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DAILY PHONE PLEDGE - Arms Embargo Now We are quickly approaching the crucial vote on Bill C-233, No More Loopholes Act. The vote is currently slated for March 11th – which means we have a final chance to push our MPs to VOTE YES. With MPs...

Take action! Tell your MP to cut off unregulated arms by voting for Bill C-233 when it comes before Parliament next week.
If you're in Calgary Signal Hill, like me call: 403-695-0570 and ask MP David Mckenzie to vote "Yes".
#cdnpoli #stop #funding #genocide #war
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No

That about really bloody funny.

😂🤪🤣

The plan is to loot Alberta. They will not stop.

Re(Calling) Mickey Amery: Is Anyone Listening? Rally for Marlborough, Marlborough Park, Monterey Park, Pineridge, and Rundle residents wanting better representation from our MLA. March 16, 2026 12 PM Near 920 36th Street NE Have some fun during this peaceful rally with your neighbors who want our Minister of Justice to protect the rights of teachers, trans kids, disabled people, immigrants, and every Albertan who relies on our public healthcare and CPP. Last chance to sign the Recall Mickey petition! RecallMickey.ca

#RecallMickey is sending off our campaign with a rally outside Mickey Amery's office on March 14, 2026 at noon. Everyone is invited--including Mickey Amery if he decides he wants to meet some of his constituents! #yyc #ableg #abpoli

Let’s all give a round of applause to Death Toll Dani!

#deathtolldani

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

“Modry violated his obligations under the power of attorney by withdrawing the couple’s money without adequate documentation or proper consent, between 2014 and 2019.”

Holy shit, this guy is rotten to the core. 👀

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

There is a global boycott underway against Chat GPT. Open AI is working with the Pentagon and ICE. They have donated $25 million to Trump. They are working for the authoritarians. People have the power to resist and send a message to the toxic tech bros.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Loathsome Smith in Alberta

Dear Prime Minister Carney, We write to you out of deep concern regarding passage of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2), and the threat it poses not only to Alberta’s public health care system, but to the integrity of Medicare across Canada. Canadians understand that provincial health systems are under genuine strain. We all share the goals of reducing wait times to improve access to timely care and of recruiting and retaining health care workers. We know that protecting and improving Medicare to enable healthy populations is a vital nation building project. However, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) risks undermining these goals. Instead, it proposes a system where patients face financial uncertainty and where timely access to care will inevitably depend on ability to pay. Alberta’s law abandons the foundational principles on which Canada’s health care system has been built, as enshrined in the Canada Health Act. By formally enabling physicians to accept both public and private payment (dual practice) and allowing patients to be billed for medically-necessary services, this legislation enables a multi- payer, two-tier system of care that is confusing, inefficient, unfair, and expensive. This shift is unprecedented in Canada. Since 1984, when the Canada Health Act was passed, Alberta, like all provinces and territories, has upheld a single-payer model grounded in equitable access to medically necessary care based on need, not ability to pay. The Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) represents a clear departure from that shared national commitment and raises grave concerns about Alberta’s compliance with the Canada Health Act.

We are deeply concerned that Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) will: • Undermine equity by normalizing private payment for medically necessary care, privileging those with financial means; • Risk contravening the Canada Health Act which exists to protect universality and accessibility; • Exacerbate workforce shortages in the publicly-funded system by permitting physicians to split their practice between public pay and private pay sectors; • Set a dangerous national precedent inviting similar legislation in other provinces thereby weakening Medicare across the country. Beyond its domestic impacts, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) raises uncertainty related to national treatment and market access obligations under the current CUSMA. If Alberta’s legislation opens a pathway to private duplicative insurance (covering the same medically necessary services as the publicly funded system) and for-profit investor-ownership of hospitals (delivering medically necessary care), we are concerned this could lead to US health insurance companies and hospital corporations expecting to enter Canada’s market. Notwithstanding the protections afforded by Canada’s sectoral reservations listed in CUSMA related to health care, if the US were denied entry to Canada’s market, we are concerned this could expose Canada to CUSMA’s investment and services disciplines. As Prime Minister, you have a responsibility to uphold the Canada Health Act and protect equitable access to care for all Canadians, regardless of jurisdiction. We therefore call on your government to: 1. Conduct a formal Canada Health Act compliance review of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2); 2. Urge the Government of Alberta to pause implementation of Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) while its impacts are assessed by Health Canada’s legal team and independent national experts; 3. Use the full range of federal tools available, including discretionary penaltie…

