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We’re back in the Legislature (well, all of us except the premier 🙄). Her Justice Minister promises they won’t interfere with the RCMP investigation into the serious allegations of corruption in their UCP government. Does anyone believe them?

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Today in donald's regime: Taking a billion dollars away from local farms and ranches to facilitate taking food away from hungry children. But the rich will get tax cuts so it all works out I guess? www.cnbc.com/2025/03/11/u...

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Trust me says the Premier who tried to interfere in a criminal case. Trust us, says the Justice Min who said it was no big deal. The UCP has a loooong record of political interference. We can’t trust them. We need a public inquiry today. youtu.be/jCpxyJwkf64?... #CorruptCare #abpoli

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Palestinians in Gaza are facing severe thirst, disease, and starvation after the Israeli government abruptly cut off all electricity to Gaza two days ago. The Israeli military has not allowed any humanitarian aid into Gaza for 9 days.

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Nearly 13 million people in the U.S. hold green cards. Tens of thousands more are here temporarily as foreign students and professors. All are now in danger of being arrested by the Trump regime if they exercise their First Amendment rights.

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How did Mahmoud Khalil become the first student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration? He showed up at a protest last week without a mask. "The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me. forward.com/news/703018/...

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The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/when... #Palestine #Israel

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Genuinely. The libs feel like they’re owed leftist support. No such luck, folks. Want our support, have better policies

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Absolutely heartbreaking. The Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton is pausing intakes to critical services. All because of UCP funding cuts. You’ve got money to travel all over America, Premier. Reverse these cuts. Support survivors. Do the right thing. And do it now.

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This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

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The UCP have launched a sham-vestigation into the CorruptCare scandal. They’ve appointed a judge, but limited his scope so much, he can’t investigate the biggest claim: that UCP Ministers & staff used political pressure to get bloated contracts for their friends. youtu.be/ympydWuun2E?... #abpoli

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This is an attack on fundamental rights. Use our quick & easy tool to email @schumer.senate.gov to demand he speak out now and do everything he can to protect Mahmoud Khalil: innmvmt.org/schumer

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This is a mind-boggling and heartless decision by the UCP government - one that directly attacks the safety & well-being of women in our communities. Danielle Smith’s happy to use public dollars to travel for parties & selfies with far-right American politicians who undermine women’s rights.

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So… Defunding supports for victims of sexual assault is apparently the next move by the UCP. The Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton is pausing intakes because of funding cuts by the UCP. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #YEG

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Indeed Men of America - we need tone doing MUCH better

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Art imitates life. A self-anointed king propped up by a slippery tech overlord.

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some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

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False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

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A leaked memo reveals that DOGE's next target is the VA, with plans to fire more than 80,000 agency workers who provide critical services to veterans and their families. More than 25% of agency staff are veterans themselves. How is this "efficiency"?

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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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There are only a few places on earth where thousand year old trees still stand. The west coast of Canada is one of them but every day they are logged. Time to stop the logging: buff.ly/3DDXTvm #ProtecttheIrreplaceable #ActOnClimate #nature pics @TJWattPhoto #cop16cali

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Wow. MLA Scott Sinclair has just been booted from the UCP for speaking out against the budget. And MLA Guthrie, who resigned from cabinet due to concerns about corruption, is “on probation” with the UCP. Danielle Smith’s house of cards is close to collapsing. Keep. The. Pressure. On.

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UCP MLA Scott Sinclair, who criticized the UCP’s new budget as doing very little for rural Alberta has been kicked out of caucus and will now sit as an independent. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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As a #pwME thanks to @joplatt.bsky.social for raising the disproportionate impact of #ME on women for #IWD. Unfortunately sexist attitudes continue to mean women’s symptoms are often disbelieved or disregarded. See youtu.be/AtdpgiNs_xg?... and disbeliefdisregard.uk/wp-content/u...

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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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Nothing will ever trickle down.

