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Injunction hearing that could renew Alberta teachers ability to strike underway EDMONTON — Alberta's teachers union was back in court today seeking an injunction against the province's back-to-work legislation last fall.

Injunction hearing that could renew Alberta teachers ability to strike underway

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This, for the love of Pete

He's so good at this that Noem's lips deflated.

U.S. Submarine Torpedoed Iranian Warship Off Sri Lanka as Conflict Widens

The US is at war in:

Venezuela
Nigeria and Somalia
Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq
the Persian Gulf
the Caribbean
the Indian Ocean

It’s World War 3, and guess who started it?

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.

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Trump told us what he thinks of our soldiers and our efforts in Afghanistan.
He can go fuck himself now.
If Canada even gives this request a moment's thought, then Canadians need to be marching in the streets.

Suncor employs most of my hometown. They are evil and can go fuck themselves. Sue them into bankruptcy along with Exxon.

Beverly Leslie needs to shut his trap.

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch i

New reporting finds that Trump's DOJ took over and quashed a state investigation into Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 2019.

As the walls close in on Trump, he'll do anything — including launch full-scale wars — to distract the public.

Liberal MP criticizes Mark Carney’s support for U.S. attack on Iran Victoria MP Will Greaves said Canada "cannot endorse the unilateral and illegal use of military force" while insisting its own sovereignty must be respected.

"But Canada cannot endorse the unilateral and illegal use of military force, the killing of civilians or the kidnap and assassination of foreign heads of government while also insisting that our sovereignty, our rights and our independence must be respected."

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Just finished a rewatch of ER and the difference is fun!

So all those fall referendum questions came straight from the peoples?

Apparently Pearl Harbor wasn’t an invasion.

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to run red light Calgary, Alberta - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has once again invoked the notwithstanding clause, something meant for only the most dire times to pass legislation, to get around a small legal probl...

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to run red light

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi Danielle Smith can't do her job without blaming immigrants.

Danielle Smith is now blaming immigrants for her own decision.

How can she point the finger at overcrowding and unsustainable population growth while she's still paying people to move here?

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February 28th, 2026 NDP statement on Iran bombings Following the events in Iran, Alexandre Boulerice, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, issued the following statement: "The NDP strongly condemns the American and Israeli bombings of Iran. This is a dangerous escalation that risks dragging the entire region into a major conflict. The oppressive and bloody regime of the Ayatollahs is reprehensible, but its nuclear program must be managed through the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In fact, its Director General, Mr. Grossi, recently indicated that he was working with the Iranian administration to resume inspections and reiterated that there could be no solution other than a diplomatic one. The NDP deplores the Carney government's decision to blindly support this dangerous venture by Israel and Donald Trump's administration. We want Canada to be a voice for diplomacy, peace, and international law."

Here is @ndp.ca’s statement condemning US-Israeli military strikes in Iran and calling on the Carney government to defend international law

Trust Betrayed... A separatist leader was found to have misappropriated over $1.2 million from family members suffering from dementia

New Substack!

Separatist Leader and Danielle Smith's "Plan B", Dennis Modry was found to have misappropriated over $1.2 million from family members suffering from dementia by a BC Supreme Court Judge.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Canada Feeds the Crocodile This morning, I keep thinking about Winston Churchill, and the powerful allegory he used to warn that the appeaser is the man who feeds others to the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

PM Carney has forgotten the story of the crocodile.
The appeaser supports feeding others to the crocodile in the hope that the crocodile will eat them last.
We are watching horrific violence in the Middle East.
Canada cannot stand with the crocodiles.

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Trump’s attack on Iran violates UN rules Canada has agreed to uphold. It contradicts numerous values PM Carney claimed he supported in Davos. Endorsing illegality, violence, & destruction over dialogue and peaceful resolution is not what Canadians were promised, or support.

The question after Trump's demand for regime change is not whether the US can change Iran's government through force.

It iis whether, given 120 cases over two centuries, there is any reason to believe this time will be a success.

The data say: probably not.

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The 1953 coup destroyed Iran's most promising conditions for organic democratization and poisoned the well for American-backed democracy for generations.

The US created the very problem it now claims to want to solve.

Ironic doesn't quite cover it.

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Justin Ling: Trump and Netanyahu have made a dangerous gamble in Iran. Why is Carney cheering them on? We should cheer when the brutal Iranian regime falls, whenever that may come to pass. But we should condemn this chaotic, risky violence and all the death that comes with

This is an important read.

Carney’s monumental stupidly supporting the attack on Iran makes Canada a target for retaliation, and for what? Brownie points with Trump?

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

I have, to be clear, no love for the Iranian government. But the US’s allies are pulling their punches, mentioning Iran’s violations by name and the US’s violations in generalities about the situation. This is not what an even application of international law looks like.

Then he could have kept silent rather than affirming support for a war that just killed 85 children.

In a war with Iran, on the cusp of losing his congressional majority and strong doubts even his own military would fight that fight.

You have failed to convince me this statement needed to be said to protect Canada. It was weak. It was cowardly.

Unlike you I’m not willing to sell my soul defending the indefensible just to avoid some loud blustering. Is carney going to do the same cowardly thing when cusma negotiations start and trump wants to dismantle our dairy? APPEASEMENT doesn’t work.

And my god. Trump is coming after us while 1/