Kirk Heuser

Cobalt
Yvonne McKague Housser
1931

Yup

I hate to be the one to tell #ableg but this is something the UCP has been doing since they came to power.
Firing people for doing their jobs and manipulating data - or stopping to collect it at all… hello class sizes.

Morning Tide
Ken Danby
1983

This is something I have wondered back to RGIII. It would be interesting to see if there is a coaches’ player injury rate stat.
My sense, and that’s all it is, is Shanahan would be near the top.

Summer Drift
David Thauberger
2018

Walter's Rd.
Carolyn Dover
2022

Luminous Days
Elizabeth Lennie
2020

Fresh Edmonton
Leanne Schnierer
2018

Loon Duo
Kurt Swinghammer
2021

Kamloops Lakeside Airstream
Tarlee Guild
2023

a cartoon dog says squirrel to a man in glasses ALT: a cartoon dog says squirrel to a man in glasses

Carrie Tait of the Globe and Mail does another blockbuster story about the UCP government & Turkish Tylenol, and then first thing Monday, the UCP not only starts banning books, but does a presser to make sure we all know about it.

Figure it out, #ableg. It’s not brain surgery.

Jim Stanford: Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them Alberta produces more GDP per worker than any other, and oil profits have never been higher. But the average Albertan’s standard of living is lower than a decade ago.

I hate saying a “must” read but… a must read.

Danielle Smith and the UCP don’t give a lick about us and they are not even giving a second’s thought to the generations of damage they are doing to our economic future and public services.

#ableg

www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Alberta paid more than six times usual price for pain medications in $70-million import deal, according to government briefing note Briefing note indicates health authority could have reduced overall bill by ordering less medicine

I’ll keep howling it until more of you get it:

The AHS contract procurement scandal is the only thing we should be focussed on. Separation is a distraction. It’s all about THIS.

You are not dogs, #ableg. Stop reacting to every UCP “squirrel”.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Did you know that more than 80% of Alberta’s GDP is generated outside of the oil and gas sector?

economicdashboard.alberta.ca/dashboard/gd...

Woof 3
Elizabeth Lennie
n.d.

🫶

The Hope
Billie Rae Busby
2020

Will there be questions about her cabinet shuffle coming up over lunch hour and the fact media is being kept out of it?

Will there be questions about her cabinet shuffle coming up over lunch hour and the fact media is being kept out of it?

Simple question for @abdanielsmith.bsky.social … if you are so open and accountable, and everything is awesome as you claim… why would you bar media from attending your desperate attempt to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic?
#ableg

I wasn’t going to be political here but this is too important.

The UCP is hell bent on passing legislation before Wednesday that will allow private companies to run our public hospitals and profit off them. And yes, public funds will be used to pay them.

#ableg #abhealth

[excerpt from Bill 55] "Designation of hospital operators 1.9764 The oversight Minister, by order, may designate one of the following as the hospital operator of a health services sector in an approved hospital: a) the provincial health agency established for the health services sector; b) a provincial health corporation whose responsible Minister is the sector Minister for the health services sector; c) [highlighted] a person other than a provincial health agency or provincial health corporation if i) the oversight Minister is satisfied that A) the person is capable of delivering hospital services in the health services sector in the approved hospital, and B) [highlighted] it is appropriate to designate the person based on any other factors determined by the oversight Minister, and ii) the oversight Minister has considered any recommendation by the provincial health agency established for the health services sector with respect to whether the person should be designated."

Health care workers & public health advocates raised the alarm over Bill 55, now the Minister is crying "fearmongering."

But this major piece of legislation speaks for itself: if passed, it could give government Ministers the power to appoint private entities to operate Alberta's hospitals.

Bill 55 eliminates hospital boards, replaces them with ‘operators,’ & dissolves hospital foundations.

If this isn’t a blueprint for privatized healthcare, what exactly does it entail?

Eliminating public oversight & charitable funding structures paved the way for privatization.

The OG
Megan LeForte
2023

Footage from the ISS orbiting over auroras. Shared by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit.

A Fond Farewell
Nicki Ault
2021

False Creek
Dana Irving
2024