The A.B. Dossier

Independent investigations into the taxes, policies, and spending draining everyday Albertans. We follow the money.

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Maybe if @JeromyYYC spent more time focusing on how city hall can cut useless expenditures rather than posting about PROVINCIAL politics, we wouldn't see a 74% increase in water bills and 15% increase in property taxes!

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@RTwerdoclib Why would you not vote in favour of showing proof of citizenship when voting?

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Do people even know what the other nine questions are? Or are they just letting paper signs think for them.

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🚨🚨 SEALED UNTIL 2028: City Council locks out taxpayers as advance polls open.

While advance voting for the referendum started this morning, City Council held an in-camera meeting on relations with the provincial government—slapping a secrecy order on the discussion until October 2028.

Comment "GAG" below and I will send you the private investigative dossier detailing today’s committee agenda and the confidential item breakdown.

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@JeromyYYC You are a city mayor, focus on trimming unnecessary expenses to Calgarians do not have to foot your councils incompetence.

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@JeromyYYC Why should Calgarians continue to pay for this burden, we already pay enough in taxes in fact double than Vancouver using an effective rate. City council needs to step up and figure out how they can cut costs and service basic needs without raising taxes.

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@JackieLogjammin @MH_For_MP @JeromyYYC Spending time and resources, making videos about a stupid referendum vote that will obviously not pass instead of finding ways to reduce spending in other areas. When your house is tight on money you cut costs, thats what council should do. Not beg for more money for citizens.

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FROM $119 TO $207 A MONTH:
City Hall's massive 74% water bill explosion.
City financial filings confirm Calgary's average monthly water bill will jump by 74% to over $207 a month by 2030—taking an extra $1,056 a year from your family while Council plots a 15% property tax hike.
https://t.co/VY8WhsTDTJ

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@KenBoessenkool He is actually very un transparent, holds majority of his meetings behind closed doors and tried to get a councillor in trouble for leaking tax document’s requesting 20% tax hikes. The very opposite of straightforward

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Alberta had NDP government kicked them out. Then BC kept theirs. Same pattern for both provinces: hike taxes, grow the public payroll, blow the surplus, then call the wreckage “investment.” That’s why you don’t vote NDP in Alberta. You already have the receipt.

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@CanadianModera1 Takes a 5 second google search to see Daniel Smith NOT support the separatist movement and neither does the UCP.

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If you lose your income, you don’t spend more. You cut to the essentials.
The NDP did the opposite during Alberta’s oil crash: they raised taxes, increased spending, and ran massive deficits.

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@CanadianModera1 There is no bigger wasteful party than the ndp and their 4 year stint proved that

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The NDP 🟧promises "A better future for Alberta". But let’s take a hard look at the "future" they actually delivered the last time they held office from 2015-2019:
📉 3 consecutive years of operating deficits
📉 19,600 jobs wiped out in 2015 (worst labor contraction since '82)
📉 20% Corporate Tax hike during a massive recession
📉 Multiple credit downgrades & a lost AAA rating
📉 A $300M+ tax shift that crushed local suburban businesses
We’ve already lived through their version of a "better future." Do you really want to do it again? Let me know

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@Barbielynn01 How did you lose funding?

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NDP Nenshi was practically crying tears of joy on TV acting like they pulled off a miracle in Calgary-Shaw.
Give me a break.
The NDP didn’t win this riding—conservatives forfeited it. Let’s look at the numbers Over 7,000 UCP voters literally stayed on the couch and handed them the keys on a silver platter.
If conservative voters don't wake up and get their act together, we’re going to walk ourselves right into a socialist NDP government. Stop whining online and show up.

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Everyone is screaming about an "historic NDP wave" in Calgary-Shaw. They are wrong.
I dug into the raw voting data from Monday night, and a massive 50% drop tells the real story. Here is what the politicians are desperately trying to hide about your property taxes... https://t.co/MO4xeTCYAO

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

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Oil prices explain why the budget swings. Yes oil was down during the NDP but they kept growing programs after royalties fell to $3–5B. That’s a policy deficit, not just a price crash. If you lose your Job you don't increase your spending, thats idiotic. UCP’s first years tried to stop that — freeze per-person growth instead of spending through the bust. That’s why people yelled “cuts” while the totals barely moved. Secondly, obviously they are going to spend more than Rachel did during surpluses, they HAVE the money to spend. Would you prefer them not spend record amounts on education and healthcare, I am confused here.

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After the NDP's win in Calgary-Shaw last night here is a Quick reminder of the last time the NDP ran Alberta(2015-2019):
• $6.4B–$10.8B deficits every year
• Carbon tax brought in during a recession
• Energy investment dropped, jobs in oil & gas fell
• Corporate tax hiked from 10% to 12%
• Unemployment peaked near 9% One term.

Then Albertans fired them.

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Another NDP account blocked me the second facts showed up. They claimed UCP “collected more” in 2019, 2020, 2021 and still ran deficits.Actuals: 2018-19: $49.6B revenue
2019-20: $46.2B — down
2020-21: $43.1B — down again, COVID + oil crash
2021-22: $68.3B and a $3.9B surplusTwo years of lower revenue. One surplus. Blocking doesn’t change the year-end reports, these people live in a fantasy world.