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HCW in AB, quite exasperated. Trying not to believe everything I think.

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From the DM’s…

Healthcare in Alberta has apparently been so badly broken by the UCP that patients with deadly cancer aren’t able to get time critical surgery…

And are evidently put in hotel rooms for lack of space.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

15.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 121    🔁 71    💬 13    📌 14
ElderDog volunteers needed
YouTube video by CTV News ElderDog volunteers needed

ElderDog Canada needs volunteers to walk dogs belonging to seniors who cannot get out to do it, esp in Calgary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFj...

08.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 67    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 0

Cause women should remember their place. Who’s really important here after all?

06.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Threatening to withhold this funding is
not only unconstitutional, but also undermines the administrative autonomy of the courts”

The Canadian Bar Association has written to Danielle Smith about her threats.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

05.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 261    🔁 130    💬 20    📌 9
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How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.

The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it.

Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

03.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 220    🔁 146    💬 18    📌 17
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Relying on powers conferred by recent statutory amendments Mickey Amery, the province's AG and Minister of Justice, has just knee-capped the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre.
First they came for the independent voices of civil society ...
And then ....
#abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

04.02.2026 01:36 — 👍 94    🔁 76    💬 10    📌 7
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Alberta seeks more input on picking judges Premier Danielle Smith says her government will withhold funding for new judicial appointments in Alberta until Ottawa allows the province to provide input on who is picked. In a letter to Prime Minis...

This is a monumentally irresponsible move. Whoever advised the premier should resign or be fired.

Smith shouldn't just withdraw the threat. She should apologize for threatening to cut off Albertans' access to their own justice system.

Tomorrow.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/02/03/a...

04.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 252    🔁 120    💬 18    📌 10

Seems relevant in Alberta today

04.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Danielle Smith’s $30-Million AHS Firing Spree | The Tyee That’s the hit to Albertans for severance payments to top health officials since 2019, finds a Tyee analysis.

Danielle Smith's $30-Million AHS Firing Spree via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

03.02.2026 05:55 — 👍 96    🔁 56    💬 4    📌 11

Take a look see…
Sums up the craziness that is some of CorruptCare nicely.

01.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 37    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party.

She would rather lose the country than her own job.

01.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 585    🔁 208    💬 44    📌 11
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30.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 28028    🔁 9231    💬 362    📌 763

The audacity of this broad.

30.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Russian Pravda News Platform Amplifying Alberta Secessionist Events - DisinfoWatch Russia’s Pravda News Network has published what appears to be an AI generated video promoting an Alberta secessionist rally schedule for Monday, January 26, on its Russian VK social...

“Russia’s Pravda News Network has published what appears to be an AI generated video promoting an Alberta secessionist rally schedule for Monday, January 26, on its Russian VK social media platform.”

Just out loud now.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

disinfowatch.org/disinfo/russ...

28.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 124    🔁 97    💬 13    📌 13
A graph showing Alberta Condensate, Conventional Oil, and Bitumen Production from 1998 to 2025. The graph shows the rates of Condensate, Oil, and Bitumen production going up consistently each year.

A graph showing Alberta Condensate, Conventional Oil, and Bitumen Production from 1998 to 2025. The graph shows the rates of Condensate, Oil, and Bitumen production going up consistently each year.

For too long Ottawa has kept Alberta under its boot and kept us from producing more of the energy the world needs.

This graph shows exactly how federal government regulations have affected our production and economy!

Alberta needs to separate!

#abpoli #UCPCorruption #aboil

27.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 31    🔁 13    💬 6    📌 1

The UCP suck at business, unless it’s enriching themselves and their friends.

27.01.2026 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Braid: The premier touts American politicians as models for making Alberta free Don Braid writes: When Danielle Smith comments on things that concern her, she often seems unaware of a dangerous larger context.

Remember this?
“I look at the Americans. I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota. They’ve been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta, as well.” calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

26.01.2026 16:06 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Wherein the Premier tells us that she supports separation without telling us she supports separation.

Danielle, you’re a Quisling.

25.01.2026 05:53 — 👍 49    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 2
Tweet from Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney
@jkenney
15h
In the same week as his humiliating climb down on Greenland, he confused Iceland and Greenland multiple times, and now his staff is confusing Antarctica with Greenland (penguins inhabit the former, not the latter.)
The most powerful nation on Earth being run like a clown show.
The White House •
@WhiteHouse
Embrace the penguin.
17h

Tweet from Jason Kenney Jason Kenney @jkenney 15h In the same week as his humiliating climb down on Greenland, he confused Iceland and Greenland multiple times, and now his staff is confusing Antarctica with Greenland (penguins inhabit the former, not the latter.) The most powerful nation on Earth being run like a clown show. The White House • @WhiteHouse Embrace the penguin. 17h

Jason Kenney
@jkenney
16h
24 hours since this draft-dodging ingrate insulted the sacrifice of allied troops, who risked and gave their lives in some of the most difficult parts of the Afghan mission, at the request of the United States.
No apology, no walk-back.
Because contempt for their allies is MAGA doctrine.
Remember what JD Vance said about the same allies: "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years."
Open Source Intel
@Osint613
Jan 22
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Jason Kenney @jkenney 16h 24 hours since this draft-dodging ingrate insulted the sacrifice of allied troops, who risked and gave their lives in some of the most difficult parts of the Afghan mission, at the request of the United States. No apology, no walk-back. Because contempt for their allies is MAGA doctrine. Remember what JD Vance said about the same allies: "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years." Open Source Intel @Osint613 Jan 22 Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Jason Kenney
Bugger off, yanks.
@jkenney
Jan 17
If this is a real industry association, I expect the board to fire the idiot who is using this association as a platform to mock the sovereignty of a friend & ally.

Jason Kenney Bugger off, yanks. @jkenney Jan 17 If this is a real industry association, I expect the board to fire the idiot who is using this association as a platform to mock the sovereignty of a friend & ally.

Do I like Kenney? No.

Do I appreciate that an influential Canadian conservative is speaking out consistently and rationally about US lunacy and threats to Canada?

Yes.

24.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 76    🔁 19    💬 10    📌 2

Well he has no idea what he said 5 minutes ago, never mind last week. (On top of his default petty little baby mode).

24.01.2026 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot 1 of the Order in Council Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, signed on January 21, 2026 authorizing the transfer of $900 million tax dollars.

Screenshot 1 of the Order in Council Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, signed on January 21, 2026 authorizing the transfer of $900 million tax dollars.

Screenshot 2 of the Order in Council Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, signed on January 21, 2026 authorizing the transfer of $900 million tax dollars.

Screenshot 2 of the Order in Council Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, signed on January 21, 2026 authorizing the transfer of $900 million tax dollars.

Impressive!

**$900 MILLION** Alberta taxpayer dollars spent by Order in Council!

No legislative debates No meetings. No press conferences. I just signed my name and *POOF* that money is sent to my friends in the oil & gas industry!

#abpoli #UCPCorruption #ableg

23.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 24    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 4

Just genuinely, remarkably stupid.

Alberta has plenty of provincial debt -- and more each year. Any separation agreement would require it to take on a proportionate share of the federal debt.

If anything, an independent Alberta currency would be a recipe for hyperinflation.

23.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 364    🔁 110    💬 41    📌 3

No help is coming, the gaslighting will only continue.

23.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Up to 89 percent of ambulances for overdoses concealed in record year, as Alberta health care careens into crisis The Alberta government says it has “the most transparent data reporting system in North America" for drug toxicity. In reality, internal data manipulation causes most emergency calls to go unreported.

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports:
drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

22.01.2026 23:54 — 👍 97    🔁 73    💬 2    📌 11
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x.com/thebreakdownab...

Let’s break down the Govt’s response to 100s of doctors across the province publicly calling for the recognition that we are in a state of crisis/disaster/emergency, and asking for leadership and provincial coordination of a prov-wide response:
1/10

21.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 41    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 5

As the prosperity project signature drive moves forward it’s obvious that a major part of the sales job is being a US satellite. Really?
To a critical thinking individual that would be a deal breaker at this point

22.01.2026 01:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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a man with a surprised look on his face and the words " you see the irony in that " behind him ALT: a man with a surprised look on his face and the words " you see the irony in that " behind him

The people who are mad at Mark Carney for doing a deal with China on EVs are the *same* ones who think Canada should build a bunch of new pipelines to sell oil and gas to...China.

Set aside the hypocrisy for a moment and ask: can they not see where the puck is going here?

21.01.2026 17:31 — 👍 320    🔁 78    💬 23    📌 6

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”

~
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech to the SCLC
March 30, 1967

19.01.2026 20:33 — 👍 123    🔁 61    💬 4    📌 2
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The recalls are a long shot
The UCP have 47 seats in the #ableg
44 forms a majority government
But we only need 4 petitions to get enough signatures and then we have a chance of changing the balance of power

If there's a recall in your riding please sign it and get your friends and family to sign

20.01.2026 01:26 — 👍 53    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 2

Jeez.

“At least six preventable deaths and more than 30 “near-misses” occurred in Alberta emergency departments since the beginning of the year because of overcrowding”

Call an election. We need government that is willing to act to save lives.

18.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 52    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 1

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