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[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

685 people filed a simple online form.

That slowed Canada’s largest data centre in Olds - not politicians, not lobbyists. Citizens using the AUC.

Meta. Wonder Valley. Beacon Foothills. All the same process.

https://t.co/vuc0ykwLfd shows how

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@Sayitpop He was a dick- no question BUT that girl physically assaulted him as he was walking away. She wanted to use that weapon and was fiddling with it for several moments and approached that man all with her friend laughing.

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@omgsidewalks Absolutely- meditate and decide

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@IConcedeToNoOne Incredible reporting Crystal. Take care and thank you for your hard work! It’s so important!!

[@CanadianProtest @CanadianPro2]

Even though it is McLovin Monday and it's supposed to be my reset day - I present you a short list.

Yeah, this is nothing really. There's so much more. So very f*cking much.

A tally has to separate what's documented from what's alleged.
So every line below has its source, and the total is at the bottom.

Counted?
Dollars paid or spent that I can source, at least partly in smith's term.

Not counted?
Estimates, ceilings, plans, allegations, and anything that may overlap another line.

COUNTED
Referendum, Oct 19 vote, per Elections Alberta: $84M (CP, Nov 5)

Province's own referendum ad campaign: $4M (province's figure, CTV/CP, Sept 10)

Pain medication paid for, never delivered:
$42M as of Oct 31, 2025 (RSM, Wyant's accountants, via CBC) or $49M (credit with the supplier, CP, Dec 2024). Two sources, so a range.

AHS severance, 150 former employees, 2019 to June 2025: about $29.45M (Tyee, Feb 3). Starts under Kenney.

SCRIGLEY'S ADDITIONS, NOT COUNTED (1 of 2)

War room: created under Kenney, run under Smith until it was folded into Intergovernmental Relations on June 11, 2024 (Global).
Its 2023 annual report shows about $22M on ads in 2021-22, Kenney's years.
The NDP says $66M+ since 2019. I couldn't verify that.

Addiction centres: $291M over 3 years for two 150-bed centres. A budget, not spending.

SCRIGLEY'S ADDITIONS, NOT COUNTED (2 of 2)

Numbered US companies: Kenney era. Up to $7M in costs per a provincial audit (The Narwhal, 2022). Not re-read today.

Town halls, tours, re-litigating the federal government: no cost found.

LUCY'S LIST, NOT COUNTED (1 of 2)

$59M the committee approved Nov 5 (CP): extra funding, not a second cost. It may include 2027 prep.

AHS breakup: "estimated to cost $85M" (CP, May 2024). Estimate, no breakdown.

MHCare: roughly $614M in AHS business since 2020 (Globe, Oct 13). Supplier revenue, not a documented loss.

Referendum promotion: $365K+ in FOI fees, $300K+ website, up to $1.5M analysis (Nenshi, CP, Jul 23). May overlap the $4M.

LUCY'S LIST, NOT COUNTED (2 of 2)

Licence plates: Nally expects $25K to $50K, up to $2M (CP, Oct 2025).

"Booze cruise": NDP alleges $5,400+ in Kentucky. One outlet, unconfirmed.

AISH/ADAP, environment: policy changes, no dollar line.

TOTALS
Counted lines only:

$84M + $4M + $42M + $29.45M = $159.45M

With $49M for the pain medication instead of $42M:

$84M + $4M + $49M + $29.45M = $166.45M

So $159.45M to $166.45M.

JUST FROM THIS TINY GROUPING.

The range exists because the pain medication sources disagree.

Nothing from the "not counted" lists is in it.

Of course a caveat.

This is a ledger of costs, not a count of corruption or a loss figure.

The lines are different things, and one starts under Kenney.

My humble opinion?

ucp do nothing but consistently waste our taxpayer money.

DISMANTLE THE ucp NOW.
🤗💖

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

Can someone do a tally for all the corruption Albertans have endured financially under the UCP? Referendumb, Tylenol scandal, AHS Scheme, licence/License plate grift, booze cruises, environmental deregulation, attacks on Aish and the most vulnerable of our society…..it’s endless

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@IConcedeToNoOne Holy shit! This just gets worse and worse. Where is the accountability?!

