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  1. Oh, here we go again with your conservative conspiracy theories. I honestly think Your anger with conservatives consumes most of your life, LOL.
  2. I'm not really sure what you are showing me. I also noticed you didn't comment on all the debt the NDP added. And also why is the Alberta Heritage fund any concern of yours? Do you guys now want that money also? OMG, when is enough enough last time I checked we still fund the country the most. And get nothing back in return, so I'm not really sure why any money would be of any concern of yours.
  3. Uh wut? Was it the NDP that added 40 billion in debt?
  4. What does the UCP government and job numbers Have to do with wexit?
  5. I think you should get paid for making people look stupid. You would be a real rich guy. You know what? I don't understand though ftg. How these same three or four have such an obsession with Alberta? Yet they tell us how BC is so great. But all they ever do is obsess over, Alberta.
  6. I feel like the same people that want to Not talk about the Injustices done to First Nations communities Are the same people crying racism in the Trump thread. So why is it they want to ignore What happened in this country to our indigenous people? Because that in itself was a complete travesty and Injustice. And no apologies will ever be acceptable. But together we can try to move forward to a better future.
  7. That's why I would say. You should look at the Alberta approach. I know we make jokes back and fourth. However, Alberta has always done a good job of including its first Nations population in energy projects.
  8. Forget the economy. It does amazing things for Global emissions. Listen buddy we tease back and fourth. But honestly, we need to lift First Nations communities out of poverty. Projects like this will do just that while also. Lowering our Global emissions footprint
  9. the lower mainland and Quebec have drastically hurt the Canadian economy.
  10. Well first of all so many are uneducated on this matter and rightfully so as it's very complex. This "we give them enough money" is utter nonsense and shows how little some are educated on the matter. "The numbers " is irrelevant as Canada should insure all it's citizens are free and given the same opportunity. I know you don't mean anything rude by it and you're just curious. Make no mistake the treatment of indigenous people is disgraceful and inhumane, a country as rich as Canada can supply all, ALL it's citizens with safe drinking water. Also make no mistake the treatment and racism shown to First Nations people took place because of our governments feeling they were inferior. One of the few good things Harper ever did was his apology to First Nations for residential schools and he pointed out how they were viewed as less equal.
  11. Actually they have been that way for a while and the Americans love it. Canada is so resource rich and yet the americans have cost Alberta and the rest of Canada so much.
  12. considering our neighbour does a lot of fracking in the very sensitive Zone you are talkin about I guess it really makes little difference..
  13. But your wife is a Canucks fan so we let you hang out here.
  14. 1) Gross..why? 2) you aren't wrong. Especially Saskatchewan.
  15. The treatment of first nations is an absolute disgrace and all we get from both parties is fake apologies and lip service. I really like the Alberta approach of directly do business with First Nation reserves, energy, fracking and allowing them to open businesses to empower their communities and show we are united in building a better future for the younger generation. @Jimmy McGill and myself have long said TMX needs to be sold to first nations to bring in more revenue for their people.
  16. No, he's probably in the Trump thread calling Trump a racist.
  17. Yet the social justice Warriors pack the Trump thread complaining about Injustices done to black people. Certainly they have been thru a lot throughout their history. But yeah the numbers don't lie.
  18. Hey I like KOS...specifically his political views and his love for southern Alberta.
  19. @kingofsurrey Like I said "king Ralph." Ralph Klein’s chief of staff once described his boss as “a cat with nine lives.” Klein committed a multitude of blunders during his 26 year career in civic and provincial politics that most politicians would not have survived. Some even called him the Teflon premier because no controversy seemed to stick to him for very long. Martha and Henry and the Grundys, as Klein often called the average Albertan, could not hold a grudge. Here’s a look at nine headline grabbing mini-scandals of Klein’s colourful career. 1. Bums and Creeps Klein never did call newcomers to Alberta “bums and creeps” when he was Calgary mayor. What he did say at a Calgary Newcomers Club dinner on Jan. 6, 1982, was his city does not welcome “bums” and he’ll protect Calgarians from “a lot of creeps” looking for work. Although he never used the word “eastern” he claimed there were more Quebeckers in Calgary jails than First Nations people. What Klein was trying to say was the city did not need unskilled, uneducated, and unemployed transients from other provinces who would simply add to the unemployment lines, welfare rolls and jail populations. But the comment vilified Klein in central and Eastern Canada. 2. Flipping the ‘bird’ As environment minister in Don Getty’s cabinet in 1990, Klein took heat from environmentalists at a press conference to announce the approval of the controversial Alberta Pacific pulp mill. First Nations communities were upset the pulp mills were polluting lakes and streams, and environmentalists were calling for tougher pollution controls. And they didn’t always express themselves politely. When bearded and parka-clad activist Randy Lawrence came up to the stage to give each of the officials at the press conference “the finger,” Klein flipped him the same gesture in return. A photographer captured the one-finger salute and, once again, Klein was in hot water for his unseemly behaviour. 