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[Gerry Varty @gerryvarty]

#abpoli #canpoli #ableg

We can save money by not funding the Royal Alex Orthopaedic Surgery ($250,000) and instead contracting that out to Private contractors ($30 million) #mathishard

If they can't get enough nurses, anesthesioligists, etc we can assign ours to work there.

[John Hoey @JohnnyHoey]

My wife survived a school shooting in her first year as a teacher and kept teaching, and is still teaching 15 years later while being a Mom of two. She very much lives in the real world. You do not. What a completely ignorant and stupid thing to say.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Covie @covie_93]

BREAKING: FIFA peace prize recipient is bombing Iran a day before the start of the FIFA World Cup.

[Real Mike 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Fake Ezzie @fakeezzie]

Reminder, this clown's boss, our Premier, worked in conservative media for the better part of a decade before being foisted upon Alberta as the Premier by right wing radical separatists in her own party. #ableg

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Corb Lund has officially dropped off off what he says are more than 200,000 signatures for his Water Not Coal petition with Elections Alberta.

If EA confirms at least 178K valid signatures, then Premier Danielle Smith has to act on it

[Troy Pavlek @troypavlek]

We have details of just how bad a deal the privatization scheme Stephen Harper forced on Edmonton is.

The private contractor is charging us so much that in just two years of running it ourselves we can pay the entire 30-year termination fee.

The waste is absurd.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don't have a billionaire wealth problem.

[Justin Kanew @Kanew]

Adam Silver looking for support as he tried to make the Trump disruption ok was awkward as hell. You can feel the fear. He has never looked smaller than he did in this moment.

[Troy Pavlek @troypavlek]

Once again, privatizing public services has failed.

Edmonton is taking back control of the Valley Line LRT from the private consortium with a 30-year operation contract.

Privatization was forced on the city by Harper. Now, nature is healing🤗

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Great to know that another petition succeeded.

This one was completed without any illegal access to the list of electors and will be verified by Elections Alberta.

#ableg

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

They act like the biggest threat to society is a single mom buying soda with food stamps instead of a billionaire buying his 13th senator.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Wait, so ALBERTA IS BOOMING … under the oppressive federal yoke? Under the Nine Bad Laws? You mean the richest province in Canada is getting even richer? Clearly there’s no alternative but to bust up the country.

I’d respond directly but the premier’s chief of staff blocked me.

[Robert Muhlbeier @MuhlbeierRobert]

75 yr old Albertan,born here,worked forestry,farmed and bought grain for 11 years from Rumsey to High Level,and i cant understand rural Albertans being duped for over 90 years by christo-fascists believing Houston oilmen and US Grain companies have their best interests at heart

[rob simpson @rubsimpson]

Please tell me this is a really late April Fools joke.

[Barbara Larochelle 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @BarbLarochelle]

@cspotweet He’s full of misinformation, as usual. We don’t know how many signed a petition to leave. Their signatures have not been verified. The others signed a petition to stay. There were separatists in Alberta while Harper was PM. They just didn’t have a premier enabling them.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a free Knicks watch party at Bryant Park.

This comes after watch parties outside of Madison Square Garden were canceled due to Trump's attendance.

[Just Gus 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @Gusinalberta]

So all you ditchbillie separatist, seems the very people you despise are the loudest voices of separation, how do you feel about that? All of a sudden brown people good? You fucking hypocrites, why aren’t you calling this out?

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“Anesthesiologists, and in some cases surgeons, have been preferentially assigned to work in chartered surgical facilities over public hospitals, including in response to political influence exerted by CSF owners.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli https://t.co/wTDWqRi4wo

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Try again. California pays the bills for failed red states.