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TL;DR: Alberta would need 11 hospitals in Edmonton and Calgary to be resourced to the Canadian average.
1/6 🏥 Why is Alberta’s healthcare system under such strain? It’s not "management"—it’s a numbers problem 40 years in the making. Let’s look at the data. 🧵 #AbLeg #CdnHealth

I sincerely hope that some of this is an overreaction. I'm feeling increasingly pessimistic about such things these days, however. #CNDPoli #ABLeg www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Al...

“Surely it’s not appropriate for people to be blindsided by $15-billion projects that would rewrite the community.”

“It’s megaprojects that are always for export, and they are triggered or created by outside wealth and outside control.”

"...Fermeuse LNG is the latest in a string of megaprojects that promised great results for small towns in Newfoundland and Labrador but delivered little or no lasting value."

Town officials did not respond to an email asking how they intend to inform and consult the community about the project, what other plans they had to build and diversify the local economy or whether they would hold out for community benefits or revenue-sharing.

#cdnpoli #ableg #democracy

https://www.theenergymix.com/local-economies-pushed-aside-as-newfoundland-lng-megaproject-presses-ahead/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@JEmphatically/116004119679502827

Just to update you on this, I emailed the Access to Information officer who originally replied to say there were zero documents, late in the day on Feb. 2. I made my case as to why I believed she was wrong.

I've received no reply or even acknowledgement of my email as of yet.

I have however, thanks to help from people on Mastodon ( ✊ ) and other journalists, seen email evidence that people in the premier's office were indeed communicating with O'Leary Ventures and the MD of Greenview about the Wonder Valley announcement.

So, yes, there are documents.

#ableg #cdnpoli #AccesstoInformation

Our premier is a #fascist.
#ABPoli #ableg https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3me4i23skyk22

From 2022...

'This is wild.

All Albertans must read this.

UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”.

This isn’t normal.'

- Thomas Lukazuk

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #corruption

Thomas A. Lukaszuk
@LukaszukAB

@Alberta_UCP
This is wild.

All Albertans must read this.

UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”.

This isn’t normal.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Thomas A. Lukaszuk
@LukaszukAB

Mar 25, 2023
.@AbDanielleSmith Perhaps Albertans may need more clarity on this before they vote?

“To prop up pipeline giant TC Energy, Jason Kenney’s government set up numbered companies in Delaware. Here’s what the companies are doing now.”

#ableg #abpoli

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-tc-energy-kxl-delaware/

10:25 AM · Mar 26, 2023 · 462.9K Views

The building at 1209 Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware, isn’t the first place Albertans might associate with their government’s push for pipelines.

You won’t see any politicians wearing construction hats and standing behind podiums at this two-storey, yellow-brick structure.

It is home, however, to a popular service that offers companies a registered address to receive official documents within the state, even if its owners are not physically present there. Walmart, Verizon and eBay have all used its services, state records show.

Another client was a Delaware-based firm named 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. Behind the company’s vague name is a familiar face: Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage.

The minister, a former pipeline industry lobbyist, is responsible for the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, a provincial Crown corporation tasked with selling the province’s oil and gas to the world.

The commission owns 100 per cent of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. It created the company on March 30, 2020, just one day before the commission entered into an investment deal with TC Energy Corp., the oil and gas giant behind the Keystone XL pipeline project, to commit up to $7.5 billion in public money to subsidize the multinational company.

The numbered company was not the only one that the commission would use in its investment deal with TC Energy. It would ultimately work through four other numbered companies — two more based in Delaware and two in Alberta.

The business structure demonstrates the lengths to which Alberta went to invest taxpayer money in Keystone XL — including up to $7 million in “administration and finance costs” according to a provincial audit. The province made this financial gamble at a time when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney admitted, in an April 2, 2020, speech to the provincial legislature, that the project was already facing significant “political risk.”

The purpose of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd., according to the commission’s annual report, was to allow Alberta to help finance the costs of building the U.S. portion of the pipeline, which was meant to massively expand Canadian crude oil exports from Alberta. It would have brought 830,000 barrels per day of crude from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Nebraska.

The project, however, actually left the province on the hook for $1.333 billion, according to Alberta auditor general Doug Wylie. Alberta shared in the financial pain that the company suffered after U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office that revoked the pipeline’s permit.

Biden, noting that the planet is facing a climate crisis, said the project would “undermine U.S. climate leadership” and make it harder for Americans to influence other countries to take ambitious climate action.

TC Energy pulled the plug on Keystone XL a few months later in June 2021 and its assets plummeted in value.

