John Roggeveen @AbJrogg Twitter profile

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

1 year

I wonder if the citizens of Edmonton or the NDP MLAs from Edmonton might have class action against Premier based on the tort of abuse of public office, for intentionally disregarding the legally elected representatives. See: Shuchuk v. Wolfert, 2001 ABQB 937, at para. 20. 🤔

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7 months

Premier Smith on health care: "I inherited a lot of problems." 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 From whom, you might ask?

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@AbJrogg

9 months

Today, Albertans turned their clocks back an hour. The UCP is looking to turn them back 50 years.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

So, #Alberta : Premier Smith and her UCP do a massive reorganization of health care which is bound to cause chaos. Then Premier talks tough and demands results or threatens management cuts after the system is set up to fail. It's a plan. You're the marks.

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11 months

I am furious at the harm caused to children. The E. coli breakout was a preventable tragedy resulting from a systemic failure. The government is responsible for that system & must take action to fix it. My full statement below. #ableg #abhealth #abed

Statement on the E. Coli outbreak at Calgary Childcare Facilities

www.albertaliberal.com

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@AbJrogg

4 months

@ABDanielleSmith This isn't about cities competing with cities. This is about cities trying to cope with strangulation by the provincial govt. You offload responsibilities onto the municipalities, then tie their hands on dealing with them. #ableg #abpoli

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@ghostofcoals Apparently not so much if you're a defeated UCP candidate. 😉

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@AbJrogg

2 years

The UCP government's failure to re-index AISH, while income tax credits are re-indexed, is unconscionable. Shame on @JasonNixonAB and @UCPCaucus . #heartless #AbLeg #Alberta #ABgovt #ABpoli

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1 month

@DonBraid This is just as feckless as your column before the update. Was WestJet lying about what the union said or is the union acting in bad faith. It's one or the other. Which is it? A good reporter would find out. Instead you smear the feds. Pathetic.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

There is no room for "differences of opinion" on the existence of climate change. It is real. It is an existential threat. Action must be taken. @jkenney and the @UCPCaucus must denounce this stance taken by their federal counterparts. #Ableg #Abpoli

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

3 years

It is an honour to serve Albertans and to serve the Alberta Liberal Party. Good policies are one of the strengths of our party but good organization will be the foundation for our success. My focus will be on building that strength. #Ableg #Abpoli

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@ShadoeDavis I don't live in Edmonton any more. Nor am I an NDP supporter. But Edmontonians are Albertans. And they make their democratic choices.

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4 months

@UCPCaucus Well, since the Supreme Court of Canada has already said the carbon tax is constitutional, a motion challenging it would appear to be stupid. So I'm with the NDP on that one.

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@LaurieB10895619 Isn't the point of the legal system to set boundaries against inappropriate behavior?

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@AbJrogg

1 year

Smith's "Council of the Defeated" is a bizarre and self-serving idea. This unelected group is a slap in the face to Edmonton. But she is reacting to a real problem created by our electoral system. It leaves too many Albertans without a representative &deepens regional divides.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

6 months

@AlbertaParty The Alberta Liberals agree. Children aren't property. Parents don't own them. Children who won't confide in their parents probably have a reason for not confiding in them. We shouldn't be turning teachers into the Gestapo.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

7 months

The Alberta Liberals join many Albertans in thanking Rachel Notley for her years of dedicated service to her party, to her constituents and to all Albertans during her time as Premier and as a member of the #Alberta Legislature. #ableg #abpoli

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@AbJrogg

4 months

@ctvqp @ABDanielleSmith Clearly our Premier has no idea about economics. U of C should be ashamed of giving her an economics degree.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

Too bad there's no battery backup, #Alberta . Why is that @ABDanielleSmith ?

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7 months

High power demand due to extreme cold, two large natural gas generator outages, and very low renewable power on the system have prompted the AESO to declare a Grid Alert. Find information on Grid Alerts here

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2 months

@sunrickbell @calgaryherald Like all Calgarians, we need answers, but blaming the current mayor for this calamity is ridiculous unless she single-handedly stopped city engineers from doing maintenance and system surveillance. That's highly unlikely.

