Kelly MacFarlane

Hideous red-headed stepchild of academia (aka nonTT Academic Teaching Staff) in Classics at U Alberta. All comments are in my capacity as a private citizen.

[JB 🇨🇦 @JackieBee_16]

You might see this and think it’s in the bag …but you still need to vote.

[stacey brotzel @staceybrotzel]

Such an important thread 🧵

[Bianca Swirlski-Queen Spam Pam, Beaver Czar 🍁 @BSwirlsi]

Alberta public service managers quietly got a 12.6% pay bump last December. Executive director salaries topped out at $202,256 to fix “recruitment issues,” while unionized workers got 3%. This comes right as eight MLAs started taking a new $6,000 allowance.

[Parksy @PfParks]

There’s no “functioning” ED that has to make pts with chest pain wait 13hrs to be seen.

When will the govt act? Only when someone dies? (and only when that makes the news?)

Do you think govt or the AHS CEO is even aware?

@AHS_media @ABDanielleSmith

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

7. Smith is NOT neutral

Bell protects Smith’s ‘reluctant federalist’ image

Her ACTUAL words say otherwise

Smith calls separatist sentiment ‘justifiable’

Says separation will be ‘for Albertans to decide’ and she’ll fully ‘accept their judgment’

She NEVER condemns it

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

6. What Bell omits (part 2)

Also missing:
- Foreign money in the separatist movement
- THE MAJOR data breach under 3 investigations
- Smith & Parker’s friendship

Bell FAILS to challenge Smith’s narrative and removes EVERYTHING that complicates it

“Journalism”

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

5. What Bell omits (Part 1)

What Bell NEVER mentions….over 3-years of articles.

1. Oil production at all-time highs under Trudeau.
2. TMX completed
3. First Nations chiefs meeting in emergency session…the SAME DAY as his May 5 column

The inconvenient Canada never shows up!

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

3. Bell mocks the one voice defending Canada

When Ford called on Smith to stand with Canada…Bell dismissed him as ‘Ontario’s blowhard premier.’

When Smith shut Ford down, Bell’s reaction was one word: ‘Smack!’

Every voice defending Canada in Bell’s columns gets mocked

Weird

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

2. Bell blames Liberal voters for separatism

His most revealing line is Bell’s own quote.

He writes Canadians ‘fanned the flames of Alberta separatism’ specifically those who voted Liberal or NDP

Blaming 65% of Canadian voters for separatism

In a major newspaper
ZERO evidence

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

1. Bell is a participant…not a reporter

Bell doesn’t just quote Smith

He narrates her politics like she’s a hero

He injects his own voice….not quoting anyone…when he wrote that Canadians who voted Liberal had ‘lost their minds.’

This is what we call UCP Partisan advocacy

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

Separatism is polling at 9%

Alberta DOES NOT have a separatist problem

It has a Rick Bell problem

Bell is Postmedia’s most-read Alberta columnist

Smith gives him exclusive access

He uses it not to challenge her…but to make separatism seem inevitable

A breakdown 🧵

[Candas Jane Dorsey @CJDwriter]

Part of an also-good thread.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

The AMA has issued a statement that clearly states the delay in the Triage Liason Physicians is not their fault.

Looks like Dani untruthed again!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

In one week…support cratered, First Nations revolted, the Premier confirmed the cost, her watchdog flagged the ID card, and her party turned on itself

Smith’s separatist project is collapsing under its own weight

Let’s keep building the Alberta that stays. October 19

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

6. SMITH STABS SYLVESTRE

For Schulz’s empty seat…separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre (a UCP riding president) backed a candidate to run.

Danielle Smith BANNED him

Sylvestre is now threatening Smith’s leadership saying the UCP must ‘cater to what we want.’

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

5. SCHULTZ QUITS

Another moderate UCP MLA walked.

Rebecca Schulz resigned her Calgary-Shaw seat….

She was an MLA since 2019, former Environment minister.

She follows Nate Horner & Matt Jones out the door

Why do steady, serious voices keep leaving Smith’s UCP???

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

4. SMITH’S ‘ONE CARD’ IS A MAJOR RISK

Alberta’s privacy commissioner is (again) warning about Smith’s new ID card & its citizenship marker

Not a critic
Not the opposition

The independent officer whose job is YOUR data

And this UCP gov’t just lost 3M voters’ records!

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

3. SMITH ADMITS SEPPIES = BAD

The Premier FINALLY admitted separation would cost $400 billion to transition, plus $25-50 billion/year

Now she’s fighting her own separatists, who call her math ‘nonsense.’

When the Premier confirms the project is unaffordable, it’s over.

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

2. FIRST NATIONS CALL DANIELLE SMITH OUT!!!

Treaty 8 DEMANDED Smith terminate the referendum.

Chief Allan Adam called on her to resign as she has ‘no credibility left.’

47 Nations have said they stay in Canada

A court already ruled the duty to consult was ignored

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

1. SEPARATIST SUPPORT IMPLODES
.
New Ipsos poll: just 18% of Albertans back leaving Canada….DOWN 10 POINTS since January.

Half aren’t even committed once they see the costs

A new Leger poll adds the kicker “fewer than half would even stay in an independent Alberta”

😬