Michelle Shields

AB is home. I hate this govt. Dividing my neighbors to enrich the top 2%.
My views my own but I am always willing to debate. Civil conversation is Canadian.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Mr Guthrie doesn’t say it out loud, so we will…

The govt shut down an investigation into procurement decisions that benefitted a man whose accountant gifted Smith elite hockey tickets and whose family members were hired by govt.

That wasn’t in the scope of the Wyant report.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Just how limited was the scope?

Nowhere does it mention the appointment of Sam Mraiches accountant to the board of Investment Alberta by Danielle Smith and nowhere does it mention the skybox.

Because that wasn’t part of the investigation.

Albertans deserve a public inquiry!

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

@JasonPYYC It will be easier to pick them out

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

@aela_lindsay @allenanalysis Testing the winds in her district and realizing ruh roh need to change tactics or i am gonna be slaughtered in the midterms 🤔

[MondoAB @MondoABx]

Can't find this elsewhere, but from FB:

"Because of the letters and complaints sent by Albertans across the province, Elections Alberta has officially opened a file — No. 2025-0213 — to review the potential partisan use of public resources connected to the Alberta Next Panel."

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

@allisonjade Ahem, healthcare support worker here we see and can match your nine years of zeros. Solidarity ✊️

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA world by releasing his first major document urging every Catholic in the world to help migrants who all have "Christ himself" inside them — a powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's hateful policies.

This just went off like a bombshell for 1.4 billion Catholics...

The historic document entitled “I Have Loved You” states that caring for the poor also means "fighting against the structural causes of poverty," an unthinkable idea to American Evangelicals who fetishize wealth and billionaire tax cuts.

"No Christian can regard the poor simply as a societal problem," wrote Leo, adding that they are “part of our ‘family’" and they are "one of us." At a time when conservatives are gutting social programs and slashing Medicaid funding, this message is particularly potent.

But it's the section on migrants that has Republicans really up in arms...

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community," Leo wrote.

Recently, the pope urged U.S. Bishops to speak out "strongly" to support migrants against Trump's escalating immigration crackdowns.

In the new document, he writes that the "experience of migration" is woven into the history of the Church, pointing to Abraham setting out "without knowing where he is going," Moses leading his people out of slavery into the desert, and Mary and Joseph fleeing with an infant Jesus into Egypt.

Quoting his predecessor Pope Francis, Leo wrote that Christians must use four verbs for migrants: "welcome, protect, promote and integrate." Francis began the 104-page document but died before it was finished so Leo took up the task of finishing it, explaining: "I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections.”

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those  who are walking," wrote Leo. "Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds  bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into  gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself  who knocks at the door of the community."

The bit about walls is a clear reference to Trump's infamous border wall and a clear rejection of the animating xenophobia at the rotten core of the MAGA movement. Real Christians should welcome and care for migrants. MAGA Christians want them pepper-sprayed, zip-tied, and terrorized by ICE agents.

The document also tackles the growing corrosive power of billionaires like Elon Must who are using their money to place themselves above the law. It criticizes an economic system in which "earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few."

"A new tyranny is being born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules," wrote Leo.

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to justify the present state of affairs or to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," the pope wrote.

"The poor are promised only a few 'drops' that trickle down, until the next global crisis brings things back to where they were," he added.

"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool," the pope wrote in one particularly striking passage.

This document is a battle cry for Christian love and perfectly articulates the true message of Jesus Christ. The fact that Republicans are already raging against it exposes the truth behind their Christian facade. They want the self-righteousness granted to them by their religion without embracing the sacrifice and compassion that it truly demands.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Pope Leo for taking such a moral stance!

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

From the DM’s…

Meanwhile, in the land of privately owned, for profit care…

Allegedly long term care homes have stopped using overnight adult diapers and are only using daytime ones because they’re cheaper.

Even though they allegedly compromise care.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Jason YYC @Jason___YYC]

THEY HAD RECORD PRODUCTION, RECORD PROFITS, A BRAND NEW PIPELINE, A BRAND NEW LNG PORT AND A 33% TAX CUT

What did “we” get?

Worst Ed spending, PUF gone, no schools

Disaster health care

Worst employment

Loser AISH

Same minimum wage

I’m tired of this stupid trope

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

@TheBreakdownAB Could we do one on no coal mining ever in the Rockies?

[Sean Amato @JSJamato]

Looks like Albertans may have a 2nd referendum question on ballots next year. That being:

"Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?"

Thoughts?!
#ableg #cdnpoli

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg #abpoli

Since 2019, the UCP diverted $4B to charter/private schools

This could fund:
🏫- 92 New Schools
🗃️- 20,000 Portable Classrooms
👩‍🏫- 38,500 New Teachers
🧑‍🏫- 118,000 Ed Assistants
🧑‍🎓- Supports for 760,000 Students

The UCP choose to defund public education instead.

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

Big Beautiful Coal

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

#BREAKING 🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Protests have broken out in Rome, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona, Istanbul and Kayseri against the Israeli interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Videos from Rome, Kayseri and Istanbul.

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

Think as you will about PM Carney. Thr PM has some work to do domestically. However, while the US is busy bullying through international relations, PM Carney is swooping in, offering a better way based on shared values and brokering agreements around the world. Win for all.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Meanwhile in America we’re bringing back polio

[Michelle Shields @Michelle_Shie12]

@StephenKing Love your books

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Team Canada hoists Sophie de Goede after she takes home Player of the Year at the #RWC2025 🔥🇨🇦

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

Alberta leads Canada in a shameful statistic: students going to school hungry.

40% of kids in our province are food-insecure. A 30% increase in one year.

This is a result of policy failure from the UCP government.

Albertans deserve better!
https://t.co/U6wgUWIJd6

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

If Canada Post is a corporation that requires subsidies and financial support to break even…

They should just pretend to be an oil or gas company.

Taxpayers subsidize them to ludicrous ends.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli