My dad wouldn’t let me play hockey bc he said I’d become a lesbian.
My Grandpa took me to pick out skates, taught me how to tape a stick, & drank black coffee in cold arenas at my early morning practices.
Happy Father’s Day, Grandpa Keith—& to all the men like you.
Wait. If Bill and Melinda Gates split up... who controls our vaccine microchips? Will we spend some weekends with Bill and some with Melinda? Do we get a say? Is this our fault? 🥺
To anyone in Alberta currently considering moving elsewhere after the election of Danielle Smith:
I can’t tell you not to move. I can’t tell you not to do what’s best for you, your family, your safety, your livelihood, or all of the above—because I moved away from Alberta.
I’m not even trying to be a cunt rn but men need friends so badly. I actually feel so sad for them sometimes fr like y’all need to starting bonding over coffee or a walk or dinner instead of by attempting to overthrow governments and terrorizing cities😭
I’m 34 years old, and I have lived in Canada my whole life.
The freedom convoy was the first and only time in my life where I truly felt proud to be Canadian. It was the only time I had ever seen that kind of unity and purpose in the country - and it wasn’t for something dumb
Hi I need to know how many Canadians blew their CERB on blow bc I dunno if I’m just not good w/ money but I never went full wolf of wall street–I barely covered rent/groceries.
Y’all acting like 2k turned us into Tony Montana when really we were just praying we could pay Telus.
Alright LGBTQIA2S+ friends, Grandpa Keith is our grandpa now. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👨🏻🦳💖
This is him & my grandma. Between the two of them they had 80+ years sobriety & their door was always open to anyone suffering or struggling w/ addiction to have a coffee and a cigarette.
Literal angels. I
To the ppl saying “Men Going Their Own Way” isn’t Canadian—yes it is.
🇨🇦 has one of the most active online incel/alt-right populations in the world.
And it’s gonna get ugly fast as they feel safer expressing these sentiments IRL thanks to men like
@PierrePoilievre
.
#MGTOW
Anyways. I've been banned from TikTok until the 19th for "cyberbullying" the UCP.
Which feels more like an unlocked achievement than a punishment tbh, I've been at this for a year now.
Quit saying "this isn't my Calgary/Alberta etc."
Yes, it is. This is us. This is our reality.
This is what decade's of conservative govts, cuts to education, & a resource dependent economy looks like when it all begins to crumble.
We did this, in OUR action/inaction.
#Ableg
Things that *are* communism:
• Common ownership of the means of production
• Absence of social classes
Things that are *not* communism:
• CERB
• UBI
• Vaccine passports
• Face masks
• COVID-19 lockdowns
• Justin Trudeau
• Rachel Notley
• Jason Kenney
• Liberals
• NDP
Criminalize alcohol for a while.
My bet is once privileged white folks don't have a safe supply of Chardonnay, they will understand & fight for the decriminalization of drugs pretty damn quick.
Alcohol isn't "safe". It's legal.
My 2021 offer to Michelle Remple: Resign, go live happily ever after w/ your husband & step-children in Oklahoma🇺🇸. I'll run in your riding on the promise to actually *care* about the people in Calgary Nose Hill, not just begrudgingly represent them.
#ableg
#abpoli
#yyc
#cdnpoli
Unpopular(?) take check:
If you see someone stealing groceries, infant formula/diapers in Alberta during these times...
No you didn't. No you absolutely did not.
⭐ Just a quick reminder that being anti-intellectual is a key pillar of fascist ideology.
“Whenever fascism threatens, its representatives and facilitators denounce universities and schools as sources of
"Marxist indoctrination," the classic bogeyman of fascist politics.
The beauty of the new right is that we don't care about your credentials. We mock them. They are given to you by corrupt little propaganda machines. They mean nothing and we don't respect them. Your experts are just shills for the current thing.
When I was little I thought “Dad’s Cookies” 🍪 were called ‘Grandpa’s Cookies’ bc he always had one with his coffee & was the only one who really ate them and the first time someone called them “Dad’s Cookies” I was like …well, you’re wrong. And they are still wrong idc 😭
🏳️🌈 🤴🏻29 years ago today, we lost Freddie Mercury to a pandemic.