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@AbJrogg

2 months

@FreeAlbertaRob It's clear you and the Premier don't know how the Constitution works.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

@Gerry39464526 🙄 Conservatives in Alberta always blame the other guys, who haven't been in power for decades, like they have. It's so tiresome.

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@AbJrogg

1 month

@TheBreakdownAB How many Premier's Chiefs of Staff would that amount to?

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@AbJrogg

7 months

@Scribulatora Alberta specifically requested federal assistance.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

The @CDNEnergycentre is out of control. It makes #Alberta look petty and vindictive. But shutting it down isn't enough. CBC News: Incorporation of Alberta's energy war room means much of its operations remain secret

Incorporation of Alberta's energy war room means much of its operations remain secret | CBC News

The Alberta government’s decision to incorporate the Canadian Energy Centre means much of its operations will remain secret and not be subject to freedom-of-information legislation.

www.cbc.ca

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

2 months

It must be disappointing for long term NDPers to see someone who was never a member take over. Kind of makes working within the party, and doing the heavy lifting pretty worthless. #ableg #abpoli

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@AbJrogg

7 months

@MargTokar @Alberta_UCP @MargTokar don't you know that "owning the Liberals" is the prime objective? Even if it means the UCP shot off their own foot. Should be an investigation into why those gas plants shut down when we need them most.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

3 years

@jkenney There was no mention of a "fair deal" in the question. The question asked whether the voter was in favour of removing "the principle of equalization" from the Constitution. Could voting "yes" to that be more selfish? 🙄

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@AbJrogg

3 years

Time & tax $ were wasted by @jkenney on this inevitable result. Fighting carbon pricing was a political stunt. The time for mock challenges, war rooms, & sham inquiries is over. This gov't must stop spinning stories & start serving Alberta. #Ableg #Abpoli

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@AbJrogg

24 days

@drdagly @TheBreakdownAB Shouldn't the College of Physicians and Surgeons apply for an injunction?

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@jmask @globalnews Far right. Don't be fooled by the name.

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@AbJrogg

4 months

@TheBreakdownAB Clearly Smith doesn't believe in academic sovereignty.

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@MichelletypoQ @newsmanbluesman Crisis creation and management is part of the game for Libertarians. Started in Alberta during the Klein era. It's a way to transfer public assets to private control and, eventually, ownership. Sometimes the transfer goes straight to ownership.

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@AbJrogg

2 months

#Alberta 's citizens going to foot the bill for projects the banks won't touch. So much for Klein's idea that govt shouldn't be in the business of business. Now we're going to be in the business of risky business. #abpoli #ableg

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2 months

Today @CalgaryChamber , Smith plans to use the Heritage Savings Fund for "de risking projects" that businesses are "finding difficult to be able to get financing". She can't keep her hands off the Heritage Fund, she won't be able to keep her hands off an Alberta Pension Fund.

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7 months

@scampycaaz Puleeze! The problems existed before the NDP and the UCP already had a full 4 years to fix it before the last election. I'm no NDP supporter, but the UCP can't lay the blame on them.

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@ABDanielleSmith @MikeDunleavyGov Clearly you flunked geography. Are you bringing back the Idaho-Alberta Transboundary Task Force too?

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@ABDanielleSmith @JustinTrudeau How about you listen to the voices of Albertans and scrap the APP and the provincial police initiative, and give Albertans the tax cut you promised???

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@Not_ThatKaren This is very troubling. Moving toward "fend for yourself". Not a caring or compassionate approach. On what basis was the decision taken?

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@Rodzillaattack I think saying you'll appoint your failed candidates to speak for people who elected someone else implies you aren't going to listen to the ones who were elected.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

@BarbLarochelle @DevinShat Who plans "regular maintenance" when demand is likely to be highest? Something smells off.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

1 year

Edmonton MLAs will try to be representatives to all but partisan obligations/different views will make that difficult. The 37% of Edmontonians, and those who only voted NDP strategically, deserve better. We need proportional representation, not a Council of the Defeated.

