“The Premier talks a lot about choice in health care but when it comes down to it, her govt record has been all about control. Whether it’s limiting vaccine access, preparing new legislation to restrict MAiD, proposing ‘conscience rights legislation’ or... a one size fits all addictions care model"

Use of Notwithstanding Clause to Limit Access to Health Care Completely Unacceptable The Alberta government's use of the notwithstanding clause to limit Albertans' access to our health care is completely unacceptable. Whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?

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“Every Albertan deserves to feel safe & free of discrimination when accessing the health care that they need & that care should be provided on the basis of the best medical evidence available, not politics or ideology” Gallaway @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

a transgender day of remembrance poster with three candles and a pink ribbon Alt: a transgender day of remembrance poster with three candles and a pink ribbon

Today, we remember and honor our trans siblings lost to violence.

We lift up their legacies by continuing the work to stem the tides of hatred, and create a world in which all trans people can survive and thrive.

Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did - Alberta Politics Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the offices of Elections Alberta for a referendum petition seeking permanent prote...

Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...

NOW.

Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report dynalifey

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“The issue wasn’t govt policy. The issue was interference & corruption & a govt that cared more about moving privatization & being American-style in how they deliver health care than actually caring about patient well-being or the taxpayer.” @shoffmanab.bsky.social

Green-filtered photo of a stethoscope and a lengthy medical bill. Overlaid text reads: "Secret Plan for Two-Tier Health care Must Be Thrown Out Immediately. Read FOM's response: friendsofmedicare.org/news"

🚨 Newly unveiled draft legislation outlines AB government's plans to bring in two-tier health care, by permitting doctors to charge patients for insured services.

"This is an unprecedented attack on Albertans’ public health care," says FOM's Chris Gallaway: www.friendsofmedicare.org/secret_plan_...

Closure of another Supervised Consumption Site will lead to more harm Closure of another Supervised Consumption Site will lead to more harm

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Gallaway, ED, Friends of Medicare: “This govt’s ideological opposition to evidence-based, life-saving care interventions will put Albertans at unnecessary risk of avoidable drug poisoning & put our health care systems under even more strain.”
#abhealth

TODAY!!!

Danielle Smith and the UCP government want to further the privatization of our publicly funded health care system, allowing doctors to offer both public and private care services. This would bring American-style medicine to Alberta.

“The notebooks of one CEO of AHS were destroyed after they left the job, despite Wylie’s request to preserve evidence.”

“Wylie hopes Albertans will take the time to read his entire report….
I hope so, too. It’s a 43-page manual on how not to govern.”
#CorruptCare

Use of Notwithstanding Clause to Limit Access to Health Care Completely Unacceptable The Alberta government's use of the notwithstanding clause to limit Albertans' access to our health care is completely unacceptable. Whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?

"Today it’s trans Albertans. But ultimately, an attack on anyone’s rights is an attack on all of our rights ... If this is allowed to pass, the obvious question is: whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?”
www.friendsofmedicare.org/use_of_notwi...
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Privacy Violated, and Dignity Confiscated
"When a minister dictates post-secondary policy overnight, freedom-loving Canadians should take notice ... This act is shockingly invasive ... "
Beyond shameful.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#ableg

“Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?” ~Romeo Dallaire

A beautiful moment of grief, love, solidarity and hope with the raising of the Palestinian flag at Calgary City Hall.

Friends of Medicare is excited to announce another town hall with @PfParks. We are coming to St. Albert! Your voice. Your care. Your community. Real talk on public health care for every Alberta family. Sign up. Show up. friendsofmedicare.org/health_care_st…

"A shortage of skilled health care professionals to provide care is the biggest issue Albertans are facing when it comes to access and nothing announced today will help solve that,” concluded Gallaway, ED @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

#abhealth
#ableg
#NoToPrivatization

Please contact your representatives. Albertans must speak out!!

Opinion: Privately paid medical tests a step toward U.S.-style health care The only groups who will benefit from this legislation are those who stand to make a profit.

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"This policy guarantees things will worsen ... hospital capacity will collapse further & the sickest, poorest, most complex patients will be left in an under-resourced public system hollowed out to feed the private alternative being sold as its saviour."
#ableg

Nursing Care Workers Deserve Respect and Workforce Solutions Nursing Care Workers Deserve Respect and Workforce Solutions

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“At a time when workforce retention & recruitment is our biggest issue in healthcare, the fact that so many of our valuable health care workers are feeling disrespected & dissatisfied should concern us all...” said Gallaway, ED @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

Late posting ... ICYMI
#SeniorsDeserveBetter

Opinion: Managing a matchstick forest Managing a matchstick forest

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"I want a forest dr who’s capable of providing AB’s forests w? deeper, holistic, more honest & comprehensive care, a dr who believes in forest health & watershed integrity.
I want a doctor who embraces science & uses it to save the forests & serve the people of AB"

'Data not dogma': Town hall provides outlet for frustrated Hatters amid health-care changes - Medicine Hat News zmason@medicinehatnews.com More than a hundred people turned out to St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Tuesday to join the Friends of Medicare for a town hall event, “An Urgent Conversation: Public Health Care in Medicine Hat.” Friends of Medicare has partnered with local emergency physician and public health advocate Dr. Paul Parks to tour the province

We had a great convesation on HC in Medicine Hat...
Let's keep the conversation going Alberta!

Alberta Funds Public Schools A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.

The group collecting petition signatures for a citizen's initiative to defund private schools in Alberta seem well organized. They have a website with a professionally shot video that seeks to highlight the disparity between public and private school funding.
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NDP member David Shepherd said it’s impossible to view the UCP motions “as anything but an attempt to interfere with the work of Mr. Wylie, to divert and detour.

“We have seen a lot of reprehensible behaviour on the record today — incredible disrespect and condescension.”
#CorruptCare
#ableg

Nothing to see here ....
#CorruptCare

Stolen Time A compelling call for justice, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry—an industry notorious for its lack …

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Come join @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social this Wednesday, 5 November at the Cardel Theatre,
180 Quarry Park Blvd SE, Calgary
Please RSVP at www.friendsofmedicare.org/yyc_stolen_t...
Hope to see you there!
#abhealth
#ContinuingCare
#SeniorsDeserveBetter

Calgary Town Hall: Clean Up Your Mess Join us & learn how people like you are fighting back against coal mining in the Rockies & a planned gov't bailout of aging oil & gas wells.

Learn more about HOW the @abenergyregulator.bsky.social is undermining the safety net for Albertans. This week, Wednesday November 5, 6 - 8:30 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion No. 1

116 7 Avenue Southeast

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"And, oh, yes, he’s also probing the private surgery procurement scandal. Wylie is the only investigator, besides the RCMP, with power to compel witnesses & testimony under oath.

That report will almost certainly be released before his contract expires in the spring."
#CorruptCare
#ABhealth
#ableg

Film Screening: Stolen Time Join @CalgaryFOM on November 5 for a FREE, public screening of Stolen Time, a documentary following an elder rights lawyer as she takes on the for-profit nursing-home industry

www.friendsofmedicare.org/yyc_stolen_t...
Hey Calgary -- This is one film doc you don't want to miss!!
Please see link to register below.

The cruelty is the point.