Around that time, Jason Kenney petitioned to overturn a spousal law that permitted same-sex partners to visit their loved ones dying in hospitals.
#COVIDAB
isnt
@jkenney
's 1st heartless pandemic response.
#Ableg
💔
Corb Lund: hey uh howdy sorry usually I dont get involved politically but seems like exploding the Rocky Mountains for coal & ruining our drinking water sounds like a pretty bad idea pls dont do that.
Paul Brandt: -18 months into a pandemic-…..🥴sHoUld I GeT vAcCinAtEd gUyS?
My mom just told me that as a single mom of 5, camping was 1 of the few things she could afford to do with all of us.
Camping was our treasured family vacation.
The ⬆️ in fees might be affordable to some, but they would've robbed me of my best childhood memories.
#AbLeg
Danielle Smith’s worried about “second-hand crystal meth smoke” when the province is literally suffocating from climate crisis related wildfire smoke.
Guess it’s easier to demonize vulnerable/unhoused folks in Alberta than oil & gas giants.
#Abdebate
#ableg
#abwildfires
Sick to death of the narrative that poor ppl shouldn’t have nice things. Like a phone. Or a meal in a restaurant.
No. Billionaires shouldn’t have multiple homes & cars & yachts. Start there w/ the demonization & then maybe eventually we can all have a few nice things.
What if, & hear me out, we get on Tinder & find the men in Alberta holding fish in their profile pics. We fill them in re. open pit coal mining/what it does to our lakes/rivers/fishing.
See how fast they get politically involved.
#AbLeg
#NoToCoalAlberta
#CowboysAgainstCoal
Just a friendly reminder that Rebel News is a piece of shit far-right piss rag and a threat to our democracy. *No one* owes them answers, nor should they dignify them with a response. Thx.
#cdnpoli
I will say this. The
@UCPCaucus
has freed me from crippling imposter syndrome.
Whenever I feel like I'm not worthy, qualified, or good enough; I pause and reflect upon this ragtag team of bush league pissants.
And in those moments, I feel unstoppable.
#ableg
Thank you
@JustinTrudeau
.
@TheRealKeean
just stay there bro. We don't want you back. Take the red hat out of your carry-on bag and join in with your fellow incels and terrorists. You f*cking loser.
#AbLeg
Anyone else have a panicked gut feeling it’s gonna get bad, like even worse, very quickly now in Canada?
Conservatives/Republicans have been incrementally putting the pieces in all the right places for years, & it feels like we’re on the verge of hearing “checkmate”.
Ppl who take medical advice from Joe Rogan and call themselves free thinkers aren't wrong.🤷♀️
They really are free from thinking. Fully incapable of forming coherent thoughts.
Friendly reminder to Albertans (who are also Canadians):
We've never had access to the federal
#covidalertapp
If
@jkenney
truly cared about "protecting lives and livelihoods", he'd equip us with every tool possible.
Especially if it was I dunno, let's say, *free*.
#AbLeg
We got here from cuts to education, healthcare, and social support systems. We got here from failing to prioritize the community over the individual—building bigger houses with bigger fences to keep our suffering neighbors out. We got here from failing to understand their
I’m starting to get this sneaky feeling that maybe my anxiety/depression isn’t a shortcoming of my brain’s ability to make chemicals & instead a perfectly sensible/appropriate response to all the pain & suffering around us as we stand on the brink of societal/ecological collapse?
Alberta acting like they don’t have a contact tracing app please it’s called Google Maps. If the blue dot shows you’re in Alberta, you have likely been in contact with someone who has COVID-19.
You should get vaccinated, wear a mask, & stay home when possible.
#COVID19AB
Happy Sunday to all the deranged
#ableg
lefties who value things like healthcare workers, teachers, clean drinking water, the Rocky Mountains, modern-day curriculum, minority rights, human lives, etc.
Hope you have super radical day.😃
Sending strength, solidarity, & love to those in Canada counter-protesting the bigots terrorizing marginalized communities, children, & educators.
Whether it's your first time attending a protest or your 100th—your presence is powerful.