Yours sincerely, Dr. Melanie Bechard Chair, Canadian Doctors for Medicare Signed and endorsed by: Alberta Federation of Labour – Gil McGowan, President Alberta Union of Provincial Employees – Sandra Azocar, President BC Health Coalition – Ayendri Riddell, Director of Policy and Campaigns Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Peggy Nash, Executive Director Canadian Federation of Medical Students – Bryce Bogie, President Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions – Linda Silas, President Canadian Health Coalition – Jason MacLean, Chair Canadian Labour Congress – Bea Bruske, President Canadian Union of Public Employees – Mark Hancock, President Coalition Solidarité Santé – Geneviève Lamarche, coordonnatrice Congress of Union Retirees of Canada - Michael MacIsaac, President Friends of Medicare – Chris Gallaway, Executive Director Independent Voices for Safe & Effective Drugs – Colleen Fuller, Director Manitoba Health Coalition – Noah Schulz, Provincial Director Médecins québécois pour le régime public – Dr. Xavier Gauvreau, Président National Union of Public and General Employees – Bert Blundon, President New Brunswick Health Coalition – Jean-Claude Basque, Co-Chair Nova Scotia Health Coalition – Jennifer Benoit, Provincial Coordinator Ontario Health Coalition – Natalie Mehra, Executive Director PEI Health Coalition – Mary Boyd, Chair Registered Nurses Association of Ontario – Dr. Doris Grinspun, Chief Executive Officer United Nurses of Alberta – Heather Smith, President United Steelworkers – Marty Warren, National Director

🚨 Today: Canadian Doctors for Medicare sent a letter to PM Carney expressing deep concern about Alberta's law allowing patients to be billed for essential health care.

This policy endangers the integrity of Medicare for everyone across Canada.

@cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social #cdnpoli #cdnhealth 🧵

Being the victim of domestic violence is traumatic in so many ways. Not only the abuse, but the carnage that follows.

No landlord gives any sympathy and wants the damage replaced.

A storage company doesn't care about stolen keys, and the bank is apathetic to fraud. Your whole life falls apart.

Thank gawd she's not a good liar. I guess.

#DST
Put the clocks ahead at 2 pm on Friday afternoon. Yea, it's a short workday and no one loses sleep. Put them back in the fall because no one wants the sun to rise at 9:30 am in the middle of the frigging winter.

No supervised consumption sites?
Then every alley, park, and bathroom becomes one!

It's just that simple.

Replace he's with she's and country with province and this would still be profoundly true.
#alberta #Smith #abpoli

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

There is mounting evidence of an explicit U.S. strategy to exploit the Albertan independence movement to destabilize Canada. newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Thousands of Alberta seniors to lose income supplement as province faces rising provincial deficit | CBC News Alberta is making cuts to seniors' benefits and tax credits for caregivers as it faces a $9.4-billion budget deficit.

But the incompetent UCP is happy to give hundreds of millions to coal companies without a fight.

"Alberta is tightening eligibility requirements for provincial seniors' benefits and tax credits for caregivers as it faces a $9.4-billion budget deficit."

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Most of us just want to live and enjoy life. Some people want to accumulate power, and those are the people who tend to run for office. This dynamic is a key weakness of democracy and why it's so important to enable normal people to seek office. And so we need PRCV, UBI, and campaign finance reform.

Noem appears to be a fascist. Funny eh?

The birds. They will wake us up at 3 am in the summer.

#DST
Put the clocks ahead at 2 pm on Friday afternoon. Yea, it's a short workday and no one loses sleep. Put them back in the fall because no one wants the sun to rise at 9:30 am in the middle of the frigging winter.

I don't know what they were expecting.

Now is the time of monsters.

‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis

Israel launches a war in Iran and uses it as a pretext to continue the mass starvation of the people of Gaza.
We are in the age of monsters.
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