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EDMONTON — A United Conservative Party candidate who compared transgender children in schools to having feces in food is apologizing while staying on to run in the Alberta election. Jennifer Johnson says in a statement that she has nothing but love and compassion for everyone equally and is embarrassed to have caused hurt with her remarks. Johnson, who is running in Lacombe-Ponoka, says if she wins the seat in the May 29 vote she will seek counsel on how best to communicate and meaningfully discuss her views. The NDP has called for UCP Leader Danielle Smith to dismiss Johnson as a candidate for the comments she made last fall that were recently been made public. In those comments, Johnson said Alberta has a first-rate education system but it's set against transgender children as young as 14 getting double mastectomies and chemical castrations to help them transition. Johnson also compared transgender students to feces in cookie batter. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 17, 2023. The Canadian Press The bolded sentence caught my attention. One way to interpret that is, to her, it's not the drivel she spews is the problem, it's how she spews her drivel is the problem. Nope I think the drivel no matter how articulate and smooth you package it (see Danielle Smith as a great example) is the actual dangerous problem.

Just to beat the horse I'm riding today to death, if one reacts to this ongoing hate then one risks getting clumped into being hateful as well.

Saskatchewan? No? Oh sorry Rider fans. 🙂

Yup and at the street level I'm really annoyed and frustrated with people who think they are rising above the fray and label everyone as tired and embarrassing and mean and nasty and just can't we go back to respectful dialogue. If you haven't noticed we're not debating the merits of different political platforms (health, crime, housing etc) requiring respectful dialogue and a level of appropriate decorum. Stop clumping reacting to dangerous absurdness and the back and forth that results as just another example of how everyone is mean and nasty and 'I'll have none of it'. We all have a level of responsibility to take care of one another when met with dangerous absurdness or it won't work.

Countered with yea but everyone's bad followed up by I'm tired and embarrassed in hearing all of this bickering back and forth between different 'viewpoints' therefore minimizing the danger of hate, bigotry and fascism and in effect legitimizing it as just another perspective to be treated with respectful dialogue.

So predictable. Fact: Lazy opportunist narcissistic disingenuous morally bankrupt people who are not here to govern and lead a country of Canadians from all walks of life. Counter: Yea but everyone's bad. Don't lecture me you radical lefty libtard WOKE Socialist Dictator. F Trudeau Wake Up! Sigh The dumbing down is in full effect and I have no solution other than to think globally and act locally everywhere you can in your communities personally and professionally.

One of the most overused, misused sayings some people use on social media to get attention, look at me I'm being controversial, I'm unique: 'Here's a bold prediction, ...'

No argument from me. Just speculating what goes on inside a knuckle dragging head to rationalize away their absurdness.

The way I interpreted (speculated) this was she feels she was fed misinformation about abortion so now that she knows the evils of it she can say she accidently had one based on being hoodwinked.

Case in point. A letter to the editor in the Edmonton Sun. The last sentence and the editors 'clever' (3 word) response sums it up. I have been an eligible voter here in Alberta for about 50 years, and have always been a die-hard Conservative supporter. Danielle Smith was not my first choice as our UCP premier, but I was OK with her as my second choice. She has disappointed me with the lack of thought that she has put into many of her comments, and then having to stumble and stagger her way out of the mess. Her flapping lips have put her into so much trouble. I will definitely be voting UCP though, and could never for NDP. Les Derksen (No easy options.)

AND better service.

This is not a normal redneck issue going on here. I can tolerate that with humor. What I can't tolerate is the more serious dangerous ugly side of some Albertans coming out of the shadows given a steady flow of oxygen and packaged as 'another viewpoint, another side'.

Lets hope they're due for a swing and a miss.

Debbie Downer coming in hot on a Monday: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/braid-pollster-says-ucp-in-lead-over-ndp Ugh.

So all women should be afforded the choice of accidentally receiving an abortion as well.

Back in the day when sanity prevailed making false allegations was met with immediate consequences. Not so much nowadays. It's a free for all that results in legitimate claims getting mixed in and blurred with ones like the above. Embarrassing.

Great questions from Nenshi to DS that no one is asking her (I may have not got it exactly the way Nenshi put it): Q: Did you believe what you said in those videos then and do you believe them now? A: No. Q: Then why did you lie to us? A: Because I changed my mind. Q: Then what made you change your mind?

And generating gobs and gobs of money for CNN while he was at it. It was just a business transaction.

Yup. A proud dad moment no matter. And you didn't host that meeting at IGF for reasons of? Some fan you are.

I'll state the obvious, at least to me, they need a damn QB to excel not to manage.

I love hockey, the entertainment it brings and the need for better communication between players, coaches, management and the media but jeez louise have some ability to take some criticism knowing you have that pool of money to buffer your hurt feelings.

I did it about 6 months ago. Don’t miss it at all. It has actually helped me be less frustrated.

The irony of this fake 'life is precious' they spew. Threatening to kill human beings. These same knuckle draggers who advocate for forced birth but after that you're on your own are the same ones who talk about individual rights and freedoms. Mind boggling, exhausting, frustrating. For sure Carl Sagan, the dumbing down of human beings is in full view right now. We are as good as our lowest common denominator.

Zimmerman’s like, ffs I couldn’t beat this guy.

Yea get your facts right socialists, living in your echo chambers. You're so divisive and polarizing. Take back our Alberta!