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Smith when asked about the RCMP investigation into the corrupt care scandal... "The main dispute is about whether or not we should have alternative service providers giving services to Albertans or not" No Dani. It's about concerns of corruption. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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“The contract is signed by then-AHS executive director, strategic contracting Blayne Iskiw, who Globe and Mail reported is a voting shareholder and director of two numbered companies that own Alberta Surgical Group” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.theprogressreport.ca/former_ahs_e...

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Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers. At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural. It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

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“despite ongoing Calgary Police investigations, campus security executives destroyed records implicating themselves in decision-making around the response.” This is not a good look at all… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli drugdatadecoded.ca/university-o...

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ASIRT cover-up story reported on March 5 @nolore.bsky.social Daily News - be sure to subscribe to that as well: pca.st/episode/e8f2... Legacy media has appeared to avoid this story - let's see if they pick this one up given its proximity to the health procurement scandal.

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Nine students were arrested after Barnard College called police onto campus to break up a sit-in staged by pro-Palestine demonstrators over the recent expulsion of three student protesters. buff.ly/NSjflLY #Palestine #Israel

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'It’s about time... at least there is something being done about this. People are dying.'

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Steve Fobister Sr. fought for the health of his community until his last breath. The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018. Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.

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"The left is losing because it is too left" motherfuckers, y'all been crawling to the right on your hands and knees for decades and all it got you is rug burns.

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From the DM’s… While the UCP are trying desperately to turn their train wreck of a budget into some kind of a victory lap… It seems Foster Parents and Caregivers who provide care for complex CHILDREN are being punched down on by the UCP. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Residents across five towns in Vermont voted to cut ties with Israeli apartheid making the state the first in the country where municipalities have voted to cut economic ties with Israel. buff.ly/emFG9N3 #Palestine #Israel

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The UCPayToPlay scandal now involves six different kinds of investigation: 1) AHS internal (goes to Smith) 2) Auditor General (to Leg) 3) UCP third party (to Smith) 4) Mentzelopoulos lawsuit (court) 5) Ethics Commissioner (to Leg) 6) RCMP A full public inquiry would go even further. #ableg

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“the Red Deer & Lethbridge facilities are owned by two separate numbered companies under the Alberta Surgical Group name. Corporate records show Sam Mraiche, CEO of MHCare Medical, is a 25 per cent stakeholder in both companies.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1103041...

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In the ‘NYTimes,’ Israeli captives are ‘hostages.’ But Palestinians are ‘prisoners.’ The biased coverage continues mondoweiss.net/2025/03/in-t... #Palestine #Israel

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Israel has suspended the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and resumed targeting Palestinian civilians, bringing the ceasefire with Hamas the closest it has even been to collapse.

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Since the President first announced the threat of tariffs, the Premier has taken the wrong approach, failing Albertans and throwing Canadians under the bus. We need an ethical, competent government with a real plan. Read my full statement below 👇🏽

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The #CorruptCare scandal deserves a full public inquiry. This isn’t one. Instead of an ethical, competent government, the Premier commissioned this report that will cost Albertans more than $625,000 and designed it to give herself cover from serious allegations. Read my full statement below ⤵️:

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Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

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A budget so bad even UCP MLAs are rejecting it. Like Scott Sinclair, I don't know who it's meant to serve. It certainly doesn’t deliver what Albertans want or need. Just more cuts, chaos & corruption. Better is possible. Read our proposal here: www.albertasfuture.ca/public/downl... #abpoli

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You cannot talk about class without talking about race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, fatness and disability. If you try to separate these things from class, you fundamentally misunderstand the construction of class politics in the 21st century.

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Another UCP MLA comes out against their government. This time it’s Lesser Slave Lake MLA Scott Sinclair, who calls the budget “at best, disappointing and, at worst, unacceptable for Albertans.” Cracks continue to spread in Danielle Smith’s already very shaky foundation. Keep. The. Pressure. On.

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