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🇨🇦🥺 Elbows up 💪Moved here from the sewer - hoping for sanity. Retired health care worker in hellberta fighting now for public health , democracy , science , hope and survival . Happily married
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#CanadiansAgainstPoilievre
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What's going on in healthcare?

We've got our first op-ed on our substack written by the host himself taking a look!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Op-Ed - Alberta's Healthcare Crisis
And what to do about it...
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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People keep asking "why didn't the triage nurse put a pt with chest pain in a care space immediately?"

Let me simplify our current ED triage state in the face of SEVERE SYTEM OVERCROWDING

threadreaderapp.com/...

1 open bed and 30-50 w serious complaints = an impossible choice
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Alberta premier Danielle Smith is turning heads for her recent comments on "The Rebel" on immigration where she blames immigrants for the problems in schools...

But can we talk about HER math skills for a sec?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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“This combination of extreme overcapacity and unpredictable influxes of seriously ill patients from EMS results in prolonged delays in care and major safety risks for … patients”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Calgary ERs face 'extreme overcapacity,' internal hospital memo says | CBC News
Hospitals are tightening policies to prevent patient bottlenecks, even if beds aren't available, according to a memo obtained by CBC News.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“ER staff spend most of their time on admitted patients instead of new emergencies. The result is six-12-hour ER waits and eight-20 per cent of urban patients leaving without ever being seen.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Fix health-care's foundation before adding dual-practice
Alberta has the resources and talent to build a world-class health system. Let’s fix the foundation, repair the roof, and then renovate.
edmontonjournal.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Latest Grassy Mountain Mine Proposal Is the Same Old Promotional Hype via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The Latest Grassy Mountain Mine Proposal Is the Same Old Promotional Hype | The Tyee
This new pitch seems substantial only until you review its promises.
thetyee.ca
December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🇨🇦 TREATY 8 CHIEFS SUE TO HALT ALBERTA'S BILL 7 🇨🇦

Three First Nations leaders are launching litigation to stop the Water Amendment Act.

They argue the bill sacrifices sacred waterways for industrial use without consent.

Chiefs Steering Committee reports...
#AbLeg #Treaty8 #WaterIsLife #Bill7
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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When other nations broadcast news that the US has decided is contraband and won’t broadcast, you know you’re living in a third world authoritarian country.
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Bankrupt oil company leaves Alberta county with $9.3M unpaid tax bill

The Alberta Advantage

Pollute like hell, pay yourself millions, don't pay your bills , abandon the toxic waste, declare bankruptcy, do it again and gain and again ....

#Cdnpoli #Abpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bankrupt oil company leaves Alberta county with $9.3M unpaid tax bill | CBC News
Big Lakes County in northwestern Alberta says it has formally approved the write off of more than $9 million in unpaid property taxes owed by the now bankrupt Razor Energy Corp.
www.cbc.ca
December 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Yay!!
CONFIRMED!

Corb Lunds petition to ban coal mining from the eastern slopes is confirmed exempt from the massive increase to fees the UCP quietly slipped through!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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"Progressive" - the belief that govt has a moral obligation to build, maintain, and steward public institutions for the common good, rather than burning them down in the name of "freedom" and profit.

Please take a read👇, and share widely w ALL ABs
Opinion: Albertans' well-being shouldn't be left to charities
We do not need to "restore" the role of charity in basic health care and education.
edmontonjournal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Only one week after the launch of the website, over 23,000 Canadians have already called on Prime Minister Carney to enforce the Canada Health Act and help stop Danielle Smith's disastrous two-tier healthcare plan.

Help us get to 25,000 by the weekend:
notwotier.ca/canadahealth...
#ableg #abpoli
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Want to help collect signatures for Corb’s Water not Coal petition? Sign up here: www.coalpetition.ca
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I mean he should be immediately locked up in a padded cell for criminally demented lunatics . Like now .
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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“So Albertans who don’t want to see their country destroyed, their pensions looted, their streets flooded with firearms and their province eventually absorbed by the shit show to the south had better wake up and smell the coffee.”

#ForeverCanadian
#AbLeg

www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The UCP Separatist Wing Is Winning. Here’s What Comes Next | The Tyee
Be ready for a Brexit-style disinformation campaign, weak opposition and turmoil.
www.thetyee.ca
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"I hate it here!"
"I'm moving!"
"There's no hope!"

Lots of Albertans are feeding the very toxicity they're fed up with right now.

There are better ways to channel your frustration. 10, in fact.

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
December 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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After Danielle Smith passed Bill 11, many Canadians are asking what two-tier healthcare actually means for patients?

We created an explainer video that breaks down how two-tier care gives the rich a fast lane, while most people's costs and wait times increase.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNc...
Whatever This Is - S2 E4: Death Rattle of Universal Public Healthcare
YouTube video by Forward Canada
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Just two days after our petition's release over 10,000 Canadians have already called on Prime Minister Carney to enforce the Canada Health Act and stop Danielle Smith's disastrous two-tier healthcare plan.

Help us get to our goal of 12,500: notwotier.ca/canadahealth...
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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It seems that the UCP are just itching to poison Albertans water
#ableg #abpoli
Elections Alberta has issued a press release confirming that with the entry into force of Bill 14, Corb Lund's "no coal" legislative initiative is now dead and must be re-filed.

More rule changes designed to derail the efforts of those who oppose coal mining on the eastern slopes.
#ableg #abpoli
Bill 14 Amendments to Provincial Electoral Legislation Now in Force - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Yesterday, amendments to electoral legislation introduced in Bill 14: Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 came into force upon royal assent. Bill 14 impacts four provincial electoral legis...
www.elections.ab.ca
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Alberta has passed Bill 11, allowing doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics while working in the public system. This is American-style health care, and if Alberta succeeds, other provinces will follow. share.nwmd.social/s/bhNoLjY9
Urge Minister Michel: stop Alberta's two-tier health care law
share.nwmd.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM