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Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
[Violence against women is the] "single greatest human rights violation of our generation."
"I do what I do in my mother's name, because I couldn't help her then. Now I can."
-Sir Patrick Stewart
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Some pretty wild takeaways from today's electoral boundaries committee meeting:
Lethbridge would be split into FOUR ridings instead of its current two urban ones. Three would combine city neighbourhoods with surrounding rural areas.
Three urban-rural hybrid ridings are proposed along Calgary's northwest and western edges. Springbank gets split up. Kathleen Ganley questioned why the panel was citing GOLF COURSES to justify its boundaries.
Okotoks and Diamond Valley would be split apart, with Diamond Valley paired with Banff. The panel's dissenting members say public submissions overwhelmingly favoured keeping them together.
Ganley says Calgary and Edmonton ridings would average 7,000 more residents per MLA than ridings outside those cities. That's a 14 percent difference.
The NDP wanted to put its concerns about the maps on the record. UCP MLAs voted 3–2 to end the committee's review before those motions could even be considered.
The NDP also wanted taxpayers to know how much the panel and its outside consultants were paid. UCP MLAs voted that down too. Ganley says the panel chair gets an extra $5,000/month on top of regular pay.
The UCP says the maps should be debated in the Legislature once they're public. The NDP wanted the committee to scrutinize them now.
Meanwhile, Albertans still haven't seen the maps. The report is due November 2.
#ableg #abpoli
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
The UCP doesn’t want Albertans to see their new electoral maps. Why? Maybe it’s because they don’t want everyone to know they're desperately trying to rig the next election by gerrymandering your riding.
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Host: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: In the '70s I was too young to get go to South America for the Jonestown massacre, so this is as close as I'll get. There's nothing like seeing a cult up close.
Host: Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
“You reportedly sought the chatbot’s advice on carrying out some of
your presidential duties, including asking Grok to opine on how Venezuelans would respond to
the capture of Pres. Nicolás Maduro”
Democratic House committee leaders seek Trump “chatbot” records from White House
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgeho…
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
ALT Eden, a patient admitted to Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
‼️ Urgent: the situation in Oleshky.
The power of social media is real. Whether through X, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp or Viber, people can speak for themselves and share the truth; even when politicians try to obscure the reality.
This is the message I received this morning from Oleshky:
“Yes, it’s all a staged show. They’re cleaning all the streets, painting the curbs, and sprucing everything up for the cameras. They’re trying to create a pretty picture in the middle of hell.
Meanwhile, the Russian military is demining everything and carrying ammo and supplies to their positions — and soon all of that will be flying toward Kherson (((
The number of troops in the city has increased dramatically, there are so many of them...”
Please reshare and let those people speak up!
@ZarinaZabrisky @anneapplebaum @CaolanReports
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
At one point @ABDanielleSmith had Albertans paying the salaries of 5 of Sam Mraiche’s relatives…right Danielle? @UCPCaucus
Explain half your cabinet?? @UCPCaucus
Better yet @ABDanielleSmith
Explain your inner circle and @FreeAlbertaRob and @McAllisterBruce !!!
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Seems like wanting to "level the playing field" is Rob finally saying the quiet part out loud.
Redrawing maps to make it easier to win elections is the definition of gerrymandering - that's why we've always used an independent commission.
Don't let them cheat.
#ableg
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
A horrific Russian strike on the railway station in Dnipro. The Russians launched a drone attack on a platform where an ordinary commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing. Unfortunately, 13 people have been confirmed killed as of now. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Ten more people were injured. All necessary emergency services are working at the scene.
Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating? This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation – sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues. It is time for new, stronger sanctions steps by the EU, the United States, and the G7. I thank everyone who is ready to help in this way.
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
“Newsmax journalists” is an oxymoron. For the truth about this Russian-US Potemkin campaign, read @ZarinaZabrisky
bettedangerous.com/p/urgent-…
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Get ready for the unfolding of a Russian propaganda operation, carried out with the aid of the White House, in the battered town of Oleshky. From @ZarinaZabrisky, who has been reporting from Kherson, just across the river, since 2023
theatlantic.com/internationa…
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
When is embezzlement not legally embezzlement?
When the government changes the laws to allow themselves to absorb almost $300 million from the Alberta Law Foundation.
Kinda like making recieving gifts not a conflict of interest by changing the Conflict of Interest Act...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Danielle Smith needs to cheat to beat the NDP in Lethbridge.
Time to go to court.
Jesus Christ - watching the Alberta Leg committee on the boundaries change, @nenshi confirmed the UCP is going to split Lethbridge up (likely the four way split we saw in the minority maps) and the Calgary rural-urban split seats.
Shameful @ABDanielleSmith, dirty cheater. #ableg
Rusty 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
