“Get rid of Danielle Smith” isn’t a plan for Alberta’s future.

I support Jeff Rath’s removal from the UCP. My kids and grandson deserve more than endless political grudges.

What are we actually building for them?

#ABPoli #DanielleSmith #Alberta

If you’re not already following Moose on the Loose you should.

He is exposing Mark Carney MASSIVE SCAMS on Canadians in real time.

Jeff Rath Responds To The UCP!

I read it and my first thought was there was nothing stating how he was fighting for a better future!

Just @ABDanielleSmith is bad!

Starting to sound like a liberal…

Orange Man Bad!

Listen she isn’t perfect but guess what a leadership tually and we will get a choice!

My opinion is this!

Jeff Rath has made money off this!

How much has he billed the movement?

The more he keeps this going the more money he can make!

My opinion of course !

We're lowering and freezing provincial education property tax rates across Alberta.

The new rates will standardize and freeze provincial education property tax rates for three years. These changes will help municipalities budget with confidence and give Albertans greater for the years ahead.

Through Budget 2027, we're making changes that will:

✅ Deliver savings: an estimated $98.7 million in savings for Alberta property owners in 2027-28.

✅ Improve fairness: Apply consistent provincial education property tax rates across municipalities.

✅ Provide certainty: Give municipalities a predictable provincial tax rate to plan around when making decisions for their communities.

✅ Protect Albertans: Introduce a one-time transition tax credit in 2027 for property owners in communities where the new provincial rates would otherwise be higher.
 
No matter where Albertans live, they should be able to count on a fair, consistent and predictable approach to education property taxes.

@DuaneBratt Do you ever get tired of being wrong

All the Alberta NDP activists complaining about "gerrymandering" had nothing to say about Rachel Notley's Alberta NDP government consolidating rural ridings and creating 3 separate new urban ridings in Calgary and Edmonton.

Although the AB NDP was so unpopular by 2019 the save them from being washed out by the UCP.

The truth is what the UCP government is doing now is Un-gerrymandering the map so the Alberta NDP cannot win elections while losing the popular vote by a country mile.

The proposed boundary changes the UCP threw out last year would have made it EVEN EASIER for the NDP to win elections by making the urban slant of Calgary ridings worse.

The NDP is the party that can win elections while losing the popular vote by 8% and yet they are complaining about the UCP letting a judge better draw lines to not have a bunch of Calgary ridings all dog-leg into downtown to allow for the NDP to win while never trying to win votes outside of the urban core of Calgary and Edmonton.

Calgary-Elbow after the last redistricting looks like someone broke someone's elbow in the way it carves up suburban areas and cures around MRU to try and absorb some urban downtown neighbourhoods.

I'm running for Calgary-Currie's UCP nomination (shameless plug: wyattclaypool.com) and I never knew why the riding for some reason reaches downtown to Sunalta and Bankview yet Wildwood is not part of the riding but Sprucecliff is???

Not that my opinions on the map matter but I'm just pointing out the maps the Alberta NDP left us with are obviously designed to allow the NDP to win very tight victories by baking a bunch of downtown Calgary and Edmonton into several ridings to offset the popularity of the UCP province-wide.

Last election the NDP only lost on seat count by a couple thousand votes across the tightest ridings in Calgary, and if they did get those extra votes they would have had a majority despite losing the popular vote by more than 8%.

I don't believe in Proportional Representation based only on popular vote.

We need a balance between overall popular vote and local support. If a party wins the popular vote by 2% but losses on seats that's fine since one party being hyper-popular in one region should not necessary decide the election if the other party is winning more local races across the province.

BUT, obviously an 8-10% popular vote victory for one party in a 2 party system should logically always result in that party winning the most seats.

The NDP is mad that the map is becoming more fair and will better balance popular will across the province with local choice.

The NDP want to be able to ignore the majority of voters and sneak into office with tight victories in urban areas.

Calgary Mayor @JeromyYYC ran on a campaign of a 4 year tax freeze.
He just voted to 2x double our property taxes and raise our water rates by 74%
This shit should be criminal.

Tough day to be a tax/rate payer.

Council is advancing water rate hikes of up to 74% for homeowners and 95% for businesses by 2030.

When governments raise taxes and rates instead of cutting non-essential spending, those costs get passed straight through to customers. Higher cost of living, push up prices for goods and services, and fuel inflation, even at the municipal level.

Infrastructure is a core need. Terrible governance from the past council shouldn't fall on current tax-payers. Funding infrastructure by shaking down taxpayers and businesses while non-priority spending continues is just as a terrible choice as not funding in the first place.

Every Albertan knows the feeling. Tickets go on sale, they're gone in seconds, and an hour later the same seats show up online for three times the price, plus fees you only see at checkout.

Unreasonable ticket resale markups or ticket scalping can put these experiences out of fans. Through Bill 34, we're proposing new consumer protections to make ticket resale prices and fees more transparent, with the potential to limit excessive markups.

Seeing your favorite sports team or band live shouldn't be a luxury only scalpers can afford to sell you.

Total garbage. @DonBraid is literally just regurgitating exactly what is NDP buddies are telling him. Would be nice if he represented both sides of an issue for once.

One of the most respected court of appeal justices in Alberta history is chairing the boundary committee. It’s a lie to say that it’s the UCP. The maps aren’t even available yet (though clearly leaked to the NDP by someone).

In addition, Judge Miller and half the NDP caucus complained that there should be 2 additional seats added to account for population growth. So that was done and left to the independent judge-led committee to figure out how to do it. I assume they have done so.

Further, last election the NDP lost the popular vote by almost 10 percent and still almost ended up winning the most seats. So obviously they don’t want any change whatsoever that could level the playing field.

How do you explain that Don? Did the NDP gerrymander the map last go around under Notley? Was the 2023 election undemocratic too?

The UCP isn’t making that claim because it’s disrespectful of the people - including the judge - who did the hard work of determining those past boundaries.

Your bias is so clear Don. It’s disturbing.

This is so lame.

The Alberta NDP thinks redrawing some riding boundaries is trying to engineer the next election for the UCP when its in fact the AB NDP who has the ability to nearly win provincial election while losing the popular vote by 8.5%.

The original proposed map was thrown out because it was actually adding a further urban bias into the election when the urban bias in Alberta elections is already extremely bad.

To win the NDP needs several Calgary ridings to tip a toe into the very orange downtown or else they lose decisively.

The NDP are upset the map is being un-gerrymandered.

NEW: After a council vote yesterday, the City of Calgary has released the costs behind the $2.3M budget for the independent panel review of the 2024 Bearspaw feeder main break.

$2.276M was spent on paying the panel including more than $1.7M for the panel chair.

LETTER FROM UCP PRESIDENT ROB SMITH TO UCP PARTY:

Good evening, fellow UCP members,

Albertans have SPOKEN!

And as the governing party, we MUST listen!

About two-thirds of Albertans voted in last week's referendum, one of our largest turnouts ever. On Question #10, 3 in 4 Albertans chose our leader Premier Smith's vision: a stronger Alberta within a united Canada.

That also means 1 in 4 Albertans, including many UCP members, wanted to open the discussion on independence.

They are NOT to be ignored.

These are folks who love Alberta, just like the rest of us. Many of them are among our most dedicated volunteers, knocking on doors and making phone calls for UCP candidates in every riding. They are welcome in this party. We need them.

But the result is clear, and we must respect it.

You've likely heard about a handful of constituency associations asking for a Special General Meeting to request a leadership review. That is their right under our rules, and it has received A LOT of press.

Here are the facts. Under our rules, that meeting requires motions from 22 constituency associations. More than 65 constituency associations have instead passed motions supporting Premier Danielle Smith, with more to come before Remembrance Day.

That settles it.

There will be NO UCP leadership review before our next General Election.

Danielle Smith is our leader... today... tomorrow... and the foreseeable future.

I am thankful for this. I believe most of you are too.

Last Wednesday, Premier Smith asked for our support... and our UNITY as conservatives.

We know the alternative.

We lived it from 2015 to 2019, under the job-crushing, anti-energy NDP.

It was awful.

We cannot repeat it.

So let's focus on our many areas of agreement. There are far more of those than areas of disagreement. Let's work TOGETHER to win the 32nd Alberta General Election on Monday, October 18th, 2027, with a bigger majority than we have today.

Nothing is more important than that.

More than 6,000 of you are registered for our AGM at the BMO Centre in Calgary, and we're likely to hit 7,000 by the time we gather starting Friday, November 27th, to debate policy and kick off "Campaign '27".

A record 4,600+ members rated all 135 resolutions this year, more than twice as many as ever before. The resolutions going to the floor are now available at ucpagm.ca. If you have questions about where your resolution ranked, reach me at rsmith@unitedconservative.ca.

