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@AntibioticDoc@med-mastodon.com · 8 hours ago

TL;DR: Alberta would need 11 hospitals in Edmonton and Calgary to be resourced to the Canadian average.
1/6 🏥 Why is Alberta’s healthcare system under such strain? It’s not "management"—it’s a numbers problem 40 years in the making. Let’s look at the data. 🧵 #AbLeg #CdnHealth

Lynora Saxinger

@AntibioticDoc@med-mastodon.com · 8 hours ago

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Ned Yeung

@ned@beige.party · yesterday

From 2022...

'This is wild.

All Albertans must read this.

UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”.

This isn’t normal.'

- Thomas Lukazuk

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #corruption

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Thomas A. Lukaszuk
@LukaszukAB

@Alberta_UCP
This is wild.

All Albertans must read this.

UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”.

This isn’t normal.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Thomas A. Lukaszuk
@LukaszukAB

Mar 25, 2023
.@AbDanielleSmith Perhaps Albertans may need more clarity on this before they vote?

“To prop up pipeline giant TC Energy, Jason Kenney’s government set up numbered companies in Delaware. Here’s what the companies are doing now.”

#ableg #abpoli

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-tc-energy-kxl-delaware/

10:25 AM · Mar 26, 2023 · 462.9K Views — Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB @Alberta_UCP This is wild. All Albertans must read this. UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”. This isn’t normal. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB Mar 25, 2023 .@AbDanielleSmith Perhaps Albertans may need more clarity on this before they vote? “To prop up pipeline giant TC Energy, Jason Kenney’s government set up numbered companies in Delaware. Here’s what the companies are doing now.” #ableg #abpoli https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-tc-energy-kxl-delaware/ 10:25 AM · Mar 26, 2023 · 462.9K Views

The building at 1209 Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware, isn’t the first place Albertans might associate with their government’s push for pipelines.

You won’t see any politicians wearing construction hats and standing behind podiums at this two-storey, yellow-brick structure.

It is home, however, to a popular service that offers companies a registered address to receive official documents within the state, even if its owners are not physically present there. Walmart, Verizon and eBay have all used its services, state records show.

Another client was a Delaware-based firm named 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. Behind the company’s vague name is a familiar face: Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage.

The minister, a former pipeline industry lobbyist, is responsible for the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, a provincial Crown corporation tasked with selling the province’s oil and gas to the world.

The commission owns 100 per cent of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. It created the company on March 30, 2020, just one day before the commission entered into an investment deal with TC Energy Corp., the oil and gas giant behind the Keystone XL pipeline project, to commit up to $7.5 billion in public money to subsidize the multinational company.

The numbered company was not the only one that the commission would use in its investment deal with TC Energy. It would ultimately work through four other numbered companies — two more based in Delaware and two in Alberta. — The building at 1209 Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware, isn’t the first place Albertans might associate with their government’s push for pipelines. You won’t see any politicians wearing construction hats and standing behind podiums at this two-storey, yellow-brick structure. It is home, however, to a popular service that offers companies a registered address to receive official documents within the state, even if its owners are not physically present there. Walmart, Verizon and eBay have all used its services, state records show. Another client was a Delaware-based firm named 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. Behind the company’s vague name is a familiar face: Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage. The minister, a former pipeline industry lobbyist, is responsible for the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, a provincial Crown corporation tasked with selling the province’s oil and gas to the world. The commission owns 100 per cent of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. It created the company on March 30, 2020, just one day before the commission entered into an investment deal with TC Energy Corp., the oil and gas giant behind the Keystone XL pipeline project, to commit up to $7.5 billion in public money to subsidize the multinational company. The numbered company was not the only one that the commission would use in its investment deal with TC Energy. It would ultimately work through four other numbered companies — two more based in Delaware and two in Alberta.

The business structure demonstrates the lengths to which Alberta went to invest taxpayer money in Keystone XL — including up to $7 million in “administration and finance costs” according to a provincial audit. The province made this financial gamble at a time when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney admitted, in an April 2, 2020, speech to the provincial legislature, that the project was already facing significant “political risk.”

The purpose of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd., according to the commission’s annual report, was to allow Alberta to help finance the costs of building the U.S. portion of the pipeline, which was meant to massively expand Canadian crude oil exports from Alberta. It would have brought 830,000 barrels per day of crude from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Nebraska.