📢 Get LOUD!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👩🏫💖
#MillionMarchCanada
Perhaps there should be a mechanism within municipal politics that allows for the removal of a city councillor who sexually assaulted a child & proceeded to terrorize her for her entire adult life when the sitting govt won't bc the layers of corruption implicate many of them.
In fairness, I don't believe(?) any other leader in the world has modeled their COVID-19 reopening plan around a crowded 10 day drinking binge. So. Too bad there's no evidence or any way at all to just instinctively know a full capacity Stampede is a very bad idea I guess.
Just a reminder that Jason Kenney is what happens when *we* treat democracy as a given & not as a delicate system that requires our vigilance & active participation.
He isn't a one-off—something to just vote away in 2023.
A (healthy) democracy requires a lifetime of *our* care.
Does it annoy you that not only is this untrue (fabricated out of insecurity in an attempt to demean me/glorify yourself)—but that my casual shit posts to/about/in response to you *consistently* outperform the content you’re paid 100k+ to produce?
Bc I think it does.
🙃
#abpoli
Just walked down Stephen Ave
#YYC
, and many of the bars looked completely full.
So nice to see so many young business professionals who definitely live together enjoying happy hour on a Friday night. 🍻
#ableg
Think your taxes are high in Alberta?
Wait until the O&G industry packs up & leaves the province with $60+ billion in tailings pond clean-up costs and dramatically increased hospitalizations due to contamination/cancer.
...
#Abpoli
, am I to understand that
@jkenney
is missing (again) as the pandemic spirals out of control (again), kids are heading back to school, the provinces around you are on fire, & all you have from your "leader" is a bizarre/offensive pre-recorded Happy Ukranian Day msg?
It’s not “this product is environmentally friendly🙂” it’s “do I *need* this? Can I repair what I already have? Can I borrow from someone? Can I buy it secondhand?”
Consumerism in the global north isn’t sustainable & we don’t talk about that enough re. the
#ClimateEmergency
Maybe if Trudeau took his job seriously, which he doesn't, he could set up a task force to hunt down the arsonists responsible for lighting the Northwest Territories on fire.
This just in from my mom… she’s saying y’all had to sing “God Save the Queen” at school in Canada when you were kids? True or false? Lyrics are giving cult.
Quick! Frame it as a drinking problem so all the bleeding heart progressives will do thoughts and prayers for Devin instead of pressing further on all the sexual/workplace harassment stuff.
People don't respect the rules because people don't respect YOU and your spineless approach to managing this pandemic
@jkenney
. They believe "this is pretty much over" because you've done tragically little to convince them otherwise.
You are completely responsible for this.
🥹I just had my best day ever.
It started with yelling “Fuck you Ted Cruz, you climate denying piece of shit!” and ended with my prof using my paper titled “Alberta’s Tar Sands: A Crime Against Humanity” as the example of what an “A” looks like for the entire class.
😭🙏
Am I correct in understanding that these park fee increases will generate $20M/year?
Hear me out.
Defund the War Room instead ($30M/year), and cut some cheques with the extra $10M, for families that have never had enough money to see our beautiful province. 🏔🛶🏕
#AbLeg
Whatever brand of Christianity GraceLife Church/MAGA/Prosperity Gospel/Far-right evangelical Christians practice is one of the most perverse, extreme, and dangerous practices the world faces in 2021.
Change my mind.
Hey Alberta, whatcha guys doing today? Me, oh u know, the usual. Just collected my 2k so i'll be rippin' lines of Cheeto dust and watchin cartoons all day. CERB = Cheetos And Rails Baby! God bless this funny money.
#ableg
#abpoli
#CERB
Reminder: It’s okay to *not* thank fascists for their “leadership”.
The role of premier is not that of a volunteer.
Their time, effort, contributions, etc. are completely compensated for. Handsomely.
You do not owe Kenney anything.
He has already taken far too much.😔
Can the ambiguous doctor that saw Niki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s swollen balls and Paul Brandt please refrain from giving any medical advice for the time being? Maybe take some time off? We’re just dealing with a lot here rn. Thanks!
Y’all more upset about this painting being “destroyed” (it wasn’t—it’s protected by glass & the paint is washable) than the *actual landscapes* Tom Thomson painted & cherished—which are being destroyed by the climate crisis lol. Get an actual grip & redirect your rage.