3. Multi-Corp The Multi-Corp scandal in 1995 nearly ended Klein’s reign as premier only three years after it began. Liberal Frank Bruseker pushed Klein’s career to the edge when he revealed the premier’s wife Colleen had purchased shares in the computer software company shortly after Klein had participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company’s Hong Kong office. It turned out to be a sweetheart deal since Colleen wasn’t required to pay for the shares, which she acquired at below market price, until she sold them. Klein vowed to resign if Ethics Commissioner Bob Clark found him guilty. Clark eventually ruled there had been a technical breach of the law, but that it had been unintentional. 4. Shoot, shovel and shut-up One of Klein’s most remembered remarks occurred in the midst of the 2003 mad cow crisis when he infamously told a meeting of Western Governors in Big Sky, Mont., that “any self respecting rancher would have shot, shovelled and shut up” after discovering one of his cows was suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. “Instead he took it to an abattoir and it was discovered after testing in both Winnipeg and the U.K. that this cow had mad cow disease,” the premier said. His spokesman at the time said Klein was just being sarcastic and was not advocating ranchers cover up the discovery of sick cows on their farms. The premier’s comment was slammed by opposition critics and industry officials. 5. Drunk at a drop-in centre Klein’s early morning visit to an inner city homeless shelter in Edmonton in September 2001 prompted him to address his drinking in a very public way. Klein eventually admitted he stopped at the Herb Jamieson Centre on his way home from dinner and drinks with friends and became argumentative with several men he found sitting in the foyer. Witnesses said the premier was slurring, cursing and yelling at the men to get jobs. “All I can say is that if I caused any inconvenience or any uproar I certainly apologize,” Klein said. “But there was no malice intended whatsoever.” Friends say Klein quietly became a big supporter of homeless shelters in the wake of the incident. He also stopped drinking in public. 6. The AISH remarks It was most often Klein’s tongue that got him into trouble. When he went off script, his communications director would cringe. During the 2004 election campaign, he told a Calgary crowd of supporters about two women he’d encountered who were smoking cigarettes outside and “yipping” at him to raise payments provided under Alberta’s Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped or AISH program. “They didn’t look severely handicapped to me,” he remarked to the crowd. The crack sparked a storm of controversy during a campaign that had been until that point deathly boring and it cost the Tories about 200,000 votes, compared to what they had garnered in the previous election. 7. Pinochet, plagiarism and the paper Sometimes Klein’s efforts to pull himself out of trouble just got him in deeper. His remark in the legislature in May 2004 that socialism drove Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to mount a coup, had him scrambling the next day to clarify what he meant. With angry protesters on the steps of the legislature demanding he apologize, Klein tabled a rambling 13-page essay he wrote on the subject for a correspondence course in communications. Two days later, he was branded a plagiarist for lifting much of the paper from various websites without proper attribution. His education minister then compounded the controversy by phoning the heads of universities to urge them to write letters to newspapers defending the premier. 8. “You calling me a liar?” A rare appearance by Klein before an all-party legislature committee probing his expenses turned into bizarre theatre in May 2004 when the premier harangued Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman and demanded to know if she was calling him a liar. Blakeman drew his ire when she requested he provide a copy of a receipt to prove he paid $2,500 for using government aircraft to take a side trip to a Nova Scotia golf course during a premier’s conference in Atlantic Canada. In a scene reminiscent of Robert De Niro in the movie Taxi Driver, the exasperated premier repeatedly inquired: “Are you calling me a liar?” Blakeman stood her ground. “The nastier he got, the nicer I got,” she said later. 9. “I don’t need this crap.” Near the end of Klein’s reign, after announcing he planned to retire in 2007, he seemed uncharacteristically cranky. During one boisterous session in the legislature, in which he was attacked over his proposed health care reforms, the Liberals bench sent a 17-year-old page to deliver the premier a copy of their policy book. Klein muttered: “I don’t need this crap,” and immediately tossed it, narrowly missing the legislative page. After fielding some angry phone calls, Klein called the page, Jennifer Huygen, to apologize for the incident and explain that the booklet, which he said he tossed over his shoulder, wasn’t aimed at her. “I was frustrated. I made a mistake — a big mistake,” Klein said.
  20. He is the greatest leader in the history of the world!!
  21. You don't understand, can't admit Alberta has the right idea..I mean how could he agree with a bunch of inbred rednecks drunk on Copenhagen.
  22. Oh I'm messing with you, I know the story. Did hip say it wasn't true? If so wow it was pretty big news. But he generally only follows Facebook I think.
  23. I mean who doesn't trust the Communist Broadcasting Corporation..
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