[SarcasticMarmot]

Alberta law foundation says minister nixed $10M in funding for legal groups as new bill threatens to 'politicize' grants

The United Conservative government's Bill 39 is politicizing funding for legal groups, leading to $10 million in lost funding for low-income community law clinics and Indigenous legal services, a group of non-profits say.

edmontonjournal.com

These guys really are the worst.

 

[Gronk!]

Alberta law foundation says minister nixed $10M in funding for legal groups as new bill threatens to 'politicize' grants

The United Conservative government's Bill 39 is politicizing funding for legal groups, leading to $10 million in lost funding for low-income community law clinics and Indigenous legal services, a group of non-profits say.

edmontonjournal.com

These guys really are the worst.

I know, right?

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[David A]

Alberta law foundation says minister nixed $10M in funding for legal groups as new bill threatens to 'politicize' grants

The United Conservative government's Bill 39 is politicizing funding for legal groups, leading to $10 million in lost funding for low-income community law clinics and Indigenous legal services, a group of non-profits say.

edmontonjournal.com

These guys really are the worst.

And it is not just legal groups, there is more.... They are also cutting funding for some rural not for profit mental health organizations now which hasn't got much news coverage.

 

[bodsbods9090]

I know, right?


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What a bunch of garbage human beings the UCP are.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

And it is not just legal groups, there is more.... They are also cutting funding for some rural not for profit mental health organizations now which hasn't got much news coverage.

Over the last couple of months there have been some pretty major cuts to disability and mental health non-profits, some of which aren't public information yet. Specifically, it seems to be the organizations with the strongest advocacy and public policy chops. It's very coincidently timed with the announcement of the new ADAP program that is supposed to push people off of AISH and into employment. A program we have been given almost no details about.

 

[The_Cat]

You need a doctor's note and other tests to qualify for AISH.

 

[David A]

Over the last couple of months there have been some pretty major cuts to disability and mental health non-profits, some of which aren't public information yet. Specifically, it seems to be the organizations with the strongest advocacy and public policy chops. It's very coincidently timed with the announcement of the new ADAP program that is supposed to push people off of AISH and into employment. A program we have been given almost no details about.

The ones I have heard about have been small organizations with tiny budgets, so I don't think it is really about saving money.

There has been a bit of local media coverage in some cases, but perhaps the organizations are not big enough to get attention from the big city media, so it seems so far the government is getting away with it.

I don't know if the government is being vindictive for past advocacy or they find their being outspoken too inconvenient, maybe its both.

 

[constance_chlore]

Probably a reno, but I would think a semi-major one. The building is literally falling apart, it needs a reno badly. Obviously a replacement would be preferable, but I wouldn't have even expected money for just a rework from the UCP.

I spoke to some admin staff in the Bio Sci department who said that a huge chunk of the $100 million will go towards utilities, and very little of the spending will be visible (but it is much needed)

 

[MacLac]

Plus this along with $75M of the Uni’s own money as well……that’s a lot of dough to be spent on utilities……

 

[MacLac]

Uh oh! This was his first and only mistake - he told Albertans to get the Measles vaccine! Imagine the Horror! So Ol' Smitty had to fire him. Who on the planet would ever want to work for AHS or whatever she's calling it now? Smitty should get a job in the US with her fellow anit-vacc'er Majorie Taylor Green and they can hang out and scissor all day down there.

Mark Joffe no longer Alberta’s chief medical officer of health | Globalnews.ca

Two and a half years after taking over as Alberta's top doctor on an interim basis, Mark Joffe is no longer in his role.

globalnews.ca

 

[Gus Haynes]

Guthrie EXPELLED from the UCP caucus: https://bsky.app/profile/ctheriault.bsky.social/post/3lmx7z4piik23

 

[policyenthusiast]

Guthrie EXPELLED from the UCP caucus: https://bsky.app/profile/ctheriault.bsky.social/post/3lmx7z4piik23

Not surprising - hopefully he is willing to speak up more in the absence of partisan obligations.

 

[David A]

Guthrie EXPELLED from the UCP caucus: https://bsky.app/profile/ctheriault.bsky.social/post/3lmx7z4piik23

Smith says he was never gagged and was offered opportunities to speak ... (as long as he didn't say anything critical about the UCP, presumably?).

She has to be in the running for gas lighter of the year!

 

[Gronk!]

Any word on when is the provincial by-election for Edmonton-Strathcona is supposed to occur?

 

[MacLac]

Not surprising - hopefully he is willing to speak up more in the absence of partisan obligations.

Old news? Thought he got punted by our Supreme B*tch Leader weeks ago? Did he not?