Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Looch City]

They obviously didn't like the results lol.

Need some time to figure out how to twist it or find new weird wording for subsequent surveys.

Deplorable ####s.

[direwolf]

Lol, yup. The results are very likely the polar opposite of what they wanted, so they’re scared to release them. Bunch of cowardly losers.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

No light bulbs for the public, more dark.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...cp-next-survey

Province refuses to release early results of its Alberta Next surveys

Postmedia sought responses from the public to questions in the Alberta Next survey on a provincial pension plan and denying provincial programs to non-citizens

In letters emailed Wednesday, the provincial government stated it is declining to release any of the records.

Executive council has decided to refuse access to all of the records you requested,” the letters all state, citing a part of#the#Access to Information Act which allows the withholding of records deemed to be advice to officials.

“Information, including the proposed plans, policies or projects of a public body, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to result in disclosure of a pending policy or budgetary decision,” the portion of the act describing the exemption states

The following section#of the act, which#came into force on June 11, states the above exemption does not apply to information that is a statistical survey.

The good news is the way the questions were worded that survey was not statistical in nature. Sweet sweet loop holes

[puffnstuff]

The former AHS CEO has been heard from in regards to the ucps Judge Wyant coveru...errr investigation


https://bsky.app/profile/thebreakdow.../3lvw6z2z7fc26

[puffnstuff]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...nada-1.7604783

Alberta is appealing a temporary injunction of a law banning doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

A judge granted the injunction in June, ruling the provincial law raises serious Charter issues that need to be hashed out in an ongoing court challenge of the legislation.

Court of King's Bench Justice Allison Kuntz said the law is likely to cause irreparable harm to gender-diverse youth and she didn't find the contrary evidence submitted by the province to be overwhelming.

The government, in an appeal filed to the Calgary court last month, argues the injunction was premature, since it wasn't fully in effect.

It also claims the judge made a mistake and "mixed fact and law" in deciding the legislation would cause irreparable harm.

[Fuzz]

Why do they hate their citizens so much? Who are they doing this for? The freedom brigade sure shuts the #### up quickly when it's the rights of those who give them the skeevies are being taken away. Aren't we the free-est ####ing province on Earth? WTF man, this doesn't seem at all like freedom, having a government fighting the court to take rights away from it's own citizens.

[Alpha_Q]

The line to sign the Forever Canadian petition in Kensington is 3/4s of a block long and has been for hours. Excellent turnout.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Alpha_Q

The line to sign the Forever Canadian petition in Kensington is 3/4s of a block long and has been for hours. Excellent turnout.

That was on short notice too. I was there at 1:00 when it started.

This picture was from after I was there.

[Duruss]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ords-1.7604279

The UCP has taken yet another step to hide corruption. If you still support the UCP,you are a vile person and scum.

[puffnstuff]

That is helping her hide the over 20k spent at the Prager U Hatefest she spoke at in Florida


I did laugh when saw the list of related articles at the end of that story...

New leaders often tighten ethics, transparency rules. Danielle Smith and UCP take different approach

UCP committee to recommend exemption from conflict of interest rules for most political staffers

Investigation finds Alberta government broke its own freedom of information rules

[troutman]

https://www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-petition

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by troutman

https://www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-petition

It takes me to a phishing warning page

[WideReceiver]

Originally Posted by Alpha_Q

The line to sign the Forever Canadian petition in Kensington is 3/4s of a block long and has been for hours. Excellent turnout.

I’m curious how they promoted that to get so many people out?

[getbak]

The problem is you're still signing a petition to have a stupid referendum. Give me a petition to not waste our money holding any separation referendum, and I'll sign that.

[WideReceiver]

That’s the referendum I’d want too but I’m volunteering for this one.

[Alpha_Q]

Originally Posted by WideReceiver

I’m curious how they promoted that to get so many people out?

Facebook maybe? Ii read an article on CTV a couple weeks ago, checked out their webpage, and signed up to receive emails. Got one today that said, 'go here to sign the petition.'

[Alpha_Q]

Originally Posted by getbak

The problem is you're still signing a petition to have a stupid referendum. Give me a petition to not waste our money holding any separation referendum, and I'll sign that.

That's essentially what it is. I'd rather have 'Do you want Alberta to leave Canada yes/no' as a potential referendum question, rather than the 'sovereign Alberta within a united Canada' bull#### the APP is pushing. And if it's a succes, if they get close to the near 300,000 signatures and the APP do not get near their 177,000 necessary signatures, maybe it derails the whole separation movement and makes a referendum unnecessary.

[getbak]

You're signing a petition to have a referendum on separation, not to not have a referendum. Does it really matter if it's a Yes/No question where Yes means stay and No means leave, or Yes means leave and No means stay?

Either way, it's a stupid waste of time and money.

[Alpha_Q]

Originally Posted by getbak

You're signing a petition to have a referendum on separation, not to not have a referendum. Does it really matter if it's a Yes/No question where Yes means stay and No means leave, or Yes means leave and No means stay?

Either way, it's a stupid waste of time and money.

And if it's a succes, if they get close to the near 300,000 signatures and the APP do not get near their 177,000 necessary signatures, maybe it derails the whole separation movement and makes a referendum unnecessary.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by getbak

You're signing a petition to have a referendum on separation, not to not have a referendum. Does it really matter if it's a Yes/No question where Yes means stay and No means leave, or Yes means leave and No means stay?

Either way, it's a stupid waste of time and money.

I think the value is actually in the signiture collecting as it shows the passion of people who want to stay in Canada as opposed to just negative separatist news all the time. The media showing people passionate about Canada is beneficial even if a referendum question is a waste of time.