[Rorschach.Tested🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇳🌊NATO @Rorschached99]

Mraiche family's been into the AHS taxpayer trough... BIG TIME. ($600M) Carrie Tait realed Sam Jaber claimed he was a certified accountant.

NUH-UH!

Frauds. FRAUDS. FRAUDS!

Sam Mraiche
Khalil Mraiche (Son)
Mohamed Eldaddouki (B-in-law)
@FMraiche (Sister)

Sam Jaber @SamJaberson

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@ABDanielleSmith @AdrianaLaGrange Corrupt Care Scandal is a hell of a lot bigger than we were expecting. Incredible - the corruption in your office and at every level while simultaneously trying to divide Albertans with separation fantasies. Hundreds of millions wasted. You need to resign

[MondoAB @MondoABx]

If you have not been following Crystal, you have some catching up to do.

Must read.

This is not governance. Absolutely taking Albertans to the cleaners.

[Crystal Vargas @IConcedeToNoOne]

The network used these properties to replicate the identical, high-margin flip-and-lease framework:

1. The 12-Week Land Flip Asset

The most heavily documented property transaction outside of the Red Road Commons site is a commercial property located at 14425 124 Ave NW in west Edmonton.

The Strategic Capture:

Land titles show a numbered company directed by Mraiche purchased this site on May 27, 2024, for $1.7 million.

The Government Buyout:

Exactly 12 weeks later, on August 26, 2024, the company flipped the exact same property to Alberta Infrastructure for $2 million.

The Audit Target:

Auditor General Phil Peters is explicitly investigating this specific property file.

Forensic accountants are tracking how the network secured immediate internal knowledge that the province required this exact piece of real estate, allowing Mraiche to pocket a swift $300,000 taxpayer-funded profit without executing a single structural upgrade.

2. The Private Residential Apartment Complex Pipeline

Sworn civil pleadings filed by Melewka Structures & Design unmasked that the network bypassed traditional municipal housing non-profits to secure a foothold in multi-family residential assets.

The Assets:

The court records confirm that the network acquired and financed two separate private apartment complexes in Edmonton.

The Lease-Back Structure:

Rather than operating these complexes on the open market, the network utilized its deep connections within the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction to structurally transition these residential assets into provincially funded, sole-sourced social program spaces.

This allowed the network to bypass open competitive bidding and secure long-term, high-yield public lease agreements.

Timeline of the Housing & Capital Real Estate Exploitation

May 2024: The Asset Capture
14425 124 Ave Purchased

Aug 2024: The $300k Flip
Sold to Infrastructure

Late 2024: The Internal Audit
Guthrie Demands Records

May 27, 2024:

Mraiche’s private numbered corporate entity officially registers the deed for the 14425 124 Ave NW commercial property following a cash buyout of $1.7 million.

June 2024: Iskiw and Jaber’s accounting firms, Quantum Global, structurally integrate the two newly acquired Edmonton multi-family apartment complexes into their private real estate holding portfolios.

August 26, 2024:

The network finalizes the expedited sale of the 124 Ave property to the UCP government, securing a $300,000 net profit within an exact 84-day window.

Late 2024:

Internal friction explodes. Infrastructure Minister Guthrie flags the rapid capital outflow on these specific properties and orders a comprehensive internal audit.

The move triggers fierce pushback from Health Minister LaGrange and Chief of Staff Marshall, culminating in Guthrie’s eventual ouster from the UCP caucus...4/

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@ABDanielleSmith @nenshi How many AI centres have you greenlighted without any consult with the public? Of those how many have any kind of environmental standard or assessment how much water do they use? Stop rage baiting and get to work that’s the only way you will save your career

[Crystal Vargas @IConcedeToNoOne]

@MargTokar @FreeAlbertaRob @mickeyamery Another 1.4M to divert from their own scandalous government.
Well, the cats are put of the bag.
All of them.

[Rorschach.Tested🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇳🌊NATO @Rorschached99]

Oh, Mickey.

@mickeyamery
@AdrianaLaGrange
@MhcareMed
@GoA_Justice

Athana Mentzelopoulos ⌛⚖️💥

[Charles Prepolec 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @sherlockeditor]

It's embarrassing that in Danielle Smith's UCP Alberta, the richest province in the country, we can't even take care of 22 injured Canadian Armed Forces members without help from the government of Canada. That's how badly Smith has broken healthcare in Alberta. We deserve better.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨REVEALED: Banking records reportedly show $288,531 transferred from APP and Stay Free Alberta-linked accounts to Jeff Rath’s professional corporation.

How much of this was donor money spent on legal fees rather than advancing Alberta independence?

Donors deserve answers.

[SandyClarkLivesInDanielleHell @SandyIsCynical]

This is such an important thread.

[Crystal Vargas @IConcedeToNoOne]

SO WHO OWNS 12% OF ASG?

"For years, watchdogs and investigative journalists demanded to know who controlled the anonymous shell companies behind the expansion networks of the Alberta Surgical Group.

Judge Raymond Wyant finally solved the mystery:

The Payout:

The Wyant report formally revealed that BLAYNE ISKIW was given a 12% equity stake in the multi-million dollar Red Deer and Lethbridge private surgical expansions.

The Reason:

According to the report, Iskiw told the investigator that the clinic's owners gifted him this lucrative 12% slice of the profits simply for managing their "day-to-day business".

Wyant officially concluded that Iskiw operated in a clear, real conflict of interest.

The investigation proved that Iskiw was the primary AHS executive representing the public health authority during the original 2022 contract negotiations with ASG

Days after leaving his public job, he crossed the floor to collect private consulting fees and massive equity shares from the exact corporate entities he was just supposedly regulating on behalf of taxpayers.

Current status:

Following the public unmasking of his stakes, the provincial government completely canceled the $430-million expansion contracts for his firm, Prairie Surgical Centre.

Iskiw currently remains under intense scrutiny as both the Auditor General and the specialized RCMP anti-corruption unit track his personal banking data and metadata to determine if his dual-role actions crossed the line from a conflict of interest into criminal breach of trust.

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@RjSigurdson Nice try RJ. Seriously 😒 your loyalty to DS is going to be your downfall to a successful career

[OilTearsAB @OverABarrel22]

@TheEndTheEras @MargTokar @AdrianaLaGrange Weak and pathetic attempt to distract.

[Crystal Vargas @IConcedeToNoOne]

Mraiche and Government still in business

"Corporate entities tied to Sam Mraiche still hold active multi-million dollar contracts and lease agreements with the Alberta government.

Despite the intense scrutiny, active RCMP criminal anti-corruption probes, and the unmasking of severe conflicts of interest, Mraiche's operations remain financially embedded within the provincial system through several specific legal frameworks:

1. The $56-Million Active AHS Multi-Year Contract

While the original 2022 Turkish children's Tylenol purchase was halted due to massive safety and supply issues, the Raymond Wyant Procurement Addendum Report revealed that the province quietly signed a fallback deal to recover its lost prepayments.

The Terms:

On July 24, 2023, AHS locked into a five-year, $56-million contract with MHCare Medical to supply alternative intravenous medications, primarily Acetaminophen IV, through the 2027/2028 fiscal year.

The Current Deficit:

Audit tracking shows that under this ongoing agreement, the province carries a prepaid balance of $42 million for goods that have still not yet been completely delivered to Alberta hospitals.

2. Ongoing Additions & Recovery Lease-Back Capital Pipelines

Because the government blocked him from securing new direct surgical expansion deals in late 2025, Mraiche's network pivoted heavily into real estate leasing agreements funded by the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction.

The Larga Building Lease:

Financial records show the Métis Nation of Alberta operates a provincial housing pipeline out of the Larga building, paying a numbered company owned by Mraiche $480,000 per year under an active four-year lease contract.

The Tsuut'ina Recovery Site:

In October 2026, disclosures revealed the Alberta government formally recommended Melewka Homes Ltd, a construction firm heavily linked in court to Mraiche’s financing capital, to build a $35-million provincially funded treatment centre near Calgary.

3. Active Bidding Status in Legislature Debates

The status of his companies remains a major point of political debate in the Alberta Legislature.

During intense questioning, former UCP Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie, on X, explicitly pressed the Ministry of Justice on why MHCare Medical remains an active, authorized bidder on open government contracts despite being the subject of multi-day RCMP search warrants.

The government confirmed that until formal criminal charges are laid or the Auditor General’s probe concludes, there is no active legal mechanism in place to completely ban his corporations from bidding on new provincial public tenders."