opposite. #houseless #Homeless #yegcc
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Tom Engel
10 months
"Smith said the 7-month pause started because the Alberta Utilities Commission & the Alberta Electric System Operator, or AESO, wrote to government asking for it. However, neither letter asks for a moratorium." Everything she says has to be fact-checked.
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Tom Engel
2 years
On Mr Kinney’s instructions I am publishing his statement below. #criminaljustice #police
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Tom Engel
1 year
1. Here is the Canadian Prison Law Association's letter to Minister @marcomendicino re: his misleading & irresponsible statements about the decision of @CSC_SCC_en to reclassify & transfer Bernardo. Part of a disturbing & dangerous abdication of our...
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Tom Engel
2 months
Just listening to @BobStaufferNHL on @OilersNow . He said, "We support oil & gas, and if you don't support oil & gas, maybe you should move somewhere else." What the hell? Please keep politics out of sports. #LetsGoOilers
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1. This is a shocking story about how the @edmontonpolice hired a very bad cop to work in the 911 unit & after finding out he, in his job, was a "serious risk to public safety & the EPS", did not fire him. When @charlesrusnell asked @DMMcFee for an interview, he refused. ...
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Charles Rusnell
18 days
My latest for @TheTyee . If you're a woman in a domestic abuse situation, would you trust @edmontonpolice after reading this story? Why Is a Domestic Abuser Fielding Emergency Calls? via @TheTyee
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Tom Engel
6 months
2. ... he had hit a prisoner transport bus.
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Tom Engel
5 years
" @jkenney took a trip to Texas this week, where he has been talking to energy leaders in the hopes of drawing increased investment in Alberta’s oil sector." Since Texas and USA has a surplus of oil and it costs less to produce there why would they? #AbLeg
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Tom Engel
5 years
In this clip, @doug_schweitzer says he is encouraging the fired civil lawyers to apply for Crown prosecutor jobs. Why does he want lawyers inexperienced in criminal law to do that? Answer: because no one is applying for those jobs due to salary freeze and poor working conditions
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Rakhi Pancholi
5 years
Today we learned that the govt is laying off 90 civil law lawyers. These lawyers keep Albertans safe by doing child protection, fatality inquiries, environmental standards, etc. They also make sure the govt itself follows the law. Maybe that’s why they’re being cut. #ableg
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Tom Engel
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1. "Enter Rick Hanson, former Calgary police chief. Smith has appointed him to head a panel that will review the AHS investigation. ... Hanson was one of Calgary’s great police chiefs." A myth. One of the worst. As Chief he oversaw corrupt ...
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Tom Engel
4 years
@CMOH_Alberta You shouldn't be disappointed unless it is with your self - you should have blown the whistle. When it became apparent you wouldn't, the whistle-blower must have thought there was no alternative and was justified in law #Whistleblower #COVID19AB #AbLeg #abpoli
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Tom Engel
4 years
My wife, AmberLee, and I are finally grandparents! Son Rob and daughter in law Marta Horofker brought home their baby, Beatrix AmberLee Engel, today in Toronto. We are thrilled for them.
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Tom Engel
4 months
Just heard @JasonNixonAB on the radio claim there's enough "housing" for all the unhoused in Edmonton. He's either ignorant or lying. #houseless #Homeless
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Tom Engel
2 years
1. @edmontonpolice release the 911 calls, EPS radio comms, police notes/reports, audio/videos & picture of the knife. If a cop thought she had a knife, no way he would put himself in such a dangerous position. He would have drawn his firearm and maintained distance if she ...
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Edmonton Police
2 years
The EPS has been provided with two videos of an arrest made on Sept. 15. The videos depict several seconds of an interaction where police responded to a weapons complaint in the area of 100 Street and 106 Avenue at approximately 4:09 p.m...
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Tom Engel
3 years
1. Let's try to bring some perspective to this tragic death. First, if anyone ever wanted a better illustration of the #doublestandards applied to cases where a police officer is injured or killed, compared to when a #Police officer injures of kills ...
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Tom Engel
2 years
1. Fire both, especially Abbott, who is an @edmontonpolice staff sergeant in a leadership position and should have told Cst Golysheva not to do it but, instead, introduced her. Abbott never should have been promoted to sergeant, let alone staff ...
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Tom Engel
2 years
This shockingly brazen insubordination by the #Police union will not end well for the union, its management members who are police officers & all officers who are caught wearing the #ThinBlueLine patch/pin. They'll be facing serious Police Act complaints.
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Tom Engel
11 months
Williams says Kenney & Smith sent a message to the public by keeping Madu & Shandro in cabinet while they faced serious allegations. If the govt wants to set high standards, it should put distance between itself & people who are accused of misconduct.
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Tom Engel
1 year
These are flat-out lies to Canadians by @PierrePoilievre that the Prime Minister "accepted" the decision and the Federal Cabinet could overrule it. He's unfit for office and dangerous. #RuleOfLaw #lawtwitter #criminaljustice #prison
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Pierre Poilievre
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Justin Trudeau refuses to fire his incompetent minister because it turns out he knew Paul Bernardo would be transferred out of maximum security. Now he doesn't even have the courage to show up and answer Canadians.
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That's in addition to the life insurance and pension benefits. So, why the GoFundMe? @ABDanielleSmith what's being done for the mother and Pizza Hut victims who were also shot?
@ctvedmonton
CTV Edmonton
1 year
The families of two Edmonton Police Service officers killed in the line of duty this week will receive $100,000 from Alberta's provincial fund for first responders, the premier says.
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2 years
@edmontonpolice @EPS_Air1 Was this a bait car, as described in this article? If so, what would have happened if a high speed pursuit resulted, killing someone? Also, pretty sure releasing this info violates your own Media and Police Relations policy IS7-1PR section 3 (e). #police
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Tom Engel
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Proving what was already pretty clear to many. Politicians dressed in police clothing. So, remember, when cops like @DMMcFee speak, you're listening to a UCP/Conservative politician. When you see @edmontonpolice social media, it's political propaganda funded by you. #Police
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Euan Thomson
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🧵 A strategy document obtained through a freedom of information request reveals a coordinated effort by Alberta's top police brass to maintain drug criminalization "before the May election." 1/
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Tom Engel
10 months
Does he have any clue about how the criminal justice system, including the police, works? This is the latest embarrassment to his office, compromises the integrity of his office and insults all Crown Prosecutors. #lawtwitter
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Tom Engel
3 years
Bad look for a Minister of Justice. Lawyers know that, while they have qualified privilege in political speech, there must be a reasonable basis for it. And attacking the media? Right out of the Trump enemy of the people playbook #AbLeg via @CTVCalgary
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Tom Engel
4 years
Most disturbing - the threat by @shandro , a lawyer, to abuse the power of the state: "Shandro threatened to send the province's protective services after one woman...". Resign. #abpoli #ableg
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Tom Engel
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Our letter to Edmonton Public Schools, copied to Edmonton Catholic Schools, offering the assistance of the @AlbertaCTLA Policing Committee to educate school leadership, staff & students on their rights when dealing with school resource police officers. #Police
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2 years
It's a coverup. @edmontonpolice are trying to evade accountability with this: “As charges were not laid in relation to this incident, we will not be releasing her name or other additional investigative details.” They didn't need a complainant; the cop claimed he witnessed ...
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Tom Engel
6 months
I’m told there are comments made by supervisors in official @edmontonpolice group chats, belittling the people in homeless encampments. These are the cops who'll be supervising the eviction of the homeless & theft of their belongings. Obviously, they reflect @DMMcFee 's attitude.
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Tom Engel
5 years
That's pretty impressive. From election night to last night they decided to apply for a franchise, had it granted, planned the building and got it built and opened it. Wow! That, or @jkenney is full of shit. #AbLeg #abpoli
@jkenney
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
Celebrated the opening of a new @McDonalds franchise in Sherwood Park tonight, which is creating 60 new jobs, mainly first time jobs for teenagers. The owners decided to open this franchise after the provincial election, & said the Youth Job Creation Wage was a big factor.
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Tom Engel
2 years
1. Why wouldn't @edmontonpolice & @ASIRT_AB make this information public immediately after Steven Nguyen was shot & killed? Why did it take the family having to sue to get it? There is a serious policing transparency deficit. Would @AlbertaJSG @shandro @YEG_Commission address...
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Jonny Wakefield
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News: Steven Nguyen was holding "a phone, not a firearm” when he was shot and killed by Edmonton police last year, Chief Dale McFee said in a defence filed against a lawsuit from Nguyen's family.
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Tom Engel
4 years
5. Watch and listen carefully to Powell's recording. Not one officer said or did anything to stop the assault on Sauter, in breach of their legal duty to protect him. Let's see how powerful the #CodeOfSilence is in the investigation of all officers' actions and inactions.
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Tom Engel
5 years
" 'Foreign funding' has emerged as a powerful propaganda cudgel for governments to turn on environmental and human rights activists around the world." @jkenney is a dangerous disgrace. #ClimateChange #AbLeg #abpoli
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Tom Engel
3 years
Does @JasonNixonAB take his supporters for idiots? #ableg #abpoli
@CBCFletch
Robson Fletcher
3 years
Today an Alberta Environment spokesperson said "it was never the plan to 'delist' parks": In February, the Environment Minister sent a briefing to UCP MLAs: "We will also initiate the proposed removal of 164 under-utilized sites from the parks system..."
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Tom Engel
4 years
Tomorrow's my Ruby Anniversary of being called to the bar (40 years)! Hard to believe how time flies when you're having fun. It's still flying. Thx to colleagues for making it so. @KateEngel4 gave me these antique cufflinks of a bulldog with Ruby eyes. Scary looking. #lawtwitter
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"In fact, a fraction of the $5.5 Billion provincial surplus would not only end homelessness in Edmonton, it would end it across Alberta." #houseless #Homeless
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Tom Engel
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1. Nice job by @CBCradiotara confronting @DMMcFee on trying to shift responsibility for police actions to the U of A. McFee again hypocriticaly whines about short video clips on social media, saying EPS has hours of video. He relied on cherry-picked ...
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Tom Engel
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Edney became a constant irritant to Ottawa officials often calling out prime minister Stephen Harper & his Conservative government. "Mr. Harper doesn't like Muslims," Mr. Edney said in 2015 after a Supreme Court hearing. I'll never forget that. #lawx
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1. After years of @DMMcFee evading questions about his personal position on the #ThinBlueLine symbolism & public displays of it by cops, this answers it. He's pictured here coaching the @YEGPA cop union team. It also shows the union hasn't changed it's position after the ...
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3 years
"talk-radio host Danielle Smith pressed the premier to release GraceLife Church pastor James Coates", thereby proving she knows nothing about the importance of the independence of policing and the judicial branch from the government #AbLeg #COVIDIOTS
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Tom Engel
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1. This, by @DanielBrownLaw is bang on. But, I have these comments. "This theory of liability was tested & soundly rejected by the judge who granted Zameer bail soon after he was charged. Justice Copeland deserves great praise for her courage." If it ...
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Tom Engel
2 years
It's been clear the government made political decisions against the recommendations of @CMOH_Alberta & she abdicated her responsibility to make the decisions & tell the public what was going on. This evidence supports that conclusion. #abpoli #UCP
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Tom Engel
5 years
"If you’re looking for a governing party from Alberta history that’s much more like the UCP it would be the Social Credit Party led by William “Bible Bill” Aberhart, powered by crackpot economic notions, conspiracy theories, and religious fundamentalism."
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Tom Engel
1 year
1. A 'clerical error'? Ludicrous. Here's how it works. The investigator (who should be charged with obstructing justice) files a report indicating the charge to be laid. It goes to a peace officer who swears that they have reasonable grounds to believe...
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Tom Engel
2 years
"But just to be very, very clear, he never asked to get out of the ticket." So what was the purpose of @KayceeMaduYEG 's call? He suggested the ticket was racially motivated & mentioned ordering a public inquiry into @lethpolice . Draw your own conclusion
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Tom Engel
4 years
No reasonable Albertan believes our Minister of Environment, @JasonNixonAB , cares about the environment #ableg #abpoli
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Tom Engel
4 years
Any reasonable Albertan who considers the facts would conclude @shandro is in an obvious conflict of interest and must resign or be fired #ShandroResign #shandromustgo #abpoli #AbLeg
@djclimenhaga
David Climenhaga
4 years
Smoke and mirrors aren’t cutting it — Alberta’s health minister still needs to go. #ableg #abhealth
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Tom Engel
3 years
Of course, every citizen, including #police officers, are free to support what ever public party they chose but for a Chief to publicly support a political party at its fundraiser is not acceptable. As my old law partner would say, "It doesn't pass the tummy test".
@duncankinney
Duncan Kinney
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how close is edmonton police chief dale mcfee with the ucp? well, he attends their fundraisers.
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