I bike a lot along 12th Ave SW. If they remove bike lanes, I’m literally just going to bike on the road and force all the cars to merge around me, which slows traffic down even more than if there was just a dedicated bike lane for me and a lane for cars.
But the big pickup truck the other day didn’t seem to understand the concept of a dedicated bike lane because he literally drove into it within inches of me and then stayed on the bike lane until the median opened up for him to merge back into the driving lane. So whatever.
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I don’t know if you’ve interacted with him much before but this is really his whole schtick, so unless you’re entertained by the interaction then all you’re doing is wasting your time.
Thanks for the heads up. I mentioned it to diss elsewhere but I am often oblivious to the posters and seldom keep track of their posting history (or account history).
For example, Reggie has swapped his avatars a few times recently and each time I got "who dat?" and then realize what happened.
FWIW I think there is so much scrutiny on the changes in Alberta Health right now, I find the likelihood that officials received bribes to be highly unlikely.
I've been following the transition for awhile, and I like what I see, to be honest.
I mean, the bribes are pretty much confirmed. The UCP changed the rules so they could accept bigger and bigger gifts and donations from corporations. Whether it is box seats to NHL playoff games or a multi-million dollar house for multiple MLAs to grift in... I mean live in. There is documentation already demonstrating a lot of corruption and bribery.
The entire COVID PPE scandal, turkish tylenol scandal, private surgical suite scandal (which led to the firing of the AHS CEO and Board to try and hide the scandal).... all of that is just in one ministry with lots of scrutiny on it. Education is just as bad as they are going to build schools and gift them to for-profit organizations that will not serve the public.
They have lost hundreds of millions of our dollars and given us nothing to show for it.
If paying more and getting less while someone is actively stealing from you is the kind of thing that makes you happy then I guess this is the government for you.
FWIW I think there is so much scrutiny on the changes in Alberta Health right now, I find the likelihood that officials received bribes to be highly unlikely.
I've been following the transition for awhile, and I like what I see, to be honest.
It's all bribes, everywhere. The amount of corruption happening everywhere in Canada with political players is on a different level but people can't seem to believe it. It's happening in every corner from all political parties.
WestCan Proton Therapy is the company that is making a $120 mil investment in a new cancer therapy center in Edmonton. Does not appear they even have a website and incorporated a few days before a big announcement in 2024. If you were making an investment of that size, wouldn't someone know who your business was? Why is this a new building being built when the Calgary Cancer center is already built and has the vaults ready to go, we just need the machines? Tougher to pull off the scam in a hospital setting.
The PPE scandal, Tylenol and more is the equivalent of you and I getting a $75 million contract to supply medical equipment and medication without us never really being in that business.
This goes on and on with the arena deal, all these transportation projects way over budget. The feds with all their BS every day. We got Transmountain pipeline built at 10-15x the budget cost. Nothing fishy going on I assume, Canada must just be that incompetent at building pipelines for oil.
Nobody in Canada gives a crap, we just shrug it off and don't pay attention when it's our political side.
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I posted a rumour that I had heard/read a while ago in response to another poster who could not fathom why the Alberta government would help a foreign owned coal mine that will harm Albertans and our environment.
The only reason that makes sense for the UCP help that mine is because they are getting kickbacks. They would happily screw over all Albertans if it would allow them to grift.
Perhaps you know of some good reasons for that mine to go ahead in spite of the harm to the region and, more specifically, the water shed that provides drinking water to so many people?
No. You haven’t actually posted the rumour. You know, the source.
I was really interested to read it. I ####ing hate government corruption. Multiple politicians receiving massive bribes is about as bad as it gets.
No. You haven’t actually posted the rumour. You know, the source.
I was really interested to read it. I ####ing hate government corruption. Multiple politicians receiving massive bribes is about as bad as it gets.
So just post your source so everyone can read it.
Oh, you want me to re-engage as if you are not a sealion? Okay.
If you want to read investigative journalism from people who are working hard to provide truth with evidence then go read the Tyee. T Y E E. I mentioned them before and you ignored it. Here is one of their relevant articles: Insiders and Influence: How Big Coal Lobbied the UCP Government
The headline is good but this catches my eye more: "A timeline shows the coal industry hired at least 14 former government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes."
However, if you want to watch/listen videos about UCP corruption then look no further than The Breakdown AB.
In my opinion, this video continues to be one of the best examples of fact based investigation and analysis of the UCP that anyone has done:
This one is a good follow up:
If you want more, watch everything the Breakdown has put out in the last year and send them money through a substack subscription to support the work they do to file FOIPs and gain information to share with the rest of us.
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Oh, you want me to re-engage as if you are not a sealion? Okay.
If you want to read investigative journalism from people who are working hard to provide truth with evidence then go read the Tyee. T Y E E. I mentioned them before and you ignored it. Here is one of their relevant articles: Insiders and Influence: How Big Coal Lobbied the UCP Government
The headline is good but this catches my eye more: "A timeline shows the coal industry hired at least 14 former government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes."
However, if you want to watch/listen videos about UCP corruption then look no further than The Breakdown AB.
In my opinion, this video continues to be one of the best examples of fact based investigation and analysis of the UCP that anyone has done:
This one is a good follow up:
If you want more, watch everything the Breakdown has put out in the last year and send them money through a substack subscription to support the work they do to file FOIPs and gain information to share with the rest of us.
I didn’t read anywhere in the first article about multiple UCP members accepting massive bribes. There is some lobbying information that you posted, but no massive bribes.
I didn’t watch videos, and I am not going to try and hunt down the information you claim is out here.
If you have information about these massive bribes, please post it or move on.
I didn’t read anywhere in the first article about multiple UCP members accepting massive bribes. There is some lobbying information that you posted, but no massive bribes.
I didn’t watch videos, and I am not going to try and hunt down the information you claim is out here.
If you have information about these massive bribes, please post it or move on.
14 UCP insiders were hired by the coal company to do the lobbying. Were they qualified for the jobs? No. But they were given a bunch of money to 'convince' the UCP to make it happen.
There are other articles too, but it is funny that you claim to care so much about this stuff but you cannot be bothered to go and hunt down the information.
Lazy sealion. Go watch the videos and learn something or move on.
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An old lady ahead of me at the thrift store this morning with a stack of books, talking to the cashier -
"I'm buying up these Margaret Atwood books. I heard the Premier wants to ban them in schools. I want to read them and see what they're trying to hide from us."
That's generally how these kinds of bans work. People become more curious about what's being discussed, the old Streisand effect.
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