The project, however, actually left the province on the hook for $1.333 billion, according to Alberta auditor general Doug Wylie. Alberta shared in the financial pain that the company suffered after U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office that revoked the pipeline’s permit.

Biden, noting that the planet is facing a climate crisis, said the project would “undermine U.S. climate leadership” and make it harder for Americans to influence other countries to take ambitious climate action.

TC Energy pulled the plug on Keystone XL a few months later in June 2021 and its assets plummeted in value. — The business structure demonstrates the lengths to which Alberta went to invest taxpayer money in Keystone XL — including up to $7 million in “administration and finance costs” according to a provincial audit. The province made this financial gamble at a time when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney admitted, in an April 2, 2020, speech to the provincial legislature, that the project was already facing significant “political risk.” The purpose of 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd., according to the commission’s annual report, was to allow Alberta to help finance the costs of building the U.S. portion of the pipeline, which was meant to massively expand Canadian crude oil exports from Alberta. It would have brought 830,000 barrels per day of crude from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Nebraska. The project, however, actually left the province on the hook for $1.333 billion, according to Alberta auditor general Doug Wylie. Alberta shared in the financial pain that the company suffered after U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office that revoked the pipeline’s permit. Biden, noting that the planet is facing a climate crisis, said the project would “undermine U.S. climate leadership” and make it harder for Americans to influence other countries to take ambitious climate action. TC Energy pulled the plug on Keystone XL a few months later in June 2021 and its assets plummeted in value.

“The paper trail should be there through the whole thing,” he said in an April 26 interview. People looking at corporate registers, he said, shouldn’t have to cross-check their search with company names in annual reports.

When The Narwhal searched for the corporate records in Delaware, it found that 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. was assessed on March 2, 2022, as “delinquent” for failing to pay US$386.26 in taxes or file an updated annual report.

Asked about this, the provincial commission’s chief of staff, Lynda Gwilliam, told The Narwhal in an email that the company’s taxes “were initially delayed, but have since been filed with the appropriate bodies.”

Gwilliam did not provide an explanation for the delay, but wrote that its Delaware corporate structure was nothing out of the ordinary.

“For the partnership with TC Energy to build [Keystone XL], the [Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission] set up companies in both countries, as is a common practice in such situations,” Gwilliam wrote on April 22.

“These companies were utilized to construct the [Keystone XL] project and were in no way a ‘backup plan’ related to any subsequent NAFTA claim.”

Torso of a man holding a map showing where a pipeline will cross in Montana.
A man displays a printout of where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would have crossed in Montana. The small circles are locations identified as burial or sacred grounds. Photo: Sara Hylton — “The paper trail should be there through the whole thing,” he said in an April 26 interview. People looking at corporate registers, he said, shouldn’t have to cross-check their search with company names in annual reports. When The Narwhal searched for the corporate records in Delaware, it found that 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. was assessed on March 2, 2022, as “delinquent” for failing to pay US$386.26 in taxes or file an updated annual report. Asked about this, the provincial commission’s chief of staff, Lynda Gwilliam, told The Narwhal in an email that the company’s taxes “were initially delayed, but have since been filed with the appropriate bodies.” Gwilliam did not provide an explanation for the delay, but wrote that its Delaware corporate structure was nothing out of the ordinary. “For the partnership with TC Energy to build [Keystone XL], the [Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission] set up companies in both countries, as is a common practice in such situations,” Gwilliam wrote on April 22. “These companies were utilized to construct the [Keystone XL] project and were in no way a ‘backup plan’ related to any subsequent NAFTA claim.” Torso of a man holding a map showing where a pipeline will cross in Montana. A man displays a printout of where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would have crossed in Montana. The small circles are locations identified as burial or sacred grounds. Photo: Sara Hylton

Ned Yeung

@ned@beige.party · yesterday

From 2022...

'This is wild.

All Albertans must read this.

UCP set up a web of numbered companies in USA with UCP current cabinet ministers as directors. Unpaid US taxes, strange transactions, $7,000,000.00 “administration fees”.

This isn’t normal.'

- Thomas Lukazuk

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #corruption

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WanderingHuman 🇨🇦

@ECityMom@mstdn.ca · yesterday

Fuuuuck.
Alberta's courts are already a disaster.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804

WanderingHuman 🇨🇦

@ECityMom@mstdn.ca · yesterday

Fuuuuck.
Alberta's courts are already a disaster.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804

Chris Corrigan

@chriscorrigan@mstdn.ca · yesterday

@kevinrns @harold What does this even mean?

