JKW
@jkwent.bsky.social
RN, mom of teens, old enough to think bird watching’s cool. Fan of public health care and education.
Rural nursing/Canadian nursing and nursing education
Rural nursing/Canadian nursing and nursing education
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So the Premier has finally stated her vision for AB: hand over our Social Safety Net to FOR-PROFITS, non-profits, and let Charity cover the leftovers.
Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So the Premier has finally stated her vision for AB: hand over our Social Safety Net to FOR-PROFITS, non-profits, and let Charity cover the leftovers.
Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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If anyone in Alberta is wondering how Dani could make life worse…here she is going full Ayn Rand fan girl
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December 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If anyone in Alberta is wondering how Dani could make life worse…here she is going full Ayn Rand fan girl
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"That is the difference between a system designed around care and one designed around billing.
The loudest voices advocating for privatization almost never talk about the health care workforce. That omission is not accidental."
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The loudest voices advocating for privatization almost never talk about the health care workforce. That omission is not accidental."
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Why Public Health Care is the Hill I’m Willing to Die On
I don’t defend public health care because it’s perfect.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"That is the difference between a system designed around care and one designed around billing.
The loudest voices advocating for privatization almost never talk about the health care workforce. That omission is not accidental."
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The loudest voices advocating for privatization almost never talk about the health care workforce. That omission is not accidental."
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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Workforce shortages made worse by poor workforce planning, health professionals say - Medicine Hat News
[email protected] Throughout the province’s health-care refocusing, stakeholders have continued to raise alarms about a lack of co-ordinated workforce planning. Amid all the changes currently affecting the province’s health-care delivery, it is difficult to discern where responsibility for ensuring that staffing needs are met across the province lies. In an interview with the News last month,
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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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To sell it, the UCP must simultaneously acknowledge system failure while avoiding the deeper truth: that through these recent years of accelerated collapse, it held the power, resources, and the obligation to prevent this failure.
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
To sell it, the UCP must simultaneously acknowledge system failure while avoiding the deeper truth: that through these recent years of accelerated collapse, it held the power, resources, and the obligation to prevent this failure.
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
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Pause to listen to these words.
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Pause to listen to these words.
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It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
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Opinion piece from David King, former Alberta Minister of Education in a Progressive Conservative government, published in the Edmonton Journal (of all places), addressing the conduct of the UCP towards our public education system.
It is absolutely worth reading.
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It is absolutely worth reading.
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Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy
Any government that undermines ... the project of improving public school education in the face of difficulty is undermining ... democracy.
edmontonjournal.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Opinion piece from David King, former Alberta Minister of Education in a Progressive Conservative government, published in the Edmonton Journal (of all places), addressing the conduct of the UCP towards our public education system.
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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🇨🇦 Do you agree Alberta should remain in Canada?
Alberta’s nurses do. We’re very concerned about how separation from Canada could damage the public health care and public services that Albertans rely on everyday.
Find a location where you can sign the petition to keep Alberta Canadian.👇
Alberta’s nurses do. We’re very concerned about how separation from Canada could damage the public health care and public services that Albertans rely on everyday.
Find a location where you can sign the petition to keep Alberta Canadian.👇
Forever Canadian Official Campaign Website
Forever Canadian campaign is a grassroots coalition of Canadians aimed at reinforcing Canadian unity. It is a proactive vehicle to secure Alberta's continued place in Canada.
www.forever-canadian.ca
October 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🇨🇦 Do you agree Alberta should remain in Canada?
Alberta’s nurses do. We’re very concerned about how separation from Canada could damage the public health care and public services that Albertans rely on everyday.
Find a location where you can sign the petition to keep Alberta Canadian.👇
Alberta’s nurses do. We’re very concerned about how separation from Canada could damage the public health care and public services that Albertans rely on everyday.
Find a location where you can sign the petition to keep Alberta Canadian.👇
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We conservatives need to take a stand against one of our own
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#Conservative #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#Conservative #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli
We conservatives need to take a stand against one of our own
Conservatives have taken the lead on equality many times before. They need to do so again.
www.thestar.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We conservatives need to take a stand against one of our own
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#Conservative #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli
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#Conservative #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli
Obvious risk for pts, moral distress for EMS and nursing staff who are still onsite, and likely the beginning of the end for many of these communities. Very few people will tolerate zero access to ED and will move to a town with more stable health services
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RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Obvious risk for pts, moral distress for EMS and nursing staff who are still onsite, and likely the beginning of the end for many of these communities. Very few people will tolerate zero access to ED and will move to a town with more stable health services
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RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
1/7
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
1/7
- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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"And now, Alberta is becoming cruel...It tells us that the rich are “job creators” instead of modern-day feudal lords. It convinces us that we should slash the social safety net so that those who need it most are punished for being born poor, disabled or unlucky."
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Canada, beware: Alberta is the canary in the coal mine
Canada is not America. Not yet. But if we do not defend our values, compassion, fairness, equality, and truth, we will lose them
calgaryherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"And now, Alberta is becoming cruel...It tells us that the rich are “job creators” instead of modern-day feudal lords. It convinces us that we should slash the social safety net so that those who need it most are punished for being born poor, disabled or unlucky."
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Western Canada’s Reach for the Top team is asked to spell “logic”.
October 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Western Canada’s Reach for the Top team is asked to spell “logic”.
This also sums up why so many in Alberta no longer support this ‘conservative’ party…nothing is ever a problem unless it affects them directly.
Opinion: Does Danielle Smith know we can all see and hear her? — The Globe and Mail
The Alberta Premier’s spectacle of naked self-interest has been broadcast for all to see. Does she think everyone’s too stupid to notice?
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April 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This also sums up why so many in Alberta no longer support this ‘conservative’ party…nothing is ever a problem unless it affects them directly.
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New Edmonton Journal op-ed
“Analysis of publicly available data, found no evidence to support Premier Smith’s claim. In fact, the research shows the opposite to be true.
Someone has been receiving more funding & not delivering results—just not AHS.”
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
“Analysis of publicly available data, found no evidence to support Premier Smith’s claim. In fact, the research shows the opposite to be true.
Someone has been receiving more funding & not delivering results—just not AHS.”
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Attack on AHS reveals the failings of surgery privatization
While politically convenient to blame AHS, responsibility for surgical wait times sits squarely with the government.
edmontonjournal.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Edmonton Journal op-ed
“Analysis of publicly available data, found no evidence to support Premier Smith’s claim. In fact, the research shows the opposite to be true.
Someone has been receiving more funding & not delivering results—just not AHS.”
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
“Analysis of publicly available data, found no evidence to support Premier Smith’s claim. In fact, the research shows the opposite to be true.
Someone has been receiving more funding & not delivering results—just not AHS.”
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Nenshi on the UCP’s insurance reforms: “I cannot imagine a government coming up with a worse solution to the problem. It’s time for us to think hard about wholesale reform that actually saves Albertans money.”
November 23, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Nenshi on the UCP’s insurance reforms: “I cannot imagine a government coming up with a worse solution to the problem. It’s time for us to think hard about wholesale reform that actually saves Albertans money.”
Ok this seems positive but will Dani actually listen and allow representation outside of the UCP and their cronies on the board?
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PRESS RELEASE: Unions demand seats on the AIMCo board and a return to “Optionality”
EDMONTON – The leaders of nine of Alberta’s largest unions, representing hundreds of thousands of Albertans workers, have sent Premier Danielle Smith a letter demanding seats on the AIMCo board.
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November 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Ok this seems positive but will Dani actually listen and allow representation outside of the UCP and their cronies on the board?
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