RhondaHunter

This should have a million retweets…literally. This is the moment to be loud, to be heard. We cannot let this govt trample any more of our rights. #saynotogerrymandering #stopthesteal

@TheBreakdownAB @gilmcgowan Shameful

If you want a jaw dropping exploration of how authoritarian Alberta has become over the last 4 years… You should check this out. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli takealbertaback.ca

AB UCP MLAs can be divided into two categories: 1. MLAs who use their position to illegally enrich themselves. 2. MLAs who look the other way while MLAs use their position to illegally enrich themselves.

This story is larger than Sam Mraiche alone. ✔️Alberta’s justice minister changed election-enforcement timelines during an active investigation involving a long-time friend and relative. ✔️The government presented the bill as a measure to strengthen democratic trust. Its practical effect was to shorten the time available to Elections Alberta to pursue sanctions. ✔️Even before any final legal ruling, that raises serious conflict concerns and damages public trust. Alberta sold Bill 54 as a measure to strengthen trust in democratic processes. In practice, it shortened the time Elections Alberta has to issue a reprimand or administrative penalty to one year from complaint, or two years from when it knew or ought to have known, whichever comes first. It also shortened the prosecution window to one year. The issues are plain. First, conflict of interest and appearance of conflict. Mickey Amery has acknowledged a long-time friendship and family connection to Sam Mraiche through marriage, according to reporting cited publicly by other Alberta outlets. At the same time, Alberta’s own conflict law bars a member from using office or powers to influence a Crown decision to further the private interest of a person directly associated with the member, and it requires recusal where a member has reasonable grounds to believe such a private interest is before a decision-making body. Whether that legal threshold is ultimately met here is for the proper authority. The appearance problem is already obvious. Second, live-file lawmaking. The Canadian Press reported that Elections Alberta had been investigating alleged irregular political donations tied to the 2023 election, and that lawyers for six people later argued the new legislation meant their clients would not submit to further questioning. The judge held the interviews could still be compelled, yet the report also says the new law may affect the investigation’s potential outcomes, and that Alberta’s chief electoral officer had warned the tighter timeline would effectively kill many investigations. Third, public trust running in reverse. A government says it is strengthening trust, then reduces the watchdog’s time, during an active probe involving someone tied personally to the minister carrying the bill. That sequence does not clean up the system. It raises the suspicion that power is being used near a live file when distance and recusal are the cleaner path. Fourth, unequal citizenship under the law. Election law is supposed to apply the same way to friends, donors, insiders, critics, and strangers. Once the public sees timelines shortened in the middle of an investigation touching a minister’s associate, the principle of equal treatment comes under pressure even before any tribunal rules on legality. The legal question may remain open. The ethical question is already here. So the moral, ethical, and legal principles in play are these: keep public duty separate from private relationships, avoid even the appearance that office is being used to help an associate, preserve independent enforcement, and never rewrite the clock around a live investigation. Alberta’s conflict law captures part of that formally. Basic democratic ethics capture the rest. A justice minister sold a bill as democratic cleanup while shortening the enforcement clock during an active election-finance investigation involving a friend and relative. Even before any final legal ruling, that is a serious failure of judgment and a direct hit to public trust. Alberta Justice Minister set new limits for election regulator when his friend, Sam Mraiche, was under investigation theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… #ableg #Mraiche #DanielleSmith

@ChrisjevanN @WayHaughtElf @emtothea @1981Descartes @Tablesalt13 @earptopia So sorry that this situation is happening. I hope you know and can sense that the majority of Didsburians look forward to and welcome visits from Earpers… some of our very favourite people💖🤗

@WayHaughtElf @emtothea @1981Descartes @Tablesalt13 @earptopia @RhondaMayor Was looking into visiting before EarpFest. Also rethinking that plan.

This is Alberta under the UCP. Senior govt officials moving in secret to silence opposing voices. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

@kellyrudyk And every citizen who supports democracy needs to be very vocal too

Every municipal leader in this Province needs to be very vocal if this govt pushes ahead with the minority report and gerrymanders the electoral map in Alberta. Every single one.

“Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment” Because of course they did. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/new…

One step towards improvement is acknowledging the current environment and demanding better from our provincial govts and HC administrators. Proud to be a co-author of this national position statement on the issue: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41793640/ 5/5

@WayHaughtElf @emtothea @1981Descartes @Tablesalt13 @earptopia I understand your disappointment, I am feeling the same. I welcome your return to Didsbury should you visit and please look me up/contact me so we can have a visit and a coffee 💐

@emtothea @1981Descartes @Tablesalt13 Incredibly disappointing. We were planning on visiting again next year but now I'm rethinking that part of the trip. Sad to see this, especially after @earptopia and how welcoming @RhondaMayor & her staff was! Shame on the new leadership & new mayor.

Selectively, UCP circulates this survey. Not everyone gets it. The distribution list is based on how you previously answered other questions. To help UCP get a more accurate results, share it. #ableg unitedconservativecaucus.ca/surveys/educat…

@belle_levesque @ABDanielleSmith Shameful

I don’t think most 🇨🇦have any idea how massive this fraud is. Canadian taxpayers are on the hook for TENS OF $BILLIONS to clean up these abandoned sites. Alberta municipalities owed 100s of $millions. Landowners abused and defrauded. @ABDanielleSmith does NOTHING about it.

Thank you @ryanjespersen.

the best player (besides sid) uses pride tape and advocates for it being in his locker room and nobody can take that away from us :,)

@mark_dorin @ryanjespersen Well done Mark 💫

Had a little talk with @ryanjespersen this morning. Respect. Gratitude.

@ryanjespersen @mark_dorin Go Mark! Landowners are fortunate to have you in their corner! Keep up the great work - Polluter Pay absolutely 💯

The entire country should be paying attention to what's happening in Alberta. Nobody fights for landowners more than @mark_dorin. He talks to us about "deadbeat" oil companies, an ineffective Energy Regulator, and the toll gas leaks took on his own family.

March 3rd: This old guy came out of retirement two years ago to help because we are short ER doctors. I just worked three very long shifts in a small town near #yeg. Despite our small ER being half blocked by ALC patients, we receive ambulances diverted from blocks away from the Misericordia Hospital in West Edmonton, including critically ill EMS transfers. When ambulances are diverted 30 km out of the capital city to a small-town ER, you know the system in Edmonton remains in CRISIS, as "the flu" is fading. More on Triage Liaison Physicians and the ER crisis: 1. @Albertadoctors state clearly: “The delay in implementing Triage Liaison Physicians has not been on the AMA’s end.” (see letter below) 2. Premier @ABDanielleSmith says “it takes two parties to negotiate.” (see video in other tweet) 3. I say: Time to stop the NONSENSE and implement TLP ASAP while @JasonNixonAB clears ALC beds so flow can happen again. Albertans are suffering needlessly: leaving ERs without treatment, some later dying at home following delayed access, others arresting in hallways, or waiting 8 hours in septic shock. Facts: 1. A tragic death in an ER on Dec 22 and many more documented cases since (see below). 2. Feb 1: Ministerial Jones acknowledged it is a crisis by introducing a Ministerial Order and “immediate TLP implementation.” 3. March 3: Roles remain unfilled and government is litigating this via media. ERs remain in crisis mode, with CTAS 2s and 3s sitting in waiting rooms for hours and city ambulances transporting critically ill patients 30 km to small towns. Two ministers (@AdrianaLaGrange and @MattJonesYYC) are involved in decisions on TLP (a highly specialized crisis protocol) without fully engaging those who designed and delivered it previously. For context, I have worked on ER access crisis solutions over two decades as: • Former Chair, HQCA • Advisor to three health ministers • Former Associate Minister of Health • Former Emergency Medicine Section President • Practicing ER physician who performed the TLP role I respectfully urge Minister Jones to sit down with Dr. Warren Thirsk and Alberta’s emergency leaders, make a safe and rational decision grounded in frontline expertise, and implement this immediately. The Minister is ready, as evidenced by the Ministerial Order. ER physicians are ready: with proper private space, dedicated nursing support, medico-legal clarity, and fair 2026 compensation for high-risk overtime work. There is $1.4 billion in additional physician healthcare spending. This fix costs only a few million out of a $34.4Billion budget. One serious lawsuit alone could exceed the difference between 2009 and 2026 compensation. Decisions are best made from the bottom up: 1. AHS/Covenant administration/One Minister & frontline staff 2. Not top-down from Premier/Two Ministers/Two Sets of Bureaucrats & AMA President/AMA Board Albertans deserve operational leadership now. Attachments below: 1. AMA Letter 2. Verified & Documented bad outcomes 3. Aug/25 Hospital data: >100% capacity 4. Aug/25 data: Patients leaving without treatment We can get this done, unless @ABDanielleSmith wants to "play chicken" to see who blinks first or she doesn't really want it done. This is not a new rodeo. We have done this before. #abhealth #abpoli #AbLeg @PfParks @JMeddings @nenshi @UCPCaucus @Alberta_UCP @albertaNDP @AlbertaNDPHQ @ryanjespersen @cspotweet @TheBreakdownAB, despite t

#ableg Alberta saw a MASSIVE $3,100,000,000 hit to O&G revenue Meanwhile, Danielle Smith BLOCKED clean energy projects that would deliver: 💰 $33,000,000,000 in Investment 👷‍♂️ 24,000 Jobs 🔨 118 New Energy Projects Good Leaders make good decisions; bad ones blame immigrants

@mjfree ❤️

❤️ if you wish Canada had won the gold

@HockeyCanada @OHFHockey Congratulations Connor McDavid!!

MVP. Best Forward. What a tournament for Connor McDavid. 🇨🇦 Joueur par excellence. Meilleur avant. Quel tournoi pour Connor McDavid. 🇨🇦 #MilanoCortina2026 | @OHFHockey