Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

You were pretty upset about it and have lobbed around the term traitor quite a bit. But Nenshi and the NDP doing business with a new US start up is pretty fine.

You don't see any difference between these two things?

- Flying down to Florida to hang out with Trump and his allies as they talk about trying to make Canada the 51st state.

- Working with a PR firm that is helping politicians that are running against Trump's candidates and, more importantly, helping them win high-profile elections where their candidate was the underdog.

It is not really the gotcha moment you are wanting it to be to show some big hypocrisy on the NDP or their supporters.

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

It's also likely the NDP wants to get ahead on the "everyman" messaging before Thomas Lukaczuk's purported political ambitions takes flight.

I would be pretty pumped to have a Nenshi government with Thomas as the leader of the opposition and the Wildrose... I mean UCP, decimated out of the legislature.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Wolven

Most of those Canadian political PR firms are likely aligned with the Liberals or Conservatives. I have my doubts there is a long list of NDP-friendly PR firms.

Many of the folks that are working with Nenshi and the NDP right now were/are aligned with the Liberals.

There’s also the people he’s surrounded himself with. Not only are they not typical New Democrats, but they’re also not New Democrats at all.

Nenshi has been quietly, steadily building up his team with former federal Liberals, rather than national NDP stalwarts like Brian Topp and Anne McGrath, both of whom worked with former premier Rachel Notley in government and on her campaigns.

Nenshi had started this trend last year when Jesse Chahal, a former prime minister’s office aide to Justin Trudeau, managed his successful leadership campaign.

He’s gone back to this federal well more recently, to kickstart this two-year drive to the 2027 election.

Burton, a driving force behind this new ad campaign, was chief of staff to Liberal ministers Marc Miller and Edmonton’s Amarjeet Sohi. The Jasper-born politico was also national field director for Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership victory before bowing out ahead of the federal election.

Recently taking over as caucus communications director is Andrew MacKendrick, former spokesperson for several federal cabinet ministers.

Nenshi’s pollster is Dan Arnold from Pollara, the ex-Calgarian who polled for the Trudeau Liberals and was director of research and advertising in his prime minister’s office. (He also polled for the Notley-led NDP in 2023, making Arnold an early Liberal adopter of this cause.)

This staffing up with Liberals might provide fodder for the United Conservatives, who’ve long made sport of tying Notley and Nenshi to the Ottawa politicians who seldom score well in Alberta.

Bringing in so many federal Liberals is also out of step with NDP convention or orthodoxy, though the newish-to-the-party Nenshi hasn’t been shy of operating in that way previously.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...dani-9.6978269

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Many of the folks that are working with Nenshi and the NDP right now were/are aligned with the Liberals.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...dani-9.6978269

Ya, I saw that in the article. I think it is a very curious combination of Fight Agency (to bring the populist energy?) with these Federal Liberal people (to bring the Canadian expertise?).

[Point Blank]

lol can you literally not see why it’s no contest to hire a PR firm that secured a massive victory for Mamdani?

Making that equivalent to what Smith has done is pretty ridiculous.

[Jason14h]

Hire whoever will do the best job

If Canadian companies can’t compete / aren’t good enough that’s another discussion

[woob]

Are any of you supprised by calgarygeo's lack of seeing the differences here? Or lack of any serious critical thought/reflection on matters such as this? He's entirely consistent in these types of things.

[undercoverbrother]

I mean, did the CPC use a Canadian PR firm for their last campaign?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by woob

Are any of you supprised by calgarygeo's lack of seeing the differences here? Or lack of any serious critical thought/reflection on matters such as this? He's entirely consistent in these types of things.

Same guy who went on screaming about misinformation and then was caught editing article quotes so they said something completely different.

Fun!

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Same guy who went on screaming about misinformation and then was caught editing article quotes so they said something completely different.

Fun!

He is one of the stupidest poster on here but you have to give him credit. He still comes back for more every time! hahahahaha

While Azure, drfever and flamesfever have pretty much effed off after the PP collapse he is still here spreading his rightwing bullkyit.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Nenshi has talked previously about how "this is the largest threat that we have seen as Canadian, existential threat to our economy and our way of life." In response to this threat, Nenshi has said that there is a need "to be ready for retaliatory measures ... but most important, do so in conjunction with the other Premiers and the Prime Minister and part of Team Canada." The Team Canada approach thus far has had a large component, backed by political leaders across the country, to boycott American goods and services.

You can watch Nenshi's interview here:
https://videopress.com/v/05jLjyDs

I'm sure it's less than your pathetic leader has spent on repeated trips to Dumb####istan to fellate the orange monster.

How are you not so embarassed to still be a conservative at this point?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

I'm sure it's less than your pathetic leader has spent on repeated trips to Dumb####istan to fellate the orange monster.

How are you not so embarassed to still be a conservative at this point?

It is possible to be a conservative and not be a supporter of the UCP. That is why parties like the Alberta Party exist and why people such as Thomas L are contemplating starting a new party.

[woob]

But you’ll always be a supporter of dunking on Libs and NDPs!

[jtfrogger]

According to https://operationtotalrecall.ca/, the paperwork for 9 more recall petitions have been accepted by Elections Alberta to add to the ones for Nicolaides & Pitt.

• Hon. Rajan Sawhney Calgary-North West
• Hon. Muhammad Yaseen Calgary-North
• Hon. Dale Nally Morinville-St. Albert
• Hon. Myles McDougall Calgary-Fish Creek
• Hon. Ric McIver Calgary-Hays
• Hon. Searle Turton Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
• Nolan B. Dyck Grande Prairie
• Jacqueline Lovely Camrose
• Hon. R.J. Sigurdson Highwood

[puffnstuff]

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...ended-problems

U of C doctor says study shows for-profit diagnostic screening will lead to unintended problems

Blindly increasing access to medical tests will lead to wasted resources, higher anxiety among patients, and, in some instances, the creation of a two-tiered system, in which many in critical need of examination will be left out, warns a medical professor at the University of Calgary.

"We paid about $700 million more than we would have if we hadn’t offered these tests in the for-profit system,” Manns said.

“It’s hard to get (specialists) to staff the coronary care units when you have a heart attack,” Manns said. “Why? Because (many of them) are working in these testing facilities, where they work Monday to Friday. It’s an easy job, and they get paid a lot more.”

[Fuzz]

He sounds like a communist.

[Fuzz]

Nice to see all the ways the UCP saves us money.


Why do you trust these people at all?