“The paper trail should be there through the whole thing,” he said in an April 26 interview. People looking at corporate registers, he said, shouldn’t have to cross-check their search with company names in annual reports.

When The Narwhal searched for the corporate records in Delaware, it found that 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. was assessed on March 2, 2022, as “delinquent” for failing to pay US$386.26 in taxes or file an updated annual report.

Asked about this, the provincial commission’s chief of staff, Lynda Gwilliam, told The Narwhal in an email that the company’s taxes “were initially delayed, but have since been filed with the appropriate bodies.”

Gwilliam did not provide an explanation for the delay, but wrote that its Delaware corporate structure was nothing out of the ordinary.

“For the partnership with TC Energy to build [Keystone XL], the [Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission] set up companies in both countries, as is a common practice in such situations,” Gwilliam wrote on April 22.

“These companies were utilized to construct the [Keystone XL] project and were in no way a ‘backup plan’ related to any subsequent NAFTA claim.”

Torso of a man holding a map showing where a pipeline will cross in Montana.
A man displays a printout of where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would have crossed in Montana. The small circles are locations identified as burial or sacred grounds. Photo: Sara Hylton

Two-thirds of my electricity bill is fees. Just fees.

This rustles my jimmies. 😡

#ableg

@mark-carney.bsky.social and Foreign Minister #MélanieJoly have moved quickly to shut down an unauthorized diplomatic push by #ConservativeMP #JamilJivani, who traveled to #WashingtonDC WITHOUT government coordination in the middle of SENSITIVE trade talks. 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Ableg youtu.be/N7HYbo1sonk?...

JUST IN: Carney SLAMS Unauthor...

Happening here in Alberta too. #ableg #abpoli #fucktheucp

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3q4xemwfjibucdeutglia5w2/post/3me2ifumhbk2u

An update! The #SturgeonLakeCreeNation lays down the LAW! 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:76e4qryfph6q4wmz3li6v2l6/post/3mdzliootis2f

Fuuuuck.
Alberta's courts are already a disaster.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804

@chriscorrigan @harold

There is no method for the federal government to remove provincial governments, even ones that use the Notwithstanding Clause to take rights from people, as Smith has.

Using the Notwithstanding Clause, that stupidly gives non existing powers to provincial governments, to give the federal government powers it does not have, to remove them, is a hilarious satire of the arrogant ugly Alberta Government of traitors.

#hubris #temptation #dante #damned #ableg #cdnpoli

"...judicial appointments must be made without political influence..." Honestly frustrating that this apparently needs to be said. #CNDPoli #ABLeg www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Justice minister defends judic...

Premier #DanielleSmith has a new ask from #Ottawa. She wants to choose HER judges and until she gets HER way, she's going to jeopardize murder and sexual assault cases getting thrown out, denying #Alberta victims justice. #JamesDunn reports. 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg youtu.be/S5BZcwXgjW0?...

Alberta Premier demands more s...

Smith is apparently going after judicial independence now? I... can't imagine that ending well. #ABleg globalnews.ca/news/1165081...

Danielle Smith says Alberta wi...

@mark-carney.bsky.social returned to the #HouseofCommons with confidence and precision, dismantling #PierrePoilievre ’s attacks on food prices, inflation, and affordability while reframing the debate around trade, stability, and long-term economic planning 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #ableg youtu.be/B80EsLDveI4?...

JUST IN: Joly CONFRONTS Trump ...

Danielle Smith says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection

Smith’s Been Attacking the Justice System For A While Now

Premier Smith’s claims that Alberta has no say in the selection of judges is false. She’s basically got a hatchet, and she’s pummelling the Justice System with it.

https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/239049/danielle-smith-says-alberta-will-withhold-funding-for-judges-without-more-input-on-selec

#EthicalFading #AlbertaUnderSiege #AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli

Um, exactly where are the federal or provincial governments on fact-checking secession and the Treaties?

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is stepping up on its own to counter the disinformation being spread by Alberta separatists. 👏

#ableg #cdnpoli #elbowsup

https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/sturgeon-lake-cree-nation-shares?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

“Trump accounts” for children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, each of whom will receive $1,000 from the federal government that will be invested and held until the children turn 18."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5710784-trump-administration-children-investment-accounts/

"The funds in the account must be invested in certain mutual funds or exchange-traded funds that track the S&P 500 or “another index of primarily American equities,” the IRS says. The funds can be accessed on Jan. 1 of the year in which the child turns 18."
So many questions.

#ableg #cdnpoli #WonderValleyAlberta

Imagine that! Hiring a DOCTOR to oversee the healthcare system! 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg

#ABLeg

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