Cant believe many of us are losing followers for tweeting about residential schools/on-going genocide.
If ur loyalty lies with the polite/whitewashed/fake version of so called Canada (a made-up border of land), over *human beings*—something is very sincerely fcking wrong w/ you.
Too often environmentalism is associated with femininity, so I just wanna say that seeing men with reusable shopping/produce bags at the grocery store is hot af.🥵
💚🌏
#ClimateAction
#EcoGenderGap
How is anyone still a Hinshaw sympathizer at this point? 🤯
She's 100% complicit, and arguably bound to a higher degree of ethics than the rest of them.
Does it just make ppl comfortable to believe that she *wants* to do the right thing? She's had her chance(s).
#COVID19AB
We are currently investigating a significant
#COVID19AB
outbreak in Alberta involving P.1 variants of concern (the variant that originated in Brazil), linked to a returning traveller. (1/4)
Hi, I haven't lived in Alberta my whole life but, um, is it normal for your premiers to go missing on the regular? Because this is the 2nd time in like 2 months that we lost
@jkenney
.
#whereskenney
#AbLeg
Alberta's extremely lucky that
@jkenney
lacks even a shred of charisma, is not at all likable or even remotely relatable. Authoritarian to his core, without the ability to lead or command respect. A fascist without a following.
It may not feel like luck now, but it will in 2023.
Literally just go home then? Like? Y’all don’t have gas money since the GoFundMe grift fell through or what?
This isn’t how a democracy works, you fascist fcking losers.
#FluTruxKlanGoHome
Ugh. I need to go get groceries.. Should I just book a
@WestJet
flight and get room service in a villa in Santorini🇬🇷 instead? I know it's lazy, but I just want to be ✨safe✨ and support small international airplane business. ✈️
#ableg
#COVID19AB
Millennials/GenZ—do you give af about what our debt will be in 2050+ so long as we are investing literally whatever it takes rn to mitigate the climate crisis so we have a habitable planet? Like? The debt will be our burden, half these mfs crying about debt will be dead by then.
I love it. This middle-aged regressive Canadian is fcking Doug Ford's director of media relations & wants to pretend its not a conflict of interest. To spread his message he uses the Toronto Sun, a tabloid that many others call garbage propaganda due to it's ties to Postmedia.
I love it. This young progressive Canadian doesn't like my employer & wants everyone to boycott Postmedia. To spread her message she uses TikTok, a platform that Amazon, the Indian government & many others call a security threat due to their ties to the Communist Party of China.
Will be interesting to see if
@jkenney
comes to the defense of the Terry Fox statue, or if he saves his bronze outrage solely for the defaced statues of violently racist old white men. 👀
If Canada imposed a strict and total lockdown rn, we could be day-drinking without masks at the Calgary Stampede in 5 months.🤠🍻
#COVIDzero
#COVIDAB
#AbLeg
Wanna piss off the War Room aka
@CDNEnergyCentre
?
•Head over to Netflix & give the movie "Bigfoot Family" a thumbs up👍
*Extra points:
•Hit "Share" & select "Copy link".
This will signal the Netflix algorithm to recommend it to a broader audience.
Pls RT/share✌🏼
#AbLeg
One of my favourite things about men in positions of power writing us off as "just a bartender", is that ur the same men trippin over urselves, writing ur # on a napkin for us, & flipping ur phone over on the bar when ur wife calls.
The stories we could tell.
& Maybe we should.
Sending love to everyone that lost a family member/friend to misinformation and conspiracies this year. Heartbreaking stuff.
If you’re reading this Dad, I hope you decide to get vaccinated in the new year. I still love you.
Alberta this isn't normal, it's scary.
We are being blocked by our elected officials AND our police, just for holding oppositional views. This isn't right.
Sure,
#DefundThePolice
IS a controversial thing to say, but I still pay you all with my taxes rn.
#ableg
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
Sending so much love to Alberta tonight.😭
As I scroll through my feed & read your tweets, my heart breaks with the heaviness and helplessness of it all.💔
I truly don’t know what to say. No words match the magnitude. No take is hot enough. I’m so sorry. I love you all.