AB's Danielle Smith fights back against "Extreme Left"

[steven lloyd]

Partisan disinformation and lies is all the extreme right
have, and all they want everyone to listen to and believe.

True, as much as it's a sad social comment.

Yes, and yet all we are seeing is continual blatant partisan disinformation and lies in this very thread coming from the right wing extremists. Weird how that works.

[Glacier]

The only progressiveness that will result from Danielle Smith is Notley's NDP being inevitably re-elected.

Comedy gold.

Please check back after next Alberta Provincial election.

I'll bet you $1,000 that UCP defeats NDP.

LOL. I agree with you that she is very likely to win, probably 80 to 90% odds. I'll bet pappywinkle $100 the UCP wins a major government.

[The Green Barbarian]

Yes, and yet all we are seeing is continual blatant partisan disinformation and lies in this very thread coming from the right wing extremists. Weird how that works.

So "right wing extremists" now pump the NDP with blatant "partisan disinformation". So weird! Do those guys know that the NDP are communist scum?

[fluffy]

I agree with you that she is very likely to win, probably 80 to 90% odds. I'll bet pappywinkle $100 the UCP wins a major government.

It's going to one to watch for sure. On this second day of the campaign the one common thread in all the coverage I have seen is that it will be a very close race. The NDP have to gain over 20 seats from the last election to form a government, no small feat, but the UCP is best described as "wobbly" at this point in time, rife with internal differences.


“Religious freedom is the cornerstone of western civilization,” Mr. Parker (Leader of "Take Back Alberta") tells the crowd, which is sprinkled with Mennonite women wearing black head scarves.

“If we don’t have the freedom to believe what we want to believe, we have no freedom at all. And if we don’t have sovereignty over our own bodies, we have sovereignty over nothing.”

Take Back Alberta is an ambitious effort to influence power and remake society’s institutions to reflect the values that thread its followers together.

It is a network of people united by an individualistic understanding of rights and freedoms that is pulling Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party further to the right. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on May 1 will officially trigger a provincial election, scheduled for May 29. Her ties to Mr. Parker, and TBA’s impact on the UCP, are increasingly divisive in the province and her party.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ ... -movement/

[The Green Barbarian]

“Religious freedom is the cornerstone of western civilization,” Mr. Parker (Leader of "Take Back Alberta") tells the crowd, which is sprinkled with Mennonite women wearing black head scarves.

So now the NDP and the Extreme Left are targeting Mennonites for their hate? Is there no low too low for the NDP?

[oldtrucker]

Comedy gold.

Please check back after next Alberta Provincial election.

I'll bet you $1,000 that UCP defeats NDP.

LOL. I agree with you that she is very likely to win, probably 80 to 90% odds. I'll bet pappywinkle $100 the UCP wins a major government.

No, no and no.
To a rich guy losing money isn't painful. I say maximum pain...
The loser of the bet has to go to a nightclub of the winners choice and do ABBA...Dancing Queen solo on the dance floor.
Pain...

[Spiff]

So now the NDP and the Extreme Left are targeting Mennonites for their hate? Is there no low too low for the NDP?

All groups.

For sure no low to low.

"Alberta NDP vows no exams during cultural and religious holidays

In a campaign announcement, the Alberta NDP said it will ensure K-12 and post-secondary exams are scheduled away from important cultural and religious holidays, if elected this spring."

https://www.airdrietoday.com/beyond-loc ... s%20spring.

Shame on them

[fluffy]

So, no religious holidays ?

[Spiff]

So, no religious holidays ?

No, she's telling them to take a holiday (hike) when they should be writing school exams.

[fluffy]

No, she's telling them to take a holiday (hike) when they should be writing school exams.

I think that's a mis-characterization. From the article you linked to:

"In a campaign announcement, the Alberta NDP said it will ensure K-12 and post-secondary exams are scheduled away from important cultural and religious holidays, if elected this spring."

It looks to me like they are saying that other religions should get the same consideration that Christians receive.

[Spiff]

No, she's telling them to take a holiday (hike) when they should be writing school exams.

