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rickc rickc:

The problem is that no one is actually watching the video. . . . The part about Peterson was a small part of the clip. The thumbnail attached to this video was not the thumbnail of the video that I posted even though the video is the same. Someone pulled the old bait and switch on the thumbnail probably thinking that Peterson's shock value would generate higher ratings. Unfortunately it would appear to be having the opposite effect here. That is a shame because it was a good piece.

As someone else who didn't watch the video, I can say the quickest way to get me to go to the next thumbnail is to put Jordan Petersen on the thumbnail. The second quickest it to put Pollivre on it.

rickc rickc:

The video is titled the Alberta Roundup. It had numerous stories about Alberta, including stories about Danielle Smith and the largest story was Pierre Poilievre speaking about crime and bail.

I've seen other videos from "True North" and they are a right leaning clickbait operation, so I wasn't going to click on it anyhow. Waste of time and neurons.

But I can paraphrase Pollivre. "We should have fewer people on bail, make bail harder to get, because people on bail are causing violence!". Except, with everything Pollivre regurgitates, it's only partly true. People on bail are causing violence. But most of them are not.

People who can't get bail are generally those who are poor. They can't afford a lawyer, so they have to rely on Legal Aid. People like Pollivre and Smith chronically underfund Legal Aid, so people who don't have lawyers stay in jail until they get a preliminary trial because that is all the time Legal Aid can afford them, and then maybe get bail which they cannot pay. So assuming they are innocent, like we should, then innocent people are in jail for nothing. They lose their jobs, and now have less money. And a harder time to get another job.

And Pollivre/Smith want that process to be harder, without any evidence that being on bail is causing violence. So they want innocent people to spend more time in jail.

None of these things make anything better. If they want fewer people on bail to commit crimes, change human nature or change the requirements for people with charges of violence to get bail. Which I believe, is not what he was calling for.

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Consolidating EMS dispatch didn’t improve issues: Alberta mayors

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What is the story with the Pro-Life Alberta Political Association?
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So a few days ago, CBC ran an article about how the party that used to be the Socreds is now a quiet anti-abortion fundraising group that also benefits from being a political party; and that they're the third-richest party in the province.

And I went looking to find some information about them, and came up empty. REALLY empty.

The party leader is apparently one Murray Ruhl, who has no online presence. Not just a lack of social media, but no searchable phone number, no address, corporate registry, nothing. The only mention of him on the internet AT ALL is a few articles tagging him as the reclusive and invisible leader of the party.

Richard Dur is the Executive Director, and apparently the person who took the party from $32 in 2020 to nearly $700k raised over 2021/22. Most of the money spent (which is most of the money taken in) goes to marketing, he says; and that he takes no salary as director.

However, he runs a small business called "Blue Direct" that does...marketing and fundraising for Conservatives. Unlike almost every other company in 2023, they have essentially no presence on Linkedin. In fact, you have to dig pretty deep to find one other employee, a Project Manager named Graham Gagnon...who happens to be the CFO of the party.

(Aside: there is a historical link between Blue Direct and a previous company called "Alberta Blue Strategies," co-owned by Richard Dur and Matt Gelinas - which was the company responsible for the 2011 robocall scandal.)

As for the party, they have a phone number, an email address, and a strip-mall bay in Spruce Cliff, Calgary with no markings.

Frankly, the whole thing stinks. It doesn't just sound like a single-issue special interest group collecting money to sway elections, it feels like Richard Dur is running the party on his own, to pay his own company.

Does Murray Ruhl actually exist? Does Graham Gagnon?

EDIT: So they have a new CFO - Thomas Cliplef. It seems fairly likely that he is Thomas David Wolfe Cliplef, a social worker at a local group home corporation. And their one and only candidate in the 2019 election was Lucas Hernandez, in Calgary-Currie. This time out, he's running in Calgary-Mountain View, although it is impossible to get in contact with him.

In fact, that's the thing: NONE of the people involved have much to say. None of them - even Richard Dur, the spokesman - mention the party in any of their (minuscule) online presences.

https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/commen ... e_alberta/

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https://www.libertyfund.org/


Danielle Smith has the logo of a far right organization tattooed on her arm.

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Alberta UCP at odds with own consultant over attack on NDP electricity plan

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Why we fall for political ads — especially the nasty ones

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Smith says sovereignty act, RCMP replacement and pension plan not in UCP campaign

Oh, good! They are abandoning those unpopular issues.

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Smith said things like the pension plan and replacing the RCMP can be revisited after the election.

Ahh, no. If you plan on introducing these measures you need approval from the people you represent. You govern, you don't rule.

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Context ^^ :

In resurfaced video, Danielle Smith ties vaccinated Albertans to those who fall for tyrants

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Ruhland, who said he is the son of Dutch immigrants who survived World War II, claimed Canadians' personal liberties were being violated by public health rules. He was not wearing a poppy during the podcast, recorded a day before Remembrance Day, which Smith noticed.

"They ruined it for me this year," Smith said of poppies. "The political leaders, standing on their soapbox, pretending that they care about all the things you just talked about.

"Pretending they understand the sacrifice, and not understanding that their actions are exactly the actions that our brave men and women in uniform are standing against."

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In reality, given his strong beliefs in all sorts of medical quackery and other such idiocies like astrology, Hitler would have assuredly been an anti-vaxxer if he'd ever encountered through something like COVID. It's easily imaginable that he would have dosed himself to the gills on horse paste, both to the point of death or to the point that it caused him some extra insanity, instead of taking any advice from any actual real doctor. He'd most likely regard anyone who got vaxxed as gullible idiots who'd been taken in by some sort of diabolical "Bolshevik Jew science".

I only had the one vax myself, out of the three or four that were recommended. Seemed like overkill to me to get that many injections in such a short period of time, given that I'm generally healthy, and was out of work & did zero socializing during the height of COVID. Guess that means I'm only 25 to 33 1/3% of a genuine Nazi according to the viewpoint of Danni & her freedumb-loving friends like Theo Fleury, Ezra Levant, and Art Pawlowski.

Smith apparently has no bottom level to eventually reach. Every day she finds a new low to sink to. Sarah Palin, Boebert, Taylor Greene, Kari Lake, Danielle Smith - what is it with "conservative" women these days that they go out of their way to behave in an even more putrid & rancid manner with their antics than even their male counterparts on the RWNJ end of the spectrum typically do?

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Firefighters question Alberta cuts to aerial attack teams as province battles blazes

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City of St. Albert publishes report of racist comments residents made during naming discussions

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'We need to control the party': a look inside Take Back Alberta's UCP insurgency

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"This is a war between the pro-humans and anti-humans," he said. Parker referred to abortion, and modern urban women's impulse to delay having children for their careers' sake.

He also argues that NDP and progressives want to depopulate society for the sake of the environment. "You are the carbon they are trying to reduce."

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In a newly uncovered video, Danielle Smith lays out her detailed plan to sell off “any of the hundred hospitals” that are part of our public healthcare system.

Not only does she want Albertans to pay to see a doctor, she wants to privatize hospitals too.

Video here: https://twitter.com/albertaNDP/status/1 ... 83841?s=20