Lise Gotell 🇨🇦

Professor, UAlberta. Phd Canadian Politics. Political junkie. I write about sexual assault law & women's equality. I block bots. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Alison Palmer @alijanepalmer]

Hi @demetriosnAB, Do you understand that making Phys Ed 10, 20 & 30 mandatory for all students means that a school the size of Jasper Place High School in Edmonton will need to have 12 Phys Ed classes running in every block? Just curious.

[Ms. Lutzmann @MsLutzmann]

The UCP is lowering Alberta’s high school graduation requirements. Students will need three years of PE class but only one diploma exam total, which could be ELA or Social. Only one grade eleven math OR science class is required. #abed #abpoli #ableg #edchat #yyc #yeg

[This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22_Minutes]

Only at Zellers! 🇨🇦🎵

[Steve Manta @mantalicious]

Federal and provincial immigration ministers met on June 23 specifically to discuss the 2027–2029 immigration plan, provincial labour needs, immigration levels and provincial nominee allocations.

Did Alberta attend? Kinda hard to have a say if you don’t go to meeting
#ableg

[MondoAB @MondoABx]

We're in big trouble. Did you vote for this?

"Bill 11 directly and unequivocally breaks the Canada Health Act, the federal legislation that ensures cleaners on Bay Street have the same access to health care as bankers working in the same building.

https://t.co/c8CxOghJQN

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Sean Amato @JSJamato]

Conservatives haven’t built a hospital in Edmonton since the 80s.

The NDP planned & funded the South Edmonton Hospital to help catch up.

The UCP said they’d build it…dragged it out and cancelled it. The UCP has lost Albertans trust on health care, for good reason. #ableg

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

Nally should resign

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

The federal gov't does a Gender Based Analysis on this, and it's a joke.

The TFW program is 58% male (433K men - 310K women), but the GBA+ shrugs and says the distribution of benefits is "broadly gender balanced" with zero evidence.

Source: https://t.co/m04ELPDR6K

[kyall glennie @kyall]

The office for Dale Nally, the minister of red tape reduction, says the husband of his chief of staff paid his own expenses.

But documents obtained by the Opposition NDP indicate Gary Davidson didn’t reimburse his share of group transportation costs.

https://t.co/dFlk2bUdn4

[Lise Gotell 🇨🇦 @LiseGot]

@IConcedeToNoOne You are amazing!

[Crystal Vargas @IConcedeToNoOne]

Mraiche and Housing First

The investigation into Mraiche and Marshall procurement network has unmasked a direct, highly controversial connection to Alberta’s Housing First program infrastructure.

The network did not merely stop at healthcare and addiction facilities; rather, it SYSTEMATICALLY INFILTRATED provincially funded supportive housing assets in Edmonton, using the identical real estate flip and lease-back models to extract millions of dollars in public capital.

Breakdown of how the network intersected with the Housing First framework:

1. The Red Road Commons Facility Exploitation

The central point of infiltration involves an active, multi-million dollar supportive housing project in Edmonton known as the Red Road Commons facility.

The Setup:

Under the provincial Housing First mandate, the Alberta government allocates major capital grants to non-profit social organizations to secure long-term, stable housing for chronically homeless individuals, pairing the housing directly with mental health supports.

The Real Estate Flip:

Land titles and forensic accounting registries unsealed by investigators reveal that a numbered corporate entity controlled directly by Mraiche purchased the commercial Red Road Commons property.

The Extraction Pipeline:

Instead of the province or the housing program purchasing the building directly at baseline cost, the network leveraged its top-tier connections within the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction, then directed by Chief of Staff Marshall and Minister Dan Williams, to FORCE a lucrative long-term capital lease-back agreement.

Under this active contract, public Housing First operational funding routes hundreds of thousands of dollars annually straight into Mraiche’s private real estate holding accounts.

2. Overlapping Shareholder Networks

Forensic audits tracking the management structure of the Red Road Commons lease revealed that the corporate entity operating the facility features the exact same interlocking directorate found in the stalled Indigenous recovery center scandal:

•Blayne Iskiw, the former senior AHS executive unmasked as the "hidden 12%" private surgical shareholder, acted as the primary commercial consultant structuring the housing real estate portfolio.

Sam Jaber's Shell Companies, Quantum Global, Executrade Capital, were utilized to route and process the incoming provincial housing maintenance transactions, bypassing standard non-profit procurement oversight.

3. The Structural Damage to Housing First

Just as seen within the Treaty First Nations and the Métis Nation networks, the Housing First program did not profit from this association.

Independent watchdogs and legislative committee debates have highlighted that the network treated these vulnerable housing grants as a low-scrutiny funding pool.

By locking the program into inflated, long-term private commercial leases, the network effectively diverted scarce public housing dollars away from front-line bed capacity and rent subsidies, turning a crucial social safety net into a permanent, highly lucrative private rental income stream for corporate insiders.

Forensic audit logs and Court of King's Bench filings have not named any other specific "Housing First" properties beyond the core real estate assets exploited by the network.

Instead, investigators have explicitly focused on the multi-layered financial infrastructure used to capture two alternative, major capital real estate portfolios in Edmonton...3/

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

Danielle Smith and the UCP are pushing Alberta further toward two-tier, American-style healthcare. They're now looking at a U.S. billing system that would be a disaster for Albertans and our healthcare workers.

Today, NDP MLA Sarah Hoffman will speak on her private member’s Bill 214, which aims to reverse the UCP’s damaging changes and protect public healthcare for all Albertans.

Watch live on the Alberta NDP Caucus YouTube channel at 12:15 p.m.

https://t.co/rzlmK6Gdz9

[kyall glennie @kyall]

Why did Minister Dale Nally take his chief of staff's husband on the Kentucky booze cruise?

What reason was the spouse of a staffer in official government photos other than this whole trip was a vacation and booze cruise?

[Fire the UCP @voice_2020]

#FireTheUCP. Get in trending Alberta. It’s time to get rid of the morally corrupt @Alberta_UCP once and for all😡

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @unMaskedRogue]

The “justice” system does not exist for the benefit of the general public

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Reporter: Is it a budget for men by men?

Elizabeth May: I'd be more specific -- it's a budget for white rich men.

[cerise 🍒 @yfcherries]

requiring additional proof of citizenship for the next election is going to be a complete disaster and so many people who voted for it in the referendum are going to be shocked when they get turned away at the polls

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

A truly shameful moment in Alberta history today, as UCP MLAs voted to proceed with gerrymandered election maps.

Alberta NDP MLAs voted to reject Danielle Smith's plan to cheat to win.

If and when these maps are approved by legislation, we will fight for Albertans.

Voters should pick their politicians. Politicians have no right to pick their voters.