I think that's a mis-characterization. From the article you linked to:

"In a campaign announcement, the Alberta NDP said it will ensure K-12 and post-secondary exams are scheduled away from important cultural and religious holidays, if elected this spring."

It looks to me like they are saying that other religions should get the same consideration that Christians receive.

Damn, you caught me.

Well, what could I expect?

I've yet to become as proficient at creating misinformation as them right wingers are here.

[Spiff]

The latest fun thing about Danielle Smith.

NEW

‘We Want to See It Win in Coutts’: Video Shows Danielle Smith Endorsing Illegal Convoy Blockade

UCP leader and top adviser voiced support for ‘beautiful’ border blockade, describing it as a ‘line in the sand’ against public health measures

https://pressprogress.ca/we-want-to-see ... -blockade/

A newly resurfaced video shows Alberta UCP leader Danielle Smith endorsed the Ottawa convoy occupation and Coutts border blockade as a means to force an end to public health measures across Canada.

Last week, Smith faced heavy criticism after posing for photos with James Bauder, a prominent convoy organizer who is now facing extensive criminal charges. Smith denies knowing who Bauder is, though Bauder himself doesn’t buy her story.

But the UCP leader’s recent attempt to distance herself from the convoy stand in clear contrast with her own past statements.

Several months before her whirlwind rise to Premier of Alberta, Smith endorsed the convoy occupation of Ottawa and illegal blockade at the Canada-US border in Coutts, Alberta during an appearance on a right-wing website.

A massive police operation would eventually end the Ottawa convoy occupation while four heavily armed individuals associated with far-right extremist groups were arrested in Coutts on charges they were conspiring to murder police.

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Neither the UCP nor Danielle Smith’s spokesperson responded to requests for comment from PressProgress.

In recent months, Smith has been embroiled in a scandal over judicial interference allegations after a secret video recording showed her assuring Artur Pawloski, one of the leaders of the Coutts blockade, that she would speak to prosecutors about his criminal charges, adding that she speaks to prosecutors “almost weekly.”

Smith tells Pawloski she will follow up with her top adviser, Rob Anderson, noting that she did not want to get into the same “hot water” that Justin Trudeau did during the SNC Lavalin scandal.

On Tuesday, Pawlowski was found guilty on charges of mischief for encouraging convoy supporters to continue blocking the border, as well as wilfully damaging or destroying essential infrastructure and a breaching a release order.

(side link)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6828385

Now for anyone's independent verification on what she said above, here’s the full video of Smith’s interview posted on YouTube a year ago.



Notably not mentioned in the story above, “ . . . the federal government can do whatever it wants and we just have to be peaceful and orderly about it. . . .”

Go Danielle Go! Approve of violence and chaos to overrule Ottawa!

[The Green Barbarian]

It looks to me like they are saying that other religions should get the same consideration that Christians receive.

Yes those pesky "Christians" - the most hated of all if you are a bigoted and disgusting NDP lover. Man the NDP are awful.

[Spiff]

The NDP is awesome! Go Rachel Go!

[Spiff]

Earlier here I posted a recording of the Smith-Pawlowski phone call on Pg 24, April 1, at 9:30 am.

Also. earlier here I posted a link to his recent convictions related to that call.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6828385

And now Pawlowski says he’ll talk about (the) phone call with Danielle Smith.

Artur Pawlowski says he’ll talk about phone call with Danielle Smith soon

https://chatnewstoday.ca/2023/05/02/art ... mith-soon/

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski says he will be telling his side of the story in a week about his now-infamous phone call with Premier Danielle Smith.

The NDP released a copy of the call in March in which Smith can be heard offering him help in his criminal case.

After being found guilty today for inciting protesters to maintain their blockade at the Coutts, Alta. border crossing last year, he said he has a message for the UCP leader.

He says she (Smith) should be ashamed of herself for not standing up for the little guy and he trusts his dog more than most politicians.

Pawlowski wouldn’t discuss the call but promised all the details will be released soon.

He says the court was making an example of him by finding him guilty.

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So stand by for this upcoming edition of the Danielle Smith phone-in show.