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied · yesterday

@chriscorrigan @harold

There is no method for the federal government to remove provincial governments, even ones that use the Notwithstanding Clause to take rights from people, as Smith has.

Using the Notwithstanding Clause, that stupidly gives non existing powers to provincial governments, to give the federal government powers it does not have, to remove them, is a hilarious satire of the arrogant ugly Alberta Government of traitors.

#hubris #temptation #dante #damned #ableg #cdnpoli

runsmooth

@runsmooth@coffee-time.org · 2 days ago

Danielle Smith says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection

Smith’s Been Attacking the Justice System For A While Now

Premier Smith’s claims that Alberta has no say in the selection of judges is false. She’s basically got a hatchet, and she’s pummelling the Justice System with it.

https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/239049/danielle-smith-says-alberta-will-withhold-funding-for-judges-without-more-input-on-selec

#EthicalFading #AlbertaUnderSiege #AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli

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Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

Now that oil cultists have pulled out knives to Stab Canada in The Back for the Nazi pedophile threatening us all 🇨🇦, let's end all money for oil forever.

Fund solar jobs, wind jobs. Deport oil execs.

Forever. Zero. No pipelines, no exploration. No subsidies. No filth port.

Let's end oil, zero spending.
Let's build roofs of solar, and kilometres of wind. Let's build Canada, let's build the future, let's END OIL.

Net Zero Oil Spending.

#cdnpoli #endOil #pathway #ableg

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Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

All Alberta papers, big & small are owned by an American billionaire Trump ally.

Bought for this

Trump is trying to turn Alberta into a civil war in Canada, before his invasion, with Alberta Premier Smith.

All these Alberta papers owned by same 🇺🇸 Trumpist

Calgary Herald
Edmonton Journal

Bow Valley Crag & Canyon
Edmunton SUN
Calgary SUN

Cold Lake Sun
Fort McMurray Today
Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune
Lloydminster Meridian Booster
Pincher Creek Echo

And more. (Many)

#cdnpoli #ableg

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Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

Now that oil cultists have pulled out knives to Stab Canada in The Back for the Nazi pedophile threatening us all, let's end all money for oil forever.

Forever. Zero. No pipelines, no exploration. No subsidies. No filthy port.

Let's end oil, zero spending.
Let's build roofs of solar, and kilometres of wind. Let's build Canada, let's build the future, let's END OIL.

Net Zero Oil Spending.

#cdnpoli #endOil #pathway #ableg #bcpoli #onpoli #qcpoli

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

All Alberta papers, big & small are owned by an American billionaire Trump ally.

Bought for this

Trump is trying to turn Alberta into a civil war in Canada, before his invasion, with Alberta Premier Smith.

All these Alberta papers owned by same 🇺🇸 Trumpist

Calgary Herald
Edmonton Journal

Bow Valley Crag & Canyon
Edmunton SUN
Calgary SUN

Cold Lake Sun
Fort McMurray Today
Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune
Lloydminster Meridian Booster
Pincher Creek Echo

And more. (Many)

#cdnpoli #ableg

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

Now that oil cultists have pulled out knives to Stab Canada in The Back for the Nazi pedophile threatening us all, let's end all money for oil forever.

Forever. Zero. No pipelines, no exploration. No subsidies. No filthy port.

Let's end oil, zero spending.
Let's build roofs of solar, and kilometres of wind. Let's build Canada, let's build the future, let's END OIL.

Net Zero Oil Spending.

#cdnpoli #endOil #pathway #ableg #bcpoli #onpoli #qcpoli

runsmooth

@runsmooth@coffee-time.org · 6 days ago

Real Politik as Effective Representation?

Alberta presents a new challenge to Canadians. When a politician, such as Danielle Smith and others, face allegations of corruption, of disarming government processes of ethics and accountability in conflicts of interest, and of support for separatists, where is the red line? Do Canadians even have effective representation from such a UCP? Have the UCP behaved in such a dishonest, dishonourable, and unprincipled fashion, in a sustained period of time, that they have finally denied Canadians of effective representation?

https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/231573/smith-mlas-have-signed-referendum-petition-alberta-separatist-claims

https://globalnews.ca/news/11644899/alberta-referendum-petition/

#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli

#EthicalFading #AlbertaUnderSiege

Global News

Smith MLAs have signed referendum petition, Alberta separatist claims

A leader of Alberta's separatist movement says some members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus have signed the petition.