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@AbJrogg

6 months

@youseepeeYYC @politicalham @ABDanielleSmith Not incompetent, malevolent.

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1 year

@WBrettWilson @JustinTrudeau What's your explanation for the apparent escalation in pyromaniacs in Alberta? The real question is whether climate change made the fires more extreme than normal, isn't it?

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@molszyns The Alberta govt managing oil well clean up? Brian Jean is joking, right?

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@AbJrogg

8 months

. @BarryESharp Here's the answer to the critical question. Not everyone with COVID dies, but you are much more likely to die if not vaccinated. It's still your choice.

Dr🌸HappyVibes🌸MD

@DrNice2022

8 months

This is on a logarithmic scale to emphasize the very real differences. Overall, unvaccinated are 6x more likely TO DIE from COVID in October 2023. The effect is even bigger in age 50+. Vaccination IS VERY EFFECTIVE.

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@AbJrogg

6 months

Premier of Alberta, who doesn't use her given first name..... #irony

Alberta to restrict access to transgender medical care for youth, require parents’ consent for name...

Advocacy groups are preparing to challenge the proposed changes, which would be the most restrictive in the country regarding gender, sexuality and identity

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@ryanschatz @FeralChristineB @Conservative_BC What you've heard from your brother's wife's second cousin twice removed doesn't count as science.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

2 years

@gindaanis @Feisty_Waters We will never cure racism with alt-racism.

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@AbJrogg

3 months

@Martyupnorth_2 The important stat they don't give you is whether the people who died were or weren't vaccinated. 3 deaths out of every 100 confirmed cases isn't miniscule.

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@AbJrogg

27 days

@TheBreakdownAB Conservatives have intimidated Liberals in Alberta, especially in employment situations. Have seen people sever political involvement due to harassment on the job.

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@AbJrogg

11 months

@DuaneBratt This is why we need proportional representation. It will usually mean no govt is protected from being thrown out over such a scandal. In Ontario, Ford has years to ride out the storm. #PropRep #abpoi #canpoli

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@AbJrogg

4 months

@marco_huigenbos @ABDanielleSmith Now you know what it's like to fend for yourself, which is exactly where Alberta is headed under Premier Smith and the UCP.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

10 months

@TheRealDKGray Kevin Taft tried to reverse the privatization of utilities. Elections have consequences.

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@TheBreakdownAB That's very troubling coming from the Minister of Justice. If he actually said it, it sounds like an invitation for a defamation claim. Unlike the Premier's threatened one against the CBC.

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@AbJrogg

3 months

@Albertadoctors I understand your concern, but why not go directly to the feds? You have more credibility than Premier Smith.

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@AbJrogg

8 months

@barbetta1 @PaulDoroshenko @themtgwhisperer That's because as hominem attacks work. They used them to beat Hillary Clinton. Benghazi ad nauseum. They're using them on Trudeau. They have no substance, so they go after the person.

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@AbJrogg

17 days

@WiedmanDylan @TheBreakdownAB She avoided the main question, which was whether the govt would roll out support right away. Offered up linguistic coleslaw instead. Dani double speak.

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@AbJrogg

1 month

@DonBraid Feckless. Either what WestJet is reported (by you) to have said (about the union agreeing) was false or the union failed to act in good faith. One or the other of them failed to act ethically (regardless of their legal rights). Which one, Don? This isn't the feds' fault.

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@AbJrogg

10 months

@DrJaredWesley Yeah, not so long ago they axed former conservative minister @dkennedyglans from the Banff Centre board.

