Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[surferguy]

This numpty back up to his old tricks. He even puts his hands behind his back again to look like he is being arrested. What a ####ing loser.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1658216174696669185

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

What would this achieve? If Calgary is the battleground these are two issues that really don't matter to most Calgarians, there would not be much to be gained from this strategy.

I'm not in favor of this scale of privatization but the way you worded this made me think perhaps the intention is to turn the administration of facilities over to private business. That does not necessarily mean the delivery of health care will be privatized. Conceivably you can still provide public services inside a facility that is managed privately.

Sure you could, Conceivably. But that isn't wast she meant. Note the tone of her voice, she's trying to "slyly" talk around the laws, just like a freeman-on-the-land would.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1656335790622883841

"And I presented this to the health minister, and they did not act on it." Curious which health minister told her her ideas were bat #### crazy, and if it is also the current health minister.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Is this the second one? Wasn't one disqualified from a nomination?

Yes this is different candidate, not the one that was disqualified earlier.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by surferguy

This numpty back up to his old tricks. He even puts his hands behind his back again to look like he is being arrested. What a ####ing loser.

Totally OK these clownshoes mother####ers can still call themselves reporters and have a platform though, eh? Wouldn't want government to consider doing something about this.

[Izzle]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Is this the second one? Wasn't one disqualified from a nomination?

I think the first one had a weird spelling to Chelsea.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Like bloodwork, which has become atrocious since it was privatized.

Ya, but at least it is enriching a US corporation.

DynaLife is a Canadian private healthcare organization, headquartered in Edmonton, where it started as Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories (DKML) in the 1980s. It is partly owned by its American-based Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), who acquired Dynacare in 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynaLife

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

Yes this is different candidate, not the one that was disqualified earlier.

Thought so...

Torry Tanner said essentially the same thing...


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...kids-1.6796590

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

The Janet Brown result is weird, no question. Doubly so because the actual poll isn’t being released, other than as summarized in the Don Braid article. She apparently attributes the difference to “true random” telephone samples vs. online panels, which…. Doesn’t strike me as a particularly plausible explanation.

We won’t know who has this right until May 29th, but one other point is that there are always going to be outliers. Right now either Janet Brown or Abacus are going to look like outliers when all is said and done, unless further data shows some convergence later on.

Interestingly, her numbers are also at odds with Main Street, which has shown slow but reasonably steady tightening in its daily tracker since it released the UCP +7 poll on May 8.

it’s worth considering what Janet Brown is predicting, just from a smell test perspective: she is basically saying that Danielle Smith’s UCP is just as popular as Jason Kenney’s UCP was in 2019. That doesn’t seem even remotely plausible to me, but then I’m not trying to model the electorate—I’m just a person on the internet.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Izzle

I think the first one had a weird spelling to Chelsea.

There’s so many of them, but that Chelsea (which is spelled differently), is the candidate in MacLeod. The disqualified candidate was Lethbridge West. This latest one is Ponoka-Lacombe. I do wonder if Smith has learned from the Lake of Fire years ago and does something here?

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

The Janet Brown result is weird, no question. Doubly so because the actual poll isn’t being released, other than as summarized in the Don Braid article. She apparently attributes the difference to “true random” telephone samples vs. online panels, which…. Doesn’t strike me as a particularly plausible explanation.

We won’t know who has this right until May 29th, but one other point is that there are always going to be outliers. Right now either Janet Brown or Abacus are going to look like outliers when all is said and done, unless further data shows some convergence later on.

Interestingly, her numbers are also at odds with Main Street, which has shown slow but reasonably steady tightening in its daily tracker since it released the UCP +7 poll on May 8.

it’s worth considering what Janet Brown is predicting, just from a smell test perspective: she is basically saying that Danielle Smith’s UCP is just as popular as Jason Kenney’s UCP was in 2019. That doesn’t seem even remotely plausible to me, but then I’m not trying to model the electorate—I’m just a person on the internet.

I’m with you on that last point. There is no way Smith has the same popularity as Kenney did. I don’t know how she’s getting that polling result, but I think it’s wrong. There are a lot of very unimpressed people.

[Fuzz]

Smith has already said she won't be dqing any other candidates.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Smith has already said she won't be dqing any other candidates.

Oh wow, I hadn’t seen that. Pretty crazy to repeat the same mistake.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Like bloodwork, which has become atrocious since it was privatized.

it is totally the opposite of what the 'private' system is supposed to provide. even if you have an outpatient appointment in clinic at the hospital, unless your same day blood appointment is booked sometimes WEEKS in advance you can't get bloodwork you doctor orders that day in clinic- this is improved efficiency? patient experience? customer service?



in the old days- just hand a requistion, walk down the hall and voila a blood test happened

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Slava

Oh wow, I hadn’t seen that. Pretty crazy to repeat the same mistake.

Yes, crazy is the correct term for most decisions of hers.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Lookie lookie....

https://twitter.com/user/status/1658242509196390400

[Fuzz]

The Manning centre should be declared a terrorist organization. No other has done so much damage to the fabric of our country.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Seriously though... who believes the cat litter box in schools thing?

[timun]

The hhhhhwat?

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by timun

The hhhhhwat?

It's a common talking point among the extremist far-right that public schools are encouraging (or at least allowing) students to identify as cats and are providing them with litter boxes to use in the bathrooms. Yes, this is absolutely as dumb as it sounds. No, I'm not making this up; some conservatives genuinely believe this.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/otherkin-policy/

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

The Janet Brown result is weird, no question. Doubly so because the actual poll isn’t being released, other than as summarized in the Don Braid article. She apparently attributes the difference to “true random” telephone samples vs. online panels, which…. Doesn’t strike me as a particularly plausible explanation.

We won’t know who has this right until May 29th, but one other point is that there are always going to be outliers. Right now either Janet Brown or Abacus are going to look like outliers when all is said and done, unless further data shows some convergence later on.

Interestingly, her numbers are also at odds with Main Street, which has shown slow but reasonably steady tightening in its daily tracker since it released the UCP +7 poll on May 8.

it’s worth considering what Janet Brown is predicting, just from a smell test perspective: she is basically saying that Danielle Smith’s UCP is just as popular as Jason Kenney’s UCP was in 2019. That doesn’t seem even remotely plausible to me, but then I’m not trying to model the electorate—I’m just a person on the internet.

For Brown to be right it is more like - Counsel Public Affairs, Mainstreet, Abacus, whoever that pollster is that the Western Standard uses, and others have to be wrong. It is possible but I suspect unlikely.

[Dion]

There is a local candidates forum/question period tomorrow night in High River at the Memorial Centre. If anyone has any questions you'd like me to ask, please feel free to post em here.