4/6 The timing is grim.
This summer, the #Edmonton region recorded an all-time monthly high for #DrugPoisoning deaths. The crisis is accelerating, yet the life-saving safety nets are being cut.
"The fact is, these harm reduction services save lives," #Gallaway asserts.
#UCPideology #abpoli #ableg
5/13 The reach extends beyond queer and trans kids, argues Goodyear.
"Whenever governments try to restrict what young people can read, learn or say about their bodies and overall personhood, all kids are affected."
#StudentFreedom #EducationPolicy #Authoritarianism #ABpoli #ABleg #UCP #UCPIdeology
4/13 Goodyear, a UBC nursing professor and youth health researcher, draws parallels to Atwood's dystopian world:
"In Alberta schools, it's now 'under her eye,' with Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP as the overseers."
#DystopianFiction #UCPPolicies #ABpoli #UCPIdeology #ABed #ABedu #UCPfail
6/10 The breathtaking irony:
Alberta banned The Handmaid's Tale - a novel warning against authoritarian control of information and women's bodies.
While simultaneously demonstrating exactly the kind of government overreach Atwood wrote about in 1985.
#Irony #Authoritarianism #ucpIdeology #ABpoli
2/9 The Edmonton Public School Board identified over 200 books for removal following government directives.
Margaret Atwood's acclaimed dystopian novel sits prominently on this troubling list.
The irony is breathtaking—banning a book about censorship.
#Censorship #EdmontonPSB #UCPfail #UCPideology
7/11 The opt-in system creates new barriers for families.
Ashton worries: "It's easy for people to miss forms. As parents, we get a lot of forms and backpacks at the beginning of the year."
Language and cultural barriers compound the problem.
#UCPideology #UCPfail #DanielleSmith #UCPBasePandering
7/15 Manufactured outrage: Alberta's library book policy wasn't driven by genuine parent complaints but by organised groups—Parents for Choice in Education and Action4Canada.
This mirrors U.S. tactics by groups like Moms for Liberty.
#BookBanning #ManufacturingConsent #ABpoli #UCPideology
1/14 🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA'S RENEWABLE ENERGY CRISIS 🇨🇦 🚨
Nearly half of proposed clean energy projects are dying on the vine after government freeze.
11 gigawatts cancelled - enough to power the entire province.
The numbers are staggering.
#ABpoli #RenewableEnergy #UCPideology #UCPfail #ABleg
5/10 Alberta recorded 394 COVID deaths since August 2024, compared to 239 influenza deaths during an unusually severe flu season.
Yet influenza vaccines remain free while COVID vaccines now require payment for most residents.
#COVIDDeaths #HealthPolicy #UCPideology #AntivaxerSmith #UCPfail #ABpoli
6/8 The cruel irony: Healthcare workers who've spent years fighting COVID on the frontlines must now choose between personal financial hardship and workplace protection.
Smith's government prioritizes ideology over those who save lives daily.
#Irony #Frontlines #UCPideology
5/9 Before sets, bands spoke out against Trump's war on undocumented people and Bill 53 — Alberta's proposed Compassionate Intervention Act that would force involuntary drug rehabilitation.
#Bill53 #UCPideology #CompassionateInterventionAct
7/9 The healthcare ban is part of Premier Danielle Smith's broader legislative package affecting transgender people, including sports participation bans and parental consent requirements for school name changes.
#DanielleSmith #UCPideology #AppeasingUCPbase
10/12 Yedlin wrote this after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland—where over one million Jews perished.
Denied escape "due to inaction by so many governments, including Canada's."
The parallel to today's panel question is chilling.
#Auschwitz #NeverAgain #Fascism #UCPideology #USvsTHEM
7/12 The irony is breathtaking.
Alberta has a campaign to attract workers from across Canada, offering bonuses to address labour shortages.
But the panel suggests: "We'll welcome only certain kinds of immigrants."
#Contradiction #LabourShortage
#UCPideology #ABpoli
10/12 Smith's office defends the panel, calling Trudeau's policies "essentially an open borders policy."
Immigration Minister Joseph Schow counters: "Alberta's government stands firmly against racism" and immigrants "deserve to feel safe."
#Alberta #ABpoli #DanielleSmith #UCPIdeology
9/12 The Alberta Next panel's immigration survey video blames newcomers for housing costs and unemployment, warning that "divisions and disputes that plague other countries have begun making their way into ours."
#AlbertaNext #Discrimination #ABpoli #Racism #UCPIdeology
#DanielleSmith
4/11 Bill 29, the "Fairness and Safety in Sport Act," takes effect September 1st. It bans athletes not assigned female at birth from women's sports teams at school, collegiate, and provincial amateur levels.
#Bill29 #SportsLaw #UCPideology
