What is the source for 10% of Canadians? Not saying its not true, just seems like a wildly high number considering how many people listen to podcasts in general.
That data is 5 years old, and it says 8 per cent. Some twitter users have cited 11 per cent, but I don't know how credible they are.
These more recent stats say 48 per cent of Canadians listen to podcasts regularly (at least monthly), so I don't find it that far-fetched that the most popular podcast in the country by far hits 10 per cent.
It's possible, but I'm not so sure about that. I think the majority of the hardcore separatists who are dead set on leaving rushed out during those first two weeks to sign it. But since then all I've been hearing from friends & family in Calgary, as well as here on CP is that every time they walk or drive by these idiots, there's hardly anyone there. Just a bunch of old white dudes sitting around in lawn chairs. They still have another month, so I guess we'll find out soon enough. But I'm not yet convinced that they'll hit the threshold.
Yeah, I've seen some yeehadi booths around the city... but never anyone actually signing anything at them.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure they'll get the required number of signatures... maybe not valid signatures thou. Those people will submit enough... even if they have to stay up all night on May 2nd filling in page after page with fake names and fake phone numbers. Their ego's won't allow them to take the L if they fall short and they do not in any way strike me as folk who object to cheating or fraud.
That includes queries on issues as far-ranging as potential social media “influencer partnerships,” contracts, health-care severance payments, workplace harassment and the cost of taxpayer-supported trips for high-level staff.
But with changes to procedural rules, the last of which took effect last week, those questions could languish on the government’s to-do list for years.
Previously, the government had 15 sitting days to accept or reject written questions, and then 30 sitting days of the legislature, once accepted, to respond.
The new rules extend that response deadline to 120 sitting days. And, when they’re rejected, they’re no longer debatable.
There are only 54 such days scheduled this calendar year, and the provincial general election is scheduled for October 2027.
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Guthrie said he believes the rule changes were made in direct response to his 18 written inquiries, noting that on the first day they could have been addressed last December, the government abruptly shut down the business of the house.
“These are very highly sensitive questions and the public has a right to know,” he said.
“This government has changed the law twice and overruled a court decision in record time to support a separatist referendum, but when half a million Albertans sign a pro-Canada petition, they won’t even bring it forward for discussion. “The Alberta NDP MLAs on the committee tasked with reviewing the Forever Canadian petition wrote to the UCP Chair of the committee, MLA Brandon Lunty, urging them to convene before March 24 so it could report back to the Legislature before the session ends in May. Ten days later, we still have no response.”
Why is this allowed? @calgarygeologist
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The rollout of recovery centres vital to the Alberta government’s controversial approach to lessening drug addiction and overdoses has hit a roadblock.
A legal dispute between a contractor and Sam Mraiche, the Edmonton multimillionaire at the centre of an ongoing scandal involving Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party, has stopped work on one of three provincially funded addiction recovery centres and is threatening a work stoppage at a second.
Subcontractors, who have not been paid for months, are blaming the government of Premier Danielle Smith for first failing to provide oversight on more than $100 million of taxpayers’ money and then failing to help resolve the impasse as they struggle to survive.
“This will probably bankrupt us if I don’t get paid,” said one Edmonton subcontractor who hasn’t been paid in more than two months. “I’m about a million dollars out so that is a pretty heavy hit.”
Why does this guy's name keep coming up whenever their is #####ery going on with government healthcare contracts? Does he have piss tapes or something? What is his leverage?
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Why does this guy's name keep coming up whenever their is #####ery going on with government healthcare contracts? Does he have piss tapes or something? What is his leverage?
Look at Smiths last leadership review, he has money AND bring in votes for Smith.
Another big win for transparency and accountability.
People really need to start getting more focused and mad at these steps.
In isolation, each step is pretty terrible for a government to take and should anger pretty much everyone unless they are directly in on the grift.
In combination, these steps to restrict our ability to request information about the government and now eliminate the ability of our representatives to ask questions of the sitting government are straight out of the authoritarian playbook. They are hiding what they are doing and by the time there is an election they will be shredding all of the information that might put them in legal or criminal trouble.
Morons who support the UCP might cheer these steps on while the UCP are performing them but if/when the NDP form government they will be equally furious that the NDP does not have to answer to the people or the MLAs that represent them. (They just are not smart enough to think that many moves into the future.)
This is actually where I would like to see a heavy handed Federal government pass some laws that apply to all levels of government to force transparency, accountability, ethics, anti-bribery, and generally clamping down on the illegal actions of our elected officials at all levels of government. There should be no path for a province or city government to deviate away from these things as the UCP has done so blatantly in Alberta.
People keep falling for all of the culture war distractions that the UCP is lobbing out there to make it hard for people to see the really dangerous steps they are taking in the class war. They are stealing our money, consolidating power, supporting separatists who are flirting with one of the most dangerous governments in the world, and flooding the field so that the average person cannot keep up with what is going on.
Nenshi speaking on how bad the UCP is - twice the corruption with none of the competence.
Nenshi throwing Smith's words in her own face - this clip is amazing!
Nenshi on the latest corrupt care update & summary:
I would recommend following Nenshi and the NDP as it seems the algorithms are pushing down their content and getting more subscribers and views would help promote them.
