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🎪 Danielle Smith's puppet municipal political party has launched in Calgary 👎

➡️https://www.projectcalgary.org/billionaires_first
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Alberta's "Compassionate Intervention" drug jails will be located near the existing Spyhill jail in Calgary and near the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.
Eighty-two companies have expressed interest in participating in the $180 million procurement process. 1/
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Alberta government reveals drug jail locations in procurement document
The Alberta government has issued a request for interested parties to participate in the procurement process for two forced abstinence detention facilities, to be located in northwest Calgary and nort...
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Reuters reporting that oil and gas producers in Alberta flared (i.e. burned off excess) natural gas to the tune of 912.7 million cubic metres in 2024.

By my math, that would emit about 1.8 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

Or roughly the equivalent of Alberta's entire cement industry.
Exclusive: Alberta blew past gas flaring ceiling in 2024 as province eliminates limit
Energy producers in Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, blew past the province's self-imposed limit on annual natural gas flaring in 2024 for a second year in a row, Reuters calculations show.
www.reuters.com
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And this is the woman who owns the company that wants to mine our eastern slopes.
Rinehart says net zero is "magic pudding," and only those who want to cut emissions should pay | RenewEconomy share.google/SQHcFaTYbfAX.... #Auspol Born into wealth, self entitled and Australia's richest women would rather destroy the planet than pay Taxes and help fight climate change.
Rinehart says net zero is “magic pudding,” and only those who want to cut emissions should pay
Australia’s richest person says net zero is a “magic pudding” and suggests only those wanting to cut emissions should pay for it.
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The Traffic Safety Team is stepping up enforcement this month to reduce vehicle noise and improve quality of life in neighbourhoods across the city. Drivers operating excessively loud or modified vehicles can expect increased monitoring and fines.
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Traffic Safety Team cracks down on noisy vehicles this summer
The City of Calgary’s Traffic Safety Team is stepping up enforcement this month to reduce vehicle noise and improve quality of life in neighbourhoods across the city. Drivers operating excessively lou...
newsroom.calgary.ca
Jeromy Farkas' campaign pledge to ban townhomes, row homes and duplexes citywide suggests that his last four years may have been less of a metamorphosis than advertised and more of a scripted political rebranding exercise.

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🤝Meet the new Farkas, same as the old Farkas
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💫 Great video of @jeromyyyc.bsky.social pointing out all the forms of housing he’s pledged to make illegal across Calgary.
🌿🛝Valleyview Park is one of my favourite places in the city because it’s a multi-use green space surrounded by lots of housing choices (townhomes, multifamily and detached homes) that work for every kind of Calgarian.
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🚨 The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, despite opposition from the majority of Albertans.

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The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies
www.projectalberta.org
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🧵 The chief of police resigns in Calgary two years before his contract ends, forfeiting >$500,000 in salary, and nobody asks any questions.

No news since Saturday, when 100% of stories were reprints of police-friendly public statements.

I have a few ideas about what might have happened. 1/
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I'm excited to finally drop this: After 20 years of bike commuting, a book, and a YouTube channel, I've compiled everything I've learned about urban cycling into a course to help people overcome the barriers to making the bike a bigger part of their lives.
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The Ultimate Guide to Bike Commuting and Urban Cycling
This course gives you all the knowledge you need to make the bike a bigger part of your daily life. Through engaging video lessons and expert advice from Tom Babin, learn how to confidently and safely...
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Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... Amery and Mraiche are long-time friends and related by marriage. And Amery is involved in the AHS scandal in several ways.
Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation
Mickey Amery told The Globe and Mail that he is a long-time friend of Sam Mraiche and ‘loosely related’ to him through marriage
www.theglobeandmail.com
Members of Danielle Smith's 🤑Billionaires First municipal political party that supported a massive arena subsidy announcement weeks before the last provincial election now oppose much needed funding for community infrastructure.

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⭐️ TAKE ACTION: Email Event Centre Committee Chair Sonya Sharp and all of Calgary city council to ask for transparency and accuracy on the arena deal funding.

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🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues.

Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
🤑 While the Sharp and the City are telling Calgarians that the Flames owners will contribute $356-million (38%) towards the arena over the course of the 35-year agreement, they will actually only be contributing as little as $170-million (18%).
💸 The arena deal even worse for taxpayers than advertised.

Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
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Danielle Smith from 3 years ago complaining about people contacting her boss to try to get her fired.

Oh the hypocrisy.
#ableg #abpoli
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Climate advocacy groups CAPE and For Our Kids are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robust climate change education.
Climate groups push for transparency in alleged fossil fuel education influence
Climate advocacy groups are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robus...
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The Billionaires First party has a record of advocating for subsiding wealthy elites while forcing harsh austerity on Calgarians.
💰 Arena subsidy
💰 Sprawl subsidies
💰 UCP Green Line interference

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🤑🛩️ Billionaires First
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💰 Millions in public tax dollars
❌ No community consultation
❌ No transparency
❌ No public benefit