Québec's :flagqc: bill 20 on housing threatens long-term housing co-op stability
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Le projet de loi 20 du Québec :flagqc: sur l'habitation menace la stabilité à long-terme des coops d'habitation
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🇨🇦 #NENSHI PLEDGES TO #REPEAL UCP'S #MUNICIPAL #BILLS 🇨🇦
#Alberta #NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi spoke at the Alberta Municipalities (AB Munis) convention.
An NDP government would repeal Bills 18 (federal funding block) & 20 (voting machines), as well as the #RecallAct.
#AbLeg #Bill18 #Bill20
9/10 This "flop" was set against the backdrop of chaos created by the #UCP.
The "ridiculous manual vote count" was a "sop to the governing party’s influential #MAGA base."
This, plus new ID rules, caused long #delays and low turnout—"as was doubtless intended."
#ableg #abpoli #UCPfail #Bill20
6/10 The entire goal of the #UCP's 2024 #Bill20 legislation—opening elections to parties and big corporate money—was clearly to get rid of #progressive #mayors and #councillors who have been a "thorn in Premier Danielle #Smith’s side."
That strategic notion is now "dead on arrival."
#ableg #abpoli
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🇨🇦 UCP'S BIG-MONEY SCHEME TO ELECT FRIENDLIER CITY COUNCILS MOSTLY FLOPS 🇨🇦
A "hot take" from David Climenhaga.
The #UCP plan to use new parties & big corporate cash to elect "simpatico" #mayors in #Edmonton & #Calgary was a complete bust.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPfail #MunicipalElection #Bill20
10/10 Voters like Simon Yip were given incorrect ballots and left without voting.
"I’m sorry that my candidate won’t be getting my vote.”
👉 Instead of confidence, the new rules delivered chaos, long lines, and disenfranchisement. 👈
Amir Said, CBC News
#UCPfail #Bill20
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8/10 Heron was told the changes were supposed to increase voter confidence.
Her response was devastating:
"I think it's actually done the opposite, to tell you the truth."
#ableg #Bill20
6/10 Williams defends banning electronic tabulators, citing “skepticism around the results of elections and their legitimacy” globally.
He claimed "counting hand ballots provides the most confidence when it comes to election results.”
The 3-hour lines & voters giving up suggest otherwise.
#Bill20
3/10 This new, handwritten bureaucracy was only half the problem.
The provincial rules also banned the use of electronic vote tabulators.
This meant every single ballot had to be counted by hand, compounding the delays created by the unconscionable new attestation forms.
#Bill20 #AbPoli #UCPfail
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These parties are possible thanks to the #UCP government's #Bill20, which created a pilot project allowing candidates in Edmonton and Calgary to run under a party banner.
While common in cities like Vancouver and Montreal, this is a brand new concept in #Alberta politics.
#YEG #YEGpoli #AbPoli
Ask mayoral candidates about Bill 20 (provincial overreach potentially affecting local votes) and tabulators. Their stance on tabulators may reveal conspiracy theory leanings. We're all affected. 🗳️ #ABpoli #ABleg #Bill20
4/12 Bill 20, rammed through in October, eliminates electronic tabulators for hand counting. For Edmonton and Calgary, this creates a "logistical nightmare" while offloading millions in costs to taxpayers.
#Bill20 #LogisticalNightmare
They didn’t fix a problem—they imported a strategy. 📦
Bill 20 brings voter suppression by design: confusion, delays, higher costs, and fewer voices.
No evidence. No mandate. Just democracy backsliding.
#AbPoli #Bill20 #VoterSuppression #DemocracyBacksliding #ABLeg🗳️⚠️
Illustration of a green ballot being inserted into a blue voting box labeled “VOTE,” with a blue sky, hills, and stylized buildings in the background. Below, text reads “Information for Voters” and highlights a 2025 rule: St. Albert voters must register on voterlink.ab.ca by August 15 to vote.
Infographic styled as a warning sign with a yellow background and red hazard stripes. A smiling female LEGO figure in a suit swings on a wrecking ball, referencing Danielle Smith. The title reads: “WARNING — Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 20).” The text explains how Bill 20 gives Cabinet power to remove municipal officials, rewrite local bylaws, veto referenda, and override local governance. The bottom caption says this strips municipalities of autonomy and places them under provincial control.
Bill 20 wasn’t just a power grab over councils.
It also bans tabulators, forces voter pre-registration, and offloads new administrative burdens—adding costs for municipalities.
#Bill20 #ABPoli #MunicipalMatters #ABleg
2/10 The culprit: Bill 20 (Municipal Statutes Amendment Act) bans electronic tabulators.
👉 Before: Election results same night
👉 After: Days of manual counting
"When the province introduced Bill 20, there wasn't a method of counting given to us," says election official.
#Bill20 #ManualCounting
If a city councillor or mayor received a gift they have to disclose it quarterly but thousands of dollars in campaign donations are only disclosed…. Annually?
Democracy needs transparency and accountability. The new #Bill20 UCP legislation has big holes.
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With the conversation around #bill20. I made a quick and crude way to see the campaign expenditures of the last three #yegcc elections.
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"I'll just tell you in big letters across my whiteboard, it says the word organize and so that's one of the reasons why I'm really glad to have you on the podcast today. You have a great work you're doing with Alberta talks. What can Albertans concerned about #Bill20 do?" #abpoli
"What kind of effect do you think #Bill20 has on a city councilor or mayor that's just trying to do the right thing but believes they might run contrary to what this government wants to do? These votes are often close enough as it is." #yyc #yeg #abpoli
"What I like about municipal parties is that I'm able to look into each candidate and put that aside and make a decision based on my own values, my own understanding of policy and the platform that that candidate is running on." #Bill20 #abpoli #yyc #yeg
"Is #Bill20 a logical next step for an autocratic petrostate that's already begun forking over our royalties to #BigOil under the flimsy auspices they'd clean up the mess it was always on them to clean up anyways? They've already made it abundantly clear: our pensions are next." #Climate #abpoli
Alberta government wants power to remove municipal councillors
#Alberta #Canada #Bill20 #MunicipalGovernment #Politics #PoliticalParties #MunicipalAffairs #LocalDemocracy #GovernmentPower
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Podcast title '"Bill 20 & The Petrostate Power Grab" Includes 'the Climate Lens' and Calgary Climate Hub logos and a banner reads "NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!"
#Bill20 creates city political parties, funnels $ into elections, empowers the AB government to remove #YEG or #YYC mayors or city councillors & cancel out policies they don't like. We hit up ABN's Molli Bennett about these moves & what comes next.
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