And to the thousands of members who volunteered as scrutineers last week, covering as much as 98% of polling stations: "thank you... from the bottom of my heart". You ensured democracy prevails.

It's going to take ALL OF US to win bigger next year.

ALL. OF. US!!!

UNITED conservatives. Always...

Cheers,

Rob Smith, President
UCP Board of Directors

Oh bullshit.

Your letter was shelved for 26 years and nothing was acted upon.

You think it was this year's events that killed it?

Get real.

There is a running gun-battle going on between Nenshi and Jeff Rath to see who can have more delusional takes on Danielle Smith after the referendum.

Nenshi is deliberately ignoring the fact that the case against the band councils who challenged the referendum in court is more about trying to fight back against bad precedent rather than the actual referendum itself.

Indigenous band governments cannot block citizens petitions based on vague reference to Indigenous rights and consultations.

The UCP is rightfully challenging their assertions in court because it could cause so many problems if you don’t in the future.

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Our fallen soldiers gave their lives defending the freedoms we enjoy today. Many paid the ultimate sacrifice and never made it home.

Wearing a poppy is a small gesture of respect for an enormous sacrifice.

Anyone serving Canadians should understand what that symbol means.

You don’t have to wear a poppy by law. But refusing to honour our fallen deserves serious questions.

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Europe's economy is in shambles and fracturing politically. The idea that they will lead the 'new world order' is laughable.

From a Canadian perspective, the push to join the EU is contrived and clearly not in the best interests of regular Canadians. It is about breathing life into a tired globalist establishment and bailing out a failed ideology.

AM I A DEI HIRE?

What a terrible question to have hanging over someone’s career simply because of the colour of their skin.

Imagine spending years studying, working hard, making sacrifices and earning your qualifications, only to have someone quietly wonder whether you got the lities, or you are another DEI hire?”

Think about how insulting that is. Years of hard work and achievement reduced to race. And here’s the cruel irony: policies intended to empower minorities can sometimes leave them having to defend the very success they worked so hard to achieve.

Let’s be clear. Racism and discrimination exist everywhere you go in the world. And for sure, civilized societies must confront them. And I believe many people who support DEI genuinely want to create a fairer society. But good intentions don’t always produce good outcomes, and we should be willing to question whether our approach is helping or hurting.

I want an Alberta where every child can grow up believing something simple: If I work hard, develop my abilities and earn my qualifications, I will have a fair opportunity to succeed.

Not because someone owes me a position. Not because an institution needs someone who looks like me. And certainly not because my background should define what others expect of me. But because I have something valuable to contribute.

That’s what true inclusion should mean. Creating a fair opportunity for people to enter the room, contribute, succeed and be respected without anyone questioning why they’re there.

That is why I wholeheartedly welcome Premier Danielle Smith’s government decision to introduce legislation aimed at putting merit and qualifications at the centre of public-sector hiring. Credit where credit is due!

The Premier is bringing an important debate about merit, fairness and individual dignity into the open.

We should NOT lower the bar but definitely remove the barriers. That’s exactly what this legislation is going to fix.

DEI is nothing but replace discrimination with another form of unfairness. And don’t reduce anyone’s achievements to their race.

Your skin colour is part of who you are. It should never be the explanation for what you’ve achieved.

That’s the Alberta I believe in.

And that’s why I support Premier Danielle Smith’s proposed public-sector hiring reforms. I admire her courage in tackling an issue that too often gets buried under political correctness and fear of controversy. Whether people agree with every detail or not, this is a debate worth having.

Leadership sometimes means having the courage to challenge conventional thinking, ask uncomfortable questions and stand up for what you believe is right, even when it isn’t politically convenient.

That’s the kind of courage I respect in Premier Smith. And that’s why I support her.

The best person for the job should get the job. Period.

Today we tabled legislation that would ensure hiring and promotion decisions in the public sector are based on merit, not DEI policies. Mandatory workplace training will be relevant to the roles and responsibilities of the ndatory DEI sessions.

Every Albertan deserves a fair shot, and fairness means everyone competes on the same terms.

This is a great headline to read.

Excited to work with British Columbia's new government and Premier Lorne Doerkson @LDoerkson to make Pacific Link a priority.

Alberta will continue to be strong neighbours with British Columbia and to champion the kind of free trade between nada stronger.