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Gonzaga’s Bigs the last Ten years: Braden Huff: future All American Graham Ike: All American Drew Timme: All American 3X Chet Holmgren: All American & 2nd overall pick Filip Petrušev: All American Brandon Clarke: All American & 1st rounder

The key to a high functioning healthcare system is the relationship/attachment between family doctor & their patients. We should invest strengthening this relationship between family physicians & their patients. The premier calling family physicians “gatekeepers" is unhelpful.

If inclusion is "earned", then it is not inclusion. If you are starting from a place of saying certain kids need to "prove" themselves, then they have already been left behind. Different kids need different things - let's actually help them succeed instead of segregating them.

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…

Trump is about to lock 157 million Americans out of their own bank accounts. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed an executive order forcing every US bank to collect proof of citizenship is "in process." And he just doubled down: "If Treasury and the banking regulators say it's their job, it's their job." This sounds irrelevant but here's what this really means: Per the Congressional Research Service, only 48% of Americans hold a US passport. That leaves over 170 million Americans without one. REAL IDs don't count. Driver's licenses don't count. Social Security cards don't count. Per Wall Street Journal reporting, banks will need a passport or birth certificate. The Brennan Center found 21.3 million voting-age US citizens don't have documents proving their citizenship easily available. These are Americans who are about to lose access to their own bank accounts. And here's the thing: The order applies to new AND existing customers. Banks could be forced to close accounts of people who can't produce documents. Your 78-year-old grandmother born at home in 1948. Your naturalized dad who lost his papers 30 years ago. Your cousin mid-passport renewal. The official story is that this stops illegal immigrants from accessing banking. But the actual reality: Illegal immigrants can't open US bank accounts anyway. Know Your Customer rules already require SSNs or ITINs. The existing system ALREADY blocks what this order claims to block. So who does this actually target? The half of Americans without a passport. Rural Americans. Elderly Americans born before centralized record-keeping. Black Americans in Southern states where birth records were historically unreliable. Low-income Americans who can't afford $225 for an expedited passport. The American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, estimates this adds 33 to 73 million paperwork hours and $2.6 to $5.6 billion in compliance costs. Guess who pays those costs? You do. Through fees. Through closed accounts. Through denied loans. Bessent's defense quote: "I have a place in the UK, they want to know who lives in every apartment." Bessent's net worth: $600 million. He has a "place in the UK." He will not be affected by this. So this isn't really about immigration. For the first time in American history, access to the banking system would be conditioned on proving citizenship to the federal government. That creates a permanent database linking every American's finances to their citizenship status. Once that database exists, it gets used by ICE, voting enforcement, tax enforcement, Social Security, and future administrations for purposes nobody has announced yet. Every future government gets the keys to decide who has a bank account based on paperwork. And Wall Street's reaction tells you everything: Bank execs privately called it "unworkable" and "a complete nightmare." One researcher called it "a way to weaponize the banking system to achieve political ends." They're not pushing back because they love immigrants. They just KNOW the compliance costs are catastrophic and half their customers will walk. Tom Cotton also introduced a companion bill in March making it a federal crime for any unauthorized person to "open or maintain a US bank account." Maintain. Meaning existing accounts. These things are literally being drafted right now. I'm surprised that all of this went under the radar.

Alberta’s version of Boss Hogg, separatist loudmouth Jeff Rath, is in hot water for failing to disclose where he got funding for his separatist roadshow. Who thinks he’s funded by Trump’s MAGA movement? Putin? Both? If you don’t have anything to hide, Jeff, show your receipts!

The UCP is letting Kevin O’Leary’s AI Data Center skip its standard environmental impact assessment— despite being built in a municipality facing emergency drought conditions. Why does the Premier have one set of rules for Albertans and another set of rules for her friends?

Rob Anderson’s family has 7 daycares and a charter school, that will all be fully funded by the government that he shills for. That’s the tweet.

The UCP's plans to cheat on electoral boundaries is the top story of all of the five major daily newspapers in Alberta this morning.

There is no limit to what these criminals will do to stay in power.

Canadians to receive one-time grocery benefit payment on June 5 msn.com/en-ca/money/ot…

@GregClarkAB This concept needs to go. and you failed to explain (although it's in your report) that the concept has limits according to previous SCC rulings. Our existing maps and the ones the majority proposed still give too much power to rural voters at the expense of urban voters.

The Canadian model isn’t one-person-one-vote, it’s what we call “effective representation.” /4

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

@GregClarkAB I wish I could say this is an unbelievable act on the part of Premier Smith and her MLAs, but it's not. It's totally believable. In fact, we should expect this sort of action from this provincial government given our experience with them for 2 years now!

@GregClarkAB I am neither surprised by this corrupt government or simply disappointed. This govt is outrageous in their obvious attempt to remain in power. I want justice and lawsuits.

@GregClarkAB Over reach by Smith & UCP government disappointing and disgusting decision for Democracy. This is another example of UCP refusing to LISTEN and respect recommendation of Electoral Boundaries Commission. A slap in the face for Democracy in Alberta by Smith & UCP.

“…the Legislative Assembly should carefully consider the majority of this Commission’s independent, justified, and reasonable recommendations before adopting any alternative boundaries...the majority recommends the adoption of the majority report in its totality.” /14

I will end with what I think are the most important words in the 362-page Electoral Boundaries Report: /13

It’s also important to know that the recommendation that a committee of MLAs implement a map of 91 seats came from only one member of the five-member commission. /12

What we can’t do is simply drop two new seats onto an existing map. The commission goes where the data takes us, and context matters when we're creating a map based on effective representation for all. /11

Or, we may not have. We would have drawn a map of 91 (or any other number) the same way we drew the map of 89; we would start with a blank map and independently consider how we could provide effective representation for all Albertans. /10