Peg Strankman🇨🇦

@TheBreakdownAB Oh that will put noses out of joint in airdrie. Guess pitt doesn't carry much weight

Huh. Smith is announcing $74 million for a new Cardston hospital. Someone’s banking on rural. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1

@McAllisterBruce UCP government gave two sole sourced contracts to Western Standard (@WSOnlineNews) to the tune of $79,992. What am I missing here? #ableg

Danielle Smith's UCP is halting construction of a school because of costs, while her friend Sam Mraiche still sits on $49 million in government funds (i.e. enough to build this school twice). #ABPoli #ABEd Priorities, amirite? cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

@miket136 How do you envision the dairy industry being regulated in your separated independent alberta? No supply mngt first I guess. Open borders to 'foreign' butter And. . .

After enjoying grass-fed Irish butter in California; coming home to this pale, hard factory trash from Quebec is a real disappointment.

@FreeAlbertaRob You were smart enough to know that there would be blowback if you accepted the minority report over the majority. So you simply replicate the process with new people in order to get the result that you want. And as Judge Miller warned, this will get challenged in court under S3.

@KevinMcCurdy Only in edmonton you say? Pity!

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@FreeAlbertaRob Why are you largely replicating the process from the Electoral Boundaries Commission but with different people and the addition of a UCP-dominated MLA committee? Why accept the recommendation of 91 seats and reusing the public hearing material, but not accept the majority report?

Amusingly, Rob has blocked me. But he’s lying. Page 59 : "For all the reasons stated herein, the majority recommends the adoption of the majority report in its totality. " That report came with a map for 89 seats. The UCP are tossing it & redrawing it themselves. #ableg

Don't let devious Danielle Smith fool you. Your property taxes are going way up because of the provincial budget, not because your municipality is trying to screw you. The UCP is screwing you, and pointing the finger at municipalities. Be smart, don't buy Dani's deception.

It is not the increase from 89 to 91 that is problematic. It is this part of the motion. Throwing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission (and all of their work) and instead creating a new committee of MLAs with a new advisory panel.

The Northern Ireland housing market is absolutely bleak. Our house has been listed for sale for a month and we have only had one viewing. 3 bedrooms, fully renovated over the last two years, right by the coast, for under £230,000. Anyone want it?

It’s official. The UCP are going all in on rigging the next election. It’s unprecedented and unacceptable. MLAs should have no part in drawing the boundaries for the seats they run to represent. We’ll have more to say soon because Alberta, we need to fight back. #ableg

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

Elections are about people choosing their representatives, not politicians choosing their voters. Yet that is what the UCP is planning. It is planning to deliberately disenfranchise urban voters. Red Deer and Lethbridge would not exist as autonomous political entities.

BREAKING!!! In what appears to be a completely unprecedented move, the UCP appear to be getting ready to toss all of the work of the electoral boundaries commission… So they can draw the maps themselves! Gerrymandering has arrived! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Why is Danielle Smith exempting Kevin O’Leary from getting the required environmental impact assessment for his proposed data centre in Alberta?

@snufflewort I find them when I travel. Send to the kidlings. In canada probably need to drop in at tourist stops. Hiway gas stations. Its an adventure

My dear friends, I must sincerely apologize. I had no idea that postcards had gone the way of the Dodo bird. 🦤 I was just hoping for a photo or some art from your town or country to show my kids! But I’ll take a letter with a photograph to celebrate surviving cancer! #fuckcancer

Alberta govt takes aim at Globe reporter over coverage of procurement controversy theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… By @mattscace67

Any attendees to this conference wanna hit up our DM’s? We’re hearing Smith had some pretty bold thoughts on the “industry” and its future… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli