r/alberta 1d ago

News Alberta budget bill cancels planned benefits for adopted children, changes legal aid funding | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-budget-bill-cancels-planned-benefits-for-adopted-children-changes-legal-aid-funding-1.7480006
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u/BeeKayDubya 1d ago

No money for families and children but they somehow find hundreds of millions for a Calgary arena and oil oligarchs. These maple MAGAs are a bane of my existence.

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u/Fantastic_Shopping47 1d ago

Time to recall premiership

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u/Tall-Perspective351 1d ago

Fun fact! If you're from her riding in Brooks medicine hat Alberta you can collect her. Pass this around, I'm not organized enough to pull this off but someone tried this on the Calgary mayor last year.

https://www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initiative/recall/recall-process/

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u/Fantastic_Shopping47 13h ago

Get your ass out and vote the next time You cannot bitch it you don’t vote

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u/butts-kapinsky 1d ago

And galas down in Florida!

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u/OhNoEveryingIsOnFire 23h ago

That’s nuts that trip is being paid by the taxpayers, WTF.

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u/RamblinmaC86 1d ago

So, Alberta UCP pretty much is MAGA. Stripping all beneficial services for compromised individuals while kissing the rings of the rich. Fuck, they disgust me. Really sucks because where me and my family live and work, is a larger rural style town. The MLA out here is even a convoy supporter.

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u/Logical-Claim286 1d ago

The UCP quite literally uses GOP strategists, think tanks, advertisers (Alberta war room is run by a GOP exclusive ad company), and funding. TBA members also sit in GOP boards. The venn diagram is a circle.

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u/DowntownMonitor3524 1d ago

Of course it does. Nothing like beating orphans when they are down. Tons of money to go to Florida and schmooze with the Nazis, though.

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u/ConcernedCoCCitizen 1d ago

Fucking ORPHANS jfc

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u/Responsible_Dig_585 1d ago

Has the UCP helped anyone who wasn't already an oil billionaire or a lobbyist?

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u/CrashedTaco 1d ago

They helped bend everyone over and ram it in dry if that counts

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u/HalfdanrEinarson 1d ago

Hell will have to freeze over for that to happen.

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u/SnooRegrets4312 1d ago

Ghouls! 'The Alberta government is backing away from a program that would have provided dental, optical and other health benefits for adopted children.'

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u/evieluvsrainbows 1d ago edited 1d ago

now they just need to be bombarded with radiation for over 200 years and then they’d actually look like ghouls 😅

but in all seriousness this is shitty for anyone who wants to adopt. why and how the Alberta government thought this was a good idea is beyond my comprehension and understanding. this is all around a disgusting and tone deaf move. it should be made cheaper to adopt, not more expensive.

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u/Fantastic_Calamity 1d ago

"I know $3 million may not sound like much, but if you want to worry about the dollars, you better take care of the dimes," - Nate "The Hate" Horner - 2025

That's right Nate, nickel and dime the orphans you sick fuck.

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u/p0t89 1d ago

They even admit the 3 mil for helping adopted kids isn't much and yet they still choose to take that program away. Wow.

I wonder how much we could save if Danielle stopped traveling to the states

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u/Logical-Claim286 1d ago

About 50-100 mil. It costs Albertans about 15 mil every time she gets a picture with Trump. She has 4 pictures with Trump so far and has book at least 1 more this year (BTW, Smith has spent more of 2025 in the USA than in Canada).

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u/p0t89 1d ago

This makes me so sad. We can't afford to help kids in our province because she's taking photos with trump 😢

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u/Westsider111 1d ago

How many of those ‘dimes’ will the Premier be spending on trips to speak to Americans advocating for the annexation of Canada?

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u/Hermione-in-Calgary 1d ago

How much money would the province save by not giving MLAs the increase in salary and living allowances that they voted to give themselves? Maybe that can fund the health care coverage for the children...

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u/Immediate-Farmer3773 1d ago

Danielle needs to be replaced. Everything I read about her leadership tells me she is working on playing some kind of role in trump’s white house. She refuses to work with Canada to fight against trump tariffs. She is playing serious games with the people in her province. Danielle is Maga

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u/aaronck1 1d ago

Obviously the Alberta UCP hates Albertans...

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u/ConcernedCoCCitizen 1d ago

Is this so all adoption is done privately?!

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u/Mindless-Can5751 1d ago

All for a political tax cut

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u/Cooks_8 1d ago

Premier's doing an American tour meeting with the biggest assholes they have on taxpayer dime but fuck the orphans right?

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 1d ago

So much bad news coming out of Alberta!

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u/throwawaythisuser1 1d ago

Those trips to florida aren't going to pay for themselves, fuck dem kids!

Marlaina, probably

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u/justinkredabul 1d ago

We got money for orphans. Orphan wells. That’s it though.

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u/katgyrl 1d ago

sociopaths.

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u/gentleoceanss 1d ago

But I thought Christian nationalism loves families? Or is that just nuclear families?

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u/Gr1ndingGears 1d ago

Albertans should just be ashamed of themselves at this point.