Banff Centre vice-chair Donna Kennedy-Glans removed from board

The Minister of Advanced Education rescinded the appointment of Donna Kennedy-Glans last week at the request of Banff Centre’s leadership

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@AbJrogg

5 months

@DonBraid That's on purpose. To disguise their tax and blame all of it in the feds. Their base won't bother to do the research.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

#Alberta needs to outlaw the establishment of private corporations, run by government ministers and funded by Albertans, but without any public scrutiny, like the @CDNEnergyCentre #ableg #ABpoli @ABLiberal

John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

3 years

The @CDNEnergycentre is out of control. It makes #Alberta look petty and vindictive. But shutting it down isn't enough. CBC News: Incorporation of Alberta's energy war room means much of its operations remain secret

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1 year

@WBrettWilson Like you're the poster child for thoughtful dialogue. Lol.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

As foolish as anti-vaxxers blocking healthcare workers from hospitals, a self-righteous trucker mob is hurting #Alberta 's beef producers by blocking the #Coutts border crossing. Protest all you want, but let vaxxed truckers do their jobs. #GetVaccinated #abpoli

Canadian Meat Council

@CMCCVC

3 years

There are over 150 loads of Canadian Beef stuck at the #coutts border. Our members are going to have to slow down production if this keeps up. What is the government’s approach to fix this?

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@RajanJSaw Promoting special opportunities for those that can afford it (subsidized by public funding) doesn't support opportunities for all our young people. We need to step up funding for public education in Alberta and stop promoting private alternatives.

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@GladyceBSmith @ghostofcoals Hypocrisy comes easily to the UCP.

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24 days

@TheBreakdownAB I often feel I'm shouting into the wind. How about you?

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6 months

@TheBreakdownAB Seems like it's contrary to the Alberta Human Rights Act. Discrimination on the basis of age.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

The UCP half-measures will keep Alberta in a perpetual COVID-19 Groundhog Day. An enforced circuit breaker shutdown is the only way to overcome this virulent, potentially lethal threat. #Ableg #Abpoli #COVID19AB

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4 months

@rhyscourtman @TheBreakdownAB "My way or the highway" Premier says "respect is a 2-way street". Hypocrite.

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@AbJrogg

3 months

@TheBreakdownAB Appalling lack of trust in women. We need to trust women to make their own health care and family planning decisions.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

Remember the #Alberta government bought $80 Million worth of bogus Tylenol.

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@AndrewKnack

7 months

A few thoughts from Minister @JasonNixonAB ’s press conference earlier today. Let’s start with the great news: there will be $10 million dollars to 87 housing providers throughout the province will help with utilities, staffing, supplies and other operating costs. #ableg #abpoli

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1 year

@ABCyyc @_mamay_47 @DrJayDrNo Hey, I ran and was defeated in Calgary. Can I get on the Council too? 😉

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@AbJrogg

2 years

It's time to remove all Russian products from our stores, starting with shipments of Russian vodka to our liquor stores, @AGLC .

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@AbJrogg

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@MargTokar @penner_connie @Alberta_UCP If you talked to people who were doing the training, you'd know the program was inadequate and full of inexperienced people. We didn't keep the experienced people on.

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@AbJrogg

2 months

@marlawd @univrsle People are hurting, particularly young people. They are looking for simple scapegoats rather than the big picture.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

The UCP has dragged its feet for over a year on the federal Contraventions Act that could help law enforcement go after #COVID19AB rule breakers. They must explain why they refuse to sign on. #Ableg #Abpoli

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@AbJrogg

3 years

Our thoughts are with our friends in British Columbia as they cope with the devastating impacts of unprecedented weather events. Canadians must work together to mitigate the effects of climate change. #bcfloods

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@AbJrogg

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@imashleymi @ShelbyVoting @KateBMwriting 2-step verification to get into one's email account often thwarts those who only have one email account. If it's an App it basically requires you to have two passwords. Workarounds are extremely cumbersome at best.

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4 months

@JMeddings Oh, there was thought alright: destroy AHS because it said people should get vaccinated. That was the thought. Just ask David Parker.

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@AbJrogg

11 months

@ShonnOborowsky Yes, poor supervision due to poor enforcement, if a failure to wash hands is found to be the culprit. Speaking of washing hands, you can bet the UCP will try to wash its hands of this.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

Ask not who @ABDanielleSmith is laughing at, #Alberta ; she's laughing at you. #ableg #abpoli

Catherine Griwkowsky

@CGriwkowsky

7 months

Several Provincial Parks Act orders in council came in late this afternoon. Are parties going to be dusting off the "Don't Go Breaking My Parks" "My Parks Will Go On" campaigns?

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@bhunter1955 Alberta's loss.

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@AbJrogg

9 months

Anyone else noticed that, now that registries are privatized for a long time in Alberta, the line ups for service are just about as bad as when the govt ran them?

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@AbJrogg

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@DieselYorkie1 That'll never happen. Come hell or low water. The Stampede board has enormous influence over civic politics in Calgary. They even seem to have had significant influence over the UCP. Remember Kenney's Greatest Summer Ever?

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@AbJrogg

2 months

@TheBreakdownAB @edmontonjournal I also don't think Marcus Aurelius spoke English.

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@AbJrogg

1 year

@SCLSecurity I hasten to point out I'm NOT an NDPer or an NDP supporter. And speaking of whining, how about that Poilievre guy from Calgary and his supporters in the federal scene?

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@AbJrogg

6 months

@TheBreakdownAB They are moving toward a provincial police force, whether Albertans want it or not.

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@AbJrogg

7 months

@TheRealDKGray @accessd @TheRealDKGray don't you know that "owning the Liberals" is the prime objective and has been for years? 😉 The truth doesn't matter to the far right agents provocateurs.

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@AbJrogg

10 months

@maxfawcett My bet is many of the TBA crowd have never left the province, so they don't have any idea how well off Albertans are.

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@AbJrogg

9 months

@MargTokar The motion is nonsensical. 15 minute cities are about being able to walk to all services, not being confined to a 15 minute radius of your home.

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@AbJrogg

4 months

@ShannonStubbsMP The transition is happening. The oil and gas jobs are declining. We can get on with transition or get stuck in stagnation. You are picking stagnation.

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@AbJrogg

8 months

@BarryESharp @drdagly @ItsPaulNeumann No, the entire problem was the government meddling in the decisions of those who were appointed to make health care decisions, something that MLAs in general know nothing about, Baz.

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@AbJrogg

3 years

In politics, we get overzealous in criticizing one another but accusing the opposition, federal government & media of cheering for a healthcare collapse is abhorrent. @KayceeMaduYEG refusing to apologize for it is reprehensible. #Ableg #Abpoli

Alberta Justice Minister claims feds, media and provincial NDP covet pandemic disaster

Alberta's justice minister and solicitor general is accusing conservative 'opponents' — a group he says includes the media, provincial NDP and the federal Liberals — of wanting Alberta's health care...

calgary.ctvnews.ca

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1 year

@CGriwkowsky @youseepeeYYC Pork barreling. Typical of the UCP. They talk small govt and fiscal responsibility, but it's only talk. They deliver big fat cabinets, payoffs to their caucus to keep them in line and are fiscally wasteful. Right @ABDanielleSmith ? #ableg #abpoli

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3 months

@ABDanielleSmith Funny, we currently lead in unemployment and inflation.

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1 month

@CaulfieldTim Seems to be a connection between bad grammar and conspiracy theories.

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@AbJrogg

2 years

Proud to be marching with #Lethbridge #Liberals in their Pride Parade and meeting with folks at the Pride in the Park. #HappyPride #yql !

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@AbJrogg

1 month

@Hudsonpapers @djillk1 They'll figure out some way to blame Liberals. They always do.

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John Roggeveen

@AbJrogg

3 years

Yesterday, the UCP released their Draft K-6 curriculum. It is deeply troubling. It is taking us backwards. #Ableg #Abpoli #abed #abeducation My full statement:

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@AbJrogg

2 years

@MBellefontaine As education and health care are clearly within provincial jurisdiction, Smith's example is a straw man. What any MLA *thinks* or what Smith "thinks" is irrelevant. As Premier Kenney (and Smith) should have learned with the "carbon tax" reference.

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